ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,317, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Automated control of trajectory of downhole drilling" was invented by Katharine Mantle (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Maja Ignova (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Ekaterina Brovko (Cheltenham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for automated closed-loop control of drilling trajectory during directional drilling, which automatically adjusts at least one parameter during the directional drilling to automatically control the direction of drilling when drilling a kickoff that transitions a wellbore from a ve...