ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,866, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Drillstring assembly framework" was invented by Hendrik Gunawan Suryadi (Beijing), Paul Bolchover (Beijing), Tao Yu (Beijing), Chao Mu (Beijing), Yun Ma (Beijing) and Xi Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving well plan information for drilling at least a section of a well at a site; generating a set of candidate drillstring assemblies based at least in part on at least a portion of the well plan information and drillstring assembly component information; generating a proposed set of drillstring assemblies w...