US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 11 for "Synchronization of tool acceleration vs time data and driller depth vs time data" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,351, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Synchronization of tool acceleration vs time data and driller depth vs time data" was invented by George Bordakov (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for synchronizing driller depth data as a function of time with downhole tool acceleration data as a function of time. In some embodiments, the process can include determining one or more in slips conditions for a drill pipe; determining one or more in slips conditions for a downhole tool; interpolating the in slips status indicators on to a common time grid; det...