ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,785, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Methods for downhole drilling and communication" was invented by Edward George Parkin (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Christopher Rowe (Stonehouse, Great Britain) and Cecily Millwater (Farnborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure pulse generator and an RSS may change the pressure of a fluid flow through a BHA. If the dogleg at the BHA is less than a target dogleg, then the pressure pulse generator goes into pass-through mode to increase the pressure at the RSS and thereby increase a pad force of the RSS steering pads, incr...