ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,570, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Directional drilling framework" was invented by Hussein Sahli (Houston) and Samba Ba (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that may include receiving real-time downhole data from one or more sensors of a drillstring disposed in a borehole in a subsurface geologic region during a directional drilling operation. The system and method also include selecting a drillstring drilling mode from a plurality of drillstring drilling modes. The system and method may additionally include predicting, in real-time, characteristics of a ho...