ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,618, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Integrated drilling system" was invented by Rachel Belleville (Houston), Dean M. Homan (Damon, Texas), Mark Frey (Sugar Land, Texas), Michael Hui Du (Manvel, Texas) and Patrick Fisseler (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated drilling system includes a rotary steerable control unit and an electromagnetic LWD control unit deployed in an external collar. The rotary steerable control unit is deployed below the electromagnetic LWD control unit and is configured to control a direction of drilling of the integrated drilling sys...