US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "System and method for automated drilling network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,611, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and method for automated drilling network" was invented by Juan Jose Rojas (Sugar Land, Texas), Shunfeng Zheng (Katy, Texas), Zhijie Liu (Katy, Texas), Eric Thiessen (Katy, Texas), Marcos Suguru Kajita (Houston), Guillaume Tamboise (Houston) and Wilson Silva dos Santos Jr. (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a control system coupled to various network elements that define a drilling management network. The control system may include a programmable logic controller (PLC) that performs a drilling operation. The ...