ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,614, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting high frequency torsional oscillation" was invented by Jibin Shi (Pearland, Texas), Antoine Marcel Benard (Sugar Land, Texas), Ke Ken Li (Sugar Land, Texas), Fei Song (Sugar Land, Texas) and Yong Chang (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide a bottom hole assembly for a wellbore that includes a drill bit and multiple drilling tools. The multiple drilling tools include multiple sensors configured to capture a multiple instances of a common measurement type at multiple location...