US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 9 for "Drilling rig control system and method" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,706, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Drilling rig control system and method" was invented by Loic Hoarau (Houston), Ricardo Quirch (Katy, Texas) and Njaal Aarsland (Vigrestad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a drilling rig, of which the method includes receiving a first message-based command from a supervisory system at a first gateway, determining a first system-specific command based on the first message-based command using the first gateway, and transmitting the first system-specific command from the first gateway to a first system-sp...