US Patent Issued to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL on April 22 for "In-situ downhole measurement correction and control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,563, issued on April 22, was assigned to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL INC. (Houston).

"In-situ downhole measurement correction and control" was invented by Timothy Whitacre (Paso Robles, Calif.), Matthew A. White (Templeton, Calif.) and Pong Pipatwit (Templeton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) in a wellbore. The BHA includes a rotary steerable system and a downhole attitude correction and control system. The downhole correction and control system includes a first sensor set, the sensors of the first sensor set positioned near ferromagnetic components of a drill string...