ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,084, issued on June 10, was assigned to Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu, China) and Sichuan Xieming Technology Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Intelligent directional device for full rotation of drill string" was invented by Jialin Tian (Chengdu, China), Yufeng Xie (Chengdu, China), Hengjing Zhang (Chengdu, China), Hongsheng Deng (Chengdu, China), Lin Yang (Chengdu, China), Qiaolin Li (Chengdu, China), Chunjian Huang (Chengfu, China) and Lei Cha (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically controlled full rotary clutch controller includes a drive assembly, an executive assembly and an auxiliary assembly. The d...