E21B 44/00
Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which
Official title: Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions
E21B44/00 (Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which) appears on 3,420 US grants and 3,790 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E21B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 3,790
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 193 | 203 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Automated wellbore planning based on wellbore condition6 Oct 2026US 12,753,687 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Integrating ethernet technology within drilling systems6 Oct 2026US 12,753,688 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Method and system for controlling drill functionality6 Oct 2026US 12,753,689 B2Technological Resources Pty. Limited
- System and method for formation mechanical analysis6 Oct 2026US 12,754,522 B2Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc.
- AI-assisted stratigraphic modeling and geosteering utilizing gamma ray measurements29 Sep 2026US 12,747,634 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Virtual brake system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308980 A1The Charles Machine Works, Inc.
- Multiwell pad drilling framework8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308982 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Systems and methods for autonomous wellbore placement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309019 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Fluid cell device and method for measuring drilling mud properties8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309674 A1
- Rotary drives for civil engineering1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298029 A1BAUER Maschinen GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Drilling systems with sensors for determining properties of drilling fluid downhole402US 6,176,323 B1Baker Hughes Incorporated · 2001
- Drilling system with an acoustic measurement-while-driving system for determining parameters of interest and controlling the drilling direction353US 6,088,294 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 2000
- Actively controlled rotary steerable system and method for drilling wells344US 6,092,610 ASchlumberger Technology Corporation · 2000
- Closed loop drilling system295US 5,842,149 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 1998
- Drilling system utilizing downhole dysfunctions for determining corrective actions and simulating drilling conditions291US 6,021,377 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 2000