US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for reducing friction in radial drilling and jet drilling operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,598, issued on Dec. 9.

"Method and system for reducing friction in radial drilling and jet drilling operations" was invented by Alan Palazzolo (College Station, Texas), Sam Noynaert (College Station, Texas), Srivignesh Srinivasan (College Station, Texas), Baik Jin Kim (College Station, Texas) and Randall Tucker (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for reducing friction in a radial drilling application. The method involves coating the interior of a deflector shoe with at least one lubricant. Lubrication of the deflector shoe can be accomplished by applying a dry lubricant to the interior of the d...