US Patent Issued on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for removing debris from a drill hole during drilling" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,106, issued on July 1.

"Method and apparatus for removing debris from a drill hole during drilling" was invented by L. Curtis Beaton (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for removing debris from a drill hole comprising a drill rod having a first lumen and a second lumen extending parallel to the first lumen; a drill bit having a channel configured to be fluidically connected to the first lumen of the drill rod and a channel configured to be fluidically connected to the second lumen of the drill rod; a container fluidically connected to the second lumen; and a compressor which (i) pumps pressurized air through the fi...