ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,756, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Methods for providing one or more positioning indicators via an image capture device and related systems" was invented by William A. Moss Jr. (Conroe, Texas), Eliah Everhard (The Woodlands, Texas), Saravanan Hiriaraman (The Woodlands, Texas) and James Herbert May (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an earth-boring tool, an image capture device, at least one processor, and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium. The system may obtain a three-dimensional representation of an earth-boring tool and provide one or ...