ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,050, issued on June 10, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Guide assembly, method and system" was invented by Christopher Hern (Porter, Texas), Marc Samuelson (Houston) and Shane Harris (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide assembly including a guide nose, a body supporting the guide nose, and a torque limiter having a configuration to connect the guide nose and the body to a separate structure. A method for negotiating a restriction in a borehole including running a guide assembly into the borehole, encountering a restriction with the guide nose, limiting torque on the guide nose while ...