US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on July 22 for "Detection of heat generated by cutting action of a drill bit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,119, issued on July 22, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Detection of heat generated by cutting action of a drill bit" was invented by Devanand Ramchune (Humble, Texas), David Charles Myerson (Houston), Thomas William Chase (Houston), William Penaloza (The Woodlands, Texas), Joseph William Hughes (Cypress, Texas), Matthew David Hays (Houston), Kevin Reid (Houston), Scott James Stamper (Houston), Afshin Babaie Aghdam (Houston) and Aaron Schen (Conroe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature plug assembly, a drill bit including a temperature plug assembly, and a method of manufacturing a drill bit ha...