US Patent Issued to CONTROL CUTTER AS on Oct. 7 for "Method for cutting a tubular structure at a drill floor and a cutting tool for carrying out such method" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,311, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CONTROL CUTTER AS (Tananger, Norway).

"Method for cutting a tubular structure at a drill floor and a cutting tool for carrying out such method" was invented by Petter Birkeland (Tananger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for cutting a tubular structure, such as a drill string, at a drill floor of a drilling rig. The method includes the following steps: i) providing a cutting tool at the drill floor comprising a non-rotatable cutting element configured for carrying out a translational cutting movement through the tubular structure; ii) positioning the cutting tool in cutting posit...