ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,828, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DRILLFORM TECHNICAL SERVICES LTD. (Calgary, Canada).
"Slip apparatus and methods of using same" was invented by Mark Charles Taggart (Okotoks, Canada), Vladimir Scekic (New Westminster, Canada) and Todd Harry McCorriston (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a slip apparatus and methods of using same. The slips apparatus is configured to grip and hold a portion of a tubular, or a string of tubulars, within a central bore of the slips apparatus so that a tubular can be added or removed from the string of tubulars during drilling or other op...