US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on April 8 for "Snake-skin-inspired in-hole bow spring centralizer" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,259, issued on April 8, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Snake-skin-inspired in-hole bow spring centralizer" was invented by J. David Frost (Atlanta) and John A. Huntoon (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralizer device includes a body collar and a tail collar each extending circumferentially around a central axis to define a longitudinal channel. The central axis extends from an up-hole direction towards a downhole direction of the centralizer device. The centralizer device includes a body extending between the body collar and the tail collar. The body includes a first portion, a second portion, and...