US Patent Issued to Helmerich & Payne on July 15 for "Systems and methods for make-up and break-out of drill pipe" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,514, issued on July 15, was assigned to Helmerich & Payne Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Systems and methods for make-up and break-out of drill pipe" was invented by Patrick L. Gustafson (Owasso, Okla.), Rick E. Barrett (Owasso, Okla.), Trevor Hall (Tulsa, Okla.), Christopher Alan Major (Tulsa, Okla.), Zachary L. Newton (Collinsville, Okla.), Andrew Rose (Tulsa, Okla.), William Chase Stogner (Tulsa, Okla.), Brandon D Valentine (Bixby, Okla.) and Todd Ryan Woods (Perry, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for connecting drill pipe to a drillstring in a wellbore includes positioning a lower section of drill pipe within a rotary slips ...