US Patent Issued to Helmerich & Payne Technologies on May 27 for "Methods and apparatus for bitless drilling" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,954, issued on May 27, was assigned to Helmerich & Payne Technologies LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Methods and apparatus for bitless drilling" was invented by Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain) and Todd W. Benson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods of drilling using a bitless drilling assembly can include a propellant chamber configured to store a liquid propellant for drilling. The bitless drilling assembly can include a burner nozzle connected to the propellant chamber via one or more passages to route the liquid propellant from the propellant chamber to the burner nozzle. The bitless drilling asse...