US Patent Issued to MCGINLEY ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS on May 27 for "Drill bit data management for penetration-monitoring drill" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,600, issued on May 27, was assigned to MCGINLEY ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS LLC (Casper, Wyo.).

"Drill bit data management for penetration-monitoring drill" was invented by Joseph C. McGinley (Casper, Wyo.) and Adam M. Johnson (Casper, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments directed to an apparatus and system of monitoring an instrument with a working tool engaged thereby. In one aspect, an embodiment including a working tool with a machine readable indicium indicative of a working tool attribute. The working tool may be receivable by an instrument such that a corresponding machine readable indicia reader receives an identifier of ...