ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,486, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA Inc. (Houston).
"Tubular handling system" was invented by Alex Kunec (Conroe, Texas), Ashish Gupta (Houston) and Keith Hager (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that can include a vertical support rotationally coupled to a rig floor, a hoisting arm movably coupled to the vertical support, and a catwalk, wherein the hoisting arm is configured to transport the tubular between the catwalk and well center or mousehole while the vertical support maintains a substantially constant azimuthal orientation. A method can include movably coupling a vertical...