US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Downhole tool, bottomhole assembly, and drilling method using same" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,735, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole tool, bottomhole assembly, and drilling method using same" was invented by Fernando Rodriguez Campos (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Elsayed Khalaf (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool includes: a tubular body having a central bore; a plurality of first ports that extend through a sidewall of the tubular body; a plurality of reaming blades that extend from an outer surface of the sidewall; and a flow control node configured to control a switching of each of the plurality of first ports between an open ...