US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 16 for "Cuttings trap for "at bit" measurement of drilled cuttings" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,211, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cuttings trap for "at bit" measurement of drilled cuttings" was invented by Guodong Zhan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bodong Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fawaz M. Albahesh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cuttings collection system includes a drill bit at the end of a toolstring, a stabilizer connected to the drill bit, a cuttings catcher arranged around the stabilizer with apertures having a size less than an average size of cuttings generated by the drill bit and retractability, and sensors installed in a body of the st...