US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 16 for "On-demand variable gauge pads and methods of use" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,205, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"On-demand variable gauge pads and methods of use" was invented by Alawi G. Al Alsayed Nassir (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of drilling a wellbore includes rotating a drill bit positioned at a distal end of a drill string and thereby drilling a portion of the wellbore, the drill bit including a bit body and one or more variable gauge pads removably coupled to the bit body, retrieving the drill bit to a well surface at a well site and removing a used variable gauge pad of the one or more variable gauge pads fro...