US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 29 for "Devices and systems for cutting element assemblies" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,839, issued on April 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices and systems for cutting element assemblies" was invented by David Robert Evan Snoswell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ashley Bernard Johnson (Milton, Great Britain), Mauro Caresta (Cambridge, Great Britain) and John Mervyn Cook (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting element assembly includes a cutter support including a cutter bore. A cutting element is in the cutter bore and a resilient element is integral with the cutter support. The resilient element is longitudinally compressible and has a displacement of g...