ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,349, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Blowout preventer with multiple application ram blades" was invented by Micah Threadgill (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blowout preventer incudes a body having a bore and first and second guideways; a first ram movably positioned relative to the first guideway and movable toward the bore, the first ram including a first blade including at least one flat side; a first blunt leading contour running parallel to a plane of the flat side along a distal end of the first blade; at least one upper inclined surface above the first blu...