US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 22 for "Drill bit metamorphism detection" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,158, issued on July 22, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Drill bit metamorphism detection" was invented by Jonathan Robert Hird (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew David Robinson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dariusz Strapoc (Plessis-Robinson, France), Nicholas Ivars Abolins (Paris), Can Evren Yarman (Paris), Timothy McAlinden (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Scott (Huntingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit to detect drill bit metamorphism (DBM) may include a bit head. A bit to detect DBM may include at least one cutting element connected to the bit head. A bit to detect DBM ma...