US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 8 for "Devices, systems, and methods for a bit including a matrix portion and a steel portion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,108, issued on July 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods for a bit including a matrix portion and a steel portion" was invented by Youhe Zhang (Spring, Texas), Huimin Song (Spring, Texas), Mingdong Cai (Cypress, Texas) and Ting Ren (Conroe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit may include a matrix portion, the matrix portion exposed at a cone region and a nose region of the bit. A bit may include a steel portion, the steel portion including a bit connection, the steel portion exposed at a gauge region of the bit. A bit may include a plurality of cutting elements sec...