ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,044, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Erosion resistant insert for drill bits" was invented by Youhe Zhang (Spring, Texas), Huimin Song (Spring, Texas) and Steven G. Villareal (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool includes a body with an interior volume and an exterior surface, a cavity in the interior volume of the body, a port located in the body, and an erosion-resistant insert. The port provides fluid communication from the cavity through the body to the exterior surface. The erosion-resistant insert is positioned in the interior volume proximate an inlet of ...