US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 18 for "Indirect detection of bending of a collar" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,820, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Indirect detection of bending of a collar" was invented by Joachim Sihler (Cambridge, Great Britain), John George Allen Charlesworth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam Ian Bowler (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael Hayes Kenison (Richmond, Texas) and John Mervyn Cook (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system includes an internal assembly comprising a chassis, a flow diverter, or both, and a strain gauge coupled to the chassis, the flow diverter, or both, in which the strain gauge is configured to output a signal ...