ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,826, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Instrumented movable drill bit cutter" was invented by Jonathan Robert Hird (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Dunlop (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ashley Bernard Johnson (Milton, Great Britain) and Andrew David Robinson (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill bit can include a bit body; a blade mountable to the bit body, where the blade includes pockets; a moveable cutter disposed in one of the pockets; and sensor circuitry that senses movement of the moveable cutter disposed in the one of the pockets to generate sens...