US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 25 for "Cutter and drill bit design by virtual testing with digitized rocks" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,804, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cutter and drill bit design by virtual testing with digitized rocks" was invented by Xiaoge Gan (Houston), Ke Chen (Houston), Yansong Huang (Beijing) and Paul Bolchover (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing a drill bit includes simulating a cutting element cutting a digitized rock sample, storing outputs from the simulating in a digital rock interaction file, modeling the drill bit to have at least one of the cutting element, and using data in the digital rock interaction file to simulate the drill bit in a drilling op...