US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Bit insert for a drill bit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,577, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Bit insert for a drill bit" was invented by Youhe Zhang (Spring, Texas), Huimin Song (Spring, Texas), Yuelin Shen (Spring, Texas), Xiaoge Gan (Houston), Yuri Burhan (Spring, Texas), Sudarsanam Chellappa (Houston) and Scott D. McDonough (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill bit includes a bit insert. A bit body of the bit includes an insert cavity. The bit insert is inserted into the insert cavity. The bit insert is secured to the insert cavity, such as by braze or with a connection mechanism. The bit insert may be replacea...