US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on July 22 for "System and method for design of rapid excavating and wear-resistant drill bits" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,842, issued on July 22, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"System and method for design of rapid excavating and wear-resistant drill bits" was invented by Fred C. Higgs III (Houston) and Prathamesh S. Desai (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing lithology-specific drill bits. The method creates an experimentally verified multiphysics model to predict drilling into site-specific rock formations. A physics-based, Eulerian-Lagrangian computational modeling framework to predict particle flow and tribological phenomena. The method uses this multiphysics model to generate virtual drilling data...