US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Apparatus for verifying the inner diameter of tubulars forming a tubular string" (Louisiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,115, issued on April 21.

"Apparatus for verifying the inner diameter of tubulars forming a tubular string" was invented by Dan Todd Bomersbach (Sugarland, Texas) and Danny Joe Richardson (Leesville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating drift apparatus for verifying the inner diameter of tubulars as the tubulars are made up into a tubular string being run into a wellbore. A float section provides buoyancy to float the apparatus in fluid within the bore of a tubular, and a drift section has a drift element with a diameter substantially equal to the tubular inner diameter being verified, which may be the drift diameter. When r...