US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Drill bits and methods of forming and repairing drill bits using additive manufacturing" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,291, issued on Feb. 17.

"Drill bits and methods of forming and repairing drill bits using additive manufacturing" was invented by Rebecca Dar (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole earth-boring rotary drill bit comprises a bit body. The bit body comprises a crown region, a plurality of cutting elements on the crown region, and wherein the bit body comprises a first gradient of at least two materials between an external surface of the crown region and an internal structure of the bit body and methods of forming and repairing the downhole earth-boring rotary drill bit using additive manufacturing."

The patent was f...