US Patent Issued to Antech on April 21 for "Drilling apparatus and method for the determination of formation location" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,114, issued on April 21, was assigned to Antech Ltd. (Exeter, Great Britain).

"Drilling apparatus and method for the determination of formation location" was invented by Richard Stevens (Devon, Great Britain) and Antoni Miszewski (Devon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for drilling a well which includes a drill bit (2) arranged at the end of a length of drill tubing (4), a motor (3) to rotate the drill bit and steering means to steer the drill bit, and including torque measuring means (5) to measure the torque applied to the drill bit continuously and processing means to calculate values for the mechanical ...