US Patent Issued to COREMAX on Feb. 24 for "Core sample handling device" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,038, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to COREMAX Ltd. (Hamilton, New Zealand).

"Core sample handling device" was invented by Gregory Donald West (Hamilton, New Zealand) and Peter Evan Powell (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for handling core samples during a core sample drilling operation is disclosed. In use the core sample is received in a string of inner tubes within a drill string. The device includes a clamp and a coupling mechanism. The clamp is configured to grip a lower inner tube below a joint between the lower inner tube and an adjacent upper inner tube of the string of inner tubes, with the low...