US Patent Issued to Globaltech on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for measuring drilling parameters of a down-the-hole drilling operation for mineral exploration" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,699, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Globaltech Corporation Pty (Canning Vale, Australia).

"Apparatus and method for measuring drilling parameters of a down-the-hole drilling operation for mineral exploration" was invented by Gordon Stewart (Claremont, Australia) and Raymond Hill (Kingsley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (100) for measuring drilling parameters of a down-the-hole drilling operation for mineral exploration includes a module 10.1 mounted in-line with a drill string (110) and proximate to a drill bit (120). The drill string (110) is rotated and progressed down the hole. The module (10) has sensors...