US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 21 for "Piloting pulsed power drilling using a multi-actuator based floating electrode" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,070, issued on April 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Piloting pulsed power drilling using a multi-actuator based floating electrode" was invented by Nagaraja K. Pai (Houston), Boguslaw Wiecek (Houston) and Wei Zhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-crushing drill bit is to drill a wellbore, wherein the electro-crushing drill bit comprises a bit body; a ground structure coupled to the bit body; and at least one electrode coupled to a power source and the bit body, the at least one electrode positioned within the ground structure, wherein the at least one electrode comprises, a fixed ...