ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,294, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Enhanced chip flow drill bit cutter" was invented by William Atkins (Conroe, Texas) and Douglas Bruce Caraway (Conroe, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting element may include a substrate securable within a pocket formed in a bit body of a drill bit and a cutting portion securable to the substrate. The cutting portion may have a cutting face with at least one axial edge surface extending circumferentially along a first portion of a periphery of the cutting face and extending radially inward from the periphery. The cutting face may also incl...