US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 14 for "Real-time wear detection of a drill bit downhole in a wellbore" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,396, issued on July 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Real-time wear detection of a drill bit downhole in a wellbore" was invented by Yuanyan Chen (Houston), Ketan C. Bhaidasna (Houston) and Siyang Song (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects and features relate to a system that can perform real-time wear detection of a drill bit downhole in a wellbore. For example, the system can measure, during a drilling operation for drilling of the wellbore, at least one drilling operational parameter using one or more sensors positioned at a surface of the wellbore. The system can generate, during ...