US Patent Issued to Helmerich & Payne Technologies on May 12 for "Drilling apparatus and related methods" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,599, issued on May 12, was assigned to Helmerich & Payne Technologies LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Drilling apparatus and related methods" was invented by Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure a drilling sub apparatus that may be coupled to a drill pipe. The drilling sub apparatus may have a pendulum member that moves from a first position to a second position. In the first position, a bottom region of the pendulum member covers or seals apertures that thereby close a fluid pathway from an inner region of the drilling sub apparatus through elements ...