ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,793, issued on June 30, was assigned to INNOVEX DOWNHOLE SOLUTIONS INC. (Houston).
"Precision-cut casing tubular for centralizer assembly" was invented by Jeffery Kitzman (Houston), Paul Henderson (Houston), Dale Hamm (Houston), Gordon Schutt (Houston) and Ben Griffith (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes scanning a thickness of a workpiece in at least one point using a thickness sensor, determining that the workpiece is out of alignment in a cutting machine using the thickness sensor, and realigning the workpiece relative to the cutting machine or adjusting a machining operation using a controller of the cutting...