ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,705, issued on April 7, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Continuous measurement gauge wear device while drilling" was invented by Ahmed Galal Mahmoud Abdelkader (New Cairo, Egypt) and Shehab Ahmed (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous wear measuring device for measuring a wear in a well tool includes a probe configured to wear simultaneously with the well tool, and a control unit electrically connected to the probe and configured to continuously measure a parameter of the probe. The control unit is configured to map a measured value of the paramete...