US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on March 31 for "Retrofitting existing rig hardware and performing bit forensic for dull bit grading through software" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,495, issued on March 31, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Retrofitting existing rig hardware and performing bit forensic for dull bit grading through software" was invented by Robello Samuel (Houston) and Nagaraj Srinivasan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an automated process for determining the wear condition of a downhole tool that removes the subjectivity associated with manual observation. The automated process can advantageously evaluate a wear condition of a downhole tool using visual analytics and real-time analysis after the downhole tool has been extracted from the wellbore...