US Patent Issued to MHWIRTH AS on Oct. 6 for "Methods and systems for earth drilling" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,664, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MHWIRTH AS (Kristiansand, Norway).

"Methods and systems for earth drilling" was invented by Geir Lien (Hoevag, Norway) and Petter Mydland (Kristiansand S, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of handling a short tubular on a drilling rig. The drilling rig includes a drill floor, a short tubular storage apparatus on which a short tubular is arranged, a vehicle which moves and transports the short tubular storage apparatus on the drill floor, and a tube handling apparatus having a base supported by the drill floor, an arm with a first end pivotally mounted on the base and a second end on ...