US Patent Issued to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA on Oct. 6 for "Retention feature for tubulars in a fingerboard" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,662, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA Inc. (Houston).

"Retention feature for tubulars in a fingerboard" was invented by David Siljeg (Conroe, Texas) and Derek Patterson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerboard can include first and second fingers with a channel therebetween, and a biasing element with a first plurality of lobes that extend into the channel and define first and second locations. First and second tubulars disposed in first and second locations, where movement of the first tubular from the first location engages the first biasing element and prevents movement of the second t...