US Patent Issued to NOV DOWNHOLE EURASIA on July 28 for "Drill bit" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,752, issued on July 28, was assigned to NOV DOWNHOLE EURASIA Ltd. (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).

"Drill bit" was invented by Vasiliy Zbaraskiy (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain), Benoit Botton (Bristol, Great Britain) and Robert Peter Douglas Tipples (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill bit comprises a bit body having a body face and a plurality of blades each extending from the bit body from a root portion adjacent the body face to a tip portion defining a cutting region, each blade having a leading face and a trailing face. The drill bit further comprises at least one outlet port disposed adjacent the le...