US Patent Issued to Patterson-UTI Drilling on June 23 for "Wrench assembly bumper plate systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,886, issued on June 23, was assigned to Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. LLC (Houston).

"Wrench assembly bumper plate systems" was invented by Dragan Radojevic (Azle, Texas) and Pavel Shpak (Azle, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems for wrench assembly bumper plates. One example system may comprise a wrench assembly for assisting with attaching drill segments to, and/or separating drill segments from, a drill string. The wrench assembly may comprise a pair of arms. Each arm may comprise a bumper plate. The bumper plate may be shaped to be removably mountable to either of the pair of arms in a location where the bumper plat...