US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on June 23 for "Directed rock cuttings and fluid flow concepts for augmented drilling" (American, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,884, issued on June 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Directed rock cuttings and fluid flow concepts for augmented drilling" was invented by John Morin (The Woodlands, Texas), Xu Huang (Spring, Texas), Ahmed Hanafy (The Woodlands, Texas), Rebecca Dar (Magnolia, Texas), John Abhishek Raj Bomidi (Peral River, N.Y.) and Guodong Zhan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earth-boring tool includes a bit body having blades. Each blade has a rotationally leading surface, a rotationally trailing surface, and a formation facing surface the...