US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 20 for "Thread form for drill bit application" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,269, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Thread form for drill bit application" was invented by Haoming Li (Sugar Land, Texas), Fei Song (Sugar Land, Texas), Ke Li (Sugar Land, Texas), Sayan Banerjee (Pune, India) and Ambrish Pandey (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill bit includes a first tubular member including a pin end and a second tubular member including a box end. Each of the first tubular member and the second tubular member includes a respective thread structure that has, respectively, a crest extending between a top edge of a respective first flank and a top...