US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 21 for "Systems and methods for transmitting torque" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,072, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for transmitting torque" was invented by Edward Richards (Stonehouse, Great Britain) and Thomas Fox (Wallingford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include an inner shell including an inner groove having an inner groove angle relative to the rotational axis. A device may include an intermediate shell circumferentially around the inner shell and having a slot therein, the slot being at least partially oriented in a longitudinal direction of the rotational axis. A device may include an outer shell circ...