US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 17 for "Devices, systems, and methods of a cutting element in a bit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,839, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods of a cutting element in a bit" was invented by Youhe Zhang (Spring, Texas), Balasubramanian Durairajan (Sugar Land, Texas), Ryan Mushinski (Sugar Land, Texas), Huimin Song (Spring, Texas) and Xiaoge Gan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting element may include a substrate having a base. A cutting element may include an ultrahard layer bonded to the substrate, the ultrahard layer formed from an ultrahard material, the ultrahard layer including: a side surface adjacent to the base, the side surface inc...