US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 6 for "Devices, systems, and methods for a cutting element" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,658, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods for a cutting element" was invented by Youhe Zhang (Spring, Texas), Huimin Song (Spring, Texas) and Lijun Song (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning cutting element includes an ultrahard layer joined to a substrate. The substrate includes a substrate bore formed at least partially therethrough. The substrate includes a plurality of conduits that extend from the substrate bore at a junction. The conduits exit the substrate at an exit opening in the circumferential wall to direct drilling fluid ...