US Patent Issued to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL on April 14 for "Alignable guidance device for casing entry milling operations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,228, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL INC. (Houston).

"Alignable guidance device for casing entry milling operations" was invented by Carsten Freyer (Wienhausen, Germany) and Gerald Heisig (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignable guidance device includes a tube section and a casing milling shoe within the tube section, a pre-contoured tube within the casing milling shoe that terminates in an exit point in the tube section, the pre-contoured tube exiting the tube section at an exit angle of between 0deg and 45deg, and guidance sensors within the tube section."

The patent was filed on ...