US Patent Issued to Scientific Drilling International on July 28 for "Alignable guidance device for casing entry milling and cementing operations" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,755, issued on July 28, was assigned to Scientific Drilling International Inc. (Houston).

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

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. The alignable guidanc...