US Patent Issued to Tribe Tech UK on Oct. 6 for "Rod handling system for a drilling rig" (British, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,663, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Tribe Tech UK Ltd (Covent Garden, Great Britain).

"Rod handling system for a drilling rig" was invented by Ivan Smith (Mallusk, Great Britain), Sirish Gorijala (Shelley, Australia), James Charles Osborne King (Mallusk, Great Britain) and Lee Scott (Willerby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rod handling system for a drilling rig includes a rod storage bin incorporating vertically stacked rod supports adapted to hold a respective row of rods in side by side relationship in a substantially horizontally extending storage configuration. A rod loader having a plurality of rod holders is ...