US Patent Issued to ULTERRA DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES on May 19 for "Subterranean drill bits having shank bypaths" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,070, issued on May 19, was assigned to ULTERRA DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES LP (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Subterranean drill bits having shank bypaths" was invented by Jeremiah Torres (Fort Worth, Texas) and Thomas Simatic (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are PDC drill bits for engaging subterranean formations and for drilling wellbores, wherein the PDC drill bits are adapted to reduce erosion of a bit head face by the inclusion of openings in a portion of the shank of a PDC drill bit. The present disclosure also relates to systems and methods of drilling subterranean formations using the PDC drill bits disclosed ...