ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,111, issued on April 7, was assigned to US Synthetic Corp. (Orem, Utah) and Exo-Field Engineering Solutions PVT Ltd. (Maharashtra, India).
"Systems and methods for dull grading" was invented by Tushar Chowhan (Maharashtra, India), Brandon Paul Linford (Draper, Utah) and Scott Schmidt (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to automatically dull grading drill bits and portions thereof based on three-dimensional digital models made from one or more images of the drill bits taken at a drilling site by an electronic device with a time-of-flight camera, wherein a method for evaluating drill bits at...