US Patent Issued to US SYNTHETIC on Feb. 10 for "Leached superabrasive elements, subterranian tools with leached superabrasive elements, and related systems and methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,878, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to US SYNTHETIC Corp. (Orem, Utah).

"Leached superabrasive elements, subterranian tools with leached superabrasive elements, and related systems and methods" was invented by Daren Nathaniel Heaton (Spanish Fork, Utah), Jeremy Brett Lynn (Nephi, Utah), Mark Pehrson Chapman (Provo, Utah) and Oakley D. Bond (Nephi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Superabrasive elements may be produced by methods including leaching the metallic material from the superabrasive element to produce a leached volume by exposing at least a portion of the superabrasive element to a processing solution, exposing an electr...