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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Michael T. Savage, Magnolia, TX (US);
Juan Miguel Bilen, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Anthony Phillips, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An earth-boring tool includes a body, blades extending longitudinally and generally radially from the body, and cutting elements located on each blade. The earth-boring tool may also include a first group of at least two adjacent blades comprising the cutting elements proximate a front cutting edge of the blades and one or more shaped inserts located rotationally following the cutting elements, and a second group of one or more additional blades comprising the cutting elements proximate the front cutting edge of the blades while being entirely free of the one or more shaped inserts. Methods include drilling a subterranean formation including engaging a formation with the cutting elements and the shaped inserts of the earth-boring tool, the shaped inserts secured at selected locations on two or more adjacent blades of the first group of blades while the second group of blades is entirely free of the shaped inserts.