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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2021
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Manoj Mahajan, Houston, TX (US);

John Daniel Belnap, Lindon, UT (US);

Xiaoge Gan, Houston, TX (US);

Yi Fang, Orem, UT (US);

Cheng Peng, Orem, UT (US);

Lynn Belnap, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Youhe Zhang, Spring, TX (US);

Michael George Azar, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Venkatesh Karuppiah, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Anthony LeBaron, Springville, UT (US);

Xian Yao, Draper, UT (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 10/567 (2006.01); E21B 10/42 (2006.01); E21B 10/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 10/5673 (2013.01); E21B 10/26 (2013.01); E21B 10/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cutting element has a cutting face at an opposite axial end from a base, a side surface extending from the base to the cutting face, an edge formed at the intersection between the cutting face and the side surface, and an elongated protrusion formed at the cutting face and extending between opposite sides of the edge, wherein the elongated protrusion has a geometry including a border extending around a concave surface and sloped surfaces extending between the border and the edge, and wherein the concave surface has a major axis dimension measured between opposite sides of the border and a minor axis dimension measured perpendicularly to the major axis dimension and ranging from 50 percent to 99 percent of the major axis dimension.


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