E21B 7/003
Drilling with mechanical conveying means
Official title: {Drilling with mechanical conveying means}
E21B7/003 (Drilling with mechanical conveying means) appears on 189 US grants and 107 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E21B- Granted patents
- 189
- Published applications
- 107
- Assignees
- 90
- Inventors
- 321
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2025 | 9 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Handheld augers operable in a normal mode and a breaker mode14 Jul 2026US 12,680,388 B2Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- Drilling tool and method for creating a bore in the ground14 Oct 2025US 12,442,150 B2BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH
- Full-face shaft boring machine, boring system, and boring method9 Sep 2025US 12,410,660 B1China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing
- Debris collection and removal from a wellbore19 Aug 2025US 12,392,209 B1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Drilling tool and method for producing a bore in the ground15 Jul 2025US 12,359,511 B2BAUER Maschinen GmbH
- Augers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308981 A1Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- Downhole casing auger for removal of paraffin from oil and gas wells12 Mar 2026US 2026/0071501 A1Missaukee Oil and Gas Company LLC
- Underground boring systems and apparatus1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002415 A1
- Collection unit for cuttings11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376904 A1Coring Incorporated
- Multi-Tool Boring Systems and Methods of Operating Such Systems9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314132 A1Phoenix Boring, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Under reaming pile bore excavating bucket and method of its excavation75US 4,604,818 AKabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Seisakusho · 1986
- Wafer carrier74US 5,788,082 AFluoroware, Inc. · 1998
- Flexpower deep well drill62US 3,934,660 A1976
- Vibratory drilling apparatus59US 8,336,643 B22012
- Methods for forming a short aggregate pier and a product formed from said methods50US 6,354,766 B1Geotechnical Reinforcement Company, Inc. · 2002