US 12,435,575 B2
Downhole tools having radially extendable elements
Jonathan D. Marshall, Springville, UT (US); Steven G. Villareal, Houston, TX (US); Michael George Azar, The Woodlands, TX (US); and Scott Richard Woolston, Spanish Fork, UT (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/492,291.
Application 18/492,291 is a continuation of application No. 17/346,027, filed on Jun. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,795,763.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/037,833, filed on Jun. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0044212 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 10/32 (2006.01); E21B 10/55 (2006.01); E21B 10/633 (2006.01); E21B 47/01 (2012.01)
CPC E21B 10/55 (2013.01) [E21B 10/322 (2013.01); E21B 10/633 (2013.01); E21B 47/01 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A downhole tool, comprising:
an elongate body having an axis about which the elongate body is configured to rotate;
a plate secured to an exterior surface of the elongate body;
a cutting element extendable from the plate in a direction away from the axis; and
electronics disposed between the plate and the exterior surface of the elongate body and covered by the plate;
wherein the plate is one of a plurality of plates each secured to the elongate body and spaced circumferentially thereabout; and
wherein each of the plurality of plates is bolted to at least one other plate through the elongate body.