US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Logging and analysis module for drill cuttings, and method of analyzing drilling fluid" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,563, issued on July 15.

"Logging and analysis module for drill cuttings, and method of analyzing drilling fluid" was invented by Ahmed M. H. ElGamal (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shale shaker system. The system includes a fluid transport pipe configured to receive a stream of drill cuttings and fluid returns from a wellbore during a drilling operation; an analysis module configured to receive at least a portion of the stream of drill cuttings and fluid returns at an inlet; a cuttings chute configured to receive at least a portion of the stream of drill cuttings and fluid returns from an outlet of the container, ...