US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Dec. 2 for "Surface logging with cuttings-based rock petrophysics analysis" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,197, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Surface logging with cuttings-based rock petrophysics analysis" was invented by Yanhua Yao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drilling process methods and systems for drilling are described. The methods include performing a drilling operation through a downhole formation, the drilling operation generating drilling cuttings. A single drilling cuttings sample is obtained at a surface-based location. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and/or x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis are performed on the single drilling cuttings sample. Element information and miner...