US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Jan. 20 for "System and method for calculating mud density" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,273, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"System and method for calculating mud density" was invented by Bastian Sauthoff (Burgdorf, Germany), Volker Peters (Celle, Germany) and Thomas Wettmarshausen (Hanover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drilling mud is flowed through a valve assembly that is set at a particular open amount, measurements are taken of mud flowrate and a force exerted by the drilling mud onto a portion of the valve assembly, and density of the drilling mud is estimated based on historical data. The historical data is generated by directing multiple flows through...