US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Jan. 27 for "Detection of flaws based on processing of nuclear signals" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,996, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Detection of flaws based on processing of nuclear signals" was invented by Peng Yuan (Spring, Texas) and Feyzi Inanc (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting a bond includes a sensor device configured to be deployed in a borehole proximate to a first tubular downhole component, the sensor device configured to direct measurement signals to a bonding layer and detect nuclear signals from the bonding layer during rotation of the sensor device, the bonding layer configured to secure the first tubular downhole component to...