US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for obtaining downhole fluid properties" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,003, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Systems and methods for obtaining downhole fluid properties" was invented by Dwight Swett (Houston), Daniel Vaughn Price (Houston) and Otto Fanini (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole fluid analysis tool includes a tool body, a plurality of arms coupled to the tool body and movable between a retracted position and one or more expanded positions away from a central axis of the tool body. The plurality of arms are at an angle with respect to the central axis, the angle being different in each of the one or more expanded positions. The...