US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on July 15 for "Self-calibrated method of determining borehole fluid acoustic properties" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,564, issued on July 15, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Self-calibrated method of determining borehole fluid acoustic properties" was invented by Wei Han (Sugar Land, Texas), Rocco DiFoggio (Houston) and James V. Leggett III (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for determining an acoustic parameter of a downhole fluid using an acoustic assembly. Methods include transmitting a plurality of pulses; measuring values for at least one wave property measured for reflections of the plurality of pulses received at at least one acoustic receiver, including: a first valu...