US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on July 22 for "System and method for measuring downhole mud flow density" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,161, issued on July 22, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"System and method for measuring downhole mud flow density" was invented by Volker Peters (Celle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of determining a density of a drilling fluid in a wellbore. The system includes a drill string in the wellbore, the drill string including a downhole rotor. A drilling fluid flowing through the drill string in the wellbore causes the downhole rotor to rotate relative to the drill string. A brake is configured to apply a first brake torque to the downhole rotor to place the downhole rotor in a ...