US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on March 18 for "Downhole component magnetic property estimation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,645, issued on March 18, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Downhole component magnetic property estimation" was invented by Gunnar Tackmann (Niedersachsen, Germany), Alexander Mayer (Niedersachsen, Germany), Veronica Vanessa Herrera Bano (Niedersachsen, Germany) and Dominik Hoheisel (Niedersachsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a magnetic property of a downhole component includes measuring a magnetic field strength of the downhole component at a plurality of axial locations along the downhole component to generate a plurality of magnetic field strength measurements, each...