US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Oct. 7 for "System and method for acoustic isolators" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,626, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"System and method for acoustic isolators" was invented by Stefan Schimschal (Celle, Germany), Anna Swiatek (Celle, Germany) and Theodorus W. Geerits (Nienhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolator for an acoustic logging system includes an outer housing surface, a bore, an outer bore surface, and a first isolator feature positioned between the outer housing surface and the outer bore surface to reduce a collar wave transmitted by the acoustic source."

The patent was filed on July 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/869,551.

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