US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 23 for "Characterization system and method for casing loading using entropy analysis" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,583, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Characterization system and method for casing loading using entropy analysis" was invented by Baoyan Li (Houston), Elan Yogeswaren (Houston), Dalila Balmaceda (Katy, Texas), Wei Han (Houston), Roger Steinsiek (Houston), Joseph Olaiya (Houston), Marc Ramirez (Houston) and Sushant Dutta (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a well inspection method and system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting an acoustic signal from a well inspection tool into a casing structure, receiving return signals from t...