US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 30 for "Garnet scintillator compositions for downhole oil and gas explorations" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,622, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Garnet scintillator compositions for downhole oil and gas explorations" was invented by Alok M. Srivastava (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Helene Claire Climent (Houston) and Holly A. Comanzo (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of scintillator compositions having a cubic garnet structure for gamma detection in downhole oil and gas explorations is provided. Specifically, two primary compositions of interest are disclosed, Ca2LnHf2Al3O12 and NaLn2Hf2Al3O12, where Ln is Y, Gd, Tb, or La. Under gamma ray excitation, the electron-hole pairs p...