ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,884, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cereus Ultrasonics Ltd. (Aberdeen, Great Britain).
"Analysing structures within a borehole" was invented by Mark Tanner (Wimborne, Great Britain), Paul Easton (Portland, Great Britain) and Max Hadley (Lyndhurst, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for analyzing structures within a borehole is disclosed. The device comprises: a medium determiner for determining a medium surrounding the device; at least one acoustic signal transmitter and acoustic signal receiver configured to output an acoustic signal and to receive an acoustic signal; and a signal modifier configure...