ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,193, issued on June 17, was assigned to Core Laboratories LP (Houston).
"Pulsed neutron apparatus and method for using same to analyze core samples" was invented by Derek Raymond Beckett (Houston), Grant Philip Goodyear (Houston), Theodore Joseph Griffin Jr. (Houston), Kent E. Newsham (Houston), Milomir Pavlovic (Houston) and Roland Edward Chemali (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for analyzing a core sample obtained from a subterranean formation includes a neutron generator, a plurality of detectors, a computed tomography scanner, an information processing device, and a transport system. The neutron generator can ...