US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 22 for "Systems and methods for detecting downhole tool location inside a borehole" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,566, issued on April 22, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for detecting downhole tool location inside a borehole" was invented by Yibing Zheng (West University Place, Texas), Zhanyu Ge (Houston), Yumei Tang (Tomball, Texas) and Gary Dean Althoff (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining position of a downhole tool with respect to a wellbore includes logging well data via the tool over a period of time and measuring a lateral acceleration of the tool over the period of time with one or more accelerometers embedded in the tool. The method further includes performing dou...