US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 8 for "Adaptive T1/T2 ratio selection for optimal compression" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,964, issued on April 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Adaptive T1/T2 ratio selection for optimal compression" was invented by Rebecca Jachmann (Houston), Jie Yang (Houston) and Pierre Aerens (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for compressing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data are disclosed. The methods include the steps of selecting a T1/T2 ratio value, inverting a first portion of the echo train data using the selected T1/T2 value, and reconstructing the inverted echo train using the selected T1/T2 value. A quality measure is calculated based on a comparison of the reconstru...