US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 12 for "Quantification of wellbore fluid additives by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,842, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Quantification of wellbore fluid additives by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy" was invented by Jay Deville (Spring, Texas), Preston Andrew May (Porter, Texas) and Sandeep Kumar Borra (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additives of wellbore fluids can be quantified using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. For example, a method can involve acquiring a sample of wellbore fluid from a wellbore. The wellbore fluid can include an additive. The sample can be processed to separate the wellbore fluid into a liquid sample and a solid sample...