US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 12 for "Single-well reflected horizontal shear wave imaging with mixed types of transmitters and receivers" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,091, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Single-well reflected horizontal shear wave imaging with mixed types of transmitters and receivers" was invented by Ruijia Wang (Singapore) and Brian Hornby (Fulshear, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A borehole sonic logging tool and method for imaging. The borehole sonic logging tool may comprise a transmitter configured to transmit a sonic waveform into a formation, wherein the transmitter is a dipole, and a receiver configured to record a reflected wave as waveform data, wherein the receiver is a quadrupole. A method may comprise disposing a ...