US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 2 for "Monitoring hydraulic fracturing of a well using pressure waves" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,752, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Monitoring hydraulic fracturing of a well using pressure waves" was invented by Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring hydraulic fracturing of a well includes an apparatus configured to generate a pressure wave in a wellbore of the well. The pressure wave causes a response from a formation surrounding the wellbore. The system further includes a sensor configured to detect the response and output a signal based on the detected response. The system further includes a processor configured to receive th...