US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Feb. 3 for "Remote detection of top of cement using energy pulses" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,024, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Remote detection of top of cement using energy pulses" was invented by Richard Frank Vargo (Houston), Anoop Sheshrao Jogdand (Pune, India), K V V N Krishna Babu Yerubandi (Houston), Nachiket Hemant Gokhale (Pune, India), Venkata Gopala Rao Palla (Houston) and Walmy Cuello Jimenez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of methods and systems for detecting top of cement in well operations are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a method for detecting top of cement, including: emitting input energy signals into a cement displacement fluid ...