ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,790, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Architecture for distributed acoustic sensing interrogation for sensor deployment" was invented by Ira Bush (Van Nuys, Calif.) and Mikko K. Jaaskelainen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed acoustic system (DAS) that may include two or more lasers that each transmit a continuous wave (CW) light, a pulser disposed after the two the two or more lasers and optically connected to each of the two or more lasers to receive the CW light from each of the two or more lasers and form a light pulse, and an optical amplifier, wherein the pulser ...