ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,829, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Generating a complete borehole image using transformation" was invented by Ho Yin Ma (Singapore), Ning Tu (Singapore) and Xiang Wu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive downhole acquisition data relating to a wellbore. The system can pre-process the downhole acquisition data. The system can generate an incomplete borehole image using the downhole acquisition data. The system can determine a sparse representation based on the incomplete borehole image by performing an optimization with respect to the incomplete borehole image....