US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 20 for "Detection and quantification of sand flows in a borehole" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,811, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Detection and quantification of sand flows in a borehole" was invented by Atchyuta Ramayya Venna (Houston), Batakrishna Mandal (Sugar Land, Texas), John Philip Granville (Humble, Texas) and Federico Combis Lucas Jr. (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting sand in a production flow. An example method can include receiving acoustic field data generated by at least one acoustic sensor on a downhole tool lowered into a borehole of a production flow. The method can further include in...