US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 20 for "Digital bottle test constraint optimization and predictor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,690, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Digital bottle test constraint optimization and predictor" was invented by Nazli Demirer (Tomball, Texas), Conrad Teran (Tomball, Texas), Alejandra Inmaculada Lopez Trosell (Cypress, Texas), Chunli Li (The Woodlands, Texas) and Robert P. Darbe (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used to determine the optimal inputs for a bottle test performed by a user for separating water from oil. The bottle test model for predicting inputs to achieve desired KPIs may decrease times required for a user to predict a demulsifier composition...