US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 20 for "Sonic through tubing cement evaluation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,817, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sonic through tubing cement evaluation" was invented by Chung Chang (Houston), Qingtao Sun (Spring, Texas), Randolph S. Coles (Spring, Texas) and Federico Lucas Jr. (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic logging tool may comprise a center load carrying pipe, a receiver module connected to the center load carrying pipe, one or more transmitter modules connected to the center load carrying pipe, and one or more mass modules connected to the center load carrying pipe."

The patent was filed on May 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/196,398....