ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,440, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Characterizing effects of CO 2 chemical reaction with rock minerals during carbon capture and sequestration" was invented by Songhua Chen (Houston), Gabriela Singer (Houston) and Wei Shao (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a carbon capture and sequestration site. The method may comprise acquiring one or more core samples from a carbon capture and sequestration site, performing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement on the one or more core samples to form a first NMR measurement performing a surface roughness measur...