US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 27 for "Neutron absorbing dopant for reducing borehole fluid background in geochemical logging" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,613, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Neutron absorbing dopant for reducing borehole fluid background in geochemical logging" was invented by Gregory Joseph Schmid (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and system for determining an elemental composition of a downhole formation using neutron-induced gamma ray spectroscopy and doping the borehole fluid with a neutron absorber to remove at least part of the borehole thermal neutron flux before it can capture borehole nuclei and emit gamma rays within a spectral range of interest. For example, a method for dete...