US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 8 for "Downhole fault detection in well system using spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR)" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,158, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole fault detection in well system using spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR)" was invented by Jonathon N. Joubran (Spring, Texas) and Glen P. Breerwood (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for downhole fault detection in a well system are disclosed. A spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR) apparatus of the well system may transmit an SSTDR signal downhole via a well electrical cable of the well system and receive a ref...