US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 8 for "Fluid holdup monitoring in downhole fluid sampling tools" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,162, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fluid holdup monitoring in downhole fluid sampling tools" was invented by Zhonghuan Chen (Houston), Bin Dai (Houston), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Wei Zhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to identify fluid holdups during downhole fluid sampling operations includes obtaining, using a sampling tool positioned within a wellbore, one or more fluid measurements using at least one sensor having a first set of spatial resolution, obtaining one or more second fluid measurements having a second spatial resolution, calculating a firs...