ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,098, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Acoustic devices for measuring multi-phase wellbore fluid" was invented by Mikko K. Jaaskelainen (Katy, Texas), Faraaz Adil (Odessa, Texas), Julian Drew (Centennial, Colo.) and Barry Fish (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine multi-phase measurements with respect to a wellbore. The system can include a set of acoustic devices, a measurement device, and a computing device. The set of acoustic devices can be positioned at the surface of a wellbore to generate acoustic signals proportional to flow of fluid with respect to the wel...