US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 17 for "Virtual flow metering using acoustics for a well" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,099, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Virtual flow metering using acoustics for a well" was invented by Julian Edmund Drew (Aurora, Colo.), Benjamin Simon Schaeffer (Denver) and Mikko Jaaskelainen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining flow information of a well producing fluid from a subsurface formation comprising. The method comprises obtaining at least one first production measurement from the well. The method comprises obtaining, with a sensor, a first measurement generated by the fluid flowing through a device. The method comprises inputting the first meas...