US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 3 for "Cement supply control systems and methods" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,965, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Cement supply control systems and methods" was invented by Gary Lee Cline (Duncan, Okla.), Charles Edward Neal III (Duncan, Okla.), James Douglas Funkhouser (Duncan, Okla.), Derek Williams (Duncan, Texas), Derek James Abel (Duncan, Texas), Randall Turner Hall (Duncan, Texas) and Chip L. Imel (Edmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a cement mixer, a supply tank to supply dry cement to the cement mixer, and a dry cement height sensor to measure the height of the dry cement in the cement supply tank. A valve controls the flow of d...