US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 3 for "Coil of reference fiber for downhole fiber sensing measurement" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,712, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Coil of reference fiber for downhole fiber sensing measurement" was invented by Michel LeBlanc (Houston) and Mikko K. Jaaskelainen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a sensing fiber that can receive interrogation data via a coil of reference fiber, the coil of reference fiber configurable to be of a same type of fiber as the sensing fiber, and the sensing fiber configurable to be coupled in series with the coil of reference fiber. A known temperature and a known strain can be received from the coil of reference fiber. The know...