ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,946, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Utilizing resistivity distribution curves for geological or borehole correlations" was invented by Jeremy James Combs (Houston), Vladimir Kiselev (Houston), Robert Gillson III (Perth, Australia) and David Franklin Anthony (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents processes that utilize collected resistivity data, for example, from an ultra-deep resistivity tool located downhole a borehole. In some aspects, each slice of resistivity data can generate multiple distribution curves that can be overlaid offset resistivity logs. In some...