US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 25 for "Automated sample cleaning" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,825, issued on March 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Automated sample cleaning" was invented by Mathew Dennis Rowe (Houston), Steven Robert Weiss (Houston) and Shaun Patrick Lawrence (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are automated sample cleaning systems and processes after collection of the drilling cuttings from the shale shaker. These automated sample cleaning systems and processes help in delivering a drilling cutting sample that has been cleaned following the same procedure from one drill rig site to another providing consistency on its impact on the compositional analysis...