US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 25 for "Continuous separation of multi-phase formation fluids during downhole sampling and measuring" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,859, issued on March 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Continuous separation of multi-phase formation fluids during downhole sampling and measuring" was invented by Christopher Michael Jones (Houston), James Martin Price (Cypress, Texas) and Wael Elhawary (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for facilitating continuous affinity-based separation of phases in multi-phase formation fluid in a downhole environment. A system can comprise a formation sampler that samples a formation to gather multi-phase formation fluid in a continuous flow through a wellbore during a test...