US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 25 for "Methods for data compression and optimization for downhole telemetry" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,855, issued on March 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Methods for data compression and optimization for downhole telemetry" was invented by Matthew Hui Chong (Houston) and Bipin K. Pillai (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by a downhole tool, a first shape of sensor data representing one or more characteristics of a wellbore, comparing, by the downhole tool, the first shape with a set of pre-determined reference shapes stored in a downhole memory to select a pre-determined reference shape that can be imposed on the first shape, calculating one or more delta values bet...