ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,360, issued on March 4, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole rotary core analysis using imaging, pulse neutron, and nuclear magnetic resonance" was invented by Rohin Naveena-Chandran (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a downhole tool that includes a coring module for obtaining at least one rotary core sample from a formation, and a core marker module for marking the at least one rotary core sample with earth coordinates, where the coring module is separate from the core marker module."

The patent was filed on Feb. 5, 2024, under Application No. 18...