ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,010, issued on March 4, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Hydrophone gain design for array noise tool" was invented by Xiang Wu (Singapore), Yao Ge (Singapore) and Yadong Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for leak detection. The system may comprise an acoustic logging tool that includes a hydrophone array with a plurality of hydrophones. The system may further include an information handling system communicatively connected to the acoustic logging tool and wherein the information handling system chooses three or more hydrophones from the plurality of hydrophones to operate during measu...