ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,016, issued on March 4, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Nuclear magnetic resonance sensing device calibration system and method" was invented by Jie Yang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and techniques for improving accuracies of determinations made using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensing device when the NRM sensing device collects data in a wellbore. NMR sensing devices include a magnet that provides a magnetic field that aligns the spins of protons in substances near the NMR sensing device. The magnetic field strength provided by this magnet affects the sensi...