US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 27 for "Downhole pressure sensing for fluid identification" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,943, issued on May 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole pressure sensing for fluid identification" was invented by John Paul Bir Singh (Kingwood, Texas), Mikko Jaaskelainen (Houston), Krishna Babu Yerubandi (Houston) and John L. Maida (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for determining positions of fluids during a cementing process in real-time. Systems and methods are provided for receiving one or more sensing parameters from a distributed acoustic sensing fiber optic line positioned in a wellbore during a cementing process, dete...