ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,946, issued on May 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Oil and gas well multi-phase fluid flow monitoring with multiple transducers and machine learning" was invented by Julian Drew (Centennial, Colo.), David Diller (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Werner Heigl (Fulshear, Texas), Richard Gibson Jr. (Littleton, Colo.) and Barry Fish (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used to determine multi-phase measurements of fluid flowing with respect to a wellbore. Signals can be received, and the signals can be emitted by each variable frequency acoustic emitter of a set of variable frequency acoustic ...