US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 6 for "Sealing detection during formation pressure testing" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,960, issued on May 6, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sealing detection during formation pressure testing" was invented by Mehdi Ali Pour Kallehbasti (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for determining an integrity of a seal between a formation tester and a formation during formation testing. An example method can include controlling placement of a probe of a formation tester from a wellbore and into a formation as part of a formation measurement operation performed by the formation tester in the formation; gathering first pressure measurements through a probe durin...