ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,358, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Validation for reservoir flow during formation testing" was invented by Mehdi Ali Pour Kallehbasti (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods to obtain representative formation pore pressure and formation mobility from pressure measurements with a formation testing tool. One of the methods for performing a pressure test includes measuring the pressure in the fluid passageway by a pressure sensor, performing a pre-test with the pressure sensor, measuring the drawdown pressure, measuring the buildup pressure, perfo...