US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 18 for "Prismatic grid inversion for oil saturation and 3-phase holdup" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,501, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Prismatic grid inversion for oil saturation and 3-phase holdup" was invented by Mayir Mamtimin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining downhole formation oil saturation and three-phase holdup is described. The method includes lowering a pulsed-neutron logging tool downhole with a near detector and a far detector. The method further includes measuring a carbon to oxygen ratio from the near detector, measuring a carbon to oxygen ratio from the far detector, measuring a ratio of inelastic count rates, and plotting the measured ra...