US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 4 for "Absolute linear position for downhole tool using rotary potentiometer" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,482, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Absolute linear position for downhole tool using rotary potentiometer" was invented by Hock Soon Tiew (Singapore), Kar Ki Andrew Loh (Singapore), How Jiun Irvin Yuen (Singapore) and Simon Whye Kwong Wai (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, that includes obtaining a calibration curve, reading a voltage from a rotary potentiometer, and calculating an extension length of an actuator shaft, using the voltage and the calibration curve, where a potentiometer shaft, of the rotary potentiometer, is coupled to a potentiometer gearbox, where the p...