ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,890, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Wellbore probe movement control" was invented by Ruchir Shirish Patwa (Houston) and Akshay Girish Khandekar (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various wellbore test systems, a probe mechanism that is extended to contact the formation within a wellbore, and retracted to allow movement of the test system, both rotationally and longitudinally, within the wellbore. A combination including monitoring an actuation fluid pressure used to actuate the probe mechanism to extend and to retract, and the use of one or more timers, provide information used...