US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 2 for "Distributed sensing with tubing encased conductors (TEC)" (Singaporean, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,726, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Distributed sensing with tubing encased conductors (TEC)" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Joachim Pihl (Sandefjord, Norway) and Joseph Chakkungal Joseph (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising transmitting, by an electric conductor disposed in a wellbore, a time-varying electric signal to a first reflector wirelessly coupled to the electric conductor and a sensor, wherein the sensor is wirelessly coupled to the electric conductor via the first reflector, receiving a first reflected signal from the first ref...