US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 30 for "Feature determination and calibration of pipeline geometry and features utilizing controlled fluid waves" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,331, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Feature determination and calibration of pipeline geometry and features utilizing controlled fluid waves" was invented by Philippe Quero (Houston), Jeremy C. Nicholson (Houston), Oluwatosin Ogundare (Houston) and David Bennett (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to identifying geometric features of a conduit. A method includes controlling a flow into or out of a conduit to induce pressure waves in the conduit; measuring, with a pressure transducer, pressure responses in the conduit due to con...