ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,230, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Prediction of cement longevity using digital cement modeling" was invented by Arpita P. Bathija (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to perform a field operation with digital cement modeling is disclosed. The method includes acquiring computed tomography (CT) scan data of a metal-cement core sample and a cement-rock core sample that are associated with a borehole setup, generating, based on the CT scan data of the metal-cement core sample and the cement-rock core sample, a three-dimensional (3D) image of a synthesized metal, cement...