US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "Monopole screening of acoustic dipole LWD measurements" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,307, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Monopole screening of acoustic dipole LWD measurements" was invented by Naoki Sakiyama (Katy, Texas), Kong Hauw Sarwa Bakti Tan (Sugar Land, Texas) and Adrien Hendra Soepriatna (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acoustic logging a wellbore includes making a plurality of directional sonic logging measurements while rotating an acoustic logging tool in a wellbore. A noise component of each of the measurements is compared with a threshold. Measurements for which the noise component is greater than the threshold are dis...