ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,269, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Fluid density and viscosity measurement tool with noise cancellation" was invented by Hikmet Andic (Paris), Stephane Hoareau (Clamart, France) and Arsene Villemin (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a sensor housing including a channel, and cantilever beam connected to the sensor housing and disposed within the channel. The system also includes an actuator connected to the cantilever beam and configured to cause the cantilever beam to vibrate. A sensor is connected to the cantilever beam and is configured to gen...