ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,616, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Texas Institute of Science Inc. (Richardson, Texas).
"System and method for bond log analysis" was invented by Laslo Olah (Richardson, Texas), Kirk Lane Harris (Lafayette, La.) and Gergely Sebestyen (Budapest, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bond log analysis apparatus and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system receives a Cement Bond Log (CBL) including a Variable Density Log (VDL) and at least one Secondary Data Track (SDT). The system conducts an initial analysis of the VDL to identify characteristics and patterns related to cement bonding co...