US Patent Issued to Weatherford Technology Holdings on June 10 for "Determination of neutron porosity and bulk density from a pulsed neutron tool" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,535, issued on June 10, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Determination of neutron porosity and bulk density from a pulsed neutron tool" was invented by Natasa Mekic (Spring, Texas) and Richard Pemper (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining bulk density and/or neutron porosity of a formation are described herein. The methods and systems use a pulsed neutron (PN) tool and may be performed with a tool having a single gamma detector though tools with multiple detectors may be used as well. The PN tool may be a geochemical logging tool. The methods and systems in...