US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 17 for "Multi-probe formation sampling instrument" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,340, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Multi-probe formation sampling instrument" was invented by Emiliano Hall (Jandakot, Australia), Adnan Khan (Houston), Sefer Coskun (Houston), Anup Hunnur (Houston), Russell McEacharn (Houston) and Shiva Paramhans (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole testing and sampling system includes a downhole tool, a conveyance system, and a testing and sampling tool forming a portion of the downhole tool. The testing and sampling tool including a first sampling modality and a second sampling modality. One or both of the first sampling modality ...