US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 24 for "Determinations of standoff and mud density with gamma density and acoustic tool responses" (Russian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,736, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Determinations of standoff and mud density with gamma density and acoustic tool responses" was invented by Bair Banzarov (Celle, Germany), Alexander Vinokurov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Andreas Vogt (Celle, Germany), Andre Haeussler (Celle, Germany), Ilgizar Nasibullin (Bulgakovo, Russia) and Ilya Blinov (Tyumen, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining at least one of a mud density or a standoff, includes determining, a short-spaced density, a long-spaced density, and a time of sound propagation between a tool body and a boreho...