ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,582, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).
"Multi-phase characterization using data fusion from multivariate sensors" was invented by Otto Fanini (Houston), Sandip Maity (Manama, Bahrain) and Daniel Ratigan (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a wellbore fluid phase includes receiving, from a first sensor, first fluid data for a fluid flowing through a wellbore. The method also includes receiving, from a second sensor, second fluid data for the fluid. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the first fluid data, a first fluid property....