ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,296, issued on May 12, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"System and method for enhancing petrophysical characterization of porous media" was invented by Guodong Jin (Houston), Ryan Antle (Houston), Brian Reeves (Houston) and Jeremy Vandam (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analysis of a porous formation is disclosed. Such a system can provide electrical signals for one or more of the porous formation or a representation of the porous formation; can determine, using the electrical signals, permittivity and conductivity measures for the porous formation or the representation of the porous...