US Patent Issued to DarkVision Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for characterizing perforations in a tubular" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,235, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DarkVision Technologies Inc.

"Method and system for characterizing perforations in a tubular" was invented by Gaurav Handa (Vancouver, Canada), Sindhu Hari (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mengliu Zhao (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system of characterizing perforations in a tubular. An imaging tool having an acoustic imaging probe transmits waves and receives acoustic reflections from the tubular. Image segments are processed from the acoustic data. A first trained neural network operates on the image segments to identify processed image segments containing a perforation. A s...