US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 21 for "Downhole tubular inspection using partial-saturation eddy currents" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,113, issued on April 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole tubular inspection using partial-saturation eddy currents" was invented by Ahmed Elsayed Fouda (Spring, Texas), Junwen Dai (The Woodlands, Texas), Freeman Lee Hill III (Spring, Texas) and Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting a tubular may comprise an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool and information handling system. The EM logging tool may further include a mandrel, one or more sensor pads attached to the mandrel by one or more extendable arms, and one or more partial saturation eddy...