ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,063, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Computing a 0 mode attenuation for cement evaluation in cased wells" was invented by Amit Padhi (Houston), Qingtao Sun (Houston) and Chung Chang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system acoustic logging operations. The method may comprise selecting a transmitter to a casing offset for logging operations, wherein the transmitter is disposed on a logging tool, insonifying at least a part of a casing with the transmitter at an angle of incidence and collecting one or more waveforms with an array of receivers disposed on the logging to...