ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,870, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Efficient beam profile imaging for non-negligible wave properties and rotationally anisotropic geometries" was invented by James Martin Price (Houston), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Xiang Wu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for beam profile imaging by emitting a ray into one or more media; receiving a first signal corresponding to the ray at a first point; encoding a first matrix based at least in part on one or more of a location of the first point, a direction of the ray at the first point, and a first pertur...