US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Feb. 3 for "Identifying asphaltene precipitation and aggregation with a formation testing and sampling tool" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,546, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Identifying asphaltene precipitation and aggregation with a formation testing and sampling tool" was invented by Rohin Naveena-Chandran (Houston), Syed Muhammad Farrukh Hamza (Houston), Gibran Mushtaq Hashmi (Houston), Jason A Rogers (Houston), Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, Texas) and Anthony Herman VanZuilekom (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a method, that includes lowering a downhole tool to a target depth of a wellbore, sampling reservoir fluid containing asphaltene at the target depth usin...