US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 27 for "Density measurement of a selected layer by gamma spectral deconvolution" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,614, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Density measurement of a selected layer by gamma spectral deconvolution" was invented by Mayir Mamtimin (Spring, Texas) and Jeffrey James Crawford (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining a density. The method may comprise disposing a nuclear density tool into a wellbore, performing a spectral deconvolution, determining an energy channel for a first measurement layer, recording a count rate with the gamma detector for the first measurement layer, applying a slope operator to the count rate, and identifying a fir...