US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 21 for "Fracture event detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,094, issued on July 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fracture event detection" was invented by Ubong Akpan Inyang (Humble, Texas), Dinesh Ananda Shetty (Sugar Land, Texas), Jie Bai (Katy, Texas) and Srividhya Sridhar (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for detecting and marking events that occur during a fracturing operation. Data related to performance of a fracturing operation in a wellbore during performance of a stage of the fracturing operation can be accessed. An event detection algorithm for det...