US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 2 for "Downhole pump intake pressure prediction" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,363, issued on June 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole pump intake pressure prediction" was invented by Yuzhu Hu (Tulsa, Okla.), Frank Corredor (Houston), Hans Sjerps (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Casey Laine Newport (Tulsa, Okla.), Joshua Wayne Webster (Tulsa, Okla.), Jason Eugene Hill (Tulsa, Okla.) and Clara Susana Tandazo Castro (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying a wellbore pressure based on a predicted pump intake loss. A pump intake pressure after an intake for a submersible pump deployed downhole in a wellbore is identified. An i...