ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,932, issued on June 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sequence of continuous excitations for generating pressure pulse signal in a well system" was invented by Dinesh Ananda Shetty (Houston), Erik Lee (Houston) and Rajani Prakash Satti (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for generating pressure signals in a wellbore of a well system. A target amplitude may be determined for a target pressure signal to be generated in the wellbore of the well system. A rate drop step size may be determined for each rate d...