ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,045, issued on June 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Evaluating subsurface properties through monitoring of electric pumps" was invented by Zhijie Sun (Houston), Derek Shelby Bale (Houston) and Yang Yu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating one or more properties of a wellbore. The method may include generating a tube wave in a wellbore, measuring one or more parameters of an electrical pump motor; and establishing a pump model and a wellbore model. The method may further include evaluating one or more properties of the wellbore based at least in part on the one or more param...