US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 30 for "Systems and methods for determining radial drilling fluid invasion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,024, issued on June 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for determining radial drilling fluid invasion" was invented by Mohamad Abdo (Austin, Texas), Bin Dai (Katy, Texas) and Wael Elhawary (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a system for determining a radius of invasion of a drilling fluid. The system can include a formation tester tool and at least one processor. The formation tester tool can be operable to be positioned in a wellbore. The formation tester tool can be operable to measure at least one property of a formation fluid within the wellbore. The at...