ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,209, issued on March 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Distributed acoustic sensing system using a split interrogator system" was invented by Mikko K. Jaaskelainen (Houston), Andreas Ellmauthaler (Houston) and Glenn Wilson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic sensing (FOS) system and method of operation. The system may include a flying lead in which an integrated compartment is disposed with the flying lead, a transmitter disposed within the integrated compartment and configurable to transmit an interrogator signal and a remote circulator disposed in the integrated compartment and opti...