US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 17 for "First half echo inclusion in nuclear magnetic resonance data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,290, issued on March 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"First half echo inclusion in nuclear magnetic resonance data" was invented by Jie Yang (Houston), Rebecca Jachmann (Houston) and Boguslaw Wiecek (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for determining a time zero echo of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sequence. An example method includes obtaining, via an NMR tool in a borehole, echo waveforms associated with refocusing pulses and a free induction decay (FID) waveform associated with an excitation pulse; determining echo values based on the echo wavef...