ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,388, issued on March 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for optimization of wellbore operations of producing wells" was invented by Oluwatosin Ogundare (The Woodlands, Texas), Bustona Yusubakhmedova (Midland, Texas), Jeremy C. Nicholson (Houston), Eric Lynn Jantz (Duncan, Okla.), Adeyemi Taylor (Katy, Texas) and Haivany Marlene Youmou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a gas lift operation using gas to increase production of production fluid through a production tubing in a wellbore. Included is an optical bubble sensor usable to detect bubbles...