ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,835, issued on March 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Correlated wave-particle application for downhole measurements" was invented by Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, Texas), Jeffrey James Crawford (Katy, Texas) and Ahmed Fouda (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for taking measurements in a formation. The system may include a quantum entangled photon source that entangles an idler particle and a probe particle, a transmitter disposed in a wellbore and connected to the quantum entangled photon source by a transmitter waveguide, a receiver disposed in the wellbore, and a car...