ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,292, issued on May 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Slim sonic logging tool with multiple modules for borehole resonance mode and pitch-catch measurement" was invented by Chung Chang (Houston), Gary Wayne Kainer (Tomball, Texas), Jing Jin (Singapore), Ruijia Wang (Singapore), Xiang Wu (Singapore) and Keith Bellman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a slim sonic logging tool with multiple modules for borehole resonance mode and pitch-catch measurement, comprising a cylindrical housing, a monopole transmitter, a pair of cross-dipole transmitters and a ring of receivers dispos...