ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,997, issued on May 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Reducing effect of motion on NMR measurements" was invented by Jie Yang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of removing motion-induced noise from datasets from a NMR tool. The method includes steps of generating an echo train from each dataset and identifying one or more datasets that were collected while a motion of the tool was below a predetermined threshold as stationary datasets. Datasets not identified as stationary are identified as moving datasets. The method further performs steps of building a statistical model of the ec...