ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,114, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Cement bond evaluation in a wellbore" was invented by Ruijia Wang (Singapore), Yao Ge (Singapore), Xiang Wu (Singapore) and Chung Chang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cement bonding evaluation and logging in a wellbore environment are described. The cement bonding evaluation is performed using data associated with and processed from the measurement of sonic waves directed to and dissipated by the casing present in the wellbore."

The patent was filed on Sept. 13, 2022, under Application No. 17/943,918.

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