ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,701, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fast approach for acoustic impedance computation through dimension expansion" was invented by Jichun Sun (Singapore), Xusong Wang (Singapore), Xiang Wu (Singapore), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Qingtao Sun (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and techniques for an improved method for determining and evaluating an impedance of an annulus associated with a casing of a wellbore. For example, aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and techniques for performing two-dimensional (2D) and/or three-dim...