ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,627, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Capacitative sensing device for in-situ monitoring of coatings" was invented by James Martin Price (Houston), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Darren George Gascooke (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring deposition of a coating comprising a dielectric material during deposition of the coating. The device includes a parallel-plate capacitor having a first plate, and a second plate; a first lead electrically connected to the first plate; a second lead electrically connected to the second plate; and a power supply. The...