US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 23 for "Multi-phase fluid measurement using low activity sources" (Singaporean, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,348, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Multi-phase fluid measurement using low activity sources" was invented by Jianhua Zhu (Singapore), Massimiliano Fiore (Singapore), Cheng-Gang Xie (Singapore), Guillaume Jolivet (Clamart, France) and Felipe Nogueira (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for using exempt gamma photon sources to measure fluid properties are described herein. The gamma photon sources are used with detectors in an arrangement that provides a short photon path length between source and detector. Fluid measurement devices described her...