US Patent Issued to VINEGAR TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Estimation of paleo-depositional cycles in organic-rich chalk by NMR restricted diffusion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,470, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VINEGAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC (West Lake Hills, Texas).

"Estimation of paleo-depositional cycles in organic-rich chalk by NMR restricted diffusion" was invented by Eva G. Vinegar (West Lake Hills, Texas), Xinglin Wang (Houston), Yunke Liu (Houston), Philip M. Singer (Richmond, Texas), George J. Hirasaki (Bellaire, Texas) and Harold J. Vinegar (West Lake Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating paleo-depositional cycles in a geological formation is accomplished by obtaining 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of restricted diffusion of a protonated fluid in a direction perp...