US Patent Issued to Visuray Intech on Feb. 10 for "Methods and means for the measurement of tubing, casing, perforation and sand-screen imaging using backscattered X-ray radiation in a wellbore environment" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,206, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Visuray Intech Ltd (Road Town, British Virgin Islands).

"Methods and means for the measurement of tubing, casing, perforation and sand-screen imaging using backscattered X-ray radiation in a wellbore environment" was invented by Philip Teague (Spring, Texas), Melissa Spannuth (Houston), Alex Stewart (San Francisco) and Teresa Tutt (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray-based cased wellbore tubing and casing imaging tool is disclosed, the tool including at least a shield to define the output form of the produced x-rays; a two-dimensional per-pixel collimated imaging detector array; a p...