ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,082, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Yangtze University (Jingzhou, China).

"Method for mirror imaging of gas holdup in gas-water two-phase flow based on fiber optic probe array" was invented by Junfeng Liu (Jingzhou, China) and Jinting Zhang (Jingzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mirror imaging of gas holdup in gas-water two-phase flow based on a fiber optic probe array includes: projecting six fiber optic probes of a FIT onto a cross-section of a wellbore at a same height, gridding and normalizing an inner diameter of the wellbore and probe positions to obtain a cross-sectional grid, and determining a two-di...