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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2009
Applicants:

Wallace R. Gardner, Houston, TX (US);

Vimal V. Shah, Sugarland, TX (US);

Carl A. Robbins, Tomball, TX (US);

Inventors:

Wallace R. Gardner, Houston, TX (US);

Vimal V. Shah, Sugarland, TX (US);

Carl A. Robbins, Tomball, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An embodiment includes a method comprising transmitting and receiving an acoustic signal that is modulated along a jointed tubing. The acoustic signal may be transmitted in multiple passbands of the jointed tubing and may be modulated differently in different passbands. A swept frequency signal may be used to determine transmission characteristics of the jointed tubing and to select the multiple passbands. Additional embodiments are disclosed.


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