Patents by Inventor Aaron B. SMITH

Aaron B. SMITH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method of a reservoir monitoring system
    Patent number: 9316756
    Abstract: Reservoir monitoring system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising installing a hydrocarbon reservoir monitoring system in a marine environment. The installing may be by: placing a base unit at the sea floor, the base unit communicatively coupled to a computer system at the surface, the communicative coupling by way of an umbilical cable; mechanically coupling a first termination module to the base unit, the termination module coupled to a first sensor cable; and communicatively coupling the first sensor cable to the umbilical cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: PGS GEOPHYSICAL AS
    Inventors: Aaron B. Smith, D. Richard Metzbower
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A RESERVOIR MONITORING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140046599
    Abstract: Reservoir monitoring system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising installing a hydrocarbon reservoir monitoring system in a marine environment. The installing may be by: placing a base unit at the sea floor, the base unit communicatively coupled to a computer system at the surface, the communicative coupling by way of an umbilical cable; mechanically coupling a first termination module to the base unit, the termination module coupled to a first sensor cable; and communicatively coupling the first sensor cable to the umbilical cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: PGS GEOPHYSICAL AS
    Inventors: Aaron B. SMITH, D. Richard METZBOWER