Patents by Inventor Antonio Garza

Antonio Garza 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).

  • Publication number: 20230126405
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a nestable water tank, the method comprising molding a water tank comprising a hollow cylindrical body and cutting the water tank to form the nestable water tank comprising a tank body and a lid, wherein the tank body comprises: a side wall comprising a cylindrical shape running along a vertical axis, an interior surface, and an exterior surface; and a bottom connected to a bottom portion of the cylindrical tank, together forming a nestable water tank interior space capable of storing water within the nestable water tank interior space and comprising an interior bottom surface and an exterior bottom surface, wherein at least one of the tank body and the lid are each nestable with other similarly shaped tank bodies and lids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Eduardo Coronado, Antonio Garza, Rodrigo Garcia Morlet, Humberto Flores
  • Patent number: 11572738
    Abstract: A tunable wellbore pulsation valve reduces drillstring friction in a wellbore. An upper valve plate and a lower valve plate, and upper valve plate orifice and lower valve plate orifice enabling throughflow. A Moineau motor rotates the upper valve plate while the lower valve plate remains stationary. Fluid flow causes a first fluid state of fluid passing through both the upper valve plate and the lower valve plate when the fluid passing causes rotation of the upper valve plate to align the upper valve plate orifice with the lower valve plate orifice. Increased flow efficiency produces more powerful fluid pressure pulsations and axial vibrations without increasing pump pressure at the surface of the wellbore, yielding increased wellbore friction reduction while expending the same or less energy at the surface pump than would be expended in the absence of the reduced turbulent and shear conditions and increased laminar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jaime Espinoza, Mark F. Alley, Antonio Garza
  • Publication number: 20220034165
    Abstract: A tunable wellbore pulsation valve reduces drillstring friction in a wellbore. An upper valve plate and a lower valve plate, and upper valve plate orifice and lower valve plate orifice enabling throughflow. A Moineau motor rotates the upper valve plate while the lower valve plate remains stationary. Fluid flow causes a first fluid state of fluid passing through both the upper valve plate and the lower valve plate when the fluid passing causes rotation of the upper valve plate to align the upper valve plate orifice with the lower valve plate orifice. Increased flow efficiency produces more powerful fluid pressure pulsations and axial vibrations without increasing pump pressure at the surface of the wellbore, yielding increased wellbore friction reduction while expending the same or less energy at the surface pump than would be expended in the absence of the reduced turbulent and shear conditions and increased laminar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jaime Espinoza, Mark F. Alley, Antonio Garza
  • Publication number: 20200318435
    Abstract: Sidetracking system including dual-action hydraulically operable anchor for positioning a whipstock in a wellbore and a bi-mill for milling an opening through a wellbore casing in a preplanned lateral drilling path in departure from the wellbore axis and through the wellbore casing or rock formation and in the direction of the drilling path. The anchor's upper and lower hydraulic pistons provide two compressive forces with a third mechanical force being applied from the attached whipstock and workstrin all forces being additive, to compressively set the floating mandrel. The three additive forces function to fix the anchor in the wellbore with extremely great force. The bi-mill mills an opening through a wellbore casing in a preplanned lateral drilling path in departure from the wellbore axis and through the wellbore casing or rock formation and in the direction of the drilling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: John Lloyd Crabb, Antonio Garza, Charles H. Dewey, Kenneth Nevlud
  • Patent number: 10689930
    Abstract: A dual-action hydraulically operable anchor includes a hydraulic anchor body for positioning a whipstock in a wellbore. A split clamp retains an upper sub and the hydraulic anchor body. A lower cap guides the hydraulic anchor within the wellbore. The floating mandrel transmits a hydraulic fluid into the fixed housing, transmitting compressive force from the upper hydraulic piston or from mechanical force applied to the whipstock above and adjoining the hydraulic anchor. The lower hydraulic piston operates along the floating mandrel using transmitted hydraulic fluid. A T-slot adapter and a slip move from a flush position along the fixed housing to an extended position along the fixed housing such that the slip firmly engages the wellbore to hold the hydraulic anchor and the whipstock in a fixed position for providing a path for lateral drilling outside the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: John Lloyd Crabb, Charles H. Dewey, Antonio Garza
  • Publication number: 20200011134
    Abstract: A bi-mill mills an opening through a wellbore casing in a preplanned lateral drilling path in departure from the wellbore axis and through the wellbore casing or rock formation and in the direction of the drilling path. The bi-mill provides increase debris removal and cutting surfaces and includes an assembly having a lead mill and a follow mill and attaches to the wellbore whipstock. The lead mill further includes fluid passageways leading from the lead mill and exiting the nose of the lead mill. Debris removal channels channel milled debris away from the lead mill and in the direction of the follow mill form in a helical configuration for guiding debris milled by lead mill inserts along the debris removal channels. The lead mill and follow mill continue milling through the wellbore casing and into the underground rock formation a distance sufficient to initiate the preplanned drilling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: KENNETH NEVLUD, CHARLES DEWEY, ANTONIO GARZA, JOHN LLOYD CRABB
  • Publication number: 20190330944
    Abstract: A dual-action hydraulically operable anchor includes a hydraulic anchor body for positioning a whipstock in a wellbore. A split clamp retains an upper sub and the hydraulic anchor body. A lower cap guides the hydraulic anchor within the wellbore. The floating mandrel transmits a hydraulic fluid into said fixed housing, transmitting compressive force from the upper hydraulic piston or from mechanical force applied to the whipstock above and adjoining the hydraulic anchor. The lower hydraulic piston operates along the floating mandrel using transmitted hydraulic fluid. A T-slot adapter and a slip move from a flush position along said fixed housing to an extended position along said fixed housing such that said slip firmly engages the wellbore to hold said hydraulic anchor and said whipstock in a fixed position for providing a path for lateral drilling outside the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: JOHN LLOYD CRABB, CHARLES H. DEWEY, ANTONIO GARZA
  • Publication number: 20160053559
    Abstract: An anchoring apparatus for engaging a borehole surface includes an anchoring member, an actuator, a fluid chamber, and an intensifier piston within a housing. The intensifier piston includes a first end having a surface area greater than a second, the second end being in communication with the fluid chamber, such that application of pressure to the first end applies a second pressure, greater than the first, to fluid in the chamber, which is in turn applied to the actuator to extend the anchoring member toward the borehole surface with intensified force. A second intensifier piston and fluid chamber can be included and used to apply intensified pressure to the actuator to retract the anchoring member. A movable mandrel within the housing can be used to physically apply a physical force to one or both intensifier pistons in place of or in addition to fluid pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: VIKING FISHING & OIL TOOLS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark F. Alley, Antonio Garza, Wesley Don Heiskell, Glen Robert Preas, Robert Lee Gonzales, III, Bevy Jay Gillis
  • Patent number: 6965567
    Abstract: A method of selecting a link set for routing a message in a telecommunications network, that does not require in sequence delivery, according to a destination point code, a signaling link selection code and a link selector value. The link selector value is incremented from a minimum, initial value, to a maximum value so as to point to sequential links in a link set, and then reset to the minimum value. A memory node includes a load sharing a list of load sharing links set in the network, a signaling link memory for storing signaling link selection codes, and a link selector memory for maintaining a link selector value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ituriel Mar Ramos, Marco Antonio Garza Ortiz
  • Patent number: 6820756
    Abstract: A windshield storage device operable for mounting a detachable/removable windshield on a wall structure includes a frame structure, one or more brackets connected to the frame structure, wherein the one or more brackets are operable for attaching the frame structure to the wall structure, and one or more receiving mechanisms connected to the frame structure, wherein the one or more receiving mechanisms are operable for receiving one or more attachment mechanisms of the detachable/removable windshield. The frame structure includes an upper member, a lower member, and two side members. The one or more brackets are operable for fixedly or removably attaching the frame structure to the wall structure. The windshield storage device also optionally includes a headlight connected to the frame structure and two turn signal lights connected to the frame structure and a power supply coupled to the frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Inventor: Cornelio Antonio Garza
  • Publication number: 20030226942
    Abstract: A windshield storage device operable for mounting a detachable/removable windshield on a wall structure includes a frame structure, one or more brackets connected to the frame structure, wherein the one or more brackets are operable for attaching the frame structure to the wall structure, and one or more receiving mechanisms connected to the frame structure, wherein the one or more receiving mechanisms are operable for receiving one or more attachment mechanisms of the detachable/removable windshield. The frame structure includes an upper member, a lower member, and two side members. The one or more brackets are operable for fixedly or removably attaching the frame structure to the wall structure. The windshield storage device also optionally includes a headlight connected to the frame structure and two turn signal lights connected to the frame structure and a power supply coupled to the frame structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventor: Cornelio Antonio Garza
  • Publication number: 20020186702
    Abstract: A method of selecting a link set for routing a message including a destination point code and a signaling link selection code includes the steps of maintaining a link selector value in a telecommunications network memory, determining that the message does not require in-sequence delivery, and selecting the link set according to the destination point code, the signaling link selection code, and the link selector value. The link selector value is incremented from a minimum, initial value, to a maximum value so as to point to sequential links in a link set, and then reset to the minimum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventors: Ituriel Mar Ramos, Marco Antonio Garza Ortiz
  • Publication number: 20020088894
    Abstract: A balloon tying system including a plate portion having a pair of upper apertures and a pair of lower apertures therethrough. The plate portion includes an upper strap portion extending between the pair of upper apertures thereof. The upper strap portion secures the plate portion to the helium tank. A hook portion is secured to the plate portion. The hook portion is defined by an upper linear segment and a lower arcuate segment. The lower arcuate segment has an upper aperture and a lower aperture therein in communication with an internal common channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Antonio Garza
  • Patent number: D360334
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: Antonio Garza, Jr.