Patents by Inventor Brian A. Roth
Brian A. Roth 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).
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Patent number: 11946337Abstract: A system includes a subsurface safety valve and a lock tool. The subsurface safety valve is installed within the production tubing and has a main bore delineated by an inner circumferential surface of the subsurface safety valve and a lock profile machined into the inner circumferential surface of the subsurface safety valve. The lock tool is movably disposed around a conduit and has a locking dog configured to engage with the lock profile of the subsurface safety valve and a conduit seal made of a swellable elastomer. The conduit seal is activated by an activation fluid and has an expanded position and an unexpanded position.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Brian A. Roth, Jinjiang Xiao
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Patent number: 11947610Abstract: The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying information from a BBS. The system provides a method of sorting and presenting messages from a BBS in a way so that the relationship in message threads can be easily observed and related messages can be identified. The system provides a way to view messages and map message threads in two and three dimensions so that the content of messages can be easily reviewed and the relationship between messages can be seen and followed. The system allows a user to enter into a message thread at any point and to then produce a visualization of the related threads and messages associated with each individual message. The system provides interfaces for either a linear or threaded BBS or even a hybrid BBS that is some combination of linear and threaded.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Bitvore Corp.Inventors: Carl Mandel, David Mandel, Brian Fudge, Lew Roth, Kevin Watters
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Publication number: 20240017921Abstract: Some embodiments provide order fulfillment systems utilized in fulfilling orders for goods. The workstation can comprise: a storage structure configured to store totes; mobile robots configured to transport the totes; a buffering station configured to receive totes from the storage structure via the mobile robots and configured to load totes into a rack; and a dispense portal appurtenant to a parking area, the dispense portal configured to receive the rack from the buffering station and configured to present totes from the rack to the parking area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: William J. Fosnight, Devin Lert, John G. Lert, JR., Stephanie Waite, Julian Warhurst, Brian Roth, Christopher Hofmeister, Mark Solomon
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Publication number: 20230407350Abstract: The present disclosure relates to microorganisms capable of producing poly(hydroxyisobutyric acid) (poly(HIBA)) from feedstocks and methods of producing poly(HIBA), methacrylic acid (MAA), and methacrylate esters (MAE) from feedstocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: INDUSTRIAL MICROBES, INC.Inventors: Elizabeth Jane CLARKE, Derek Lorin GREENFIELD, Noah Charles HELMAN, Timothy Brian ROTH, Nyaradzo DZVOVA
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Patent number: 11699114Abstract: Examples provide a system and method for managing non-notifying customer orders for pickup. An order manager component identifies orders received from customers that typically do not provide advance notification prior to arrival at an order pickup location. A prioritization component assigns a priority to each order based on a per-customer confidence level. Customers providing notification and new customers receive the highest priority. Non-notifying customers having consistent pickup times associated with a threshold minimum number of previous orders receive a second highest priority. Non-notifying customers having inconsistent pickup arrival times and/or fewer than the threshold number of previous orders receive lower priority. A routing schedule is generated for pre-staging the orders based on the assigned priorities, pre-staging area capacity, and/or bot capacity. Totes are moved to the prestaging area based on instructions provided in the routing schedule.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Brian Roth, Paul Durkee, Jason D. Shaffer
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Patent number: 11661809Abstract: A downhole tool system includes an electrical submersible pump (ESP) assembly configured to couple to a downhole conveyance that includes a production fluid flow path for a production fluid from a subterranean formation; and a logging sub-assembly directly coupled to a downhole end of the ESP assembly and including a length of logging cable spoolable off a cable spool of the logging sub-assembly within a wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Brian A. Roth
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Publication number: 20230151713Abstract: A system includes a subsurface safety valve and a lock tool. The subsurface safety valve is installed within the production tubing and has a main bore delineated by an inner circumferential surface of the subsurface safety valve and a lock profile machined into the inner circumferential surface of the subsurface safety valve. The lock tool is movably disposed around a conduit and has a locking dog configured to engage with the lock profile of the subsurface safety valve and a conduit seal made of a swellable elastomer. The conduit seal is activated by an activation fluid and has an expanded position and an unexpanded position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Brian A. Roth, Jinjiang Xiao
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Patent number: 11359458Abstract: A subsurface safety valve for controlling fluid flow in a wellbore including a monitoring sub having a hydraulic connection port and defining a piston bore. The monitoring sub defining a hydraulic circuit extending between the hydraulic connection port and the piston bore. The monitoring sub comprising a sensing assembly incorporated in the hydraulic circuit that is operable to measure a degradation level of fluid in the hydraulic circuit. A flapper sub attached to the monitoring sub. A piston disposed in the piston bore of the monitoring sub. A flow tube positioned between the monitoring sub and the flapper attached to a downhole end of the monitoring sub and in contact with the flapper, the flow tube having a protrusion in contact with the piston. A return spring positioned in a cavity defined between the flow tube and the flapper sub, biasing the flow tube towards the monitoring sub.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Brian A. Roth
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Publication number: 20220092497Abstract: Examples provide a system and method for managing non-notifying customer orders for pickup. An order manager component identifies orders received from customers that typically do not provide advance notification prior to arrival at an order pickup location. A prioritization component assigns a priority to each order based on a per-customer confidence level. Customers providing notification and new customers receive the highest priority. Non-notifying customers having consistent pickup times associated with a threshold minimum number of previous orders receive a second highest priority. Non-notifying customers having inconsistent pickup arrival times and/or fewer than the threshold number of previous orders receive lower priority. A routing schedule is generated for pre-staging the orders based on the assigned priorities, pre-staging area capacity, and/or bot capacity. Totes are moved to the prestaging area based on instructions provided in the routing schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Brian Roth, Paul Durkee, Jason D. Shaffer
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Publication number: 20210396095Abstract: A subsurface safety valve for controlling fluid flow in a wellbore including a monitoring sub having a hydraulic connection port and defining a piston bore. The monitoring sub defining a hydraulic circuit extending between the hydraulic connection port and the piston bore. The monitoring sub comprising a sensing assembly incorporated in the hydraulic circuit that is operable to measure a degradation level of fluid in the hydraulic circuit. A flapper sub attached to the monitoring sub. A piston disposed in the piston bore of the monitoring sub. A flow tube positioned between the monitoring sub and the flapper attached to a downhole end of the monitoring sub and in contact with the flapper, the flow tube having a protrusion in contact with the piston. A return spring positioned in a cavity defined between the flow tube and the flapper sub, biasing the flow tube towards the monitoring sub.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventor: Brian A. Roth
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Publication number: 20210381327Abstract: A downhole tool system includes an electrical submersible pump (ESP) assembly configured to couple to a downhole conveyance that includes a production fluid flow path for a production fluid from a subterranean formation; and a logging sub-assembly directly coupled to a downhole end of the ESP assembly and including a length of logging cable spoolable off a cable spool of the logging sub-assembly within a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Brian A. Roth
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Patent number: 11131175Abstract: A matrix stimulation tool includes a cylindrical tube; at least one piston disposed within the cylindrical tube and longitudinally moveable within the cylindrical tube; and at least one hollow tube coupled to the piston, the hollow tube including a distal end disposed within a hole disposed within a wall of the cylindrical tube. Movement of the piston within the cylindrical tube causes movement of the distal end of the at least one hollow tube through the hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Qasim Sahu, Fakuen Frank Chang, Eyad Alali, Brian A. Roth
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Publication number: 20210254442Abstract: A matrix stimulation tool includes a cylindrical tube; at least one piston disposed within the cylindrical tube and longitudinally moveable within the cylindrical tube; and at least one hollow tube coupled to the piston, the hollow tube including a distal end disposed within a hole disposed within a wall of the cylindrical tube. Movement of the piston within the cylindrical tube causes movement of the distal end of the at least one hollow tube through the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Qasim Sahu, Fakuen Frank Chang, Eyad Alali, Brian A. Roth
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Patent number: 11053788Abstract: Systems and method for separating hydrocarbon fluids from water and solid material within a main tubular of a subterranean well include locating a transducer assembly within the subterranean well, the transducer assembly including a plurality of piezo electric transducers spaced along a length of the main tubular. Standing acoustic waves are generated with the plurality of piezo electric transducers, the standing acoustic waves passing through the main tubular transverse to the central axis. A number of loops of the standing acoustic waves decrease in a direction of flow of fluids through the main tubular.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Amr Abdel-Fattah, Brian A. Roth, Wessam A. Busfar
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Patent number: 11035841Abstract: A method of monitoring a protective fluid of a wellbore tool includes flowing, by a sensor or a fluid moving device secured to a wellbore tool disposed at a downhole location within a wellbore, a portion of a protective fluid of the wellbore tool through a body of the sensor. The portion of the protective fluid is exposed to the body of the sensor responsive to the flowing. The protective fluid degrades over time responsive to the wellbore tool performing operations in the wellbore. The method also includes, in response to the protective fluid being exposed to the body of the sensor, determining, at least in part by the sensor, a degradation level of the protective fluid. The method also includes transmitting, by the sensor or a device communicatively coupled to the sensor, the determined degradation level to a surface of the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Brian A. Roth
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Patent number: 10998848Abstract: A solar roof tile with an integrated cable management system includes a roof tile weighing less than 400 lbs per 100 square feet of installed roof area and a photovoltaic solar panel attached to a front side of the roof tile. A rear side of the roof tile includes one or more channels configured to accommodate one or more electrical power cables. A method of routing and securing electrical power cables for a solar roof installation using the solar roof tiles is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SOLARMASS ENERGY GROUP LTD.Inventors: Paul Julian Cropper, Brian Roth, Paul Henderson
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Patent number: 10968914Abstract: A method for providing artificial lift with an electric submersible pump system includes providing an electric submersible pump system having a motor, a pump assembly, a seal assembly, and a shaft assembly extending along a central axis from the motor to the pump assembly. The pump assembly includes two or more pump sections and a coupling with a transmission mechanism is located between the two or more pump sections. The motor rotates a motor shaft segment of the shaft assembly that is in engagement with a first pump section and starts the first pump section. One of the transmission mechanisms is moved from a disengaged position to an engaged position where the coupling conveys the rotation of the motor shaft segment to the adjacent shaft segment and starts another of the two or more pump sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Brian A. Roth, Rafael Adolfo Lastra
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Patent number: 10962015Abstract: A method for providing artificial lift with an electric submersible pump system includes providing an electric submersible pump system having a motor, a pump assembly, a seal assembly, and a shaft assembly extending along a central axis from the motor to the pump assembly. The pump assembly includes two or more pump sections and a coupling with a transmission mechanism is located between the two or more pump sections. The motor rotates a motor shaft segment of the shaft assembly that is in engagement with a first pump section and starts the first pump section. One of the transmission mechanisms is moved from a disengaged position to an engaged position where the coupling conveys the rotation of the motor shaft segment to the adjacent shaft segment and starts another of the two or more pump sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Brian A. Roth, Rafael Adolfo Lastra
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Patent number: 10927643Abstract: A pressure regulator is configured to manage a pressure downstream of a pump discharge during operation. A hydraulic piston is exposed to pressure upstream of the pressure regulator during operation. The hydraulic piston extends into a first fluid reservoir. The first fluid reservoir is defined by an inner surface of an outer housing of a subsurface safety valve. A subsurface safety valve is fluidically couple to the hydraulic piston.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Brian A. Roth
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Publication number: 20210010995Abstract: A method of monitoring a protective fluid of a wellbore tool includes flowing, by a sensor or a fluid moving device secured to a wellbore tool disposed at a downhole location within a wellbore, a portion of a protective fluid of the wellbore tool through a body of the sensor. The portion of the protective fluid is exposed to the body of the sensor responsive to the flowing. The protective fluid degrades over time responsive to the wellbore tool performing operations in the wellbore. The method also includes, in response to the protective fluid being exposed to the body of the sensor, determining, at least in part by the sensor, a degradation level of the protective fluid. The method also includes transmitting, by the sensor or a device communicatively coupled to the sensor, the determined degradation level to a surface of the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Brian A. Roth