Patents by Inventor Gerard Joseph Beaudoin

Gerard Joseph Beaudoin 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).

  • Shot scheduling limits for seismic acquisition with simultaneous source shooting
    Patent number: 9081107
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the instant invention there is provided a method for collecting a blended source seismic survey that utilizes new approach to determining a random time separation between successive shots. The random time separation may be drawn in some embodiments from a distribution of uniformly distributed numbers, with ?>1/(2 f), where ? is the half-width of the uniform distribution and f is the lowest frequency of interest in the survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Lee Abma, Gerard Joseph Beaudoin, Zhiyong Jiang
  • SHOT SCHEDULING LIMITS FOR SEISMIC ACQUISITION WITH SIMULTANEOUS SOURCE SHOOTING
    Publication number: 20120176861
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the instant invention there is provided a method for collecting a blended source seismic survey that utilizes new approach to determining a random time separation between successive shots. The random time separation may be drawn in some embodiments from a distribution of uniformly distributed numbers, with ?>1/(2 f), where ? is the half-width of the uniform distribution and f is the lowest frequency of interest in the survey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Raymond Lee Abma, Gerard Joseph Beaudoin, Zhiyong Jiang