Patents by Inventor Jeffery James Roberts
Jeffery James Roberts 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: 11957446Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for medical instrument navigation and targeting. In one aspect, a system includes a medical instrument having an elongate body and at least one sensor, a display, a processor, and a memory storing a model of a mapped portion of a luminal network and a position of a target with respect to the model. The processor may be configured to: determine, based on data from the at least one sensor, a position and orientation of a distal end of the medical instrument with respect to the model, and cause, on at least a portion of the display, a rendering of the model, the position of the target, and the position and orientation of the distal end of the medical instrument. The rendering may be based on a viewpoint directed at the target and different from a viewpoint of the medical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.Inventors: Hedyeh Rafii-Tari, Prasanth Jeevan, Douglas T. Boyd, Melissa A. Teran, Alexander James Sheehy, Nicolas E. Robert, Miroslav Drahos, Jeffery D. Howard, Andrew Esbenshade Zeldis, René Ango Mambembe
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Patent number: 9896921Abstract: Providing high energy materials that can be placed in previously created fractures and activating them in place to extend or change an existing fracture system. Also detecting the location of fractures or permeable pathways and a means to assess the extent and efficiency of proppant emplacement.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Roger D. Aines, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Kevin S. Vandersall
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Patent number: 9879175Abstract: A capsule for carrying a proppant for emplaced in a formation containing formation fluid by a hydraulic fracture operation using a fracturing fluid. The capsule includes a capsule body. The capsule body includes a proppant. There is a surface layer on the capsule body that is permeable to the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or is permeable to both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid. The proppant material is dry cement that interacts with the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid that migrate through the surface layer and is taken up by the dry cement causing the dry cement to harden.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Roger D. Aines, William L. Bourcier, Eric B. Duoss, Jeffery James Roberts, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Joshuah K. Stolaroff
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Patent number: 9862880Abstract: A capsule for carrying a proppant for emplaced in a formation containing formation fluid by a hydraulic fracture operation using a fracturing fluid. The capsule includes a capsule body. The capsule body includes a proppant. There is a surface layer on the capsule body that is permeable to the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or is permeable to both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid. The proppant material is dry cement that interacts with the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid that migrate through the surface layer and is taken up by the dry cement causing the dry cement to harden.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Roger D. Aines, William L. Bourcier, Eric B. Duoss, Jeffery James Roberts, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Joshuah K Stolaroff
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Publication number: 20170107806Abstract: Providing high energy materials that can be placed in previously created fractures and activating them in place to extend or change an existing fracture system. Also detecting the location of fractures or permeable pathways and a means to assess the extent and efficiency of proppant emplacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Roger D. Aines, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Kevin S. Vandersall
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Patent number: 9562426Abstract: Providing high energy materials that can be placed in previously created fractures and activating them in place to extend or change an existing fracture system. Also detecting the location of fractures or permeable pathways and a means to assess the extent and efficiency of proppant emplacement.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Roger D. Aines, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Kevin S. Vandersall
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Publication number: 20160145488Abstract: A capsule for carrying a proppant for emplaced in a formation containing formation fluid by a hydraulic fracture operation using a fracturing fluid. The capsule includes a capsule body. The capsule body includes a proppant. There is a surface layer on the capsule body that is permeable to the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or is permeable to both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid. The proppant material is dry cement that interacts with the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid that migrate through the surface layer and is taken up by the dry cement causing the dry cement to harden.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Roger D. Aines, William L. Bourcier, Eric B. Duoss, Jeffery James Roberts, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Joshuah K. Stolaroff
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Patent number: 9062545Abstract: A system of fracturing a geological formation penetrated by a borehole. At least one borehole is drilled into or proximate the geological formation. An energetic charge is placed in the borehole. The energetic charge is detonated fracturing the geological formation.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Tarabay H. Antoun, Ilya N. Lomov
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Publication number: 20150021023Abstract: Providing high energy materials that can be placed in previously created fractures and activating them in place to extend or change an existing fracture system. Also detecting the location of fractures or permeable pathways and a means to assess the extent and efficiency of proppant emplacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Roger D. Aines, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Kevin S. Vandersall
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Publication number: 20140262295Abstract: A capsule for carrying a proppant for emplaced in a formation containing formation fluid by a hydraulic fracture operation using a fracturing fluid. The capsule includes a capsule body. The capsule body includes a proppant. There is a surface layer on the capsule body that is permeable to the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or is permeable to both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid. The proppant material is dry cement that interacts with the formation fluid or the fracturing fluid or both the formation fluid and the fracturing fluid that migrate through the surface layer and is taken up by the dry cement causing the dry cement to harden.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Roger D. Aines, William L. Bourcier, Eric B. Duoss, Jeffery James Roberts, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Joshuah K. Stolaroff
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Publication number: 20130341029Abstract: A system of fracturing a geological formation penetrated by a borehole. At least one borehole is drilled into or proximate the geological formation. An energetic charge is placed in the borehole. The energetic charge is detonated fracturing the geological formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Jeffery James Roberts, Tarabay H. Antoun, lIya N. Lomov
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Publication number: 20100271055Abstract: An assembly apparatus for measurement of electrical conductivity or other properties of a sample in a piston cylinder device wherein pressure and heat are applied to the sample by the piston cylinder device. The assembly apparatus includes a body, a first electrode in the body, the first electrode operatively connected to the sample, a first electrical conductor connected to the first electrode, a washer constructed of a hard conducting material, the washer surrounding the first electrical conductor in the body, a second electrode in the body, the second electrode operatively connected to the sample, and a second electrical conductor connected to the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Heather Christine Watson, Jeffery James Roberts