Patents by Inventor Joseph D. Mills

Joseph D. Mills 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).

  • Patent number: 9134095
    Abstract: The invention provides a verticalness indicating apparatus for a bow in which the axial position of a pendulum member with respect to the housing in which the pendulum is mounted controls one or both of the color and intensity of light delivered via a light guide from the apparatus to one or more sight pins of a bow sight mounted on the bow. In this manner, the apparatus provides visual cues to the archer as to the vertical alignment of the bow contemporaneously with the archer's focus on the sight pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventor: Joseph D. Mills
  • Patent number: 5887668
    Abstract: A tool for wellbore sidetracking operations has been invented, the tool, in one aspect, having a body, a milling section on the body for milling an opening in a tubular in a first wellbore in a formation, the milling section having milling material thereon, and a drilling section on the body for drilling a second wellbore beyond the window into the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Haugen, Frederick T. Tilton, Joseph D. Mills, Randy P. Hutchings, Guy L. McClung, III, Steve R. Delgado
  • Patent number: 5887655
    Abstract: Wellbore operations (e.g. for milling and/or drilling) are disclosed which require a reduced number of tool trips into a wellbore to create a cut-out pocket, opening, or window in a tubular such as casing in the wellbore; and, in some aspects, to continue into a formation adjacent a main wellbore forming a lateral wellbore in communication with the main wellbore. Preferably one trip is required to complete a window or a window and the lateral wellbore. In one aspect a full gauge tool body is used so that the completed lateral wellbore is of a substantially uniform diameter along its entire length, which, in one aspect is suitable for the passage therethrough of full gauge tools, pipe, devices, and apparatuses. In one aspect a cutting system has cutting apparatus initially covered with a wearable away material which is worn away by contacting a tubular to be milled, exposing the cutting apparatus for milling and/or for drilling formation adjacent the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc
    Inventors: David M. Haugen, William A. Blizzard, Jr., Mark W. Schnitker, Steve R. Delgado, Thurman B. Carter, John D. Roberts, Joseph D. Mills, Frederick T. Tilton, Paul J. Johantges, Charles W. Pleasants