Patents by Inventor Keith A. Bates

Keith A. Bates 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: 11972581
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Patent number: 11925431
    Abstract: A motion feedthrough for a surgical drape, the motion feedthrough comprising a drive transfer element comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being releasably engageable with a portion of a robot arm and the second portion being releasably engageable with a portion of an instrument, the drive transfer element being movable relative to a bulk portion of the drape so as to transfer drive between the robot arm and the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Keith Marshall, Nikki Priyam Su-Ling Phoolchund, Thomas Bates Jackson
  • Patent number: 11293904
    Abstract: An acoustic receiver and method for acoustic logging. The acoustic receiver comprises a housing and a sensor subassembly, which is located within the housing. The sensor subassembly comprises a mount and a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to the mount. The sensor subassembly also comprises an isolation ring positioned between one of the ends of the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and the mount. The isolation ring directly engages the crystal and the mount. The method of acoustic logging comprises receiving an acoustic signal using an acoustic receiver, which comprises a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to a mount without an adhesive material. The method also comprises converting the acoustic signal into an electrical signal by the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and transmitting the electrical signal to a processor via a conductor coupled to the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Minh Dang Nguyen, Chung Chang, Clinton Keith Bates
  • Publication number: 20210327077
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Publication number: 20200278326
    Abstract: An acoustic receiver and method for acoustic logging. The acoustic receiver comprises a housing and a sensor subassembly, which is located within the housing. The sensor subassembly comprises a mount and a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to the mount. The sensor subassembly also comprises an isolation ring positioned between one of the ends of the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and the mount. The isolation ring directly engages the crystal and the mount. The method of acoustic logging comprises receiving an acoustic signal using an acoustic receiver, which comprises a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to a mount without an adhesive material. The method also comprises converting the acoustic signal into an electrical signal by the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and transmitting the electrical signal to a processor via a conductor coupled to the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Minh Dang Nguyen, Chung Chang, Clinton Keith Bates
  • Patent number: 10663435
    Abstract: An acoustic receiver and method for acoustic logging. The acoustic receiver comprises a housing and a sensor subassembly, which is located within the housing. The sensor subassembly comprises a mount and a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to the mount. The sensor subassembly also comprises an isolation ring positioned between one of the ends of the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and the mount. The isolation ring directly engages the crystal and the mount. The method of acoustic logging comprises receiving an acoustic signal using an acoustic receiver, which comprises a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to a mount without an adhesive material. The method also comprises converting the acoustic signal into an electrical signal by the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and transmitting the electrical signal to a processor via a conductor coupled to the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Minh Dang Nguyen, Chung Chang, Clinton Keith Bates
  • Publication number: 20200159372
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus providing a user interface to display clinical data and a clinical worklist are disclosed and described. An example system includes a memory to store instructions, data, and configuration information; and a processor to execute the instructions to generate a user interface. The example user interface includes at least a worklist area to display indicators associated with items to be opened for review, the items selectable to be opened or moved, the worklist area to be hidden or displayed based on a configuration of the user interface. The example user interface also includes a pinned area to display a copy of a selected subset of the items in the worklist area, the pinned area to remain visible when the worklist area is hidden and to persist across sessions of the user interface, wherein a data structure associated with the subset of the items is to be flagged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Keith Bates, Megan Pastore
  • Publication number: 20200159716
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus providing hierarchical data filtering are disclosed and described. An example system includes a hierarchical data filter including a plurality of levels including at least a parent level and a child level, wherein a parent filter is to apply to the parent level and the child level and a child filter is to apply to the child level. An example processor is to execute the instructions to at least: analyze data to match a type of the data to a level in the plurality of levels of the hierarchical data filter; apply one or more filters from the hierarchical data filter to the data to filter the data according to the corresponding level of the data from the hierarchical data filter; and output filtered data from the applying of the one or more filters to the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Keith Bates
  • Patent number: 10296711
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for archiving image, audio, and text data with metadata encapsulation in a client-server storage library is described. The server receives and holds the images, audio, or text to be archived in an image, audio or text logical partition which includes a directory of the images, audio, or text. The information is encapsulated in a metadata wrapper and stored in the library as a closed image, audio, or text file along with a closed copy of the directory. The closed image, audio, or text directory is also stored in the client. The images may be encapsulated in MXF, DICOM, Tape Archive (TAR) or GZIP formats. The storage library may have magnetic tapes, magnetic disks or optical disks as storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Louie Arthur Dickens, Timothy A. Johnson, Craig Anthony Klein, Yun Mou, Stephen Leonard Schwartz, Anna W. Topol, Daniel James Winarski
  • Publication number: 20190011404
    Abstract: An acoustic receiver and method for acoustic logging. The acoustic receiver comprises a housing and a sensor subassembly, which is located within the housing. The sensor subassembly comprises a mount and a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to the mount. The sensor subassembly also comprises an isolation ring positioned between one of the ends of the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and the mount. The isolation ring directly engages the crystal and the mount. The method of acoustic logging comprises receiving an acoustic signal using an acoustic receiver, which comprises a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal coupled to a mount without an adhesive material. The method also comprises converting the acoustic signal into an electrical signal by the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal and transmitting the electrical signal to a processor via a conductor coupled to the cylindrical piezoelectric crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Minh Dang Nguyen, Chung Chang, Clinton Keith Bates
  • Patent number: 10140308
    Abstract: Various embodiments for processing data in a data deduplication system are provided. For data segments previously deduplicated by the data deduplication system, a supplemental hot-read link is established for those of the data segments determined to be read on at least one of a frequent and recently used basis. Other system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Louie Arthur Dickens, Stephen Leonard Schwartz, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 9286914
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a cartridge that includes slots for storing biosample capillary tubes. The cartridge has the same form factor as data tape cartridges to allow the cartridge to be handled by the same robotic mechanisms that handle data cartridges in an automated tape library. One aspect of the disclosure concerns a cartridge comprising an enclosure that includes a movable door to provide access to a tube holder in the enclosure. The tube holder includes cylindrical holes or slots for receiving capillary tubes which contain biosamples scanned and analyzed an automated tape library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nils Haustein, James William Johnson, Thorsten Krause, Stephen Leonard Schwartz, Anna Wanda Topol, Ulf Troppens, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 9275067
    Abstract: A method to sequentially deduplicate data, wherein the method receives a plurality of computer files, wherein each of the plurality of computer files comprises a label comprising a file name, a file type, a version number, and file size, and stores that plurality of computer files in a deduplication queue. The method then identifies a subset of the plurality of computer files, wherein each file of the subset comprises the same file name but a different version number, and wherein the subset comprises a maximum count of version numbers, and wherein the subset comprises a portion of the plurality of computer files. The method deduplicates the subset using a hash algorithm, and removes the subset from said deduplication queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: International Busines Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nils Haustein, Gail Hepworth, Craig Anthony Klein, Ulf Troppens, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 9229071
    Abstract: The invention relates to the identification of molecules using electromagnetic write-heads and magneto-resistive sensors. In one embodiment, an electromagnetic write-head magnetically excites a molecule with an alternating magnetic field. A magneto-resistive sensor measures the resonant response of the magnetically excited molecule. A processor compares the resonant response to a table of known responses of different molecules to identify the chemical composition of the target molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Anna Wanda Topol, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 9059658
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an electric motor is provided. A plurality of switches is provided for controlling a direction of current through motor coils of the electric motor. A brushless motor control circuit is connected to each of the plurality of switches. Responsive to a request to adjust one of an angular velocity and an angular acceleration of the electric motor, the plurality of switches are activated to place the motor coils in a predetermined configuration to maximize torque or reduce a total back electromotive force (BEMF) from the motor coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Wayne Isami Imaino, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 8988031
    Abstract: A calculation function, which optimizes a dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings between winding-configurations, is dynamically configured. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting the electric motor is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 8981695
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings is optimized between winding-configurations. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting a brushless DC motor is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 8981696
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings in an electric motor in an electric vehicle is optimized between winding-configurations. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting the electric motor in the electric vehicle is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 8963463
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings is optimized between winding-configurations. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting a tape storage drive is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Daniel James Winarski
  • Patent number: 8963469
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings is optimized between winding-configurations. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting an electric motor is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Daniel James Winarski