Patents by Inventor Kevin Hermansen

Kevin Hermansen 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: 11790320
    Abstract: An improved approach to creating a plan for a well. A user receives an initial well plan for a planned well and uses the initial well plan as a starting point for alternate well plans. This is done by creating a copy of the initial well plan, allowing the various uses to make changes to the initial well plan, and executing various automatic validation routines on the alternate designs. These validation routines can provide estimated times and costs to complete the planned well use the alternate well plan. The approach can also involved displaying the estimated times and costs of the different candidate well plans. The user can then select one of the candidate well plans as the master well plan. As replanning is done during the operations, this replanning information, along with the actual executed actions, is captured and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shaoyu Chen, Ping Lyu, Kevin Hermansen, Qingrui Li, Diego Medina, Yingfei Hu, Petter Laurentius Eide, Lucian Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210406833
    Abstract: An improved approach to creating a plan for a well. A user receives an initial well plan for a planned well and uses the initial well plan as a starting point for alternate well plans. This is done by creating a copy of the initial well plan, allowing the various uses to make changes to the initial well plan, and executing various automatic validation routines on the alternate designs. These validation routines can provide estimated times and costs to complete the planned well use the alternate well plan. The approach can also involved displaying the estimated times and costs of the different candidate well plans. The user can then select one of the candidate well plans as the master well plan. As replanning is done during the operations, this replanning information, along with the actual executed actions, is captured and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shaoyu Chen, Ping Lyu, Kevin Hermansen, Qingrui Li, Diego Medina, Yingfei Hu, Petter Laurentius Eide, Lucian Johnston
  • Patent number: 10716650
    Abstract: A dental floss holder includes a connecting section and at least four floss supporting arms extending from said connecting section. Each of the floss supporting arms has a first end and a second end. The first end is connected to the connecting section, and the second end includes a floss fastening portion for fastening a string of dental floss. The floss fastening portions of the at least four floss supporting arms are configured such that a string of dental floss attached to the floss fastening portions of the at least four floss supporting arms may be arranged to constitute the edges of a polyhedron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: STAR FLOSS AS
    Inventor: Kevin Hermansen
  • Publication number: 20190083214
    Abstract: A dental floss holder includes a longitudinal connecting element, a first support plate, a second support plate, and at least four lengths of dental floss. The longitudinal connecting element includes a first end and a second end. The first support plate is arranged at the first end of the longitudinal connecting section, and has a first circumference. The second support plate is arranged at the second end of the longitudinal connecting section, opposite the first support plate, and has a second circumference. The first and second circumference are arranged such that each of the at least four lengths of dental floss is arranged on the dental floss holder and each of the at least four lengths of dental floss extends from the first circumference to the second circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: STAR FLOSS AS
    Inventor: Kevin Hermansen
  • Publication number: 20170151043
    Abstract: A dental floss holder includes a connecting section and at least four floss supporting arms extending from said connecting section. Each of the floss supporting arms has a first end and a second end. The first end is connected to the connecting section, and the second end includes a floss fastening portion for fastening a string of dental floss. The floss fastening portions of the at least four floss supporting arms are configured such that a string of dental floss attached to the floss fastening portions of the at least four floss supporting arms may be arranged to constitute the edges of a polyhedron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: STAR FLOSS AS
    Inventor: Kevin Hermansen
  • Publication number: 20120245911
    Abstract: A method for simulating and displaying dynamic reservoir behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: KONGSBERG OIL & GAS TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Kevin Hermansen, Eigil Samset
  • Publication number: 20120041737
    Abstract: Method for dynamic reservoir characterization by generating, and visually presenting a three-dimensional reservoir model defined by a data set of cells, each cell describing a geometric shape in space and time having an array of physical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: KONGSBERG OIL & GAS TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Kevin Hermansen, Eigil Samset