Patents by Inventor Richard Michael Ward

Richard Michael Ward 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a platform that manages worker users in a temporary staffing environment via an artificial machine learning model. The temporary staffing platform matches available workers to available shifts/gigs. Additional features include generating provisional or near-miss matches and informing workers how to turn those near-misses into full matches, plotting a gig-career path to develop additional skills, gamify development, and automatically generate resumes. The platform generates a set of skill tags associated with each shift/gig performed by the user. Designing of resume text files by the artificial machine learning model includes procedurally generated descriptions of experience the user has based on the recording of each shift/gig performed by the user and the skill tags associated with each recorded shift/gig, wherein a format of the resume text file is formulated by the artificial machine learning model evaluating a mix of skill tags and employers amassed by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher A. KAPCAR, Richard Paul BETORI, Jeffrey Howard RASH, Robert Michael WARD, Jeffrey S. DIRKS, Jeroen Anton DECKER, Shawn David DILLENBECK
  • Patent number: 10612324
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a downhole tool and related method is disclosed. The guide assembly comprises a guide housing, flappers, and a driver. The guide housing has a passage to receive the downhole tool therethrough. The flappers are movably positionable about the passage to selectively reduce an inlet thereto. The driver comprises a translator rotationally coupled to the flappers via the rods and an actuator to rotate the translator. The flappers are rotatable between the closed and the open position by the driver whereby passage of the downhole tool into the passage is selectively permitted. The translator may be a cam, gear, or rotary driver. The actuator may axially or rotationally drive the translator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Bradford Jordan, Marcus Joseph Doran, Richard Michael Ward
  • Publication number: 20180313177
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a downhole tool and related method is disclosed. The guide assembly comprises a guide housing, flappers, and a driver. The guide housing has a passage to receive the downhole tool therethrough. The flappers are movably positionable about the passage to selectively reduce an inlet thereto. The driver comprises a translator rotationally coupled to the flappers via the rods and an actuator to rotate the translator. The flappers are rotatable between the closed and the open position by the driver whereby passage of the downhole tool into the passage is selectively permitted. The translator may be a cam, gear, or rotary driver. The actuator may axially or rotationally drive the translator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Bradford Jordan, Marcus Joseph Doran, Richard Michael Ward
  • Patent number: 9441444
    Abstract: A stripper packer for sealing a tubular of a wellsite is provided. The stripper packer includes an extendable housing, a packer, and a sliding window. The extendable housing has a passage therethrough to receive the tubular, and includes a piston operatively connectable between an upper and a lower portion of the extendable housing for selective movement therebetween. The packer is positionable within the extendable housing and sealingly engageable with the tubular. The sliding window is slidably positionable in the passage of the extendable housing and engageable with the packer. The sliding window is movable with the piston in response to pressure whereby the packer is sealable with the tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Michael Ward, James Allen Douty, Jeffrey Jeffrey Melancon, Douglas Avery Ware
  • Publication number: 20150075801
    Abstract: A stripper packer for sealing a tubular of a wellsite is provided. The stripper packer includes an extendable housing, a packer, and a sliding window. The extendable housing has a passage therethrough to receive the tubular, and includes a piston operatively connectable between an upper and a lower portion of the extendable housing for selective movement therebetween. The packer is positionable within the extendable housing and sealingly engageable with the tubular. The sliding window is slidably positionable in the passage of the extendable housing and engageable with the packer. The sliding window is movable with the piston in response to pressure whereby the packer is sealable with the tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Michael WARD, James Allen DOUTY, Jeffrey Thomas MELANCON, Douglas Avery WARE
  • Publication number: 20130046066
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of making a polymer in the presence of a catalyst composition having an empirical formula M(glycerol)a(X)b, where M represents a metal atom selected from titanium, zirconium, hafnium or aluminium, X is a ligand derived from acetylacetone or a peroxo ion; a is a number between 1 and 2.5; b is a number in the range from 1 to 2. Reactive compositions containing the catalyst composition are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC
    Inventors: Alan Thomas Cooper, Mark Dixon, Richard Michael Ward, James Brown