Patents by Inventor Robert Brent Brough

Robert Brent Brough 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).

  • MEASUREMENT DEVICES WITH MEMORY TAGS AND METHODS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110191028
    Abstract: A downhole measurement device includes one or more sensors configured to measure a parameter in a well; a plurality of memory tags for storing measurement data from the one or more sensors; and an ejection module configured to release one of the plurality of memory tags upon a predetermined condition. A method for monitoring a well includes deploying of a measurement device having one or more sensors and a plurality of memory tags into a wellbore; obtaining measurement data of the parameter using the one or more sensors; writing the measurement data to one of the plurality of memory tags; releasing the memory tag having the measurement data; allowing the memory tag having the measurement data to be carried by a flow in the wellbore uphole; reading the measurement data from the memory tag having the measurement data at a location remote from the downhole measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald W. Ross, Stephen W. Pride, Ian Raw, Emmanuel Balster, Svein Kvernstuen, Rune Gimre, Petrus Gerardus Jacobus Butter, Robert Brent Brough