Patents by Inventor Robert J. Ingham

Robert J. Ingham 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).

  • System and Method for Acoustic Recording in Well Bottomhole Assembly while Firing A Perforating Gun
    Publication number: 20120155219
    Abstract: A sensing and data recording downhole system and method for monitoring of firing of a perforating gun system in a well, including a perforating gun system having charges or bullets for performing well perforation; and one or more downhole recorders and/or one or more fluid detection sensors located above, along, below or in array on the perforating gun system or inside the perforating gun system on a conveyance and configured to at least one of record sound waves generated by explosions of the charges or bullets during the firing of the perforating gun system and detect a presence of fluid within a body of the perforating gun system before and after guns of the perforating gun system are fired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Laurent Alteirac, Robert J. Ingham, James G. Filas
  • Apparatus and Technique to Communicate With a Tubing-Conveyed Perforating Gun
    Publication number: 20110132607
    Abstract: A technique that is usable with a well includes providing a string that includes a tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) gun. The technique includes using a downhole component of the string to communicate uphole an indication of at least a depth or an orientation of the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guillaume Lahitette, Robert J. Ingham, Michael J. Bertoja, Vincent Pequignot