Patents by Inventor Stephen McGuire
Stephen McGuire 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).
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Patent number: 11795978Abstract: An accumulator system includes a chamber configured to receive a first fluid, a piston configured to move within the chamber to pressurize and drive the first fluid out of the chamber, a driving shaft coupled to the piston, a screw adapter coupled to the driving shaft, a plurality of anti-rotation shafts, and an electric actuator configured to couple to the screw adapter and to rotate the screw adapter to axially move the driving shaft. The piston includes a body defining a first aperture and a plurality of counterbores. The driving shaft is coupled to the piston via the first aperture. The piston is configured to slide over the plurality of anti-rotation shafts via the plurality of counterbores.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Christopher Nault, Matthew David Givens, Vikas Rakhunde, Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20230313630Abstract: A closing unit system for a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a first fluid reservoir, a first power source, a first pump system fluidly coupled to the first fluid reservoir and electrically coupled to the first power source, and a valve manifold fluidly coupled to the first pump system via a closing unit hose assembly and configured to couple to the BOP stack. The closing unit system also includes one or more processors that are configured to receive an input indicative of an instruction to adjust an actuator associated with the BOP stack, and instruct the first power source to provide power to the first pump system to cause the first pump system to pump a fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the valve manifold in response to the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20230258049Abstract: A closing unit system for a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a first fluid reservoir, a first power source, a first pump system fluidly coupled to the first fluid reservoir and electrically coupled to the first power source, and a valve manifold fluidly coupled to the first pump system via a closing unit hose assembly and configured to couple to the BOP stack. The closing unit system also includes one or more processors that are configured to receive an input indicative of an instruction to adjust an actuator associated with the BOP stack, and instruct the first power source to provide power to the first pump system to cause the first pump system to pump a fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the valve manifold in response to the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11708738Abstract: A closing unit system for a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a first fluid reservoir, a first power source, a first pump system fluidly coupled to the first fluid reservoir and electrically coupled to the first power source, and a valve manifold fluidly coupled to the first pump system via a closing unit hose assembly and configured to couple to the BOP stack. The closing unit system also includes one or more processors that are configured to receive an input indicative of an instruction to adjust an actuator associated with the BOP stack, and instruct the first power source to provide power to the first pump system to cause the first pump system to pump a fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the valve manifold in response to the input.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11597575Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11597574Abstract: A shipping package and method of making a shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The method includes providing one or more sheets of flexible material, joining the sheet(s) to form an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers, and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Mark Mason Hargett, Susana E Borrero, James T Boesken, Benjamin G Hesford, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Publication number: 20230053709Abstract: The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms transaction record inputs via SOCOACT components into matrix and list tuple outputs for computationally efficient auditing. A blockchain transaction data auditing apparatus comprises a blockchain recordation component, a matrix Conversion component, and a bloom filter component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
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Patent number: 11542084Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Joseph Craig Lester, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11536116Abstract: A drilling rig includes a rig component, an actuator coupled to the rig component, an electric power storage device coupled to the actuator and configured to cause the actuator to actuate. The actuator, by actuating, may perform a safety function in the rig component. The rig also includes a renewable power generator coupled to the electric power storage device and configured to supply at least some of the electric current to the electric power storage device that is supplied to the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20220389941Abstract: An accumulator system includes a chamber configured to receive a first fluid, a piston configured to move within the chamber to pressurize and drive the first fluid out of the chamber, a driving shaft coupled to the piston, a screw adapter coupled to the driving shaft, a plurality of anti-rotation shafts, and an electric actuator configured to couple to the screw adapter and to rotate the screw adapter to axially move the driving shaft. The piston includes a body defining a first aperture and a plurality of counterbores. The driving shaft is coupled to the piston via the first aperture. The piston is configured to slide over the plurality of anti-rotation shafts via the plurality of counterbores.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Christopher Nault, Matthew David Givens, Vikas Rakhunde, Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11488147Abstract: The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms transaction record inputs via SOCOACT components into matrix and list tuple outputs for computationally efficient auditing. A blockchain transaction data auditing apparatus comprises a blockchain recordation component, a matrix Conversion component, and a bloom filter component.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: FMR LLCInventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
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Patent number: 11472146Abstract: A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Andrew Paul Rapach
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Patent number: 11441579Abstract: A double acting accumulator system includes a housing including an actuator housing, a first piston housing coupled to the actuator housing, a second piston housing coupled to the actuator housing, a shaft configured to move axially within the first piston housing and the second piston housing, a first piston coupled to a first end of the shaft, a second piston coupled to a second end of the shaft, an electric actuator configured to couple to and drive the shaft to alternatingly compress fluid with the first piston in the first piston housing and the second piston in the second piston housing to drive fluid out of the respective first piston housing and the second piston housing, and a plurality of anti-rotation shafts configured to block rotation of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Christopher Nault, Matthew David Givens, Vikas Rakhunde, Stephen McGuire
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Patent number: 11401771Abstract: A rotating control device (RCD) system includes a first RCD comprising a first body and a first sealing element within the first body and a second RCD comprising a second body a second sealing element within the second body. The RCD system also includes a controller that is configured to control a first actuator assembly to adjust the first RCD to a withdrawn configuration in which the first sealing element is not positioned to seal about a tubular and to control a second actuator assembly to maintain the second RCD in a sealing configuration in which the second sealing element is positioned to seal about the tubular while the first RCD is in the withdrawn configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20220204241Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Susana E. Borrero, Benjamin G. Hesford, Jun You, Jason M. Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20220195848Abstract: A drilling rig includes a rig component, an actuator coupled to the rig component, an electric power storage device coupled to the actuator and configured to cause the actuator to actuate. The actuator, by actuating, may perform a safety function in the rig component. The rig also includes a renewable power generator coupled to the electric power storage device and configured to supply at least some of the electric current to the electric power storage device that is supplied to the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
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Publication number: 20220185568Abstract: A shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Susana E. Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare, James T. Boesken, Jason M. Earl, Jun You, Benjamin G. Hesford
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Patent number: 11352185Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susana E Borrero, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Stephen Michael Truesdell
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Patent number: 11352186Abstract: A shipping package and method of making a shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The method includes providing one or more sheets of flexible material, joining the sheet(s) to form an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers, and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company CompanyInventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Mark Mason Hargett, Susana E Borrero, James T Boesken, Benjamin G Hesford, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Patent number: 11345532Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire