Patents by Inventor William Handy
William Handy 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: 11414974Abstract: Hydrocarbon wells including crosslinked polymer granules as a proppant, methods of forming the hydrocarbon wells, and methods of operating the hydrocarbon wells. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region and a downhole tubular that extends within the wellbore and defines a tubular conduit. The hydrocarbon wells also include a plurality of perforations formed within the downhole tubular and a plurality of fractures formed within the subsurface region. The hydrocarbon wells further include the proppant positioned within the plurality of fractures. The proppant includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules, and each crosslinked polymer granule has a characteristic dimension of at least 100 micrometers and at most 2 millimeters.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Pavlin B. Entchev, Robert M. Shirley, Alan A. Galuska, William Handy, Dragan Stojkovic
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Patent number: 11345842Abstract: Hydrocarbon wells including crosslinked polymer granules as lost circulation material and methods of drilling the hydrocarbon wells. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region, a drilling rig, a drilling mud supply system, a lost circulation detection structure, and a lost circulation material supply system that includes a lost circulation material. The lost circulation material includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules, and a characteristic dimension of each crosslinked polymer granule is at least 20 micrometers and at most 1 millimeter. Each crosslinked polymer granule contains a highly crosslinked polymeric material that includes a plurality of polyethylene polymer chains. The methods include rotating a drill string to extend a length of a wellbore and, during the rotating, flowing a drilling mud stream. The methods also include detecting a lost circulation event and, responsive to the detecting, providing a lost circulation material to the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Robert M. Shirley, Pavlin B. Entchev, Alan A. Galuska, William Handy
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Patent number: 11319417Abstract: Methods of manufacturing highly crosslinked polymer particulate. The methods include positioning a granular polymeric material within a crosslinking apparatus and crosslinking the granular polymeric material with the crosslinking apparatus to form a highly crosslinked polymeric material. The methods also include forming a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules from the highly crosslinked polymeric material.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Alan A. Galuska, Pavlin B. Entchev, William Handy, Robert M. Shirley
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Publication number: 20210322288Abstract: An oral care composition with silica and polyvinylpyrrolidone showing an increased in viscosity after a shear event, viscosity recovery, of at least about 1.5× within approximately 348 seconds. A low-water oral care composition with improved rheology. A low-water oral care composition that does not leak from a toothpaste tube if inverted. An oral care composition with low water, silica, surface active polymer, and optionally polyphosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Larissa Azirbayeva, Jessica Ong Meza, Marco Caggioni, Matthew Frazier Laird, Yuri Volodymyrovych Roiter, Christopher Medley, Fang Hu, William Handy Hartt, Setareh Shahsavari
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Publication number: 20210047480Abstract: Highly crosslinked polymer particulate. The highly crosslinked polymer particulate includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules. The crosslinked polymer granules include a highly crosslinked polymeric material. A characteristic dimension of each crosslinked polymer granule of the plurality of crosslinked polymer granules is at least 10 micrometers and at most 5 millimeters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Alan A. Galuska, William Handy, Pavlin B. Entchev, Robert M. Shirley
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Publication number: 20210047906Abstract: Hydrocarbon wells including crosslinked polymer granules as a proppant, methods of forming the hydrocarbon wells, and methods of operating the hydrocarbon wells. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region and a downhole tubular that extends within the wellbore and defines a tubular conduit. The hydrocarbon wells also include a plurality of perforations formed within the downhole tubular and a plurality of fractures formed within the subsurface region. The hydrocarbon wells further include the proppant positioned within the plurality of fractures. The proppant includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules, and each crosslinked polymer granule has a characteristic dimension of at least 100 micrometers and at most 2 millimeters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Pavlin B. Entchev, Robert M. Shirley, Alan A. Galuska, William Handy, Dragan Stojkovic
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Publication number: 20210047482Abstract: Methods of manufacturing highly crosslinked polymer particulate. The methods include positioning a granular polymeric material within a crosslinking apparatus and crosslinking the granular polymeric material with the crosslinking apparatus to form a highly crosslinked polymeric material. The methods also include forming a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules from the highly crosslinked polymeric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Alan A. Galuska, Pavlin B. Entchev, William Handy, Robert M. Shirley
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Publication number: 20210047551Abstract: Hydrocarbon wells including crosslinked polymer granules as lost circulation material and methods of drilling the hydrocarbon wells. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region, a drilling rig, a drilling mud supply system, a lost circulation detection structure, and a lost circulation material supply system that includes a lost circulation material. The lost circulation material includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules, and a characteristic dimension of each crosslinked polymer granule is at least 20 micrometers and at most 1 millimeter. Each crosslinked polymer granule contains a highly crosslinked polymeric material that includes a plurality of polyethylene polymer chains. The methods include rotating a drill string to extend a length of a wellbore and, during the rotating, flowing a drilling mud stream. The methods also include detecting a lost circulation event and, responsive to the detecting, providing a lost circulation material to the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Robert M. Shirley, Pavlin B. Entchev, Alan A. Galuska, William Handy
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Publication number: 20210047483Abstract: Highly crosslinked polymer particulate and methods of manufacturing highly crosslinked polymer particulate. The highly crosslinked polymer particulate includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules. Each crosslinked polymer granule includes a highly crosslinked polymeric material and a property-modifying filler. The highly crosslinked polymeric material includes a plurality of polyethylene polymer chains and a plurality of chemical crosslinks. The plurality of chemical crosslinks includes chemical crosslinks that covalently bond a given polyethylene polymer chain of the plurality of polyethylene polymer chains to another polyethylene polymer chain of the plurality of polyethylene polymer chains. The property-modifying filler is configured to modify at least one property of the plurality of crosslinked polymer granules. A characteristic dimension of each crosslinked polymer granule of the plurality of crosslinked polymer granules is at least 10 micrometers and at most 5 millimeters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Alan A. Galuska, Pavlin B. Entchev, William Handy, Robert M. Shirley
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Publication number: 20160224692Abstract: Computer implemented methods for creating a product design, include: providing a representation of a package, providing a representation of a consumable product portion, and either: calculating pressure versus mass flow rate for the product using the product viscosity vs. shear-rate response, then calculating package deformation associated with one or more product dispensing events using the pressure versus mass flow rate of the product; and/or calculating package pressure versus squeeze force associated with dispensing the consumable product according to a complex viscosity vs. shear-rate response of the consumable product, and calculating package deformation associated with the package pressure; then altering a design of the package and/or the consumable product portion according to the calculated package deformation. The package representation includes a package body and a package closure including a dispensing orifice. The consumable product representation includes product viscosity vs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: John Boyet Stevens, William Handy Hartt, IV
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Patent number: 7684939Abstract: A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, IV, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
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Publication number: 20080046189Abstract: A method for measuring the partially saturated fluid transport properties of an absorbent. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, and identifying the absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
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Publication number: 20080046202Abstract: A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger