Patents by Inventor Yao Ge
Yao Ge 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: 11656382Abstract: A method for identifying a leak for dynamic logging may comprise estimating a Stoneley wave slowness, separating a Stoneley wave into an up-going Stoneley wave and a down-going Stoneley wave, estimating an amplitude of the up-going Stoneley wave and the down-going Stoneley wave, identifying a difference between the amplitude of the up-going Stoneley wave and the down-going Stoneley wave, forming an amplitude summation curve or an amplitude difference curve, and identifying a location of the leak.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yao Ge, Ruijia Wang, Xiang Wu, Jing Jin
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Patent number: 11639460Abstract: The present application discloses a nanometer self-locking bentonite film-forming agent, a method for preparing the same, and a film-forming drilling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignees: Southwest Petroleum University, Chongqing University, Sichuan Xinlin New Material Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenxin Dong, Xiaolin Pu, Jinyang Fan, Wenhao Liu, Siyi Chen, Hanyi Wang, Deyi Jiang, Yi Cao, Jianjun Chen, Yao Ge, Jinsheng Sun, Wei Chen, Tao Han, Jingwen Xiao
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Patent number: 11592591Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a material property transition within a wellbore. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a material transition profile for each of a plurality of test points within a linear measurement path including, for each test point, determining an acoustic response for a first location within the linear measurement path, and determining an acoustic response for a second location within the linear measurement path. The test point is between the first and second locations. The method further includes generating a material transition profile for the test point based, at least in part, on a difference between the acoustic response at the first location and the acoustic response at the second location.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Brenno Caetano Troca Cabella, Ruijia Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Patent number: 11566510Abstract: A sensor system may be used to measure characteristics of an object in a wellbore. The sensor system may include an ultrasonic transducer that generates an ultrasonic wave in a medium of the wellbore and detects a reflection signal of the ultrasonic wave off the object in the wellbore. The sensor system may also include a processing device and a memory device in which instructions are stored. The memory may include instructions that cause the processing device to receive the reflection signal from the ultrasonic transducer, and to truncate and preprocess the reflection signal to generate a truncated reflection signal. The instructions may also cause the processing device to apply time gain compensation to the truncated reflection signal and determine an echo wavelet from the time gain compensated signal representing an echo of the ultrasonic wave off of a wall of the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Patent number: 11554387Abstract: An apparatus and system for deploying an acoustic sensor are disclosed. In some embodiments, an acoustic sensor includes a transducer comprising a piezoelectric material layer having a front side from which the transducer is configured to transmit acoustic sensing signals and an opposing back side. A backing material layer comprising an acoustic damping material is coupled at a front side to the back side of the piezoelectric material layer. An acoustic reflector such as may comprise a cavity containing gaseous or liquid fluid is disposed between the front side and a back side of the backing material layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Ruijia Wang
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Patent number: 11525936Abstract: Reducing casing wave effects on sonic logging data by positioning two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation; receiving, at two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation, a first signal associated with a first acoustic signal originating from a first transmitter position; receiving, at the two or more receivers, a second signal associated with a second acoustic signal originating from a second transmitter position; creating a dataset based on the first signal and the second signal; identifying casing wave signals in the dataset based at least in part on the second signal; calculating inverse-phase casing wave signals based at least in part on the casing wave signals and the second signal; and reducing effects of the casing wave signals on the dataset using the inverse-phase casing wave signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ruijia Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu, Jing Jin
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Publication number: 20220381133Abstract: A method and system for identifying bonding between a material and tubing. The method may include disposing an acoustic logging tool in a wellbore, wherein the acoustic logging tool comprises a transmitter, a receiver, or a transceiver, broadcasting a shaped signal with the transmitter such that the shaped signal interacts with a boundary of a casing and a material and recording a result signal from the boundary with the receiver. The method may further comprise identifying a cut-off time to be applied to the result signal, transforming the result signal from a time domain to a frequency domain, selecting one or more modes sensitive to a bonding at the boundary between the casing and the material, computing a decay rate of the one or more modes that were selected based at least one or more decay curves, and converting the decay rate to a bonding log.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yao Ge, Ho Yin Ma, Ruijia Wang, Jing Jin, Brenno Caetano Troca Cabella, Xiang Wu
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Publication number: 20220381935Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a material property transition within a wellbore. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a material transition profile for each of a plurality of test points within a linear measurement path including, for each test point, determining an acoustic response for a first location within the linear measurement path, and determining an acoustic response for a second location within the linear measurement path. The test point is between the first and second locations. The method further includes generating a material transition profile for the test point based, at least in part, on a difference between the acoustic response at the first location and the acoustic response at the second location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Brenno Caetano Troca Cabella, Ruijia Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Publication number: 20220373706Abstract: Methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for implementing acoustic logging and determining wellbore material characteristics. In some embodiments, a method may include determining a polar differential signal for each of one or more pairs of azimuthally offset acoustic measurements within a wellbore. A reference azimuth is identified based, at least in part, on comparing the polar differential signals to a modeled bonding differential signal within a target response window. The method further includes determining differences between an acoustic measurement at the reference azimuth and acoustic measurements at one or more other azimuths and determining a wellbore material condition based, at least in part, on the determined differences.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Brenno Caetano Troca Cabella, Ruijia Wang, Chung Chang, Qingtao Sun, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu, Pablo Vieira Rego, Marco Aurelio Luzio, João Vicente Gonçalves Rocha
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Patent number: 11480702Abstract: A well tool can be used in a wellbore that can measure characteristics of an object in the wellbore. The well tool includes an ultrasonic transducer for generating an ultrasonic wave in a medium of the wellbore. The ultrasonic transducer includes a front layer, a rear layer, backing material coupled to the rear layer, and piezoelectric material coupled to the front layer and to the backing material. The rear layer can improve signal-to-noise ratio of the transducer in applications such as imaging and caliper applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Wei Li, Xiang Wu
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Publication number: 20220276403Abstract: A method for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, transmitting a pressure pulse from at least one transducer into the borehole, recording an echo with the at least one transducer, measuring a travel time, measuring an amplitude, determining a geometry of the borehole, determining a location of the downhole tool in the borehole, calculating an incident angle, mapping a mud attenuation, and correcting an image. A system for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud comprising a downhole tool that may comprise a measuring assembly, wherein the measuring assembly comprises at least one transducer and wherein the at least one transducer is configured to emit a pressure pulse and record an echo. The system may further comprise an information handling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yu Weng, Peng Li, Chung Chang, Richard Coates, Rodney Allen Marlow, Xiang Wu, Yao Ge, Jing Jin
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Patent number: 11415720Abstract: A method for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, transmitting a pressure pulse from at least one transducer into the borehole, recording an echo with the at least one transducer, measuring a travel time, measuring an amplitude, determining a geometry of the borehole, determining a location of the downhole tool in the borehole, calculating an incident angle, mapping a mud attenuation, and correcting an image. A system for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud comprising a downhole tool that may comprise a measuring assembly, wherein the measuring assembly comprises at least one transducer and wherein the at least one transducer is configured to emit a pressure pulse and record an echo. The system may further comprise an information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yu Weng, Peng Li, Chung Chang, Richard Coates, Rodney Allen Marlow, Xiang Wu, Yao Ge, Jing Jin
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Patent number: 11333016Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer positionable in a wellbore environment may include a piezoelectric material layer, a protective layer, and connecting plate positioned between the piezoelectric material layer and the protective layer. The piezoelectric material layer may be formed as a plurality of columns of piezoelectric material for detecting a characteristic of the wellbore environment during a drilling operation. The protective layer may be positionable between the piezoelectric material layer and an acoustic medium in the wellbore environment. The connecting plate may be positioned between the piezoelectric material layer and the protective layer. The connecting plate may have a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) in a range between the CTE of the piezoelectric material layer and that of the protective layer, and an acoustic impedance in a range between the acoustic impedance of the piezoelectric material layer and that of the protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Publication number: 20220136385Abstract: A hydrophone array tool as described herein is configured to locate leakages throughout a borehole with improved accuracy using acoustic beamforming techniques with acoustic velocity estimation. An acoustic beamforming processor generates an initial beamforming map and corresponding initial estimated leakage location using acoustic measurements throughout the borehole. The acoustic beamforming processor generates additional beamforming maps at the initial estimated leakage location, each additional beamforming map corresponding to an acoustic velocity within a range of anticipated acoustic velocities. An acoustic velocity estimator determines an acoustic velocity corresponding to a beamforming map with spatial statistics that indicate a most prominent leakage location. The acoustic beamforming processor updates the leakage location according to this beamforming map for improved accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Yadong Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Patent number: 11299985Abstract: An acoustic receiver is provided. The acoustic receiver includes an optical vibrometer having an optical emitter and an optical receiver. The optical receiver is operable to emit an optical beam to a single point of reference on a conduit, and the optical receiver is operable to receive one or more reflections of the optical beam off of the single point of reference on the conduit, thereby detecting waves propagating through the conduit created by an acoustic transmitter. A processor is coupled with the optical emitter and the optical receiver. The processor is operable to: determine components of the waves created by the acoustic transmitter based on the one or more reflections of the optical beam; and determine a signal transmitted from the acoustic transmitter based on the components of the waves.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Daniel Joshua Stark, Patrick John Jonke, Li Gao, Yao Ge, Alexis Garcia, John L. Maida
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Patent number: 11269807Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a method and system for deconstructing and searching binary based vehicular data. The method includes extracting a vehicle filename metadata for one or more vehicular files; parsing data of the vehicular files to generate categorized objects based on a vehicular data dictionary for the vehicular files; associating each of the categorized objects with a respective vehicle filename metadata; storing vehicular documents indicative of the categorized objects with associated vehicle filename metadata in a database system; building a query based on a search input acquired by way of a search interface being displayed; and transmitting search results in response to the search input. The vehicular data dictionary defines multiple terms indicative of decoding logic provided in the vehicular files.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: John Schmotzer, Yao Ge, Pol Llado, Taylor Hawley
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Patent number: 11243326Abstract: Acoustic imaging tools and methods use refracted wave amplitudes to generate borehole images, thereby providing a method and tool that is highly sensitive to borehole discontinuities.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yao Ge, Wei Li, Jing Jin, Chung Chang
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Patent number: 11215047Abstract: A method for identifying a shape of a borehole may comprise disposing a measurement assembly into the borehole, transmitting a pressure pulse from the at least one transducer, recording the echo with the at least one transducer producing data points based at least in part on the echo to determine a distance from an inner wall of the borehole to the measurement assembly; performing a kurtosis on the data points; comparing a result of the kurtosis to a pre-determined threshold; and producing one or more repositioning results based at least in part on the comparing the result of the kurtosis to the pre-determined threshold. A system may comprise a measurement assembly which may include at least one transducer connected to the measurement assembly and an information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Xiang Wu, Yao Ge, Jing Jin
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Publication number: 20210404320Abstract: A sensor system may be used to measure characteristics of an object in a wellbore. The sensor system may include an ultrasonic transducer that generates an ultrasonic wave in a medium of the wellbore and detects a reflection signal of the ultrasonic wave off the object in the wellbore. The sensor system may also include a processing device and a memory device in which instructions are stored. The memory may include instructions that cause the processing device to receive the reflection signal from the ultrasonic transducer, and to truncate and preprocess the reflection signal to generate a truncated reflection signal. The instructions may also cause the processing device to apply time gain compensation to the truncated reflection signal and determine an echo wavelet from the time gain compensated signal representing an echo of the ultrasonic wave off of a wall of the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
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Publication number: 20210396900Abstract: Reducing casing wave effects on sonic logging data by positioning two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation; receiving, at two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation, a first signal associated with a first acoustic signal originating from a first transmitter position; receiving, at the two or more receivers, a second signal associated with a second acoustic signal originating from a second transmitter position; creating a dataset based on the first signal and the second signal; identifying casing wave signals in the dataset based at least in part on the second signal; calculating inverse-phase casing wave signals based at least in part on the casing wave signals and the second signal; and reducing effects of the casing wave signals on the dataset using the inverse-phase casing wave signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Ruijia Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu, Jing Jin