Patents Assigned to Hunting Titan, Inc.
  • Impact resistant material in setting tool
    Patent number: 11448025
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a plurality of impact dampening discs composed of a closed cell polyurethane foam composite with polyborodimethylsiloxane as a dilatant non-Newtonian fluid dispersed through a foam matrix in a downhole setting tool to absorb the energy released during setting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Covalt, Joseph Albert Henke
  • Directly initiated addressable power charge
    Patent number: 11448045
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detonating a power charge in downhole wellbore using a heating element embedded within the energetic material of the power charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Montoya Ashton, Richard Wayne Bradley, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Isaiah Acevedo, Johnny Covalt
  • Box by pin perforating gun system
    Patent number: 11448043
    Abstract: A box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies, a removable cartridge to hold a detonator and switch, and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William R. Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Universal plug and play perforating gun tandem
    Patent number: 11448044
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a universal plug in cartridge detonator capability in box-by-box perforating guns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Dyess, Jason Hoang Mai, Richard Wayne Bradley, Joshua Blake Howk
  • Modular Gun System
    Publication number: 20220282600
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coupling a pre-wired end fitting with a shaped charge loading tube where the end fitting centers and orients the loading tube within a perforating gun and further includes a selective switch, feed through contact and orifices to insert a wireless detonator and detonating cord, the loading tube being pre-wired with insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Dyess, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Ryan Bradley, Julio Cesar Veliz
  • Power Charge Ignition
    Publication number: 20220282960
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for igniting a power charge in downhole wellbore using an ignition propellant mixed with a main propellant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Ty Edgar Stovall, Jeffrey Wayne Smith, Johnny Covalt, Zachary James Taylor
  • Autonomous tool
    Patent number: 11434751
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Box by pin perforating gun system and methods
    Patent number: 11428081
    Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Cluster gun system
    Patent number: 11414964
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, using a shaped charge housing containing a cluster of one or more shaped charges, with the apex ends facing each other, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator located in the middle of the cluster of the one or more shaped charges, the shaped charge housing can be one of many shaped charge housings coupled together to perforate in a plurality of single planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai
  • Autonomous tool
    Patent number: 11408278
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Modular gun system
    Patent number: 11391126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inserting a detonator into a door on an end fitting and closing the door into a recess of the end fitting, enabling a quick wireless install of a detonator and resulting in a side-by-side arrangement between the detonator and the detonating cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Dyess, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Ryan Bradley, Julio Cesar Veliz
  • Solid State Dual Fire Circuit
    Publication number: 20220170349
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for firing a detonator in a perforating gun string into a wellbore to a predetermined location using solid state electronics comprising: raising the voltage on the wireline to signal a solid state dual firing circuit within the perforating gun string to energize a detonator, energize the detonator, opening the detonator, firing a first perforating gun, and lowering the voltage of the wireline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen C. Masters
  • Cluster gun system
    Patent number: 11346191
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley
  • Box by pin perforating gun system and methods
    Patent number: 11299967
    Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Differential velocity sensor
    Patent number: 11293277
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison and then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventor: Gene McBride
  • Integrated Coaxial Perforating Acidizing Operation
    Publication number: 20220090479
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for acidizing and perforating simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Chenghua Han, Ryan Rowell, Scott Thiessen, Joseph Hitt
  • Contact plunger cartridge assembly
    Patent number: 11283207
    Abstract: An electrical connector apparatus for use in a downhole tool comprising a housing, a contact screw within outer threads and inner threads, a contact plunger within the inner bore of the housing and a second cylinder protruding from the first cylinder. The contact spring is located between the contact plunger and the contact screw and pre-loads the contact plunger within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Langford, Andy Lane, Rick Blain
  • Autonomous tool
    Patent number: 11274546
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
  • Pressure activated selective perforating switch support
    Patent number: 11274531
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for restraining a firing pin using a bushing for use in a downhole switch that is armed using the explosive energy of a previously detonated shaped charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel Sansing
  • Cluster gun system
    Patent number: 11274529
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai, Charles Craig, Rick Blain