Patents Assigned to Service
  • Method to Control Energy Inside a Perforation Gun Using an Endothermic Reaction
    Publication number: 20170037712
    Abstract: A wellbore perforation gun includes a gun housing, a plurality of charges, a first reactive material, and a second reactive material that is reactive with the first reactive material to generate an endothermic chemical reaction to drop the potential energy (in the form of temperature or pressure) of the gun housing. The perforation gun may further include a controller and a release capsule, with the first reactive material being disposed within the release capsule and the second reactive material being disposed within a chamber of the gun housing at a first time. The controller may be communicatively coupled to the release capsule and operable to generate a signal to the release capsule at a second time that is later than the first time. The release capsule may be operable to release the first reactive material into the chamber response to receiving the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Justine M. Davidson
  • CALLABLE CHANGE RECORD DATA
    Publication number: 20170039257
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to improving the efficiency and quality of real-time extracting, transforming, and/or loading data using customer information control system (CICS) interval control element (ICE) chain processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Krishna K. Lingamneni
  • ANONYMIZED ACCESS TO ONLINE DATA
    Publication number: 20170039555
    Abstract: Customer online data is collected via script on customer computers and is communicated to a server hosted by an organization, such as a card issuer. The customer online data communicated to the server is non-personally identifiable information (non-PII). In turn, the server aggregates the non-PII customer online data from the set of participating merchants. The server associates the received non-PII customer online data with non-PII demographic data. Other non-PII transaction data, such as previous transactions processed at a card issuer, also can be associated with the non-PII customer online data and non-PII demographic data. These associations are, in turn, used to create reports and to provide services to help merchants or other requesting organizations develop online strategies to drive click thru and conversion rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Silver Rosner, James R. Shelby, Jackie S. Yong, Jean Bowman
  • Fracture-Size-Correlated Aperture Mapping for Localized Porosity and Permeability Determination
    Publication number: 20170038489
    Abstract: A geomodeling method embodiment includes: (a) obtaining a model of a subsurface region having a reservoir, the model including a discrete fracture network; (b) determining an aperture map for each fracture in the discrete fracture network, each aperture map having aperture values based at least in part on a lateral dimension of the fracture; (c) for each of a plurality of cells in the model: (c1) identifying a portion of the discrete fracture network contained within the given cell; (c2) deriving a fracture permeability from aperture maps for the identified portion; and (c3) calculating a fracture porosity from aperture maps for the identified portion; and (d) displaying the fracture porosity and fracture permeability as a function of position throughout the sub surface region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Yogendra Narayan PANDEY, Genbao SHI, Jeffrey Marc YARUS, Veronica LICERAS
  • Lost Circulation Compositions Comprising Pumice and Associated Methods
    Publication number: 20170036959
    Abstract: Disclosed are lost circulation treatment fluids and methods of sealing lost circulation zones. Embodiments include a lost circulation treatment fluid comprising pumice, hydrated lime, a set retarder, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin John Iverson, Thomas Jason Pisklak, Ronnie Glen Morgan, Kyriacos Agapiou, Lance Everett Brothers
  • MODIFYING MEDIA SCHEDULE BASED ON CROSS-PLATFORM DETECTION OF CONTENT TRIGGER
    Publication number: 20170039596
    Abstract: An automated media scheduling system maintains information associating multiple different content triggers with multiple different content adjustment parameters. The media scheduling system monitors media content across multiple media platforms for a content trigger. In response to detecting a particular content trigger, the media scheduling system adjusts playout of scheduled media content based on a content adjustment parameter associated with the detected content trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lincoln Albl, David C. Jellison, JR., Nigel Attwell
  • Oligomeric and polymeric electronically-modified boronic acids and methods of using the same
    Patent number: 9562186
    Abstract: Crosslinked gelling agents employed during subterranean operations use electronically-modified boronic acids to enable higher operating temperatures while allowing reduced gelling agent loadings; the boronic acids having Formula I: wherein X1 and X2 are independently selected from the group consisting of O, CH2, CH2O, OCH2, bond, and null and wherein either X1 or X2 is null, Y1 and Y2 are independently N or C, Ar is phenyl; m is 1 or 2, n is 0, 1, 2, or 3, and each Z is independently an electron withdrawing group selected from nitro, ester, carboxylic acids, carboxylates, halogen, cyano, amide, acyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, heteroarylsulfonyl, CF3, a quaternary ammonium salt, polyhaloalkyl, and carbamate, with the proviso that when n is 0, the link L between M1 and Ar includes an electron withdrawing group attached to Ar, and introducing the treatment fluids into subterranean formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James William Ogle, Jeremy Holtsclaw, David Loveless
  • Vocalization training method
    Patent number: 9564061
    Abstract: A method and software supporting the method that improves the perceived quality of a vocalist's and/or singer's spoken or sung tone by teaching how to self-lower the larynx and maintain the lower laryngeal position while vocalizing and singing. An exemplary vocal instruction method comprising instructing a vocalist to self-monitor electromyographic data during singing, the data provided from an electromyograph device, the device comprising electrodes attached to a skin surface covering the vocalist's larynx, translating the data to a graphic display indicating to the vocalist the relative tension or flaccidity of the vocalist's laryngeal depressor muscles, instructing the vocalist to perform at least one physiological and/or anatomical function sufficient to result in lowered real-time tension of the laryngeal depressor muscle assessed by the electromyo-graphic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Kirkpatrick
  • Label for wet applications
    Patent number: 9561640
    Abstract: A label for a bottle where the label is comprised of a laminate where an outer layer (3) is a material susceptible to losing opaqueness when made wet, and an inner layer (5) behind this first layer which is a material that is opaque, and such that it will maintain such opaqueness when wet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Collotype Services Pty Ltd., Avery Dennison Materials Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: John Frankhuisen
  • Cryogenic cleaning methods for reclaiming and reprocessing oilfield tools
    Patent number: 9561529
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the cleaning of oilfield tools made of metal, particularly to the method of reclamation oilfield tools, already used in the mechanical deep-pumping extraction of oil, as well as to the product made with the help of the mentioned method. The method of remanufacturing of standard length rods includes cleaning the rod with at least one cryogen to eliminate environmental contamination and to assist in workplace safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: TRC Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Lonnie Dale White
  • Methods of enhancing the conductivity of propped fractures with in-situ acidizing
    Patent number: 9562425
    Abstract: Methods of treating subterranean formations comprising providing a wellbore in a subterranean formation having at least one fracture therein; providing a first treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and an acid generating inert agent; providing a second treatment fluid comprising a base fluid, and an acid generating activator; introducing the first treatment fluid into the at least one fracture; and introducing the second treatment fluid into the at least one fracture, wherein the acid generating inert agent in the first treatment fluid reacts with the acid generating activator in the second treatment fluid so as to generate an acid in the at least one fracture and create or enhance at least one microfracture therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Nguyen, Feng Liang, Thomas D. Welton, Christopher Parton
  • Electronic smoking articles
    Patent number: 9560883
    Abstract: An electronic smoking article, a method of manufacturing an electronic smoking article, and a method of achieving a smoking experience without combusting tobacco are disclosed. The electronic smoking article includes an authenticated first section, which includes an aerosol generation unit having at least one heater; an authenticated second section, which includes a power supply operable to apply voltage to the at least one heater for heating a liquid in at least a portion of the aerosol generation unit to form an aerosol; and a conductive ink circuit embedded within the first and second sections, and wherein the power supply and the aerosol generation unit are electrically connected upon joining the first and second sections, and wherein each of the first and second sections has a portion of the conductive ink circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Eric Hawes
  • Method of producing a dental product
    Patent number: 9561090
    Abstract: Methods of producing a dental product are disclosed. Certain methods include the steps of providing a pre-sintered blank made from a green body of ceramic material, performing a machining operation on the blank, and subsequently sintering the blank to its final density in a sintering operation performed at a temperature in the range of 1300° C. to 1650° C. The pre-sintered blank that is provided may have a strength in the range of 53-107 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nobel Biocare Services AG
    Inventors: Cecilia Eriksson, Petrus Brännvall, Lars Jörneus, Carina Berggren
  • Computer-implemented method and apparatus for adjusting the cost basis of a security
    Patent number: 9563917
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for determining a cost basis associated with a plurality of shares of a security. In response to information identifying an issuer, the purchase date and the sale date, a list of capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date is retrieved from a database. One or more shares held adjustment ratios are then retrieved from a database. Each of the shares held adjustment ratios corresponds to one of the capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date. A current cost basis associated with the security may then be determined in accordance with the one or more cost adjustment ratios and the purchase price per share of the security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Networth Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nico Willis, Laura Muggli
  • Process for upset forging of drill pipe and articles produced thereby
    Patent number: 9561537
    Abstract: Shown is a method for manufacturing horizontal directional drilling pipe having internally and externally upset pipe ends. The forging is done by heating the green tube ends and applying pressure using a closed die hydraulic forging press to form the upsets. One end of a steel tube is worked by upsetting and pressing to form an external upset portion having an outer taper being shaped by upset forging. That portion is then pressed by an internal upset die so as to displace the outer taper to an internal upset portion having an inner taper. Internal upset forging is then carried out by an internal upset die to produce the finished part. The process allows the manufacturer to produce a thicker upset horizontal directional drilling pipe, where the ratio of the outside diameter to the inside diameter of the upset can be on the order of 3.5, or even greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hunting Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Klane Edward Kirby, Gregory Lynn Adkins
  • Vaccines and methods to treat lyme disease in dogs
    Patent number: 9562079
    Abstract: The instant invention provides an immunogenic composition comprising an antigenic fragment of OspA protein of Borrelia burgdorferi and a chimeric protein containing antigenic fragments of different phylotypes of OspC protein of Borrelia burgdorferi. Vaccines incorporating the immunogenic composition of the invention, as well as methods of preventing Lyme disease in dogs and/or protecting dogs from Lyme disease using the vaccines are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Zoetis Services LLC, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Inventors: Robert M. Lohse, Patrick F. M. Meeus, Jason J. Millership, Zhichang Xu, Richard Thomas Marconi, Christopher G. Earnhart
  • Timed impact drill bit steering
    Patent number: 9562394
    Abstract: A method of steering a drill bit while drilling a wellbore can include periodically delivering an impact to the drill bit as the drill bit is rotated by a drill string. The impact may be delivered to the drill bit when an axis of the drill bit is oriented in a desired azimuthal direction relative to an axis of the drill string. Another method of steering a drill bit while drilling a wellbore may include interconnecting a bend in a drill string between an impact tool and the drill bit, and periodically delivering an impact from the impact tool to the drill bit as the drill bit is rotated by the drill string. A directional drilling system can include a drill string having a bend interconnected therein, an impact tool, and a drill bit, the bend being interconnected in the drill string between the drill bit and the impact tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Gibb, Malcolm Upshall
  • Wellbore servicing tools, systems and methods utilizing near-field communication
    Patent number: 9562429
    Abstract: A wellbore servicing system comprising one or more wellbore tool nodes disposed within a wellbore, wherein each of the one or more wellbore tool nodes is configurable from a first configuration to a second configuration, and a controller node, wherein the controller node communicates with the wellbore tool node via a near field communication (NFC) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary William Walton, Matthew Todd Howell, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Reduction of TGF beta signaling in myeloid cells in the treatment of cancer
    Patent number: 9562237
    Abstract: Methods of inhibiting metastasis in cancer patients are provided, wherein the methods comprise reducing TGF? signaling, for example, by reducing TGF? receptor II expression in myeloid cells. Vectors comprising a TGF? receptor II RNAi nucleic acid sequence operably linked to a myeloid specific promoter also are provided. A method of diagnosing cancer in an individual by determining TGF? receptor II expression in myeloid cells in the individual is provided. Additionally, a method of modulating TGF? activity in myeloid cells in a cancer patient comprising administering a regulator of at least one of the GSK3 and PI3K pathways to the patient is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Li Yang
  • High surface area ash removal screen
    Patent number: D778423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Integrated Global Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Buzanowski, Iain Stuart Hall, Richard B. Crawford