Patents Assigned to Service
  • Patent number: 9562632
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a conduit includes providing a processor and receiving schematic information. The method also includes computing, using the processor, at least one three-dimensional configuration for the conduit and printing the conduit having the computed at least one three-dimensional configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Bradly Jay Billman, Jordan Newmark, Charles Lee Oakes, III
  • Patent number: 9562877
    Abstract: A system comprises one or more first electromagnetic coils configured to generate and direct first excitation signals toward a plurality of casings in a wellbore and receive response signals based on the excitation signals. The system also comprises a magnetic field source configured to generate a static magnetic field in a particular casing of the plurality of casings and a magnetometer configured to receive response signals based on the static magnetic field in the particular casing. The system further comprises one or more processors configured to receive a first response signal from the one or more electromagnetic coils, receive a second response signal from the magnetometer, and determine, based on the first response signal and the second response signal, whether a defect exists in the plurality of casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Khalaj Amineh, Luis Emilio San Martin, Burkay Donderici
  • Patent number: 9564985
    Abstract: A banking system is controlled responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system comprises an automated banking machine. The machine includes at least one type of data reader, which includes a card reader. The machine also includes an anti-fraud arrangement that can deter effective operation of unauthorized devices attached to the machine. Such unauthorized devices may include a fraudulent card reader placed adjacent to a card entry slot that leads to the card reader. The arrangement can sense a fraudulent card reader installed on the machine. The arrangement can additionally emit jamming signals that interfere with an ability of a sensed fraudulent card reader to accurately read card data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory S. Ray, David N. Lewis, Randall Jenkins, James Block, Songtao Ma, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery Enright, James E. Pettitt
  • Patent number: 9562184
    Abstract: A fluid composition for cleanout of wellbores and pipe systems includes an effective amount of an amphiphilic chemical combined with an effective amount of a friction reducer in an aqueous solution of a base liquid. A remainder of the composition includes the base liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bear Creek Services, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan R. Hutchings, Stewart A. Simpson
  • Patent number: 9564024
    Abstract: An apparatus that operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records includes at least one processor that is in operative connection with a card reader, a check acceptor, a cash dispenser and a touch screen display. The processor causes the machine to operate to read card data from a user card, and to cause a determination to be made that the read card data corresponds to an authorized financial account. The at least one processor is operative to cause data to be read from a check and/or cash to be dispensed, and a financial transfer to or from the account corresponding to the value thereof. Data corresponding to a user input alphanumeric characters is resolved by the processor responsive to contact with an input surface of the touch screen display. The area of contact may not include any visible output indicia that corresponds to the possible input characters prior to contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael J. Harty, Randall Jenkins, Tim Crews, Natarajan Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9563191
    Abstract: A method and system for autonomously monitoring, evaluating, storing and testing tools and other units operated at a rig-site. The system may include a storage facility communicatively coupled to one or more tools, status flags identifying the health and operational status of the tools, and a computer for performing a self-check for determining the operational status for the one or more tools. The system may further include a remotely positioned computer system in communication with the operational status of the tools, and a user terminal in communication with the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Johannes Dirksen
  • Patent number: 9561928
    Abstract: A banknote temporary storage unit of a banknote processing device includes a box body, and further includes a controllable telescopic rod having one end configured to be fixed at a transaction port of the banknote processing device and a telescopic end articulated to the box body. The box body is slidably arranged at the transaction port, and in the case that the controllable telescopic rod is at a terminal of a telescoping stroke of the controllable telescopic rod, the box body is located outside the transaction port, and a banknote dispensing space in the box body is in a visible area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: GRG Huitong Financial Services Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Panfeng Luo, Gaofeng Du, Yang Chang, Chaoyang Xu, Jianzheng Yang, Qunwei Ning
  • Patent number: 9562985
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to acquire multiple output values provided by at least one elongated, unitary acoustic sensor operating as a secondary propagation medium. The sensor has multiple mechanical-to-electrical conversion probe points along its length, to provide corresponding multiple output values proportional to mechanical movement along the length of the sensor, the mechanical movement being induced by acoustic waves in a primary propagation medium comprising a geological formation and borehole fluid. Further activity may include processing the output values to determine slowness in an acoustic wave propagating between at least two of the probe points. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Baris Guner
  • Patent number: 9563985
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is provided that can be used on a diagnostic tool. The graphical user interface allows a technician to operate various functions of the diagnostic tool including searching for additional information on the Internet, receiving weather information that is relevant to certain diagnostic tests, and displaying in certain formats the retrieved vehicle data and when certain vehicles were last scanned or diagnosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: James Fish, David Richard Moulton, Kevin Gray
  • Patent number: 9565272
    Abstract: A content capability clearing house that can act as a trusted and neutral mediator among network providers to manage rich content capabilities among multiple networks is provided. Content capabilities that can be brokered include, but are not limited to, quality of service and content screening. In an embodiment, a content capability clearing house includes a receiver that receives content capability request messages and other messages from network providers. A content capability request message includes a quality of service request and/or a subscriber profile request for use with content screening and subscriber specific advertisements. The present invention includes a series of methods for determining content capabilities for data transmission over a transaction between a content provider and a subscriber in which a content capability clearing house is used to efficiently broker and manage the capability among multiple network providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Amdocs Development Limited, Amdocs Canadian Managed Services Inc.
    Inventors: Parham Momtahan, Mark Jones
  • Patent number: 9565559
    Abstract: A computer-based system and method for secured privacy preservation scheme while data aggregation in a non-hierarchical wireless sensor network that lacks peer-to-peer communication between the communicating sensor nodes is disclosed. The method and system adopts formation of self-adaptive efficient cluster formation for robust privacy preservation in the network by grouping the multiple sensor nodes in the network to form multiple clusters that enables low computation overhead and high scalability in the network. The method and system of the invention discloses an effective twin-key management scheme that provides establishment of secure communication among the sensor nodes and the secure communication between at least one sensor node with the sever node performing the function data aggregation of the data collected by the sensor nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Arijit Ukil, Jaydip Sen
  • Patent number: 9562423
    Abstract: Some embodiments herein comprise providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid, an acid, a permeability modifier, and a permeability modifier deactivator; providing an injection well having a first treatment zone comprising a first aqueous formation permeability, wherein the first treatment zone comprises formation damage; introducing the treatment fluid into the injection well, so as to contact the acid, the permeability modifier, and the permeability modifier deactivator with the first treatment zone; reacting the acid with the first treatment zone so as to repair a portion of the formation damage; reacting the permeability modifier with the first treatment zone so as to cause the first aqueous formation permeability to adopt a second, lesser aqueous formation permeability; and contacting the permeability modifier deactivator with the permeability modifier so as to deactivate the permeability modifier and restore the first treatment zone to about the first aqueous formation permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Steven Eoff, B. Raghava Reddy, Eric Davidson, Alexandra Clare Morrison
  • Publication number: 20170032653
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for an inline integrity checker are disclosed. The systems, methods and devices may include detection of impedance to a perforating gun disposed in a wellbore using a controller; a built-in impedance device; a shooting safety panel housing at least partially surrounding the built-in impedance device for restricting access to the built-in impedance device; one or more input devices for altering an impedance or resistance threshold level; and one or more alarms for indicating a condition exceeding the impedance or resistance threshold level as determined by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Leon Crawford, Kristopher Lee Wilden, Tony Tran, Charles Eugene Hamm, Jose Maria Delgado, William George Dillon, Jose German Vicente
  • Publication number: 20170029939
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for manufacturing an integrated computational element (ICE) core. The method comprises varying a distance between a thermal component relative to a substrate holder that holds at least one substrate during a thin film deposition process to improve uniformity of the ICE core. In one embodiment, varying the distance between the thermal component relative to the substrate holder that holds at least one substrate includes moving at least a portion of the substrate holder in at least one direction relative to the thermal component and also moving the thermal component in at least one direction relative to the substrate holder during the thin film deposition process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Perkins, Robert Paul Freese, Christopher Michael Jones, Richard Neal Gardner
  • Publication number: 20170032353
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to access management, and more particularly to access management of financial accounts. In one embodiment, a request is received, via one or more hardware processors, from a primary electronic device for allowing at least one secondary electronic device to access the financial account based on one or more access rules, where the financial account is associated with a primary user and includes a primary account limit. The at least one secondary electronic device is associated with at least one secondary user. The at least one secondary electronic device is allowed to access, via the one or more hardware processors, the financial account based on the one or more access rules, where the one or more access rules includes at least assigning a secondary account limit to at least one secondary electronic device. The secondary account limit is at least a portion of the primary account limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Padmanaban VADIVEL, Jayasekar MANI, Sureshbabu PONNAN
  • Publication number: 20170030186
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system and method in which a plurality of shock sensing subassemblies are arranged within the tool string to monitor the transient response of formation characteristics to various stimuli, including changes in pressure and temperature of a region of a wellbore that is nearby the formation. The systems and methods involve gathering measurements that reflect the transient response and comparing the measured data to predicted data. The results of the comparison can be used to determine formation properties and to refine and improve modeling processes used to generate the predicted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Rodgers, Timothy S. Glenn, Marco Serra, John Burleson
  • Publication number: 20170028437
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a perforation gun casing includes providing a perforation gun housing that has a wall of nominal thickness and at least one scallop. Each scallop is a portion of the wall having a reduced thickness relative to the nominal wall thickness. The process also includes applying a selective annealing process to the perforation gun casing. The selective annealing process affects the material properties of the scallop but generally does not substantially affect the material properties of the portions of the wall having a nominal thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Holly, Wei Zhang, Muralidhar Seshadri
  • Publication number: 20170029255
    Abstract: A concrete pit for housing the below-floor part of a vehicle lift that is at least partially below floor level is constructed of precast concrete pieces. In one embodiment, a trench is dug slightly bigger than the pit that will be installed, and a precast concrete base slab is placed in the hole. Features around the perimeter of the base slab mate with corresponding features around the bottom of a precast concrete hollow rectangle, which is placed on top of the base slab. Additional precast concrete hollow rectangles may be placed on top. A vehicle lift is placed within the concrete pit and in some embodiments fixed thereto using holes, protrusions, or other features built into the concrete pit. In some embodiments, plumbing, wiring conduit, and other passageways are cast into the pieces of the concrete pit to minimize manual installation work that needs to be done in the pit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Vehicle Service Group, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Kendall, Gerry Lauderbaugh, Chuck Luhn, Gregory Buccola, Jonathan J. Westbrook, Jonathan Ross
  • Patent number: D778182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Chunliang Wang
  • Patent number: D778466
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: J. Sonic Services Inc.
    Inventor: Haobo Huang