Patents Assigned to Service
  • Publication number: 20160319661
    Abstract: The use of a distributed fiber optic strain sensor system in horizontal hydraulic fracturing wells to determine several measurements of hydraulic fracture system geometry including number of farfield fractures, hydraulic and propped fracture length, fracture azimuth, and multi-planar fracture complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Mayerhofer, Karn Agarwal, Norman R. Warpinski, Priyesh Ranjan, Glenn McColpin, Mikko Jaaskelainen
  • Publication number: 20160318101
    Abstract: An example integrated heat-exchanging mold system for fabricating an infiltrated downhole tool includes a mold assembly that defines an infiltration chamber to receive and contain matrix reinforcement materials and a binder material used to form the infiltrated downhole tool. A heat-exchanging enclosure is disposed about at least a portion of an exterior of the mold assembly, and the heat-exchanging enclosure includes one or more component parts that include at least one sidewall extending along a height of the mold assembly. One or more thermal conduits are positioned within the one or more component parts, including the at least one sidewall, and thereby placed in thermal communication with the infiltration chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant O. Cook, III
  • Publication number: 20160320512
    Abstract: Acquiring seismic input data and computing a structure tensor based on the seismic input data to determine seismic orientation data for one or more subsurface geological features. Kirchhoff migration is applied to the seismic input data and constrained with the seismic orientation data derived from the structure tensor. A seismic depth image based on the Kirchhoff migration as constrained by the structure tensor is then generated for consideration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Zhao, Shengwen Jin
  • Publication number: 20160317643
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of eliciting an immune response to a JC polyomavirus (JCV) by administering an effective amount of an immunogenic composition including an isolated JCV VP1 polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding the VP1 polypeptide to a subject. VP1 polypeptides and immunogenic compositions suitable for use in the methods are disclosed herein, including JCV genotype 2 VP1 polypeptides and/or JCV genotype 3 polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods of identifying a subject at risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). In some embodiments, the methods include obtaining a biological sample from a subject, detecting presence or absence of JCV neutralizing antibodies in the sample from the subject, and identifying that the subject is at risk of developing PML if there is an absence of detectable JCV neutralizing antibodies in the sample from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Christopher B. BUCK, Upasana RAY, Diana V. PASTRANA
  • Publication number: 20160319186
    Abstract: Methods including preparing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid, a gelling agent, and crosslinker-coated particulates, wherein the crosslinker-coated particulates are formed by at least partially coating a particulate with a stabilizing agent, and at least partially coating the particulate with a first crosslinking agent atop the stabilizing agent, wherein the stabilizing agent imparts a hydrophobic nature to the particulate when the stabilizing agent is at least partially coated onto the particulate; introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation, and reacting the first crosslinking agent with the gelling agent in the treatment fluid so as to crosslink the gelling agent and suspend the crosslinker-coated particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant D. Chopade, Philip D. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20160319184
    Abstract: Methods including preparing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid, degradable reticulated foam particulates, and non-degradable proppant particulates; introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation comprising at least one fracture therein; placing the degradable reticulated foam particulates and the non-degradable proppant particulates into the at least one fracture, so as to form a stabilized proppant pack therein; and degrading the degradable reticulated foam particulates, thereby forming a high porosity propped fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Nguyen, Jimmie D. Weaver
  • Publication number: 20160317570
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of hepatic disorders in a subject in need thereof. More specifically, the methods of the invention are based on the administration, preferably, systemic administration, of a therapeutically effective amount of at least one biocompatible alginate biomaterial, any modification thereof and any combination thereof. The invention further provides methods for sustaining serum albumin levels, and/or reducing serum AST and ALT, in subjects suffering from hepatic disorder. Still further, the invention provides methods for reducing apoptosis and inducing cell proliferation in a damaged liver tissue of a subject suffering of hepatic disorder, using the alginate biomaterial described by the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicants: Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development Ltd., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Yaron ILAN, Gadi LALAZAR, Eyal SHTEYER, Ami BEN-YA'ACOV, Smadar COHEN, Tsiona ELKAYAM
  • Publication number: 20160320232
    Abstract: A method and device for monitoring oil field operations with a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) that uses a continuous-wave fiber optic distributed acoustic sensor with a very small spatial sampling while being able to sense acoustic events that have a large bandwidth by employing a demodulation/decoding method utilizing multiple spread-spectrum codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonardo de Oliveira Nunes, Christopher Lee Stokely
  • Publication number: 20160319656
    Abstract: Drilling systems are disclosed that measure the rotational speed of a mud motor. One drilling system includes a mud motor arranged in a drill string and having a turbine shaft operatively coupled to a drill bit and a plurality of turbine stages axially arranged along a portion of the turbine shaft, a measure-while-drilling (MWD) tool operatively and communicably coupled to the mud motor and including a pressure sensor configured to detect pressure pulses generated by the mud motor and generate data signals corresponding to the pressure pulses, an electronics module communicably coupled to the pressure sensor and configured to process the data signals and thereby calculate a rotational speed of the mud motor, and a communications module communicably coupled to the electronics module and configured to transmit signals indicative of the rotational speed of the mud motor to a surface location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew McPherson Downie
  • Publication number: 20160323728
    Abstract: Method and system to include a TETRA member (subscriber) in an ongoing PS-LTE group call using SS-LE, by mapping a plurality of specific SS-LE messages is disclosed. The embodiments herein enable TETRA SS-LE service to interwork with PS LTE GCS. The process involves the steps of queuing the TETRA call leg at the PS LTE GCS AS, informing the TETRA SwMI to activate SS-LE for a TETRA member, embedding a SS-LE PDU as a payload in the SIP messaging module, defining and interrogating a SS-LE service on a GCS AS via the authorized user on the TETRA SwMI or on the PS-LTE network. The TETRA member is connected to the ongoing group call through a gateway. The TETRA SwMI works as the TETRA core and the LTE to TETRA Gateway facilitates the process of message mapping and protocol conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Mayur Gajanan THAKUR, Abhijit Shaileshchandra SAVE
  • Publication number: 20160318752
    Abstract: A retractor cord breakaway device is disclosed. The device comprises a first mating portion that holds a hose and a second mating portion that is secured to the end of a retractor cord. The first mating portion is attached to the second mating portion and they are configured to break away from each other when a force greater than a designated force is applied to the hose or between the first mating portion and the second mating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Fueling and Service Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thompson William Wyper
  • Publication number: 20160319306
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to recombinant Gram-positive Clostridia host cells for producing solvents, fuels and/or chemical intermediates, and preferably ethanol, from plant cell walls comprising: (a) at least one nucleic acid encoding a plant cell wall degrading enzyme, wherein the host cells produce and secrete the plant cell wall degrading enzyme, (b) at least one nucleic acid encoding an enzyme that converts pyruvate to acetaldehyde and at least one nucleic acid encoding an enzyme that converts acetaldehyde to ethanol wherein the host cell is capable of expressing said nucleic acid, and, (c) a mutation in at least one nucleic acid encoding for an enzyme in a metabolic pathway which produces a metabolite other than acetaldehyde from pyruvate or ethanol from acetaldehyde, such that the mutation results in a reduced production of the metabolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicants: Total Marketing Services, Le Centre National De Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université D'Aix Marseille, L'Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
    Inventors: Laurence GIRBAL, Florence Saint-Prix, Mathieu Cesari, Henri-Pierre Fierobe, Roberto Mazzoli, Florence Mingardon, Angélique Chanal-Vial
  • Publication number: 20160319601
    Abstract: A disclosed directional drilling sub includes a housing, a coupling mechanism arranged within the housing, a tilt drive shaft extending within the housing and having a first end coupled to the coupling mechanism and a second end coupled to a drill bit, an upper eccentric assembly arranged within the housing to support the tilt drive shaft at the first end and including an upper inner eccentric ring nested within an upper outer eccentric ring, and a lower eccentric assembly arranged within the housing to support the tilt drive shaft at the second end and including a lower inner eccentric ring nested within a lower outer eccentric ring, wherein rotational movement of at least one of the upper and lower inner or outer eccentric rings tilts the tilt drive shaft within the housing and thereby alters an azimuthal tool face orientation of the drill bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Gopal Madhukar Bhosle
  • Publication number: 20160320769
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an untethered apparatus for measuring properties along a subterranean well. According to at least one embodiment, the untethered apparatus includes a housing, and one or more sensors configured to measure data along the subterranean well. The data includes one or more physical, chemical, geological or structural properties in the subterranean well. The untethered apparatus further includes a processor configured to control the one or more sensors measuring the data and to store the measured data, and a transmitter configured to transmit the measured data to a receiver arranged external to the subterranean well. Further, the untethered apparatus includes a controller configured to control the buoyancy or the drag of the untethered apparatus to control a position of the untethered apparatus in the subterranean well. The processor includes instructions defining measurement parameters for the one or more sensors of the untethered apparatus within the subterranean well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Aramco Services Company
    Inventors: Max DEFFENBAUGH, Gregory D. HAM, Jose Oliverio ALVAREZ, Gregory BERNERO, Sunder RAMACHANDRAN, Miguel GONZALEZ, Sebastian CSUTAK, Christopher POWELL, Huseyin SEREN
  • Publication number: 20160321585
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for contextual recommendation of learning content based on various parameters and using probabilistic framework are provided. The recommendation system is a function of learner's profile, job context and learner's role wherein utility values are computed and combined for each of the learning content and compared to enable the system to recommend the most relevant learning content to the learner. The system further utilizes Bayesian reasoning model for otherwise inaccurately specified parameters to impart robustness and flexibility to the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Nidhi SARASWAT, Hiranmay GHOSH
  • Publication number: 20160319663
    Abstract: Methods including producing a bulk fluid from a subterranean formation, the bulk fluid comprising at least water and a hydrocarbon, and having certain constituent parameters; sampling a portion of the bulk fluid, thereby forming at least one sampled fluid; determining constituent parameters of the sampled fluid using the hydrophilic-lipophilic deviation (HLD) model; and determining an optimal hydrate inhibitor surfactant (HIS) or HIS mixture to achieve a first oil-water separation morphological phase of the sampled fluid at temperatures above about 10° C. and a first water-in-oil morphological phase of the sampled fluid at temperatures below about 5° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanja Natali
  • Publication number: 20160321042
    Abstract: Functional use-case generation may include determining whether a requirements context is available. In response to a determination that the requirements context is available, the requirements context may be determined as a task context and as a rule context for a requirements sentence of a requirements document. The task context and the rule context may be used to select a functional model from a plurality of functional models. A functional use-case that includes an entity that is to perform a task based on a rule may be generated. Further, in response to a determination that the requirements context is not available, a functional model may be selected from the plurality of functional models based on process context, where the functional model includes a process related to the process context, and the functional model that includes the process related to the process context may be used to generate the functional use-case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Nilesh AGRAWAL, Vikrant KAULGUD, Milind SAVAGAONKAR
  • Publication number: 20160320527
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of master sensor responses with a master sensor in a set of training fluids and obtaining node sensor responses in the set of training fluids. A linear correlation between a compensated master data set and a node data set is then found for a set of training fluids and generating node sensor responses in a tool parameter space from the compensated master data set on a set of application fluids. A reverse transformation is obtained based on the node sensor responses in a complete set of calibration fluids. The reverse transformation converts each node sensor response from a tool parameter space to the synthetic parameter space, and uses transformed data as inputs of various fluid predictive models to obtain fluid characteristics. The method includes modifying operation parameters of a drilling or a well testing and sampling system according to the fluid characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dingding Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher M. Jones, Darren Gascooke, Tian He
  • Publication number: 20160319183
    Abstract: Methods including preparing a surface modification agent emulsion comprising an aqueous base fluid, a surfactant, and a hydrophobically-modified amine-containing polymer (HMAP), the HMAP comprising a plurality of hydrophobic modifications on an amine-containing polymer, and wherein the aqueous base fluid forms an external phase of the surface modification agent emulsion and the HMAP forms an internal phase of the surface modification agent emulsion; and introducing the surface modification agent emulsion into a subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Loan K. Vo, Philip D. Nguyen, James William Ogle, Feng Liang
  • Publication number: 20160321691
    Abstract: A transaction account provider may obtain travel information from a customer transaction. The travel information may include the date and destination of travel. An email service provider may transmit an email to the customer with an offer related to the date and destination of travel. In response to the customer opening the email, the email may be updated with current information regarding the offer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Simone O. Bott, Lionel Lafargue, Brian G. Lenhart