Patents Assigned to SILIXA LIMITED
  • Industrial process monitoring and imaging
    Patent number: 9829368
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus for imaging a volume of material contained inside a vessel. The apparatus includes a plurality of synchronized acoustic sensors positioned at a periphery of an inner volume of the vessel. A processor combines the outputs of the acoustic sensors to identify at least one ambient noise source of the industrial process generating a noise field that illuminates an internal volume of the vessel and to provide an image of the material by temporal and spatial coherent processing of the transmission and reflection of the noise field generated by the noise source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., SILIXA LIMITED
    Inventors: Roy Kutlik, Daniel Finfer, Tom Richard Parker, Huping Luo, Mahmoud Farhadiroushan
  • INDUSTRIAL PROCESS MONITORING AND IMAGING
    Publication number: 20150247751
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus for imaging a volume of material contained inside a vessel. The apparatus includes a plurality of synchronized acoustic sensors positioned at a periphery of an inner volume of the vessel. A processor combines the outputs of the acoustic sensors to identify at least one ambient noise source of the industrial process generating a noise field that illuminates an internal volume of the vessel and to provide an image of the material by temporal and spatial coherent processing of the transmission and reflection of the noise field generated by the noise source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicants: SILIXA LIMITED, CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Roy KUTLIK, Daniel FINFER, Tom Richard PARKER, Huping LUO, Mahmoud FARHADIROUSHAN
  • Industrial process monitoring and imaging
    Patent number: 9052230
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus for imaging a volume of material contained inside a vessel. The apparatus includes a plurality of synchronized acoustic sensors positioned at a periphery of an inner volume of the vessel. A processor combines the outputs of the acoustic sensors to identify at least one ambient noise source of the industrial process generating a noise field that illuminates an internal volume of the vessel and to provide an image of the material by temporal and spatial coherent processing of the transmission and reflection of the noise field generated by the noise source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignees: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC, SILIXA LIMITED
    Inventors: Roy Lester Kutlik, Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, Tom Richard Parker, Huping Luo, Daniel Finfer