Patents by Inventor Andrew Mueller

Andrew Mueller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260117599
    Abstract: Embodiments presented provide for a wireline tool connection. In embodiments, a wellbore intervention tool wet connection and method of connecting an intervention tool are presented for quickly performing field connections, preventing short circuiting and tool damage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Kamalah Chang, Jon Turner, Eric Chaize, Ricardo Barreto Pereira
  • Patent number: 12607080
    Abstract: A system includes an autonomous robotic system and a docking system deployed by a seaborne vessel. The docking system houses the autonomous robotic system and couples to a subsea structure of a subsea system. The subsea structure is disposed on a sea floor. The autonomous robotic system deploys from the docking system into a wellbore of a subsea well of the subsea system. The autonomous robotic system also moves within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Todor K. Sheiretov, Luis Silva, David Engel, Kamalah Chang, Fabio Jose Pestana
  • Patent number: 12553300
    Abstract: A downhole tool is hydraulically actuated. The actuation system includes an indexing track and pin assembly. An operator may lose track of the location of the track and pin assembly. The indexing track and pin assembly includes a shifting indexing path. By moving the indexing track and pin assembly through the shifting indexing path, the indexing track and pin assembly will move to a known position without needing any pressure measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20250334009
    Abstract: A system includes an autonomous robotic system and a docking system deployed by a seaborne vessel. The docking system houses the autonomous robotic system and couples to a subsea structure of a subsea system. The subsea structure is disposed on a sea floor. The autonomous robotic system deploys from the docking system into a wellbore of a subsea well of the subsea system. The autonomous robotic system also moves within the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Todor K. Sheiretov, Luis Silva, David Engel, Kamalah Chang
  • Patent number: 12385323
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a directional pad that contacts a wellbore wall at a pad contact location and a drill bit with at least one active cutting element that contacts the wellbore wall at a cutting element contact location. A contact distance between the pad contact location and the cutting element contact location being 3 in. (7.6 cm) or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Ke Chen, Xiaoge Gan, Venkatesh Karuppiah
  • Publication number: 20240263521
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a directional pad that contacts a wellbore wall at a pad contact location and a drill bit with at least one active cutting element that contacts the wellbore wall at a cutting element contact location. A contact distance between the pad contact location and the cutting element contact location being 3 in. (7.6 cm) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Ke Chen, Xiaoge Gan, Venkatesh Karuppiah
  • Patent number: 11939867
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a directional pad that contacts a wellbore wall at a pad contact location and a drill bit with at least one active cutting element that contacts the wellbore wall at a cutting element contact location. A contact distance between the pad contact location and the cutting element contact location being 3 in. (7.6 cm) or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Ke Chen, Xiaoge Gan, Venkatesh Karuppiah
  • Patent number: 11713725
    Abstract: A method for detecting blowout precursors in at least one gas turbine combustor comprising: receiving combustion dynamics acoustic data measured by an acoustic measuring device associated with the combustor in real time; performing wavelet analysis on the acoustic data using simplified Mexican Hat wavelet transform analysis; and determining the existence of a blowout precursor based at least in part on the wavelet analysis. Provided also is a system and a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Charles Angello, David Robert Noble, Andrew Mueller, John Alexander Miltner, Benjamin Emerson, Scott Sheppard, Jared Kee, Timothy Charles Lieuwen
  • Publication number: 20230003091
    Abstract: A downhole tool is hydraulically actuated. The actuation system includes an indexing track and pin assembly. An operator may lose track of the location of the track and pin assembly. The indexing track and pin assembly includes a shifting indexing path. By moving the indexing track and pin assembly through the shifting indexing path, the indexing track and pin assembly will move to a known position without needing any pressure measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20220112770
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a directional pad that contacts a wellbore wall at a pad contact location and a drill bit with at least one active cutting element that contacts the wellbore wall at a cutting element contact location. A contact distance between the pad contact location and the cutting element contact location being 3 in. (7.6 cm) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Mueller, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Ke Chen, Xiaoge Gan, Venkatesh Karuppiah
  • Patent number: 11276304
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to dynamically determining an appropriate responsive action for a moving vehicle in accordance with local traffic regulations. In one embodiment, the disclosed system identifies a stationary vehicle in an environment of the subject vehicle based at least in part on information from a plurality of sensors disposed on the subject vehicle and classifies a type of the stationary vehicle as valid or abandoned based at least in part on the information from the plurality of sensors. A classification of valid indicates that a traffic regulation requires the subject vehicle to undertake a responsive action toward the stationary vehicle. The disclosed system obtains a local traffic regulation based on a location of the subject vehicle and modifies a trajectory of the subject vehicle based on the local traffic regulation when the type of the stationary vehicle is determined to be valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: Denso International America, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Gesch, Jin Kurumisawa, Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210372330
    Abstract: A method for detecting blowout precursors in at least one gas turbine combustor comprising: receiving combustion dynamics acoustic data measured by an acoustic measuring device associated with the combustor in real time; performing wavelet analysis on the acoustic data using simplified Mexican Hat wavelet transform analysis; and determining the existence of a blowout precursor based at least in part on the wavelet analysis. Provided also is a system and a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Leonard Charles ANGELLO, David Robert NOBLE, Andrew MUELLER, John Alexander MILTNER, Benjamin EMERSON, Scott SHEPPARD, Jared KEE, Timothy Charles LIEUWEN
  • Patent number: 10940855
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to providing auto-parking for a vehicle according to the presence of a passenger. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a request for the vehicle to auto-park and to determining the passenger is present within the vehicle, analyzing sensor data about the passenger to generate passenger characteristics that indicate at least an age group for the passenger. The method includes determining whether the age group for the passenger satisfies an auto-park threshold that is based, at least in part, on regulations of a locality in which the vehicle is presently located. The method includes selectively executing auto-parking of the vehicle according to whether the age group of the passenger satisfies the auto-park threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Denso International America, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200307554
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to auto-parking a vehicle in accordance with user preferences. In one embodiment, a disclosed system identifies an available parking space and one or more attributes of the available parking space based, at least in part, on information from one or more sensors. The system classifies the available parking space as a target parking space based, at least in part, on the one or more attributes satisfying a preference threshold defined according to one or more user-defined criteria that indicate characteristics of the target parking space. The system generates parking instructions configured to cause the subject vehicle to park in the target parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ting-Yu Lai, Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200254997
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to providing auto-parking for a vehicle according to the presence of a passenger. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a request for the vehicle to auto-park and to determining the passenger is present within the vehicle, analyzing sensor data about the passenger to generate passenger characteristics that indicate at least an age group for the passenger. The method includes determining whether the age group for the passenger satisfies an auto-park threshold that is based, at least in part, on regulations of a locality in which the vehicle is presently located. The method includes selectively executing auto-parking of the vehicle according to whether the age group of the passenger satisfies the auto-park threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Andrew Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200202713
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to dynamically determining an appropriate responsive action for a moving vehicle in accordance with local traffic regulations. In one embodiment, the disclosed system identifies a stationary vehicle in an environment of the subject vehicle based at least in part on information from a plurality of sensors disposed on the subject vehicle and classifies a type of the stationary vehicle as valid or abandoned based at least in part on the information from the plurality of sensors. A classification of valid indicates that a traffic regulation requires the subject vehicle to undertake a responsive action toward the stationary vehicle. The disclosed system obtains a local traffic regulation based on a location of the subject vehicle and modifies a trajectory of the subject vehicle based on the local traffic regulation when the type of the stationary vehicle is determined to be valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Gesch, Jin Kurumisawa, Andrew Mueller
  • Patent number: 10418249
    Abstract: An electronics module assembly is described herein that packages dies using a universal cavity wafer that is independent of electronics module design. In one embodiment, the electronics module assembly can include a cavity wafer having a single frontside cavity that extends over a majority of a frontside surface area of the cavity wafer and a plurality of fillports. The assembly can also include at least one group of dies placed in the frontside cavity and encapsulant that secures the position of the at least one group of dies relative to the cavity wafer. Further, a layer of the encapsulant can cover a backside of the cavity wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Karpman, Michael Rickley, Andrew Mueller, Nicole Mueller, Jeffrey Thompson, Charles Baab
  • Publication number: 20180108533
    Abstract: An electronics module assembly is described herein that packages dies using a universal cavity wafer that is independent of electronics module design. In one embodiment, the electronics module assembly can include a cavity wafer having a single frontside cavity that extends over a majority of a frontside surface area of the cavity wafer and a plurality of fillports. The assembly can also include at least one group of dies placed in the frontside cavity and encapsulant that secures the position of the at least one group of dies relative to the cavity wafer. Further, a layer of the encapsulant can cover a backside of the cavity wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Karpman, Michael Rickley, Andrew Mueller, Nicole Mueller, Jeffrey Thompson, Charles Baab
  • Patent number: 9847230
    Abstract: An electronics module assembly is described herein that packages dies using a universal cavity wafer that is independent of electronics module design. In one embodiment, the electronics module assembly can include a cavity wafer having a single frontside cavity that extends over a majority of a frontside surface area of the cavity wafer and a plurality of fillports. The assembly can also include at least one group of dies placed in the frontside cavity and encapsulant that secures the position of the at least one group of dies relative to the cavity wafer. Further, a layer of the encapsulant can cover a backside of the cavity wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Karpman, Michael Rickley, Andrew Mueller, Nicole Mueller, Jeffrey Thompson, Charles Baab
  • Publication number: 20160365321
    Abstract: An electronics module assembly is described herein that packages dies using a universal cavity wafer that is independent of electronics module design. In one embodiment, the electronics module assembly can include a cavity wafer having a single frontside cavity that extends over a majority of a frontside surface area of the cavity wafer and a plurality of fillports. The assembly can also include at least one group of dies placed in the frontside cavity and encapsulant that secures the position of the at least one group of dies relative to the cavity wafer. Further, a layer of the encapsulant can cover a backside of the cavity wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Maurice Karpman, Michael Rickley, Andrew Mueller, Nicole Mueller, Jeffrey Thompson, Charles Baab