Patents by Inventor Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson 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: 20210317738
    Abstract: A method including, without removing a BHA from a wellbore of a well extending into a formation, extending, into an interior flow bore of the BHA, a first component of a wet latch assembly to provide an extended first component of the wet latch assembly, conveying downhole via a wireline cable, from a surface through an interior flow bore provided by a drill string, a second component of the wet latch assembly, and coupling the second component of the wet latch assembly with the extended first component of the wet latch assembly such that an electrical connection is established between the first component and the second component and between the BHA and the surface via the wireline cable, and testing the formation with a formation tester of the BHA, while providing power and/or data telemetry for the formation tester via the wet latch assembly and the wireline cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael JONES, Darren George GASCOOKE, Anthony Herman VAN ZUILEKOM, Glenn Andrew WILSON
  • Patent number: 11140803
    Abstract: A system for rotationally driving ground engaging tools of an agricultural implement may include a rotational actuator configured to rotationally drive a ground engaging tool of the implement about a rotational axis. A controller may be configured to determine a current ground speed of the implement based on data received from a sensor. Moreover, the controller may be further configured to determine a rotational output for the rotational actuator based on the current ground speed of the implement such that the tool rotates at a predetermined rotational speed relative to soil within a field. In addition, the controller may be configured to control the operation of the rotational actuator such that the actuator provides the determined rotational output to the tool while the tool is disposed at a working position relative to a soil surface of the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11141064
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for tomographic imaging that provide for rapid illumination of multiple excitation locations across a large field of view by one or more beams of excitation light from one or more excitation sources. The approaches described herein utilize a galvanometer optical scanner to scan a beam of excitation light through a plurality of locations across a scan region corresponding to the field of view to be imaged. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein utilize beams of excitation light with specifically tailored shapes to maintain small spot sizes across the large scan region. The ability to scan over a large region while still maintaining small spot sizes provided by the approaches described herein allows for accurate, high-resolution tomographic imaging of large or multiple subjects, thereby expanding the capabilities of tomographic imaging systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: William Hurley, Ali Behrooz, Michael Meltzer, Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11119242
    Abstract: Systems and methods for noise cancellation in electromagnetic telemetry systems. A method for noise cancellation in electromagnetic telemetry may include: disposing an electromagnetic tool in a lateral section of a wellbore, wherein the electromagnetic tool comprises a transmitter; positioning a first counter electrode at a surface of the Earth; positioning a second counter electrode at the surface on an opposite side of the wellbore from the lateral section; transmitting a signal from the electromagnetic tool; measuring a first electromagnetic field property using the first counter electrode to obtain a received voltage; measuring a second electromagnetic field property using the second counter electrode to obtain a noise voltage; and removing noise from received voltage using the noise voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Etienne M. Samson
  • Patent number: 11118441
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimized geosteering include creating a parameter matrix, which comprises a formation property for each pair of true vertical depth (TVD) coordinates from a geological model and measured depth (MD) coordinates from a predefined well trajectory; updating the parameter matrix by replacing the TVD coordinates and the MD coordinates for each parameter entry in the parameter matrix with the TVD coordinates and the MD coordinates for an actual well trajectory; and compiling a distance to bed boundary (DTBB) array and one or more other logging while drilling (LWD) arrays using corresponding measurements at the MD coordinates of the actual well trajectory; and calculating a value for each parameter entry in the updated parameter matrix, which is a sum of a geology array, the DTBB array and the one or more other LWD arrays that are each multiplied by respectively assigned or calculated weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jin Ma, Rencheng Song, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210270667
    Abstract: A distributed acoustic system (DAS) may comprise an interrogator and an umbilical line attached at one end to the interrogator, a downhole fiber attached to the umbilical line at the end opposite the interrogator. The interrogator may further include a proximal circulator, a distal circulator connected to the proximal circulator by a first fiber optic cable, and a second fiber optic cable connecting the proximal circulator and the distal circulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Ellmauthaler, Glenn Andrew Wilson, John L. Maida
  • Publication number: 20210270131
    Abstract: A distributed acoustic system (DAS) method and system. The system may comprise an interrogator and an umbilical line comprising a first fiber optic cable and a second fiber optic cable attached at one end to the interrogator. The DAS may further include a downhole fiber attached to the umbilical line at the end opposite the interrogator and a light source disposed in the interrogator that is configured to emit a plurality of coherent light frequencies into the umbilical line and the downhole fiber. The method may include generating interferometric signals of the plurality of frequencies of backscattered light that have been received by the photo detector assembly and processing the interferometric signals with an information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Ellmauthaler, John L. Maida, JR., Ira Jeffrey Bush, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11106741
    Abstract: A journal of operations persistently stores a collection of user and machine interactions with documents, concepts within documents, and relationships/mentions among such documents and concepts. A knowledge graph or other visual expression can be used to provide an interactive format for user interactions with this information, and to visually display the accumulated information in the journal of operations on user's device of choice. Such accumulations are often called aggregations or aggregates. Both human users and computer users such as automated recommendation engines, machine learning algorithms, and the like can interact with the journal of operations to facilitate computer-assisted discovery and organization of data around a topic of interest to the human user. The resulting journal of operations and aggregations of those operations such as a knowledge graph or other visual expression(s) also provides a useful medium for sharing knowledge with other users and collaborating on investigation of a topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Max Kleiman-Weiner, Andrew Richard Gallant, Jason Rastrick Briggs, Cogan Dwayne Culver, Kevin John Doyle, Thomas Michael DuBois, John Randolph Frank, Keith Michael Gabryelski, Andrew Wilson Haskell, David Zachary Maze, Geoffrey Ira Milstein, Emily Brooks Pavlini, Daniel Adam Roberts, Aaron Michael Taylor, Henry Forrest Leanna Wallace
  • Patent number: 11073016
    Abstract: A bottom hole assembly (BHA) comprising: a first component of a wet latch assembly, the first component configured for coupling, when extended into the interior flow bore of the BHA, with a second component of the wet latch assembly to provide an assembled wet latch assembly, such that an electrical connection can be made between the first component and the second component; and a formation tester operable for performing a formation test, the formation tester electrically connected with the first component of the wet latch assembly, such that power and/or telemetry can be provided to the formation tester via the assembled wet latch assembly during the formation test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11073012
    Abstract: A method including, without removing a BHA from a wellbore of a well extending into a formation, extending, into an interior flow bore of the BHA, a first component of a wet latch assembly to provide an extended first component of the wet latch assembly, conveying downhole via a wireline cable, from a surface through an interior flow bore provided by a drill string, a second component of the wet latch assembly, and coupling the second component of the wet latch assembly with the extended first component of the wet latch assembly such that an electrical connection is established between the first component and the second component and between the BHA and the surface via the wireline cable, and testing the formation with a formation tester of the BHA, while providing power and/or data telemetry for the formation tester via the wet latch assembly and the wireline cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11047230
    Abstract: A distributed acoustic system (DAS) with an interrogator, an umbilical line attached at one end to the interrogator, and a downhole fiber attached to the umbilical line at the end opposite the interrogator. A method for optimizing a sampling frequency may begin with identifying a length of a fiber optic cable connected to an interrogator, identifying one or more regions on the fiber optic cable in which a backscatter is received, and optimizing a sampling frequency of a distributed acoustic system (DAS) by identifying a minimum time interval that is between an emission of a light pulse such that at no point in time the backscatter arrives back at the interrogator that corresponds to more than one spatial location along a sensing portion of the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Ellmauthaler, John L. Maida, Jr., Ira Jeffrey Bush, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11029767
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined to determine what component a user wants to control and what control action is desired. In this multimodal integration scheme, the desired action concerning an electronic component is decomposed into a command and a referent pair. The referent can be identified using the pointing device to identify the component by pointing at the component or an object associated with it, by using speech recognition, or both. The command may be specified by pressing a button on the pointing device, by a gesture performed with the pointing device, by a speech recognition event, or by any combination of these inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210164342
    Abstract: A method comprising: without removing a BHA from a wellbore of a well extending into a formation, extending, into an interior flow bore of the BHA, a first component of a wet latch assembly to provide an extended first component of the wet latch assembly; conveying downhole via a wireline cable, from a surface through an interior flow bore provided by a drill string, a second component of the wet latch assembly, and coupling the second component of the wet latch assembly with the extended first component of the wet latch assembly such that an electrical connection is established between the first component and the second component and between the BHA and the surface via the wireline cable; and testing the formation with a formation tester of the BHA, while providing power and/or data telemetry for the formation tester via the wet latch assembly and the wireline cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael JONES, Darren George GASCOOKE, Anthony Herman VAN ZUILEKOM, Glenn Andrew WILSON
  • Publication number: 20210164346
    Abstract: A bottom hole assembly (BHA) comprising: a first component of a wet latch assembly, the first component configured for coupling, when extended into the interior flow bore of the BHA, with a second component of the wet latch assembly to provide an assembled wet latch assembly, such that an electrical connection can be made between the first component and the second component; and a formation tester operable for performing a formation test, the formation tester electrically connected with the first component of the wet latch assembly, such that power and/or telemetry can be provided to the formation tester via the assembled wet latch assembly during the formation test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael JONES, Darren George GASCOOKE, Anthony Herman VAN ZUILEKOM, Glenn Andrew WILSON
  • Publication number: 20210164344
    Abstract: An electromagnetic (EM) telemetry system of a wellbore drilling and production environment includes at least one downhole sensor. The system also includes a downhole transceiver including an encoded signal transmitter. The encoded signal transmitter transmits data collected by the at least one downhole sensor. Further, the system includes an encoded signal receiver, which includes one or more active counter electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Scott Urquhart
  • Patent number: 11022713
    Abstract: A method for dipole modeling may comprise providing an electromagnetic induction tool comprising an electromagnetic antenna, disposing the electromagnetic induction tool in a wellbore, and activating the electromagnetic antenna. The method may further comprise producing a dipole array equivalent of the electromagnetic antenna, where the dipole array equivalent comprises at least two dipoles. Additionally, the method may comprise implementing the dipole array equivalent in a forward model within an inversion process, wherein the inversion process determines an electromagnetic property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Ching Ling Chang, Burkay Donderici, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210153418
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for controlling ground-engaging tools of an agricultural implement may include first and second ground-engaging tools configured to perform first and second operations, respectively, on a field as the agricultural implement is moved across the field. Furthermore, a controller of the disclosed system may be configured to determine a first value of a field characteristic based on the received sensor data and adjust an operating parameter of the first ground-engaging tool based on the determined first value. After adjusting the operating parameter of the first ground-engaging tool, the controller may be configured to determine a second value of the field characteristic based on the sensor data and adjust an operating parameter of the second ground-engaging tool based on the determined second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Mircea F. Lupu, Thamer Z. Alharbi, Andrew Wilson, Michael R. Cozza
  • Patent number: 11016209
    Abstract: Systems and methods for electromagnetic reservoir monitoring with earth modeling. An electromagnetic (EM) monitoring system for a subterranean earth formation comprises a receiver locatable in a wellbore and responsive to EM radiation propagating through the formation. The receiver generates EM data associated with the formation. The system also comprises a processor that generates a reservoir model of the earth formation based on additional data associated with the formation; converts the reservoir model to a resistivity model of the formation; generates simulated EM data based on the resistivity model of the formation; compares the EM data and the simulated EM data; generates an updated resistivity model based on the comparison between the EM data and the simulated EM data; and determines an operational parameter based on the updated resistivity model to manage production from a well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Burkay Donderici, Ahmed Fouda
  • Patent number: D920173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: JJC IMPORTS, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Avery, Stephen Chen, Tyler Do, Amelia Helmick, Jeffrey Kelsoe, Sean Lim, Paul Van Wieren, Andrew Wilson, Andrew Reuter, Diego Meneses, Jonathan Viner, Joshua Viner, Matthew Alfin, Zachary Rapoport, Samuel Ach
  • Patent number: D924102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: JJC IMPORTS, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Avery, Stephen Chen, Tyler Do, Amelia Helmick, Jeffrey Kelsoe, Sean Lim, Paul Van Wieren, Andrew Wilson, Andrew Reuter, Diego Meneses, Jonathan Viner, Joshua Viner, Matthew Alfin, Zachary Rapoport, Samuel Ach