Patents by Inventor Baoyan Li

Baoyan Li 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: 20240125965
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a well inspection method and system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting an acoustic signal from a well inspection tool into a casing structure, receiving return signals from the casing structure to the well inspection tool, performing, using at least one processor associated with the well inspection tool, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on a plurality of frequencies of the return signals to generate spectrogram data, determining entropy spectra from the spectrogram data, and determining casing loadings associated with the casing structure based at least in part on the entropy spectra.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Dalila Balmaceda, Wei Han, Roger Steinsiek, Joseph Olaiya, Marc Ramirez, Sushant Dutta
  • Patent number: 11959378
    Abstract: A method and system to be used in well inspection. An acoustic signal is transmitted from a well inspection tool into a well structure and one or more return signals is detected using at least one receiver. At least one processor is used to generate variable density log (VDL) data that includes multiple waveforms in a time domain from the one or more return signals. A number of independent components to be used based on variances in the VDL data is determined and the multiple waveforms are decomposed into multiple components associated with one or more local structure variances of the well structure using independent component analysis (ICA) and the number of independent components. Characteristics of the well structure is determined based in part on patterns or features associated with one or more independent components from the multiple components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez, Freddy Mendez
  • Publication number: 20240085583
    Abstract: A system for determinations associated with pipe eccentricity in a downhole environment includes a downhole tool having first transducers to provide first shear horizontal waves to the downhole environment and second transducers to provide first Lamb waves to the downhole environment, and includes memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions from the memory to cause the system to receive, using the first transducers, second shear horizontal waves returned from the downhole environment and to receive, using the second transducers, second Lamb waves returned from the downhole environment, and further to determine shear horizontal third-interface echoes (TIEs) or Lamb TIEs from the second shear horizontal waves or the second Lamb waves and to determine the pipe eccentricity of the casing based in part on the one or more of the shear horizontal TIEs or the Lamb TIEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jose Mauricio Garcia Roman, Joseph Olaiya, Baoyan Li, Sebastien Kamgang, Douglas Patterson, Sushant Dutta
  • Publication number: 20240084691
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a well inspection method and system enables transmission of an acoustic signal from a well inspection tool into a well structure and reception of return signals from the well structure at an array of receivers on the well inspection tool. The method and system enable performing of Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT) on the return signals to generate spectrogram data that is used to determine short-term power spectra of the return signals. Time-dependent frequency response and location-dependent waveform propagation patterns are identified from the short-term power spectra. Cement bonding conditions is determined based on pattern matching using the time-dependent frequency response patterns and using the location-dependent waveform propagation patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez, Joseph Olaiya
  • Patent number: 11899036
    Abstract: Methods for determining properties of a media on an exterior of a casing in downhole systems are described. The methods include conveying a logging tool through a casing in a downhole formation, stimulating shear waves and flexural waves in the casing, obtaining a shear attenuation rate measurement and a flexural attenuation rate measurement within the casing responsive to the media on the exterior of the casing, comparing the measured shear attenuation rate and the measured flexural attenuation rate against a plurality of respective division boundary values, and determining one or more properties of the media on the exterior of the casing based on the comparison of the measured shear attenuation rate and the measured flexural attenuation rate against the plurality of respective interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sebastien Kamgang, John F. Priest, Douglas Patterson, Joseph Olaiya, Baoyan Li, Muhammad Abrar Manzar
  • Patent number: 11828158
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a well inspection method and system enables transmission of an acoustic signal from a well inspection tool into a well structure and reception of return signals from the well structure at an array of receivers on the well inspection tool. The method and system enable performing of Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT) on the return signals to generate spectrogram data that is used to determine short-term power spectra of the return signals. Time-dependent frequency response and location-dependent waveform propagation patterns are identified from the short-term power spectra. Cement bonding conditions is determined based on pattern matching using the time-dependent frequency response patterns and using the location-dependent waveform propagation patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez, Joseph Olaiya
  • Patent number: 11668851
    Abstract: A method for determining a tubing deviation from nuclear measurement data includes acquiring neutron measurement data from a wellbore. The method also includes identifying one or more features from the neutron measurement data. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on a pattern matching algorithm, that the one or more features are indicative of a tubular deviation. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on a comparison between the one or more features, a deviation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Marc Ramirez, Peng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20230102699
    Abstract: A method and system to be used in well inspection. An acoustic signal is transmitted from a well inspection tool into a well structure and one or more return signals is detected using at least one receiver. At least one processor is used to generate variable density log (VDL) data that includes multiple waveforms in a time domain from the one or more return signals. A number of independent components to be used based on variances in the VDL data is determined and the multiple waveforms are decomposed into multiple components associated with one or more local structure variances of the well structure using independent component analysis (ICA) and the number of independent components. Characteristics of the well structure is determined based in part on patterns or features associated with one or more independent components from the multiple components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan LI, Elan YOGESWAREN, Marc RAMIREZ, Freddy MENDEZ
  • Patent number: 11566517
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a bond between a first tubular disposed in a borehole and a structure outside of the tubular, the method includes transmitting a signal into and through the first tubular using a signal transmitter conveyed through the borehole and detecting a return signal using a return signal receiver conveyed through the borehole to provide return signal information in a time domain. The method also includes transforming the return signal information in the time domain to return signal information in a frequency domain using a transform and determining a difference between the return signal information in the frequency domain and reference frequency domain return signal information. The method further includes characterizing the bond of the first tubular to the structure outside of the first tubular using the difference to provide a characterization of the bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11549360
    Abstract: A method and system to be used in well inspection. An acoustic signal is transmitted from a well inspection tool into a well structure and one or more return signals is detected using at least one receiver. At least one processor is used to generate variable density log (VDL) data that includes multiple waveforms in a time domain from the one or more return signals. A number of independent components to be used based on variances in the VDL data is determined and the multiple waveforms are decomposed into multiple components associated with one or more local structure variances of the well structure using independent component analysis (ICA) and the number of independent components. Characteristics of the well structure is determined based in part on patterns or features associated with one or more independent components from the multiple components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez, Freddy Mendez
  • Publication number: 20230003913
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a well inspection method and system enables transmission of an acoustic signal from a well inspection tool into a well structure and reception of return signals from the well structure at an array of receivers on the well inspection tool. The method and system enable performing of Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT) on the return signals to generate spectrogram data that is used to determine short-term power spectra of the return signals. Time-dependent frequency response and location-dependent waveform propagation patterns are identified from the short-term power spectra. Cement bonding conditions is determined based on pattern matching using the time-dependent frequency response patterns and using the location-dependent waveform propagation patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez, Joseph Olaiya
  • Patent number: 11493461
    Abstract: A method of estimating a wettability characteristic of a rock material includes acquiring a plurality of T2 distributions based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of a rock material under a plurality of fluid saturated rock conditions, constructing a measurement matrix based on the plurality of T2 distributions, and performing non-negative factorization of the measurement matrix to determine feature components. The method also includes reconstructing the plurality of T2 distributions based on the feature components, and extracting a first set of T2 distributions associated with mobile water under a wetting condition and a second set of T2 distributions associated with mobile water under a non-wetting condition based on the feature components, and calculating a wettability index (WI) based on the first extracted set of T2 distributions and the second extracted set of T2 distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Hasan Kesserwan
  • Publication number: 20220291413
    Abstract: A method for determining a tubing deviation from nuclear measurement data includes acquiring neutron measurement data from a wellbore. The method also includes identifying one or more features from the neutron measurement data. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on a pattern matching algorithm, that the one or more features are indicative of a tubular deviation. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on a comparison between the one or more features, a deviation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Marc Ramirez, Peng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20220178804
    Abstract: Methods for determining properties of a media on an exterior of a casing in downhole systems are described. The methods include conveying a logging tool through a casing in a downhole formation, stimulating shear waves and flexural waves in the casing, obtaining a shear attenuation rate measurement and a flexural attenuation rate measurement within the casing responsive to the media on the exterior of the casing, comparing the measured shear attenuation rate and the measured flexural attenuation rate against a plurality of respective division boundary values, and determining one or more properties of the media on the exterior of the casing based on the comparison of the measured shear attenuation rate and the measured flexural attenuation rate against the plurality of respective interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sebastien Kamgang, John F. Priest, Douglas Patterson, Joseph Olaiya, Baoyan Li, Muhammad Abrar Manzar
  • Publication number: 20220074299
    Abstract: A method and system to be used in well inspection. An acoustic signal is transmitted from a well inspection tool into a well structure and one or more return signals is detected using at least one receiver. At least one processor is used to generate variable density log (VDL) data that includes multiple waveforms in a time domain from the one or more return signals. A number of independent components to be used based on variances in the VDL data is determined and the multiple waveforms are decomposed into multiple components associated with one or more local structure variances of the well structure using independent component analysis (ICA) and the number of independent components. Characteristics of the well structure is determined based in part on patterns or features associated with one or more independent components from the multiple components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan LI, Elan YOGESWAREN, Marc RAMIREZ, Freddy MENDEZ
  • Publication number: 20220049600
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a bond between a first tubular disposed in a borehole and a structure outside of the tubular, the method includes transmitting a signal into and through the first tubular using a signal transmitter conveyed through the borehole and detecting a return signal using a return signal receiver conveyed through the borehole to provide return signal information in a time domain. The method also includes transforming the return signal information in the time domain to return signal information in a frequency domain using a transform and determining a difference between the return signal information in the frequency domain and reference frequency domain return signal information. The method further includes characterizing the bond of the first tubular to the structure outside of the first tubular using the difference to provide a characterization of the bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Elan Yogeswaren, Marc Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11231474
    Abstract: A method of estimating properties of a resource bearing formation includes receiving, by a processor, a measured echo train generated by a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement device deployed in a region of interest, and a measured noise of the measured echo train, and calculating a T2 distribution subject to a nonlinear equality constraint, the nonlinear equality constraint dependent on the measured noise and a fitting error between the measured echo train and a modeled echo train. Calculating the T2 distribution includes estimating a solution for the T2 distribution that is closest to satisfying the nonlinear equality constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Julio Roberto Arro, Holger Thern, Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin
  • Patent number: 11092714
    Abstract: A method for transforming an earth formation and/or production equipment based on correcting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data to account for partially water-saturated rock includes: receiving NMR logging data having echo-trains for an earth formation; inverting the echo-trains to provide transverse relaxation time constant (T2) distributions for various components of fluid in the earth formation; substituting a T2 distribution for mobile water of fully water-saturated rock for a T2 distribution for mobile water of partially water-saturated rock based on values of the mobile water T2 distribution of partially water-saturated rock and a total porosity constraint; summing the T2 distribution for mobile water of fully water-saturated rock and a T2 distribution for an immobile water component of the fluid to provide a T2, distribution for fully water-saturated rock; and transforming the earth formation and/or the production equipment based on a parameter derived from the T2 distribution for fully water-satura
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Julio Roberto Arro, Alberto Mezzatesta
  • Publication number: 20200319282
    Abstract: A method of estimating properties of a resource bearing formation includes receiving, by a processor, a measured echo train generated by a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement device deployed in a region of interest, and a measured noise of the measured echo train, and calculating a T2 distribution subject to a nonlinear equality constraint, the nonlinear equality constraint dependent on the measured noise and a fitting error between the measured echo train and a modeled echo train. Calculating the T2 distribution includes estimating a solution for the T2 distribution that is closest to satisfying the nonlinear equality constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Julio Roberto Arro, Holger Thern, Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin
  • Patent number: 10749704
    Abstract: An intelligent terminal remote controller-based internet-of-things control system and control method are disclosed. The control system includes at least two household electrical appliance hosts (1) and an intelligent terminal (2), remote controller software is included in the intelligent terminal (2) and in communication with a model database (9) of the intelligent terminal (2), the model database (9) is configured to store model number information and information of all functions of various household electrical appliance hosts to be controlled, the household electrical appliance host (1) includes an MCU control chip (7) storing model number information of a current household electrical appliance host, and a control system unit (5). The present invention allows invoking a back-end database through software and making recognition and judgment among control subjects, so as to solve the problem that the remote-control functions are different for different electrical appliances of different models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Chunping Yu, Hui Zhang, Bo Liang, Wuzhan Ye, Xianlin Wang, Zhenghua Huang, Yong He, Baoyan Li, Kai Sun, Chunxia Yang