Patents by Inventor Barry Hinton

Barry Hinton 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).

  • Process for using subterranean produced fluids for hydraulic fracturing with cross-linked gels while providing elimination or reduction of formation clay stabilizer chemicals
    Patent number: 11084975
    Abstract: A system and process for defining, blending and monitoring fresh water with subterranean produced formation fluids, with particular constituents of the blended waters being controlled for proper use in gel-type hydraulic fracturing operations. On-site measurements and calculations of clay stabilization replacement, through a Potassium Chloride (KCl) Equivalency calculation, provide feedback on water constituent adjustments that may be needed just prior to the gel-based hydraulic fracturing process. This assures adequate gel cross-linking times, delayed gel cross-linking times, and clay stabilization in the formation to be fractured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HYDROZONIX, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Patton, Jinxuan Hu, Barry Hinton, Ed Keenan
  • Process or using subterranean produced fluids for hydraulic fracturing with cross-linked gels while providing elimination or reduction of formation clay stabilizer chemicals
    Patent number: 10406492
    Abstract: A system and process for defining, blending and monitoring fresh water with subterranean produced formation fluids, with particular constituents of the blended waters being controlled for proper use in gel-type hydraulic fracturing operations. On-site measurements and calculations of clay stabilization replacement, through a Potassium Chloride (KCl) Equivalency calculation, provide feedback on water constituent adjustments that may be needed just prior to the gel-based hydraulic fracturing process. This assures adequate gel cross-linking times, delayed gel cross-linking times, and clay stabilization in the formation to be fractured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Patton, Jinxuan Hu, Barry Hinton, Ed Keenan
  • CONTINUOUS-PROCESS MOBILE WATER TREATMENT STATION
    Publication number: 20170217809
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for treating wastewater with a continuous-process mobile station. The mobile station may include one or more mobile units configured to receive a feed of wastewater. The one or more mobile units may include: a mobile ozonation unit configured to treat the received feed of wastewater with ozone gas to breakdown impurities in the wastewater, a pH control unit may be configured to raise pH of the treated wastewater, a mobile electrocoagulation unit configured to separate solids and metals from the treated wastewater, a mobile flocculation unit configured to cause suspended particles to form flocs and to remove the flocs from the received treated water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Oliver Laurence, Barry Hinton, Ed Keenan, Jake Nelson, Zach Donaldson, Shawn Lesmeister, Mark Stanley
  • Process for using subterranean produced fluids for hydraulic fracturing with cross-linked gels while providing elimination or reduction of formation clay stabilizer chemicals
    Patent number: 9580640
    Abstract: A system and process for defining, blending and monitoring fresh water with subterranean produced formation fluids, with particular constituents of the blended waters being controlled for proper use in gel-type hydraulic fracturing operations. On-site measurements and calculations of clay stabilization replacement, through a Potassium Chloride (KCl) Equivalency calculation, provide feedback on water constituent adjustments that may be needed just prior to the gel-based hydraulic fracturing process. This assures adequate gel cross-linking times, delayed gel cross-linking times, and clay stabilization in the formation to be fractured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Patton, Jinxuan Hu, Barry Hinton, Ed Keenan