Patents by Inventor Bernardo Martin Mancuso

Bernardo Martin Mancuso 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).

  • System and method for preventing floating rod effect in a sucker rod pump
    Patent number: 10550838
    Abstract: A system and method for pumping formation fluids from a well using a sucker rod pumping system that prevents the pumping system from experiencing a floating rod condition. The sucker rod pumping system comprises a pump drive system, a rod string, and a downhole reciprocating pump driven by the rod string. The pump drive system is coupled to the rod string by a bridle. In addition, the sucker rod pumping system comprises a drive control system that controls the speed of the pump drive system during the downstroke. The drive control system is coupled to a load cell configured to provide a signal representative of load on the rod string. The drive control system controls the speed of the pump drive system during the downstroke based on the load on the rod string so that the rod string does not experience a floating rod condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Zackrey Sobin
  • System and method for control and optimization of PCP pumped well operating parameters
    Patent number: 10107286
    Abstract: A method of controlling the production efficiency of a well includes determining one or more parameters of a pump model for a pump of the well, determining an inflow rate of liquid into the well, and adjusting a pumping speed of the pump based on the one or more parameters of the pump model to maintain a outflow rate of liquid from the well at a desired fraction of the inflow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: CONTROL MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Kelly Alexander Woolsey
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING FLOATING ROD EFFECT IN A SUCKER ROD PUMP
    Publication number: 20170234310
    Abstract: A system and method for pumping formation fluids from a well using a sucker rod pumping system that prevents the pumping system from experiencing a floating rod condition. The sucker rod pumping system comprises a pump drive system, a rod string, and a downhole reciprocating pump driven by the rod string. The pump drive system is coupled to the rod string by a bridle. In addition, the sucker rod pumping system comprises a drive control system that controls the speed of the pump drive system during the downstroke. The drive control system is coupled to a load cell configured to provide a signal representative of load on the rod string. The drive control system controls the speed of the pump drive system during the downstroke based on the load on the rod string so that the rod string does not experience a floating rod condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Zackrey Sobin
  • System and method for control and optimization of PCP pumped well
    Patent number: 9684311
    Abstract: A method of controlling the production efficiency of a well includes determining one or more parameters of a pump model for a pump of the well, determining an inflow rate of liquid into the well, and adjusting a pumping speed of the pump based on the one or more parameters of the pump model to maintain a outflow rate of liquid from the well at a desired fraction of the inflow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Kelly Alexander Woolsey
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF PCP PUMPED WELL
    Publication number: 20160011602
    Abstract: A method of controlling the production efficiency of a well includes determining one or more parameters of a pump model for a pump of the well, determining an inflow rate of liquid into the well, and adjusting a pumping speed of the pump based on the one or more parameters of the pump model to maintain a outflow rate of liquid from the well at a desired fraction of the inflow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Kelly Alexander Woolsey
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF PCP PUMPED WELL OPERATING PARAMETERS
    Publication number: 20160010641
    Abstract: A method of controlling the production efficiency of a well includes determining one or more parameters of a pump model for a pump of the well, determining an inflow rate of liquid into the well, and adjusting a pumping speed of the pump based on the one or more parameters of the pump model to maintain a outflow rate of liquid from the well at a desired fraction of the inflow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Bernardo Martin Mancuso, Kelly Alexander Woolsey