Patents by Inventor Brian Walther

Brian Walther 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).

  • Patent number: 12617585
    Abstract: A recyclable woven laminated plastic bag having features that further prevent leakage of contents out of the bag, or infestation of organisms into the contents of the bag is provided. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from a woven polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof layer which can be laminated using polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof resin with a film layer formed from polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof, can form a sealed corner bag and/or a diagonal sealed bag, and can have one or more sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: POLYTEX FIBERS LLC
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli, Vladimir Marin, Brian Walther, Markus Kronigsfeld
  • Patent number: 12584376
    Abstract: An isolation valve system includes a well string having an isolation valve including a rotatable ball for rotation about a fixed axis. The isolation valve has an extension mandrel and a connecting mandrel disposed above the rotatable ball. The isolation valve has a debris sleeve designed to push debris inward and upward in the extension mandrel accumulated above the rotatable ball when the ball is rotated to alleviate the friction force of the debris acting on the rotating ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Walther, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 12560052
    Abstract: A valve system of a well string may include a compensator assembly to receive a pipe fluid from piping and include a piston chamber and a piston disposed within the piston chamber that fluidly isolates a first portion from a second portion of the piston chamber. The first portion is fluidly coupled to the piping and the second portion is filled with a hydraulic fluid and coupled to one or more hydraulic lines. The piston may translate within the piston chamber such that an increase in pressure of the pipe fluid motivates the piston to translate and increase the pressure of the hydraulic fluid. The valve system may also include a mechanical actuator coupled to a hydraulic line to articulate an armature in response to a pressure differential that is based on the second pressure and a valve that opens or closes in response to articulation via the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tejas Deshpande, Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Publication number: 20260009308
    Abstract: A valve system of a well string may include a compensator assembly to receive a pipe fluid from piping and include a piston chamber and a piston disposed within the piston chamber that fluidly isolates a first portion from a second portion of the piston chamber. The first portion is fluidly coupled to the piping and the second portion is filled with a hydraulic fluid and coupled to one or more hydraulic lines. The piston may translate within the piston chamber such that an increase in pressure of the pipe fluid motivates the piston to translate and increase the pressure of the hydraulic fluid. The valve system may also include a mechanical actuator coupled to a hydraulic line to articulate an armature in response to a pressure differential that is based on the second pressure and a valve that opens or closes in response to articulation via the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Tejas DESHPANDE, Bo CHEN, Brian WALTHER
  • Publication number: 20260002425
    Abstract: An actuation assembly. The actuation assembly may include a housing, a mandrel disposed within the housing and shiftable within the housing to open and close an isolation valve, and a piston assembly disposed between the housing and the mandrel. The piston assembly may include a first hydraulic chamber fluidly couplable to a first trigger, a second hydraulic chamber fluidly couplable to the first trigger and a second trigger, a third hydraulic chamber fluidly couplable to the second trigger, a close collet piston positioned between the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic chamber and close collet piston operable to shift the mandrel to close the isolation valve when the first trigger is activated, and an open collet piston positioned between the second hydraulic chamber and the third hydraulic chamber and open collet piston operable to shift the mandrel to open the isolation valve when the second trigger is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Brian WALTHER, Bo CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250388367
    Abstract: A bag having front, back, first side, and second side walls and top and bottom ends. The first and second side walls are disposed on opposite sides of the front and back walls and connect the front and back walls. The bag is adapted to form a substantially cubic shape when filled with a filling material. The top end includes a portion that is configured to be folded and removably attached to the top end thereby forming a substantially flat surface when the bag forms the substantially cubic shape. Each of the front, back, first side, and second side walls include (i) a first layer including a woven layer including strips of high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof, and (ii) a second layer laminated to the first layer and including a film including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof. At least a portion of the bag is heat sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Polytex Fibers LLC
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli, Markus Kronigsfeld, Brian Walther
  • Publication number: 20250361786
    Abstract: An isolation valve system includes a well string having an isolation valve including a rotatable ball for rotation about a fixed axis. The isolation valve has an extension mandrel and a connecting mandrel disposed above the rotatable ball. The isolation valve has a debris sleeve designed to push debris inward and upward in the extension mandrel accumulated above the rotatable ball when the ball is rotated to alleviate the friction force of the debris acting on the rotating ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Brian Walther, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 12442276
    Abstract: A redundant trigger section that actuates a device between operational positions in response to a controlled signal includes a housing including an internal through passage and a plurality of chambers formed in a wall of the housing, a pilot piston disposed within the internal through passage, an actuating piston connected to the pilot piston, and a plurality of triggers connected to the actuating piston. Upon receipt of the controlled signal by a first tubing pressure chamber of the plurality of chambers, at least one trigger of the plurality of triggers activates the actuating piston, which pushes the pilot piston within the internal through passage from an initial position to a final position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Maria Fernanda Tafur, Bo Chen, Yann Dufour, Brian Walther, Brad Swenson, Steven E. Buchanan
  • Patent number: 12420986
    Abstract: A bag having a front wall, back wall, first side wall, second side wall, top end, and bottom end; where at least one of a first edge of the first side wall and a first edge of the front wall and a first edge of the back wall and a first edge of the second side wall are sealed to form a sealed corner, where the sealed corner is heat sealed; where the bag is adapted to form a cube shape when filled with a filling material and both the top and bottom end of the bag are sealed; and where each of the front, back, first side, and second side wall include (i) a first woven layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof; and (ii) a second film layer laminated to the first layer, said second layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: Polytex Fibers LLC
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli, Markus Kronigsfeld, Brian Walther
  • Patent number: 12312913
    Abstract: A shifting tool for use with an isolation valve. The shifting tool may include a mandrel and a first shifting assembly positioned about the mandrel. The first shifting assembly may include a shifting member engageable with a profile of the isolation valve to shift the isolation valve into at least one of an open position or a closed position, a sleeve engageable with the shifting member to prevent disengagement between the shifting member and the isolation valve, and a detent mechanism engageable with the shifting member to prevent disengagement between the sleeve and the shifting member. The detent mechanism may engage with the shifting member when the shifting tool initially engages with an isolation valve and relative movement of the shifting tool with respect to the isolation valve may disengage the detent mechanism from the shifting member when the detent mechanism reaches predetermined location within isolation valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Ryan Sisak, Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Patent number: 12297929
    Abstract: A core rod has internal and external profiles disposed in a housing assembly. A power spring in cooperation with the core rod within the housing assembly is connected to a power spring stopper that is fixed to the housing assembly with at least one shear screw. An inner axial cycling piston bar includes an external profile for mating engagement with the internal profile of the core rod. The inner axial cycling piston bar is connected to a piston in cooperation with a cycling spring, and the piston is configured to move in an upward direction. When a downward force exerted by the cycling spring exceeds the upwardly applied cycling force, the piston, the inner axial cycling piston bar, and the external profile move in a downward direction, thereby causing the core rod to move an incremental distance in the downward direction, which compresses the power spring by the incremental distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Patent number: 12276352
    Abstract: A system includes a compression spring having a latch sleeve, a piston rod including a groove section, and a ratchet assembly that progressively moves the piston rod in a downward direction. A latch collet on the latch sleeve sits on the groove section of the piston rod in a first position of the system. The latch collet locks a spring force of the compression spring as the ratchet assembly progressively moves the piston rod in the downward direction. The latch collet becomes unsupported from the groove section when the piston rod has progressively moved a predetermined distance, causing the compression spring to release and provide a push force that actuates a hydraulic valve from the first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Brian Walther, Rannie Dong
  • Publication number: 20240425237
    Abstract: A recyclable woven laminated plastic bag having features that further prevent leakage of contents out of the bag, or infestation of organisms into the contents of the bag is provided. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from a woven polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof layer which can be laminated using polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof resin with a film layer formed from polyethylene, polypropylene, or combination thereof, can form a sealed corner bag and/or a diagonal sealed bag, and can have one or more sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli, Vladimir Marin, Brian Walther, Markus Kronigsfeld
  • Publication number: 20240417140
    Abstract: A bag having a front wall, back wall, first side wall, second side wall, top end, and bottom end; where at least one of a first edge of the first side wall and a first edge of the front wall and a first edge of the back wall and a first edge of the second side wall are sealed to form a sealed corner, where the sealed corner is heat sealed; where the bag is adapted to form a cube shape when filled with a filling material and both the top and bottom end of the bag are sealed; and where each of the front, back, first side, and second side wall include (i) a first woven layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof; and (ii) a second film layer laminated to the first layer, said second layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Polytex Fibers LLC
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli, Markus Kronigsfeld, Brian Walther
  • Publication number: 20240401434
    Abstract: A shifting tool for use with an isolation valve. The shifting tool may include a mandrel and a first shifting assembly positioned about the mandrel. The first shifting assembly may include a shifting member engageable with a profile of the isolation valve to shift the isolation valve into at least one of an open position or a closed position, a sleeve engageable with the shifting member to prevent disengagement between the shifting member and the isolation valve, and a detent mechanism engageable with the shifting member to prevent disengagement between the sleeve and the shifting member. The detent mechanism may engage with the shifting member when the shifting tool initially engages with an isolation valve and relative movement of the shifting tool with respect to the isolation valve may disengage the detent mechanism from the shifting member when the detent mechanism reaches predetermined location within isolation valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: William Ryan Sisak, Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Publication number: 20240368968
    Abstract: A redundant trigger section that actuates a device between operational positions in response to a controlled signal includes a housing including an internal through passage and a plurality of chambers formed in a wall of the housing. a pilot piston disposed within the internal through passage, an actuating piston connected to the pilot piston, and a plurality of triggers connected to the actuating piston. Upon receipt of the controlled signal by a first tubing pressure chamber of the plurality of chambers, at least one trigger of the plurality of triggers activates the actuating piston, which pushes the pilot piston within the internal through passage from an initial position to a final position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Maria Fernanda Tafur, Bo Chen, Yann Dufour, Brian Walther, Brad Swenson, Steven E. Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20240353023
    Abstract: A core rod has internal and external profiles disposed in a housing assembly. A power spring in cooperation with the core rod within the housing assembly is connected to a power spring stopper that is fixed to the housing assembly with at least one shear screw. An inner axial cycling piston bar includes an external profile for mating engagement with the internal profile of the core rod. The inner axial cycling piston bar is connected to a piston in cooperation with a cycling spring, and the piston is configured to move in an upward direction. When a downward force exerted by the cycling spring exceeds the upwardly applied cycling force, the piston, the inner axial cycling piston bar, and the external profile move in a downward direction, thereby causing the core rod to move an incremental distance in the downward direction, which compresses the power spring by the incremental distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Patent number: 12025238
    Abstract: A core rod has internal and external profiles disposed in a housing assembly. A power spring in cooperation with the core rod within the housing assembly is connected to a power spring stopper that is fixed to the housing assembly with at least one shear screw. An inner axial cycling piston bar includes an external profile for mating engagement with the internal profile of the core rod. The inner axial cycling piston bar is connected to a piston in cooperation with a cycling spring, and the piston is configured to move in an upward direction. When a downward force exerted by the cycling spring exceeds the upwardly applied cycling force, the piston, the inner axial cycling piston bar, and the external profile move in a downward direction, thereby causing the core rod to move an incremental distance in the downward direction, which compresses the power spring by the incremental distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Brian Walther
  • Patent number: 11952864
    Abstract: An isolation valve includes a ball valve element, an actuation section to rotate the ball valve element, and a trigger section that actuates the actuation section in response to a pressure differential. The actuation section includes an actuation mandrel, a piston housing that at least partially encases the actuation mandrel, a collet piston, and a holding collet. The piston housing and the actuation mandrel define a hydraulic chamber, and the collet piston separates the hydraulic chamber into an upper hydraulic chamber and a lower hydraulic chamber. The holding collet supports the collet piston during a stroke of the actuation mandrel that is triggered by the trigger section. The collet piston is configured to assume a rest position on the actuation mandrel before and during the stroke of the actuation mandrel, and the collet piston is configured to disengage from the actuation mandrel after the stroke of the actuation mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Walther, Bo Chen
  • Publication number: 20230400118
    Abstract: A system includes a compression spring having a latch sleeve, a piston rod including a groove section, and a ratchet assembly that progressively moves the piston rod in a downward direction. A latch collet on the latch sleeve sits on the groove section of the piston rod in a first position of the system. The latch collet locks a spring force of the compression spring as the ratchet assembly progressively moves the piston rod in the downward direction. The latch collet becomes unsupported from the groove section when the piston rod has progressively moved a predetermined distance, causing the compression spring to release and provide a push force that actuates a hydraulic valve from the first position to a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Brian Walther, Rannie Dong