Patents by Inventor Carlo Costa

Carlo Costa 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: 20240141744
    Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a pipe body and a chamber. The pipe body resides at a terranean surface of a wellbore and is fluidly coupled to a surface inlet of the wellbore. The chamber is coupled to the pipe body and has multiple slots each configured to house a wellbore component. Each slot revolves about a central axis of the chamber to align its respective wellbore component with a bore of the pipe body. The pipe body has a fluid inlet fluidly coupled to a pump that flows fluid to the pipe body. The fluid inlet is disposed upstream of the chamber. The pipe body directs the fluid from the fluid inlet to the inlet of the wellbore to push, from a first slot, a first wellbore component that is to be deployed downhole within the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Daniel Thomas Scott
  • Patent number: 11965407
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wellbore path planning are disclosed. The method includes defining total depth coordinates of a candidate wellbore path within a hydrocarbon reservoir, obtaining geoscience data for a subterranean region enclosing the hydrocarbon reservoir, and obtaining historical drilling data from an offset well in the subterranean region. The method further includes training a machine learning network to predict drilling hazard probabilities along the candidate wellbore path using the geoscience data and the historical drilling data. The method still further includes determining a first wellbore path to terminate at the total depth coordinates using the candidate wellbore path and the trained machine learning network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Ammar Alali, Mahmoud Abughaban, Victor Carlos Costa De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11926481
    Abstract: Aspects include a robotic device for inspection of components of a belt conveyor comprising a mobile platform and a robotic arm having a first end coupled to the mobile platform and a second end, the robotic arm configured to guide the second end to contact at least one of the components of the belt conveyor. Further included is a method for inspecting components of a belt conveyor using a robotic device, including: obtaining temperature and/or noise data of at least one of the components of the belt conveyor; and, if the data are outside a range, then: driving a second end a robotic arm of the robotic device for contacting at least one of the components; and obtaining vibration data from at least one of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: VALE S.A., UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO—UFRJ
    Inventors: Gustavo Medeiros Freitas, Marcos Paulo Torre, Gabriel Carvalho Garcia, Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha, André Stanzani Franca, Felipe Ribeiro Da Fonseca, Fernando Cesar Lizarralde, Ramon Romankevicius Costa, Alex Fernandes Neves, João Carlos Espiúca Monteiro
  • Publication number: 20240052717
    Abstract: A tool includes a main body configured to be disposed within a tubular string within a wellbore, such that a location of the tool within the tubular string is changeable between a surface location and a downhole location. The tool includes one or more sensors configured to measure downhole parameters from which the physical properties of the wellbore can be determined. The tool further includes a flapper configured (a) to, in response to the position of the tool changing from the surface location to the downhole location, pivot radially from a closed position in which the flapper is aligned with the main body to an open position in which the flapper is away from the main body, and (b) to, in response to the position of the tool changing from the downhole location to the surface location, pivot radially from the open position to the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Daniel Thomas Scott, Rami F. Saleh
  • Patent number: 11887114
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pulsing and controlling quality of content are provided. An automated QC system that automatically monitors (e.g., pulses) content for any changes by third-party servers and subsequently deactivates problematic content may improve user experience in relation to viewing content and enhance revenue gains for the content provider. For example, a confidence tool may identify problematic changes to the content via a pulsing mechanism, in which content is identified for deactivation until changes to the content meet the specification of the content presentation services. Active (e.g., live) or in-flight (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Christopher Lynn, Alexandra Paige, Beth Kramer, Natasha Thandi, Carlos Costa, David Hollo, Karthik Rengasamy, Adrian Ritchie, Rebecca Mason
  • Patent number: 11838561
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling quality of content are provided. Programmatic ad buying may facilitate and expedite ad buying via an automated process. However, quality control via a conventional ad buying process is done with manual intervention. A confidence tool may request, from a programmatic content library of a content provider, to analyze a content tag associated with programmatic content. The confidence tool may determine whether the content tag meets confidence criteria (e.g., specifications of a content presentation service). The confidence tool may notify the content provider of whether the content tag meets the confidence criteria. Based on this notification, the content provider may approve the content to be run or reject the content to prevent problematic content from running on the content presentation service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Alexandra Paige, Tatiana Stepanov, Christopher Lynn, Dana Cacciatore, Carlos Costa, Rebecca Mason, Janice Navea, Joshua Butler, Stephane Krzywoglowy
  • Publication number: 20230188774
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling quality of content is provided. A confidence tool of an automated quality control system may receive a request to analyze a tag indicating content to be presented by a content presentation service. The tag may be indicative of a link to the content and a tracking pixel associated with the content. The confidence tool may determine whether the tag meets criteria (e.g., pixel whitelisting criteria, specification of a content presentation service). The confidence tool may notify a user whether the tag meets the criteria to prevent problematic content from being presented by the content presentation service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Christopher Lynn, Alexandra Paige, Carlos Costa, Craig Gardner, Megan Mauck, Dominic Insogna, Vanessa Cavorti, Beth Kramer, Karthik Rengasamy, Rebecca Mason
  • Publication number: 20230175379
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wellbore path planning are disclosed. The method includes defining total depth coordinates of a candidate wellbore path within a hydrocarbon reservoir, obtaining geoscience data for a subterranean region enclosing the hydrocarbon reservoir, and obtaining historical drilling data from an offset well in the subterranean region. The method further includes training a machine learning network to predict drilling hazard probabilities along the candidate wellbore path using the geoscience data and the historical drilling data. The method still further includes determining a first wellbore path to terminate at the total depth coordinates using the candidate wellbore path and the trained machine learning network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Ammar Alali, Mahmoud Abughaban, Victor Carlos Costa De Oliveira
  • Publication number: 20230078516
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling quality of content are provided. Programmatic ad buying may facilitate and expedite ad buying via an automated process. However, quality control via a conventional ad buying process is done with manual intervention. A confidence tool may request, from a programmatic content library of a content provider, to analyze a content tag associated with programmatic content. The confidence tool may determine whether the content tag meets confidence criteria (e.g., specifications of a content presentation service). The confidence tool may notify the content provider of whether the content tag meets the confidence criteria. Based on this notification, the content provider may approve the content to be run or reject the content to prevent problematic content from running on the content presentation service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Alexandra Paige, Tatiana Stepanov, Christopher Lynn, Dana Cacciatore, Carlos Costa, Rebecca Mason, Janice Navea
  • Patent number: 11509950
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling quality of content is provided. A confidence tool of an automated quality control system may receive a request to analyze a tag indicating content to be presented by a content presentation service. The tag may be indicative of a link to the content and a tracking pixel associated with the content. The confidence tool may determine whether the tag meets criteria (e.g., pixel whitelisting criteria, specification of a content presentation service). The confidence tool may notify a user whether the tag meets the criteria to prevent problematic content from being presented by the content presentation service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Christopher Lynn, Alexandra Paige, Carlos Costa, Craig Gardner, Megan Mauck, Dominic Insogna, Vanessa Cavorti, Beth Kramer, Karthik Rengasamy, Rebecca Mason
  • Patent number: 11473394
    Abstract: A pipe coupling device includes a body configured to connect a first pipe segment to a second pipe segment, a sealing device carried by the body, and an activation unit. The sealing device includes a circumferential element including a first material and a peripheral element connected to an edge of the circumferential element and including a second material that is different from the first material. The activation unit is configured to adjust the sealing device to an activated state in which the sealing device extends radially from the body to form at least a portion of a seal with a pipe that surrounds the body, such that the seal fluidically isolates a first annular region between the first pipe segment and the pipe along a first side of the seal from a second annular region between the second pipe segment and the pipe along a second side of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Khaled K. Abouelnaaj
  • Patent number: 11371503
    Abstract: A drilling motor system for drilling a subterranean well includes a stator tube, the stator tube being an elongated tubular member with a central stator bore. A stator elastomer layer is located within the central stator bore, lining a wall of the central stator bore. The stator elastomer layer has an elastomer bore that includes a plurality of stator lobes extending in a helical pattern along an axial length of the central bore. A rotor is located within the elastomer bore, the rotor being an elongated member that includes a plurality of rotor lobes extending in a helical pattern along an axial length of the rotor. The stator elastomer layer includes a failure detection system, the failure detection system operable to identify a region of damaged stator elastomer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Victor Carlos Costa De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11299968
    Abstract: A system and a method for reducing annular pressure with a casing annulus pressure release system are described. The casing annulus pressure release system includes a controller, multiple sensors, and a pressure release sub-system disposed a wellbore annulus. The sensors sense wellbore conditions in the annular space and transmit signals representing the sensed wellbore conditions to the controller. The pressure release subsystem releases pressure in the annular space into the wellbore in response to a signal from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Khaled K. Abouelnaaj
  • Patent number: 11268369
    Abstract: A smart system for circulating LCM can implement a method. While a wellbore is being drilled in a geologic formation, drilling parameters identifying wellbore drilling conditions of a wellbore drilling system drilling the wellbore are received. The wellbore drilling system flows a wellbore drilling fluid including particulates of different size distributions. The particulates operate as LCM to reduce loss of the wellbore drilling fluid in the geologic formation. Size distributions of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid flowing through multiple different wellbore fluid flow pathways of the wellbore drilling system are received. The size distributions represent a concentration of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid. A release of certain particulates into the wellbore drilling fluid is controlled based, in part, on the received drilling parameters and the received size distributions of the particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hugo Fernando Osorio Cuellar, Rafael M. Pino Rojas, Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Khaled K. Abouelnaaj
  • Publication number: 20210314643
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling quality of content is provided. A confidence tool of an automated quality control system may receive a request to analyze a tag indicating content to be presented by a content presentation service. The tag may be indicative of a link to the content and a tracking pixel associated with the content. The confidence tool may determine whether the tag meets criteria (e.g., pixel whitelisting criteria, specification of a content presentation service). The confidence tool may notify a user whether the tag meets the criteria to prevent problematic content from being presented by the content presentation service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Michael S. Levin, Christopher Lynn, Alexandra Paige, Carlos Costa, Craig Gardner, Megan Mauck, Dominic Insogna, Vanessa Cavorti, Beth Kramer, Karthik Rengasamy, Rebecca Mason
  • Publication number: 20210310319
    Abstract: A system and a method for reducing annular pressure with a casing annulus pressure release system are described. The casing annulus pressure release system includes a controller, multiple sensors, and a pressure release sub-system disposed a wellbore annulus. The sensors sense wellbore conditions in the annular space and transmit signals representing the sensed wellbore conditions to the controller. The pressure release subsystem releases pressure in the annular space into the wellbore in response to a signal from the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Khaled K. Abouelnaaj
  • Patent number: 11091983
    Abstract: A circulation sub assembly for circulating fluids in a subterranean well includes a circulation sub body that is a generally tubular shaped member with a sub central bore. A circulation port extends through a sidewall of the circulation sub body. A valve member is moveable between a closed position where the valve member prevents a flow of fluid through the circulation port and an open position where the valve member provides a fluid flow path through the circulation port. An actuation assembly includes an isolated hydraulic fluid system operable to move the valve member between the closed position and the open position. A control system includes an electronic processor, a memory, a data transmitter, and a data receiver. The control system is operable to instruct the actuation assembly to move the valve member between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa De Oliveira, Mario Augusto Rivas Martinez, Helmut Josip Luquetta Berrio
  • Patent number: 11078752
    Abstract: A method and system for completing cementing operations in a subterranean well with a wiper plug assembly includes delivering the wiper plug assembly into a casing, the wiper plug assembly having a wiper plug body with a circular cross section and a resilient wiper element that engages an inner diameter of the casing string. An inclination of the wiper plug assembly is measured in three dimensions with an accelerometer assembly and an azimuth of the wiper plug assembly is measured in three dimensions with a magnetometer. The inclination and the azimuth of the wiper plug assembly are delivered to a control unit in real time. An inclination of the wiper plug assembly is determined in real time. The inclination of the wiper plug assembly is delivered to an earth's surface in real time with a transmitter of the electronics package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa De Oliveira, Ramon Rodriguez Rico, Mario Augusto Rivas Martinez
  • Patent number: 11080613
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for process monitoring based on large-scale combinations of time series data. An exemplary method comprises generating a model from time series data for a given target time series; determining whether a first difference between measured values and predicted values based on the model exceeds a predefined threshold indicating a target prediction error; in response to a detected target prediction error, performing evaluations of (i) a neighborhood coherence comprising an average of variables of the model weighted by corresponding coefficients on a predefined neighborhood time window, and/or (ii) a second difference between a given value of at least one variable in the model and an average value of the at least one variable based on a training dataset; providing notifications when first predefined criteria based on the evaluations are satisfied; and updating the model when second predefined criteria based on the evaluations are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mauricio Melo Camara, Angelo E. M. Ciarlini, Jonas F. Dias, André Maximo, José Carlos Costa da Silva Pinto, Monica Barros, Rafael Marinho Soares, Thiago de Sa Feital
  • Publication number: 20210180428
    Abstract: A method and system for completing cementing operations in a subterranean well with a wiper plug assembly includes delivering the wiper plug assembly into a casing, the wiper plug assembly having a wiper plug body with a circular cross section and a resilient wiper element that engages an inner diameter of the casing string. An inclination of the wiper plug assembly is measured in three dimensions with an accelerometer assembly and an azimuth of the wiper plug assembly is measured in three dimensions with a magnetometer. The inclination and the azimuth of the wiper plug assembly are delivered to a control unit in real time. An inclination of the wiper plug assembly is determined in real time. The inclination of the wiper plug assembly is delivered to an earth's surface in real time with a transmitter of the electronics package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Victor Carlos COSTA DE OLIVEIRA, Ramon RODRIGUEZ RICO, Mario Augusto RIVAS MARTINEZ