Patents by Inventor Christopher Herman
Christopher Herman 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).
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Publication number: 20240151140Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a method, that includes lowering a downhole tool to a target depth of a wellbore, sampling reservoir fluid containing asphaltene at the target depth using the downhole tool, controlling a pressure of the sampled reservoir fluid while downhole to induce one or more phase transitions of the asphaltene, measuring the sampled reservoir fluid after inducing the one or more phase transitions, and identifying fluid composition of the reservoir fluid based on the measuring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Rohin Naveena-Chandran, Syed Muhammad Farrukh Hamza, Gibran Mushtaq Hashmi, Jason A. Rogers, Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom
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Patent number: 11976553Abstract: A test tool attached to test string comprising a fluid conduit is deployed to a test position within a wellbore. The deployment includes hydraulically isolating a portion of the wellbore proximate the test tool to form an isolation zone containing the test position. A fluid inflow test is performed within the isolation zone and an initial formation property and a fluid property are determined based on the fluid inflow test. A fluid injection test is performed within the isolation zone including applying an injection fluid through the test string into the isolation zone, wherein the flow rate or pressure of the injection fluid application is determined based, at least in part, on the at least one of the formation property and fluid property.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Mark Anton Proett, Christopher Michael Jones, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
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Publication number: 20240115952Abstract: Methods for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects. Players may share power centers, character hierarchies, non-player characters, and related quests involving the shared objects with other players playing separate and unrelated game instances over a computer network, with the outcome of the quests reflected in different the games. Various configurations of game machines are used to implement the methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Michael de Plater, Christopher Herman Hoge, Robert Kenyon Hull Roberts, Daniel Paul Valerius, Rocky Albert Newton, Kevin Leslie Stephens
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Patent number: 11946361Abstract: Quality factors associated with formation pressure measurements at various depths in the geologic formation are determined based on one or more well logs of formation properties in a geologic formation. A formation testing tool with two or more probes is positioned in a borehole of the geologic formation based on the quality factors. The two or more probes in the borehole perform respective formation pressure measurements, where each formation pressure measurement is performed at a different depth. The formation pressure measurements and the given distance between the two or more probes indicate a formation pressure gradient.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom
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Publication number: 20240093595Abstract: A method and system for identifying scale. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a formation fluid, as a fluid sample, through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, perturbing the formation fluid, and analyzing the fluid sample in the fluid sampling tool for one or more indications of scale.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom, Rohin Naveena-Chandran
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Publication number: 20240068366Abstract: A microsampling device for taking fluid samples in a wellbore. The microsampling device may comprise a microsampling tube in which one or more microsamplers disposed in the microsampling tube. Additionally, the microsampling device may comprise a fluid flow line connected to the microsampling tube in which a fluid sample traverses and a secondary fluid flow line in which at least a part of the fluid sample may traverse from the microsampling tube through the secondary fluid flow line and into a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom
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Publication number: 20240065683Abstract: The various inventions relate to robotic surgical devices, consoles for operating such surgical devices, operating theaters in which the various devices can be used, insertion systems for inserting and using the surgical devices, and related methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Shane Farritor, Christopher Santoro, Jeffrey Shasho, Nishant Kumar, Mateusz Szczesiak, Jason Herman
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Publication number: 20240017225Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: X-PERT Paint Mixing Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman
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Patent number: 11779892Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: X-Pert Paint Mixing Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman
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Patent number: 11660540Abstract: Methods for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects. Players may share power centers, character hierarchies, non-player characters, and related quests involving the shared objects with other players playing separate and unrelated game instances over a computer network, with the outcome of the quests reflected in different the games. Various configurations of game machines are used to implement the methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Michael de Plater, Christopher Herman Hoge, Robert Kenyon Hull Roberts, Daniel Paul Valerius, Rocky Albert Newton, Kevin Leslie Stephens
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Patent number: 11275610Abstract: Monitoring backend batch processes/agents to identify currently enabled batch processes that running/executing on schedule and those that are not running/executing on schedule. In the event that currently enabled backend batch processes are identified as delayed, a delay time is determined. Such determinations are made on a regular interval, (e.g., hourly or the like), such that, reports is generated and communicated and/or a batch process status portal is updated on the regular interval to reflect the current delayed status of batch process or, in some embodiments, the current status of all of the backend batch processes currently enabled within an enterprise. Identification of backend batch processes that are currently being delayed and the associated delay time provides a basis for determining the cause(s) for the delay and possible corrective action(s), which may be implemented in conjunction with the determinations.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Prabhat Ranjan, Christopher Herman Cokis, Ketul Vinodchandra Joshi, Joseph Anil Kumar Mendemu, Manish Nahata, Karan Singh Negi, Nurani Parasuraman, Krishna Chand Paruchuri
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Publication number: 20210245057Abstract: Methods for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects. Players may share power centers, character hierarchies, non-player characters, and related quests involving the shared objects with other players playing separate and unrelated game instances over a computer network, with the outcome of the quests reflected in different the games. Various configurations of game machines are used to implement the methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Michael de Plater, Christopher Herman Hoge, Robert Kenyon Hull Roberts, Daniel Paul Valerius, Rocky Albert Newton, Kevin Leslie Stephens
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Patent number: 10926179Abstract: Methods for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects. Players may share power centers, character hierarchies, non-player characters, and related quests involving the shared objects with other players playing separate and unrelated game instances over a computer network, with the outcome of the quests reflected in different the games. Various configurations of game machines are used to implement the methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Michael de Plater, Christopher Herman Hoge, Robert Kenyon Hull Roberts, Daniel Paul Valerius, Rocky Albert Newton, Kevin Leslie Stephens
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Publication number: 20210026683Abstract: Monitoring backend batch processes/agents to identify currently enabled batch processes that running/executing on schedule and those that are not running/executing on schedule. In the event that currently enabled backend batch processes are identified as delayed, a delay time is determined. Such determinations are made on a regular interval, (e.g., hourly or the like), such that, reports is generated and communicated and/or a batch process status portal is updated on the regular interval to reflect the current delayed status of batch process or, in some embodiments, the current status of all of the backend batch processes currently enabled within an enterprise. Identification of backend batch processes that are currently being delayed and the associated delay time provides a basis for determining the cause(s) for the delay and possible corrective action(s), which may be implemented in conjunction with the determinations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Prabhat Ranjan, Christopher Herman Cokis, Ketul Vinodchandra Joshi, Joseph Anil Kumar Mendemu, Manish Nahata, Karan Singh Negi, Nurani Parasuraman, Krishna Chand Paruchuri
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Patent number: 9700862Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: X-Pert Paint Mixing Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman
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Patent number: 9649608Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: X-Pert Paint Mixing Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman
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Patent number: 9623390Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: X-Pert Paint Mixing Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman
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Publication number: 20160279522Abstract: Methods for managing non-player characters and power centers in a computer game are based on character hierarchies and individualized correspondences between each character's traits or rank and events that involve other non-player characters or objects. Players may share power centers, character hierarchies, non-player characters, and related quests involving the shared objects with other players playing separate and unrelated game instances over a computer network, with the outcome of the quests reflected in different the games. Various configurations of game machines are used to implement the methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Michael de Plater, Christopher Herman Hoge, Robert Kenyon Hull Roberts, Daniel Paul Valerius, Rocky Albert Newton, Kevin Leslie Stephens
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Patent number: 9311318Abstract: Improved backup and storage operations are disclosed for virtual computing environments using a backup proxy server to perform storage operations on one or more virtual machine disks. The proxy server can include a module that intercepts application programming interface (API) calls, for writing backup data to a first location, prior to the data arriving on the proxy disk. During the intercept process, the data can be compressed in memory pages of the proxy server and redirected to an alternative backup disk location. The proxy server can also include a differential engine that identifies changes to the virtual machine disk at the block level since the last full backup. The differential engine can advantageously leverage memory pages of the proxy server to compare differences between signatures of blocks of the last full backup with signatures of new blocks. Subsequently, only blocks with non-matching signatures are processed for backup.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Dell Software Inc.Inventors: Delano Xavier Afonso, David Allen Feathergill, Jason Mattox, Jeremy Christopher Herman
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Publication number: 20150108160Abstract: A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Peter Santrach, Bruce Funk, Barry Hines, Christopher Herman