Patents by Inventor Christopher Shen

Christopher Shen 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: 12297707
    Abstract: A lock latch assembly for a multi-stage completion and method of operating the lock latch assembly are provided. The latch assembly functions as a snap latch prior to activation and as a shear latch after activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Shen, Christopher Cassidy, Julia Huynh, Valeria Erives, Harshith Dmello, Ronnie Bruce
  • Patent number: 12104440
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Debris prevention and removal devices and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Christopher Shen, Valeria Erives, Pete Bazan, Nabil Batita, Julia Huynh
  • Patent number: 12065888
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Debris prevention and removal devices and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Christopher Shen, Valeria Erives, Pete Bazan, Nabil Batita, Julia Huynh
  • Publication number: 20240191585
    Abstract: A lock latch assembly for a multi-stage completion and method of operating the lock latch assembly are provided. The latch assembly functions as a snap latch prior to activation and as a shear latch after activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Shen, Christopher Cassidy, Julia Huynh, Valeria Erives, Harshith Dmello, Ronnie Bruce
  • Publication number: 20240191581
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Debris prevention and removal devices and methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Christopher Shen, Valeria Erives, Pete Bazan, Nabil Batita, Julia Huynh
  • Patent number: 11795767
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Debris prevention and removal devices and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Christopher Shen, Valeria Erives, Pete Bazan, Nabil Batita, Julia Huynh
  • Publication number: 20230323738
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Debris prevention and removal devices and methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Christopher Shen, Valeria Erives, Pete Bazan, Nabil Batita, Julia Huynh
  • Publication number: 20220347470
    Abstract: A neurostimulation device 1 for non-destructively stimulating neural activity in a nerve 3 in proximity to a blood vessel 5. The neurostimulation device 1 comprises a catheter 7 for insertion into the blood vessel 5; a proximal electrode 11 offset from a distal electrode 9 along a length of the catheter 7; and an insulator 13 positioned between the proximal electrode 11 and the distal electrode 9 on the catheter 7. The insulator 13 has a contracted configuration in which the size of the insulator 13 allows the catheter 7 to travel inside the blood vessel 5. The insulator 13 has an expanded configuration in which the insulator 13 blocks blood flowing through the blood vessel between the proximal electrode 11 and the distal electrode 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Shen-Yuan Lai, Kenneth Douglas Rys, Matteo Donega, Isha Gupta
  • Patent number: 10533406
    Abstract: A manifold trailer and pairing system are disclosed. Methods may include pressurizing a low pressure manifold of a manifold trailer, the low pressure manifold having a first low pressure valve and a second low pressure valve; opening a selected low pressure valve of the first and second low pressure valves; detecting a first pressure on a selected pump, via a first pressure sensor, indicative of a fluid communication between the selected low pressure valve and the selected pump; detecting a second pressure associated with a main line or a wellhead; comparing the first pressure on the selected pump to the second pressure associated with the main line or the wellhead to derive a pressure differential; and engaging the selected pump if the pressure differential is within a given threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Marcos Suguru Kajita, Christopher Shen, William Troy Huey, Sarmad Adnan
  • Patent number: 10086276
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing content in a virtual space are presented herein. The content may be generated in the virtual space by a non-player game entity. The non-player game entity may be associated with generating a particular type of content in the virtual space. The users may deploy the non-player game entities in the virtual space in order to generate the corresponding non-player game entity-generated content in the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content may be implemented through procedural placement of elements of the content within the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content comprise one or more of static content, moving content, interactive content (e.g., a game), and/or other types of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lowe, Joseph Olson, David White, Troy Johnson, Jared Schibel, Jason Scanlon, Chad Liddell, Christopher Shen
  • Patent number: 9922185
    Abstract: Token detection at a single computing platform may be linked with a user identification to unlock content and/or effectuate modifications in virtual space instances presented via multiple computing platforms, in accordance with one or more implementations. Exemplary implementations may enhance consistency in a user's experiences of a virtual space across multiple computing platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Robert Nelson, Jeffrey Bunker, Troy Leavitt, Robert Lowe, John Blackburn, Christopher Shen
  • Patent number: 9704336
    Abstract: Objectives, an environment, and/or a theme associated with a virtual space may be managed based on characters made accessible responsive to corresponding tokens being detected. Tokens, including a first token associated with a first character or a second token associated with a second character, may be detected based on signals received from one or more token readers. The first character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the first token being detected and the second character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the second token being detected. Responsive to one or both of the first token being detected or the second token being detected, a given objective associated with the virtual space may be effectuated in the virtual space, an environment of the virtual space may be modified, and/or a theme of the virtual space being modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Christopher Shen, Jared Bals, Troy Leavitt, Chad Liddell, Manfred Neber, Jeffrey Gosztyla
  • Publication number: 20170157510
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing content in a virtual space are presented herein. The content may be generated in the virtual space by a non-player game entity. The non-player game entity may be associated with generating a particular type of content in the virtual space. The users may deploy the non-player game entities in the virtual space in order to generate the corresponding non-player game entity-generated content in the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content may be implemented through procedural placement of elements of the content within the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content comprise one or more of static content, moving content, interactive content (e.g., a game), and/or other types of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Lowe, Joseph Olson, David White, Troy Johnson, Jared Schibel, Jason Scanlon, Chad Liddell, Christopher Shen
  • Patent number: 9667624
    Abstract: Objectives, an environment, and/or a theme associated with a virtual space may be managed based on characters made accessible responsive to corresponding tokens being detected. Tokens, including a first token associated with a first character or a second token associated with a second character, may be detected based on signals received from one or more token readers. The first character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the first token being detected and the second character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the second token being detected. Responsive to one or both of the first token being detected or the second token being detected, a given objective associated with the virtual space may be effectuated in the virtual space, an environment of the virtual space may be modified, and/or a theme of the virtual space being modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Jeffrey Gosztyla, Manfred Neber, Troy Leavitt, Christopher Shen, Jared Bals, Chad Liddell
  • Publication number: 20170115674
    Abstract: A manifold trailer and pairing system are disclosed. Methods may include pressurizing a low pressure manifold of a manifold trailer, the low pressure manifold having a first low pressure valve and a second low pressure valve; opening a selected low pressure valve of the first and second low pressure valves; detecting a first pressure on a selected pump, via a first pressure sensor, indicative of a fluid communication between the selected low pressure valve and the selected pump; detecting a second pressure associated with a main line or a wellhead; comparing the first pressure on the selected pump to the second pressure associated with the main line or the wellhead to derive a pressure differential; and engaging the selected pump if the pressure differential exceeds a given threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Marcos Suguru Kajita, Christopher Shen, William Troy Huey, Sarmad Adnan
  • Patent number: 9605772
    Abstract: A technique for simultaneously releasing a plurality of control lines, and in particular to facilitate an oilfield operation with respect to a subsea wellbore. A hose reel or a plurality of hose reels may be mounted on a skid which, in turn, may be positioned on a vessel that works in cooperation with an offshore platform. Each hose reel is designed to engage a hose bundle via a release mechanism which releasably couples a plurality of control lines carried by the hose bundle. The release mechanism includes a primary release and a secondary release to selectively enable disconnection of the control lines and release of the hose bundle from the skid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Larry Michael McKee, Matthew E. Wilson, Christopher Shen
  • Patent number: 9534604
    Abstract: A manifold trailer and pairing system are disclosed. The pairing system has a non-transitory computer readable medium storing processor executable code. The processor executable code causes a processor to receive identification data indicative of a first low pressure valve and a second low pressure valve connected to a low pressure manifold of a manifold trailer; receive identification data indicative of a first high pressure valve and a second high pressure valve connected to a high pressure manifold of the manifold trailer; and receive identification data indicative of a plurality of pumps. The processor determines a first association indicative of a first fluid connection between the first low pressure valve and a selected pump and a second association indicative of a second fluid connection between the selected pump and a selected high pressure valve. The processor populates the non-transitory computer readable medium with information indicative of the first and second associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Marcos Suguru Kajita, Christopher Shen, William Troy Huey, Sarmad Adnan
  • Patent number: 9387407
    Abstract: Objectives, an environment, and/or a theme associated with a virtual space may be managed based on characters made accessible responsive to corresponding tokens being detected. Tokens, including a first token associated with a first character or a second token associated with a second character, may be detected based on signals received from one or more token readers. The first character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the first token being detected and the second character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the second token being detected. Responsive to one or both of the first token being detected or the second token being detected, a given objective associated with the virtual space may be effectuated in the virtual space, an environment of the virtual space may be modified, and/or a theme of the virtual space being modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Jared Bals, Troy Leavitt, Jeffrey Gosztyla, Christopher Shen, Manfred Neber, Chad Liddell
  • Patent number: 9341179
    Abstract: The current application discloses various embodiments where a portion of a fluid end pump body is made of a first material the other parts of the pump body are made of a second material where the first material is a material having better resistance to fatigue and the second material used is a material of less quality and cheaper than the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ochoa, Philippe Gambier, Aude Faugere, Christopher Shen, Joe Hubenschmidt, Tze Wei Chua, Walter Taylor
  • Publication number: 20160125696
    Abstract: Objectives, an environment, and/or a theme associated with a virtual space may be managed based on characters made accessible responsive to corresponding tokens being detected. Tokens, including a first token associated with a first character or a second token associated with a second character, may be detected based on signals received from one or more token readers. The first character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the first token being detected and the second character may be made accessible in the virtual space responsive to the second token being detected. Responsive to one or both of the first token being detected or the second token being detected, a given objective associated with the virtual space may be effectuated in the virtual space, an environment of the virtual space may be modified, and/or a theme of the virtual space being modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Christopher Shen, Jared Bals, Troy Leavitt, Chad Lidell, Manfred Neber, Jeffrey Gosztyla