Patents by Inventor Clifford David Wohleb

Clifford David Wohleb 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).

  • Subterranean well completion incorporating downhole-parkable robot therein
    Patent number: 6953094
    Abstract: A subterranean well completion has a tubular structure in which a remote controlled robot is permanently disposed. The robot is self-propelled, programmable, receives instructions from and communicates data to the surface, and is adapted to receive power from a downhole source and perform a variety of well tasks such as, for example, positioning valves and other well tools and sensing the values of predetermined downhole parameters and relaying the sensed information to the surface. The robot, which is operable without physical intervention through the tubular structure to the robot, propels itself to a location in the tubular structure at which a desired well task is to be performed, performs the task and then parks itself in the tubular structure until another well task is to be performed by the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Robert L. Thurman, Syed Hamid, Clifford David Wohleb, Jr., Ronald W. McGregor
  • Subterranean well completion incorporating downhole-parkable robot therein
    Publication number: 20040055746
    Abstract: A subterranean well completion has a tubular structure in which a remote controlled robot is permanently disposed. The robot is self-propelled, programmable, receives instructions from and communicates data to the surface, and is adapted to receive power from a downhole source and perform a variety of well tasks such as, for example, positioning valves and other well tools and sensing the values of predetermined downhole parameters and relaying the sensed information to the surface. The robot, which is operable without physical intervention through the tubular structure to the robot, propels itself to a location in the tubular structure at which a desired well task is to be performed, performs the task and then parks itself in the tubular structure until another well task is to be performed by the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Robert Lester Thurman, Syed Hamid, Clifford David Wohleb