Patents by Inventor Cole Mann

Cole Mann 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: 11047938
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a magnet on a nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool includes identifying a desired magnetic field strength at a predetermined depth of investigation, receiving a set of magnet segments configured for deployment on the logging tool in a magnet arrangement which make up a magnet array on the logging tool, processing a magnetic strength and an angular offset of selected magnet segments and their unique location in the magnet array to compute corresponding magnetic field strength solutions at the predetermined depth of investigation, selecting one magnet arrangement solution that minimizes a difference between the magnetic field strength solution and the desired magnetic field strength at the predetermined depth of investigation, and deploying the magnet segments on the logging tool according to the selected magnet arrangement solution to fabricate the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Utsuzawa, Anatoly Dementyev, Nicholas Heaton, Cole Mann
  • Publication number: 20190324101
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a magnet on a nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool includes identifying a desired magnetic field strength at a predetermined depth of investigation, receiving a set of magnet segments configured for deployment on the logging tool in a magnet arrangement which make up a magnet array on the logging tool, processing a magnetic strength and an angular offset of selected magnet segments and their unique location in the magnet array to compute corresponding magnetic field strength solutions at the predetermined depth of investigation, selecting one magnet arrangement solution that minimizes a difference between the magnetic field strength solution and the desired magnetic field strength at the predetermined depth of investigation, and deploying the magnet segments on the logging tool according to the selected magnet arrangement solution to fabricate the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Shin Utsuzawa, Anatoly Dementyev, Nicholas Heaton, Cole Mann
  • Patent number: 10408898
    Abstract: A method to produce a magnet arrangement, the method having steps of selecting a depth of investigation to be achieved by a downhole tool, identifying a desired magnetic field strength at the depth of investigation, producing a set of magnets to be incorporated into the downhole tool, sorting the set of magnets based on a quality of each of the magnets and optimizing the set of magnets such that the quality of each of the magnets results, when arranged, in the desired magnetic field strength at the depth of investigation and wherein the optimizing minimizes a cost function of the set of magnets produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Utsuzawa, Anatoly Dementyev, Nicholas Heaton, Cole Mann
  • Publication number: 20170285120
    Abstract: A method to produce a magnet arrangement, the method having steps of selecting a depth of investigation to be achieved by a downhole tool, identifying a desired magnetic field strength at the depth of investigation, producing a set of magnets to be incorporated into the downhole tool, sorting the set of magnets based on a quality of each of the magnets and optimizing the set of magnets such that the quality of each of the magnets results, when arranged, in the desired magnetic field strength at the depth of investigation and wherein the optimizing minimizes a cost function of the set of magnets produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Shin Utsuzawa, Anatoly Dementyev, Nicholas Heaton, Cole Mann