Patents by Inventor Cooper C. Gill

Cooper C. Gill 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: 9194220
    Abstract: A production system placed inside a wellbore has a production tubing and an ESP for flowing fluid from the wellbore into the production tubing. A sensor string including distributed sensors is placed along the sensor string and provides temperature measurements along the production tubing uphole of the ESP. A controller determines from the temperature measurements a change in temperature that exceeds a threshold and determines therefrom level of a liquid in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Cooper C. Gill, Luke Wingstrom, XiaoWei Wang
  • Publication number: 20140262244
    Abstract: In one aspect, a production system is disclosed that in one embodiment may include a production tubing placed inside the wellbore, an ESP in the wellbore for flowing fluid from the wellbore into the production tubing, a sensor string including distributed sensors along the sensor string that provides temperature measurements along the production tubing uphole of the ESP, and a controller that determines from the temperature measurements a change in temperature that exceeds a threshold and determines therefrom level of a liquid in the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Cooper C. Gill, Luke Wingstrom, XiaoWei Wang
  • Patent number: 8459700
    Abstract: A wet disconnect system with post disconnection pressure integrity includes a bridge tube. One or more seals on the bridge tube that seal the bridge tube to one or more conductors passing through the bridge tube. A defeatable seal/anchor at the bridge tube sealing an outside surface of the bridge tube to an inside surface of a separate structure. The defeatable seal/anchor being defeatable upon application of an axial load above a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Cooper C. Gill, Carl S. Martin
  • Publication number: 20120153608
    Abstract: A wet disconnect system with post disconnection pressure integrity includes a bridge tube. One or more seals on the bridge tube that seal the bridge tube to one or more conductors passing through the bridge tube. A defeatable seal/anchor at the bridge tube sealing an outside surface of the bridge tube to an inside surface of a separate structure. The defeatable seal/anchor being defeatable upon application of an axial load above a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Cooper C. Gill, Carl S. Martin