Patents by Inventor Daniel C. Benson
Daniel C. Benson 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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Patent number: 9890598Abstract: A key assembly is press fit into an annular space between a box and pin member to resist relative rotation of the box and pin members. The key assembly includes wedge like members that contact one another along complementary tapered surfaces, and when in contact generate radial forces into the box and pin member to secure the connection between the box and pin. The outer wedge is inserted first into the annular space between the box and pin members, and has rows of elongate teeth that project radially outward into contact with an inner surface of the box member. Because the outer wedge is pushed radially outward against the box member rather than axially sliding therebetween, the teeth protrude into the surface of the box member thereby increasing the anti-rotation force created by the outer wedge.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, John E. Nelson, Chau Hoang, Daniel C. Benson, Stephen D. Peters
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Patent number: 9708865Abstract: A pipe connection includes a pin having external threads and a box having internal threads. A circumferentially extending row of pin teeth are located on an exterior portion of the pin. A slot extends through a side wall of the box. A key is carried in the slot, the key having a row of key teeth that mate with the pin teeth. The key is mounted to the box such that a movable portion of the key is radially movable relative to the box between radially outward and radially inward positions. The key is biased toward the inward position, so that the key teeth ratchet on the pin teeth during make-up of the pin and the box. The key and pin teeth have a saw-tooth configuration to resist unscrewing rotation of the pin and the box. The key may be an integral part of the side wall of the box or a separate component.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Christopher Loftin
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Patent number: 9241062Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for using external display devices with a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may be repurposed to display a virtual input device for interacting with a resource with output data being displayed on an external display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Shafiqul Khalid, Daniel C. Benson
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Patent number: 8955583Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a housing member, an outer wellbore member, and a second wellbore member, with an outer sensor located in the annulus between the outer wellbore member and the second wellbore member. The outer sensor can sense a condition of the annulus, such as pressure or temperature, and transmit data through a solid portion of the sidewall of the outer wellbore member to a signal receiver located on the housing member. In one embodiment, the signal receiver can transmit an electromagnetic field to inductively charge a power supply on the outer sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Raynal, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Aaron J. Andersen Shaw
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Patent number: 8851194Abstract: A seal assembly between a wellhead housing having a bore and a casing hanger, has an inner seal leg for sealing against hanger and an outer seal leg for sealing against housing. An extension extends downward from outer seal leg and has a downward facing shoulder that rests on an upward facing shoulder formed on a nose ring. Connection connects seal ring to the nose ring with a lower portion of the nose ring resting on the upward facing shoulder of the casing hanger. Bellows are formed on the nose ring to increase lockdown capacity. Bellows have an inner surface that faces an outer profile of the hanger, and an outer surface on the bellow that faces the bore of the housing. When the bellows are axially collapsed, they expand radially outward and contract radially inward into the bore of the housing and the outer profile of the hanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Inventors: David L. Ford, Daniel C. Benson, Leonard Landriault
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Publication number: 20140167408Abstract: A pipe connection includes a pin having external threads and a box having internal threads. A circumferentially extending row of pin teeth are located on an exterior portion of the pin. A slot extends through a side wall of the box. A key is carried in the slot, the key having a row of key teeth that mate with the box teeth. The key is mounted to the box such that a movable portion of the key is radially movable relative to the box between radially outward and radially inward positions. The key is biased toward the inward position, so that the key teeth ratchet on the pin teeth during make-up of pin and the box. The teeth have a saw-tooth configuration to resist unscrewing rotation of pin and the box. The key may be an integral part of the side wall of the box or a separate component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Christopher Loftin
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Publication number: 20140166308Abstract: A key assembly is press fit into an annular space between a box and pin member to resist relative rotation of the box and pin members. The key assembly includes wedge like members that contact one another along complementary tapered surfaces, and when in contact generate radial forces into the box and pin member to secure the connection between the box and pin. The outer wedge is inserted first into the annular space between the box and pin members, and has rows of elongate teeth that project radially outward into contact with an inner surface of the box member. Because the outer wedge is pushed radially outward against the box member rather than axially sliding therebetween, the teeth protrude into the surface of the box member thereby increasing the anti-rotation force created by the outer wedge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, John E. Nelson, Chau Hoang, Daniel C. Benson, Stephen D. Peters
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Publication number: 20130248171Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a housing member, an outer wellbore member, and a second wellbore member, with an outer sensor located in the annulus between the outer wellbore member and the second wellbore member. The outer sensor can sense a condition of the annulus, such as pressure or temperature, and transmit data through a solid portion of the sidewall of the outer wellbore member to a signal receiver located on the housing member. In one embodiment, the signal receiver can transmit an electromagnetic field to inductively charge a power supply on the outer sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Vetco Gray, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Raynal, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Aaron J. Andersen Shaw
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Publication number: 20120247788Abstract: A seal assembly between a wellhead housing having a bore and a casing hanger, has an inner seal leg for sealing against hanger and an outer seal leg for sealing against housing. An extension extends downward from outer seal leg and has a downward facing shoulder that rests on an upward facing shoulder formed on a nose ring. Connection connects seal ring to the nose ring with a lower portion of the nose ring resting on the upward facing shoulder of the casing hanger. Bellows are formed on the nose ring to increase lockdown capacity. Bellows have an inner surface that faces an outer profile of the hanger, and an outer surface on the bellow that faces the bore of the housing. When the bellows are axially collapsed, they expand radially outward and contract radially inward into the bore of the housing and the outer profile of the hanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: VETCO GRAY INC.Inventors: David L. Ford, Daniel C. Benson, Leonard Landriault
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Publication number: 20100299436Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for using external display devices with a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may be repurposed to display a virtual input device for interacting with a resource with output data being displayed on an external display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Shafiqul Khalid, Daniel C. Benson
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Patent number: 6871318Abstract: A system for authoring, distributing, and replaying derivative hypermedia content comprises an authoring system for recording dynamic annotations and a distribution system for distributing the recorded dynamic annotations. The present system includes a playing system for playing the dynamic annotations which have been distributed. The system is applicable to the Internet or World-Wide Web (WWW) and/or to Intranet use.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Michael Wynblatt, Arturo Pizano, Arding Hsu, Daniel C. Benson, Chellury R. Sastry, Vivek Agrawala
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Patent number: 6665836Abstract: A method for managing document information on an information net, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), comprises the steps of inputting a structured document; extracting selected document properties from the structured document; forming a feature vector representative of the properties; and forming a caricature derived from the feature vector.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1998Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wynblatt, Daniel C. Benson
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Patent number: 6018710Abstract: A system for providing a primarily audio environment for world wide web access includes a system for rendering structured documents using audio, an interface for information exchange to users, a non-keyword based WWW search system and a few miscellaneous features. The system for rendering structured documents using audio includes a pre-rendering system which converts a HTML document into an intermediate document and a rendering system which actually generates an audio output. The interface includes a non-visual browsing system and an interface to users for visual browsing environments.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1996Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wynblatt, Arding Hsu, Daniel C. Benson
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Patent number: 5574845Abstract: A computer-implemented method for use by a viewer for the management of video data in a stored video stream, the video stream including a plurality of video shots wherein each shot comprises a sequence of frames, the comprises defining and storing in memory on a frame-sequence axis a time-based model of the video stream; defining and storing in memory on the frame-sequence axis at least one of a space-based model of the video stream, an object-based model of the video stream, and an event-based model of the video stream. The method further comprises selectively scanning through such of the models as have been defined; identifying time, space, object, and/or event segments of interest in such of the models as have been defined; and selecting for viewing portions of the video stream associated with the segments of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Daniel C. Benson, Arturo A. Pizano, Farshid Arman, Remi DePommier