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).

  • Patent number: 9890598
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, John E. Nelson, Chau Hoang, Daniel C. Benson, Stephen D. Peters
  • Patent number: 9708865
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Christopher Loftin
  • Patent number: 9241062
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Shafiqul Khalid, Daniel C. Benson
  • Patent number: 8955583
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Raynal, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Aaron J. Andersen Shaw
  • Patent number: 8851194
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventors: David L. Ford, Daniel C. Benson, Leonard Landriault
  • Publication number: 20140167408
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Christopher Loftin
  • Publication number: 20140166308
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Steen, John E. Nelson, Chau Hoang, Daniel C. Benson, Stephen D. Peters
  • Publication number: 20130248171
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Vetco Gray, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Raynal, Daniel C. Benson, David L. Ford, Aaron J. Andersen Shaw
  • Publication number: 20120247788
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: VETCO GRAY INC.
    Inventors: David L. Ford, Daniel C. Benson, Leonard Landriault
  • Publication number: 20100299436
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Shafiqul Khalid, Daniel C. Benson
  • Patent number: 6871318
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wynblatt, Arturo Pizano, Arding Hsu, Daniel C. Benson, Chellury R. Sastry, Vivek Agrawala
  • Patent number: 6665836
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Wynblatt, Daniel C. Benson
  • Patent number: 6018710
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Wynblatt, Arding Hsu, Daniel C. Benson
  • Patent number: 5574845
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Benson, Arturo A. Pizano, Farshid Arman, Remi DePommier