Patents by Inventor Daniel Colvin

Daniel Colvin 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).

  • Publication number: 20140135995
    Abstract: Displaying data associated with drilling a borehole. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: reading data associated with drilling of a first borehole, at least one datum of the data based on a controllable parameter; calculating an operational value related to drilling the first borehole, the calculating in real-time with reading the data and the operational value based on the data; determining a target value of the operational value, the determining in real-time with reading the data and the target value at least in part based on the data; displaying a first borehole trajectory on a display device; superimposing a first coordinate system over the first borehole trajectory on the display device, the superimposing proximate to a distal end of the first borehole trajectory; and plotting, within the first coordinate system, an indication of the operational value and an indication of the target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robello Samuel, Umesh N. Reddy, R. Daniel Colvin, Ramakrishna R. Chada, Olivier R. Germain
  • Publication number: 20120241223
    Abstract: A hard cutting insert for use with a roof drill bit includes a first webbed notch and a second webbed notch structured and arranged on the hard insert for removing or evacuating drilling debris from an upper surface of the hard insert during a drilling operation. A roof drill bit incorporating the hard cutting insert is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Edward Bise, Seth Daniel Colvin, Chad Allen Swope
  • Publication number: 20110241409
    Abstract: A rotatable cutting tool for use in impinging earth strata wherein the rotatable cutting tool comprises a cutting tool body and a hard tip affixed to the cutting tool body. The cutting tool body includes an axial forward end for receiving the hard tip and an axial rearward end, a head portion axially rearward of the axial forward end, a collar portion axially rearward of the head portion, and a shank portion axially rearward of the collar portion and axially forward of the axial rearward end. The head portion includes a plurality of elongated projections extending radially thereabout, each of the elongated projections including a first tapered side and a second tapered side. The first tapered side of each of the elongated projections adjoins the second tapered side of an adjacent elongated projection at a surface of the head portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Allen Swope, Seth Daniel Colvin
  • Patent number: 7200540
    Abstract: Systems for implementing methods for generating platform location sets comprising selecting a set of platform locations; determining additional platform locations to add to the set of platform locations; validating the additional platform locations, and determining an optimum location for each platform location in the set of platform locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin
  • Patent number: 7096172
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reservoir targeting, the systems implementing methods comprising filtering a plurality of values in a three-dimensional model to eliminate values which are below a threshold to create a filtered three-dimensional model; developing a first matrix from the filtered three-dimensional model representing a two-dimensional model of the reservoir, wherein the first matrix includes a plurality of cell center locations, cell areas, and the plurality of values; developing a second matrix from the first matrix using a distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values; and selecting target locations from the second matrix based on the distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a division of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin
  • Publication number: 20040153298
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reservoir targeting, the systems implementing methods comprising filtering a plurality of values in a three-dimensional model to eliminate values which are below a threshold to create a filtered three-dimensional model; developing a first matrix from the filtered three-dimensional model representing a two-dimensional model of the reservoir, wherein the first matrix includes a plurality of cell center locations, cell areas, and the plurality of values; developing a second matrix from the first matrix using a distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values; and selecting target locations from the second matrix based on the distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a division of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin
  • Publication number: 20040153299
    Abstract: Systems for implementing methods for generating platform location sets comprising selecting a set of platform locations; determining additional platform locations to add to the set of platform locations; validating the additional platform locations, and determining an optimum location for each platform location in the set of platform locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a division of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin