Patents by Inventor Derek Slater Payne

Derek Slater Payne 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).

  • Systems And Methods For Multistage Fracturing
    Publication number: 20240133280
    Abstract: A downhole system for multistage fracturing having at least a first cluster of valves. The first cluster of valves has a frac valve. The first cluster of valves also has a flex valve. A single plugging device is operable to pass through all of the valves of the first cluster of valves and leave all of them closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Derek Slater Payne
  • Systems and methods for multistage fracturing
    Patent number: 11965404
    Abstract: A downhole system for multistage fracturing wherein a stopper assembly is installed in a plugging device in manner that allows pressure integrity from above the plugging device, and the stopper assembly is further configured to allow a bore of the plugging device to open with an at least minimal pressure from therebelow in order to remove a stopper from a baffle in order to open a flow path through the plugging device in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The WellBoss Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Michael Erick Gibson, Derek Slater Payne, Clay Edward Chambers, Martin Paul Coronado
  • Systems And Methods For Multi-Stage Well Stimulation
    Publication number: 20230279757
    Abstract: A plugging device for use in multistage fracturing a subterranean formation. The plugging device includes a plug body having a distal end, a proximate end, and an outer surface. There are a plurality of grooves disposed on the outer surface, and an index sleeve movingly disposed on the outer surface, the index sleeve configured to engage the plurality of grooves. The index is incrementable with respect to the plurality of grooves from the distal end toward the proximate end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Chad Michael Erick Gibson, Derek Slater Payne
  • Systems and methods for multi-stage fracturing
    Patent number: 11692420
    Abstract: A downhole system for multistage fracturing having a first cluster of valves, and a second cluster of valves downhole from the first cluster. Each of the first and second cluster of valves has a frac valve. At least one of the first and the second cluster of valves has a flex valve. A single plugging device is used to open all of the valves in the second cluster, but leaves all valves in the first cluster closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: The WellBoss Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Michael Erick Gibson, Derek Slater Payne
  • Downhole tool with backup ring assembly
    Patent number: 11613958
    Abstract: A downhole tool suitable for use in a wellbore, the tool having a chassis or mandrel, with a center element and a plurality of support elements disposed therearound. The downhole tool also includes a first fingered member, and a second fingered member. In a run-in configuration, the first fingered member has a slot axially aligned with a midpoint of a finger of the second fingered member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The WellBoss Company, LLC
    Inventors: Martin P. Coronado, Derek Slater Payne
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTISTAGE FRACTURING
    Publication number: 20220251934
    Abstract: A downhole system for multistage fracturing wherein a stopper assembly is installed in a plugging device in manner that allows pressure integrity from above the plugging device, and the stopper assembly is further configured to allow a bore of the plugging device to open with an at least minimal pressure from therebelow in order to remove a stopper from a baffle in order to open a flow path through the plugging device in either direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Chad Michael Erick Gibson, Derek Slater Payne, Clay Edward Chambers, Martin Paul Coronado
  • Systems And Methods For Multi-Stage Fracturing
    Publication number: 20220112794
    Abstract: A downhole system for multistage fracturing having a first cluster of valves, and a second cluster of valves downhole from the first cluster. Each of the first and second cluster of valves has a frac valve. At least one of the first and the second cluster of valves has a flex valve. A single plugging device is used to open all of the valves in the second cluster, but leaves all valves in the first cluster closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Chad Michael Erick Gibson, Derek Slater Payne
  • Apparatus and method for completing a wellbore
    Patent number: 9228407
    Abstract: An expandable tubular assembly includes an expander for expanding a tubular. The expander may be hydraulically actuated. A bore obstruction object may be received in a receptacle sleeve that is a modular component of the expandable tubular assembly. In this respect, the expandable tubular assembly may be quickly fitted with a receptacle sleeve designed to receive selected type of bore obstruction object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Darren Richard Santeler, Derek Slater Payne, Mike A. Luke
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPLETING A WELLBORE
    Publication number: 20130233548
    Abstract: An expandable tubular assembly includes an expander for expanding a tubular. The expander may be hydraulically actuated. A bore obstruction object may be received in a receptacle sleeve that is a modular component of the expandable tubular assembly. In this respect, the expandable tubular assembly may be quickly fitted with a receptacle sleeve designed to receive selected type of bore obstruction object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: WEATHERFORD/LAMB, INC.
    Inventors: Darren Richard Santeler, Derek Slater Payne, Mike A. Luke