Patents by Inventor Derrick MELANSON

Derrick MELANSON 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: 11542756
    Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall and a magnetic-permeability element, provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (EIm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable present on the outside of a wellbore tubular using a magnetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Dhruv Arora, Matheus Norbertus Baaijens, Stephen Palmer Hirshblond, Derrick Melanson, Brian Kelly McCoy
  • Patent number: 11220870
    Abstract: A metal wellbore tubular wall of a wellbore tubular, having a cable system arranged on an outside thereof, is to be perforated downhole. The cable system contains a fiber-optic cable, and a magnetic-permeability element with a relative magnetic permeability ?r,m of at least 2,000, such as an electrical steel, is configured along a length of the fiber-optic cable. The cable system is located by sensing the magnetic-permeability element through the metal wellbore tubular wall, using a magetic orienting tool which is being lowered into the wellbore tubular. subsequently, the metal wellbore tubular wall is perforated in a direction away from the cable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Dhruv Arora, Matheus Norbertus Baaijens, Stephen Palmer Hirshblond, Derrick Melanson, Brian Kelly McCoy
  • Publication number: 20210238929
    Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall and a magnetic-permeability element, provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (EIm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable present on the outside of a wellbore tubular using a magetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Dhruv ARORA, Matheus Norbertus BAAIJENS, Stephen Palmer HIRSHBLOND, Derrick MELANSON, Brian Kelly MCCOY
  • Publication number: 20200109606
    Abstract: A system for providing information through a metal wall employs a device (10), such as a fiber optic cable, adapted to be arranged on one side of the metal wall (20) and a magnetic-permeability element (11), provided at, near or connected to the device. The magnetic-permeability element is based on a material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 2000. The disclosure also provides use of said system. The use may involve the step of optimizing the magnetic-permeability element using equivalent inductive mass (Elm). The system can for example be used to magnetically sense the location of a cable (10) present on the outside of a wellbore tubular (20) using a magnetic orienting tool that is located within the wellbore tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Dhruv ARORA, Matheus Norbertus BAAIJENS, Stephen Palmer HIRSHBLOND, Derrick MELANSON, Brian Kelly MCCOY