Patents by Inventor Dustin Lyles

Dustin Lyles 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: 12065884
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a roller cone includes machining a cone blank and thereby defining one or more land surfaces and one or more insert grooves on the cone blank, surface hardening the cone blank, and milling a plurality of recesses into at least one of the one or more land surfaces. The method further includes subjecting the cone blank to a quenching process, forming an insert hole at each recess, and inserting an insert into each insert hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Taurex Drill Bits, LLC
    Inventors: Yongzhong Cai, Dongze Yang, Yuan Yi, Dustin Lyles, Terry Vance Morris
  • Patent number: 11530576
    Abstract: A drill bit includes a bit body providing one or more blades and defining a cone section extending from a centerline of the bit body a first distance, a nose section extending from the cone section a second distance, a shoulder section extending from the nose section a third distance, and a gauge section extending from the shoulder section a fourth distance. The drill but further includes one or more cutting elements mounted to the one or more blades outside of the cone section such that the cone section is void of cutting elements, and a plurality of milling elements secured to the bit body within the cone section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TAUREX DRILL BITS, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Lyles, Matthew Mumma, Ryan Mathews, Terry Vance Morris
  • Publication number: 20220178210
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a roller cone includes machining a cone blank and thereby defining one or more land surfaces and one or more insert grooves on the cone blank, surface hardening the cone blank, and milling a plurality of recesses into at least one of the one or more land surfaces. The method further includes subjecting the cone blank to a quenching process, forming an insert hole at each recess, and inserting an insert into each insert hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: King Dream Public Limited Company, Taurex Drill Bits, LLC
    Inventors: Yongzhong Cai, Dongze Yang, Yuan Yi, Dustin Lyles, Terry Vance Morris
  • Patent number: 11301989
    Abstract: A method of quantifying wear data on a well tool includes identifying the well tool based on a solid model file and a data file corresponding to the well tool, wherein the solid model and data files are stored on a computer system and separately identify wear parts of the well tool, scanning the well tool with a scanner and thereby generating a scanned file of the well tool, the scanner being in communication with the computer system, aligning the scanned file with the solid model file to obtain an overlay output, creating digital features on the wear parts of the scanned file, and calculating deviation between the solid model file and the scanned file at the digital features for the wear parts and thereby determining material removed from the wear parts of the well tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Taurex Drill Bits, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Lyles, Jerry Rhoades, Warren Dyer, Matthew Mumma
  • Publication number: 20210358100
    Abstract: A method of quantifying wear data on a well tool includes identifying the well tool based on a solid model file and a data file corresponding to the well tool, wherein the solid model and data files are stored on a computer system and separately identify wear parts of the well tool, scanning the well tool with a scanner and thereby generating a scanned file of the well tool, the scanner being in communication with the computer system, aligning the scanned file with the solid model file to obtain an overlay output, creating digital features on the wear parts of the scanned file, and calculating deviation between the solid model file and the scanned file at the digital features for the wear parts and thereby determining material removed from the wear parts of the well tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Taurex Drill Bits, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Lyles, Jerry Rhoades, Warren Dyer, Matthew Mumma
  • Publication number: 20200291726
    Abstract: A drill bit includes a bit body providing one or more blades and defining a cone section extending from a centerline of the bit body a first distance, a nose section extending from the cone section a second distance, a shoulder section extending from the nose section a third distance, and a gauge section extending from the shoulder section a fourth distance. The drill but further includes one or more cutting elements mounted to the one or more blades outside of the cone section such that the cone section is void of cutting elements, and a plurality of milling elements secured to the bit body within the cone section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Taurex Drill Bits, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Lyles, Matthew Mumma, Ryan Mathews, Terry Vance Morris
  • Patent number: 9223607
    Abstract: This application describes a system and techniques for managing the replication, migration, or backing up of virtual machines (VM) operating on a computing device. The techniques include managing real time or near real replication or migration of VM operations logs between computing devices. The operations logs include information or data that would enable another VM to function or operate in the same manner as the VM that generated the operations logs. Techniques are presented herein to insure the replication or migration process of VMs is not open ended or indefinite. For example, the write rate of the source operations log is managed to insure the replication or migration of the source operations log to destination device terminates within a reasonable amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Palash Kar, Dustin Lyle Green, Sriravi Kotagiri, Rahul Shrikant Newaskar
  • Publication number: 20130185719
    Abstract: This application describes a system and techniques for managing the replication, migration, or backing up of virtual machines (VM) operating on a computing device. The techniques include managing real time or near real replication or migration of VM operations logs between computing devices. The operations logs include information or data that would enable another VM to function or operate in the same manner as the VM that generated the operations logs. Techniques are presented herein to insure the replication or migration process of VMs is not open ended or indefinite. For example, the write rate of the source operations log is managed to insure the replication or migration of the source operations log to destination device terminates within a reasonable amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Palash Kar, Dustin Lyle Green, Sriravi Kotagiri, Rahul Shrikant Newaskar
  • Patent number: 8281013
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for the non-disruptive and reliable live migration of a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to a target host, where network data is placed directly into the VM's memory. When a live migration begins, a network interface card (NIC) of the source stops placing newly received packets into the VM's memory. A virtual server driver (VSP) on the source stores the packets being processed and forces a return of the memory where the packets are stored to the NIC. When the VM has been migrated to the target, and the source VSP has transferred the stored packets to the target host, the VM resumes processing the packets, and when the VM sends messages to the target NIC that the memory associated with a processed packet is free, a VSP on the target intercepts that message, blocking the target NIC from receiving it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sambhrama Madhusudhan Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Dustin Lyle Green, Narasimha Rao S. S. Nagampalli
  • Publication number: 20120030674
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for the non-disruptive and reliable live migration of a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to a target host, where network data is placed directly into the VM's memory. When a live migration begins, a network interface card (NIC) of the source stops placing newly received packets into the VM's memory. A virtual server driver (VSP) on the source stores the packets being processed and forces a return of the memory where the packets are stored to the NIC. When the VM has been migrated to the target, and the source VSP has transferred the stored packets to the target host, the VM resumes processing the packets, and when the VM sends messages to the target NIC that the memory associated with a processed packet is free, a VSP on the target intercepts that message, blocking the target NIC from receiving it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sambhrama Madhusudhan Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Dustin Lyle Green, Narasimha Rao S.S. Nagampalli