Patents by Inventor Gary W. KAINER

Gary W. KAINER 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).

  • Borehole dispersive wave processing with automatic dispersion matching for compressional and shear slowness
    Patent number: 11385374
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for processing acoustic logging information with automatic dispersion matching. The method comprises obtaining, from an acoustic logging tool, acoustic waveforms from within a borehole, applying dispersion analysis to the acoustic data to extract a slowness-frequency response, calculating a slowness density log of the slowness-frequency response, obtaining an initial shear slowness estimate based on the slowness density, generating a dispersion model comprising model parameters, and performing a dispersion response auto match inversion to minimize the difference between the slowness-frequency response and the dispersion model in order to obtain a final shear slowness estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ruijia Wang, Chung Chang, Gary W. Kainer, JoonShik Kim
  • BOREHOLE DISPERSIVE WAVE PROCESSING WITH AUTOMATIC DISPERSION MATCHING FOR COMPRESSIONAL AND SHEAR SLOWNESS
    Publication number: 20190025452
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for processing acoustic logging information with automatic dispersion matching. The method comprises obtaining, from an acoustic logging tool, acoustic waveforms from within a borehole, applying dispersion analysis to the acoustic data to extract a slowness-frequency response, calculating a slowness density log of the slowness-frequency response, obtaining an initial shear slowness estimate based on the slowness density, generating a dispersion model comprising model parameters, and performing a dispersion response auto match inversion to minimize the difference between the slowness-frequency response and the dispersion model in order to obtain a final shear slowness estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ruijia WANG, Chung CHANG, Gary W. KAINER, JoonShik KIM