Patents by Inventor Giorgio De Paola

Giorgio De Paola 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: 11163751
    Abstract: A resource exploitation management system, method and a computer program product therefor. A description of new geological evidence for a geological resource is received, e.g., as one or more triples describing the evidence. Keywords in the description are matched against keywords in representations in a geological resource database. Geological relations are inferred from the descriptions and matched against predefined geological relations from the geological resource database. Consistent triple matches are merged with the geological resource database. The confidence level for merged matches is updated in the geological resource database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sonia Mariette Embid Droz, Cristina Ibanez-Llano, Giorgio De Paola, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Akiko Suzuki, Mustafa Canim, Yuan-Chi Chang, Robert Farrell, Sharon M. Trewin
  • Patent number: 10900328
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for generating an optimal field development plan (FDP) for the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs when the available data of the reservoir is limited. A tree is generated starting from a root node wherein each node represents a decision or an observation of the field. The tree generation includes a specific manner of combining a search and a rollout process for exploring paths providing candidates of field development plans (FDP) and adding new nodes to the tree. The method reduces drastically the computational cost providing an affordable manner of estimating an optimal field development plan (FDP) before carrying out the exploitation of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Jesus Rios Aliaga, Giorgio De Paola, Sonia Mariette Embid Droz
  • Publication number: 20200233851
    Abstract: A resource exploitation management system, method and a computer program product therefor. A description of new geological evidence for a geological resource is received, e.g., as one or more triples describing the evidence. Keywords in the description are matched against keywords in representations in a geological resource database. Geological relations are inferred from the descriptions and matched against predefined geological relations from the geological resource database. Consistent triple matches are merged with the geological resource database. The confidence level for merged matches is updated in the geological resource database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicants: REPSOL, S. A., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sonia Mariette Embid Droz, Cristina Ibanez-Llano, Giorgio De Paola, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Akiko Suzuki, Mustafa Canim, Yuan-Chi Chang, Robert Farrell, Sharon M. Trewin
  • Publication number: 20180174247
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method of generating a production strategy for the development of a reservoir of hydrocarbon in a natural environment by solving a minimization problem involving, among others, decisional variables, in such a way said decisional variables are reduced or even eliminated by combining them with other continuous variables. The reduction of decisional variables provides a high reduction of the computational cost. The elimination of all decisional variables allow a further reduction of the computational cost as solvers such as Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming allowing the use of decisional variables that are not needed anymore. A particular case of decisional variables are binary variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Rubén Rodríguez Torrado, Giorgio De Paola, Sonia Mariette Embid Droz
  • Publication number: 20170335662
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for generating an optimal field development plan (FDP) for the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs when the available data of the reservoir is limited. A tree is generated starting from a root node wherein each node represents a decision or an observation of the field. The tree generation includes a specific manner of combining a search and a rollout process for exploring paths providing candidates of field development plans (FDP) and adding new nodes to the tree. The method reduces drastically the computational cost providing an affordable manner of estimating an optimal field development plan (FDP) before carrying out the exploitation of the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicants: REPSOL, S. A., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Jesus Rios Aliaga, Giorgio De Paola, Sonia Mariette Embid Droz
  • Patent number: 9458713
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for generating scenarios of hydrocarbon reservoirs based on limited amount of information on a target hydrocarbon reservoir, and more particularly to automatically supplying missing parameters and uncertainty associated with each supplied parameter allowing to valuating the target hydrocarbon reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: REPSOL, S. A., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sonia Mariette Embid Droz, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Giorgio De Paola, Mohamed Ahmed Hegazy, Bruno Da Costa Flach, Ulisses T. Mello