Patents by Inventor Herbert Swan

Herbert Swan 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).

  • Publication number: 20260168361
    Abstract: Implementations claimed and described herein provide systems and methods for optimizing natural resource production. The systems and methods use a machine learning model to generate estimated near wellbore friction data associated with pressure and flow rate data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Inventors: Herbert Swan, David D. Cramer, Jonathan R. SNYDER
  • Publication number: 20260133336
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for optimizing natural resource production. The system includes a data input system configured to receive input data from one or more channels of a data transmission cable. The wellbore data includes one or more noise patterns corresponding to one or more perforations in a well casing of a wellbore. The system further includes an analysis system configured to determine one or more cluster amplitudes corresponding to each of the one or more noise patterns and generate, using the one or more cluster amplitudes, a flow distribution model. The system also includes an output generation system configured to output the flow distribution model corresponding to the one or more perforation clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Herbert Swan, Kyle Friehauf
  • Publication number: 20260085598
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for detection, tracing, and prediction of frac hits (or other type of fracture driven interactions) via automated approaches using a variety of multi-disciplinary data. In some implementations, frac hits may be automatically detected in real-time using production data including pressure and production water, gas, and oil rates, as well as other in-well and well-head measurements via both deterministic and AI-based methods. The detected frac hit information may then be combined with completion data to identify likely subsurface location candidates for frac hit origins. Those location candidates can then be compared with subsurface fault distribution to identify the communication pathways for fluid and/or pressure. The above steps form a complete “Monitoring-Tracing-Prediction-Alerting” loop for frac hit diagnostics which can be used to support the completion and production of wells in real-time or in historical context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Zhengxue Li, Herbert Swan, Brian K. Macy, Brandon Williams, Jonathan R. Snyder
  • Patent number: 10401514
    Abstract: Method of estimating azimuthal amplitude gradient is disclosed. This method uses a correlation of seismic attributes within a sliding volume of data to obtain azimuthal gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Herbert Swan, Jack Howell, Anastasia Mironova
  • Publication number: 20170031042
    Abstract: Method of estimating azimuthal amplitude gradient is disclosed. This method uses a correlation of seismic attributes within a sliding volume of data to obtain azimuthal gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Herbert SWAN, Jack HOWELL, Anastasia MIRONOVA
  • Publication number: 20060160378
    Abstract: A new and improved multi-pin RF field replaceable mounting flange structure, to be mounted upon a RF hybrid assembly, comprises a predetermined arrangement of multi-pin coaxial electrical connectors integrally incorporated upon a single field replaceable mounting flange structure for enabling the connection of a plurality of coaxial cables onto a single field replaceable mounting flange structure such that the plurality of coaxial cables can be electrically connected in a more spatially efficient manner than has been previously capable of being achieved regardless of the particular number of coaxial electrical connectors being connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Jeffrey Butler, Brian Germano, Herbert Swan, Dale Zimmer
  • Publication number: 20050204521
    Abstract: A swingbolt hook includes a base having rear and front surfaces and extending along a base axis between first and second ends. Depending from the base is a swingbolt catch adapted for selective retaining engagement with the hook catch of a swingbolt. The swingbolt catch has base and distal ends and first and second opposed surfaces. Each of the first and second surfaces extends laterally between left and right sides and (i) the first surface extends between the front surface of the base and the distal end of the swingbolt catch and is adjacent to, and joined through a first transition region with, the front surface of the base and (ii) the second surface extends between the rear surface of the base and the distal end of the swingbolt catch and is joined, through a second transition region, with the rear surface of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Francis Hughto-Delzer, Herbert Swan, Dale Zimmer, Peter Ziolkowski