Patents by Inventor James Maguire

James Maguire 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: 20240353117
    Abstract: A device including a beam and a flanged threaded nut fixedly attached to the beam at about the first end of the beam. A flange of the flanged threaded nut is sized and dimensioned to cover the first end of the beam. A bolt is connected to the flanged threaded nut via a threaded shank being disposed within the flanged threaded nut. The bolt is slidable along a longitudinal axis of the beam by turning the bolt. The device also includes a threaded nut connected to the threaded shank and disposed between the bolt head and the flanged threaded nut. The threaded nut is slidable along the longitudinal axis by turning the threaded nut. The device also includes a cover, disposed around an outside surface of the beam, sized and dimensioned to slide along the longitudinal axis and to slide over the diameter of the bolt head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: James Maguire CHIDIAC
  • Patent number: 12077712
    Abstract: A method to reduce the deposition of solid sulfur (S8(s)) in a natural gas producing well is described where hydrophobic surface modified silica nanoparticles are added into the tubing string, and the hydrophobic surface modified silica nanoparticles interact with the gaseous sulfur (S8(g)) present in the gas resulting in the reduction of the deposition of solid sulfur (S8(s)), The hydrophobic surface modified silica nanoparticles are selected from the group that includes silica, alumina and silica-aluminate. The hydrophobic surface modified silica nanoparticles may be added to the tubing string either dry or mixed first into a carrier fluid, which carrier fluid may be a liquid or a gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical America Corporation
    Inventors: John Edmond Southwell, Samuel James Maguire-Boyle
  • Patent number: 12006469
    Abstract: A method to reduce the deposition of solid sulfur (Ss(s)) in a natural gas producing well, is described wherein the inside of the pipes used in the well are coated with a coating comprising polar surface treated nanoparticles. The polar surface treated nanoparticles interact with the sulfur gas and interfere with the deposition of solid sulfur onto the surface of the pipe. The polar surface treated nanoparticles are selected from the group consisting of silica, alumina and silica-aluminate, metal sulfates and metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical America Corporation
    Inventors: John Edmond Southwell, Samuel James Maguire-Boyle
  • Patent number: 11255768
    Abstract: A system can include a filter assembly with a filter and a substance in the filter assembly, and at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element which receives electromagnetic radiation from the substance. A method can include receiving electromagnetic radiation from a substance in a filter assembly, the electromagnetic radiation from the substance being received by at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element, and the receiving being performed while a filter is positioned in the filter assembly. A detector may receive electromagnetic radiation from the integrated computational element and produce an output correlated to a characteristic of the substance. A mitigation technique may be selected, based on the detector output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Robert P Freese
  • Patent number: 10689567
    Abstract: Methods including preparing a treatment fluid comprising a bulk amount of anhydrous ammonia, wherein the anhydrous ammonia is present in an amount greater than about 10% by weight of a liquid portion of the treatment fluid, and wherein the anhydrous ammonia is in a phase selected from the group consisting of a liquid phase, a gaseous phase, supercritical phase, and any combination thereof; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Corneliu Stanciu, Jim D. Weaver, Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Dipti Singh, Jeremy A. Holtsclaw, Michael A. McCabe
  • Patent number: 10591634
    Abstract: A memristor element is used to create a spectrally programmable optical computing device for use in, for example, a downhole environment. An electromagnetic field is applied across the memristor element in order to alter its spectral properties. In turn, the spectral properties of sample-interacted light optically interacting with the memristor element are also altered. This alteration in spectral properties allows the memristor to be “programmed” to achieve a variety of transmission/reflection/absorption functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Aditya B. Nayak
  • Patent number: 10302973
    Abstract: A memristor element is used to create a spectrally programmable optical device. An electromagnetic field is applied across the memristor element in order to alter its spectral properties. In turn, the spectral properties of the electromagnetic radiation optically interacting with the memristor element are also altered. This alteration in spectral properties allows the memristor to be “programmed” to achieve a variety of transmission/reflection/absorption functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Aditya B. Nayak
  • Publication number: 20180113330
    Abstract: A memristor element is used to create a spectrally programmable optical device. An electromagnetic field is applied across the memristor element in order to alter its spectral properties. In turn, the spectral properties of the electromagnetic radiation optically interacting with the memristor element are also altered. This alteration in spectral properties allows the memristor to be “programmed” to achieve a variety of transmission/reflection/absorption functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Aditya B. Nayak
  • Publication number: 20180031729
    Abstract: A memristor element is used to create a spectrally programmable optical computing device for use in, for example, a downhole environment. An electromagnetic field is applied across the memristor element in order to alter its spectral properties. In turn, the spectral properties of sample-interacted light optically interacting with the memristor element are also altered. This alteration in spectral properties allows the memristor to be “programmed” to achieve a variety of transmission/reflection/absorption functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Aditya B. Nayak
  • Patent number: 9879172
    Abstract: A method includes placing a downhole fluid including an aqueous base fluid and a viscosifying agent that includes a crosslinked borate-modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (mHEC) polymer in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. Viscosifying agents include those whereby modified hydroxyethyl cellulose is crosslinked with a borate crosslinking agent to form a complex that has sufficient viscosifying and suspension properties to enable their use in downhole fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Kay Ann Galindo, Samuel James Maguire-Boyle
  • Patent number: 9777565
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to compositions including functionalized polysaccharide for treatment of subterranean formations and methods and systems including the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method includes placing in a subterranean formation a composition including a functionalized polysaccharide that includes a hydroxy(C1-C5)alkyl functionalization and a polyhydroxy(C2-C5)alkyl functionalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Ali Alwattari, Lucas Kurtis Fontenelle
  • Publication number: 20170204318
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of placing a downhole fluid that comprises an aqueous base fluid and a viscosifying agent that comprises a crosslinked borate-mHEC complex in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The viscosifying agents disclosed herein include those whereby modified hydroxyethyl cellulose is crosslinked with a borate crosslinking agent to form a complex that has sufficient viscosifying and suspension properties to enable the use of the complex their use in downhole fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kay Ann Galindo, Samuel James Maguire-Boyle
  • Publication number: 20170138832
    Abstract: A system can include a filter assembly with a filter and a substance in the filter assembly, and at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element which receives electromagnetic radiation from the substance. A method can include receiving electromagnetic radiation from a substance in a filter assembly, the electromagnetic radiation from the substance being received by at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element, and the receiving being performed while a filter is positioned in the filter assembly. A detector may receive electromagnetic radiation from the integrated computational element and produce an output correlated to a characteristic of the substance. A mitigation technique may be selected, based on the detector output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Robert P. Freese
  • Publication number: 20160186045
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to compositions including functionalized polysaccharide for treatment of subterranean formations and methods and systems including the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method includes placing in a subterranean formation a composition including a functionalized polysaccharide that includes a hydroxy(C1-C5)alkyl functionalization and a polyhydroxy(C2-C5)alkyl functionalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Samuel James Maguire-Boyle, Ali Alwattari, Lucas Kurtis Fontenelle
  • Patent number: 9037202
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a first section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a first flow of coolant and to permit the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a second section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a second flow of coolant and to permit the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a cable joint configured to couple the first section of HTS cable and the second section of HTS cable. The cable joint may be in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module and may include at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between said cable joint and said at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from said first and second sections of HTS cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jie Yuan, James Maguire
  • Patent number: 8886267
    Abstract: A cryogenically-cooled HTS cable is configured to be included within a utility power grid having a maximum fault current that would occur in the absence of the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable. The cryogenically-cooled HTS cable includes a continuous liquid cryogen coolant path for circulating a liquid cryogen. A continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires has an impedance characteristic that attenuates the maximum fault current by at least 10%. The continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires is configured to allow the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable to operate, during the occurrence of a maximum fault condition, with a maximum temperature rise within the HTS wires that is low enough to prevent the formation of gas bubbles within the liquid cryogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas C. Folts, James Maguire, Jie Yuan, Alexis P. Malozemoff
  • Patent number: 8532725
    Abstract: A method of controlling fault currents within a utility power grid is provided. The method may include coupling a superconducting electrical path between a first and a second node within the utility power grid and coupling a non-superconducting electrical path between the first and second nodes within the utility power grid. The superconducting electrical path and the non-superconducting electrical path may be electrically connected in parallel. The superconducting electrical path may have a lower series impedance, when operated below a critical current level, than the non-superconducting electrical path. The superconducting electrical path may have a higher series impedance, when operated at or above the critical current level, than the non-superconductor electrical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas C. Folts, James Maguire, Jie Yuan, Alexis P. Malozemoff
  • Publication number: 20130065766
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a first section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a first flow of coolant and to permit the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a second section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a second flow of coolant and to permit the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a cable joint configured to couple the first section of HTS cable and the second section of HTS cable. The cable joint may be in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module and may include at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between said cable joint and said at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from said first and second sections of HTS cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jie Yuan, James Maguire
  • Patent number: 8280467
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a first section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a first flow of coolant and to permit the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a second section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a second flow of coolant and to permit the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a cable joint configured to couple the first section of HTS cable and the second section of HTS cable. The cable joint may be in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module and may include at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between said cable joint and said at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from said first and second sections of HTS cable. Other embodiments and implementations are also within the scope of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jie Yuan, James Maguire
  • Publication number: 20110132631
    Abstract: A cryogenically-cooled HTS cable is configured to be included within a utility power grid having a maximum fault current that would occur in the absence of the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable. The cryogenically-cooled HTS cable includes a continuous liquid cryogen coolant path for circulating a liquid cryogen. A continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires has an impedance characteristic that attenuates the maximum fault current by at least 10%. The continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires is configured to allow the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable to operate, during the occurrence of a maximum fault condition, with a maximum temperature rise within the HTS wires that is low enough to prevent the formation of gas bubbles within the liquid cryogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas C. Folts, James Maguire, Jie Yuan, Alexis P. Malozemoff