Patents by Inventor John Forester

John Forester 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: 20220186569
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to preventing wear to a nominal thickness of a wall of a drill pipe during a downhole operation. A drill pipe may include a first tool joint; a second tool joint; and a tubular section between the first tool joint and the second tool joint, wherein the tubular section comprises a wall with an overall thickness comprising a nominal thickness and a secondary thickness, wherein the secondary thickness is outer to the nominal thickness and is configured to abrade against a wall of the wellbore, thereby reducing the secondary thickness and maintaining the nominal thickness, wherein an ID of each tool joint is less than an ID of the tubular section to accommodate for threaded connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventor: John Forester Price
  • Patent number: 11047180
    Abstract: A hole cleaning joint for a drill string is deployed into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The hole cleaning joint includes a tubular body connectable to the drill string and a hole cleaning section positionable about the tubular body. The hole cleaning section has an outer surface engageable with a wall of the well bore. The outer surface has spiral grooves extending therein defining blades therebetween, and an uphole end and a downhole end with a spiral cavity therebetween. The spiral cavity has a width that decreases towards the uphole end of the spiral cavity to define a tapered flow channel to receive cuttings therethrough whereby uphole movement of cuttings is facilitated during drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Jellison, Guillaume Plessis, Andrei Muradov, John Forester Price, Stephen C. Hain
  • Publication number: 20160237764
    Abstract: A hole cleaning joint for a drill string is deployed into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The hole cleaning joint includes a tubular body connectable to the drill string and a hole cleaning section positionable about the tubular body. The hole cleaning section has an outer surface engageable with a wall of the well bore. The outer surface has spiral grooves extending therein defining blades therebetween, and an uphole end and a downhole end with a spiral cavity therebetween. The spiral cavity has a width that decreases towards the uphole end of the spiral cavity to define a tapered flow channel to receive cuttings therethrough whereby uphole movement of cuttings is facilitated during drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Jellison, Guillaume Plessis, Andrei Muradov, John Forester Price, Stephen C. Hain
  • Patent number: 4248634
    Abstract: Sodium azide is used as a preservative or bacteriostatic agent of various solutions such as hypertonic phosphate solution, cleaning solutions used in electronic counting equipment, Sorensen's phosphate buffers, lytic agents E and F and the like. Unfortunately, sodium azide, when combined with lead or copper in sink plumbing can produce explosive substances and also is capable of generating toxic gases. By using sodium dehydroacetate with or without sodium borate decahydrate and/or disodium edetate, the disadvantages are removed and at the same time the efficiency of the various solutions is not affected adversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Inventor: John Forester
  • Patent number: D722526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: John Forester