Patents by Inventor John Pope
John Pope 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).
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Patent number: 11519895Abstract: A method may include drilling a wellbore, the wellbore intersecting a shale formation at an interval of the shale formation and casing at least a portion of the wellbore. The method may also include perforating the casing at the interval to fluidly couple the interval and the wellbore, and liberating free and absorbed gas entrapped within the interval. In addition, the method may include solubilizing in the wellbore fluid the free and absorbed gas, forming a plume comprising solubilized gas, and determining an identity and amount of solubilized gas in the plume.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: GAS SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Quentin Morgan, John Pope
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Publication number: 20220381122Abstract: Injecting CO2 that is diluted within water, into a coal seam, which allows for the sequestering and control of downhole CO2 within connected fractures without damaging the subterranean formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: John POPE, Wade A. BARD
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Patent number: 10732043Abstract: Methods and apparatus suitable for quickly and accurately measuring 13C levels and supporting data in an aqueous fluid reservoir. Interpreting the resulting data to indicate key factors regarding a reservoir and completion methods, including reservoir constraint, gas producibility, and completion success. A sensor and to a sensing method that evaluates the level of hydrologic constraint in aquifers occurring in unconventional reservoirs, such as shales and coals is disclosed. Specifically, Raman spectroscopy is disclosed as a sensor and a sensing method that measures the level of naturally-occurring 13C in an aqueous reservoir and compares the level of 13C to the levels typical for highly constrained and highly unconstrained reservoirs. The disclosed sensor and sensing method also monitors the level of naturally-occurring 13C in a reservoir. Also disclosed is a method of using ?13CDic to evaluate geographic areas of coal bed reservoir water having biologic methanogenic activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: GAS SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: John Pope, Daniel Buttry
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Patent number: 10683749Abstract: A coal seam producibility determination system may include a fiber optic cable, the fiber optic extending from a DAS interrogation unit into a wellbore. The DAS interrogation unit may be located at a surface. The wellbore may intersect a plurality of coal seams to be measured, the coal seams comprising fluid and solubilized gas. The wellbore contains wellbore fluid and the wellbore has a wall. The fiber optic cable extends along the plurality of coal seams. The coal seam producibility determination system may further include a spectrometer, the spectrometer located at the surface or within the wellbore. The coal seam producibility determination system may also include an optical window, the optical window in optical communication with the spectrometer, the optical window in fluid communication with the wellbore fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: GAS SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Publication number: 20200124584Abstract: A method may include drilling a wellbore, the wellbore intersecting a shale formation at an interval of the shale formation and casing at least a portion of the wellbore. The method may also include perforating the casing at the interval to fluidly couple the interval and the wellbore, and liberating free and absorbed gas entrapped within the interval. In addition, the method may include solubilizing in the wellbore fluid the free and absorbed gas, forming a plume comprising solubilized gas, and determining an identity and amount of solubilized gas in the plume.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Quentin MORGAN, John POPE
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Patent number: 10355277Abstract: The present invention pertains to the selection of cathode materials. The cathode materials of concern are the conducting polymer or backbone and the redox active species or sulfur species. The selection of the materials is based on the characteristics of the materials relating to the other components of the batteries and to each other. The present invention also pertains to the resultant cathode materials, particularly a selected cathode material of a single component sulfur-based conducting polymer with the sulfur species covalently linked to the conducting polymer, and most particularly a thiophene based polymer with covalently linked sulfur species. The conducting polymers have been covalently-derivatized with sulfides and/or sulfide-containing groups as battery cathode materials. The present invention also pertains to a battery employing the selection method and resultant cathode materials.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: The Blue Sky Group, Inc.Inventors: John Pope, Dan Buttry, Shannon White, Robert Corcoran
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Publication number: 20180328787Abstract: Methods and apparatus suitable for quickly and accurately measuring 13C levels and supporting data in an aqueous fluid reservoir. Interpreting the resulting data to indicate key factors regarding a reservoir and completion methods, including reservoir constraint, gas producibility, and completion success. A sensor and to a sensing method that evaluates the level of hydrologic constraint in aquifers occurring in unconventional reservoirs, such as shales and coals is disclosed. Specifically, Raman spectroscopy is disclosed as a sensor and a sensing method that measures the level of naturally-occurring 13C in an aqueous reservoir and compares the level of 13C to the levels typical for highly constrained and highly unconstrained reservoirs. The disclosed sensor and sensing method also monitors the level of naturally-occurring 13C in a reservoir. Also disclosed is a method of using ?13CDic to evaluate geographic areas of coal bed reservoir water having biologic methanogenic activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: John Pope, Daniel Buttry
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Patent number: 10031024Abstract: Methods and apparatus suitable for quickly and accurately measuring 13C levels and supporting data in an aqueous fluid reservoir. Interpreting the resulting data to indicate key factors regarding a reservoir and completion methods, including reservoir constraint, gas producibility, and completion success. A sensor and to a sensing method that evaluates the level of hydrologic constraint in aquifers occurring in unconventional reservoirs, such as shales and coals is disclosed. Specifically, Raman spectroscopy is disclosed as a sensor and a sensing method that measures the level of naturally-occurring 13C in an aqueous reservoir and compares the level of 13C to the levels typical for highly constrained and highly unconstrained reservoirs. The disclosed sensor and sensing method also monitors the level of naturally-occurring 13C in a reservoir. Also disclosed is a method of using ?13CDic to evaluate geographic areas of coal bed reservoir water having biologic methanogenic activity.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: GAS SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: John Pope, Daniel Buttry
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Publication number: 20180195384Abstract: A coal seam producibility determination system is disclosed. The coal seam producibility determination system may include a fiber optic cable, the fiber optic extending from a DAS interrogation unit into a wellbore. The DAS interrogation unit may be located at a surface. The wellbore may intersect a plurality of coal seams to be measured, the coal seams comprising fluid and solubilized gas. The wellbore contains wellbore fluid and the wellbore has a wall. The fiber optic cable extends along the plurality of coal seams. The coal seam producibility determination system may further include a spectrometer, the spectrometer located at the surface or within the wellbore. The coal seam producibility determination system may also include an optical window, the optical window in optical communication with the spectrometer, the optical window in fluid communication with the wellbore fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: John POPE, Quentin MORGAN
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Patent number: 10020510Abstract: The present invention pertains to the selection of cathode materials. The cathode materials of concern are the conducting polymer or backbone and the redox active species or sulfur species. The selection of the materials is based on the characteristics of the materials relating to the other components of the batteries and to each other. The present invention also pertains to the resultant cathode materials, particularly a selected cathode material of a single component sulfur-based conducting polymer with the sulfur species covalently linked to the conducting polymer, and most particularly a thiophene based polymer with covalently linked sulfur species. The conducting polymers have been covalently-derivatized with sulfides and/or sulfide-containing groups as battery cathode materials. The present invention also pertains to a battery employing the selection method and resultant cathode materials.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: THE BLUE SKY GROUP INCInventors: John Pope, Dan Buttry, Shannon White, Robert Corcoran
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Patent number: 9816376Abstract: An analytical method that establishes a thermodynamic equilibrium or known dynamic relationship between the concentrations of gases, natural gas liquids and oils or pressures of gasses in an isolated zone of a shale, or group of distinct shale gas intervals, with the concentrations of fluids or pressures of gasses in a wellbore penetrating the shale interval or intervals. An analytical method for identifying the chemical composition of gas, natural gas liquids and oils and determining their origin in an isolated zone of a shale, or group of distinct shale gas intervals with the identification of chemical composition of gas, natural gas liquids and oils in a wellbore penetrating the shale interval or intervals. A surface measurement apparatus capable of performing the measurement ex-situ. A downhole measurement apparatus capable of reliably performing the measurement in-situ and a downhole straddle-packer assembly capable of isolating part of, or an entire shale interval.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Gas Sensing Technology Corp.Inventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Patent number: 9378277Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a search query segmentation application. Search queries are broken into segments. Each of the segments is assigned a taxonomy node from a catalog of items. Search results are generated as those items included in the taxonomy nodes assigned to the search query segments.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lam Duy Nguyen, Nigel St. John Pope, Yanping Huang
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Publication number: 20160064736Abstract: The present invention pertains to the selection of cathode materials. The cathode materials of concern are the conducting polymer or backbone and the redox active species or sulfur species. The selection of the materials is based on the characteristics of the materials relating to the other components of the batteries and to each other. The present invention also pertains to the resultant cathode materials, particularly a selected cathode material of a single component sulfur-based conducting polymer with the sulfur species covalently linked to the conducting polymer, and most particularly a thiophene based polymer with covalently linked sulfur species. The conducting polymers have been covalently-derivatized with sulfides and/or sulfide-containing groups as battery cathode materials. The present invention also pertains to a battery employing the selection method and resultant cathode materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: The Blue Sky Group, Inc.Inventors: John Pope, Dan Buttry, Shannon White, Robert Corcoran
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Publication number: 20150380730Abstract: The present invention pertains to the selection of cathode materials. The cathode materials of concern are the conducting polymer or backbone and the redox active species or sulfur species. The selection of the materials is based on the characteristics of the materials relating to the other components of the batteries and to each other. The present invention also pertains to the resultant cathode materials, particularly a selected cathode material of a single component sulfur-based conducting polymer with the sulfur species covalently linked to the conducting polymer, and most particularly a thiophene based polymer with covalently linked sulfur species. The conducting polymers have been covalently-derivatized with sulfides and/or sulfide-containing groups as battery cathode materials. The present invention also pertains to a battery employing the selection method and resultant cathode materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: The Blue Sky Group, Inc.Inventors: John Pope, Dan Buttry, Shannon White, Robert Corcoran
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Patent number: 8989821Abstract: Electronic devices having improved battery configurations, and more specifically configurations reducing overall space required for a battery and attendant electronics, as well as providing restraining mechanisms to prevent a battery from impacting these electronics.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin John Pope, Daniel William Jarvis
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Patent number: 8904858Abstract: The invention subject of this disclosure teaches a method of determining a production factor for a carbonaceous material reservoir, the method comprising: providing a well in a carbonaceous material reservoir; providing unsampled fluid at a depth in the well; placing a sensor adjacent to the unsampled fluid and performing a measurement on the unsampled fluid; using data from the measurement to determine a partial pressure of a solution gas in the carbonaceous material reservoir; and determining a production factor for the carbonaceous material reservoir from the partial pressure of the solution gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Gas Sensing Technology Corp.Inventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Patent number: 8867040Abstract: The invention subject of this disclosure teaches a method of determining a production factor for a carbonaceous material reservoir, the method comprising: providing a well in a carbonaceous material reservoir; providing unsampled fluid at a depth in the well; placing a sensor adjacent to the unsampled fluid and performing a measurement on the unsampled fluid; using data from the measurement to determine a partial pressure of a solution gas in the carbonaceous material reservoir; and determining a production factor for the carbonaceous material reservoir from the partial pressure of the solution gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Inventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Publication number: 20140300895Abstract: An analytical method that establishes a thermodynamic equilibrium or known dynamic relationship between the concentrations of gases, natural gas liquids and oils or pressures of gasses in an isolated zone of a shale, or group of distinct shale gas intervals, with the concentrations of fluids or pressures of gasses in a wellbore penetrating the shale interval or intervals. An analytical method for identifying the chemical composition of gas, natural gas liquids and oils and determining their origin in an isolated zone of a shale, or group of distinct shale gas intervals with the identification of chemical composition of gas, natural gas liquids and oils in a wellbore penetrating the shale interval or intervals. A surface measurement apparatus capable of performing the measurement ex-situ. A downhole measurement apparatus capable of reliably performing the measurement in-situ and a downhole straddle-packer assembly capable of isolating part of, or an entire shale interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Gas Sensing Technology CorpInventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Publication number: 20140245827Abstract: The invention subject of this disclosure teaches a method of determining a production factor for a carbonaceous material reservoir, the method comprising: providing a well in a carbonaceous material reservoir; providing unsampled fluid at a depth in the well; placing a sensor adjacent to the unsampled fluid and performing a measurement on the unsampled fluid; using data from the measurement to determine a partial pressure of a solution gas in the carbonaceous material reservoir; and determining a production factor for the carbonaceous material reservoir from the partial pressure of the solution gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Gas Sensing Technology CorpInventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan
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Publication number: 20140245826Abstract: The invention subject of this disclosure teaches a method of determining a production factor for a carbonaceous material reservoir, the method comprising: providing a well in a carbonaceous material reservoir; providing unsampled fluid at a depth in the well; placing a sensor adjacent to the unsampled fluid and performing a measurement on the unsampled fluid; using data from the measurement to determine a partial pressure of a solution gas in the carbonaceous material reservoir; and determining a production factor for the carbonaceous material reservoir from the partial pressure of the solution gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Gas Sensing Technology CorpInventors: John Pope, Quentin Morgan