Patents by Inventor Joseph Wee

Joseph Wee 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: 20230279282
    Abstract: The problem of lost circulation is pertinent to the oil industry. To prevent fluid loss, a lost circulation material (LCM), or more generally, a plugging material, can be used to effectively plug the fractures in the rock formation. If the fractures are in the production zone, it is also ideal to unplug them when the drilling operation is complete. Therefore, a material engineered to degrade after a desired period would be useful. In examples, a plugging material has been developed by gelling an oil-based fluid using a low molecular weight gelator, dibenzylidene sorbitol (DBS). DBS gels are robust and show plugging behavior. DBS is shown to chemically degrade in presence of an acid. Hence, a self-degrading gel can be synthesized by incorporating an acid into the system. Further, by varying the type and concentration of the acid, the degradation time of the gel can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Faraz A. BURNI, Srinivasa R. RAGHAVAN, Joseph WEE, David CHAPPELL, Shanshan HUANG
  • Patent number: 11151505
    Abstract: A device may receive data associated with one or more healthcare organizations. The data may relate to a performance of one or more processes or operations of the one or more healthcare organizations. The device may process the data using one or more techniques to permit mapping of the data to a healthcare operating model. The device may map the data to the healthcare operating model. The healthcare operating model may be used to perform one or more analyses of the one or more processes or operations of the one or more healthcare organizations. The device may perform one or more analyses of the data to identify one or more deficiencies related to the one or more processes or operations. The device may perform one or more actions to positively impact the performance of the one or more processes or operations of the one or more healthcare organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: RaeAnn J. Hancock, Scott Alister, Marjorie P. Bogaert, Denise M. Brock, Amber Brockington, Doreen Colburn, Aakash R. Desai, John M. Froehlich, Betty J. Gillespie, Ninad Gokhale, Amit Jindal, Daniel Huedig, Brian P. Kalis, Franklin C. Lee, Thomas N. Mangan, Gerald J. Meklaus, Aaron Morrow, Jennifer Nichol, Milind Pawar, Douglas Pedersen, Frank Pino, Ann Turner, Cristi Velastegui, Joseph Wee
  • Publication number: 20150254252
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a content aggregation ranking facility adapted to rank a plurality of web-based content aggregations based on a search term, where each web-based content aggregation is comprised of a plurality of visual web-linked content comprising an image that is linked to a uniform resource locator (URL), and where the ranking may be determined based, at least in part, via determining a correlation between the search term and a characteristic of the plurality of web-based content aggregations, and ranking the plurality of web-based content aggregations based the strength of the that correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Jamil Khalil, Stephen Doyle, Joseph Wee, Christopher Byatte, Tomas Pfister