Patents by Inventor Keith A. Combs

Keith A. Combs 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).

  • Patent number: 11972581
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Patent number: 5250929
    Abstract: An interactive overlay-driven computer display system wherein the selective activation of a software "switch" by the operator each time the digitizer stylus is contiguous to the overlay, causes a visual image of the overlay (which normally has selectable menu items printed thereon) to be automatically displayed on the monitor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Conference Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford J. Hoffman, Keith A. Combs