Patents by Inventor Lingchen Zhu

Lingchen Zhu 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: 11989829
    Abstract: Neural network systems and related machine learning methods for geological modeling are provided that employ an improved generative adversarial network including a generator neural network and a discriminator neural network. The generator neural network is trained to map a combination of a noise vector and a category code vector as input to a simulated image of geological facies. The discriminator neural network is trained to map at least one image of geological facies provided as input to corresponding probability that the at least one image of geological facies provided as input is a training image of geological facies or a simulated image of geological facies produced by the generator neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Lingchen Zhu, Tuanfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240111071
    Abstract: A process mimicking forward modeler with deposition and erosion at each specific geological time step. The 3D derived properties are high resolution depositional environments and rock properties that are used to generate multiscale labelled synthetic data. These synthetic data can range from 1D logs such as grain size, gamma ray, density, and velocity, to 3D synthetic seismic, and are used directly as training data for various AIML applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Tilke, Marie Etchebes, Marie Emeline Cecile LeFranc, Lingchen Zhu, Michael Lis, Remy Sabathier
  • Publication number: 20230088055
    Abstract: Methods and platforms for allowing efficient identification of 3D stratigraphic models that explain observed log data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Tilke, Wyame Benslimane, Lingchen Zhu, Zikri Bayraktar
  • Patent number: 11536868
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for receiving sonic data associated with an inner casing of a well. Predicted ultrasonic data associated with an outer casing of the well may be generated based upon, at least in part, a nonlinear regression model and the received sonic data associated with the inner casing of the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lingchen Zhu, Sandip Bose, Smaine Zeroug
  • Publication number: 20220335689
    Abstract: Neural network systems and related machine learning methods for geological modeling are provided that employ an improved generative adversarial network including a generator neural network and a discriminator neural network. The generator neural network is trained to map a combination of a noise vector and a category code vector as input to a simulated image of geological facies. The discriminator neural network is trained to map at least one image of geological facies provided as input to corresponding probability that the at least one image of geological facies provided as input is a training image of geological facies or a simulated image of geological facies produced by the generator neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Lingchen Zhu, Tuanfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210270127
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that characterize and evaluate well integrity of a cased well using unsupervised machine learning of acoustic data. Sonic waveform data generated by the receiver array of a sonic logging tool is collected and processed to determine a high-dimensional representation of the sonic waveform data. The high-dimensional representation is input to an unsupervised machine learning system to determine a low-dimensional representation of the sonic waveform data. A clustering method is applied to the low-dimensional representation to identify a set of clusters therein. At least one well integrity property of the depth interval of the cased well is determined based on the set of clusters. In embodiments, the at least one well integrity property can characterize cement condition in an annulus of the cased well as a function of azimuth and depth and can be used to evaluate cement integrity in a depth interval of the cased well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Lingchen ZHU, Sandip BOSE, Smaine ZEROUG
  • Publication number: 20210247537
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for receiving sonic data associated with an inner casing of a well. Predicted ultrasonic data associated with an outer casing of the well may be generated based upon, at least in part, a nonlinear regression model and the received sonic data associated with the inner casing of the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Lingchen ZHU, Sandip BOSE, Smaine ZEROUG
  • Publication number: 20210165937
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models. One or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions in the one or more reservoir models may be defined. The one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions may define a graph network representative of the one or more reservoir models. The one or more reservoir models may be simulated along the one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Emilien Dupont, Lin Liang, Peter G. Tilke, Tuanfeng Zhang, Lingchen Zhu