Patents by Inventor Luis DePavia

Luis DePavia 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: 20240124985
    Abstract: Integrated energy systems, such as for use in producing sodium formate and/or processing sodium formate to generate hydrogen as an energy carrier and that produce few or no carbon emissions, and associated devices and methods are described herein. A representative integrated energy system can include a power plant system having multiple modular nuclear reactors. The nuclear reactors can generate electricity and steam for direct use in a sodium formate process or for use in an electrical power conversion system to generate electricity for use in the sodium formate process or for supply to a power grid. Individual ones of the nuclear reactors can be configured to flexibly generate differing outputs of steam or electricity based on a demand state of the power grid—for example, supplying excess electricity and/or steam to the sodium formate process during off-peak hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Francis Y. Tsang, José N. Reyes, JR., Luis DePavia
  • Patent number: 10024995
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to determine a property of an earth formation, comprising a mobile transmitter disposed at a predetermined elevated height above a surface of the earth formation, and one or more receivers moveably disposed in a wellbore penetrating the earth formation. Electromagnetic energy is transmitted from the mobile transmitter into the formation from a plurality of locations; and at the one or more receivers a signal is measured. Using the signal received by the one or more receivers, a property of the formation, such as resistivity, can be determined and mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Garrett Kramer, Michael Wilt, Edward Nichols, Luis DePavia, H. Frank Morrison
  • Patent number: 8181057
    Abstract: To synchronize units of a formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system, a time delay associated with a communications link between a master unit and a slave unit of the formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system is determined. The master unit has a master time clock that provides universal time. The time delay associated with the communications link is used to enable synchronization of time provided by a slave time clock in the slave unit to the universal time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Nichols, Yuji Hosoda, Thor Johnsen, Vamsi Vytla, Hong Zhang, Luis DePavia
  • Publication number: 20100225322
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to determine a property of an earth formation, comprising a mobile transmitter disposed at a predetermined elevated height above a surface of the earth formation, and one or more receivers moveably disposed in a wellbore penetrating the earth formation. Electromagnetic energy is transmitted from the mobile transmitter into the formation from a plurality of locations; and at the one or more receivers a signal is measured. Using the signal received by the one or more receivers, a property of the formation, such as resistivity, can be determined and mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Garrett Kramer, Michael Wilt, Edward Nichols, Luis DePavia, H. Frank Morrison
  • Publication number: 20090217074
    Abstract: To synchronize units of a formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system, a time delay associated with a communications link between a master unit and a slave unit of the formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system is determined. The master unit has a master time clock that provides universal time. The time delay associated with the communications link is used to enable synchronization of time provided by a slave time clock in the slave unit to the universal time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Edward Nichols, Yuji Hosoda, Thor Johnsen, Vamsi Vytla, Hong Zhang, Luis DePavia