Patents by Inventor MATTHIAS KORMAKSSON

MATTHIAS KORMAKSSON 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: 11719842
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for implementing a machine learning platform that processes a data map having feature and operational information. A system is disclosed that includes an interpretable machine learning model that generates a function in response to an inputted data map, wherein the data map includes feature data and operational data over a region of interest, and wherein the function relates a set of predictive variables to one or more response variables; an integration/interpolation system that generates the data map from a set of disparate data sources; and an analysis system that evaluates the function to predict outcomes at unique points in the region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Shell USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Luis Guevara Diaz, Bianca Zadrozny, Breno William Santos Rezende de Carvalho, Alvaro Bueno Buoro, Matthias Kormaksson, Ligang Lu, John Tolle, Detlef Hohl, Jan Limbeck, Mingqi Wu
  • Publication number: 20220238238
    Abstract: The invention comprises a computer-implemented method comprising the steps of providing a medical dataset with data of a plurality of patients and pertaining to at least one disease, associating the data in the dataset with corresponding parts of the human body, to which the data pertains, displaying, on a display device, a graphical representation of the human body (1) or of a part of the human body, displaying, on the display device, a plurality of activatable buttons (2) associated with different parts of said graphical representation (1), receiving a user input activating one of the plurality of activatable buttons (2), and based on the activation, displaying, on the display device, a graphical representation of the data (4) associated with that part of the human body, to which the activatable button (2) activated by the user input pertains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory LIGOZIO, Luminita PRICOP, Matthias KORMAKSSON, Tingting ZHUANG, Xuan ZHU, David A. JAMES, Effie POURNARA, Jennifer FRUEH
  • Patent number: 11295048
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method for use by at least one machine learning classifier. The method comprises the machine learning classifier obtaining one or more recent results from at least one geomechanical simulation; the machine learning classifier comparing the recent results to stored historical data; and, based on the comparing, the machine learning classifier deciding at least one reservoir model for use by at least one reservoir simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen Nilda Mena Paz
  • Patent number: 10990882
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for stratigraphic layer identification using a stratigraphic knowledge base for machine learning. Reservoir data includes seismic data and well log data for a reservoir area. The well log data is processed to identify well stratigraphic layer features and the seismic data is processed to identify seismic stratigraphic layer features. A feature matching algorithm based on a stratigraphic knowledge base is selected to match the well stratigraphic layer features to the seismic stratigraphic layer features. The matched features are used to define a stratigraphic layer interpretation for the reservoir area and the interpretation is presented to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Paulo R. Cavalin, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen N. Mena Paz, Michael Raghib
  • Patent number: 10977489
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for processing borehole images to delineate between natural fractures and induced fractures. A system is disclosed that includes: an image analysis platform that inputs a noisy image from a borehole, processes the image using a set of filtering strategies, and renders a set of suggested filtered images via a user interface, the user interface including a mechanism for allowing a user to choose a selected filtered image from the set of suggested filtered images that best delineates between natural fractures and induced fractures, and wherein the image analysis platform further includes a feedback system for packaging and outputting the noisy image and selected filtered image as feedback; and a learning platform having a knowledge registration system that collects and stores training data and the feedback and in a knowledgebase, and a machine learning system that generates filtering strategies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carmen N. Mena Paz, Matthias Kormaksson, Paulo R. Cavalin, Paul Borrel
  • Patent number: 10914852
    Abstract: A method for identifying seismic horizons in digitized seismic images includes deploying a swarm of agents at an initial position in a seismic image to be analyzed, where the swarm of agents includes picking agents that define a direction for the swarm and averaging agents that smooth the direction of the swarm, identifying a direction to follow in the seismic image for each picking agent, and advancing each picking agent in the identified direction, and averaging, by the averaging agents, the directions identified by the picking agents, wherein if an information concentration measured by a picking agent at a current time step is greater than a previous time step, the picking agent keeps a previous direction, otherwise the picking agent changes direction according to the average current state of the set of averaging agents within its neighborhood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto, Michael Raghib Moreno, Matthias Kormaksson, Vagner Figueredo De Santana
  • Patent number: 10822922
    Abstract: A method for identifying a resource in a field using historic well data including vertical well logs for the resource and historic horizontal well production data for the resource, the method including extracting a plurality of features from the vertical well logs, performing a spatial interpolation of the plurality of features extracted from the vertical well logs onto coordinates of the horizontal well production data to determine a plurality of interpolated features, and building a model predicting production of the resource in the field by regressing the horizontal well production data onto the interpolated features, wherein the model is displayed as a visualization of the resource production predicted in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias Kormaksson, Marcos Rodrigues Vieira, Bianca Zadrozny
  • Patent number: 10822923
    Abstract: A method for identifying a resource in a field using historic well data including vertical well logs for the resource and historic horizontal well production data for the resource, the method including extracting a plurality of features from the vertical well logs, performing a spatial interpolation of the plurality of features extracted from the vertical well logs onto coordinates of the horizontal well production data to determine a plurality of interpolated features, and building a model predicting production of the resource in the field by regressing the horizontal well production data onto the interpolated features, wherein the model is displayed as a visualization of the resource production predicted in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias Kormaksson, Marcos Rodrigues Vieira, Bianca Zadrozny
  • Patent number: 10754060
    Abstract: A fracture pattern characterization method, system, and computer program product, include classifying fracture patterns of reservoir layers using a correlation of reservoir information associated with target images and the target images extracted from a database and determining a fracture pattern characterization of a new reservoir layer input based on the classified fracture patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Carlos Raoni de Alencar Mendes, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen Nilda Mena Paz
  • Publication number: 20200143139
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for processing borehole images to delineate between natural fractures and induced fractures. A system is disclosed that includes: an image analysis platform that inputs a noisy image from a borehole, processes the image using a set of filtering strategies, and renders a set of suggested filtered images via a user interface, the user interface including a mechanism for allowing a user to choose a selected filtered image from the set of suggested filtered images that best delineates between natural fractures and induced fractures, and wherein the image analysis platform further includes a feedback system for packaging and outputting the noisy image and selected filtered image as feedback; and a learning platform having a knowledge registration system that collects and stores training data and the feedback and in a knowledgebase, and a machine learning system that generates filtering strategies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Carmen N. Mena Paz, Matthias Kormaksson, Paulo R. Cavalin, Paul Borrel
  • Patent number: 10614378
    Abstract: One aspect includes a method for use with a plurality of steam assisted gravity drainage wells. The method includes designing a first modeling framework which provides a model of total output for the plurality of wells from one or more input variables for respective ones of the plurality of wells. The method also includes designing a second modeling framework which provides a model of output for a given one of the plurality of wells based at least in part on one or more input variables for the given one of the plurality of wells and one or more input variables for at least another one of the plurality of wells. The method further includes utilizing the first and second modeling frameworks to determine an optimal configuration for the wells and configuring the well to operate with the determined optimal configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood Omolade Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Patent number: 10577907
    Abstract: One aspect includes a method for use with a steam assisted gravity drainage well. The method includes generating an analytical framework for the well at least in part by modeling one or more observable variables as a function at least of one or more control variables; and modeling one or more output variables as a function at least of at least one of the one or more control variables; and at least one of the one or more observable variables. The method further includes utilizing the analytical framework to determine an optimal configuration for the well, the optimal configuration including a set of one or more values for the one or more control variables which produce one or more desired values for the one or more output variables; and configuring the well to operate with the determined optimal configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood Omolade Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Patent number: 10570717
    Abstract: A method for controlling operation of a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil well system to increase efficiency in emulsion production includes obtaining a predictive model of the SAGD oil well system. The predictive model has control parameters including one or more continuous control parameters and one or more discrete control parameters. The method also includes utilizing the predictive model to determine values for the control parameters that meet one or more objectives for the SAGD oil well system subject to one or more constraints based on a sequence of iterations of solving a mixed integer non-linear problem. The method further includes adjusting controls of the SAGD oil well system based on the determined values of the control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood O. Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Patent number: 10394897
    Abstract: Visualizations of a serial process are provided. A process model of a serial process is constructed using an underlying statististical model. The process model represents each instance of the serial process as a series of interconnected nodes, wherein (i) the serial process includes a plurality of events; (ii) each node is associated with an event and a time at which the associated event occurred in an instance of the serial process; and (iii) connectors link nodes together to form the series of interconnected nodes, the connectors representing stages of serial process. The stages are scored and categorized into various categories based, at least in part, on the process model. One or more of the categories is associated with outlier stages. A visualization of the process model is presented such that the visualization associates the stages of the instances of serial process with respective categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Bak, Matthias Kormaksson, Yuval Nardi, Gilad M. Saadoun, Harold J. Ship
  • Patent number: 10378324
    Abstract: A method for increasing efficiency in emulsion production for a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil well system includes generating a causal model of the SAGD oil well system and training the causal model of the SAGD oil well system utilizing historical time series data relating to one or more SAGD oil wells at one or more SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system. The historical time series data is obtained from a plurality of sensors in the SAGD oil well system. The method also includes utilizing the causal model to determine a forecast emulsion production and a forecast set of control parameters associated with one or more of the SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system. The method further includes adjusting a set of controls of the SAGD oil well system based on the forecast emulsion production and the forecast set of control parameters and subject to one or more constraints associated with the SAGD oil well system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood O. Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Patent number: 10352142
    Abstract: A method for increasing efficiency in emulsion production for a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil well system includes generating a multiple time step model of the SAGD oil well system and training the multiple time step model of the SAGD oil well system utilizing historical time series data relating to one or more SAGD oil wells at one or more SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system. The historical time series data is obtained from a plurality of sensors in the SAGD oil well system. The method also includes utilizing the multiple time step model to determine, based on a set of objectives and subject to one or more constraints, two or more sets of values for control parameters associated with one or more of the SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system for respective ones of two or more time steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood O. Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Publication number: 20190197208
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method for use by at least one machine learning classifier. The method comprises the machine learning classifier obtaining one or more recent results from at least one geomechanical simulation; the machine learning classifier comparing the recent results to stored historical data; and, based on the comparing, the machine learning classifier deciding at least one reservoir model for use by at least one reservoir simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen Nilda Mena Paz
  • Patent number: 10267130
    Abstract: A method for increasing efficiency in emulsion production for a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil well system includes generating a model of the SAGD oil well system and training the model of the SAGD oil well system utilizing historical time series data relating to one or more SAGD oil wells at one or more SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system. The historical time series data is obtained from a plurality of sensors in the SAGD oil well system. The method also includes determining an uncertainty of the model as a function of a control space of the model and utilizing the model to determine values for control variables associated with one or more of the SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system which reduce the model uncertainty while meeting one or more objectives subject to one or more constraints. The method further includes adjusting a set of controls of the SAGD oil well system based on the determined values for the control variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood O. Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
  • Patent number: 10223482
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method for use by at least one machine learning classifier. The method comprises the machine learning classifier obtaining one or more recent results from at least one geomechanical simulation; the machine learning classifier comparing the recent results to stored historical data; and, based on the comparing, the machine learning classifier deciding at least one reservoir model for use by at least one reservoir simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen Nilda Mena Paz
  • Publication number: 20190034812
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for stratigraphic layer identification using a stratigraphic knowledge base for machine learning. Reservoir data includes seismic data and well log data for a reservoir area. The well log data is processed to identify well stratigraphic layer features and the seismic data is processed to identify seismic stratigraphic layer features. A feature matching algorithm based on a stratigraphic knowledge base is selected to match the well stratigraphic layer features to the seismic stratigraphic layer features. The matched features are used to define a stratigraphic layer interpretation for the reservoir area and the interpretation is presented to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, Paulo R. Cavalin, Matthias Kormaksson, Carmen N. Mena Paz, Michael Raghib