Patents by Inventor Michael A. Jones
Michael A. Jones 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).
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Patent number: 11939866Abstract: A method and system for identifying a fluid sample. The method may comprise disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a wellbore fluid as a fluid sample through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, obtaining a fluid measurement of the fluid sample, comparing the fluid measurement to a plurality of fingerprints that populate a database, and identifying the fluid sample based at least in part on one of the plurality of fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Bin Dai, Zhonghuan Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
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Three-dimensional inversion of multi-component electromagnetic measurements using a fast proxy model
Patent number: 11939857Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for monitoring for monitoring and evaluating conditions associated with a wellbore and wellbore operations that use neural operators instead of computationally intensive iterative differential equations. Such systems and techniques allow for determinations to be made as operations associated with a wellbore are performed. Instead of having to wait for computationally intensive tasks to be performed or take risks of proceeding with a wellbore operation without real-time evaluations being performed, these wellbore operations may be continued while determinations are timely made, thus improving operation of computing systems that perform evaluations and that make decisions regarding safely and efficiently performing wellbore operations such as drilling a wellbore, cementing wellbore casings in place, or injecting fluids into formations of the Earth.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai -
Patent number: 11938979Abstract: An assembly may be provided that includes a controller configured to be coupled with at least one blower drive that operates a blower motor to cool resistive elements that dissipate electrical power as heat. The controller may be configured to determine whether the electrical power is no longer received by the resistive elements and operate the at least one blower drive to operate the blower motor to cool the resistive elements responsive to the electrical power no longer being received by the resistive elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Jeffrey John Wolff, Henry Todd Young, Kevin Michael Jones, Laura Cooper
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Patent number: 11941932Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling access to a controlled area. The method may comprise receiving a credential identifier in an access controller associated with an entrance to the enclosed area, and then authenticating the credential identifier. The method may then comprise sending an unlock signal through a solid state relay within the access controller to power a lock associated with but external to the access controller to unlock a door at the entrance to the enclosed area when the credential identifier has been successfully authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Isonas, Inc.Inventors: Michael Radicella, Roger Matsumoto, Matthew J. Morrison, Richard Burkley, Kriston Chapman, Shirl Jones
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Patent number: 11938880Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting low impact collisions for a vehicle (100). The system includes at least one sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and an electronic controller (150). The electronic controller (150) is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and determine one or more features of the sensor data received from the at least one sensor. The electronic controller (150) is further configured to determine if a collision has occurred based upon the one or more features of the sensor data, and take at least one action in response to determining that the collision has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Robert Jones, Michael Vincent Masserant, Rameez Ahmad, Ulrich Christian Michelfeit, Dean Eiger
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Patent number: 11941759Abstract: A computer-implemented method that allows users evaluate the densities of images and search for abnormalities in three-dimensional space. The voxel buildup uses a series of two-dimensional images and evaluates every pixel based on the user described predetermined threshold value at runtime. A singular optimized voxel-generated mesh is spawned to represent the combined locations of every pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Intuitive Research and Technology CorporationInventors: Chanler Crowe, Michael Jones, Kyle Russell, Michael Yohe
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Publication number: 20240093591Abstract: A system for inspecting a tubular may comprise an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool and information handling system. The EM logging tool may further include a mandrel, one or more sensor pads attached to the mandrel by one or more extendable arms, and one or more partial saturation eddy current sensors disposed on each of the one or more sensor pads.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Freeman Lee Hill, III, Christopher Michael Jones
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Publication number: 20240093275Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions to enhance the efficiency and sensitivity of molecular inversion probe (MIP) reactions. Probes include elements that allow MIP ends to abut for ligation while avoiding the possibility of polymerase strand displacement errors. Elements facilitate multiplexed detections, including MIP reaction product detections employing next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Michael H. SHAPERO, Lawrence GREENFIELD, Ronald J. SAPOLSKY, Keith JONES, Laurent BELLON, Robert J. LIPSHUTZ, August ESTABROOK, John EFCAVITCH
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Publication number: 20240093595Abstract: A method and system for identifying scale. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a formation fluid, as a fluid sample, through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, perturbing the formation fluid, and analyzing the fluid sample in the fluid sampling tool for one or more indications of scale.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom, Rohin Naveena-Chandran
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Patent number: 11932122Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a motor of a vehicle system monitor operating conditions of the vehicle system and determine whether the operating conditions of the vehicle system match designated operating conditions. Responsive to determining that the operating conditions of the vehicle system that are monitored match the designated operating conditions, an electrical signature representative of an electric current supplied to the motor of the vehicle system is examined and damage to one or more of the motor of the vehicle system or a mechanical coupling of the motor to one or more of a wheel or axle of the vehicle system is identified based on the electrical signature that is examined.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Prabhakar Neti, Kevin Michael Jones, Anthony Paul Fama, Corey Jackson
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Patent number: 11933171Abstract: Light from a light source that has interacted with a sample of downhole fluid provided in a downhole optical tool is sequentially passed through a plurality of groups of light filters, each of the groups of light filters including of one or more light filters, to generate a data set for each of the groups of light filters, also referred to as a simultaneous channel group. The data generated for each of the simultaneous channel groups is then analyzed to determine if the data from that simultaneous channel groups is effective in providing information useful for the analysis of the sample of downhole fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Zhonghuan Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang
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Publication number: 20240084699Abstract: A method comprises receiving a measurement of a pressure in a subsurface formation at a number of depths in a wellbore formed in the subsurface formation across a sampling depth range of the subsurface formation to generate a number of pressure-depth measurement pairs and partitioning the sampling depth range into a number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises performing a fitting operation over each of the number of fluid depth ranges to determine a fluid gradient for the type of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises generating a solution set of one or more solutions based on the fluid gradient of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges determined from performing the fitting operation, wherein each solution defines a partitioning of the sampling depth range and the fluid gradient of each fluid depth range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
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Patent number: 11927716Abstract: A method may comprise forming a data matrix, extracting chromatographs of a mud filtrate and a formation fluid, extracting concentration profiles of the mud filtrate and the formation fluid, and decomposing a data set on an information handling machine using a bilinear model. A system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool and an information handling tool. The downhole fluid sampling tool may comprise one or more multi-chamber sections, one or more fluid module sections, one or more gas chromatographers, wherein the one or more gas chromatographers are disposed in the one or more fluid module sections, and an information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
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Publication number: 20240080269Abstract: Systems and methods for a VLAN switching and routing service (VSRS) are disclosed herein. A method can include generating a table for an instance of a VSRS, which VSRS couples a first virtual layer 2 network (VLAN) with a second network. The table can contain information identifying IP addresses, MAC addresses, and virtual interface identifiers for instances within the virtual layer 2 network. The method can include receiving with the VSRS a packet from a first instance designated for delivery to a second instance within the virtual layer 2 network, identifying with the VSRS the second instance within the virtual layer 2 network for delivery of the packet based on information received with the packet and information contained within the table, and delivering the packet to the identified second instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles, Shane Baker, Bryce Eugene Bockman, Peter Croft Jones, Jagwinder Singh Brar
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Patent number: 11920338Abstract: A feed storage arrangement for use with a sheet like feed barrier, the storage arrangement comprising at least one elongated leachate channel having an outlet end; and at least a first feed pad section extending along at least a portion of a length dimension of the leachate channel, the first pad section including first and second lateral edges and upper and lower edges wherein the first lateral edge is located proximate the leachate channel, the second edge is spaced apart from the first edge, the upper edge is proximate the outlet end of the leachate channel, and the lower edge is opposite and spaced from the upper edge, the first pad section sloped downward starting at the second edge and toward the first edge, wherein, with feed supported on the first pad section adjacent the leachate channel, the feed barrier is positionable on top of the feed with an edge portion extending over the leachate channel to a side of the leachate channel opposite the first pad section.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: Michael Jones
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Patent number: 11918821Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that may include a connector port subassembly. The connector port subassembly may include one or more connector blocks configured to interference fit within a connector bore, one or more windows through the core subassembly to the one or more connector blocks, and one or more seal rings configured to interference fit within the connector bore and eliminate adulterant entry into the connector bore through the one or more windows.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Spadgenske, James Michael English, Trey Henry Achterhoff, Robert Allen Jones
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Publication number: 20240068558Abstract: Magnetically-assisted mechanical gear systems and other power transmission systems, and related methods of operation and assembly, are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, such a system includes a driving gear, a driven gear, and a first magnetomotive force (MMF) source that generates a magnetic flux. A first portion of the flux is communicated between at least one driving gear teeth and at least one driven gear teeth so that one or more magnetic forces are exerted between the gears. When the first rotational movement of the driving gear alternates from being in the first rotational direction to being in a third rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction, then the driven gear is driven by the one or more magnetic forces so that the second rotational movement also alternates, and a first amount of backlash movement between the driving and driven gears is avoided or reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Adam Michael White, Joseph Michael Stock, Joshua Max Jones, Waleed Said, Nicholas Shaun Palmer, David George Kloos
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Publication number: 20240068366Abstract: A microsampling device for taking fluid samples in a wellbore. The microsampling device may comprise a microsampling tube in which one or more microsamplers disposed in the microsampling tube. Additionally, the microsampling device may comprise a fluid flow line connected to the microsampling tube in which a fluid sample traverses and a secondary fluid flow line in which at least a part of the fluid sample may traverse from the microsampling tube through the secondary fluid flow line and into a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom
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Publication number: 20240060415Abstract: A method and system for performing a pressure test. The method may include inserting a formation testing tool into a wellbore to a first location within the wellbore based at least in part on a figure of merit. The formation testing tool may include at least one probe, a pump disposed within the formation testing tool and connect to the at least one probe by at least one probe channel and at least one fluid passageway, and at least one stabilizer disposed on the formation testing tool. The method may further include activating the at least one stabilizer, wherein the at least one stabilizer is activated into a surface of the wellbore and performing the pressure test and determining at least one formation property from the pressure test.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, James M. Price, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Darren George Gascooke
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Patent number: 11905830Abstract: A system and method for a fluid sampling tool. The fluid sampling tool may include a probe section. The probe section may include one or more probes, one or more stabilizers, and a housing that houses a bi directional piston pump. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore at a first depth, pressing the one or more probes into a surface of the wellbore, drawing a reservoir fluid from the wellbore through the one or more probes, placing the reservoir fluid into the housing, isolating the housing from the one or more modules of the fluid sampling tool with one or more shut in valves, depressurizing the housing with the bi directional piston pump, and measuring the asphaltene precipitation of the reservoir fluid within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Rohin Naveena-Chandran, Syed Muhammad Farrukh Hamza, Gibran Mushtaq Hashmi, Jason A. Rogers, Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom