Patents by Inventor Michael Jones

Michael 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).

  • Publication number: 20250223903
    Abstract: A system and method for taking measurements in a formation. The system may include a quantum entangled photon source that entangles an idler particle and a probe particle, a transmitter disposed in a wellbore and connected to the quantum entangled photon source by a transmitter waveguide, a receiver disposed in the wellbore, and a carrier laser connected to the receiver by a carrier waveguide. The system may further comprise a detector connected to the carrier waveguide and an information handling system in communication with the quantum entangled photon source, the carrier laser, and the detector. The method may include broadcasting a probe particle from a transmitter into a formation, capturing the probe particle with at least one receiver after the probe particle has interacted with the formation, and measuring the probe particle during an interaction with the formation using an idler particle in a detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Jeffrey James Crawford, Ahmed Fouda
  • Publication number: 20250191364
    Abstract: A system for video anomaly detection is configured to extract, from a set of input frames of the input video, input appearance features indicative of the appearance of the object in a frame, input size features indicative of the size of the object in the scene, input location features indicative of the location of the object in the scene, and input trajectory features indicative of a trajectory of the object tracked in a set of frames of the input video. The system combines the input appearance features, the input size features, the input location features, and the input trajectory features to produce an input feature vector and compares the input feature vector with each of the exemplars extracted from the normal video to determine the smallest distance from the input feature vector to its closest exemplar. The system declares the anomaly when the smallest distance is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jones, Ashish Singh, Erik Learned-Miller
  • Patent number: 12312919
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a method that includes assembling a downhole tool from a plurality of subassemblies with a robotic tool assembly disposed on a subsea tree at a sea-floor in a subsea environment. The method may also include introducing the downhole tool into a wellbore, traversing the wellbore with the downhole tool to reach one or more target depths, performing at least a wellbore operation with the downhole tool at the one or more target depths, and retrieving the downhole tool from the wellbore after performing the wellbore operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Gupta, Wei Zhang, Michael Linley Fripp, Rodney Allen Marlow, Charles Richard Thomas Hay, Arabinda Misra, Francis Michael Heaney, Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke
  • Patent number: 12312935
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20250146409
    Abstract: A system and method for taking measurements in a formation. The system may include a quantum entangled photon source that entangles an idler particle and a probe particle, a transmitter disposed in a wellbore and connected to the quantum entangled photon source by a transmitter waveguide, a receiver disposed in the wellbore, and a carrier laser connected to the receiver by a carrier waveguide. The system may further comprise a detector connected to the carrier waveguide and an information handling system in communication with the quantum entangled photon source, the carrier laser, and the detector. The method may include broadcasting a probe particle from a transmitter into a formation, capturing the probe particle with at least one receiver after the probe particle has interacted with the formation, and measuring the probe particle during an interaction with the formation using an idler particle in a detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Jeffrey James Crawford, Ahmed Fouda
  • Patent number: 12291775
    Abstract: A device for coating an interior surface of a housing defining a volume comprising a plurality of reactant gas sources including reactant gases for one or more surface coating processes; first and second closures to sealingly engage with an inlet and outlet of the volume of the housing to provide an enclosed volume; a delivery line fluidically coupled to the first closure and the plurality of reactant gas sources to deliver the reactant gases to the enclosed volume; and an output line fluidically coupled to the second closure to remove one or more reactant gases, byproduct gases, or both from the enclosed volume. A method for coating an interior surface of a housing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Price, Michael T. Pelletier, Jian Li, William Joseph Soltmann, Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom
  • Patent number: 12291958
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a formation tester tool to be positioned in a borehole within a formation, wherein the formation tester tool comprises a pressure sensor and a pad that is radially extendable with respect to an axis of the formation tester tool, and wherein the pressure sensor is inside the pad. The apparatus comprises a first radially extendable inner packer that is axially above the pad with respect to the axis of the formation tester tool and a second radially extendable outer packer that is axially above the first radially extendable inner packer. The apparatus comprises a third radially extendable inner packer that is axially below the pad with respect to the axis of the formation tester tool and a fourth radially extendable outer packer that is axially below the third radially extendable inner packer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Patent number: 12262787
    Abstract: A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a midsole having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a peripheral surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface includes a recess defining a first opening in the peripheral surface. The sole structure for an article of footwear also includes an insert disposed within the recess and including a first material having a first gloss unit value and a second material disposed on an outer surface of the first material and having a second gloss unit value. The second material is at least partially disposed within the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jones, Michael F. Joubert, Chun-Wei Kuo, Yong S. Lee, Thea Moshofsky, Randall S. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 12266758
    Abstract: Provided is a composition containing a redox charge-transfer complex of an electron donor polymer and an electron acceptor compound where the anionic form of the electron acceptor has a reduction potential higher than the reduction potential of the electron donor polymer; at least one metal salt and at least one additive compound having a dielectric constant of 10 or greater. The composition is a free-flowing, substantially amorphous powder and is useful as a metal ion conducting component of electrolytic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuta Sugiura, Mikhail Redko, Michael Jones, John G. Muldoon, Patrick J. Bonnick
  • Patent number: 12265196
    Abstract: A method and system for correlating two or more logs. The method may include reviewing an openhole log to identify one or more depths within a wellbore for testing, disposing a fluid sampling tool into the wellbore, creating a correlation log with the fluid sampling tool, depth-matching the correlation log to the openhole log to create a relative shift table, and moving the fluid sampling tool to the one or more depths within the wellbore based at least in part on the relative shift table. The system may include a fluid sampling tool disposed in a wellbore to create a correlation log and an information handling system connected to the fluid sampling tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadeed Sayed, Ahmed Fouda, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 12258859
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating continuous affinity-based separation of phases in multi-phase formation fluid in a downhole environment. A system can comprise a formation sampler that samples a formation to gather multi-phase formation fluid in a continuous flow through a wellbore during a testing pump out of the formation. The system can also comprise a phase separator comprising one or more affinity-based separators that continuously separates one or more phases of the multi-phase formation fluid through either or both diffusion or flow while downhole in the wellbore during the testing pump out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Wael Elhawary
  • Patent number: 12259516
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for improving an accuracy of determinations made using data sensed in a wellbore or in a laboratory. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensing devices may be used to collect data in a wellbore or lab. NMR sensing devices include a magnet (e.g., a permanent magnet or electromagnet) that provides a magnetic field that aligns the spins of protons in substances near the NMR sensing device. The magnetic field strength provided by the magnet of the NMR sensing device affects the sensitivity of the NMR sensing device and affects frequencies that the NMR sensing device effectively uses when the NMR sensing device operates. Systems and techniques of the present disclosure may measure concentrations of lithium in brine deposits when identifying particular brine deposits that include sufficient lithium concentrations to justify extracting lithium from those particular brine deposits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Songhua Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 12247481
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for configuring links or switches that connect analog circuit elements. These analog circuit elements may be connected to a plurality of sensors that may sense different types of data. For example, these sensors may sense acoustic data, electromagnetic (EM) data, temperature, pressure, and possibly other metrics that may be located in a wellbore of an oil or gas well. These analog circuits may be configured as needed (e.g., on-the-fly) to perform optimized types of computations that may include the solving of differential equations. Examples of analog circuits that may be incorporated into a sensing system include yet are not limited to operational amplifier circuits or memcomputing devices, other components, or combinations thereof. Configured analog circuits may be coupled to digital electronics that perform other functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Xiang Wu, Imran Sharif Vehra
  • Publication number: 20250075616
    Abstract: Herein are described methods and systems for characterizing noise and noise level during downhole pressure testing and/or sampling operations. Methods and systems may identify and quantify the noise level of a formation pressure testing and/or sampling operations by measuring pressures with the probe pressure sensor and the tool pressure sensor with and without extension of the dual probe and closing the bubble point valve that connects the probe fluid passageway to the tool fluid passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Ali Pour Kallehbasti, Ruchir Shirish Patwa, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20250072572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a memory card holder device comprising a body with an elongated internal track, a slidable mounting assembly within the track, and at least one compartment configured to securely retain memory cards in a slotted arrangement. The mounting assembly includes a first mounting piece with a ΒΌ-20 screw forming a male connection point, and a second mounting piece with a threaded opening forming a female connection point. The sliding mechanism allows the mounting assembly to be adjusted along the track, enabling the alignment of the body with various camera bodies while maintaining secure attachment through the connection points. The device is designed to integrate seamlessly with camera equipment, providing a versatile and compact solution for securely storing and accessing memory cards during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventor: Julius Michael Jones, JR.
  • Publication number: 20250065420
    Abstract: In a saw arbor guide assembly, saw guides include a sensor and one or more connector units. The connector units may be proximate to one or both of the head surfaces, with the connector units receiving data from the sensor. The connector units communicate with other connector units located on adjacent saw guides within the stack. The communications comprise data received from the sensor. The primary and secondary guide manifolds are arranged at opposite ends of the stack. The primary and second guide manifolds include manifold connectors. The manifold connectors on the primary guide manifold communicate with the connector units on a first saw guide in the stack. The manifold connectors on the secondary guide manifold communicate with the connector units on a last saw guide in the stack. The server communicates with the manifold connectors in one or both of the primary guide manifold and the secondary guide manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Carrick Bergen, Nalynd Vogt, Nathan Pacholko, Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20250067911
    Abstract: A composite material having a black pigment and a textile material. The composite material has a reflectivity toward near infrared electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from 800 nm to 2500 nm of greater than or equal to 12%, and the composite material has a reflectivity toward visible light having a wavelength from 350 nm to 750 nm of less than or equal to 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michael P. Rowe, Songtao Wu, Debasish Banerjee, Charles R. Rutledge, Torin C. Peck, Michael Jones
  • Patent number: D1065653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Brian Earl Lintner, Stephen David Michael Jones
  • Patent number: D1066771
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Rochelle Wellhausen Grimm, Brian Earl Lintner, Stephen David Michael Jones, Trevor Mast, Maureen E. Carroll
  • Patent number: D1080026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Brian Earl Lintner, Rochelle Wellhausen Grimm, Stephen David Michael Jones