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).

  • Patent number: 11555402
    Abstract: A downhole tool comprises at least one inlet and a first pump coupled to the at least one inlet via a first flow line. The first pump is to pump at a first pump rate to extract fluid via the at least one inlet from a subsurface formation in which a borehole is created and in which the downhole tool is to be positioned. A sample chamber is coupled to the inlet via a second flow line, and a second pump is coupled to the inlet via the second flow line. The second pump is to pump at a second pump rate to extract the fluid via the at least one inlet from the subsurface formation and for storage in the sample chamber. The first pump rate is greater than the second pump rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Darren George Gascooke
  • Patent number: 11555400
    Abstract: A system to determine a contamination level of a formation fluid, the system including a formation tester tool to be positioned in a borehole, wherein the borehole has a mixture of the formation fluid and a drilling fluid and the formation tester tool includes a sensor to detect time series measurements from a plurality of sensor channels. The system includes a processor to dimensionally reduce the time series measurements to generate a set of reduced measurement scores in a multi-dimensional measurement space and determine an end member in the multi-dimensional measurement space based on the set of reduced measurement scores, wherein the end member comprises a position in the multi-dimensional measurement space that corresponds with a predetermined fluid concentration. The processor also determines the contamination level of the formation fluid at a time point based the set of reduced measurement scores and the end member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Dingding Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11555398
    Abstract: A downhole tool is positioned in a borehole of a geological formation at a given depth. A formation property is determined at the given depth. The positioning and determining is repeated to form data points of a data set indicative of formation properties at various depths in the borehole. One or more outlier data points is removed from the data set based on first gradients to form an updated data set. One or more properties associated with a reservoir compartment are determined based on second respective gradients associated with the updated data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Joshua Stark, Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai
  • Patent number: 11540751
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of a health device network may include: a non-invasive glucometer that non-invasively measures analyte levels; an invasive glucometer communicatively coupled directly to the non-invasive glucometer; a cloud-based server communicatively coupled to the non-invasive glucometer or the invasive glucometer; a user device communicatively coupled to the cloud-based server; and/or a user interface that displays the invasive glucose measurement, the non-invasive glucose measurement, a data batch, and/or processed data to the user. The non-invasive glucometer and/or the invasive glucometer may aggregate an invasive glucose measurement and a non-invasive glucose measurement into the data batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tula Health, Inc.
    Inventors: David Miller, Devin Miller, Michael Jones, David Derrick
  • Patent number: 11545015
    Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device that may include: determining, by a processor, that an alert event has occurred; determining, by the processor, a level of the alert event, wherein the level of the alert event is a caution alert level, an urgent alert level, or a critical alert level; determining, by the processor, an initial alert activity associated with the caution alert level, the urgent alert level, or the critical alert level; performing, by the processor, the initial alert activity receiving, from an input device, an updated alert activity associated with the caution alert level, the urgent alert level, or the critical alert level; and in response to that the initial alert activity conflicting with the updated alert activity, maintaining, by the processor, using the initial alert activity associated with the caution alert level, the urgent alert level, or the critical alert level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tula Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lee, Michael Jones, Federico Calero, Trevor Calero, Devin Miller, David Miller
  • Patent number: 11540752
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of a health device network may include: a non-invasive glucometer that non-invasively measures analyte levels; an invasive glucometer communicatively coupled directly to the non-invasive glucometer; a cloud-based server communicatively coupled to the non-invasive glucometer or the invasive glucometer; a user device communicatively coupled to the cloud-based server; and/or a user interface that displays the invasive glucose measurement, the non-invasive glucose measurement, a data batch, and/or processed data to the user. The non-invasive glucometer and/or the invasive glucometer may aggregate an invasive glucose measurement and a non-invasive glucose measurement into the data batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tula Health, Inc.
    Inventors: David Miller, Devin Miller, Michael Jones, David Derrick
  • Publication number: 20220411641
    Abstract: A UV-cured cross-linked liquid resin reinforced with ceramic inorganic nano-particles and ceramic inorganic abrasion-resistant powder, comprised of 30%-45% by weight resin, wherein the resin is at least one of 2-propenoic acid, homopolymer, isophthalic acid, 1,4-Dimethoxybenzene, saturated polyester resin, and maleic anhydride; 10%-20% by weight industrial ceramic inorganic nano-materials; 30%-45% by weight industrial ceramic inorganic abrasion-resistant powder; and styrene, wherein the styrene is less than 25% by weight of the UV-cured cross-linked liquid resin reinforced with ceramic inorganic nano-particles and ceramic inorganic abrasion-resistant powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20220411974
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a geotextile fabric including a plurality of wicking yarns each having a plurality of fibers with inter-fiber voids therebetween; wherein the inter-fiber voids of the plurality of wicking yarns has a water flow of about 0.05 milliliters per day per denier (ml/day/denier) to about 1.0 milliliters per day per denier. Further, the present invention is directed to a method of making such geotextile fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: David Michael Jones, Kevin Nelson King, Zehong Yuan
  • Publication number: 20220404521
    Abstract: A method comprises determining an adaptive fluid predictive model calibrated with a plurality of types of sensor data, wherein the plurality of types of sensor responses comprise a first type of sensor response associated with a synthetic parameter space and a second type of sensor response associated with a tool parameter space. The method comprises applying the adaptive fluid predictive model to one or more fluid samples from field measurements obtained from a tool deployed in a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation and determining a value of a fluid answer product prediction with the applied adaptive fluid predictive model. The method comprises facilitating a wellbore operation with the tool based on the value of the fluid answer product prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Dingding Chen, Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, Megan Pearl, James M. Price
  • Patent number: 11531790
    Abstract: A method for designing a tool string for use in a wellbore includes receiving a merit function, and determining, with a computing system and based on the merit function, a tool string design for a tool string. The merit function comprises one or more defined objectives for performing a process in a wellbore. The tool string design comprises an indication of one or more tools used to form a tool string for performing the process in the wellbore, and the tool string design satisfies the merit function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, James M. Price, Cameron M. Rekully
  • Publication number: 20220390641
    Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool for inspecting downhole tubulars. The EM logging tool may include a mandrel, at least one low-frequency transmitter coil disposed on the mandrel, at least one-low frequency receiver coil disposed on the mandrel, and at least one-high frequency sensor configured to measure one or more electromagnetic properties of a tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Junwen Dai, Ahmed E. Fouda, Freeman Lee Hill, III, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20220389813
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include downhole sample extractors and downhole sample extraction systems. In some embodiments, the downhole sample extractor includes a sample container chamber that holds a sample container containing a downhole sample. The downhole sample extractor also includes a sample extraction chamber having an internal chamber that is partially filled with a carrier solution, wherein the downhole sample is mixed with the carrier solution in the internal chamber of the extraction container. The downhole sample extractor further includes a first piston that, when actuated, inserts the sample container into the internal chamber of the sample extraction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Michael T. PELLETIER, Darren GASCOOKE, Christopher Michael JONES
  • Publication number: 20220389807
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Freeman Lee Hill, III, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20220389814
    Abstract: A system includes a pipe string; a wireline cable run through the pipe string; and a downhole tool for formation testing, wherein the downhole tool comprises, an upper assembly, an impeller unit connected to a downhole end of the upper assembly, wherein the impeller unit comprises a first impeller coupled to a second impeller by a shaft, a first flowline having a first end that is open to the formation, a packer unit that isolates a portion of a borehole surrounding the first end of the first flowline from the rest of the borehole, and a tool string connected to the first flowline, wherein the tool string hydraulically connects the packing device to the upper assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Edward Harrigan, Matthew L. Lee, Ameet B. Agnihotri, Charles Wilton Seckar, Christopher Michael Jones, Nestor Javier Rodriguez, Darren George Gascooke
  • Publication number: 20220381398
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for holding devices for securing a surgical robotic device and a patient anatomy positioner to a support (e.g., in an operating room). A holding device comprises a carriage, an anchor component fixed to the carriage for attaching to the support, a patient stabilization connector extending from the anchor component for attaching to the patient positioner, and an elongate holder slidably mounted on the carriage for attaching to the robotic device, wherein, when the anchor component is attached to the support, the carriage and the patient stabilization connector are immobilized. The holding devices may also include a hydraulic cylinder interposed between the elongate holder and carriage and/or a horizontal linkage interposed between the elongate holder and the robotic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Jones, Robert John Wright
  • Patent number: 11513063
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a contamination estimation of a downhole sample including at least a formation fluid and a filtrate are provided. A plurality of downhole signals are obtained from the downhole sample and one or more of the signals are conditioned. At least two of the conditioned signals or downhole signals are fused into a multivariate dataset. A principle component analysis (PCA) is performed on the fused multivariate dataset to determine optical and density properties of the formation fluid. Based on at least the PCA, optical and density properties of the filtrate are determined. From the optical and density properties of the formation fluid and of the filtrate, a multivariate calculation is performed to generate concentration profiles of the formation fluid and the filtrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony H. Van Zuilekom
  • Publication number: 20220372872
    Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting and analyzing formation fluids from solids circulated out of a subterranean formation are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: providing a sample of formation solids that have been separated from a fluid circulated in at least a portion of a well bore penetrating a portion of a subterranean formation at a well site; performing a solvent extraction on the sample of formation solids using one or more solvents at an elevated pressure at the well site, wherein at least a portion of one or more formation fluids residing in the formation solids is extracted into the one or more solvents to produce an extracted fluid; and analyzing the extracted fluid at the well site to determine the composition of the extracted fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Ian D.C. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11509523
    Abstract: Systems and methods are included for providing feature sets to groups of managed user devices within an enterprise mobility management (EMM) system. A feature set can enable a user device to detect one or more triggering events, and in response, automatically perform a specified action. An administrator can request a feature set using an interface provided by a management server. The management server can enroll the user device, install a management agent on the user device, and automatically build and deliver the requested feature set to the user device. After receiving the feature set, the management agent of the user device can monitor for recurring triggering events without further intervention from the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AirWatch, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Wienstroer, Hai James Le, Prasad Sawant, Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11506051
    Abstract: A method may comprise positioning a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore, performing a pressure test operation within the wellbore, performing a pumpout operation within the wellbore, identifying when a clean fluid sample may be taken by the downhole fluid sampling tool from at least the pressure test operation and the pumpout operation, and acquiring the clean fluid sample from the wellbore. A system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool and an information handling machine. The downhole fluid sampling tool may further comprise one or more probes attached to the downhole fluid sampling tool, one or more stabilizers attached to the downhole fluid sampling tool, and a sensor placed in the downhole fluid sampling tool configured to measure drilling fluid filtrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Dingding Chen, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom
  • Publication number: 20220364466
    Abstract: A formation tester comprises a body having an outlet; a probe extendable from the body and having a sealing pad; and a flow line within the body, wherein the flow line has an entry end connectable to the probe and has an exit end connectable to the outlet in the body; and a reactive filter material in the flow line downstream of the entry end of the flow line, wherein the reactive filter material sorbs and entraps an analyte in a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: David L. Perkins, Christopher Michael Jones, Michael T. Pelletier