Patents by Inventor Otto N. Fanini
Otto N. Fanini 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: 11965416Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for remote well operation control. Methods include conducting, with a plurality of remote well operation control hosts operating on corresponding remote well logging data acquisition management systems, a well operation using a well operation system at a well, wherein the well operation system includes a carrier having disposed thereon at least one logging instrument. Methods may include establishing a first operational control relationship between the carrier and a first of the plurality of remote well operation control hosts sufficient for the first remote well operation control host to control the carrier; and establishing a second operational control relationship between a selected one of the at least one logging instrument and a second remote well operation control host different than the first, the operational control relationship sufficient for the second remote well operation control host to control the at least one logging instrument and receive logging data.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Peter J. Guijt, Nigel N. Smith, Douglas C. Young, Harold Andrade, Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 11480706Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for taking multi-component induction tool measurements of a three-dimensional space from an interior of a plurality of nested tubulars in a borehole in an earth formation and estimating the property for each of the at least two tubulars using the multi-component induction tool measurements. The multicomponent induction tool measurements may be responsive to a property corresponding to at least two conductive tubulars of the plurality of nested tubular. Taking multi-component induction tool measurements may include taking three-dimensional low-frequency sinusoidal frequency domain waveform resistivity measurements and taking three-dimensional transient EM measurements with the multi-component induction tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Otto N. Fanini, Babak Kouchmeshky, Daniel Joseph Ratigan, Mohamed Daoud
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Publication number: 20210363879Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for remote well operation control. Methods include conducting, with a plurality of remote well operation control hosts operating on corresponding remote well logging data acquisition management systems, a well operation using a well operation system at a well, wherein the well operation system includes a carrier having disposed thereon at least one logging instrument. Methods may include establishing a first operational control relationship between the carrier and a first of the plurality of remote well operation control hosts sufficient for the first remote well operation control host to control the carrier; and establishing a second operational control relationship between a selected one of the at least one logging instrument and a second remote well operation control host different than the first, the operational control relationship sufficient for the second remote well operation control host to control the at least one logging instrument and receive logging data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Peter J. Guijt, Nigel N. Smith, Douglas C. Young, Harold Andrade, Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 11119239Abstract: Methods and apparatus for evaluating an earth formation intersected by a borehole. Methods include using at least one transmitter to generate electromagnetic (EM) waves propagating through the formation; generating measurement signals at at least one receiver responsive to the propagating EM waves; taking a plurality of propagation measurements from the measurement signals representative of the propagating EM waves, where each propagation measurement of the plurality comprises at least one of: i) a relative phase shift between a first wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves and a second wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves; and ii) a relative attenuation between a first wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves and a second wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves; and performing a single inversion which uses the plurality of propagation measurements as input and generates at least one petrophysical parameter as output.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Babak Kouchmeshky, Otto N. Fanini, Alberto Mezzatesta
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Patent number: 11085289Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for remote well operation control. Methods include conducting, with a plurality of remote well operation control hosts operating on corresponding remote well logging data acquisition management systems, a well operation using a well operation system at a well, wherein the well operation system includes a carrier having disposed thereon at least one logging instrument. Methods may include establishing a first operational control relationship between the carrier and a first of the plurality of remote well operation control hosts sufficient for the first remote well operation control host to control the carrier; and establishing a second operational control relationship between a selected one of the at least one logging instrument and a second remote well operation control host different than the first, the operational control relationship sufficient for the second remote well operation control host to control the at least one logging instrument and receive logging data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Peter J. Guijt, Nigel N. Smith, Douglas C. Young, Harold Andrade, Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Publication number: 20200208510Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for remote well operation control. Methods include conducting, with a plurality of remote well operation control hosts operating on corresponding remote well logging data acquisition management systems, a well operation using a well operation system at a well, wherein the well operation system includes a carrier having disposed thereon at least one logging instrument. Methods may include establishing a first operational control relationship between the carrier and a first of the plurality of remote well operation control hosts sufficient for the first remote well operation control host to control the carrier; and establishing a second operational control relationship between a selected one of the at least one logging instrument and a second remote well operation control host different than the first, the operational control relationship sufficient for the second remote well operation control host to control the at least one logging instrument and receive logging data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Peter J. Guijt, Nigel N. Smith, Douglas C. Young, Harold Andrade, Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 10655415Abstract: Methods and apparatus for alleviating a stuck condition of a tool string, including using a jarring assembly to collide a plurality of impact surfaces together. The collision results in at least a shock wave inducing i) translational motion along the longitudinal axis of the tool string, and ii) motion in at least one other degree of freedom sufficient to alleviate the stuck condition of the tool string, which may be at least one of: i) translational motion along an axis substantially normal to the longitudinal axis, and ii) rotational motion. Methods may include generating at least one test impact load using a jarring assembly; generating movement information from a sensor responsive to the at least one test impact load; and generating further impact loads using the jarring assembly in dependence upon the movement information.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 10631409Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for manufacturing an electrical assembly, such as a completed downhole circuit board, for use in well logging. Methods include attaching an electrical component to a printed circuit board by mechanically fastening the electrical component to the printed circuit board. Methods may include using a laser to attach a plurality of legs to contact surfaces. Methods may include applying light from the laser to a material of the printed circuit board to produce heat, including mitigating reflection of the light from the material. Methods include forming a connection between a first electrical component of the electrical assembly and a second electrical component of the electrical assembly by causing heating of an additive manufacturing material by applying light from a laser. The connection may be at least one of: i) an electrical connection; ii) a structural connection; iii) an electrical insulation.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Rocco Difoggio, Otto N. Fanini, Paul G. Cairns, Brian D. Breaux, Benjamin Todd
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Patent number: 10465509Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for well logging using a logging tool in a borehole in an earth formation. Methods include conveying the logging tool in the borehole on a carrier; taking acoustic well logging measurements with the logging tool including generating a multitone acoustic beam from at least one transmitter on the tool, the beam comprising a high frequency signal modulated by a low frequency envelope, the high frequency signal including a first subsignal at a first frequency and a second subsignal at a second frequency, and generating measurement information at at least one acoustic receiver on the logging tool in response to a plurality of acoustic reflections of the acoustic beam from at least one volume of interest in the formation; and estimating a property of the volume of interest using the measurement information.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Xiaochu Yao, Otto N. Fanini, Wei Han, Mohamed Daoud
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Patent number: 10436018Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for estimating a value of a downhole parameter of interest. Aspects include an apparatus for evaluating a tubular. The apparatus may include a sensor including an electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) device configured to be conveyed into the tubular. The EMAT device may include measurement circuitry comprising at least one conductive coil; and a magnet array comprising magnets arranged with a corresponding direction of magnetization of each magnet oriented according to a configuration producing a greater magnetic flux on a first side of the array than on a second side opposing the first side. The magnetic flux produced from the second side may be substantially zero. In embodiments, the configuration of magnets comprises at least a first set of permanent magnets in a linear Halbach configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Babak Kouchmeshky, Xiaochu Yao, Stanislav Forgang, Pawel J. Matuszyk, Marc S. Ramirez, Otto N. Fanini, Douglas J. Patterson, Vimal Shah
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Patent number: 10401203Abstract: A flowmeter for use in a borehole that includes a transmitter and receivers spaced axially away from the transmitter. Energizing the transmitter creates electrical field lines that extend between the transmitter and the receivers, and that pass through fluid flowing past the flowmeter. The magnitude of the electrical field lines at each of the receivers is measured, and varies in response to different types of fluid flowing past the flowmeter, and changes in phase of the fluid. Example transmitters and receivers include coils and electrodes. The transmitters and receivers can define elongate arrays, where the arrays are arranged parallel to, oblique, or perpendicular to an axis of the borehole. Multiple array orientations provide a radial cross sectional image of the flowing fluid. Thus not only can multi-phase flow be detected, but the type of flow regime can be identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Otto N. Fanini, Mohamed Daoud
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Publication number: 20190129057Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for taking multi-component induction tool measurements of a three-dimensional space from an interior of a plurality of nested tubulars in a borehole in an earth formation and estimating the property for each of the at least two tubulars using the multi-component induction tool measurements. The multicomponent induction tool measurements may be responsive to a property corresponding to at least two conductive tubulars of the plurality of nested tubular. Taking multi-component induction tool measurements may include taking three-dimensional low-frequency sinusoidal frequency domain waveform resistivity measurements and taking three-dimensional transient EM measurements with the multi-component induction tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Otto N. FANINI, Babak KOUCHMESHKY, Daniel Joseph RATIGAN, Mohamed DAOUD
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Patent number: 10061051Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for evaluation of an earth formation intersected by a borehole using a logging tool. Methods include exciting an upper and lower transmitter; receiving signals at a plurality of receivers between the upper and lower transmitter; estimating a phase shift attributable to a volume of interest of the formation adjacent to a section of the carrier corresponding to the plurality of receivers by estimating phase shifts attributable only to portions of the volume of interest adjacent to corresponding portions of the section between each adjacent pair of receivers of the plurality of receivers; wherein each adjacent pair is positioned at a corresponding distance that is no more than half of the shortest wavelength of those wavelengths associated with the received signals. Estimating a phase shift between an adjacent pair of receivers may be carried out using a first relative phase value; and a second relative phase value.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Babak Kouchmeshky, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 10056815Abstract: An apparatus for use in a borehole may include a rotor having at least one set of magnetic elements and a cylindrical stator having a winding flowing current in a direction transverse to a long axis of the stator. The polarity of each magnetic element of the rotor may be arranged to alternate along a long axis of the rotor. The stator may be in sliding engagement with the rotor and have a core formed at least partially of laminations aligned along a plane co-planar with the long axis of the stator. Energizing the winding principally causes relative sliding between the rotor and the stator. A method for performing an operation in a borehole includes forming a well tool having at least one linear motor as described above, conveying the linear motor into the borehole, and operating a well tool by activating the linear motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Sebastian Tegeler, Steffen Toscher, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 10053969Abstract: A one trip system for perforating and fracking multiple intervals uses a releasable barrier. The barrier can be an inflatable. A pressure booster system is associated with the BHA so that the existing hydrostatic pressure is boosted when the gun or portions thereof are fired. After firing in one interval, the BHA is raised and the barrier is redeployed and the pattern repeats. Instruments allow sensing the conditions in the interval for optimal placement of the gun therein and for monitoring flow, pressure and formation conditions during the fracturing. Circulation between gun firings cleans up the hole. If run in on wireline a water saving tool can be associated with the BHA to rapidly position it where desired. A multitude of perforation charges mounted in the BHA can be selectively fired by selected corresponding detonator based on a predetermined sequence or surface telemetry command.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Homero C. Castillo, Otto N. Fanini
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Patent number: 10030506Abstract: A downhole device for use in a wellbore that has sensors for monitoring flow rates and fluid properties of fluid flowing in the wellbore. The sensors are disposed adjacent one another so that the properties of the fluid monitored by the sensors are substantially the same. The sensor for monitoring flow rate is a flow meter optionally equipped with rotatable members that are affixed to a rotatable base member. The members are positioned in a path of the flowing fluid which rotates the members and base member; the fluid flow rate is estimated based on a measured rotational rate of the base member. Properties estimated by the fluid property sensor include viscosity and density. The fluid property sensor can include a resonating member disposed in the fluid flow path, by measuring the damping of the fluid across the resonating member, the fluid density and viscosity can be estimated.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Otto N. Fanini, Mohamed Daoud
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Publication number: 20180203151Abstract: Methods and apparatus for evaluating an earth formation intersected by a borehole. Methods include using at least one transmitter to generate electromagnetic (EM) waves propagating through the formation; generating measurement signals at at least one receiver responsive to the propagating EM waves; taking a plurality of propagation measurements from the measurement signals representative of the propagating EM waves, where each propagation measurement of the plurality comprises at least one of: i) a relative phase shift between a first wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves and a second wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves; and ii) a relative attenuation between a first wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves and a second wave of the plurality of propagating EM waves; and performing a single inversion which uses the plurality of propagation measurements as input and generates at least one petrophysical parameter as output.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: BABAK KOUCHMESHKY, OTTO N. FANINI, ALBERTO MEZZATESTA
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Publication number: 20180100387Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for estimating a value of a downhole parameter of interest. Aspects include an apparatus for evaluating a tubular. The apparatus may include a sensor including an electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) device configured to be conveyed into the tubular. The EMAT device may include measurement circuitry comprising at least one conductive coil; and a magnet array comprising magnets arranged with a corresponding direction of magnetization of each magnet oriented according to a configuration producing a greater magnetic flux on a first side of the array than on a second side opposing the first side. The magnetic flux produced from the second side may be substantially zero. In embodiments, the configuration of magnets comprises at least a first set of permanent magnets in a linear Halbach configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: BABAK KOUCHMESHKY, XIAOCHU YAO, STANISLAV FORGANG, PAWEL J. MATUSZYK, MARC S. RAMIREZ, OTTO N. FANINI, DOUGLAS J. PATTERSON, VIMAL SHAH
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Publication number: 20180100950Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for well logging using a logging tool in a borehole in an earth formation. Methods include conveying the logging tool in the borehole on a carrier; taking acoustic well logging measurements with the logging tool including generating a multitone acoustic beam from at least one transmitter on the tool, the beam comprising a high frequency signal modulated by a low frequency envelope, the high frequency signal including a first subsignal at a first frequency and a second subsignal at a second frequency, and generating measurement information at at least one acoustic receiver on the logging tool in response to a plurality of acoustic reflections of the acoustic beam from at least one volume of interest in the formation; and estimating a property of the volume of interest using the measurement information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Xiaochu YAO, Otto N. FANINI, Wei HAN, Mohamed DAOUD
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Publication number: 20180042111Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for manufacturing an electrical assembly, such as a completed downhole circuit board, for use in well logging. Methods include attaching an electrical component to a printed circuit board by mechanically fastening the electrical component to the printed circuit board. Methods may include using a laser to attach a plurality of legs to contact surfaces. Methods may include applying light from the laser to a material of the printed circuit board to produce heat, including mitigating reflection of the light from the material. Methods include forming a connection between a first electrical component of the electrical assembly and a second electrical component of the electrical assembly by causing heating of an additive manufacturing material by applying light from a laser. The connection may be at least one of: i) an electrical connection; ii) a structural connection; iii) an electrical insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Rocco DIFOGGIO, Otto N. FANINI, Paul G. CAIRNS, Brian D. BREAUX, Benjamin TODD