Patents by Inventor Pan Luo

Pan Luo 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: 12180815
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying natural hydrogen sweet spots in a subsurface formation include obtaining rock samples from the subsurface formation; performing pyrolysis of the rock samples to determine an amount of hydrogen generated in the rock samples; determining kinetic parameters based on the performed pyrolysis and a thermal history of the subsurface formation; simulating hydrogen generation in the subsurface formation based on the determined kinetic parameters and the thermal history to predict target maturity data for hydrogen richness in the subsurface formation; measuring total organic content and rock sample maturity data for the rock samples; and identifying hydrogen sweet spots in the subsurface formation based on the target maturity data, the total organic content, and the measured rock sample maturity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Pan Luo, Ibrahim Alfraih, Peng Lu, Harald Karg
  • Patent number: 12129749
    Abstract: Methods of the present disclosure may include obtaining an origin fluid having a calcium concentration of about 1.5 M or greater. A treatment fluid may be created by introducing an amount of slaked lime to the origin fluid to change a pH of the resulting treatment fluid to about 11 or greater. The treatment fluid may be introduced into a subterranean formation containing a formation gas comprising natural gas and carbon dioxide. The calcium in the treatment fluid may be allowed to react with the carbon dioxide within the subterranean formation to form calcite. The treated formation gas may be removed from the subterranean formation after the formation of calcite, wherein the concentration of carbon dioxide in the treated formation gas is lower than the formation gas before it was contacted with the treatment fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Peng Lu, Pan Luo
  • Publication number: 20240336491
    Abstract: Methods for extracting lithium from brines may include evaporating at least a portion of a brine using a number of one or more solar evaporation ponds to form a first slurry. A first solid may be separated from the first slurry and combined with an amount of a first precipitation additive to form a second slurry. A first liquid may be separated from the second slurry and at least a portion of the first liquid may be evaporated in a solar evaporation pond to form a third slurry. A second liquid may be separated from the third slurry and combined with an amount of a second precipitation additive to form a fourth slurry. A second solid may be separated from the fourth slurry and rehydrated, forming a fifth slurry. About 90 wt % or more of a salt in a solid product separated from the fifth slurry may be lithium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Peng LU, Pan LUO
  • Patent number: 11942190
    Abstract: A method for evaluating thermal reactivity in source rock evaluation may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks may be at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include interpreting kinetic parameters derived from the plurality of source rock samples. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include converting complex format of kinetic parameters into a single variable for reactivity for evaluation and characterization of source rock in the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Pan Luo
  • Publication number: 20240068355
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems for wellbore drilling and methods for preparing wellbore drilling fluid. The system can include a drilling fluid tank that holds wellbore drilling fluid for introduction into a wellbore, an additive distribution component fluidly coupled to the drilling fluid tank that holds a first additive, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the additive distribution component. The methods can include a computing device performing at least the following: receiving drilling parameters that identify wellbore drilling conditions of a wellbore drilling system, calculating a thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR) proxy value of the wellbore. In response to determining that a predicted hydrogen sulfide concentration meets a predetermined threshold, the computing device can determine a first quantity of a first additive to be added to the wellbore drilling fluid and combine the first quantity of the first additive with the wellbore drilling fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Peng Lu, Pan Luo, Wei Wei
  • Publication number: 20230340876
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an estimated reservoir property using a determined desorption stage are disclosed. The method includes determining a fluid property and composition of a first fluid sample obtained from a reservoir, determining a measured relative volume of gas components and isotope ratios of gas components of the sample, and determining an equation of state. The method also includes obtaining a second and third sample at two later times, determining a composition, a measured relative volume of gas components, and isotope ratios of gas components of the later samples, and calibrating the equation of state utilizing the fluid composition and measured relative volume of gas components. The method further includes predicting a relative volume of gas components from the equation of state, determining a desorption stage, determining a critical pressure, an extent of desorption and a quantity of produced desorbed gas and determining the estimated reservoir property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Pan Luo, Moemen A. Abdelrahman, Rabah Mesdour, Abdulbari N. Alhayaf
  • Patent number: 11681072
    Abstract: A method for ranking thermal reactivities for kinetics assignment in basin modeling may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining thermal reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks are at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include ranking the thermal reactivities at different thermal maturities. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include sorting kinetic parameters in organofacies of a source rock formation in terms of reactivity and maturity. The method may include assigning kinetic parameters derived from an immature source rock unit to mature source rock units in a source rock formation in a sedimentary basin. The method may include evaluating the reactivities to improve selection and assignment of the kinetic parameters in the basin modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Pan Luo
  • Publication number: 20230036698
    Abstract: A reverse blocking gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor includes, sequentially stacked from bottom to top, a substrate, a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a barrier layer, a dielectric layer. The buffer layer and the barrier layer form a heterojunction structure. The barrier layer is provided with at least two p-GaN structures. The barrier layer is provided with a source metal at one end and a drain metal at the other end, source metal forms ohmic contact and drain metal forms Schottky contact with AlGaN barrier, respectively. In forward conduction, the two-dimensional electron gas below the spaced p-GaN structure connected to the drain metal is conductive, and a turn-on voltage of the device is low. During reverse blocking, the two-dimensional electron gas at the spaced p-GaN structure is rapidly depleted under reverse bias, to form a depletion region, so that the blocking capability of the device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering of UESTC in Guangdong
    Inventors: Ruize SUN, Wanjun CHEN, Chao LIU, Pan LUO, Fangzhou WANG
  • Publication number: 20220246247
    Abstract: A method for evaluating thermal reactivity in source rock evaluation may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks may be at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include interpreting kinetic parameters derived from the plurality of source rock samples. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include converting complex format of kinetic parameters into a single variable for reactivity for evaluation and characterization of source rock in the area of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Pan Luo
  • Publication number: 20220244421
    Abstract: A method for ranking thermal reactivities for kinetics assignment in basin modeling may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining thermal reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks are at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include ranking the thermal reactivities at different thermal maturities. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include sorting kinetic parameters in organofacies of a source rock formation in terms of reactivity and maturity. The method may include assigning kinetic parameters derived from an immature source rock unit to mature source rock units in a source rock formation in a sedimentary basin. The method may include evaluating the reactivities to improve selection and assignment of the kinetic parameters in the basin modeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Pan Luo
  • Patent number: 11158071
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Zixiang Zhou, Pan Luo, Yu Bai, Changjie Ma, Dangen She
  • Patent number: 11047233
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for evaluating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The method includes the step of identifying a hydrocarbon sweet spot. The identifying step includes determining a carbon dioxide content of a gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The identifying step includes determining an isotopic signature of carbon dioxide of the gas sample. The carbon dioxide content of the gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon sweet spot can have a mole percentage ranging from 9 percent to 20 percent. The isotopic signature of carbon dioxide of the gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon sweet spot can have a ?13C value greater than ?10 per mil. The identifying step can further include determining a cutoff range of the carbon dioxide content corresponding to the hydrocarbon sweet spot. The cutoff range can have a mole percentage ranging from 9 percent to 20 percent. The identifying step can further include obtaining a gas flow rate of the hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Pan Luo, Peng Lu, Khaled Arouri
  • Publication number: 20210062649
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for evaluating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The method includes the step of identifying a hydrocarbon sweet spot. The identifying step includes determining a carbon dioxide content of a gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The identifying step includes determining an isotopic signature of carbon dioxide of the gas sample. The carbon dioxide content of the gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon sweet spot can have a mole percentage ranging from 9 percent to 20 percent. The isotopic signature of carbon dioxide of the gas sample retrieved from the hydrocarbon sweet spot can have a ?13C value greater than ?10 per mil. The identifying step can further include determining a cutoff range of the carbon dioxide content corresponding to the hydrocarbon sweet spot. The cutoff range can have a mole percentage ranging from 9 percent to 20 percent. The identifying step can further include obtaining a gas flow rate of the hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Pan LUO, Peng LU, Khaled AROURI
  • Publication number: 20200342614
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Miao YAN, Zixiang ZHOU, Pan LUO, Yu BAI, Changjie MA, Dangen SHE
  • Publication number: 20180158664
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobility electrophoresis separation device, its operating method, and an interface between liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The mobility electrophoresis separation device comprises a separation capillary, a syringe pump for injecting a buffer solution, a syringe for injecting a sample solution, and two electrodes disposed apart from each other on either side of the separation capillary. A sample solution is injected by a syringe at a position of the capillary channel, and a buffer solution is injected into the capillary channel upstream the first position, and carries the sample solution to flow downstream. While the mixed liquid flows through the capillary, an electric field is applied in the direction of the flow. Different ions in the sample are thus separated in the flow due to their different velocities traveling in the flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Muyi He, Pan Luo
  • Patent number: 8983437
    Abstract: A system for actively notifying instant messages and locations in a certain area and a method therefor contain a controlling device function module for judging messages and functions transmitted to a processing device function module of a at least one service device function module from a back-site device function module. The back-site device function module chooses the messages of the processing device function module. The at least one service device function module transmits the messages to a user handheld device from the back-site device function module, and the at least one service device function module includes a WiFi device and a processing device function module. The user handheld device transmits a regional location message, a language using system code, and a group identification code of the user handheld device to the at least one service device function module in the certain area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Feng Sheng Information Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Chien Che, Meng-Ying Tsai, Ming-Yao Chao, Ti-Han Lee, Chun-Pan Luo
  • Publication number: 20140349618
    Abstract: A system for actively notifying instant messages and locations in a certain area and a method therefor contain a controlling device function module for judging messages and functions transmitted to a processing device function module of a at least one service device function module from a back-site device function module. The back-site device function module chooses the messages of the processing device function module. The at least one service device function module transmits the messages to a user handheld device from the back-site device function module, and the at least one service device function module includes a WiFi device and a processing device function module. The user handheld device transmits a regional location message, a language using system code, and a group identification code of the user handheld device to the at least one service device function module in the certain area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Yung-Chien Che, Meng-Ying Tsai, Ming-Yao Chao, Ti-Han Lee, Chun-Pan Luo