Patents by Inventor Paul J. G. Seaton

Paul J. G. Seaton 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).

  • Drilling system with an acoustic measurement-while-driving system for determining parameters of interest and controlling the drilling direction
    Patent number: 6088294
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for drilling boreholes having a downhole subassembly which contains an acoustic measurement-while-drilling system. The acoustic system contains an acoustic transmitter and receiver for determining the acoustic velocity through the formations surrounding the borehole ad an acoustic transmitter and a set of receivers for determining the bed boundaries surrounding the borehole formation utilizing the acoustic velocities measured by the system. The downhole subassembly also contains a computing system which performs computations downhole and transmits certain answers uphole during the drilling operations. The bed boundary information is utilized to drill the wellbore along a desired wellbore path. The downhole computing system correlates the acoustic sensor measurements with other measurement-while-drilling measurements and transmits selected correlated information uphole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: James V. Leggett, III, Vladimir Dubinsky, John W. Harrell, William Thomas Balogh, Paul J. G. Seaton, Andrew G. Brooks, Roger P. Herbert