Patents by Inventor Ralph Navarro

Ralph Navarro 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: 9227017
    Abstract: A wet/dry auto-mixing injector having a mixing device containing at least one microfluidic channel for mixing or dissolving a dry component with a wet component stored in the injector device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Windgap Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Alan Buchine, Christopher John Stepanian, Ralph Navarro, Adam Richard Standley
  • Publication number: 20130178823
    Abstract: A wet/dry auto-mixing injector having a mixing device containing at least one microfluidic channel for mixing or dissolving a dry component with a wet component stored in the injector device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: WINDGAP MEDICAL DEVICES LLC
    Inventors: Brent Alan Buchine, Christopher John Stepanian, Ralph Navarro, Adam Richard Standley
  • Patent number: 5493226
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining data for simultaneously measuring relative permeability (k.sub.r), static capillary pressure, dynamic capillary pressure (P.sub.c), and electrical resistivity (R.sub.t) of a core sample taken from a subterranean reservoir under simulated reservoir temperature and pressure. A core sample having a a simulated original water and oil saturation is waterflooded while (1) pressures at spaced points along the core are measured to determine k.sub.r, (2) capillary pressures of the oil and water are measured to determine P.sub.c ; and (3) R.sub.t is measured between points spaced on the core. At the same time, the core is scanned by microwaves to determine the water saturation existing in the core at the time a particular measurement is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Mobile Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Mehdi M. Honarpour, Da-Teh D. Huang, David W. Payton, Ralph Navarro
  • Patent number: 5284051
    Abstract: A first fluid having a dyed styrene monomer is injected into a porous reservoir rock to effect saturation. A second fluid, miscible with the first fluid and having a dyed styrene monomer differing in color from the first fluid, is injected into the porous rock to displace the first fluid. Effluent flow from the porous rock is monitored with UV-visible light spectroscopy for use in determining oil displacement characteristics of the porous rock. Subsequent rapid polymerization of the styrene monomer within the porous rock allows identification and characterization of the controlling factors and attributes of the pore network responsible for entrapment of the residual phase. This allows assessment of larger intervals of the reservoir rock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Hooman Laali, Ralph Navarro, Jr.