Patents by Inventor Richard Minter

Richard Minter 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).

  • Differential pressure based automated sand detection and handling system for oil and gas well operations
    Patent number: 11938422
    Abstract: One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a separator vessel that is adapted to separate solids particles from a flow of a multi-phase fluid, a differential pressure sensing system that is adapted to measure a differential pressure of a column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel and a control system that is adapted to determine at least one of a level, volume or weight of the separated solids particles within the separator vessel based upon at least the measured differential pressure of the column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FMC Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Malone, Sander Baaren, Eric Rasmussen, Richard Minter
  • DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE BASED AUTOMATED SAND DETECTION AND HANDLING SYSTEM FOR OIL AND GAS WELL OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20210299595
    Abstract: One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a separator vessel that is adapted to separate solids particles from a flow of a multi-phase fluid, a differential pressure sensing system that is adapted to measure a differential pressure of a column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel and a control system that is adapted to determine at least one of a level, volume or weight of the separated solids particles within the separator vessel based upon at least the measured differential pressure of the column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ryan Malone, Sander Baaren, Eric Rasmussen, Richard Minter