Patents by Inventor Richard Morrison

Richard Morrison 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).

  • Publication number: 20240401461
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Zhanke Liu, Richard Morrison, Luis Silva, Sascha Trummer, Jordi Segura Dominguez, Charles Kearney
  • Patent number: 12127812
    Abstract: A surgical draping system includes an under-draping, an over-draping, and a connecting draping connected by the under-draping and the over-draping. The surgical draping system is used to establish and maintain a surgical corridor to a surgical site or sites on a patient supported by a surgical table. The surgical draping system can accommodate rotation of the patient on the surgical table, such that the sterile surgical corridor is maintained even during such rotation. The sterile surgical corridor extends through an aperture formed in the over-draping, through an enclosed passageway formed through the connecting draping, and through an aperture formed in the under-draping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Beale, Robert Andrew Fields, Richard Hynes, Matthew Morrison
  • Publication number: 20240339093
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to outdoor musical instruments configured to replicate the appearance of a mushroom and to withstand prolonged exposure to the environment. The musical instrument is made up of at least a metal dish mounted to a weather-resistant support post. The metal dish is mounted to the top of the support post, and the bottom surface of the metal dish is separated from the top end of the support post by a non-metal isolator. The musical instrument is configured to produce a note that sustains when the top surface of the metal dish is struck by a mallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Rannells, Richard Cooke, Lindsay Hill, Kate Morrison
  • Publication number: 20240252376
    Abstract: An adjustable surgical frame for supporting a patient to facilitate different surgical approaches to the spine of the patient includes a first end, an opposite second end, and a length extending between the first and second ends thereof. The surgical frame has a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second ends along the length thereof, and includes a first support surface, a second support surface, and a third support surface. The surgical frame also includes an adjustable chest support, an adjustable hip and upper leg support, and an adjustable feet and lower leg support. The surgical frame is moveable between a first position, a second position, and a third position, and the chest support, the hip and upper leg support, and the feet and lower leg support are moveable to accommodate differently sized patients on the surgical frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Roy Lim, Matthew Morrison, Richard Hynes
  • Patent number: 12000261
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhanke Liu, Richard Morrison, Luis Silva, Sascha Trummer, Jordi Segura Dominguez, Charles Kearney
  • Publication number: 20240151113
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer, Luis Silva, Zhanke Liu
  • Patent number: 11933127
    Abstract: A technique facilitates precision fluid conveyance and placement to one or more desired locations in a borehole, e.g. a wellbore. According to an embodiment, a material container, e.g. a fluid container, and/or a fluid flow path system may be deployed downhole via coiled tubing. A release system is selectively actuatable to release a specific amount or amounts of material, e.g. treatment fluid, at the one or more desired locations along the borehole. Depending on the application, various discharge mechanisms and/or supply mechanisms may be used in cooperation with the material container and/or fluid flow path system to provide the precision fluid conveyance and placement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer
  • Patent number: 11821339
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes: a mixed flow turbine including a turbine wheel; a turbine housing configured to house the turbine wheel, including a gas passage extending toward a leading edge of a blade of the turbine wheel; and nozzle vanes arranged in the gas passage in the circumferential direction of the turbine wheel, mutually adjacent two of the nozzle vanes forming a throat therebetween. Each nozzle vane is twisted with respect to a trailing edge of the nozzle vane as a twist center such that a width of the throat becomes narrower on the shroud side than on the hub side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Morita, Richard Morrison, Stephen Spence
  • Patent number: 11808097
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer, Luis Silva, Zhanke Liu
  • Publication number: 20230332476
    Abstract: A technique facilitates precision fluid conveyance and placement to one or more desired locations in a borehole, e.g. a wellbore. According to an embodiment, a material container, e.g. a fluid container, and/or a fluid flow path system may be deployed downhole via coiled tubing. A release system is selectively actuatable to release a specific amount or amounts of material, e.g. treatment fluid, at the one or more desired locations along the borehole. Depending on the application, various discharge mechanisms and/or supply mechanisms may be used in cooperation with the material container and/or fluid flow path system to provide the precision fluid conveyance and placement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer
  • Patent number: 11750091
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling a voltage provided to a plurality of configurable output modules using a resonant converter, the resonant converter comprising: an inverter circuit; a resonant capacitor bridge coupled across the inverter circuit; N groups of output modules, each of the N groups comprising terminals configured for coupling to up to M output modules, the output modules each comprising: a transformer having a primary and a secondary; and a rectified output coupled to the secondary and configured for coupling to a load; and a resonant inductor network configured to be coupled between the resonant capacitor bridge and the primaries of the transformers, the resonant inductor network comprising: at least one parallel inductor; and N parallel branches arranged in parallel and each branch comprising a series inductor, each of the series inductors configured for transformer-coupling to up to M output modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Excelsys Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Morrison
  • Patent number: 11664717
    Abstract: A power converter includes a transformer, a switching bridge circuit, a resonant tank circuit, an output rectifier, and a controller. The switching bridge circuit includes a plurality of switches, each switch controllable into a conduction mode and into a non-conduction mode. The controller is configured to control the plurality of switches based on a series of phase shift modulation switching cycles, each cycle comprising a control period and a delay period. During the control period, the controller causes the conduction mode of each switch of the plurality of switches to overlap a portion of each conduction mode of two other switches. During the delay period, the controller controls all of the switches into non-conduction modes overlapping in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: AES Global Holdings PTE Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Phelim Bradley
  • Patent number: 11658583
    Abstract: The invention provides a control circuit for controlling the operation of a power converter having a switch connected to an output of the power converter, said control circuit comprising a first amplifier for sensing an output voltage of the power converter and a second amplifier configured to derive a frequency compensated error signal output, to provide a frequency control compensation loop to an input of the power converter and the output of the second amplifier is connected to the switch of the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Jonathan James Wilkinson, Phelim Bradley
  • Publication number: 20230131143
    Abstract: A power converter a transformer, a switching bridge circuit, a resonant tank circuit, an output rectifier, and a controller. The switching bridge circuit a plurality of switches, each switch controllable into a conduction mode and into a non-conduction mode. The controller is configured to control the plurality of switches based on a series of phase shift modulation switching cycles, each cycle comprising a control period and a delay period. During the control period, the controller causes the conduction mode of each switch of the plurality of switches to overlap a portion of each conduction mode of two other switches. During the delay period, the controller controls all of the switches into non-conduction modes overlapping in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Phelim Bradley
  • Patent number: 11619124
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer, Luis Silva, Zhanke Liu, Charles Kearney, Jordi Segura Dominguez, Santiago Hassig Fonseca, Pierre Ramondenc
  • Patent number: 11594948
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a resonant LLC power converter unit to provide a plurality of power outputs. The power converter unit includes multiple transformers arranged such that at least one primary winding of each transformer is connected in parallel and configured to provide a power output to a secondary that powers one of the plurality of outputs. One of these transformers, or a parallel choke across an output bus, can be used to provide lower power to the output bus during a standby state (i.e., during a light- or no-load condition). The power converter unit includes a first switching section for providing a first power input during normal operation and a second switching section for providing a second power input during no- or light-load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Excelsys Tecnologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Andrejs Gasilovs, Phelim Seamus Bradley
  • Patent number: 11496056
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for driving a plurality of output circuits from a DC input signal using a resonant converter, the resonant converter comprising a switch network, a resonant tank, and a rectifier network, the resonant tank comprising: a resonant capacitor bridge coupled across the switch network; a plurality of branches, each branch comprising at least one series inductor coupled at a first end to the resonant capacitor bridge and at a second end to the rectifier network; and at least one parallel inductor; the rectifier network comprising one or more groups of transformers, each group coupled to one branch of the plurality of branches, and wherein the primary windings of the transformers of each group are coupled in parallel, and wherein the secondary windings are configured for coupling to an output load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Excelsys Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Morrison
  • Publication number: 20220337171
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling a voltage provided to a plurality of configurable output modules using a resonant converter, the resonant converter comprising: an inverter circuit; a resonant capacitor bridge coupled across the inverter circuit; N groups of output modules, each of the N groups comprising terminals configured for coupling to up to M output modules, the output modules each comprising: a transformer having a primary and a secondary; and a rectified output coupled to the secondary and configured for coupling to a load; and a resonant inductor network configured to be coupled between the resonant capacitor bridge and the primaries of the transformers, the resonant inductor network comprising: at least one parallel inductor; and N parallel branches arranged in parallel and each branch comprising a series inductor, each of the series inductors configured for transformer-coupling to up to M output modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Morrison
  • Publication number: 20220294353
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for driving a plurality of output circuits from a DC input signal using a resonant converter, the resonant converter comprising a switch network, a resonant tank, and a rectifier network, the resonant tank comprising: a resonant capacitor bridge coupled across the switch network; a plurality of branches, each branch comprising at least one series inductor coupled at a first end to the resonant capacitor bridge and at a second end to the rectifier network; and at least one parallel inductor; the rectifier network comprising one or more groups of transformers, each group coupled to one branch of the plurality of branches, and wherein the primary windings of the transformers of each group are coupled in parallel, and wherein the secondary windings are configured for coupling to an output load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Morrison
  • Publication number: 20220255442
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a resonant LLC power converter unit to provide a plurality of power outputs. The power converter unit includes multiple transformers arranged such that at least one primary winding of each transformer is connected in parallel and configured to provide a power output to a secondary that powers one of the plurality of outputs. One of these transformers, or a parallel choke across an output bus, can be used to provide lower power to the output bus during a standby state (i.e., during a light- or no-load condition). The power converter unit includes a first switching section for providing a first power input during normal operation and a second switching section for providing a second power input during no- or light-load conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Andrejs Gasilovs, Phelim Seamus Bradley