Patents by Inventor Robert Lankston

Robert Lankston 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: 8203837
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for cooling. The system comprises an equipment rack installable in a facility and for accommodating a plurality of electronic equipment. The system further comprises an exhaust duct into which the electronic equipment, when installed in the rack, exhausts gas drawn from a first section of a facility. The system further comprises a gas flow meter for measuring gas flow in the exhaust duct, and a controller for generating control signals to control, based on the measured gas flow, the output of a cooling unit arranged to provide cooled gas to the first section of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Developmet Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Roy Zeighami, Robert Lankston
  • Publication number: 20110242755
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for cooling. The system comprises an equipment rack installable in a facility and for accommodating a plurality of electronic equipment. The system further comprises an exhaust duct into which the electronic equipment, when installed in the rack, exhausts gas drawn from a first section of a facility. The system further comprises a gas flow meter for measuring gas flow in the exhaust duct, and a controller for generating control signals to control, based on the measured gas flow, the output of a cooling unit arranged to provide cooled gas to the first section of the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Roy Zeighami, Robert Lankston
  • Patent number: 6977866
    Abstract: A method of determination of fluid pressures in a subsurface region of the earth uses seismic velocities and calibrations relating the seismic velocities to the effective stress on the subsurface sediments. The seismic velocities may be keyed to defined seismic horizons and may be obtained from many methods, including velocity spectra, post-stack inversion, pre-stack inversion, VSP or tomography. Overburden stresses may be obtained from density logs, relations between density and velocity, or from inversion of potential fields data. The seismic data may be P-P, P-S, or S-S data. The calibrations may be predetermined or may be derived from well information including well logs and well pressure measurements. The calibrations may also include the effect of unloading. The determined pressures may be used in the analysis of fluid flow in reservoirs, basin and prospect modeling and in fault integrity analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: ConocoPhillps Company
    Inventors: Alan R. Huffman, Ernest C. Onyia, Richard W. Lahann, David W. Bell, Robert Lankston
  • Publication number: 20040141414
    Abstract: A method of determination of fluid pressures in a subsurface region of the earth uses seismic velocities and calibrations relating the seismic velocities to the effective stress on the subsurface sediments. The seismic velocities may be keyed to defined seismic horizons and may be obtained from many methods, including velocity spectra, post-stack inversion, pre-stack inversion, VSP or tomography. Overburden stresses may be obtained from density logs, relations between density and velocity, or from inversion of potential fields data. The seismic data may be P-P, P-S, or S-S data. The calibrations may be predetermined or may be derived from well information including well logs and well pressure measurements. The calibrations may also include the effect of unloading. The determined pressures may be used in the analysis of fluid flow in reservoirs, basin and prospect modeling and in fault integrity analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Alan Royce Huffman, Ernest C. Onyia, Richard Wayne Lahann, David W. Bell, Robert Lankston
  • Patent number: 6751558
    Abstract: A method of determination of fluid pressures in a subsurface region of the earth uses seismic velocities and calibrations relating the seismic velocities to the effective stress on the subsurface sediments. The seismic velocities may be keyed to defined seismic horizons and may be obtained from many methods, including velocity spectra, post-stack inversion, pre-stack inversion, VSP or tomography. Overburden stresses may be obtained from density logs, relations between density and velocity, or from inversion of potential fields data. The seismic data may be P-P, P-S, or S-S data. The calibrations may be predetermined or may be derived from well information including well logs and well pressure measurements. The calibrations may also include the effect of unloading. The determined pressures may be used in the analysis of fluid flow in reservoirs, basin and prospect modeling and in fault integrity analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Conoco Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Royce Huffman, Ernest C. Onyia, Richard Wayne Lahann, David W. Bell, Robert Lankston
  • Publication number: 20030004648
    Abstract: A method of determination of fluid pressures in a subsurface region of the earth uses seismic velocities and calibrations relating the seismic velocities to the effective stress on the subsurface sediments. The seismic velocities may be keyed to defined seismic horizons and may be obtained from many methods, including velocity spectra, post-stack inversion, pre-stack inversion, VSP or tomography. Overburden stresses may be obtained from density logs, relations between density and velocity, or from inversion of potential fields data. The seismic data may be P-P, P-S, or S-S data. The calibrations may be predetermined or may be derived from well information including well logs and well pressure measurements. The calibrations may also include the effect of unloading. The determined pressures may be used in the analysis of fluid flow in reservoirs, basin and prospect modeling and in fault integrity analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: Conoco Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Huffman, Robert Lankston, Ernest C. Onyia, Richard Wayne Lahann, David W. Bell