Patents by Inventor Robert Tennent
Robert Tennent 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).
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Publication number: 20220412212Abstract: A method includes receiving a signal having a telemetry portion and a noise portion. The method may also include identifying one or more harmonic frequencies in the signal. The method may also include determining whether the one or more harmonic frequencies are in a predetermined frequency band. The method may also include determining whether a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the signal is below a predetermined SNR threshold. The method may also include generating one or more notifications in response to the determination whether the one or more harmonic frequencies are in the predetermined frequency band and the determination whether the SNR is below the predetermined SNR threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Liang Sun, Pavel Annenkov, Arnaud Jarrot, David Kirk Conn, Robert Tennent, Richard Hunter
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Publication number: 20220341316Abstract: A method for configuring telemetry transmission includes receiving a transmitted telemetry signal at the earth's surface. The received signal is selected and processed to compute a measured power spectral density (PSD). A theoretical PSD is computed of the transmitted signal at the known carrier frequency and processed in combination with the measured PSD to compute an attenuation factor of the transmitted signal at a plurality of frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Liang Sun, Pavel Annenkov, Robert Tennent, Andriy Gelman
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Patent number: 11441418Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems that can be used for controlling and coordinating the transmission of electromagnetic telemetry signals from and/or to a plurality of downhole tools to minimize or reduce electromagnetic interference between the transmissions. Signal coordination control is also disclosed that allows for duplex bidirectional communication of transmissions of electromagnetic telemetry signals such that electromagnetic interference between the transmissions is minimized or reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Julius Kusuma, Robert Tennent, Arnaud Croux
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Patent number: 11068051Abstract: An augmented mirror comprising: a partially silvered mirrored surface; a screen underneath the mirrored surface; a camera; and a computer module for receiving data from the camera and for providing graphical images to the screen, wherein the field of view over which visual information is processed is reduced to visual information from within a visual corridor, the visual corridor corresponding to a subset of the field of view of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Steven David Benford, Anthony Brown, Nils Jäger, Brian Patrick Newby, Adam Thomas Russell, Louise Mary Schofield, Katharine Jane Shaw, Paul Robert Tennent, Michel François Valstar, Ruediger Zillmer
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Publication number: 20210180448Abstract: Communication between the surface and a downhole location, such as a bottomhole assembly and/or an RSS is performed by electromagnetic downlink. Electromagnetic signals are transmitted from the surface through the formation at a frequency of 8 Hz or greater. Electromagnetic signals are transmitted and received while drilling or during drilling activities. In this manner, information and instructions may be transmitted to the BHA while drilling.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Pavel Annenkov, Melisa Lourdes Ramirez Tovar, Robert Tennent, Sam Soundar, Jiuping Chen, Liang Sun, Richard Hunter, Wei Zhou
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Patent number: 10963047Abstract: An augmented mirror for use with one or more user objects, the augmented mirror comprising: a partially silvered mirrored surface; a screen underneath the mirrored surface; a camera including a depth scanner; and a computer module for receiving data from the camera and for providing graphical images to the screen; wherein the sole means of communication with the computer module is via the one or more user objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.Inventors: Steven David Benford, Brian Patrick Newby, Adam Thomas Russell, Katharine Jane Shaw, Paul Robert Tennent, Robert Lindsay Treloar, Michel François Valstar, Ruediger Zillmer
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Publication number: 20200291768Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems that can be used for controlling and coordinating the transmission of electromagnetic telemetry signals from and/or to a plurality of downhole tools to minimize or reduce electromagnetic interference between the transmissions. Signal coordination control is also disclosed that allows for duplex bidirectional communication of transmissions of electromagnetic telemetry signals such that electromagnetic interference between the transmissions is minimized or reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Julius Kusuma, Robert Tennent, Arnaud Croux
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Patent number: 10323510Abstract: A method for recovering data from a downhole tool in a wellbore includes measuring an electromagnetic signal using first and second sensors. At least a portion of the electromagnetic signal is transmitted by a downhole tool positioned in a first wellbore. The first and second sensors are each positioned at a different location along a length of a second wellbore. The electromagnetic signal measured by the first and second sensors is decoded to recover a property measured by the downhole tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Luis Eduardo DePavia, Dean Homan, Robert Tennent, Gaelle Jannin, Liang Sun, Jiuping Chen
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Publication number: 20190018486Abstract: An augmented mirror for use with one or more user objects, the augmented mirror comprising: a partially silvered mirrored surface; a screen underneath the mirrored surface; a camera including a depth scanner; and a computer module for receiving data from the camera and for providing graphical images to the screen; wherein the sole means of communication with the computer module is via the one or more user objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Steven David BENFORD, Brian Patrick NEWBY, Adam Thomas RUSSELL, Katharine Jane SHAW, Paul Robert TENNENT, Robert Lindsay TRELOAR, Michel François VALSTAR, Ruediger ZILLMER
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Publication number: 20180373330Abstract: An augmented mirror comprising: a partially silvered mirrored surface; a screen underneath the mirrored surface; a camera; and a computer module for receiving data from the camera and for providing graphical images to the screen, wherein the field of view over which visual information is processed is reduced to visual information from within a visual corridor, the visual corridor corresponding to a subset of the field of view of the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: Conopco., Inc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Steven David BENFORD, Anthony BROWN, Nils JÄGER, Brian Patrick NEWBY, Adam Thomas RUSSELL, Louis Mary SCHOFIELD, Katharine Jane SHAW, Paul Robert TENNENT, Michel François VALSTAR, Ruediger ZILLMER
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Patent number: 9982528Abstract: Methods and related apparatus pertaining to downhole and surface telemetry, such as a method in which a telemetry system is provided with a communication path formed with an electrically conductive transport medium coupled across a plurality of downhole nodes. Such method includes operating on the communication path with a multi-drop system that provides telemetry to the downhole nodes in a wellbore, including employing modulation in a master-slave arrangement using binary differential phase shift keying or differential quadrature phase shift keying.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Adolfo Recio, Tamim Sawaf, Ryan Parasram, Hugues Bouvier, Robert Tennent, Scott Cook
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Publication number: 20180003042Abstract: A method for recovering data from a downhole tool in a wellbore includes measuring an electromagnetic signal using first and second sensors. At least a portion of the electromagnetic signal is transmitted by a downhole tool positioned in a first wellbore. The first and second sensors are each positioned at a different location along a length of a second wellbore. The electromagnetic signal measured by the first and second sensors is decoded to recover a property measured by the downhole tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Luis Eduardo DePavia, Dean Homan, Robert Tennent, Gaelle Jannin, Liang Sun, Jiuping Chen
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Patent number: 7994932Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and method for communicating encoded digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface is described including an acoustic channel terminated at a down-hole end by a reflecting terminal (133, 134), an acoustic wave generator (140) located at the surface and providing an acoustic wave carrier signal through said acoustic, channel, a modulator (162, 163) located down-hole to modulate amplitude and/or phase of said carrier wave in response to an encoded digital signal and one or more sensors (150) located at the surface adapted to detect amplitude and/or phase related information of acoustic waves traveling within said acoustic channel to determine the encoded digital data.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent
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Patent number: 7397388Abstract: A system that is usable with a subterranean well includes an assembly and a telemetry tool. The system includes an assembly that performs a downhole measurement. The system also includes a downhole telemetry tool to modulate a carrier stimulus that is communicated through a downhole fluid to communicate the downhole measurement uphole.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent, Matthew Hackworth, Craig Johnson
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Publication number: 20070030762Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and method for communicating encoded digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface is described including an acoustic channel terminated at a down-hole end by a reflecting terminal (133, 134), an acoustic wave generator (140) located at the surface and providing an acoustic wave carrier signal through said acoustic, channel, a modulator (162, 163) located down-hole to modulate amplitude and/or phase of said carrier wave in response to an encoded digital signal and one or more sensors (150) located at the surface adapted to detect amplitude and/or phase related information of acoustic waves traveling within said acoustic channel to determine the encoded digital data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Mommont, Robert Tennent
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Publication number: 20060131014Abstract: A technique that is usable with a well includes using at least one downhole sensor to establish telemetry within the well. The sensor(s) are used as a permanent sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent, Randolph Sheffield
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Publication number: 20050168349Abstract: A system that is usable with a subterranean well includes an assembly and a telemetry tool. The system includes an assembly that performs a downhole measurement. The system also includes a downhole telemetry tool to modulate a carrier stimulus that is communicated through a downhole fluid to communicate the downhole measurement uphole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2004Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Songrning Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent, Matthew Hackworth, Craig Johnson
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Patent number: 6741185Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing noise in a measured telemetry signal. The method includes tracking a characteristic of at least one harmonic of a noise component in the measured telemetry signal band. The at least one harmonic has a frequency outside a telemetry signal band. The characteristic of the noise component is determined for at least one other harmonic thereof. The at least one other harmonic has a frequency inside the telemetry signal band. A noise reference is generated from the characteristic of the in band harmonic, and the noise reference is combined with the measured telemetry signal to generate a noise-canceled telemetry signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Pengyu Shi, David Brady, Robert Tennent, Sandra D. Reyes
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Publication number: 20020180613Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing noise in a measured telemetry signal. The method includes tracking a characteristic of at least one harmonic of a noise component in the measured telemetry signal band. The at least one harmonic has a frequency outside a telemetry signal band. The characteristic of the noise component is determined for at least one other harmonic thereof. The at least one other harmonic has a frequency inside the telemetry signal band. A noise reference is generated from the characteristic of the in band harmonic, and the noise reference is combined with the measured telemetry signal to generate a noise-canceled telemetry signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Pengyu Shi, David Brady, Robert Tennent