Patents by Inventor Sergey Knizhnik

Sergey Knizhnik 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: 9632201
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Publication number: 20150331137
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Patent number: 9121960
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Publication number: 20130249561
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Patent number: 8471562
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Patent number: 8421454
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance well logging tool, where some embodiments comprise two, oppositely oriented magnets separated by a pole piece to guide static magnetic flux into a sensitive volume, and another pole piece serving as a core for several antennas. For some embodiments, the antennas are solenoids. Two of the antennas serve as transmit and receive antennas, where they are driven to generate an elliptically polarized magnetic field, and their antenna responses are combined so that the combined response is sensitive to elliptically polarized magnetic fields, but with zero gradient in the z-direction. A third antenna serves as a receive antenna sensitive to magnetic field vectors having a sinusoidal spatial variation in the z-direction of period equal to the length of the third antenna. A fourth antenna serves as a receive antenna sensitive to sinusoidal magnetic field vectors with the same spatial-frequency as the third antenna, but phase shifted by 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred G. Prammer, Sergey Knizhnik, Clive D. Menezes
  • Patent number: 7733086
    Abstract: An NMR logging tool for conducting NMR measurements in a plurality of sensitive volumes ranging up to a meter from the tool. The tool comprises a magnetic assembly using one or more permanent magnets and at least one pole piece for extending a magnet pole and shaping the magnetic field to simulate a magnetic monopole in a sensitive volume within the formation. Different embodiments of a segmented antenna enable directional NMR logging. The tool embodiments and methods of their use are suitable for wireline or LWD logging, and can be used for directional drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred G. Prammer, Sergey Knizhnik, Stefan K. Menger, George D. Goodman, Edward J. Harris, III, Earle Drack
  • Publication number: 20090302847
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-axial antenna system and system for measuring subsurface formations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the multi-axial antenna system comprising at least two co-located coils wound around a torroidal-shaped bobbin. Each coil generates a magnetic field in a mutually orthogonal direction. Signals provided to the coils may be adjusted to simulate a tilted-coil antenna system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventor: Sergey Knizhnik
  • Publication number: 20090072825
    Abstract: An NMR logging tool for conducting NMR measurements in a plurality of sensitive volumes ranging up to a meter from the tool. The tool comprises a magnetic assembly using one or more permanent magnets and at least one pole piece for extending a magnet pole and shaping the magnetic field to simulate a magnetic monopole in a sensitive volume within the formation. Different embodiments of a segmented antenna enable directional NMR logging. The tool embodiments and methods of their use are suitable for wireline or LWD logging, and can be used for directional drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Manfred G. Prammer, Sergey Knizhnik, Stefan K. Menger, George D. Goodman, Edward J. Harris, III, Earle Drack
  • Patent number: 7463027
    Abstract: An NMR logging tool for conducting NMR measurements in a plurality of sensitive volumes ranging up to a meter from the tool. The tool comprises a magnetic assembly using one or more permanent magnets and at least one pole piece for extending a magnet pole and shaping the magnetic field to simulate a magnetic monopole in a sensitive volume within the formation. Different embodiments of a segmented antenna enable directional NMR logging. The tool embodiments and methods of their use are suitable for wireline or LWD logging, and can be used for directional drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred G. Prammer, Sergey Knizhnik, Stefan K. Menger, George D. Goodman, Edward J. Harris, III, Earle Drack
  • Publication number: 20050030021
    Abstract: An NMR logging tool for conducting NMR measurements in a plurality of sensitive volumes ranging up to a meter from the tool. The tool comprises a magnetic assembly using one or more permanent magnets and at least one pole piece for extending a magnet pole and shaping the magnetic field to simulate a magnetic monopole in a sensitive volume within the formation. Different embodiments of a segmented antenna enable directional NMR logging. The tool embodiments and methods of their use are suitable for wireline or LWD logging, and can be used for directional drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Manfred Prammer, Sergey Knizhnik, Stefan Menger, George Goodman, Edward Harris, Earle Drack