Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Morris

Stephen A. Morris 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: 10724364
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing drilling operations in earth formations. The systems and methods include drilling a borehole within the earth formation, receiving data acquired within the borehole in the earth formation, analyzing the data to locate a plurality of data structures formed by the data, the plurality of data structures including a first structure at a first location and a second structure at a second location, projecting the first structure as a first geological projection intersecting the first location, and projecting the second structure as a second geological projection intersecting the second location, classifying the first geological projection and the second geological projection based on a hierarchy of geological feature types to generate a hierarchical classification, and adjusting one or more of the first geological projection and the second geological projection based on the hierarchical classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Anne Claudia Maria Bartetzko, Stefan Wessling, Nicklas Jeremias Ritzmann, Stephen A. Morris, Florent Kelfoun
  • Publication number: 20180252101
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing drilling operations in earth formations. The systems and methods include drilling a borehole within the earth formation, receiving data acquired within the borehole in the earth formation, analyzing the data to locate a plurality of data structures formed by the data, the plurality of data structures including a first structure at a first location and a second structure at a second location, projecting the first structure as a first geological projection intersecting the first location, and projecting the second structure as a second geological projection intersecting the second location, classifying the first geological projection and the second geological projection based on a hierarchy of geological feature types to generate a hierarchical classification, and adjusting one or more of the first geological projection and the second geological projection based on the hierarchical classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Anne Claudia Maria Bartetzko, Stefan Wessling, Nicklas Jeremias Ritzmann, Stephen A. Morris, Florent Kelfoun
  • Patent number: 8245794
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing images of a downhole tool during drilling of a wellbore are provided. A sensor on a rotating tool occupies a number of azimuthal sectors of the wellbore which are determined by a processor. The processor determines a time during which the sensor is in each of the azimuthal sectors during each revolution of the tool and provides a depth-correlated image of the sector residence times for the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Morris
  • Patent number: 8116532
    Abstract: A method for imaging a subsurface material, the method including: receiving a first image of the subsurface material and a second image of the subsurface material, the first image displaying a first property of the subsurface material and the second image displaying a second property of the subsurface material wherein the first property is different from the second property; and combining the first image and the second image to create a combined image. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Morris
  • Publication number: 20100038137
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing images of a downhole tool during drilling of a wellbore are provided. A sensor on a rotating tool occupies a number of azimuthal sectors of the wellbore which are determined by a processor. The processor determines a time during which the sensor is in each of the azimuthal sectors during each revolution of the tool and provides a depth-correlated image of the sector residence times for the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Morris
  • Publication number: 20100040259
    Abstract: A method for imaging a subsurface material, the method including: receiving a first image of the subsurface material and a second image of the subsurface material, the first image displaying a first property of the subsurface material and the second image displaying a second property of the subsurface material wherein the first property is different from the second property; and combining the first image and the second image to create a combined image. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Morris
  • Patent number: 6216993
    Abstract: A modular storage system which includes a support rail mounted on wall or ceiling, in horizontal or vertical orientation, with slidably adjustable cantilevered hooks, from which are hung storage boxes fitted with a frame on the open side, and a transparent hinged door. A hanger and straps are utilized to attach the rigid frame to a storage box. Reinforcing support brackets can also be attached to a storage box on its underside or top, and suspended from cantilevered hooks of the modular storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: Stephen A. Morris