Patents by Inventor Stephen Michael

Stephen Michael 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: 12264563
    Abstract: A system can be used to recover hydrogen from a geological formation. The system can include a first flow control device and a second flow control device. The first flow control device can be positioned in a wellbore, which can be positioned in a geological formation, to control flow of a first material based on one or more first fluid properties of the first material. The second flow control device can be positioned in the wellbore offset from the first flow control device to control flow of a second material based on one or more second fluid properties of the second material. The second material can be different than the first material and can include hydrogen. The flow of the first material and the flow of the second material can be controlled in response to wellbore fluid being injected into the geological formation to enhance a hydrogen-producing reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney
  • Publication number: 20250101836
    Abstract: An apparatus to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises one or more generators disposed in a flow path within a flow control tool and configured to output electrical power to components of the flow control tool in response to flow of a fluid in the flow path, wherein the fluid enters the flow path from the wellbore. The apparatus comprises a flow rate limiting device disposed in the flow path and configured to control a flow rate of the fluid as the fluid flows to the one or more generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Publication number: 20250107027
    Abstract: An in-use cover for an electrical device includes a base having an internal volume and a lid pivotably connected to the base. The base includes an upper cavity, and an extension ring coupled to the upper cavity. The upper cavity and the extension ring are integrally formed from a unitary piece. The lid is movable between an open position that at least partially exposes the electrical device and a closed position that can enclose the electrical device in the internal volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Boener, Jonathan Randall Falls, Krishna C. Patel
  • Publication number: 20250103753
    Abstract: A data processing service facilitates the creation and processing of data processing pipelines that process data processing jobs defined with respect to a set of tasks in a sequence and with data dependencies associated with each separate task such that the output from one task is used as input for a subsequent task. In various embodiments, the set of tasks include at least one cleanroom task that is executed in a cleanroom station and at least one non-cleanroom task executed in an execution environment of a user where each task is configured to read one or more input datasets and transform the one or more input datasets into one or more output datasets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: William Chau, Abhijit Chakankar, Stephen Michael Mahoney, Daniel Seth Morris, Itai Shlomo Weiss
  • Patent number: 12258723
    Abstract: Provided is a support structure and a method for manufacture thereof. The support structure, in one aspect, includes first and second expanded metal structural pillars positioned within the ground by a distance (d1), the first and second expanded metal structural pillars comprising a metal that has expanded in response to hydrolysis. In at least one other aspect, the support structure includes one or more beams spanning the first and second expanded metal structural pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Luke William Holderman, Brandon T. Least
  • Patent number: 12258828
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing/anchoring tool, a well system and a method for sealing/anchoring within a wellbore. The sealing/anchoring tool, in one aspect, includes a mandrel and a hydraulically deformable member positioned about the mandrel. The sealing/anchoring tool, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a sealing/anchoring element positioned about the hydraulically deformable member, the sealing/anchoring element including a circlet having an inside surface having an inside diameter (di), an outside surface having an outside diameter (do), a width (w), and a wall thickness (t), the circlet comprising an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to chemically deform the circlet from a radially reduced chemical state to a radially enlarged chemical state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci, Chris M. Pelto, Rutger Evers
  • Patent number: 12260003
    Abstract: A data processing service facilitates the creation and processing of data processing pipelines that process data processing jobs defined with respect to a set of tasks in a sequence and with data dependencies associated with each separate task such that the output from one task is used as input for a subsequent task. In various embodiments, the set of tasks include at least one cleanroom task that is executed in a cleanroom station and at least one non-cleanroom task executed in an execution environment of a user where each task is configured to read one or more input datasets and transform the one or more input datasets into one or more output datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Databricks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Chau, Abhijit Chakankar, Stephen Michael Mahoney, Daniel Seth Morris, Itai Shlomo Weiss
  • Patent number: 12258839
    Abstract: Shunt closures with a compensating piston and methods of using the same. An example shunt closure includes a compensator piston disposed between an oil chamber and a piston chamber and configured to translate towards the piston chamber to allow for an increase in the volume of the oil chamber. The shunt closure also includes a piston coupling connected to the compensator piston; wherein a portion of the piston coupling is configured to translate into the piston chamber upon translation of the compensator piston. The shunt closure further includes the piston chamber configured to house a portion of the piston coupling and the oil chamber configured to house an oil. Thermal expansion of the oil applies pressure to the compensator piston. The shunt closure also includes a shunt isolation sleeve coupled to and adjacent to the piston chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Crowley, Ryan M. Novelen, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Publication number: 20250090029
    Abstract: Some disclosed examples involve directing two or more pulse groups of light towards a target object during a total light transmission time interval, each pulse group time interval within the total light transmission time interval being separated from a successive pulse group time interval by an off time interval. The target object may be part of a human body or an animal body. In some examples, no light is transmitted towards the target object during the off time interval. Some disclosed examples involve receiving acoustic signals corresponding to photoacoustic (PA) responses of a target object to the two or more pulse groups and determining one or more heart rate waveforms of the human or animal body based on the acoustic signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas BUCHAN, Stephen Michael GOJEVIC, Ye ZHAN, Vivekananda Parampalli ADIGA, John Keith SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20250093106
    Abstract: An infrared sensor positioned in a reflow oven includes a reflow oven and a first IR sensor turret suspended over a conveyor surface of the reflow oven, where a directional movement of the first IR sensor turret matches a directional movement of the conveyor surface. A method for managing the IR sensor turret positioned in a reflow oven includes locating, by a first IR sensor turret, a point of interest on a PCBA, where the PCBA is positioned on a conveyor in a reflow oven. The method further includes tracking, by the first IR sensor turret, the point of interest on the PCBA, where the PCBA is moving along the conveyor in the reflow oven. The method further includes capturing, by the first IR sensor turret, a first set of thermal data at the point of interest for a first subarea of the reflow oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Abdikarim Hussein, Theron Lee Lewis, Timothy Jennings, James D. Bielick, David J. Braun, Stephen Michael Hugo, John R. Dangler
  • Publication number: 20250092765
    Abstract: A system can be used to produce brine from a wellbore. The system can include a first flow control device and a second flow control device. The first flow control device can be positioned downhole in a wellbore to control flow of first material based on one or more first fluid properties of the first material. The second flow control device can be positioned downhole in the wellbore offset from the first flow control device to control flow of a second material based on one or more second fluid properties of the second material. The second material can be different than the first material and can include a brine having an alkali metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Publication number: 20250092771
    Abstract: A system can be used to recover hydrogen from a geological formation. The system can include a first flow control device and a second flow control device. The first flow control device can be positioned in a wellbore, which can be positioned in a geological formation, to control flow of a first material based on one or more first fluid properties of the first material. The second flow control device can be positioned in the wellbore offset from the first flow control device to control flow of a second material based on one or more second fluid properties of the second material. The second material can be different than the first material and can include hydrogen. The flow of the first material and the flow of the second material can be controlled in response to wellbore fluid being injected into the geological formation to enhance a hydrogen-producing reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney
  • Patent number: 12256494
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a multilayer circuit board is provided which includes forming a layer of a the multilayer circuit board with an internal clearance region having a modified voltage-to-ground clearance of conductive material adjacent to an aperture of the multilayer circuit board. The modified voltage-to-ground clearance of conductive material is based on a configuration of a connector pin to be press-fit connected within the aperture of the multilayer circuit board, and the internal clearance region is enlarged in a direction of greatest normal force outward from the aperture with insertion of the connector pin into the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James D. Bielick, Theron Lee Lewis, David J. Braun, John R. Dangler, Timothy P. Younger, Stephen Michael Hugo, Timothy Jennings
  • Patent number: 12252952
    Abstract: In some implementations, a clamshell packer for use in a wellbore proximate to a subsurface formation comprises an expandable non-elastomeric material and is configured to annularly envelop a non-compliant portion of a tubular in the wellbore, the non-compliant portion between one or more expandable screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12251992
    Abstract: A locking assembly for locking panels of a hinged panel assembly together. The hinged panel assembly has a second movable panel rotatably mounted to a first fixed panel by a hinge. The locking assembly is intended for selectively holding the second panel in position relative to the first panel in a folded configuration. The locking assembly includes a male assembly and a female assembly. The male assembly is configured to be rotatably mounted to the first panel, and has a tab rotationally fixed relative to a rotatable actuator, with the tab and the actuator configured to be disposed on opposing sides of the first panel. The female assembly is configured to be fixedly mounted to the second panel. The female assembly has a recess configured to receive the tab. The locking assembly is rotatable between a locked position and an unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIVEL PARTS & MANUFACTURING CO., LLC
    Inventors: David Edward Blum, Stephen Michael Page
  • Patent number: 12253725
    Abstract: This present disclosure seals the light propagation path in an optical interconnection element from external contaminants. The optical interconnection element includes a reflective surface, which can also be sealed from external contaminants Additional novel concepts include all enclosed sealed regions of the optical interconnection element being fluidly connected and making the final seal of the optical interconnection element with a thin plate, which can bend reducing the pressure differential between the ambient environment and the sealed internal volume of the optical interconnection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Brian Puffer, Raymond Lee, R. Brad Bettman, Edwin Loy, Dyan Seville-Jones, Arlon Martin, Stephen Michael Girlando, Christopher Alan Bandfield
  • Patent number: 12252966
    Abstract: A lower completion assembly includes a tubular comprising an interior passageway defined by an internal surface of the pipe and a port extending between external and internal surfaces of the tubular. The port is defined by a first surface that extends between the internal and external surfaces. The assembly also includes an inflow control device that is coupled to the external surface of the pipe and that comprises a fluid exit that is adjacent the port. The assembly has a first configuration and a second configuration. When in the first configuration a dissolvable plug extends across the fluid exit to fluidically isolate the fluid exit from the interior passageway and a gap is defined adjacent the first surface. When in the second configuration, the dissolvable plug does not extend across the fluid exit and the fluid exit is in fluid communication with the interior passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Zachariah, Bryan Ping Chew Chay, Stephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Patent number: 12252967
    Abstract: Regulating downhole fluid flow through a plurality of valves to treat wellbore sections while also allowing for production to continue. If it is determined that fluid flow through a valve of a plurality of valves is below a threshold, maintaining fluid flow through the below threshold valve may be maintained while restricting fluid flow through other valves of the plurality. This restriction fluidly isolates a section of a well from other sections of the well. Once isolated, a treatment substance may be injected through the below threshold valve into the isolated section of well. Afterwards, the closed valves may be reopened while restricting fluid flow through the treated section valve for a threshold period of time. the treated section valve may then be reopened after the threshold period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Julia Mosina, Graham Baines, Brad Robert Bull
  • Publication number: 20250086253
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device may obtain first data associated with one or more accounts. The device may process the first data to obtain clustering information associated with the first data. The device may cluster the first data into one or more clusters based on the clustering information. The device may identify, via a second machine learning model, one or more deviation patterns associated with a portion of the first data that is included in a cluster of the one or more clusters. The device may determine, for the cluster, one or more operations to be performed to mitigate deviations based on the one or more deviation patterns. The device may perform an action, that is based on the one or more operations, associated with second data grouped into the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Komal Krishna PANDAMANETI, Lewis C. WONG, Dinesh VAJALA, Sunil LAWRENCE, Jason E. LINES, Stephen Michael LIPNER-BERNSTEIN, Sriram GANTA, Siva R. VEGESANA
  • Publication number: 20250084730
    Abstract: Some implementations include a flow control device positioned in a tubing string within a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, the flow control device configured to produce a liquid or a gas. The flow control device may comprise a movable restrictor configured to move, in response to the liquid at a first velocity from the subsurface formation, from a closed position to an open position and a pilot-operated valve configured to attenuate a flow of the liquid through the flow control device when the movable restrictor is in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci