Patents by Inventor Steven Dobbs

Steven Dobbs 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).

  • Systems and methods for aligning a monitor seismic survey with a baseline seismic survey
    Patent number: 9952341
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and mediums may implement obtaining baseline traces of a baseline seismic survey and monitor traces of a monitor seismic survey; employing a computer to align the monitor traces to corresponding baseline traces using an error function having a phase-based component, thereby obtaining an aligned monitor survey; generating with the computer a comparison of the aligned monitor survey to the baseline seismic survey; and using the comparison of the aligned monitor survey to the baseline seismic survey to determine a change in the subterranean hydrocarbon producing reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Holschuh, Chang Li, Mark A. Meadows, Steven Dobbs
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALIGNING A MONITOR SEISMIC SURVEY WITH A BASELINE SEISMIC SURVEY
    Publication number: 20160161619
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and mediums may implement obtaining baseline traces of a baseline seismic survey and monitor traces of a monitor seismic survey; employing a computer to align the monitor traces to corresponding baseline traces using an error function having a phase-based component, thereby obtaining an aligned monitor survey; generating with the computer a comparison of the aligned monitor survey to the baseline seismic survey; and using the comparison of the aligned monitor survey to the baseline seismic survey to determine a change in the subterranean hydrocarbon producing reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Holschuh, Chang Li, Mark A. Meadows, Steven Dobbs