Patents by Inventor Steven Reid
Steven Reid 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: 20240115639Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for obtaining an oil extract of cannabis. The method includes: (a) contacting cannabis biomass and an edible oil; (b) pressing between a pair of plates to provide spent cannabis and an oil extract of cannabis; and (c) separating the spent cannabis biomass and the oil extract of cannabis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Toby W. Laughton, Darren J. Nist, Steven M. Shatkin, Tony LaRosa, David Reid
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Publication number: 20240090819Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, apparatuses, and media for sensing neuromuscular signals. In one example, a device for sensing neuromuscular signals comprises a wearable structure. The device includes a plurality of signal electrodes aligned along an interior portion of the wearable structure, each signal electrode configured to detect neuromuscular signals. The device further includes a plurality of amplifiers corresponding to the plurality of signal electrodes, wherein an amplifier has: a first input operatively coupled to a corresponding signal electrode; a second input; and an output corresponding to a neuromuscular signal channel. The device further includes circuitry configured to generate a common mode reference signal directly or indirectly based on signals from one or more electrodes, wherein the second input of each amplifier of the plurality of amplifiers is configured to receive the common mode reference signal or a signal based on the common mode reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jonathan REID, Steven Joseph KOBER, Brendan Patrick FLYNN, Tyler Henry CHRISTENSEN
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Patent number: 10683702Abstract: An apparatus disposed on a drillstring deviates a borehole advanced by a drill bit. At least one director is disposed on a housing to rotate therewith. The director at least includes a piston movable in a chamber, a pad pivotable about a pivot point between an extended condition and a retracted condition relative to the housing, and a linkage arm pivotably connected between the piston and the pad. At least one actuator disposed on the housing in fluid communication with a housing bore is operable at least between a first condition (directing communicated fluid from the bore or other source to the chamber of the director) and a second condition (at least permitting the director to retract toward the retracted condition).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: Robert G. Conger, Steven Reid Farley
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Patent number: 10544650Abstract: A rotary steerable tool used for directional drilling include a housing, at least one external director, and at least one valve. The external director is hydraulically movable to an extended condition relative to the housing, and the valve selectively directs pressurized fluid from a first side of the valve to the external director on the valve's second side. A first seal of the valve is selectively orientable about an axis and has an inlet, which communicates with the pressurized fluid from the first side. A second seal of the valve disposed adjacent the first seal has an outlet, which communicates the pressurized fluid to the second side at least when aligned with the inlet. A bearing assembly of the valve is disposed at the axis between the seals and has male and female bearing surfaces, which are angled off the axis and are mated with one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: Steven Reid Farley, Robert G. Conger
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Publication number: 20190128071Abstract: An apparatus is disposed on a drillstring for deviating a borehole advanced by a drill bit. The assembly includes a housing, at least one director, and at least one actuator. The housing is disposed on the drillstring and transfers rotation to the drill bit. The housing has a bore communicating fluid from the drillstring to the drill bit. The at least one director is disposed on the housing to rotate therewith. The at least one director at least includes a piston movable in a chamber, a pad pivotable about a pivot point between an extended condition and a retracted condition relative to the housing, and a linkage arm pivotably connected between the piston and the pad. The at least one actuator is disposed on the housing in fluid communication with the bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Robert G. Conger, Steven Reid Farley
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Publication number: 20190128096Abstract: A rotary steerable tool used for directional drilling include a housing, at least one external director, and at least one valve. The external director is hydraulically movable to an extended condition relative to the housing, and the valve selectively directs pressurized fluid from a first side of the valve to the external director on the valve's second side. A first seal of the valve is selectively orientable about an axis and has an inlet, which communicates with the pressurized fluid from the first side. A second seal of the valve disposed adjacent the first seal has an outlet, which communicates the pressurized fluid to the second side at least when aligned with the inlet. A bearing assembly of the valve is disposed at the axis between the seals and has male and female bearing surfaces, which are angled off the axis and are mated with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Robert G. Conger
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Publication number: 20180087070Abstract: A method for increasing or enhancing baculovirus yield and/or recombinant protein expression from a baculovirus is provided, wherein said method includes the step of engineering said host cell to express one or more of a p35, p35-trunc, p35-trunc-tail, and p49 protein. In some embodiments, said baculovirus does not normally encode a p35 protein, and said method includes the step of engineering said host cell to express one or more of a p35, p35-trunc, and p35-trunc-tail protein. In some embodiments, said baculovirus does not normally encode a p49 protein, and said method includes the step of engineering said host cell to express a p49 protein. Also provided are isolated p35-trunc and p35-trunc-tail proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Leila MATINDOOST, Sassan ASGARI, Steven REID
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Patent number: 9133968Abstract: A tubing section coupling comprises a first tubular portion and a second tubular portion (18,20) having an external surface adapted to slidingly engage an internal surface defined by the first tubular portion. The first and second tubular portions (18, 20) are axially restrained by means of a fixing device adapted to releasably connect the first and second tubular portions together. The first and second tubular portions (18, 20) each define a profile; the profiles are adapted to be connected to rotationally restrain the tubular portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Petrowell LimitedInventors: Andrew John Elrick, Steven Reid
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Patent number: 8881844Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying action of a drill bit while continuously rotating a drill string to which the drill bit is operationally attached. The steering system can include a bit perturbation device cooperating with a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to the drill string and to the drill bit. Drill bit action can be varied by periodically varying the rotation speed and/or rate of penetration of the drill bit. Periodic drill bit action results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, results in borehole deviation. Action of the drill bit can be varied independently of the rotation rate of the drill string.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Precision Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Michael Louis Larronde, Roger P. Bartel, Charles Lee Mauldin, Robert Anthony Aiello
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Patent number: 8158578Abstract: The present invention features methods and compositions for treating a patient who has a neurological deficit. The method can be carried out, for example, by contacting (in vivo or in culture) a neural progenitor cell of the patient's central nervous system (CNS) with a polypeptide that binds the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and directing progeny of the proliferating progenitor cells to migrate en masse to a region of the CNS in which they will reside and function in a manner sufficient to reduce the neurological deficit. The method may include a further step in which the progeny of the neural precursor cells are contacted with a compound that stimulates differentiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Neurorepair, Inc.Inventors: James Steven Reid, James H. Fallon
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Publication number: 20120039151Abstract: Apparatus and methods for removing the effects of directional drilling systems drilling fluid pulses to allow a MWD mud pulse telemetry system to operate without interference. The methodology is based upon Synchronous Time Averaging (STA). With STA, any pressure fluctuation that is cyclical (or synchronous) with a measurable event can be profiled and subsequently subtracted from a mud pulse telemetry signal. STA functions by placing a strobe in such a manner that the strobe is triggered for each cyclical event. The cyclical event in this disclosure is one (or more) revolution(s) of the drill string. If there is a pressure fluctuation that correlates to that cyclical event, it will be identified by a stable profile of that pressure fluctuation. This pressure profile is then used to remove the cyclical pressure fluctuation from the input mud pulse telemetry signal thereby allowing normal operation of the mud pulse telemetry system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Michael Louis Larronde, Robert Anthony Aiello
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Publication number: 20120000709Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying action of a drill bit while continuously rotating a drill string to which the drill bit is operationally attached. The steering system can include a bit perturbation device cooperating with a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to the drill string and to the drill bit. Drill bit action can be varied by periodically varying the rotation speed and/or rate of penetration of the drill bit. Periodic drill bit action results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, results in borehole deviation. Action of the drill bit can be varied independently of the rotation rate of the drill string.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Michael Louis Larronde, Roger P. Bartel, Charles Lee Mauldin, Robert Anthony Aiello
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Publication number: 20110108327Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying action of a drill bit while continuously rotating a drill string to which the drill bit is operationally attached. The steering system can include a bit perturbation device cooperating with a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to the drill string and to the drill bit. Drill bit action can be varied by periodically varying the rotation speed and/or rate of penetration of the drill bit. Periodic drill bit action results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, results in borehole deviation. Action of the drill bit can be varied independently of the rotation rate of the drill string.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: Precision Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Michael Louis Larronde, Roger P. Bartel, Charles Lee Mauldin, Robert Anthony Aiello
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Publication number: 20110071078Abstract: The present invention features methods and compositions for treating a patient who has a neurological deficit. The method can be carried out, for example, by contacting (in vivo or in culture) a neural progenitor cell of the patient's central nervous system (CNS) with a polypeptide that binds the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and directing progeny of the proliferating progenitor cells to migrate en masse to a region of the CNS in which they will reside and function in a manner sufficient to reduce the neurological deficit. The method may include a further step in which the progeny of the neural precursor cells are contacted with a compound that stimulates differentiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: James Steven Reid, James H. Fallon
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Publication number: 20100263933Abstract: A system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying the rotation speed of the drill bit. The steering system comprises a motor disposed in a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to a drill string and to the drill bit. The rotation speed of the drill bit is periodically varied by periodic varying the rotation speed of the motor or by periodic varying the rotation speed of the drill string. Periodic bit speed rotation results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, resulting in borehole deviation. Both the drill string and the drill motor are rotated simultaneously during straight and deviated borehole drilling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Steven Reid Farley
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Patent number: 7790669Abstract: The present invention features methods and compositions for treating a patient who has a neurological deficit. The method can be carried out, for example, by contacting (in vivo or in culture) a neural progenitor cell of the patient's central nervous system (CNS) with a polypeptide that binds the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and directing progeny of the proliferating progenitor cells to migrate en masse to a region of the CNS in which they will reside and function in a manner sufficient to reduce the neurological deficit. The method may include a further step in which the progeny of the neural precursor cells are contacted with a compound that stimulates differentiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Neurorepair, Inc.Inventors: James Steven Reid, James H. Fallon
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Patent number: 7766098Abstract: A system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying the rotation speed of the drill bit. The steering system comprises a motor disposed in a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to a drill string and to the drill bit. The rotation speed of the drill bit is periodically varied by periodic varying the rotation speed of the motor or by periodic varying the rotation speed of the drill string. Periodic bit speed rotation results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, resulting in borehole deviation. Both the drill string and the drill motor are rotated simultaneously during straight and deviated borehole drilling.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Precision Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Steven Reid Farley
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Publication number: 20100163308Abstract: A system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying action of a drill bit while continuously rotating a drill string to which the drill bit is operationally attached. The steering system comprises a bit perturbation device cooperating with a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to the drill string and to the drill bit. Drill bit action is varied by periodic varying the rotation speed or rate of penetration of the drill bit. Periodic drill bit action results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, resulting in borehole deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Steven Reid Farley, Michael Louis Larronde, Roger P. Bartel, Charles Lee Mauldin, Robert Anthony Aiello
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Patent number: 7730943Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining the direction of borehole azimuthal offset and the borehole radius of curvature. Rotation rate of a borehole assembly is measured and mathematically converted into azimuthal torque imparted to the borehole assembly. Relative azimuthal offset is determined from variations in azimuthal torque over a rotation cycle of the borehole assembly. Relative radius of curvature is obtained from the magnitude of azimuthal torque over a rotation cycle. Relative azimuthal offset is converted to true azimuthal offset using an independent reference angle measurement. Relative borehole curvature is converted to true radius of curvature using a calibration constant determined in known borehole conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Precision Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Steven Reid Farley
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Publication number: 20090266610Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining the direction of borehole azimuthal offset and the borehole radius of curvature. Rotation rate of a borehole assembly is measured and mathematically converted into azimuthal torque imparted to the borehole assembly. Relative azimuthal offset is determined from variations in azimuthal torque over a rotation cycle of the borehole assembly. Relative radius of curvature is obtained from the magnitude of azimuthal torque over a rotation cycle. Relative azimuthal offset is converted to true azimuthal offset using an independent reference angle measurement. Relative borehole curvature is converted to true radius of curvature using a calibration constant determined in known borehole conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Steven Reid Farley