Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Daffin

Thomas C. Daffin 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: 11162349
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting drilling operations, including geosteering operations, include generating, at a computing device of a drilling management system, a visualization of a vertical well section for a geological formation from drilling data of a target well and reference data for the geological formation. The computing device generates the visualization by correlating the drilling data and reference data and calculating probabilities that locations along the target well are located at different offsets relative to the reference point. The computing device further varies a visual property at the offsets based on the probabilities such that the visualization simultaneously indicates the probabilities for each the locations. The visualization may then be provided to users for implementing geosteering operations. The probabilities may also be used by the drilling management system to automatically conduct geosteering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ubiterra Corporation
    Inventors: Peter W. Flanagan, Thomas C. Daffin
  • Publication number: 20200109618
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting drilling operations, including geosteering operations, include generating, at a computing device of a drilling management system, a visualization of a vertical well section for a geological formation from drilling data of a target well and reference data for the geological formation. The computing device generates the visualization by correlating the drilling data and reference data and calculating probabilities that locations along the target well are located at different offsets relative to the reference point. The computing device further varies a visual property at the offsets based on the probabilities such that the visualization simultaneously indicates the probabilities for each the locations. The visualization may then be provided to users for implementing geosteering operations. The probabilities may also be used by the drilling management system to automatically conduct geosteering operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Ubiterra Corporation
    Inventors: Peter W. Flanagan, Thomas C. Daffin