Patents by Inventor Thomas Peter MERRIFIELD

Thomas Peter MERRIFIELD 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).

  • Method for identifying subsurface fluids and/or lithologies
    Patent number: 11525934
    Abstract: A method for a method for identifying a subsurface pore-filling fluid and/or lithology. A training set of field-acquired geophysical data and/or simulated geophysical data is provided to train a backpropagation-enabled process. The trained process is used on a field-acquired data set that is not part of the training set to infer presence of a subsurface pore-filling fluid and/or lithology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Paul Griffith, Sam Ahmad Zamanian, Russell David Potter, Stéphane Youri Richard Michael Joachim Gesbert, Thomas Peter Merrifield
  • METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SUBSURFACE FLUIDS AND/OR LITHOLOGIES
    Publication number: 20200363546
    Abstract: A method for a method for identifying a subsurface pore-filling fluid and/or lithology. A training set of field-acquired geophysical data and/or simulated geophysical data is provided to train a backpropagation-enabled process. The trained process is used on a field-acquired data set that is not part of the training set to infer presence of a subsurface pore-filling fluid and/or lithology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Donald Paul GRIFFITH, Sam Ahmad ZAMANIAN, Russell David POTTER, Stéphane Youri Richard Michael Joachim GESBERT, Thomas Peter MERRIFIELD