Patents by Inventor Ulisses Thibes Mello

Ulisses Thibes Mello 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).

  • Publication number: 20220291405
    Abstract: Storing and retrieving subsurface rock physical property models for well drilling by generating estimated subsurface rock physical property models based on a respective set of seismic data, determining a stratigraphic classification for each model based on seismic interpretation data; storing the models associated classification in a database, determining characteristics of the seismic data used to generate the models, selecting from the database a subset of the models based on a similarity of the stratigraphic classification, determining measures of similarity between the characteristics of the seismic data used to generate each of subset of the models and a new set of seismic data and retrieving an estimated subsurface rock physical property model from the subset models based on the similarity measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Leonardo Silveira de Albuquerque Martins, Dario Sergio Cersosimo, Leonardo Pondian Tizzei, Emilio Ashton Vital Brazil, Rodrigo da Silva Ferreira, Renato Fontoura de Gusmao Cerqueira, Joana de Noronha Ribeiro de Almeida, Astrid de Jesus Torres Fernandez, Ulisses Thibes Mello
  • Patent number: 9262124
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for estimating risk of impact of a natural disaster on a populated area. The method includes using dynamic natural disaster modeling information to estimate a spatio-temporal distribution of a parameter of a potential natural disaster, wherein the modeling information is input to an instance of a weather forecast model which computes simulation results for natural disaster parameters for an area at a given time interval and the results produced on each time step within the time interval the estimate of the spatio-temporal distribution, and using static demographic data to estimate risk of impact of the parameter of the natural disaster on a populated area based on the estimated spatio-temporal distribution, wherein the demographic data is overlayed with the estimated spatio-temporal distribution via applying a weight to each populated area based on historical natural disaster incidents and related impact for each area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ulisses Thibes Mello, Lucas Villa Real
  • Patent number: 8523487
    Abstract: A method for disposal of desalination concentrated brine waste product from a desalination process provides that the desalination concentrated brine waste product is injected, along with a carbon dioxide waste product, typically into an imperviously capped porous rock formation, typically including a saline aquifer. The desalination concentrated brine waste product and the carbon dioxide waste product (i.e., which may be injected as a supercritical liquid) may be injected simultaneously or sequentially. The method provides for environmentally acceptable disposal of the desalination concentrated brine waste product and the carbon dioxide waste product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christos John Georgiou, Ulisses Thibes Mello
  • Publication number: 20130132045
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for estimating risk of impact of a natural disaster on a populated area. The method includes using dynamic natural disaster modeling information to estimate a spatio-temporal distribution of a parameter of a potential natural disaster, wherein the modeling information is input to an instance of a weather forecast model which computes simulation results for natural disaster parameters for an area at a given time interval and the results produced on each time step within the time interval the estimate of the spatio-temporal distribution, and using static demographic data to estimate risk of impact of the parameter of the natural disaster on a populated area based on the estimated spatio-temporal distribution, wherein the demographic data is overlayed with the estimated spatio-temporal distribution via applying a weight to each populated area based on historical natural disaster incidents and related impact for each area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ulisses Thibes Mello, Lucas Villa Real
  • Publication number: 20100326924
    Abstract: A method for disposal of desalination concentrated brine waste product from a desalination process provides that the desalination concentrated brine waste product is injected, along with a carbon dioxide waste product, typically into an imperviously capped porous rock formation, typically including a saline aquifer. The desalination concentrated brine waste product and the carbon dioxide waste product (i.e., which may be injected as a supercritical liquid) may be injected simultaneously or sequentially. The method provides for environmentally acceptable disposal of the desalination concentrated brine waste product and the carbon dioxide waste product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christos John Georgiou, Ulisses Thibes Mello