Patents by Inventor Vaibhav Sule

Vaibhav Sule 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).

  • Multi-beam phased array acoustic transducer operation for downhole applications
    Patent number: 9784874
    Abstract: An apparatus for imaging a borehole wall includes an array of acoustic transducers and a controller. The controller scans a section of the borehole wall with first acoustic beams that are transmitted by a series of sets of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent first acoustic measurements that are spaced a first distance D1 apart along the borehole wall, each set having at least one transducer that is different from an adjacent set, (ii) steers a second acoustic beam along the section of the borehole wall using one set of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent second acoustic measurements that are a second distance D2 apart along the borehole wall, and (iii) images the borehole wall using the first acoustic measurements and the second acoustic measurement to generate a borehole wall image, wherein at least one second acoustic measurement is between adjacent first acoustic measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James V. Leggett, Kamalesh Chatterjee, Roger R. Steinsiek, Vaibhav Sule, Jinsong Zhao
  • MULTI-BEAM PHASED ARRAY ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER OPERATION FOR DOWNHOLE APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20160170063
    Abstract: An apparatus for imaging a borehole wall includes an array of acoustic transducers and a controller. The controller scans a section of the borehole wall with first acoustic beams that are transmitted by a series of sets of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent first acoustic measurements that are spaced a first distance D1 apart along the borehole wall, each set having at least one transducer that is different from an adjacent set, (ii) steers a second acoustic beam along the section of the borehole wall using one set of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent second acoustic measurements that are a second distance D2 apart along the borehole wall, and (iii) images the borehole wall using the first acoustic measurements and the second acoustic measurement to generate a borehole wall image, wherein at least one second acoustic measurement is between adjacent first acoustic measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: James V. Leggett, Kamalesh Chatterjee, Roger R. Steinsiek, Vaibhav Sule, Jinsong Zhao