Patents by Inventor Walter Edward Brown

Walter Edward Brown 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 of controlling tensile-splitting and hydro-shearing parameters during completion of enhanced geothermal system wells
    Patent number: 12352133
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, Sr., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, David Walter Edward Brown, David Lynn Copeland
  • Method of Controlling Tensile-Splitting and Hydro-Shearing Parameters During Completion of Enhanced Geothermal System Wells
    Publication number: 20250075593
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, SR., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, David Walter Edward Brown, David Lynn Copeland
  • Wire spool guide
    Patent number: D739717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventor: Walter Edward Brown
  • Wire spool guide
    Patent number: D739718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventor: Walter Edward Brown
  • Wire spool guide
    Patent number: D739719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventor: Walter Edward Brown
  • Wire spool guide
    Patent number: D740644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventor: Walter Edward Brown
  • Wire spool guide
    Patent number: D741154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventor: Walter Edward Brown