Patents by Inventor William Dean Gibson

William Dean Gibson 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: 6816787
    Abstract: A visualization application will generate a Virtual Core representing a compilation of any formation property data, the compilation being a 2 and 1/2 D representation of any formation property. The compilation is generated by creating, in response to an integrated formation evaluation in 1D, a 2 and 1/2 D representation of each 1D formation property in the 1D formation evaluation, when the 1D property can be related to the 2 and 1/2 D physical magnitude combining the 2 and 1/2 D physical magnitude image with the 1D facies log thereby generating a 2 and 1/2 D facies image. The Software will also generate a Virtual Plug representing an average estimate of all formation properties over a prescribed surface or volume in the vicinity of a selection made on the compilation (i.e., on the Virtual Core). When an interaction with the Virtual Core occurs, all results generated by those interactions will be restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Ramamoorthy, Ashok Srivastava, Amr Essawi, William Dean Gibson
  • Publication number: 20040204857
    Abstract: A visualization application will generate a Virtual Core representing a compilation of any formation property data, the compilation being a 2 and ½ D representation of any formation property. The compilation is generated by creating, in response to an integrated formation evaluation in 1D, a 2 and ½ D representation of each 1D formation property in the 1D formation evaluation, when the 1D property can be related to the 2 and ½ D physical magnitude combining the 2 and ½ D physical magnitude image with the 1D facies log thereby generating a 2 and ½ D facies image. The Software will also generate a Virtual Plug representing an average estimate of all formation properties over a prescribed surface or volume in the vicinity of a selection made on the compilation (i.e., on the Virtual Core). When an interaction with the Virtual Core occurs, all results generated by those interactions will be restored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Raghu Ramamoorthy, Ashok Srivastava, Amr Essawi, William Dean Gibson