Patents by Inventor William J. Bailey

William J. Bailey 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: 12608724
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributing digital rewards between third parties. An example method includes receiving rewards data representative of at least a digital rewards profile comprising a digital rewards amount for a digital rewards program of a user and receiving a rewards mapping request comprising instructions to identify one or more available digital rewards sources compatible with the digital rewards amount. The example method further includes identifying one or more digital rewards sources comprising one or more of a second digital rewards profile comprising a second digital rewards amount, a promotion of the digital rewards program, or an incentive multiplier and causing transmission of at least one of a predefined digital rewards amount or the promotion of the digital rewards program. The example method further includes executing a purchase transaction for a product associated with a product cost of the digital rewards program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: John Andrew Chuprevich, Carrie Anne Hanson, David Price, Blair Bijou, William J. Bailey, Joseph de Bruin Tennis
  • Patent number: 12579232
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a user authentication determination pertaining to a first user. An example method includes receiving user identification indications. The example method further includes determining user identification feature confidence scores based on the user identification indications and one or more user profile features associated with the first user, and determining authentication requirements required for the first user for each inferred user visit reason determined for the user. The example method further includes performing user authentication determinations based on the user identification feature confidence scores and the authentication requirements, and providing a user information report, wherein the user information report includes the user authentication determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A
    Inventors: Joyce Keller, Joseph de Bruin Tennis, Matthew N. Wheeler, Ila Patel, John Andrew Chuprevich, William J. Bailey, Ling Yee Lindy Sin
  • Publication number: 20260044886
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for securely facilitating a package transfer between parties. An example method includes receiving a package offer indication and performing an authentication operation to authenticate a candidate drop-off user. If the candidate drop-off user is successfully authenticated, the example method may further include unlocking a compartment of a storage locker and generating a package purchase data object. The example method may further include receiving a package placement detection alert and in response, transmitting a payment to a seller account from an intermediary account based on the package purchase data object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Inventors: Matthew N. Wheeler, Carrie Anne Hanson, Joseph de Bruin Tennis, William J. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20250382854
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of mitigating liquid instability in controlled intra-well cross-flow between two, or more, zones accessed by a well. One or more embodiments define new functionalities necessary for dynamic multiphase flow (MPF) simulation to model, mitigate and control liquid instability observed in a well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Florian Hollaender, Bertrand Claude Emile Theuveny
  • Publication number: 20250371227
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models. One or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions in the one or more reservoir models may be defined. The one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions may define a graph network representative of the one or more reservoir models. The one or more reservoir models may be simulated along the one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Peter Tilke
  • Patent number: 12475493
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for securely facilitating a package transfer between parties. An example method includes receiving a package offer indication and providing a control signal to a storage locker compartment of a storage locker in response to determining a package drop-off indication. The example method may further include generating a package purchase data object and determining a package sale indication associated with the package offer indication. The example method may further include providing a control signal to the storage locker compartment housing a package associated with the package offer indication in response to determining a package pick-up indication and updating the package purchase data object based on the package sale indication. The example method may further include transmitting a payment to a seller account based on the package purchase data object in response to a payment trigger event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Matthew N. Wheeler, Carrie Anne Hanson, Joseph de Bruin Tennis, William J. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20250264005
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure includes a mixer configured to mix air and hydrocarbons and a burner configured to receive the mixed air and hydrocarbons and to generate syngas. The system also includes a cooling system configured to receive the syngas and to cool the syngas to form cooled syngas. The system further includes a collector configured to collect carbon from the cooled syngas as soot. Moreover, the system includes a flare stack configured to receive the cooled syngas and to burn off at least part of the cooled syngas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Bertrand Claude Theuveny, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Glen Andrew Hay
  • Patent number: 12387019
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models. One or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions in the one or more reservoir models may be defined. The one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions may define a graph network representative of the one or more reservoir models. The one or more reservoir models may be simulated along the one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Peter G. Tilke
  • Publication number: 20250163777
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for receiving one or more sets of parameters related to an operation corresponding to a wellbore. At a first time, the operation is simulated using the one or more sets of parameters and at least one simulator. Pertinent results from the simulation are recorded and stored in a table. The pertinent results include at least one constraint. At a second time, the constraint is retrieved from the table for performance of the operation, and the constraint is used to control the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Bertrand Claude Emile Theuveny, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Glen Andrew Hay
  • Publication number: 20250163800
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure include receiving measured data corresponding to a wellbore and locating the measured data in a flow map corresponding to the wellbore. The method also includes converting the measured data to determine friction loss and comparing the located measured data and the determined friction loss. Moreover, the method also includes determining that the located measured data is consistent with the determined friction loss with a common flow regime and deeming the common flow regime as a current flow regime. Furthermore, the method includes controlling an operation in the wellbore based at least in part on the deemed current flow regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Kashif Rashid
  • Publication number: 20250131446
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for digital product reimbursement management. An example method includes assigning a pending return status indicator to a transactional data record of a mobile banking application, the transactional data record being associated with a user. The example method also includes obtaining a first dataset associated with the user. The example method also includes determining that the first dataset corresponds to the transactional data record. The example method also includes reconciling the transactional data record based at least on the first dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Blair Bijou, William J. Bailey, Carrie Anne Hanson, David Price
  • Publication number: 20250095018
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributing digital rewards between third parties. An example method includes receiving rewards data representative of at least a digital rewards profile comprising a digital rewards amount for a digital rewards program of a user and receiving a rewards mapping request comprising instructions to identify one or more available digital rewards sources compatible with the digital rewards amount. The example method further includes identifying one or more digital rewards sources comprising one or more of a second digital rewards profile comprising a second digital rewards amount, a promotion of the digital rewards program, or an incentive multiplier and causing transmission of at least one of a predefined digital rewards amount or the promotion of the digital rewards program. The example method further includes executing a purchase transaction for a product associated with a product cost of the digital rewards program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: John Andrew Chuprevich, Carrie Anne Hanson, David Price, Blair Bijou, William J. Bailey, Joseph de Bruin Tennis
  • Publication number: 20250067147
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for receiving an indication of criteria for a function to be performed at a commercial process facility. The criteria are used to determine one or more scenarios that meet the criteria. Coupled simulators then generate one or more route maps from the one or more scenarios. A route map is selected from the one or more route maps that causes at least one operation of the route map to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Bertrand Claude Emile Theuveny, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Glen Andrew Hay
  • Publication number: 20250067146
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide for a process that includes receiving, at one or more processors, an indication to send a slug through a wellbore. The process also includes selecting, by the one or more processors, one or more choke templates indicating choke sizes of a choke for the wellbore. Moreover, the process includes controlling, using the one or more processors, the choke to the choke sizes based on the one or more templates as part of a wellbore clean-up process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Bertrand Claude Emile Theuveny, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid
  • Publication number: 20240118451
    Abstract: A method can include receiving realizations of a model of a reservoir that includes at least one well where the realizations represent uncertainty in a multidimensional space; selecting a portion of the realizations in a reduced dimensional space to preserve an amount of the uncertainty; optimizing an objective function based at least in part on the selected portion of the realizations; outputting parameter values for the optimized objective function; and generating at least a portion of a field operations plan based at least in part on at least a portion of the parameter values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Vijaya Halabe, William J. Bailey, Michael David Prange, Trevor Graham Tonkin
  • Patent number: 11899161
    Abstract: A method can include receiving realizations of a model of a reservoir that includes at least one well where the realizations represent uncertainty in a multidimensional space; selecting a portion of the realizations in a reduced dimensional space to preserve an amount of the uncertainty; optimizing an objective function based at least in part on the selected portion of the realizations; outputting parameter values for the optimized objective function; and generating at least a portion of a field operations plan based at least in part on at least a portion of the parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Vijaya Halabe, William J. Bailey, Michael David Prange, Trevor Graham Tonkin
  • Patent number: 11773700
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling gas lift in at least one production well, which determine a quadratic function that relates flow rate or value of oil produced from a production well to gas flow rate for gas injected into the production well based on flow rate measurements for gas injected into the production well and corresponding flow rate measurements of oil produced from the production well. The quadratic function is used to determine an optimal flow rate for gas injected into the production well. The optimal flow rate for gas injected into the production well is used to control the flow rate of gas injected into the production well, and an oil flow rate produced from the production well is measured at the optimal gas flow rate for iterative processing to refine the quadratic function and determination of optimal gas flow rate if need be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid
  • Patent number: 11680464
    Abstract: Methods of exploiting a formation containing a reservoir of hydrocarbons utilize a gas-liquid drift-flux (DF) model for a multi-segmented wellbore (MSW). The DF model is provided for use in conjunction with a reservoir simulator. The DF model is configured to account for pipe inclinations of the MSW between ?90° and +90° including horizontal or near-horizontal wellbores in addition to vertical and slanted wellbores. The DF model is based on mixture velocity as opposed to superficial velocities, thereby permitting the DF model to be integrated with reservoir models that utilize mixture velocity. The DF model can also be continuous and differentiable over all primary variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Hewei Tang, Terry Wayne Stone
  • Publication number: 20210198988
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling gas lift in at least one production well, which determine a quadratic function that relates flow rate or value of oil produced from a production well to gas flow rate for gas injected into the production well based on flow rate measurements for gas injected into the production well and corresponding flow rate measurements of oil produced from the production well. The quadratic function is used to determine an optimal flow rate for gas injected into the production well. The optimal flow rate for gas injected into the production well is used to control the flow rate of gas injected into the production well, and an oil flow rate produced from the production well is measured at the optimal gas flow rate for iterative processing to refine the quadratic function and determination of optimal gas flow rate if need be.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid
  • Publication number: 20210165937
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models. One or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions in the one or more reservoir models may be defined. The one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions may define a graph network representative of the one or more reservoir models. The one or more reservoir models may be simulated along the one or more edges between the one or more injector completions and the one or more producer completions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: William J. Bailey, Emilien Dupont, Lin Liang, Peter G. Tilke, Tuanfeng Zhang, Lingchen Zhu