Patents by Inventor William Walter
William Walter 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).
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Patent number: 11970658Abstract: Methods and compositions for use in the inhibition of the formation of gas hydrate agglomerates are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: providing an emulsion drilling fluid including: a continuous phase including a non-oleaginous fluid; an internal phase including an oleaginous fluid; and a thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor; and drilling at least a portion of a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Walter Shumway, Jay Paul Deville
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Publication number: 20240132559Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for reducing expression of MYC gene in a cell. In some embodiments, an expression repressor comprises a targeting moiety that binds a MYC promoter, anchor sequence, or super-enhancer. In some embodiments, the expression repressor comprises an effector moiety that represses transcription or methylates DNA. Systems comprising two expression repressors are also disclosed. The compositions can be used, for example, to treat cancers such as HCC or NSCLC.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Abigail Elizabeth WITT, Jeremiah Dale FARELLI, Adam Walter SCHEIDEGGER, William Thomas SENAPEDIS, Jr., Jodi Michelle KENNEDY, Houda BELAGHZAL, Defne YARAR, Eugine LEE
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Publication number: 20240097924Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically executing scripts for event in response to user activity within the event. A server executing a video conferencing service, receives meeting scheduling information and a set of user-specified scripting information from a user requesting to generate an event. In response to receiving a request from user device to access the event, the server causes display of an event interface to the device, the displayed interface including indications of sub-groups of a group of users accessing the conferencing service via a plurality of user devices and an indication of a video feed of a user in the group of users that is currently active. In response to one or more triggers corresponding to the event, one or more scripts are executed for the event, where executing the one or more scripts includes altering the displayed interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Antonia Theodora Hellman, Ethan Duncan He-Li Hellman, Steven Emmanuel Hellman, Ivo Walter Rothschild, Paul Robert Murphy, Asahi Sato, William Hans Von Hippel, Michel Henri Georges Cassius
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Patent number: 11927062Abstract: Methods for manufacturing lost circulation material particulates that may be for use in treating a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing at a well-site a feed vessel that contains a liquid material, the liquid material including a monomer and an initiator; providing an injection device disposed underneath the feed vessel for directing at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to a reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a fluid; discharging at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to the reaction chamber through an orifice disposed on the injection device; and forming LCM particulates at least in part by allowing at least a portion of the liquid material to polymerize in the fluid in the reaction chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
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Publication number: 20240066293Abstract: Methods and devices for implanting spinal cord stimulation devices, including thin-film spinal cord stimulation devices. In some embodiments, the devices include an introduction needle and/or sheath, a stylet, and a pushing device for urging a stimulation device into the epidural space by controlling the proximal end of the device, including, in some cases, deformable thin-film spinal cord stimulation devices. Further implementations include a deployment device for ensuring deployment of the stimulation device in the epidural space. In other embodiments, the devices include sutures attached to a distal portion of the stimulation device, at least one introduction tube, a lead introduction device, and/or a suture introduction device for urging a stimulation device into the epidural space by controlling both the proximal and distal ends of the device, including, in some cases, deformable thin-film spinal cord stimulation devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Maria Francisca Porto Cruz Westermann, Maria Vomero, Camilo Diaz-Botia, Samuel Ong, Alfonso Chavez, William Walter Norman, Marcus Allen Szamlewski
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Patent number: 11898553Abstract: A plate segment for a reciprocating pump power end frame assembly, the power end frame assembly having a pair of end plate segments and at least one middle plate segment disposed between the end plate segments. The plate segment consists of the middle plate segment or one of the pair of end plate segments and includes a plate having a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of sidewalls and at least one opening forming a bearing support surface, the opening extending through the plate. The plate segment further includes at least one extension extending from at least one of the sidewalls of the plate at a position to align with and contact a corresponding extension on an adjacently positioned plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas Inc.Inventors: Joseph H. Byrne, Chandu Kumar, Kourosh Momenkhani, Jacob A. Bayyouk, Sean P. Moran, Donald Keith Plemons, William Walter Marshall, IV, Christopher B. Buckley
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Patent number: 11891894Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pulsed-power drilling system that includes downhole mixers for restoring optimal electrical properties in drilling fluid. The downhole mixer may include a housing having an uphole and downhole end, a channel to convey the drilling fluid through the housing, and a flow restrictor including an orifice having a fixed diameter positioned in the channel between the entrance and the exit of the channel to create a pressure drop between the entrance and the exit of the channel during a drilling operation. The pressure drop increases shear stress in the drilling fluid to manage electrical properties, such as a dielectric constant, of the drilling fluid. The electrical properties of the drilling fluid facilitate the formation of an electrical arc on a drill bit of the pulsed-power drilling system.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway
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Patent number: 11773858Abstract: A motor adapter assembly can couple a motor shaft for a ceiling fan motor to a downrod. The motor adapter assembly can include a base plate, a cradle with arms extending through the base plate, and a threaded bushing secured between the arms of the cradle. Threading a cap to the threaded bushing can be used to pivot the downrod between an upright position and a pivoted position.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventors: William Walter Walker, Jr., Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson, Charles William Botkin, Rickey Thomas Jones
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Patent number: 11773312Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and systems directed to filter cake removal embodying a delayed breaker fluid for oil-based drill-in fluids. A wellbore treatment method comprising: introducing a delayed breaker fluid into a wellbore, wherein the delayed breaker fluid comprises an aqueous base fluid, an acid precursor, and a carbodiimide; and contacting a filter cake in the wellbore with the delayed breaker fluid such that the filter cake is at least partially degraded by acid released from the acid precursor.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Catherine Martin Santos, William Walter Shumway, Jay Paul Deville
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Publication number: 20230287745Abstract: Methods for manufacturing lost circulation material particulates that may be for use in treating a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing at a well-site a feed vessel that contains a liquid material, the liquid material including a monomer and an initiator; providing an injection device disposed underneath the feed vessel for directing at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to a reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a fluid; discharging at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to the reaction chamber through an orifice disposed on the injection device; and forming LCM particulates at least in part by allowing at least a portion of the liquid material to polymerize in the fluid in the reaction chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
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Publication number: 20230175516Abstract: A motor adapter assembly can couple a motor shaft for a ceiling fan motor to a downrod. The motor adapter assembly can include a base plate, a cradle with arms extending through the base plate, and a threaded bushing secured between the arms of the cradle. Threading a cap to the threaded bushing can be used to pivot the downrod between an upright position and a pivoted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: William Walter Walker, Jr., Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson, Charles William Botkin, Rickey Thomas Jones
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Publication number: 20230167715Abstract: A method including precipitating a precipitate including one or more divalent cation carbonates from a solution including the divalent cation of each of the one or more divalent cation carbonates, and storing at least a portion of the precipitate downhole by placing the at least the portion of the precipitate downhole via a well. Precipitating can include contacting the solution with a gas, such as atmospheric air, including carbon dioxide (CO2). The method can further include separating the precipitate from the solution, and forming a slurry including the at least a portion of the precipitate. Placing the at least the portion of the precipitate downhole via the well can include pumping the slurry downhole via the well. A system is also provided. Via the system and method, CO2 can be sequestered downhole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Hui ZHOU, William Walter SHUMWAY
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Patent number: 11661542Abstract: Provided is a method for mitigating a lost circulation zone. The method may include providing a lost circulation treatment composition that may include an acid responsive polymer that may include at least one monomer, at least one comonomer, and at least one crosslinker; a carbonate-based solvent; and a carrier fluid that may include water. The method may also include introducing the lost circulation treatment composition into a wellbore within a subterranean formation, wherein the subterranean formation may include the lost circulation zone; placing the lost circulation treatment composition into the lost circulation zone, hydrolyzing the carbonate-based solvent to generate carbon dioxide, and causing the swelling (change of shape) of acid responsive polymer to mitigate the losses.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Sunita Sameer Kadam, William Walter Shumway, Rahul Chandrakant Patil
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Patent number: 11649399Abstract: A method includes providing a treatment fluid including a strong acid precursor defined by the structure: where X is independently selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; where each of R1, R2, and R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen, X, and a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain; and where the electron withdrawing group (EWG) is independently selected from a carboxylic acid, carboxylate salt, or carboxylate ester, an orthoester, a sulfonic acid, sulfonate salt, or ester, a phosphonic acid, phosphonate salt, or phosphonate ester, a nitrate, or a cyanide; where Y is hydrogen, a cation, or a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain; and wherein each R? is independently is independently selected from a hydrogen, X, and a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain. The method also includes introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hui Zhou, William Cecil Pearl, Jr., William Walter Shumway
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Publication number: 20230142443Abstract: A method includes providing a treatment fluid including a strong acid precursor defined by the structure: where X is independently selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; where each of R1, R2, and R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen, X, and a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain; and where the electron withdrawing group (EWG) is independently selected from a carboxylic acid, carboxylate salt, or carboxylate ester, an orthoester, a sulfonic acid, sulfonate salt, or ester, a phosphonic acid, phosphonate salt, or phosphonate ester, a nitrate, or a cyanide; where Y is hydrogen, a cation, or a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain; and wherein each R? is independently is independently selected from a hydrogen, X, and a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain. The method also includes introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Hui ZHOU, William Cecil PEARL, JR., William Walter SHUMWAY
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Publication number: 20230147866Abstract: A fast, flexible, and affordable structural building solution is disclosed. Current construction methodologies are prohibitively costly, slow, and wasteful. This construction method provides responsive and adaptive short to long term structural solutions. A reconfigurable flat packed modular structure can be shipped, assembled, and move-in ready in a fraction of the time of standard structural solutions. This system is easy to assemble and reusable with decreased maintenance costs and utilizes standardized shipping infrastructure. The structural elements are designed to build flexible residential, commercial, and industrial spaces. Component standardization reduces construction and maintenance cost over traditional building methods. The ease of construction reduces the learning curve for the assembly process. Embedded utilities in the components further minimize construction time. The modular nature of the design system allows for rapid assembly, disassembly, and redeployment as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Kelly Wayne Pickering, William Walter Finch
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Patent number: 11624019Abstract: Compositions with modified tannins can be used in wellbore operations. A composition can include an oil, a modified tannin, a dimer fatty acid, an aqueous liquid, and an emulsifier, where the material is injectable into a wellbore. The modified tannin may be treated with a primary amine, secondary amine, tertiary amine, or quaternary amine. The compositions may be used as drilling fluids having enhanced yield point and fluid loss control properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Walter Shumway, Hui Zhou
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Patent number: 11598341Abstract: A motor adapter assembly can couple a motor shaft for a ceiling fan motor to a downrod. The motor adapter assembly can include a base plate, a cradle with arms extending through the base plate, and a threaded bushing secured between the arms of the cradle. Threading a cap to the threaded bushing can be used to pivot the downrod between an upright position and a pivoted position.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventors: William Walter Walker, Jr., Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson, Charles William Botkin, Rickey Thomas Jones
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Patent number: 11591508Abstract: Treatment fluids and methods of using a treatment fluid for minimizing fluid loss in a wellbore are disclosed. A method may comprise providing a drill-in fluid. The drill-in fluid may comprise an aqueous liquid, a base oil, a polyol, an emulsifying surfactant, and a solid bridging agent. The method may further comprise circulating the drill-in fluid through a drill-string and past a drill bit. The method may further comprise drilling in a reservoir section of a subterranean formation to extend a wellbore in the reservoir section the drill-in fluid is circulated therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Chesnee Lae Davis, Jeffrey J. Miller, William Walter Shumway
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Patent number: 11499087Abstract: Methods and compositions for the use of thermally responsive lost circulation materials in subterranean formations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods include introducing a treatment fluid including a base fluid and a thermally responsive lost circulation material including a thermally responsive hydrogel that includes at least one thermoresponsive polymer into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation including a loss zone; allowing the thermally responsive lost circulation material to reach a thickening transition temperature; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set in the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May