Patents by Inventor William Wooden

William Wooden 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: 9803453
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating of vibrations for enhancing of forming at least one fracture having a required width r and length L in the formation surrounding a wellbore in the regime of resonance by means of applying vibrations to the formation which is undergoing pressurizing exceeding the fracture gradient pressure of the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Applied Seismic Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sergey Kostrov, William Wooden
  • Publication number: 20170016308
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating of vibrations for enhancing of forming at least one fracture having a required width r and length L in the formation surrounding a wellbore in the regime of resonance by means of applying vibrations to the formation which is undergoing pressurizing exceeding the fracture gradient pressure of the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Sergey Kostrov, William Wooden
  • Patent number: 9376903
    Abstract: The method for enhancing of forming at least one fracture having a required width r and length L in the formation surrounding fracturing around a wellbore in the regime of resonance by means of applying vibrations to the formation which is undergoing pressurizing exceeding the fracture gradient pressure of the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Inventors: Sergey Kostrov, William Wooden
  • Publication number: 20110005973
    Abstract: The method and apparatus to decrease viscosity of crude oil or bitumen and increase the rate of fractional extraction by breaking the high molecular chains in crude oil or bitumen undergoing treatment which includes a flow of crude oil or bitumen inside the treatment unit under simultaneous affection by cavitations and vibrations on different frequencies and between at least two opposite conical jets formed inside the diffusers having the same axis of symmetry and interacting with each other under the conditions of an auto-oscillations of the periodic backward flows of fluid inside each conical jet due to a periodic negative pressure inside each conical jet and the periodic negative pressure is determined in accordance with the following formulae: P a = P 0 - ? ? ? ? ? V 2 2 , ? wherein ? ? V = f ? ( D 4 - 2 ? R ) Sh , Pa is negative pressure in backward flow between the opposite conical jets, P0 is the atmospheric pressure, ? is the density of crude oil or bi
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, Sergey V. Bortkevitch, Aleksey M. Boldyrev, William Wooden
  • Publication number: 20050077636
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for making a micro-dispersed gas-liquid mixture which includes a gas-liquid ejector unit, a cavitation unit and a jet dispersing unit installed in a sequence. All above referenced units are installed into a cylindrical housing which in turn includes bottom and top covers and also has a first partition having a conical orifice separating a gas-liquid ejector unit from a cavitation unit and a second partition separating a cavitation unit from a jet dispersing unit. The gas-liquid ejector unit has an inlet located at the bottom of the cylindrical housing for liquid and the inlet located on side surface of housing for gas, these being between bottom cover of the housing and the first partition. In addition, the inlet for liquid is a nozzle the top having both outside and inside parts of which are adapted to the conical orifice of first partition to provide a required flow-rate of an ejected gas through the gas inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Sergey Bortkevitch, Sergey Kostrov, Nickolay Savitsky, William Wooden