Patents by Inventor Yijie ZHOU

Yijie ZHOU 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).

  • Publication number: 20240241278
    Abstract: A method is described for reservoir structure characterization including obtaining well logs and seismic data; performing facies classification and stratigraphic sequencing on the well logs to identify a plurality of layers; estimating wavelets from the seismic data and using the wavelets to tie synthetic seismograms from well logs to the seismic data; determining a mean value for each elastic property in each layer of the well logs and assigning the mean value to each layer to generate blocky well logs; using the wavelets to attempt to tie synthetic seismograms from the blocky well logs to the seismic data; defining facies-dependent properties based on the blocky well logs; performing global optimization using the facies-dependent properties and the seismic data to find thicknesses of the layers across the volume of interest; and mapping the reservoir structure based on the global optimization to generate a graphical representation of the reservoir structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventor: Yijie Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240240085
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a birdstrike avoidance optical flexible film, a preparation method and application thereof. Specifically, a birdstrike avoidance optical flexible film is disclosed in this application. The film has excellent selective transmission and reflection properties for visible light and ultraviolet light, and can realize effects of being transparent to human and being visible to birds. When the film is applied to buildings and/or vehicles. The optical film can be applied to buildings and/or vehicles to achieve effects of no influence on human aesthetic, birdstrike avoidance, and popularization in a large area, with profound significance for harmony between humans and birds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NALINV NANOTECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin XIAO, Yijie ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240210584
    Abstract: A method is described for seismic inversion with uncertainty quantification including performing low frequency Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) processes on rock physics models to generate low frequency models (LFMs) of rock properties and training a deep neural network using the low frequency models and synthetic seismograms to generate a trained neural network. Given a seismic dataset, the trained neural network can generate a high frequency rock property model and then broad-band MCMC processes can be performed on the high frequency rock property model for uncertainty quantification. The method is executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Ke Wang, Jinsong Chen, Yijie Zhou
  • Patent number: 12013507
    Abstract: A neural network is utilized to improve the resolution of subsurface inversion. The neural network leverages posterior distribution of samples and adds high frequency components to the inversion by utilizing the data in both the time domain and the frequency domain. The improved resolution of the subsurface inversion enables more accurate prediction of subsurface characteristics (e.g., reservoir architecture).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Zhao Zhang, Yijie Zhou, Sandra C. Saldana, David Bradly Christensen
  • Publication number: 20230194737
    Abstract: A neural network is utilized to improve the resolution of subsurface inversion. The neural network leverages posterior distribution of samples and adds high frequency components to the inversion by utilizing the data in both the time domain and the frequency domain. The improved resolution of the subsurface inversion enables more accurate prediction of subsurface characteristics (e.g., reservoir architecture).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Zhao Zhang, Yijie Zhou, Sandra C. Saldana, David Bradly Christensen
  • Publication number: 20210192369
    Abstract: A method for predicting the quality and shelf life of fruits or vegetables includes: recording ambient temperatures of the fruits or vegetables continuously using a temperature recorder from the beginning of plucking the fruits or vegetables and throughout entire supply chain including harvesting, grading, storage, transport and shelf period, determining an effective accumulated temperature value of the fruits during the entire supply chain, and predicting marketable fruit rate and nutritional quality of the fruits based on the effective accumulated temperature value. The marketable fruit rate, firmness and vitamin C content negatively correlate with the accumulated temperature value, and thus it is possible to predict the marketable fruit rate and storage quality of fruits based on the effective accumulated temperature values of the fruits or vegetables during the post-harvest storage and shelf period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Hongxia QU, Yijie ZHOU, Zhongsuzhi CHEN, Meiying HE, Hong ZHU, Ze YUN, Ying WANG, Yueming JIANG