Patents by Inventor Yiqiao Tang
Yiqiao Tang 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: 11947069Abstract: A method can include accessing a measurement model in memory of a downhole tool; determining an optimal parameter set using a processor of the downhole tool and the measurement model; and performing at least one measurement using at least one sensor of the downhole tool operated according to the optimal parameter set.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Nicholas Heaton, Martin Hurlimann, Scott DiPasquale, Diogenes Molina, Albina Rishatovna Mutina
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Patent number: 11828900Abstract: A method can include performing an operation using a system where the operation depends on a decision made via a digital decision model stored in memory of the system; responsive to a decision state of the digital decision model, transmitting a request to update the digital decision model; and responsive to the request, receiving an updated digital decision model, where the updated digital decision model includes at least one new decision state that improves performance of the operation of the system.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Martin Hurlimann, Yanxian Lin
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Patent number: 11754546Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a crude oil blending process use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensors which investigate properties of a plurality of crude oil streams that are mixed together to form a crude oil blend. An NMR sensor is also used to investigate the properties of the crude oil blend. The investigated properties may include viscosity. Resulting determinations may be used to control the input streams so that the output stream meets desired criteria. Additional sensors such as spectroscopy sensors, viscometers, and densitometers may be used in conjunction with the NMR sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Sharath Chandra Mahavadi, Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan, Kamilla Fellah, Simon Ivar Andersen, Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Shawn David Taylor, Gary Potten
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Patent number: 11732580Abstract: An NMR sensor is configured to make NMR measurements of a fluid and includes a housing defining a chamber. A nonmagnetic cap is deployed in the chamber and divides the chamber into first and second regions. The cap is sized and shaped to define a fluid collector in the first region. A magnet assembly is deployed in the second region and is configured to generate a static magnetic field in the fluid collector. A radio frequency (RF) coil is interposed between the magnet assembly and the cap and is configured to generate an RF magnetic field in the fluid collector. Methods include using the sensor to make NMR measurements of multi-phase fluids such as drilling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Reda Karoum, Yiqiao Tang, Shin Utsuzawa
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Patent number: 11543556Abstract: A method for evaluating drilling fluid includes making an NMR measurement of a sample of the drilling fluid and inverting the measurements to compute a corresponding T1T2 plot. The T1T2 plot is in turn evaluated to characterize the drilling fluid. In one embodiment, a stability index of the fluid may be computed from multiple NMR measurements made while aging the sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Reda Karoum, Yi-Qiao Song, Shin Utsuzawa, Stephen Cliffe
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Patent number: 11506810Abstract: An NMR well logging tool is provided that includes a sensor and associated electronic circuitry. The sensor includes an array of RF antenna elements. The electronic circuitry includes at least one low-power integrated circuit and a plurality of high-power modules corresponding the RF antenna elements of the array. Each high-power module is coupled to a corresponding RF antenna element of the array and includes an RF amplifier that is configured to amplify RF pulses generated by the at least one low-power integrated circuit and supplied thereto for transmission by the corresponding antenna element. In embodiments, the RF amplifier of each high-power module can include an H-bridge circuit or other suitable RF amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Yiqiao Tang, Shin Utsuzawa, Tancredi Botto, Irfan Bulu, Martin Hurlimann
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Publication number: 20220365241Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for optimizing well-logging using an optimized wait time determined by analysis nuclear magnetic resonance data to achieve faster and better quality borehole evaluation. The method comprises performing a nuclear magnetic resonance pre-log testing; identifying a wait time for a portion of a signal from the pre-log testing with a long T1 and T2, value at each depth of the pre-log testing, wherein T1 is defined as a longitudinal relaxation time and T2 is a transverse relaxation time ascertained from the nuclear magnetic resonance prelog testing; and constructing a logging program with a logging program wait time being consistent with the wait time identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Yiqiao Tang, Mehdi Hizem, Lukasz Zielinski, Michel Claverie, ZhanGuo Shi
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Patent number: 11501901Abstract: Magnet design is provided. A method customizes a magnetic field uniformity of a magnet by introducing one or more gaps between pieces of the magnet assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Irfan Bulu, Yi-Qiao Song, Mark Flaum, Tancredi Botto, Shin Utsuzawa
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Patent number: 11415567Abstract: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation and/or diffusion measurements are used to deduce fluid compositional information such as a chain-length distribution, which may then be used to predict the true boiling points (TBP) of a sample of a complex hydrocarbon fluid mixture, such as a crude oil. The NMR measurements may be considered a fast and portable proxy measurement in estimating fluid TBP distributions in lieu of distillation methods, or the simulated distillation by gas chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Sharath Chandra Mahavadi, Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan, Shawn David Taylor, Gary Potten
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Publication number: 20220178253Abstract: An NMR sensor is configured to make NMR measurements of a fluid and includes a housing defining a chamber. A nonmagnetic cap is deployed in the chamber and divides the chamber into first and second regions. The cap is sized and shaped to define a fluid collector in the first region. A magnet assembly is deployed in the second region and is configured to generate a static magnetic field in the fluid collector. A radio frequency (RF) coil is interposed between the magnet assembly and the cap and is configured to generate an RF magnetic field in the fluid collector. Methods include using the sensor to make NMR measurements of multi-phase fluids such as drilling fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Reda Karoum, Yiqiao Tang, Shin Utsuzawa
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Patent number: 11340377Abstract: A method for evaluating drilling fluid includes making an NMR measurement of a sample of the drilling fluid and inverting the measurements to compute a corresponding T1T2 plot. The T1T2 plot is in turn evaluated to characterize the drilling fluid. In one embodiment, a stability index of the fluid may be computed from multiple NMR measurements made while aging the sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Reda Karoum, Yi-Qiao Song, Shin Utsuzawa, Stephen Cliffe
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Publication number: 20220120931Abstract: An NMR well logging tool is provided that includes a sensor and associated electronic circuitry. The sensor includes an array of RF antenna elements. The electronic circuitry includes at least one low-power integrated circuit and a plurality of high-power modules corresponding the RF antenna elements of the array. Each high-power module is coupled to a corresponding RF antenna element of the array and includes an RF amplifier that is configured to amplify RF pulses generated by the at least one low-power integrated circuit and supplied thereto for transmission by the corresponding antenna element. In embodiments, the RF amplifier of each high-power module can include an H-bridge circuit or other suitable RF amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Yiqiao Tang, Shin Utsuzawa, Tancredi Botto, Irfan Bulu, Martin Hurlimann
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Publication number: 20220050223Abstract: A method for evaluating drilling fluid includes making an NMR measurement of a sample of the drilling fluid and inverting the measurements to compute a corresponding T1T2 plot. The T1T2 plot is in turn evaluated to characterize the drilling fluid. In one embodiment, a stability index of the fluid may be computed from multiple NMR measurements made while aging the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Yiqiao Tang, Reda Karoum, Yi-Qiao Song, Shin Utsuzawa, Stephen Cliffe
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Publication number: 20220035065Abstract: A method can include performing an operation using a system where the operation depends on a decision made via a digital decision model stored in memory of the system; responsive to a decision state of the digital decision model, transmitting a request to update the digital decision model; and responsive to the request, receiving an updated digital decision model, where the updated digital decision model includes at least one new decision state that improves performance of the operation of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Martin Hurlimann, Yanxian Lin
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Patent number: 11073633Abstract: An NMR system includes a radio frequency (RF) NMR application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip configured to generate an RF output signal and a rectifier configured to receive the RF output signal and convert the RF output signal to (a) a direct current (DC) pulsed field gradient (PFG) signal or (b) a DC trigger signal for at least one of (i) activating at least one component of an NMR system external to the NMR RF ASIC chip and (ii) synchronizing at least one component of an NMR system external to the NMR RF ASIC chip.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Soumyajit Mandal, Yiqiao Tang, David McCowan
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Publication number: 20210199838Abstract: A method can include accessing a measurement model in memory of a downhole tool; determining an optimal parameter set using a processor of the downhole tool and the measurement model; and performing at least one measurement using at least one sensor of the downhole tool operated according to the optimal parameter set.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Nicholas Heaton, Martin Hurlimann, Scott DiPasquale, Diogenes Molina, Albina Rishatovna Mutina
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Publication number: 20210041414Abstract: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation and/or diffusion measurements are used to deduce fluid compositional information such as a chain-length distribution, which may then be used to predict the true boiling points (TBP) of a sample of a complex hydrocarbon fluid mixture, such as a crude oil. The NMR measurements may be considered a fast and portable proxy measurement in estimating fluid TBP distributions in lieu of distillation methods, or the simulated distillation by gas chromatography.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Yiqiao TANG, Yi-Qiao SONG, Sharath Chandra MAHAVADI, Ravinath Kausik KADAYAM VISWANATHAN, Shawn David TAYLOR, Gary POTTEN
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Publication number: 20200340971Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a crude oil blending process use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensors which investigate properties of a plurality of crude oil streams that are mixed together to form a crude oil blend. An NMR sensor is also used to investigate the properties of the crude oil blend. The investigated properties may include viscosity. Resulting determinations may be used to control the input streams so that the output stream meets desired criteria. Additional sensors such as spectroscopy sensors, viscometers, and densitometers may be used in conjunction with the NMR sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Sharath Chandra Mahavadi, Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan, Kamilla Fellah, Simon Ivar Andersen, Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Shawn David Taylor, Gary Potten
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Publication number: 20200301039Abstract: Small-sized flowlines are provided for use in NMR apparatus. The small-sized flowlines can have a channel with an inner diameter or maximum width of less than 0.2 inch and can be made of sapphire, yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), or extruded polyether ether ketone (PEEK), which are useful in high temperature, high pressure environments such as downhole in a geological formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Martin Hurlimann, Christopher Harrison, Marcus Hofheins Donaldson, Mark Flaum
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Patent number: 10386530Abstract: A coaxial nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe and related methods are described herein. The coaxial NMR probe includes a housing with a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, a longitudinal axis, and an interior volume. The housing contains a fluid sample that is analyzed by the probe. The coaxial NMR probe also includes an elongated conductor disposed along the longitudinal axis of the housing. The elongated conductor generates an oscillating electromagnetic field within the interior volume of the housing. The oscillating electromagnetic field produces a NMR signal within the fluid sample. The elongated conductor may also be used to receive this NMR signal. The NMR signal is then analyzed to determine information about the fluid sample. Various NMR pulse sequences for use with this coaxial probe and other coaxial probes are also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Soumyajit Mandal, Yiqiao Tang, Martin D. Hurlimann, Jeffrey Paulsen