Patents Issued in June 18, 2024
  • Patent number: 12012797
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety device for a lifting gate, in particular for a fast-running lifting gate having a gate leaf movable up and down and guided along both lateral gate opening edges in frames, a free leading edge of the gate leaf being assigned, at a distance (D) below the leading edge, to a photoelectric barrier (LS) which travels with the movement of the gate leaf, wherein the distance (D) can be reduced in a lower end region of a travel path of the gate leaf, and wherein at least a transmitting and/or a receiving unit and/or an opposite reflector unit of the photoelectric barrier (LS) is guided and/or arranged within a frame body of the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Efaflex Inzeniring d.o.o. Ljubljana
    Inventors: Borut Mocnik, Alen Ljoki
  • Patent number: 12012798
    Abstract: The frame of a cantilevered gate is formed from upper and lower tracks, each of which is formed from a series of track sections. Adjacent track sections are spliced together. At the lower track, two mirror-image lower splicing elements fit over opposite sides of the joined track sections. At the upper track, a single upper splicing element forms an external connection between the track sections, while a splicing block forms an internal connection. Paired upper and lower track sections are joined by upright members. The upright members are seated at opposite ends within a tubular member of a track section. Each tubular member includes an elongate external fin to which pickets are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Ameristar Perimeter Security USA Inc.
    Inventors: Benton P. Flusche, Nathan T. Haney
  • Patent number: 12012799
    Abstract: A frame assembly, for use in window and door applications configured to retain a panel, comprising a frame with a cover assembly and a support assembly having a track assembly, and a sill assembly and a header assembly both interconnected to a securing surface. The cover assembly is interconnected to the support assembly. The sill assembly comprises a roller member disposed in supporting relation to the track assembly, and the header assembly is disposed in supporting relation to the support assembly so that the frame is movable relative to both the header assembly and the sill assembly. At least a portion of the frame comprises a predetermined thickness and a predetermined width. The predetermined thickness is substantially less than the predetermined width so that both cooperatively and concurrently enhance viewing through the panel and the frame's stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Bruno Salvoni
  • Patent number: 12012800
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aperture cover such as a window or a door. The aperture cover comprises a vacuum insulated glass unit (3), and a frame (2, 17) such as a sash. The frame (2, 17) comprises elongated structural frame members (8) which together encloses a frame opening (2a). The vacuum insulated glass unit (3) overlaps (18) at least one of the elongated structural frame members (8) so that the edge surface (7) of the vacuum insulated glass unit (3) extends beyond the outer side surface (14) of the overlapped elongated structural frame member (8). The frame (2) moreover comprises an elongated connection profile (6) comprising a connection wall member (6a) which extends parallel to the overlapped structural frame member (8) and is connected to at least one of the outer major surfaces (S1, S2) of the vacuum insulated glass unit (3), and the elongated connection profile (6) comprises a fixation member (6b) which is connected to the overlapped structural frame member (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: VKR HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Utku Ahmet Özden, Jacob Christian Molbo, Jens Troels Plesner Kristensen, Søren Vejling Andersen, Peter Jean Claude Gadgaard Tønning, Simon Johnsen
  • Patent number: 12012801
    Abstract: Blast, ballistic, and entry resistant operable window systems include a sliding exterior glazing panel assembly, a sliding interior glazing panel assembly, an exterior frame assembly that receives the sliding exterior glazing panel assembly, an interior frame assembly that receives the sliding interior glazing panel assembly, an exterior gasket for placement between the exterior frame assembly and the wall of the building, a central gasket for placement between the exterior frame assembly and the interior frame assembly, and an interior gasket for placement between the interior frame assembly and the wall of the building. Methods of installation in a wall of a building are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: John S. Judson, Jessica K. Vankirk, David V. Senior, Craig R. Ackerman, Daniel Duke
  • Patent number: 12012802
    Abstract: A soundproof door system includes a chute; a door body, where a bottom of the door body is inserted into the chute and able to slide along the chute; a first roller disposed on the bottom of the door body and supported on a bottom wall of the chute; a first soundproof plate provided with a first end connected to the door body and a second end abutting against an inner wall of the chute; a second soundproof plate provided with a third end connected to the door body and a fourth end abutting against the inner wall of the chute; and the first end and the third end are respectively located on two sides of the door body, and the second end and the fourth end are respectively located on both sides of the door body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: State Grid Henan Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Donghui Wang, Songyang Zhang, Leilei Wang, Zhuangzhuang Zhang, Guangzhou Wang, Xing Guo, Yuan Li, Xu Tian, Weipo Liu, Zhongbin Lv, Jinfeng Geng, Degui Yao
  • Patent number: 12012803
    Abstract: A seal for an overhead door includes a first sidewall, and a second sidewall that extends from the first sidewall. The first and second sidewalls extend beyond a bottom corner of the overhead door to cover an opening formed by compression of an astragal attached to a bottom surface of the overhead door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: THERMO TRAKS INC.
    Inventors: John D. Patock, Carl J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 12012804
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to protecting roller devices and assemblies that prevent damage caused by doors, such as garage doors. The protecting roller devices can include two separable portions each having a wheel at one end, with a connection portion therebetween. In some embodiments, the connecting portion passes through a hollow axle of a hinge to connect the separable portions. In some other embodiments, the protecting roller device can comprise a middle portion that can be connected to the hinge, such as using a fastener. The highest point of the protecting roller device can be above the highest point of the hinge, such that the protecting roller device will encounter an obstruction such as an automobile instead of the hinge. The protecting roller device can be made of a material designed to prevent or minimize damage to the obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Carl Cleavenger
  • Patent number: 12012805
    Abstract: A door, which includes a variable light transmission panel and a frame and is mounted on a body by a hinge so as to be opened and closed, is disclosed, and the door includes a glass member provided on a front surface side of the frame, a protective panel provided on an inner surface side of the frame, the variable light transmission panel provided between the glass member and the protective panel and including a sheet made of a thermoplastic resin of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polycarbonate (PC) and nano-sized dyes, a light-emitting member provided between the protective panel and the variable light transmission panel, and a power supply member configured to supply power to the light-emitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: INTOSEE CO. LTD
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Oh, Chan Ho Kim, Eun Seon Chi, Ye Lin Han
  • Patent number: 12012806
    Abstract: The elevated work platform for use with a ladder comprises a tripod base having an adjustable vertical support, a brace and a trolley. The trolley comprising wheels and a tongue on the tripod base. The tripod base further comprising three legs wherein one leg may be disposed between the front and back legs of a step ladder and another of the three legs adjacent to the front legs of the ladder with the third leg adjacent to the back leg of the ladder. The vertical support comprises a multi-piece pole having an adjustable coupling at each junction for adjusting the height of the platform. The brace is attached between the front and back legs of the ladder to hold the work platform in spaced relation to the ladder. The legs may fold up to a generally parallel orientation to the vertical support for transport by wheels like a two wheel dolly or storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Chris Ingraffia
  • Patent number: 12012807
    Abstract: A drill bit is provided. The drill bit includes a bit body and an axle disposed in the bit body. The axle includes a first axle portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a second axle portion extending in the longitudinal direction. A longitudinal end of the first axle portion is continuous with a longitudinal end of the second axle portion. When viewed from the longitudinal direction, the first axle portion and the second axle portion are not coaxial, and an outer perimeter of the first axle portion is located entirely within an outer perimeter of the second axle portion. The drill bit also includes a first cutter disposed on the first axle portion and a second cutter disposed on the second axle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Bruce Caraway
  • Patent number: 12012808
    Abstract: A drilling rig system includes a mast that includes one or more front legs, one or more rear legs positioned opposite the one or more front legs, and a crown block at the top of the mast. The system also includes a raising line coupled to the crown block or the one or more rear legs and configured to apply a first force to the mast. The first force acts in a direction opposing a second force generated by the weight of the mast as the mast pivots between a substantially horizontal position and a substantially vertical position. The system also includes a drawworks assembly coupled to the raising line and configured to pull the raising line to generate the first force, and a telescoping spring assembly coupled to the one or more front legs. The telescoping spring assembly is configured to apply a third force to the mast that acts in the direction opposing the second force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Fathalla Shalouf
  • Patent number: 12012809
    Abstract: Systems for pipe tallying in well drilling operations and methods for using the same are described. The pipe tallying systems determine a number of pipe joints that pass through an inlet based on the diameter of the pipe joint when compared against a drill pipe diameter. The pipe tally system maintains a tally of drill pipes in a borehole and the pipe tally system can produce a borehole depth measurement based on the length of pipe in the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNETIC VARIATION SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Nishant Agarwal, Todd W. Benson
  • Patent number: 12012810
    Abstract: A tubular defines a central flow passage. A camera has an aperture and attached to an outer surface of the tubular with the aperture oriented away from the outer surface of the tubular. A lost circulation media reservoir is circumferentially surrounding at least a portion of the outer surface of the tubular. The lost circulation media reservoir is adjacent to the camera. The lost circulation media reservoir includes actuable gates along a periphery of the lost circulation media reservoir. A trigger is communicably coupled with the actuable gates and configured to actuate the actuable gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Abdulrahman K. Aleid
  • Patent number: 12012811
    Abstract: A system for controlling pressure applied in a well intervention operation using a physics-based model is provided. The system can include a stripper element that includes a pressure retention element for sealing a wellbore during an intervention operation that uses coiled tubing; a stripper circuit that includes a hydraulic actuator to apply a pressure to the pressure retention element; a processing device coupled to the hydraulic actuator that can receive, from the stripper circuit, a feedback signal. The processing device may receive a physical characteristic of a component and then determine, using data from the feedback signal and the physical characteristic, a minimum pressure level to contain wellhead pressure. The processing device may then output a command to cause the hydraulic actuator to change the pressure on the pressure retention element to be the minimum pressure level or within a pre-set deviation of the minimum pressure level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Roshan Jacob, Oluwatosin Ogundare, Philippe Quero, Charles Lynn Mouser, Jeremy C. Nicholson, Radovan Rolovic, Eric Lynn Jantz, Robert Eugene Domann
  • Patent number: 12012812
    Abstract: A flow-actuated valve for use in a wellbore includes: a body; a poppet movable relative to the body between an open position and a closed position; a spring biasing the poppet toward the closed position; and a shifter having a drogue and a detent engaged with a detent profile of the poppet and a locking receptacle of the body when in an auto-fill mode, thereby keeping the poppet in a partially open position. The valve is operable to shift to a float mode in response to a first flow rate moving the poppet toward the open position to disengage the detent from the locking receptacle and a second flow rate imparting a drag force on the drogue sufficient to disengage the detent from the detent profile. The second flow rate is different than the first flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventors: Darko Arsoski, Alexander Craig Mackay
  • Patent number: 12012813
    Abstract: A downhole chemical reactor can be placed in a downhole environment to generate gas in-situ. This gas can pressurize an inner pressure chamber of the downhole chemical reactor to create a pressure-on-demand source or to maintain a constant pressure reservoir, depending on the configuration of a reactor controller coupled to an inlet of the inner pressure chamber. The inner pressure chamber contains one or more desired chemical reactants and the reactor controller operates to permit well fluid to flow from the wellbore and into the inner pressure chamber. The well fluid reacts with the desired chemical reactants and generates one or more gases such as hydrogen or carbon dioxide. The generated gases pressurize the inner pressure chamber and a pressure regulator coupled to the inner pressure chamber maintains a maximum pressurization of the inner pressure chamber. For a constant pressure reservoir, the reactor controller repeats this cycle indefinitely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: James Dan Vick, Jr., Michael Linley Fripp
  • Patent number: 12012815
    Abstract: A setting tool includes a barrel piston that is configured to couple to a setting sleeve and defines a working surface and a vent port. An upper mandrel is disposed within the barrel piston and defines a power charge chamber that is configured to receive a power charge and includes an upper threaded portion, a lower internal thread, and a plurality of axial discharge ports disposed circumferentially around the lower internal thread. The plurality of axial discharge ports are in fluid communication at one end with the power charge chamber and at the other end with the working surface of the barrel piston. A lower mandrel has an upper end and a lower end, with the upper end in threaded engagement with the lower internal thread of the upper mandrel, and the lower end configured to couple to a frac plug. The power charge chamber includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber, with the lower chamber shaped to open to be in fluid communication with each of the plurality of axial discharge ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DBK Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Gleason
  • Patent number: 12012816
    Abstract: A spacer insertion device is disclosed. The spacer insertion device comprises a spacer insertion mechanism fixed on a base body of a core detection device of a coring instrument, wherein the spacer insertion mechanism comprises a slider and a cylinder body, an output end of the cylinder body is connected with the slider, and the slider is slidably connected with the base body to push a spacer to the a core channel provided in the base body and in communication with a core barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China Oilfield Services Limited
    Inventors: Zhibin Tian, Lin Huang, Zanqing Wei, Shusheng Guo, Yongren Feng, Xingfang Wu, Tiemin Liu, Yong Jiang, Bin Gao, Peng Sun, Shiwei Zong, Jianyong Zhang, Aijun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12012817
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to water jet cutter tools for subterranean oil and gas well pipe and tubular cutting. The present disclosure relates to an assembly including the water jet cutting tools. The present disclosure relates to methods of cutting subterranean oil and gas well pipe and tubulars using water jet cutting tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Sean McCool
  • Patent number: 12012818
    Abstract: A wellhead assembly includes a wellhead housing, the wellhead housing including a lock screw receptacle. The wellhead assembly includes an outer nested wellhead component positioned within the wellhead housing, the outer nested wellhead component including a lock screw aperture. The wellhead assembly includes an inner nested wellhead component, the inner nested wellhead component including an inner receptacle. The wellhead assembly includes a nested lock screw. The nested lock screw includes an outer sleeve, the outer sleeve having external threads formed on an outer surface thereof, the outer sleeve threadedly coupled to the lock screw receptacle of the wellhead housing. The nested lock screw includes an inner lock screw, the inner lock screw positioned within and threadedly coupled to the outer sleeve, the inner lock screw passing through the lock screw aperture and engaging the inner receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CACTUS WELLHEAD, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Emmett, Bradley Jones
  • Patent number: 12012819
    Abstract: An improved wellhead electrical connection assembly utilizing upper and lower retention mechanisms to minimize pressure and fluid leakage in the event of a tubing part or other failure. The upper retention mechanism ensures the connection assembly remains within a tubing hanger. The lower retention mechanism provides a secure connection to a downhole cable that can breakaway without damaging or dislodging other components of the assembly during an emergency event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: POWER FEED-THRU SYSTEMS AND CONNECTORS LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Marbach, Roy Kinkaid, James Patrick Payne, Albert George Ollre, V
  • Patent number: 12012820
    Abstract: A wellbore system includes a lock ring forming at least a portion of a sealing assembly, the lock ring being coupled to and axially lower than one or more components of the sealing assembly to be positioned within an annulus. The wellbore system also includes a pedestal coupled to the lock ring, the pedestal arranged axially lower than at least a portion of the lock ring, the pedestal to be installed within the annulus. The wellbore system further includes a shoulder formed on at least a portion of a hanger. The wellbore system also includes a debris pocket formed within the annulus, the debris pocket arranged axially lower than both the shoulder and a lock ring groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Cheng
  • Patent number: 12012821
    Abstract: A tool assembly includes a body, a slip cage disposed about the body, a cone slidable in a longitudinal direction along a length of the body, and a shear bridge. The slip cage carries a plurality of slips. The cone includes a ramp that facilitates radial outward expansion of the plurality of slips. The shear bridge connects the cone and the slip cage via a plurality of shear fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Christiansen
  • Patent number: 12012822
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultra-high-power cementing apparatus integrated with remote control, belonging to the field of petroleum equipment. The apparatus includes a loading system, and a secondary beam on which a hydraulic system, a power transmission system, a metering tank, an electrical system, a gas path system, a manipulation system and a mixing system are successively connected from front to rear, wherein a lower portion of the gas path system is provided with a plunger pump that is connected to a high-pressure discharge system; and a lower portion of the electrical system is provided with a manipulation platform, the manipulation system being located above the manipulation platform, and the manipulation system being connected to a remote control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanfeng Wang, Enjie Li, Ren Liu, Xincheng Li, Shitang Liu, Xingtao Liu, Baoyuan Liang, Pengyuan Zhang, Mingsheng Li, Zhangye Wu
  • Patent number: 12012823
    Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a wellbore string and a cement retainer. The wellbore string is disposed within a cased wellbore. The cement retainer is releasably coupled to the wellbore string and defines, with a wall of the casing, an annulus. The cement retainer includes a housing, a valve, and a packer. The flapper valve is attached to and disposed within the bore of the housing. The flapper valve moves between a closed position, in which a fluid pathway of the cement retainer is closed, and an opened position, in which the fluid pathway is opened for fluid to flow downhole out of the cement retainer. The wellbore string opens, with the packer set on the wellbore, the flapper valve by stinging the flapper valve and allowing cement to flow downhole from the wellbore string to the target zone to remediate the wellbore at the target zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Marius Neacsu, Omar M. Alhamid
  • Patent number: 12012824
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for an electrical submersible pump (ESP) of a wellbore is disclosed. The system includes a spool and a tubing insert valve to be associated with the wellbore. The spool is to be located above an Xmas tree and is to retain a coil, cable, or wireline that passes through a wellbore and through the tubing insert valve. The coil, cable, or wireline is to be associated with the ESP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoines, Austin Cookson, Mahesha Udipi, Loy Peng Koh, Luis Castro
  • Patent number: 12012825
    Abstract: A valve arrangement is for a downhole apparatus having a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof. The valve arrangement being configurable to be locked in a first configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is closed; configurable to be locked in a second configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is open and the second port is closed; and configurable to be locked in a third configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Grant, Scott E. Wallace, Ewan Smith
  • Patent number: 12012826
    Abstract: A method may include determining an action associated with field development planning or asset management of an oilfield based on a policy or value function and a state, simulating a reward of the action using information identifying the action and the state as inputs, generating an experience record based on executing the simulation, wherein the experience record identifies the simulated reward associated with the action and a current state or resulting state, storing the experience record in an experience buffer, wherein the experience buffer stores a plurality of previously generated experience records, updating the policy or value function based on the information stored in the experience buffer, selecting an action related to the field development planning based on the updated policy, and displaying information representing the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishakh Hegde, Joseph Matthew Chalupsky
  • Patent number: 12012827
    Abstract: Nuclear energy integrated hydrocarbon operation systems include a well site having a subsurface hydrocarbon well configured to produce a produced water output. The system further includes a deployable nuclear reactor system configured to produce a heat output. The system may further include a deployable desalination unit configured to produce a desalinated water output using the produced water output of the subsurface hydrocarbon well and the heat output of the deployable nuclear reactor. The system may further include a deployable off-gas processing system configured to produce an industrial chemical using the off-gas output of the subsurface hydrocarbon well and the heat output of the deployable nuclear reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Natura Resources LLC
    Inventor: Derek Haas
  • Patent number: 12012828
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for installing an object in a flow line or other compartment, such as a surface inline filter assembly having a removable screen filter apparatus. A housing has a central through bore and an elongate slot or opening with a cover that can be selectively opened or locked in a closed position when desired. A filter apparatus can be loaded within the assembly, and shifted into a locked position within the central bore of the housing. When removal of the filter apparatus is desired, the cover can be unlocked and opened, and the filter apparatus can be quickly and efficiently removed, cleaned and/or replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DON MASHBURN, INC.
    Inventor: Adam O'Neal
  • Patent number: 12012829
    Abstract: A perforating gun includes a charge tube, a switch carrier body, and a pin contact spacer. The switch carrier body houses an addressable switch, a spring tube which holds a spring, a detonation block, a removable interrupter, and a pin contact spacer supporting a pin contact assembly. The spring biases a switch contact terminal towards an outer surface of the switch carrier body, and the switch contact terminal is electrically connected to the addressable switch. The interrupter includes first and second portions, and is temporarily adhered to the switch carrier body such that the first portion covers the switch contact terminal and the second portion extends between a detonation cord and an instantaneous detonator in the detonation block. A first end of the charge tube is positioned around the switch carrier body, and a second end of the charge tube is secured to the pin contact space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Reach Wireline, LLC
    Inventors: John P. Roach, Daniel Tollefson, Chris Payson, Jerred Smith
  • Patent number: 12012830
    Abstract: A dome cap and tail plug assembly for a flow control device include a dome that attaches to an upper end of a body of the flow control device and a tail plug that screws into a top of the dome cap. A seal is provided between the dome cap and the tail plug. The seal can be formed by one or more sealing elements, such as O-rings, positioned between the dome cap and the tail plug. The seal can also be provided by engagement between a shoulder on the tail plug bearing against an end face of the dome cap. Also, threads used to couple the tail plug to the dome cap could be conical threads, which also help to provide a seal between the dome cap and the tail plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: FLOWCO PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Burrows, Brandon Lee Dobbs, Matthew Young
  • Patent number: 12012831
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing artificial lift to wellbore fluids includes a pump, a motor, and a protector assembly forming an electric submersible pump system located within a wellbore. A downhole packer is located downhole of the pump. A solids bypass device is located downhole of the pump. The solids bypass device has a flow tube with an inner bore, a bypass stinger that is a tubular member that circumscribes the flow tube, and drain ports extending through a sidewall of the bypass stinger. A sealing cap circumscribes the flow tube. The sealing cap is moveable between an open position, where the sealing cap is positioned to provide an external fluid flow path through the solids bypass device, and a closed position, where the sealing cap prevents fluid from traveling through the external fluid flow path. A biasing member biases the sealing cap towards the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Jinjiang Xiao
  • Patent number: 12012832
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for predicting a time-varying principle of waterflooding oil reservoir formation parameters. Firstly, a T2 spectrum-pore size relation model is built according to a measured pore size distribution curve and a measured T2 spectrum. A T2 spectrum of a rock sample at different water injection amounts during a waterflooding physical simulation experiment is acquired. The acquired T2 spectrum at different water injection amounts is then converted into a pore size distribution at different water injection amounts, and a pore network model at different water injection amounts is built with the pore size distribution. Oil-water two-phase flow simulation is performed, and a corresponding oil-water two-phase relative permeability curve of the rock sample at different pore volume (PV) multiples is obtained eventually. The oil-water two-phase relative permeability curve is the formation parameters in the waterflooding oil reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Sen Wang, Kun Wang, Qihong Feng, Shunming Li, Yijing Du, Zheng Wu, Xiang Wang, Jiyuan Zhang, Xianmin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12012833
    Abstract: In a system for producing power and capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) at an offshore site, separator units separate a fluid produced from an offshore vessel in fluid communication with a reservoir into water, oil, and gas. The gas is sent to oxy-firing gas turbine generator units. Air separation units separate an air into nitrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is sent to the oxy-firing gas turbine generator units. Gas compression units compress an exhaust gas from the oxy-firing gas turbine generator units. Dehydration units dehydrate the compressed exhaust gas, and a portion of the dehydrated compressed exhaust gas is recycled back to the oxy-firing gas turbine generator units. Gas pumps inject a remaining portion of the dehydrated compressed exhaust gas into the reservoir. Additionally, the oxy-firing gas turbine generator units generates electricity with the oxygen, the gas, and the portion of the dehydrated compressed exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Exmar Offshore Company
    Inventors: Martin B. Mick, Chirag Parmar
  • Patent number: 12012834
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to a method that includes using a low-shear addition system at a centralized facility to add a friction-reducing additive to a fluid to produce friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing slurry. The method also includes conveying the friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing slurry from the centralized facility to at least one fracturing site. The method further includes injecting the friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing slurry into a reservoir to stimulate at least one well at the at least one fracturing site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Farid Hamida, Bruce Mackay, Herbe Gomez Conzatti Y Martinez, Karishma Prasad, Belgin Baser-Langenau
  • Patent number: 12012835
    Abstract: A wellbore system for perforating a subterranean formation including a dissolvable perforating gun that may be wirelessly operated to fire at a predetermined wellbore location and thereafter fragmented and dissolved with wellbore fluids. The perforating gun may take the form of a strip gun with an elongated rod or other charge holder carrying a plurality of exposed perforating charges thereon. The exposed shaped charges may each be equipped with an individual charge cover or filler material disposed over a liner that forms a jet when the shaped charge is detonated. A wiper to facilitate pumping the perforating gun through the wellbore and may include an initiator for detecting a signal or condition indicative of the perforating gun having reached a predetermined location to cause the perforating gun to fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Christopher C. Hoelscher, Brenden Michael Grove
  • Patent number: 12012836
    Abstract: A mining riser pipe is extended from above water toward a water bottom containing water bottom resources, and a lower portion of an insertion pipe connected to a lower portion of the mining riser pipe is inserted into the water bottom. A liquid is supplied into the insertion pipe and a rotation shaft extends axially inside both of pipes is rotated to rotate stirring blades attached to a lower portion of the rotation shaft inside the insertion pipe, thereby drilling and dissolving mud S inside the insertion pipe into a slurry form by is raised to an upper portion of the insertion pipe by a stirring flow generated by the rotation of the stirring blades, and the raised mud is lifted above the water through the mining riser pipe by a lifting force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: TOA Corporation, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tomohiro Morisawa, Shinya Omori, Ryutaro Murakami, Hiroshi Iida, Eigo Miyazaki, Keita Akiyama, Masanori Kyo, Ikuo Sawada, Yoshihisa Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12012837
    Abstract: A desanding wellhead includes a wellhead device in communication with a well and configured to receive a mixed fluid produced therefrom, and a sand separation device coupled to the wellhead device. The sand separation device is configured to receive fluid from the well via the wellhead device, separate at least some solids from the fluid, and provide at least some of the fluid back to the wellhead device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ENERCORP ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Rory Nagge, James Pung
  • Patent number: 12012838
    Abstract: A sand separating apparatus for use with a production tubing string includes (i) a housing assembly forming an outer tubular and (ii) an inner tubular within the housing assembly to define an annular passage between the inner tubular and the housing assembly. A helical member occupies part of the annular passage below production openings in the housing assembly whereby a flow of production fluids entering from the wellbore is directed downwardly along a helical path within the annular passage as dictated by the helical member and subsequently upwardly through the inner tubular. The helical member extends radially outwardly from the inner tubular beyond a boundary surface at an outer perimeter of the annular passage to prevent formation of a gap at the tip of the helical member as it wears. A fluid passage in alignment with the helical member extends radially from inside the inner tubular to the annular passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Brian Ellithorp
  • Patent number: 12012839
    Abstract: A method of performing a wellbore operation may include providing a real-time treatment decision engine, equipment centric decision engine, and equipment controls. The equipment centric decision engine may be configured to interface with the real-time treatment decision engine and the equipment controls. The equipment centric decision may include an operational database comprising wellbore servicing equipment models. The method may further include providing wellbore servicing equipment. The wellbore servicing equipment may be operable to be controlled by the equipment controls. The method may further include sending a command from the real-time treatment decision engine to the equipment centric decision engine. The method may further include evaluating the command using the wellbore servicing equipment models. The method may further include selecting equipment to carry out the command based at least in part on the wellbore servicing equipment models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Simon Chretien, Timothy Holiman Hunter, Stanley V. Stephenson, Mark A. Adams
  • Patent number: 12012840
    Abstract: Current disclosure proposes calibration methodology that uses the knowledge learned from historical data and real-time data to update a simplified physics-based borehole propagation model for real time steering control of a directional drilling system. The proposed methodology updates model parameters of the simplified physics-based model in real time through a process of setting up and optimizing an objective function, which indicates the difference between the estimated trajectory and the feedback from the real-time data. Penalizing terms, which prevent the parameters from deviating drastically from the prior knowledge of the parameter, and various components of the objective function are learned from the historical data. As a result, the updated model can accurately estimate and predict the system behavior allowing an input sequence of the system to be accurately mapped to the output response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Vy Pho, Nazli Demirer, Umut Zalluhoglu, Robert P. Darbe
  • Patent number: 12012841
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products for receiving measurements indicative of present value torque (TrqPv) currently being applied by a top drive to a drill string extending in a well that penetrates a subterranean formation, and releasing torque accumulated in the drill string by determining polarity of TrqPv and, in response to a manual or automatic trigger, causing the top drive to perform an unwinding operation in a direction opposite to the determined TrqPv polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ramakrishna Madhireddy, Wenshuai Hou, Seetharam Kothuru, Jian Wu
  • Patent number: 12012842
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of predicting a future maintenance event of a pumping equipment on a wellbore pumping unit comprising loading a pump usage log and a pump maintenance log into a predictive maintenance model. The predictive maintenance model is trained by a machine learning process with a historical database of completed pumping jobs. The predictive maintenance model determines a probability of a future maintenance event in response to the current pump usage. The unit controller displays an alert of the remaining pump life in comparison to a threshold value for a recommended pump maintenance period or a required pump maintenance period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles E. Neal, III, Derek R. Williams, Craig Allen Sneed, Sunny L. Oliver, Keith Edward Blaschke
  • Patent number: 12012843
    Abstract: A downhole tool (1) comprises a power control module (20), which includes a battery pack (22) for supplying power to components of the tool, and an electronic control circuit (24) for controlling the supply of power by the battery pack. The electronic control circuit (24) and battery pack (22) are contained within a housing (26) that allows their insertion and removal as a single unit. The tool (1) also comprises an electric motor (104) for powering a gear assembly (210), and a braking system comprising an electrical and a magnetic brake for braking the motor (104) when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: KASEUM HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Church, Peter Alan Joiner, Andrew John Elrick, Iain Morrison Macleod
  • Patent number: 12012844
    Abstract: A housing defines a through passage along its length and is configured to support a group of electrical isolators surrounding the through passage to form an electrically isolating break in a drill string such that each isolator of the group of isolators is subject to no more than a compressive force responsive to extension and retraction of the drill string. The housing defines a housing cavity to receive an electronics package having a signal port and is configured for electrical connection of the signal port across the electrically isolating break. A housing lid can cooperate with a main housing body to define elongated slots for purposes of enhancing the emanation of a locating signal. A housing arrangement can support electrical connections from an electronics package to bridge an electrically isolating gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Merlin Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert W. Chau, Kenneth J. Theimer
  • Patent number: 12012845
    Abstract: A convertible sensor module kit including a housing, a sensor port in the housing and having a seal block receptacle fluidly coupled to the sensor port, and a tubing pressure seal block or an annulus pressure seal block disposed in the receptacle. A module for sensing annulus pressure comprising a housing, a sensor port in the housing and having a seal block receptacle fluidly coupled to the sensor port, and an annulus pressure seal block disposed in the receptacle, the block including a communication channel intersecting a monitor channel, the monitor channel in fluid pressure connection with the sensor port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yuh Loh, Javid Majid
  • Patent number: 12012846
    Abstract: A borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly includes a borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly configured to determine a borehole geometry of a wellbore. The borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly also includes a running tool assembly that is initially detachably engaged to the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly and configured to run the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly into a borehole, and disengage the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly after the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly is run into the borehole. The borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly further includes a pulse sub-assembly configured to supply power to the running tool assembly, and transmit data obtained by a borehole geometry sensor of the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC
    Inventor: Angus Mackay Barron
  • Patent number: 12012847
    Abstract: Various implementations directed to a system and method for using a magnetometer in a gyro-while-drilling (GWD) survey tool are provided. In one implementation, a method may include acquiring gyroscopic data using gyroscopic sensors of a GWD survey tool while the tool is disposed at a first position within a wellbore. The method may also include acquiring first magnetic data using a magnetometer of the GWD survey tool while the tool is disposed at the first position. The method may further include determining an offset value for the magnetometer based on the gyroscopic data and the first magnetic data. The method may additionally include acquiring second magnetic data using the magnetometer while the tool is disposed at second positions within the wellbore. The method may also include determining magnetic azimuth values for the tool disposed at the second positions based on the second magnetic data and the offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GYRODATA, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Adrián Guillermo Ledroz