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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095314 | Generation of four dimensional grid of probabilistic hazards for use by decision support tools A new method and system for generating probabilities of objective values of hazards as a fine granularity grid in four dimensions (three spatial dimensions plus time) to be used by decision support and visualization tools. Utilizing the proposed system, proxies for ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086407 | Method and device for environmental monitoring The present invention is related to an environmental monitoring and analyzing device. The device contains a plurality of sensors, a control unit and a display unit. The different types of sensors obtain values of different environmental parameters. The control unit ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082103 | COconcentration correcting apparatus and COconcentration correcting method Hourly CO2 concentration, amount of solar radiation, and plant distribution information are calculated through observation from predetermined satellites. A concentration of CO2 absorbed by plant-chlorophyll per each time unit is calculated. By ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068985 | Method of precise earthquake prediction and prevention of mysterious air and sea accidents The disclosed earthquake vapor theory, statistically significant in practice, overcomes two difficulties: the dependency on cold weather to pinpoint an earthquake epicenter and the time window not being short enough for evacuation. Finding a vapor nozzle based on bo... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7966301 | System and method for employing a grid index for location and precision encoding A system and method for combining the precision estimate of a database entry's coordinate value such that the precision information is included as part of the one-dimensional index. This is done by constructing a hierarchical index in which the size of the grid is r... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7941273 | System and method for using time-distance characteristics in acquisition, processing, and imaging of T-CSEM data There is provided herein a system and method of acquiring, processing, and imaging transient Controlled Source ElectroMagnetic (t-CSEM) data in ways that are similar to those used for seismic data. In particular, the instant invention exploits the time-distance char... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7894989 | Method for determining earth vertical electrical anisotropy in marine electromagnetic surveys A method is disclosed for determining earth vertical electrical anisotropy from offshore electromagnetic survey measurements. The method requires both online and offline data, which includes at least one electromagnetic field component sensitive at least predominant... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7869951 | Method of determining local electromagnetic sensor refractivity Local ES refractivity for a geographical position on a given date is determined by locating the geographical position within one of the Delaunay triangles in a grid of Delaunay triangles defined by a plurality of data points in a database containing temporal (e.g. m... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865311 | Method for determining true meridian and device for its implementation The present technical solution provided allows it to determine true meridian of any movable object. This solution is based on determining true meridian by zero value of linear acceleration induced created by changing the projection of the vector of linear velocity, ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860654 | Simulation method and apparatus for determining subsidence in a reservoir A method for reservoir simulation that includes applying fraction boundary conditions at a surface of a grid representing the subterranean reservoir, finding a rock state, representing initial rock displacements and porosity in the grid, that satisfies a first equat... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7826972 | Methods of electromagnetic logging using a current focusing receiver A method for determining a formation electrical property under a sea floor includes obtaining measurement data using a receiver having an impedance lower than an impedance of seawater at a measurement site; correcting the measurement data to obtain corrected data co... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822553 | Methods for electromagnetic measurements and correction of non-ideal receiver responses A method for determining formation electrical properties includes deploying one or more receivers for electromagnetic logging; obtaining measurement data indicative of the formation electrical properties using the deployed receivers; correcting the measurement data ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7778777 | Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk Methods and systems may be provided simulating forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates and/or relatively constant tilt rates. The methods and systems may also be used to simulate forming a wellbore in subterranean... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7720605 | Identifying vegetation attributes from LiDAR data Aspects of the present invention are directed at using LiDAR data to identify attributes of vegetation. In this regard, a method is provided that identifies the location of individual items of vegetation from raw LiDAR data. In one embodiment, the method includes se... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715983 | Detecting hazardous conditions in underground environments A method of detecting hazardous conditions within an underground environment can include obtaining acceleration information at a plurality of communication nodes distributed throughout the underground environment and propagating the acceleration information among se... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702462 | Method and apparatus for tracking individual plants while growing and/or after harvest An apparatus and method of tracking individual plants growing and/or taken from a growing location, such as a field, growing bed, plot or greenhouse. Machine-readable data related to selected individual plants is maintained in close association with corresponding pl... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7640110 | Pixel based inversion method for surface electromagnetic measurement A method of determining the nature of a submarine or subterranean reservoir having an electromagnetic characteristic is described. The method comprises analyzing data associated with the application of a time varying electromagnetic field from above the reservoir us... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7640109 | Fingerprinting of complex hydrocarbon containing mixtures The invention provides a method of analysing a complex hydrocarbon-containing mixture, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a liquid sample of the complex hydrocarbon-containing mixture; injecting the sample into a liquid carrier flowing to a mass spectrome... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630835 | Terahertz sensor to measure humidity and water vapor A first frequency of electromagnetic radiation and a second frequency of electromagnetic radiation are received at a detector. The first and second frequencies of electromagnetic radiation are transmitted through a medium within a frequency range of approximately 0.... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7565243 | Rapid method for reservoir connectivity analysis using a fast marching method Methods for analyzing the connected quality of a hydrocarbon reservoir are disclosed. A model of a portion of the reservoir is divided into cells, each cell having a volume and some attributes, and wherein a speed function is assigned to a portion of the cells. A re... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7542850 | Method and system for synchronizing geophysical survey data A method and system for synchronizing geophysical survey data is provided. Detection of geophysically significant subsurface anomalies potentially associated with ore bodies or hydrocarbon deposits can be made by vehicle mounted surface or airborne regional gravitat... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542851 | Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs A method of analyzing results from an underwater controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey of an area that is thought or known to contain a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is described. The method is based on a wavefield extrapolation of narrow-band electro... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539577 | Method of data acquisition during survey of buried linear conductors A method of data acquisition during survey of buried linear conductors. A first step involves passing a dynamic data stream of data from survey instruments through a filtering software adapted to reduce the volume of data being processed. A second step involves sett... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526383 | Weather forecasting equipment A weather forecast providing easy access to Internet, a subscriber's network, and a computer connected to Internet or the subscriber's network for retrieving correct weather forecast information in time without being vulnerable to interference includes a casing; and... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519473 | Device and method for estimating occurrence distribution of unascertained water and recording medium On the basis of rainfall amount data (24) representing a timeseries change in the amount of rainfall in a district as an estimation target and unascertained water amount data (23) representing a time-series change in the amount of unascertained water a... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7502689 | Determination of an atmospheric state A method for characterizing a state of a planetary atmosphere or of a part of the atmosphere, especially of the ionosphere of the earth includes determining values of an ionization state, especially of an electron density and/or of an electron content, in the atmosp... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502690 | System and method for using time-distance characteristics in acquisition, processing, and imaging of t-CSEM data There is provided herein a system and method of acquiring, processing, and imaging transient Controlled Source ElectroMagnetic (t-CSEM) data in ways that are similar to those used for seismic data. In particular, the instant invention exploits the time-distance char... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7487045 | Projected score area calculator and method of use A device and system for measuring variables relative to a moving object on or over a geographic area, collecting such motion data, collecting environmental data including environmental conditions in the geographic area, collecting field data including data relating ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483792 | Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs An electromagnetic survey method for surveying an area of seafloor that is thought or known to contain a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir, comprising obtaining a first survey data set with a vertical electric dipole (VED) antenna for generating vertical current lo... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483791 | Determination of soil stiffness levels According to the invention, a single device permits the relative soil rigidity values of a section of soil to be determined in a rapid measuring method and in addition, absolute soil rigidity values to be determined in a slightly slower method. If the device is cali... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7474964 | Identifying vegetation attributes from LiDAR data Aspects of the present invention are directed at using LiDAR data to identify attributes of vegetation. In this regard, a method is provided that allocates points to individual items of vegetation from raw LiDAR data. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7440881 | Adaptive correlation of pattern resist structures using optical metrology A correlation between develop inspect (DI) and final inspect (FI) profile parameters are established empirically with test wafers. During production, a wafer is measured at DI phase to obtain DI profile parameters and FI phase profile parameters are predicted accord... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439969 | Single gesture map navigation graphical user interface for a thin client An application on a thin client displays a map. A graphical user interface permits the application to receive single gesture inputs of a stylus. If the single gesture input comprises a drag of the stylus a minimum distance, the map is panned such that the map is shi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440852 | Stochastic analytical solution to quantify the earth's subsurface heat flow An analytical closed form solution to mean and variance in heat flow is obtained by solving the stochastic heat conduction equation incorporating randomness in the thermal conductivity. The method has a wide range of applications in quantifying the thermal state of ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437267 | Sewage inflow amount predicting device and method, and server device A case base (54) is generated from historical data containing inflow data (31) that indicates a sewage inflow measured at a sewage treatment plant (10) and meteorological data (33) corresponding to the inflow data (31). A similar c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433785 | Method for predicting grain size distribution from reservoir thickness The present invention is a method for predicting the grain size distribution at a designated location within a water-lain sedimentary deposit. Initially, the vertical thickness of the sedimentary deposit at the designated location must be determined, as well as the ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433784 | Method to determine properties of a sedimentary body from thickness and grain size distribution at a point within the body The properties of a water-lain sediment body are determined from a measurement of grain size distribution and deposit thickness at one location in the body is disclosed. The flow properties at the measured location are determined, the flow properties are extrapolate... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430474 | Removing sea surface-related electromagnetic fields in performing an electromagnetic survey To perform surveying of a subterranean structure, electromagnetic (EM) wavefields traveling in opposite directions are determined. A relationship is defined among the EM wavefields, where the EM wavefields include a first set of EM wavefields in a first state in whi... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428462 | Method for managing water channel systems A method of managing a storm water or other open channel system wherein (a) the system is divided into a plurality of channel segment lengths for evaluation; (b) an inventory based upon a standardized set of items is conducted for each channel segment to identify an... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426439 | Method and apparatus for marine seismic data acquisition The present invention provides a method and apparatus for seismic data acquisition. One embodiment of the method includes accessing data acquired by at least two particle motion sensors. The data includes a seismic signal and a noise signal and the at least two part... | 09/16/2008 |
