Baker Hughes/GE Company Assigned Patent

Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,380,280) developed by Herbig, Christian, Celle Lower Saxony, Germany, Hohl, Andreas, Hannover Lower Saxony, Germany, Kueck, Armin, Bremen, Germany, Neubert, Michael, Braunschweig, Germany, and Reckmann, Hanno, Nienhagen, Germany, for an “optimal storage of load data for lifetime prediction for equipment used in a well operation.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Examples of techniques for optimal storage of load data for lifetime prediction for a piece of equipment used in a well operation are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include: using a lifetime model for the piece of equipment used in the well operation, discretizing, by a processing device, a load data spectrum into one or more buckets, the one or more buckets having a bucket size, wherein the bucket size of at least one bucket is based on one of the lifetime model and a distribution of load data, collecting load data of the piece of equipment, assigning, by the processing device, the collected load data to the one or more buckets of the load data spectrum, and storing, by the processing device, the collected load data assigned to the one or more buckets to a memory.”

The patent application was filed on November 17, 2016 (15/354,279).