Inventor · Ridgefield, CT, US

Charles Flaum

26Patents
15h-index
33Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 5, 1980 → Jan 28, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6088656A Method for interpreting carbonate reservoirs Physics 62 Expired
US4423323A Neutron logging method and apparatus for determining a formation characteristic free of environmental effects Physics 52 Expired
US6140817A Magnetic resonance well logging method and apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US4464569A Method and apparatus for spectroscopic analysis of a geological formation Physics 42 Expired
US5789669A Method and apparatus for determining formation pressure Fixed Constructions 41 Expired
US6891369B2 Nuclear magnetic resonance method and logging apparatus for fluid analysis Physics 41 Expired
US6570382B1 Nuclear magnetic resonance method and logging apparatus Physics 39 Expired
US6232778A Method for obtaining NMR bound fluid volume using partial polarization Physics 33 Expired
US6023163A Well logging method and apparatus for determining gas and diffusion coefficient using NMR Physics 30 Expired
US4794792A Method for determining formation characteristics with enhanced vertical resolution Physics 28 Expired
US7511487B2 Logging method for determining characteristic of fluid in a downhole measurement region Physics 20 Active
US7408150B1 Well logging method for determining formation characteristics using pulsed neutron capture measurements Physics 17 Active
US4909075A Method for determining formation characteristics with enhanced statistical precision without degrading the vertical resolution or with enhanced vertical resolution Physics 17 Expired
US7804296B2 Methods and apparatus for monitoring a property of a formation fluid Physics 15 Active
US6147489A Method and apparatus for measuring total nuclear magnetic resonance porosity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US6097184A Nuclear magnetic resonance well logging to determine gas-filled porosity and oil-filled porosity of earth formations without a constant static magnetic field gradient Physics 12 Expired
US6600315B1 Method for improving resolution of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements by combining low resolution high accuracy measurements with high resolution low accuracy measurements Physics 12 Expired
US6268603A Method and apparatus for interpreting fluorescence logging data Fixed Constructions 11 Expired
US4384205A Neutron method and apparatus for determining total cross-section Physics 10 Expired
US5019708A Method for eliminating the effect of rugosity from compensated formation logs by geometrical response matching Physics 10 Expired
US7361886B2 Corrections of gamma-ray responses Physics 10 Expired
US4786796A Method for determining formation characteristics with enhanced vertical resolution Physics 9 Expired
US4816674A Determining a formation porosity from neutron logging information Physics 9 Expired
US7642507B2 Apparatus and methods for interlaced density and neutron measurements Physics 8 Active
US6850060B2 Method and apparatus for rapid characterization of diffusion Physics 6 Expired

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