Inventor · Houston, TX, US

Dennis E. Willen

30Patents
8h-index
29Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 20, 1984 → Apr 30, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5995904A Method for frequency domain seismic data processing on a massively parallel computer Physics 24 Expired
US5657223A Method for seismic data processing using depth slice decomposition Physics 22 Expired
US5504678A Method for seismic data processing using depth slice decomposition Physics 21 Expired
US5991695A Method for determining seismic data traveltime fields on a massively parallel computer Physics 18 Expired
US5253219A High count seismic data collection and transmission through analog time multiplexing Physics 16 Expired
US4672588A Method for displaying acoustic well logging data by producing travel time stacks Physics 15 Expired
US8008920B2 Method and apparatus for utilizing time division multiple waveform transmitting Physics 10 Active
US5987387A Method of dip moveout analysis on a massively parallel computer Physics 9 Expired
US7805249B2 Method for performing controlled source electromagnetic surveying with multiple transmitters Physics 7 Active
US8498845B2 Method for geophysical imaging Physics 6 Active
US7593815B2 Estimating noise at one frequency by sampling noise at other frequencies Physics 5 Active
US8538699B2 Rapid inversion of electromagnetic reconnaissance survey data Physics 4 Active
US9207351B2 Constructing resistivity models from stochastic inversion Physics 3 Active
US8239181B2 Inversion of CSEM data with measurement system signature suppression Physics 3 Active
US9195783B2 Reducing the dimensionality of the joint inversion problem Physics 3 Active
US7933741B2 Estimating noise at one frequency by sampling noise at other frequencies Physics 3 Active
US9746577B2 Uncertainty estimation of subsurface resistivity solutions Physics 2 Active
US7801681B2 Method for phase and amplitude correction in controlled source electromagnetic survey data Physics 2 Active
US7769553B2 Method for compensating electromagnetic data Physics 2 Active
US8090539B2 Method for spatial filtering of electromagnetic survey data Physics 1 Active
US7979211B2 Electromagnetic data processing system Physics 1 Active
US8121789B2 Method for correcting the phase of electromagnetic data Physics 1 Active
US12270961B2 Full wavefield inversion of ocean bottom seismic data Physics 0 Active
US8471555B2 Method for determining orientation of electromagnetic receivers Physics 0 Active
US11287541B2 Method to design geophysical surveys using full wavefield inversion point- spread function analysis Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.