Inventor · Houston, TX, US

Herbert W. Swan

13Patents
8h-index
16Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 27, 1992 → Jul 18, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5784334A Method and system for detecting hydrocarbon reservoirs using amplitude versus offset analysis of seismic signals Physics 67 Expired
US6058074A Method and system for detecting hydrocarbon reservoirs using amplitude-versus-offset analysis with improved measurement of background statistics Physics 66 Expired
US5661697A Method and apparatus for detection of sand formations in amplitude-versus-offset seismic surveys Physics 22 Expired
US5440525A Seismic data hydrocarbon indicator Physics 21 Expired
US5515335A Seismic trace overburden correction method Physics 15 Expired
US5258960A Seismic velocity estimation method Physics 14 Expired
US10095828B2 Production logs from distributed acoustic sensors Physics 14 Active
US5297108A Seismic velocity estimation method Physics 13 Expired
US10370957B2 Measuring downhole temperature by combining DAS/DTS data Physics 3 Active
US10890058B2 Low-frequency DAS SNR improvement Physics 1 Active
US11802783B2 Passive production logging instrument using heat and distributed acoustic sensing Physics 0 Active
US10401514B2 Seismic azimuthal gradient estimation Physics 0 Active
US12037899B2 Automated initial shut-in pressure estimation Fixed Constructions 0 Active

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