Inventor · Sugar Land, TX, US

Kai Hsu

72Patents
16h-index
100Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 29, 1983 → Jul 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7526953B2 Methods and apparatus for the downhole characterization of formation fluids Physics 55 Active
US5796677A Method of sonic logging while drilling a borehole traversing an earth formation Physics 44 Expired
US7305306B2 System and methods of deriving fluid properties of downhole fluids and uncertainty thereof Fixed Constructions 34 Expired
US8024125B2 Methods and apparatus to monitor contamination levels in a formation fluid Physics 33 Active
US4543648A Shot to shot processing for measuring a characteristic of earth formations from inside a borehole Physics 31 Expired
US5047991A Lithology identification using sonic data Physics 30 Expired
US5031155A Compression and reconstruction of sonic data Physics 29 Expired
US4888740A Differential energy acoustic measurements of formation characteristic Physics 28 Expired
US8434356B2 Fluid density from downhole optical measurements Fixed Constructions 23 Active
US5274604A Method for spatially filtering signals representing formation and channel echoes in a borehole environment Physics 23 Expired
US4870627A Method and apparatus for detecting and evaluating borehole wall fractures Physics 22 Expired
US7194902B1 Apparatus and method for formation evaluation Physics 21 Expired
US7222671B2 Apparatus and method for formation evaluation Fixed Constructions 21 Expired
US7805247B2 System and methods for well data compression Electricity 20 Active
US7913556B2 Methods and apparatus to determine the compressibility of a fluid Physics 20 Active
US4951266A Method of filtering sonic well logging data Physics 20 Expired
US7574898B2 Vibrating wire viscosity sensor Physics 16 Active
US4809236A Method and apparatus for determining the magnitude of components of measurements made from inside a borehole Physics 16 Expired
US6459993B1 Processing sonic waveform measurements from array borehole logging tools Physics 12 Expired
US7680600B2 Method, system and apparatus for formation tester data processing Physics 12 Active
US7878243B2 Method and apparatus for sampling high viscosity formation fluids Fixed Constructions 11 Active
US7711488B2 Methods and apparatus to monitor contamination levels in a formation fluid Physics 10 Active
US8335650B2 Methods and apparatus to determine phase-change pressures Physics 10 Active
US9689256B2 Core orientation systems and methods Fixed Constructions 8 Active
US6992768B2 Optical fluid analysis signal refinement Physics 8 Expired

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