Inventor · Sugar Land, TX, US

Wei Han

33Patents
15h-index
60Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 14, 2000 → Oct 18, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6378357B1 Method of fluid rheology characterization and apparatus therefor Physics 93 Expired
US6672163B2 Acoustic sensor for fluid characterization Physics 68 Expired
US6619394B2 Method and apparatus for treating a wellbore with vibratory waves to remove particles therefrom Fixed Constructions 67 Expired
US6470749B1 Method and apparatus for pulsed ultrasonic doppler measurement of wall deposition Physics 60 Expired
US7318471B2 System and method for monitoring and removing blockage in a downhole oil and gas recovery operation Physics 55 Expired
US7216738B2 Acoustic stimulation method with axial driver actuating moment arms on tines Physics 45 Expired
US7213681B2 Acoustic stimulation tool with axial driver actuating moment arms on tines Fixed Constructions 45 Expired
US6568271B2 Guided acoustic wave sensor for pipeline build-up monitoring and characterization Physics 43 Expired
US6513385B1 Acoustic sensor for pipeline deposition characterization and monitoring Physics 41 Expired
US8117907B2 Caliper logging using circumferentially spaced and/or angled transducer elements Fixed Constructions 39 Active
US6401538B1 Method and apparatus for acoustic fluid analysis Physics 36 Expired
US6817229B2 Acoustic sensor for fluid characterization Physics 34 Expired
US7587936B2 Apparatus and method for determining drilling fluid acoustic properties Fixed Constructions 31 Active
US6755079B1 Method and apparatus for determining fluid viscosity Fixed Constructions 26 Expired
US6829947B2 Acoustic Doppler downhole fluid flow measurement Physics 24 Expired
US6938458B2 Acoustic doppler downhole fluid flow measurement Physics 12 Expired
US10465509B2 Collocated multitone acoustic beam and electromagnetic flux leakage evaluation downhole Physics 10 Active
US9366133B2 Acoustic standoff and mud velocity using a stepped transmitter Physics 5 Active
US6701787B2 Acoustic sensor for pipeline deposition characterization and monitoring of pipeline deposits Physics 4 Expired
US7591343B2 Apparatuses for generating acoustic waves Physics 4 Expired
US10222501B2 Televiewer image wood-grain reduction techniques Physics 4 Active
US9702855B2 Acoustic interface device Physics 3 Active
US11361004B2 Efficient data relationship mining using machine learning Physics 3 Active
US9567846B2 Devices and methods for downhole acoustic imaging Physics 3 Active
US10605944B2 Formation acoustic property measurement with beam-angled transducer array Physics 3 Active

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