| Top Inventors for class "Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices" |
| Rank | Inventor's name | Country | City/State | Last publication | # of patent apps in this class |
| 1 | Peter M. Eick | US | Houston, TX | May 09, 2013 / 20130114372 - OSCILLATING FLARED STREAMERS | 31 |
| 2 | Joel D. Brewer | US | Houston, TX | May 09, 2013 / 20130114372 - OSCILLATING FLARED STREAMERS | 31 |
| 3 | Chen Feng | CN | Beijing | May 09, 2013 / 20130115439 - CARBON NANOTUBE FILM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | 22 |
| 4 | Nicolas Goujon | NO | Oslo | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130028050 - DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION ANGLE OF A SURVEY SENSOR | 20 |
| 5 | Kenneth E. Welker | NO | Nesoya | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130028050 - DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION ANGLE OF A SURVEY SENSOR | 17 |
| 6 | Brendan Hyland | GB | Edinburgh | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130029628 - UNDERWATER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 17 |
| 7 | Kai-Li Jiang | CN | Beijing | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130089694 - DEVICE FOR MAKING CARBON NANOTUBE FILM | 17 |
| 8 | Shou-Shan Fan | CN | Beijing | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130089939 - METHOD FOR MAKING LIGHT EMITTING DIODE | 17 |
| 9 | Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn | US | Katy, TX | Feb 21, 2013 / 20130044565 - PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR GEOPHYSICAL STREAMERS | 16 |
| 10 | Svein Arne Frivik | NO | Oslo | Jun 14, 2012 / 20120147700 - Determining Streamer Depth and Sea Surface Profile | 16 |
| 11 | Clifford H. Ray | US | Fulshear, TX | Nov 29, 2012 / 20120300586 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMISSION OF SEISMIC DATA | 15 |
| 12 | Ahmet Kemal Ozdemir | NO | Asker | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130028050 - DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION ANGLE OF A SURVEY SENSOR | 15 |
| 13 | Cung Khac Vu | US | Houston, TX | Feb 28, 2013 / 20130054201 - HYBRID DETERMINISTIC-GEOSTATISTICAL EARTH MODEL | 15 |
| 14 | Lin Xiao | CN | Beijing | Mar 14, 2013 / 20130062001 - METHOD FOR LAYING CARBON NANOTUBE FILM | 15 |
| 15 | Glenn D. Fisseler | US | Houston, TX | Nov 29, 2012 / 20120300586 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMISSION OF SEISMIC DATA | 13 |
| 16 | Christopher Skelt | US | Houston, TX | May 17, 2012 / 20120120766 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING SUB-SURFACE FEATURES OF A ROCK FORMATION USING COMPRESSIONAL ACOUSTIC SOURCES | 13 |
| 17 | Zhuo Chen | CN | Beijing | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130089694 - DEVICE FOR MAKING CARBON NANOTUBE FILM | 13 |
| 18 | Yuan-Chao Yang | CN | Beijing | Mar 10, 2011 / 20110056433 - Device for forming diamond film | 12 |
| 19 | Mark Rhodes | GB | West Lothian | Dec 27, 2012 / 20120326526 - Inductively coupled data and power transfer system and apparatus | 12 |
| 20 | Pierre-Yves Le Bas | US | Los Alamos, NM | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 11 |
| 21 | Lars Borgen | NO | Sande | Aug 02, 2012 / 20120195162 - Devices and Methods for Positioning Tows in Marine Seismic Systems | 11 |
| 22 | Oeyvind Teigen | NO | Oslo | Dec 29, 2011 / 20110317516 - SEISMIC STREAMER PLATFORM | 11 |
| 23 | Stephen K. Chiu | US | Katy, TX | Nov 08, 2012 / 20120281499 - CONTINUOUS SEISMIC ACQUISITION | 11 |
| 24 | Nicolae Moldoveanu | US | Houston, TX | Jan 12, 2012 / 20120008458 - METHOD TO ATTENUATE STRONG MARINE SEISMIC NOISE | 11 |
| 25 | Douglas J. Patterson | US | Spring, TX | Apr 25, 2013 / 20130099791 - Methodologies to Improve Reliability of Transducer Electrical Interconnections | 11 |
| 26 | Liang Liu | CN | Beijing | May 09, 2013 / 20130115439 - CARBON NANOTUBE FILM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | 11 |
| 27 | James N. Thompson | US | Sugar Land, TX | Nov 22, 2012 / 20120294122 - OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER PACKAGE | 10 |
| 28 | Ulf Peter Lindqvist | SE | Segeltorp | May 23, 2013 / 20130127471 - ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR CABLE AND ELECTRICAL CONFIGURATION THEREFOR | 10 |
| 29 | Kurt Nihei | US | Oakland, CA | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 10 |
| 30 | Stian Hegna | NO | Hovik | Apr 18, 2013 / 20130092469 - SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING DIRECTED SEISMIC WAVES IN WATER | 10 |
| 31 | Robert Guyer | US | Reno, NV | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 9 |
| 32 | Paul A. Johnson | US | Santa Fe, NM | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 9 |
| 33 | Nicholas G. Pace | GB | Bath | Jul 26, 2012 / 20120186335 - IMAGING SUBSURFACE FORMATIONS WHILE WELLBORE DRILLING USING BEAM STEERING FOR IMPROVED IMAGE RESOLUTION | 9 |
| 34 | Masahiro Kamata | JP | Kawasaki-Shi | Dec 13, 2012 / 20120314537 - Methods and Systems for Seismic Signal Detection | 9 |
| 35 | Li Qian | CN | Beijing | May 09, 2013 / 20130115439 - CARBON NANOTUBE FILM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | 9 |
| 36 | Denis P. Schmitt | US | Katy, TX | Apr 07, 2011 / 20110080805 - DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BEAM OF ACOUSTIC ENERGY FROM A BOREHOLE, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | 8 |
| 37 | Kambiz Iranpour | NO | Oslo | Sep 15, 2011 / 20110222371 - Using Seismic Sensor Transfer Functions for High Fidelity Seismic Imaging | 8 |
| 38 | Xiao Ming Tang | US | Sugar Land, TX | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130070560 - Arranging Source-Receiver Orientations to Reduce High-Order Modes in Acoustic Monopole Logging | 8 |
| 39 | Rune Toennessen | NO | Oslo | Jan 13, 2011 / 20110007602 - ACCURACY OF A COMPASS PROVIDED WITH A CARRIER STRUCTURE FOR USE IN SUBTERRANEAN SURVEYING | 8 |
| 40 | Everhard Muyzert | GB | Cambridge | Oct 04, 2012 / 20120250460 - NOISE ATTENUATION USING ROTATION DATA | 8 |
| 41 | Cristian Pantea | US | Los Alamos, NM | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130067992 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC MONITORING OF STEAM QUALITY AND FLOW | 7 |
| 42 | Bikash K. Sinha | US | Cambridge, MA | Apr 04, 2013 / 20130081804 - ESTIMATION OF DEPLETION OR INJECTION INDUCED RESERVOIR STRESSES USING TIME-LAPSE SONIC DATA IN CASED HOLES | 7 |
| 43 | Niels Lawhite | US | Somerville, MA | Nov 22, 2012 / 20120294121 - Transducer for Phased Array Acoustic Systems | 7 |
| 44 | Dipen N. Sinha | US | Los Alamos, NM | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130067992 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC MONITORING OF STEAM QUALITY AND FLOW | 7 |
| 45 | Gary A. Sitton | US | Houston, TX | Apr 14, 2011 / 20110085414 - Flexural Wave Attenuation | 7 |
| 46 | Ralf Ferber | GB | West Sussex | Jul 02, 2009 / 20090168601 - SPECTRAL CONDITIONING FOR SURFACE SEISMIC DATA | 7 |
| 47 | Robert Laws | GB | Cambridge | Aug 30, 2012 / 20120218869 - Systems and Methods for Optimizing Low Frequency Output from Airgun Source Arrays | 7 |
| 48 | James A. Ten Cate | US | Los Alamos, NM | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 7 |
| 49 | David A. Betts | US | Eufaula, AL | Apr 29, 2010 / 20100103775 - SONAR IMAGING SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING TO WATERCRAFT | 7 |
| 50 | Vitaly N. Dorovsky | RU | Novosibirsk | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130073208 - Method of Measuring Parameters of a Porous Medium Using Nanoparticle Injection | 7 |
| 51 | Changsoo Shin | KR | Seoul | Dec 20, 2012 / 20120323541 - SEISMIC IMAGING METHOD CONSIDERING A CONTOUR OF THE SEA BOTTOM | 7 |
| 52 | Yasuyuki Okuda | JP | Aichi-Gun | Jul 12, 2012 / 20120174673 - ULTRASONIC SENSOR | 7 |
| 53 | Julian Edward Kragh | GB | Finchingfield | Oct 04, 2012 / 20120250460 - NOISE ATTENUATION USING ROTATION DATA | 7 |
| 54 | Yu-Quan Wang | CN | Beijing | May 09, 2013 / 20130115439 - CARBON NANOTUBE FILM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | 7 |
| 55 | Jon-Fredrik Hopperstad | GB | Cambridge | Aug 30, 2012 / 20120218869 - Systems and Methods for Optimizing Low Frequency Output from Airgun Source Arrays | 7 |
| 56 | Michael P. Thornton | US | Houston, TX | Nov 24, 2011 / 20110286306 - DETERMINING ORIGIN AND MECHANISM OF MICROSEISMIC EVENTS IN THE EARTH'S SUBSURFACE BY DEVIATORIC MOMENT INVERSION | 7 |
| 57 | Qinglin Liu | NO | Oslo | Mar 22, 2012 / 20120069706 - Land Seismic Cable and Method | 7 |
| 58 | Craig J. Beasley | US | Houston, TX | Jun 21, 2012 / 20120155218 - SEPARATING INTERFERING SIGNALS IN SEISMIC DATA | 7 |
| 59 | Andras Robert Juhasz | SE | Hagersten | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130069657 - ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR CABLE AND ELECTRICAL CONFIGURATION THEREFOR | 7 |
| 60 | Massimiliano Vassallo | GB | Brighton | May 23, 2013 / 20130128696 - NOISE REMOVAL FROM 3D SEISMIC REPRESENTATION | 6 |
| 61 | Nils Lunde | US | Houston, TX | Apr 05, 2012 / 20120081995 - COMBINED ELECTROMAGNETIC AND SEISMIC ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHOD | 6 |
| 62 | Johan O. A. Robertsson | GB | Grantchester | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130088939 - WAVEFIELD SEPARATION USING A GRADIENT SENSOR | 6 |
| 63 | Mark Rhodes | GB | Edinburgh | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130029628 - UNDERWATER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 6 |
| 64 | Daniel Ronnow | NO | Oslo | Oct 13, 2011 / 20110249530 - ARRANGING SENSOR ASSEMBLIES FOR SEISMIC SURVEYING | 6 |
| 65 | Robert B. Calhoun | US | Oberlin, OH | Jul 19, 2012 / 20120182837 - Systems and methods of locating weapon fire incidents using measurements/data from acoustic, optical, seismic, and/or other sensors | 6 |
| 66 | Ramesh Neelamani | US | Houston, TX | Nov 01, 2012 / 20120275267 - Seismic Data Processing | 6 |
| 67 | Hal B. Haygood | US | Sugar Land, TX | Nov 22, 2012 / 20120294122 - OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER PACKAGE | 6 |
| 68 | Guillaume Cambois | NO | Oslo | Oct 11, 2012 / 20120257474 - Method for seismic surveying using wider lateral spacing between sources to improve efficiency | 6 |
| 69 | Carène S. Larmat | US | Los Alamos, NM | May 17, 2012 / 20120123684 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MICRO-SEISMIC EVENTS AND CHARACTERIZING PROPERTIES OF A MEDIUM WITH NON-LINEAR ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS | 6 |
| 70 | Paul L. Camwell | CA | Calgary | Sep 06, 2012 / 20120222899 - SPINDLE FOR MUD PULSE TELEMETRY APPLICATIONS | 6 |
| 71 | Vladimir Dubinsky | US | Houston, TX | May 03, 2012 / 20120109528 - RADON MIGRATION OF ACOUSTIC DATA | 6 |
| 72 | Richard J. Rikoski | US | Alameda, CA | Apr 04, 2013 / 20130083621 - SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEISMIC SURVEY | 6 |
| 73 | Satoshi Misonoo | JP | Nishinomiya-City | Oct 18, 2012 / 20120263017 - DETECTION DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA STORING DETECTION PROGRAM | 6 |
| 74 | Ian Moore | GB | Cambridge | Jun 16, 2011 / 20110141848 - Optimizing a Seismic Survey for Source Separation | 6 |
| 75 | Henri Pierre Valero | US | Belmont, MA | Aug 12, 2010 / 20100202252 - MULTI-MODE DOWNHOLE ACOUSTIC SOURCE | 6 |
| 76 | Henk Keers | NO | Oslo | Jun 02, 2011 / 20110128817 - GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING | 6 |
| 77 | Roald G. Van Borselen | NL | Voorschoten | May 16, 2013 / 20130121109 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING SEISMIC SOURCES IN MARINE SIMULTANEOUS SHOOTING ACQUISITION | 6 |
| 78 | Espen Gulbransen | NO | Oslo | Apr 05, 2012 / 20120082001 - Monitoring the Quality of Particle Motion Data During a Seismic Acquisition | 6 |
| 79 | Dirk-Jan Van Manen | GB | Redhill | May 23, 2013 / 20130128696 - NOISE REMOVAL FROM 3D SEISMIC REPRESENTATION | 6 |
| 80 | Walter L. Sass | US | Somerville, MA | Nov 22, 2012 / 20120294121 - Transducer for Phased Array Acoustic Systems | 6 |
| 81 | Andre Stenzel | US | Sugar Land, TX | Apr 18, 2013 / 20130094332 - System and Method for Using an Impact-Activated Device for Repelling Sharks from Marine Geophysical Survey Equipment | 6 |
| 82 | Pascal Edme | GB | Cambridge | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130088939 - WAVEFIELD SEPARATION USING A GRADIENT SENSOR | 6 |
| 83 | J. Macdonald Smith | US | Houston, TX | Jun 24, 2010 / 20100157734 - Generating Seismic Vibrator Signals Having Distinguishing Signatures | 5 |
| 84 | Robert Bloor | US | Missouri City, TX | Jun 24, 2010 / 20100157734 - Generating Seismic Vibrator Signals Having Distinguishing Signatures | 5 |
| 85 | Jinsong Zhao | US | Houston, TX | Oct 18, 2012 / 20120265442 - OBM RESISTIVITY IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH FIRST MOMENT ESTIMATION | 5 |
| 86 | Frank D. Janiszewski | US | Richmond, TX | May 09, 2013 / 20130114372 - OSCILLATING FLARED STREAMERS | 5 |
| 87 | Brian Steiner | CH | Zurich | Jan 19, 2012 / 20120014216 - Time reverse reservoir localization | 5 |
| 88 | Ronald W. Mitnick | US | Baltimore, MD | Feb 03, 2011 / 20110026366 - Water Inflatable Volumetric Hydrophone Array | 5 |
| 89 | Jacques Y. GuignÉ | CA | Paradise | Jan 12, 2012 / 20120008461 - METHOD FOR ACCENTUATING SPECULAR AND NON-SPECULAR SEISMIC EVENTS FROM WITHIN SHALLOW SUBSURFACE ROCK FORMATIONS | 5 |
| 90 | Douglas E. Miller | US | Boston, MA | Feb 09, 2012 / 20120035854 - SEISMIC ACQUISITION SYSTEM INCLUDING A DISTRIBUTED SENSOR HAVING AN OPTICAL FIBER | 5 |
| 91 | Ali Ozbek | GB | Milton | Jun 07, 2012 / 20120140592 - 3D DEGHOSTING OF MULTICOMPONENT OR OVER/UNDER STREAMER RECORDINGS USING CROSS-LINE WAVENUMBER SPECTRA OF HYDROPHONE DATA | 5 |
| 92 | Anthony L. Scoca | US | Hicksville, NY | Jul 28, 2011 / 20110182146 - Correlation Method for SONAR or RADAR | 5 |
| 93 | Julian Edward (ed) Kragh | GB | Finchingfield | Apr 19, 2012 / 20120090914 - Attenuating Out of Band Energy Emitted From Seismic Sources | 5 |
| 94 | Tsili Wang | US | Katy, TX | Oct 04, 2012 / 20120253676 - METHOD OF DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVITY LOGGING | 5 |
| 95 | Sandip Bose | US | Brookline, MA | Dec 06, 2012 / 20120307596 - SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO DRIVE REACTIVE LOADS | 5 |
| 96 | Peter M. Duncan | US | Houston, TX | Oct 06, 2011 / 20110242934 - PASSIVE SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING USING MULTI-LEVEL SENSOR ARRAYS | 5 |
| 97 | Jacques Y. GuignÉ | CA | Paradise | May 09, 2013 / 20130113489 - STATIONARY STAR-SHAPED ANTENNA METHOD FOR MANIPULATING FOCUSED BEAMFORMED, SHAPED FIELDS AND BEAMSTEERED ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL FROM SUBTEL SEDIMENTARY STRATIGRAPHIC FORMATIONS DEEP IN THE EARTH | 5 |
| 98 | Mitsuyasu Matsuura | JP | Chiryu-City | Dec 13, 2012 / 20120314541 - OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS | 5 |
| 99 | John Richard Tulett | JP | Yokohama-Shi | Aug 30, 2012 / 20120218869 - Systems and Methods for Optimizing Low Frequency Output from Airgun Source Arrays | 5 |
| 100 | Medhat W. Mickael | US | Sugar Land, TX | Feb 02, 2012 / 20120026831 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING FORMATION ANISOTROPY WHILE DRILLING | 5 |