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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bob A Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; E21B / ; F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
181116 ; 102306 ; 175-46 ;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for creating as shear ('S') wave for use in oil and gas exploration, where such S-wave is created by detonating an explosive packaging in a shot hole in a manner that produces directionally controlled S-wave force vectors at each source station across a 3-D survey grid.