Patents Represented by Attorney John Chandler Meline
  • Patent number: 8260049
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for determining a logical structure of a document. The method comprises generating at least one document hypothesis for the whole document; for each document hypothesis, verifying said document hypothesis including (a) generating at least one block hypothesis for each block in the document based on the document hypothesis; and (b) selecting a best block hypothesis for each block; selecting as a best document hypothesis the document hypothesis that has the best degree of correspondence with the selected best block hypotheses for the document; and forming the document based on the best document hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: ABBYY Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Dmitry Deryagin, Konstantin Anisimovich
  • Patent number: 7900949
    Abstract: Described is a system, device and method for coupling of a towing vehicle to a trailer or other towed item. A skid plate provides a surface on which a tongue of the towed item slides toward alignment over a hitch such as a hitch ball or pintle hook. The tongue, when approaching the correct location, impacts a latch. Movement of the latch facilitates movement of the skid plate downward, out of the way of the tongue. The skid plate automatically drops or tilts below the level of the hitch. The tongue of the trailer then drops onto, engages, or couples to the hitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Wayne B. Russell, Jr.
  • Patent number: D594635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Inventor: Oliver A. Hannan