Patents by Inventor Alastair Stuart MacFarlane

Alastair Stuart MacFarlane has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and a method for depletable, natural asset management, accounting and analysis
    Patent number: 11429928
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MINERP IP INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan Strydom, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DEPLETABLE, NATURAL ASSET MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING AND ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20200082329
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan STRYDOM, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • System and method for depletable, natural asset management, accounting and analysis
    Patent number: 10521763
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MINE RP HOLDINGS (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan Strydom, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLETABLE, NATURAL ASSET MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING AND ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20160140492
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan STRYDOM, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane