Patents by Inventor Mark Lay
Mark Lay 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).
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Patent number: 10740603Abstract: A structured data processing system includes hardware processors and a memory in communication with the hardware processors. The memory stores a data structure and an execution environment. The data structure includes an electronic document. The execution environment includes a data extraction solver configured to perform operations including identifying a particular page of the electronic document; performing an optical character recognition (OCR) on the page to determine a plurality of alphanumeric text strings on the page; determining a type of the page; determining a layout of the page; determining at least one table on the page based at least in part on the determined type of the page and the determined layout of the page; and extracting a plurality of data from the determined table on the page.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
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Patent number: 10565467Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
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Publication number: 20190332885Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
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Patent number: 10445617Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
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Publication number: 20190286934Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
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Patent number: 10206035Abstract: Placement of microphones and design of filters in a microphone network are solved simultaneously. Using filterbanks with multiple sub-channels for each microphone, the design of the filter response is solved simultaneously with placement. By using an objective function that penalizes the number of sub-channels in any solution, only some of many possible sub-channels and corresponding microphones and filters are selected while also solving for the filter responses for the selected sub-channels. For a given target location, the location of the microphones and the filter responses to beamform are optimized.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: University of MarylandInventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan
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Publication number: 20180276462Abstract: A structured data processing system includes hardware processors and a memory in communication with the hardware processors. The memory stores a data structure and an execution environment. The data structure includes an electronic document. The execution environment includes a data extraction solver configured to perform operations including identifying a particular page of the electronic document; performing an optical character recognition (OCR) on the page to determine a plurality of alphanumeric text strings on the page; determining a type of the page; determining a layout of the page; determining at least one table on the page based at least in part on the determined type of the page and the determined layout of the page; and extracting a plurality of data from the determined table on the page.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
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Publication number: 20170064478Abstract: Placement of microphones and design of filters in a microphone network are solved simultaneously. Using filterbanks with multiple sub-channels for each microphone, the design of the filter response is solved simultaneously with placement. By using an objective function that penalizes the number of sub-channels in any solution, only some of many possible sub-channels and corresponding microphones and filters are selected while also solving for the filter responses for the selected sub-channels. For a given target location, the location of the microphones and the filter responses to beamform are optimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan
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Patent number: 7954326Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly includes a combustor configured to combust an air-fuel mixture to produce combustion gases in a first direction; a transition liner coupled to the combustor and adapted to receive the combustion gases from the combustor and to redirect the combustion gases in a second direction; and a turbine coupled to the transition liner and adapted to receive the combustion gases from the transition liner. The transition liner has a plurality of effusion holes that include a first group that extend at least partially in a tangential direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Mark Lai, David G. Walhood, Hiroshi Kawamura, Albert K. Wong, Mark A. Kuper
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Publication number: 20090133404Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly includes a combustor configured to combust an air-fuel mixture to produce combustion gases in a first direction; a transition liner coupled to the combustor and adapted to receive the combustion gases from the combustor and to redirect the combustion gases in a second direction; and a turbine coupled to the transition liner and adapted to receive the combustion gases from the transition liner. The transition liner has a plurality of effusion holes that include a first group that extend at least partially in a tangential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2007Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Mark Lai, David G. Walhood, Hiroshi Kawamura, Albert K. Wong, Mark A. Kuper
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Publication number: 20070101969Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel additive system for internal combustion engines in which the fuel additive system is disposed on-board a vessel such as marine vessel or locomotive. The fuel additive system includes a fuel additive reservoir containing a fuel additive in fluid communication with an internal combustion engine. An electronically controlled injector, such as an eductor, is in fluid communication with the internal combustion engine and a fuel level meter or sensor, fuel efficiency meter or sensor, or other meter or sensor which, upon sensing certain pre-set conditions, e.g., increase of fuel level in a fuel storage tank or decrease in fuel efficiency, the injector injects an appropriate amount of fuel additive from the fuel additive reservoir and into the fuel stream that ultimately enters the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Mark Lay, Chris Schembri, C. Baxter
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Publication number: 20070049693Abstract: The present invention includes a flow enhancement composition and a method for enhancing flow using the flow enhancement composition in relation to liquid and gaseous flow in pipes, tubes, conduits and other transfer or transmission devices, particularly metallic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: EnviroFuels, LLCInventors: C. Baxter, Mark Lay
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Patent number: 6931867Abstract: A cooling system including a pulse-width modulated variable capacity compressor operable between on-cycles and off-cycles, and in electrical communication with the compressor and operable to respectively synchronize opening and closing thereof with on- and off-cycles of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2004Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Copeland CorporationInventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
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Publication number: 20040187504Abstract: A cooling system including a pulse-width modulated variable capacity compressor operable between on-cycles and off-cycles, and in electrical communication with the compressor and operable to respectively synchronize opening and closing thereof with on- and off-cycles of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
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Publication number: 20040007003Abstract: A system including an evaporator, a variable capacity compressor coupled in fluid communication with the evaporator, a condenser coupled in fluid communication between the compressor and the evaporator, an expansion valve disposed intermediate the condenser and the evaporator, and an isolation valve disposed intermediate the condenser and the expansion valve is provided. The isolation valve is in communication with the compressor to respectively synchronize opening and closing thereof with on- and off-cycles of the compressor to prohibit migration of liquid refrigerant. In an alternative embodiment, first and second check valves are respectively associated with the compressor and the condenser for prohibiting reverse migration of refrigerant during the off-cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
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Patent number: 6672090Abstract: A system including an evaporator, a variable capacity compressor coupled in fluid communication with the evaporator, a condenser coupled in fluid communication between the compressor and the evaporator, an expansion valve disposed intermediate the condenser and the evaporator, and an isolation valve disposed intermediate the condenser and the expansion valve is provided. The isolation valve is in communication with the compressor to respectively synchronize opening and closing thereof with on- and off-cycles of the compressor to prohibit migration of liquid refrigerant. In an alternative embodiment, first and second check valves are respectively associated with the compressor and the condensor for prohibiting reverse migration of refrigerant during off-cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Copeland CorporationInventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham