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).

  • Patent number: 10740603
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10565467
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20190332885
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10445617
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20190286934
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10206035
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: University of Maryland
    Inventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan
  • Publication number: 20180276462
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20170064478
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan
  • Patent number: 7954326
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Lai, David G. Walhood, Hiroshi Kawamura, Albert K. Wong, Mark A. Kuper
  • Publication number: 20090133404
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Lai, David G. Walhood, Hiroshi Kawamura, Albert K. Wong, Mark A. Kuper
  • Publication number: 20070101969
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Lay, Chris Schembri, C. Baxter
  • Publication number: 20070049693
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: EnviroFuels, LLC
    Inventors: C. Baxter, Mark Lay
  • Patent number: 6931867
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
  • Publication number: 20040187504
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
  • Publication number: 20040007003
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham
  • Patent number: 6672090
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventors: John Joseph Healy, Man Wai Wu, Mark Lai Yuen Ng, Hung M. Pham