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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:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Applicants:
Zbigniew M Wojcik, San Antonio, TX (US);
William J Bosl, Canton, MA (US);
Qian Fang, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Zbigniew M Wojcik, San Antonio, TX (US);
William J Bosl, Canton, MA (US);
Qian Fang, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Ingrain, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for estimating a physical property of a porous material from a sample of the material includes making a three dimensional tomographic image of the sample of the material, segmenting the image into pixels each representing pore space or rock grain, and estimating at least one physical property from the segmented image.