but the art of performance modifications, including winglets. In it, he credited Dick Johnson, Wil Schuemann, George B. Moffat, Jr. and Richard Schreder for their pioneering work that inspired him. Patents Peter Masak was a prolific inventor, and he appears as inventor on 17 U.S. Patents, mostly in the area of mechanical engineering applied in the petroleum industry. – Apparatus for agitated fluid discharge – Method for removing a deposit using pulsed fluid flow – System and method for NMR logging with helical polarization – Method and apparatus for nuclear magnetic resonance measuring while drilling – Temperature compensated magnetic circuit – Magnetic resonance fluid analysis apparatus and method – Pressure reading tool – Method and apparatus for nuclear magnetic resonance measuring while drilling – Temperature compensated magnetic field apparatus for NMR measurements – Method and apparatus for nuclear magnetic resonance measuring while drilling – Method and apparatus for nuclear magnetic resonance measuring while drilling – Inverse vertical seismic profiling using a measurement while drilling tool as a seismic source – Inverse vertical seismic profiling using a measurement while drilling tool as a seismic source – Integrated modulator and turbine-generator for a measurement while drilling tool – Mud pump noise cancellation system and method – Method and apparatus for measuring the quality of a cement to a casing bond – Pump jack slant wells See also List of University of Waterloo people References 1957 births 2004 deaths American aviators Glider pilots Gliding in the United States Aviation writers Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania 20th-century American inventors Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2004 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers