Patents Represented by Attorney Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP
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Patent number: 8350767Abstract: Described are a notch antenna and an array antenna based on a low profile stripline feed. The notch antenna includes a planar dielectric substrate having upper and lower surfaces. Each surface has a conductive layer with an opening therein. A notch antenna element is disposed on the conductive layer of the upper surface at the opening. A stripline embedded in the planar dielectric substrate extends under the notch antenna element. The stripline is adapted to couple an RF signal between the stripline and the notch antenna element. A conductive via is electrically coupled to the stripline and extends from the stripline to the opening in the conductive layer on the lower surface so that the RF signal is accessible at the lower surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Glenn A. Brigham, Marat Davidovitz, Zhanna Davidovitz, legal representative, Sean M. Duffy, Jeffrey Herd
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Patent number: 8331243Abstract: Described are methods and communications network for carrying pseudowires over packet-switched network. A communication network includes a packet-switched network (PSN), a first provider edge (PE) device in communication with a second PE device through the PSN, and a pseudowire (PW) established between the PE devices for emulating a service across the PSN. The PW has a Virtual Circuit Connection Verification (VCCV) control channel that carries an Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) message. In some embodiments, various data plane encapsulation formats enable a PW to emulate an Ethernet or a non-Ethernet service over an Ethernet PSN. Each encapsulation format includes an Ethernet tunnel header and a PW header that encapsulates an Ethernet or non-Ethernet payload.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Rockstar Consortium USLPInventors: Dinesh Mohan, Florin Balus
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Patent number: 8317781Abstract: Switching power supplies made in accordance with the disclosed technology drive flash lamps of dermatologic treatment devices to emit a sequence of relatively small light pulses that are aligned with particular locations within the waveform of the AC line source. Such power supplies not only enable sufficient light energy in aggregate to therapeutically heat target chromophores in a skin region without causing undesired damage to surrounding tissue, but also provide the added benefit that the corresponding electrical energy need not be substantially drawn from any charged capacitor. The disclosed power supply further compensates for performance degradation of the flash lamps during their usable life, by modifying its operation based on predetermined values that are indicative of flash lamp aging/efficiency characteristics. The flash lamps and their associated stored values are preferably incorporated into a replaceable cartridge that facilitates user maintenance of the dermatologic treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Shaser, Inc.Inventors: William Owens, Arthur Aaron, Douglas Ely, Bikram Yonjan, Victor Lazarev
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Patent number: 8312762Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and apparatus for placing a sample in a chromatographic system. The device and method feature placing samples held in a sample loop to pressurization prior to placing such sample loop in communication with high pressure conduits.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Keith Fadgen, James E. Usowicz, Miguel Soares
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Patent number: 8307359Abstract: Described are a system and method of embedding a virtual storage area network on an electronic device. A virtual machine runs on the electronic device. The virtual machine provides a virtual storage target for responding to block storage requests from storage initiators. A virtual fabric is coupled between the virtual machine and an external storage area network (SAN). The virtual fabric routes a storage request from a storage initiator to the virtual storage target.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Brown, Randall H. Shain
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Patent number: 8281812Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention feature a method and device for controlling the flow of fluid. One embodiment of the device for controlling the flow of fluid comprises a rotor, stator and compression means. The rotor has a rotor fluid communication means and at least one rotor load bearing surface. The rotor load bearing surface sealably engages a stationary load bearing surface. The rotor is capable of assuming a first position and a second position by rotation. The stator has a stationary load bearing surface having stator fluid communication means. The stationary load bearing surface sealably engages the rotor load bearing surface and permits rotation of the rotor with respect to the stator. At least one of the rotor bearing surface and said stator load bearing surface has a diamond-like carbon-silica coating.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2005Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: James E. Usowicz, Theodore C. Ciolkosz, Marc Lemelin
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Patent number: 8264970Abstract: An OAM link trace message is sent from a source node to a target node in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. The link trace message using an 802.1ag format except, as a destination address, it uses either the unicast Ethernet MAC node ID of the target node, or the multicast destination address of the service instance. A method of network topology verification in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network checks the link state protocol database at a node to ascertain the control plane topology view of at least part of the network. It then executes one or more Ethernet OAM commands from the node to ascertain the data plane topology view of the same part of the network. The control plane topology view of the network is compared to the data plane topology view of the network to see if they match. An error is flagged if they do not match.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LPInventors: Dinesh Mohan, Paul Unbehagen, Srikanth Keesara
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Patent number: 8265075Abstract: An apparatus and method bridges frames between entities running on the same server. The server has a physical network interface that supports I/O virtualization. The physical network interface has an IOV device with a bridging function capable of bridging frames between entities running on the server. A network switch has a physical port coupled to the server by a physical link and a switching fabric in communication with the physical port for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data frames to and from the IOV device. A control processor, in communication with the IOV device, configures the bridging function of the IOV device to bridge some frames locally within the server between the entities running on the server and to pass other frames through the IOV device over the physical link to the physical port and the switching fabric, so that the switching fabric bridges these other frames between the entities.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Vijoy Pandey
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Patent number: 8246613Abstract: A method for the treatment of skin including the steps of determining the skin depth for energy absorption necessary for treatment; and generating a spot size for energy impinging on the skin to provide a desired amount of energy to the desired depth for treatment. In one embodiment the selected spot size has a small diameter. In another embodiment the spot diameter is narrower than the spacing between adjacent hairs on the skin. In another aspect the invention relates to an apparatus for the treatment of skin including a source of energy; and a means for selecting a spot size for energy from the source impinging on the skin to provide a desired amount of energy to a desired depth for treatment. In another embodiment the apparatus includes an interlock to prevent the laser from producing light unless the source is positioned to irradiate only the skin.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Shaser, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Dover, Victor Lazarev, Daniel Lawrence Roth
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Patent number: 8246612Abstract: The disclosed technology can be embodied within optical heads or other optical systems adapted for providing a selected dermatologic treatment (e.g., temporary hair growth management). This technology uses a scanner to mechanically change an orientation of an optical element, such as a light pipe, to facilitate the conveyance of light energy to multiple target/treatment locations on a patient's skin.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Shaser, Inc.Inventors: Victor Lazarev, Doug Ely, Daniel Roth
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Patent number: 8243608Abstract: A network element disposed at an edge of a connectivity fault management (CFM) domain includes a switch fabric, a central processor (CP) card, and a line card in communication with the CP card through the switch fabric. The line card includes an Ethernet interface for transmitting and receiving Ethernet CFM frames over a network and circuitry configured to generate new continuity check messages (CCMs) periodically, to process CCMs received on each connection supported by the line card, and to detect a loss of continuity for any of the connections supported by the line card. The line card maintains a list of supported connections. A generate timer and an age counter are associated with each connection in the list. The line card generates a CCM for a given connection when the generate timer expires and detects a loss of continuity for the given connection when its age counter exceeds a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LPInventors: Nicolas Tausanovitch, Michael Craren, Hamid Assarpour
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Patent number: 8242818Abstract: Described is a frequency synthesizer having a wide output frequency range and small frequency tuning steps. In-band spurious components are maintained at low levels and phase noise is significantly reduced. The frequency synthesizer can be fabricated as an integrated circuit device having a small area and low power dissipation. The frequency synthesizer can be used in wideband frequency systems to reduce cost and size by replacing multiple frequency synthesizers each devoted to a portion of the overall system frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Helen H. Kim, Matthew D. Cross, Merlin R. Green, Daniel D. Santiago
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Patent number: 8232521Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a device for analyzing a sample surface Comprising an outlet and a frame. The outlet is for forming a jet of gas, the jet forming a sampling region for receiving one or more sample surfaces, and the frame holding the outlet and being adapted to receive a detector means. The detector means has an inlet. In use, the jet produces desorbed sample from sample surfaces received in the sample area. At least a portion of the desorbed sample is ionized to produce one or more sample ions. The frame holds the outlet with respect to the sample ions and produce a signal indicative of the composition of the sample ions.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Joseph A. Jarrell, Michael J. Tomany
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Patent number: 8225527Abstract: Described are an apparatus and a method for cooling a web. The apparatus includes an inner cylinder having a void therein and configured for coupling to a gas source. The apparatus also includes an outer cylinder having an inner surface, an outer surface to support a web and apertures between the inner and outer surfaces. The outer cylinder rotates about the inner cylinder so that gas provided to the void of the inner cylinder flows through the apertures that are adjacent to the void and passes to the outer surface of the outer cylinder to increase the heat transfer between the web and the outer cylinder. The volume of gas introduced into the vacuum deposition chamber during a process run is thereby limited. Advantageously, the apparatus enables higher deposition rates and increased productivity.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Aventa Technologies LLCInventors: Piero Sferlazzo, Donald N. Polner, Darren M. Simonelli
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Patent number: 8224901Abstract: A server system runs a bot service that registers an FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a document having an embedded object. The FAQ includes one or more question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs. The bot service receives, from each electronics device that renders a copy of the document, a request from the embedded object for the FAQ registered for the document, and transmits the FAQ to each electronic device from which a request is received. Each electronics device displays the FAQ, including the one or more Q&A pairs, within its rendered copy of the document. Any viewer of a copy of the document with the embedded object can submit a question to the bot service through the embedded object. The bot service uses a messaging service to obtain an answer to the question from an author. The FAQs displayed at the electronics devices are updated to include the new Q&A pair.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Hind, Li Chen, Yongcheng Li, Lun Xiao
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Patent number: 8219626Abstract: A system and method integrate synchronous electronic (e.g., chat) communications with asynchronous electronic communications in the form of body-less electronic mail messages (emails). Body-less emails have a subject line but lack a message body capable of receiving message content. When converting a synchronous electronic communication into a body-less email, a processor places each text message of the synchronous electronic communication into the subject line of the body-less email. When converting a received body-less email into a synchronous electronic communication, the processor places each text message in the subject line of the body-less email into a chat format. A user can readily transition between asynchronous and synchronous communications.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael J. Muller, Sara Beth Weber
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Patent number: 8204148Abstract: Described is a space-time digital power amplifier that can be used to generate an arbitrary waveform for a carrier signal. The space-time digital power amplifier employs temporal modulation of transmit signals generated by an array of transmitter modules. The RF signals transmitted from the array are spatially combined through free space propagation to generate the desired waveform. Advantageously, no digital-to-analog conversion is required and upconversion is unnecessary. The digital power amplifiers for the transmitter modules can be combined in a single chip package. The space-time digital power amplifier enables high power efficiency to be realized using pulse-shaped waveforms thus eliminating any need for the power amplifiers to operate over a wider bandwidth with a spectrally unconfined waveform.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Joel Irwin Goodman, Helen Haeran Kim, Benjamin Andrew Miller, James Edwin Vian
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Patent number: 8205064Abstract: In certain systems, local requests require corresponding associated information to be present in order to be serviced. A local memory stores some of the associated information. There is latency associated with retrieval of associated information that is not immediately available. Logic operates for each local request to access the local memory to ascertain whether the associated information corresponding to the local request is present. If the associated information is present, a request is placed in an output request queue to service the local request. If the associated information is not present, a request is placed on a bypass path to retrieve the associated information. Requests issue from the bypass path with priority over requests from the output request queue. Useful work is thereby done during the latency of associated information retrieval. The arrangement is useful in a TLB in an MMU.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Vivenzio, Denis J. Foley
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Patent number: 8197076Abstract: Described is a magnetic membrane mirror having a flexible membrane comprising a magnetic material and having a high reflectance. The flexible membrane is secured over a frame to enclose a volume between the frame and membrane. A transmembrane pressure is established to achieve a desired mirror shape or curvature. Curvature can be changed by modifying the transmembrane pressure by increasing or decreasing the pressure in the enclosed volume. An array of electromagnetic actuators generates individually-controlled magnetic fields to cause localized displacements of the mirror surface. The magnetic membrane mirror can be constructed with inexpensive components and can be used as a dynamic component in an adaptive optical system.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventor: Matthew M. Angel
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Patent number: D670397Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Shaser, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Ely, Bikram Yonjan, Arthur Aaron, William Owens, Victor Lazarev