Patents by Inventor David Rudolph

David Rudolph 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).

  • Publication number: 20230381239
    Abstract: The present application provides a synthetic nutritional composition comprising milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) in the range of about 10 ?g/100 kcal to about 1500 mg/100 kcal for use in improving neurological development in a paediatric subject. The synthetic nutritional composition is administered to the paediatric subject for at least three months during the first year of life and said administration of the synthetic nutritional composition improves neurological development of the paediatric subject from at least two years of age.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Shi-fong Wu, Colin David Rudolph
  • Patent number: 10581981
    Abstract: A dual-device tutorial system can facilitate user learning about a “primary” device by providing explanatory information on a “supporting” device while the user interacts with the primary device. The primary and supporting devices can be devices of different types. From a user perspective, the primary device can operate exactly as it would in normal (non-tutorial) use and can send event messages and/or other signals to the supporting device. Based on the event messages and/or other signals, the supporting device can provide explanatory information responsive to user interactions with the primary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander M. Hunter, Eric D. Schlakman, Ryan K. Mears, Ieyuki Kawashima, Ryan M. Romero, Ronald L. Jett, Andrew M. Fallon, Yen Lai, David A. Rudolph, Andrew T. Dean, Ameya A. Mhatre
  • Patent number: 10473914
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a freestanding film having at least one population of through holes cumulatively totaling at least 1% of the film area, wherein the standard deviation of hole diameters is less than 25% and a thickness less than 25 micrometers, The film provides a carrier substrate, a photo-curable material, a release agent and deposits a photo-curable material on the substrate, selectively curing the material and leaving uncured material in the pattern of holes, dissolving away the uncured material and removing the cured material from the carrier substrate. Methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: University of Cincinnati
    Inventors: Eric Kreit, John David Rudolph, Kenneth A. Dean
  • Publication number: 20170357086
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a freestanding film having at least one population of through holes cumulatively totaling at least 1% of the film area, wherein the standard deviation of hole diameters is less than 25% and a thickness less than 25 micrometers, The film provides a carrier substrate, a photo-curable material, a release agent and deposits a photo-curable material on the substrate, selectively curing the material and leaving uncured material in the pattern of holes, dissolving away the uncured material and removing the cured material from the carrier substrate. Methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Kreit, John David Rudolph, Kenneth A. Dean
  • Patent number: 9753273
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a freestanding film having at least one population of through holes cumulatively totaling at least 1% of the film area, wherein the standard deviation of hole diameters is less than 25% and a thickness less than 25 micrometers, The film provides a carrier substrate, a photo-curable material, a release agent and deposits a photo-curable material on the substrate, selectively curing the material and leaving uncured material in the pattern of holes, dissolving away the uncured material and removing the cured material from the carrier. Methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: University Of Cincinnati
    Inventors: Eric Kreit, John David Rudolph, Kenneth A. Dean
  • Patent number: 9670146
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first controller configured to control at least the flow rate of a polymerization inhibitor or acrylonitrile product to a first location where the two are mixed. The apparatus comprises a first on-line analyzer configured to measure polymerization inhibitor concentration in the acrylonitrile product at a second location, the second location downstream of the first location. The first on-line analyzer is configured to provide information relating to the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location to the first controller, the first controller configured to process the information from the first on-line analyzer and to adjust at least a first operating parameter of a first addition device if the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location is outside a first predetermined condition. A second controller and a second on-line analyzer are provided to provide similar control of water addition to acrylonitrile product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Ineos Europe AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert McDonel, Jay Robert Couch, David Rudolph Wagner, Paul Trigg Wachtendorf
  • Publication number: 20160299769
    Abstract: A dual-device tutorial system can facilitate user learning about a “primary” device by providing explanatory information on a “supporting” device while the user interacts with the primary device. The primary and supporting devices can be devices of different types. From a user perspective, the primary device can operate exactly as it would in normal (non-tutorial) use and can send event messages and/or other signals to the supporting device. Based on the event messages and/or other signals, the supporting device can provide explanatory information responsive to user interactions with the primary device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander M. Hunter, Eric D. Schlakman, Ryan K. Mears, Ieyuki Kawashima, Ryan M. Romero, Ronald L. Jett, Andrew M. Fallon, Yen Lai, David A. Rudolph, Andrew T. Dean, Ameya A. Mhatre
  • Publication number: 20160257644
    Abstract: A method includes reacting, at a first pressure and in the presence of a catalyst, ammonia, oxygen, and a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene and isobutylene, and combinations thereof, to provide a reactor effluent stream that includes acrylonitrile. The method includes quenching the reactor effluent stream with a first aqueous stream to provide a quenched stream that includes acrylonitrile. The method includes compressing the quenched stream to provide an effluent compressor stream comprising acrylonitrile, and conveying, at a second pressure, the effluent compressor stream to an absorber. The method includes, in the absorber, absorbing acrylonitrile in a second aqueous stream to provide a rich water comprising acrylonitrile, wherein the absorbing is performed at a pressure greater than the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: INEOS EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert McDonel, Jay Robert Couch, David Rudolph Wagner, Paul Trigg Wachtendorf
  • Publication number: 20160256848
    Abstract: A method includes reacting, at a first pressure and in the presence of a catalyst, ammonia, oxygen, and a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene and isobutylene, and combinations thereof, to provide a reactor effluent stream that includes acrylonitrile. The method includes quenching the reactor effluent stream with a first aqueous stream to provide a quenched stream that includes acrylonitrile. The method includes compressing the quenched stream to provide an effluent compressor stream comprising acrylonitrile, and conveying, at a second pressure, the effluent compressor stream to an absorber. The method includes, in the absorber, absorbing acrylonitrile in a second aqueous stream to provide a rich water comprising acrylonitrile, wherein the absorbing is performed at a pressure greater than the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: INEOS EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert McDonel, Jay Robert Couch, David Rudolph Wagner, Paul Trigg Wachtendorf
  • Patent number: 9225530
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards certifying cryptographic data for a crypto-processor outside of a controlled environment. The crypto-processor and a certifying entity maintain shared secret data for the purpose of verifying security of cryptographic key generation by the crypto-processor's firmware. In order to certify new cryptographic keys, the crypto-processor uses the shared secret data to verify the crypto-processor's firmware/hardware to the certifying entity. By protecting the shared secret data from exposure to compromised firmware, the shared secret data may be used to compute another secret conveying to the certifying entity whether the firmware can be trusted or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Rudolph Wooten, Dennis James Mattoon, Paul England
  • Publication number: 20150329480
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first controller configured to control at least the flow rate of a polymerization inhibitor or acrylonitrile product to a first location where the two are mixed. The apparatus comprises a first on-line analyzer configured to measure polymerization inhibitor concentration in the acrylonitrile product at a second location, the second location downstream of the first location. The first on-line analyzer is configured to provide information relating to the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location to the first controller, the first controller configured process the information from the first on-line analyzer and to adjust at least a first operating parameter of a first addition device if the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location is outside a first predetermined condition. A second controller and a second on-line analyzer are provided to provide similar control of water addition to acrylonitrile product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: INEOS EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert McDonel, Jay Robert Couch, David Rudolph Wagner, Paul Trigg Wachtendorf
  • Publication number: 20150293347
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a freestanding film having at least one population of through holes cumulatively totaling at least 1% of the film area, wherein the standard deviation of hole diameters is less than 25% and a thickness less than 25 micrometers, The film provides a carrier substrate, a photo-curable material, a release agent and deposits a photo-curable material on the substrate, selectively curing the material and leaving uncured material in the pattern of holes, dissolving away the uncured material and removing the cured material from the carrier. Methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: ERIC KREIT, John David Rudolph, Kenneth A. Dean
  • Patent number: 9081171
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and/or apparatuses are provided that selectively reflect the infrared spectrum independent of other regions of the solar spectrum in order to actively manage solar heat gain across surfaces such as windows, skylights, roofs, siding and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: University Of Cincinnati
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Dean, John David Rudolph, Jason Charles Heikenfeld
  • Publication number: 20150113266
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards certifying cryptographic data for a crypto-processor outside of a controlled environment. The crypto-processor and a certifying entity maintain shared secret data for the purpose of verifying security of cryptographic key generation by the crypto-processor's firmware. In order to certify new cryptographic keys, the crypto-processor uses the shared secret data to verify the crypto-processor's firmware/hardware to the certifying entity. By protecting the shared secret data from exposure to compromised firmware, the shared secret data may be used to compute another secret conveying to the certifying entity whether the firmware can be trusted or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Rudolph Wooten, Dennis James Mattoon, Paul England
  • Publication number: 20130128336
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and/or apparatuses are provided that selectively reflect the infrared spectrum independent of other regions of the solar spectrum in order to actively manage solar heat gain across surfaces such as windows, skylights, roofs, siding and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Dean, John David Rudolph, Jason Charles Heikenfeld
  • Patent number: 8341430
    Abstract: Hardware encrypting storage devices can provide for hardware encryption of data being written to the storage media of such storage devices, and hardware decryption of data being read from that storage media. To utilize existing key management resources, which can be more flexible and accommodating, mechanisms for storing keys protected by the existing resources, but not the hardware encryption of the storage device, can be developed. Dedicated partitions that do not have corresponding encryption bands can be utilized to store keys in a non-hardware-encrypted manner. Likewise, partitions can be defined larger than their associated encryption bands, leaving room near the beginning and end for non-hardware encrypted storage. Or a separate bit can be used to individually specify which data should be hardware encrypted. Additionally automated processes can maintain synchronization between a partition table of the computing device and a band table of the hardware encrypting storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Octavian T. Ureche, Scott A. Brender, Karan Mehra, David Rudolph Wooten
  • Patent number: 7921286
    Abstract: Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM) mechanisms can be initiated, not by CPU-manufacturer-specific instructions, but by the execution of code in System Management Mode (SMM) that can modify the values stored in specific Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The SMM code can be verified prior to execution and it can be trusted based on the secure mechanisms used to update such code. The SMM code can restore a known, trusted state of the computing device and can initiate the measuring of subsequently executed code. In such a manner the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) can be limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: David Rudolph Wooten
  • Publication number: 20100088525
    Abstract: Hardware encrypting storage devices can provide for hardware encryption of data being written to the storage media of such storage devices, and hardware decryption of data being read from that storage media. To utilize existing key management resources, which can be more flexible and accommodating, mechanisms for storing keys protected by the existing resources, but not the hardware encryption of the storage device, can be developed. Dedicated partitions that do not have corresponding encryption bands can be utilized to store keys in a non-hardware-encrypted manner. Likewise, partitions can be defined larger than their associated encryption bands, leaving room near the beginning and end for non-hardware encrypted storage. Or a separate bit can be used to individually specify which data should be hardware encrypted. Additionally automated processes can maintain synchronization between a partition table of the computing device and a band table of the hardware encrypting storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Octavian T. Ureche, Scott A. Brender, Karan Mehra, David Rudolph Wooten
  • Patent number: 7574610
    Abstract: A security device watches over the secure functionality in a computer system. This “watcher” security device may be integrated within the computer system or may be separate from it. The security device queries the secure functionality to determine whether the state of the secure functionality is acceptable. If no satisfactory state exists, or if no response is received, then a signal is transmitted. The signal may be auditory (a buzzer) or visual (a flashing light) in order to signal to any user that the secure functionality has been compromised. Optionally, human input devices may be disabled, or a monitoring service notified, in conjunction with or in lieu of the signal. If the secure functionality includes a secret shared between the secure functionality and the user, then the security device may signal the secret. For example, where the secret is visual, the security device may display the secret.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Mark Willman, Christine M. Chew, Paul C. Roberts, David Rudolph Wooten, John E. Paff
  • Publication number: 20090125716
    Abstract: Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM) mechanisms can be initiated, not by CPU-manufacturer-specific instructions, but by the execution of code in System Management Mode (SMM) that can modify the values stored in specific Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The SMM code can be verified prior to execution and it can be trusted based on the secure mechanisms used to update such code. The SMM code can restore a known, trusted state of the computing device and can initiate the measuring of subsequently executed code. In such a manner the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) can be limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: David Rudolph Wooten