Patents by Inventor Jason A. Hoffman
Jason A. Hoffman 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).
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Publication number: 20140230365Abstract: Provided is a structure that may include a structural tube having at least one slot extending from an end thereof, an end plate attached to the end of the structural tube, and at least one cross member extending through the at least one slot, the at least one cross member including a first region outside of the structural tube and a second region inside the structural tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Derek Jay Hemphill, Jake Bigelow, Jason Hoffman, Ross Robert Ingwersen, Christopher Alan Jacob, Ryan Oliver, Brandon Lee Schafer
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Publication number: 20140221612Abstract: The present invention provides a variety of isolated peptides and peptidomimetics, which can be useful, for example, in constructing the conjugates of the invention or, where the peptide itself has biological activity, in unconjugated form as a therapeutic for treating any of a variety of cardiovascular diseases as described below. Thus, the present invention provides an isolated peptide or peptidomimetic which has a length of less than 60 residues and includes the amino acid sequence CRPPR (SEQ ID NO: 1) or a peptidomimetic thereof. The invention further provides an isolated peptide or peptidomimetic which has a length of less than 60 residues and includes the amino acid sequence CARPAR (SEQ ID NO: 5) or a peptidomimetic thereof, or amino acid sequence CPKRPR (SEQ ID NO: 6) or a peptidomimetic thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research InstituteInventors: Lianglin Zhang, Jason A. Hoffman, Erkki Ruoslahti
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Patent number: 8789050Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for transparently optimizing a workload of a containment abstraction are provided herein. Methods may include monitoring a workload of the containment abstraction, the containment abstraction being at least partially hardware bound, the workload corresponding to resource utilization of the containment abstraction, converting the containment abstraction from being at least partially hardware bound to being entirely central processing unit (CPU) bound by placing the containment abstraction in a memory store, based upon the workload, and allocating the workload of the containment abstraction across at least a portion of a data center to optimize the workload of the containment abstraction.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Joyent, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo, David P. Young
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Patent number: 8637635Abstract: The present invention provides a variety of isolated peptides and peptidomimetics, which can be useful, for example, in constructing the conjugates of the invention or, where the peptide itself has biological activity, in unconjugated form as a therapeutic for treating any of a varirty of cardiovascular diseases as described below. Thus, the present invention provides an isolated peptide or peptidomimetic which has a length of less than 60 residues and includes the amino acid sequence CRPPR (SEQ ID NO: 1) or a peptidomimetic thereof. The invention further provides an isolated peptide or peptidomimetic which has a length of less than 60 residues and includes the amino acid sequence CARPAR (SEQ ID NO: 5) or a peptidomimetic thereof, or amino acid sequence CPKRPR (SEQ ID NO: 6) or a peptidomimtic thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventors: Lianglin Zhang, Jason A. Hoffman, Erkki Ruoslahti
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Patent number: 8618694Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for dampening oscillations of the electrical power on a power grid. The system includes a wind park with multiple wind turbines. Each wind turbine includes a rotor, a generator operatively coupled with the rotor for generating electrical power, and an inverter coupling the generator with the power grid to output the electrical power to the power grid. A controller is configured to generate a first control signal to cause the inverter of the first wind turbine to modulate the electrical power output by the first wind turbine for dampening oscillations of one frequency in electrical power on the power grid and to generate a second control signal to cause the inverter of the second wind turbine to modulate the electrical power output by the second wind turbine for dampening oscillations of a different frequency in the electrical power on the power grid.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventors: Juan Santiago Santos, Brett D. Rollow, Jason Hoffman
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Publication number: 20130346974Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for transparently optimizing a workload of a containment abstraction are provided herein. Methods may include monitoring a workload of the containment abstraction, the containment abstraction being at least partially hardware bound, the workload corresponding to resource utilization of the containment abstraction, converting the containment abstraction from being at least partially hardware bound to being entirely central processing unit (CPU) bound by placing the containment abstraction in a memory store, based upon the workload, and allocating the workload of the containment abstraction across at least a portion of a data center to optimize the workload of the containment abstraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Joyent, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo, David P. Young
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Patent number: 8555276Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for transparently optimizing a workload of a containment abstraction are provided herein. Methods may include monitoring a workload of the containment abstraction, the containment abstraction being at least partially hardware bound, the workload corresponding to resource utilization of the containment abstraction, converting the containment abstraction from being at least partially hardware bound to being entirely central processing unit (CPU) bound by placing the containment abstraction in a memory store, based upon the workload, and allocating the workload of the containment abstraction across at least a portion of a data center to optimize the workload of the containment abstraction.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Joyent, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo, David P. Young
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Patent number: 8528282Abstract: Provided is a structure that may include a structural tube having at least one slot extending from an end thereof, an end plate attached to the end of the structural tube, and at least one cross member extending through the at least one slot, the at least one cross member including a first region outside of the structural tube and a second region inside the structural tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: LeMar Industries Corp.Inventors: Derek Jay Hemphill, Jake Bigelow, Jason Hoffman, Ross Robert Ingwersen, Christopher Alan Jacob, Ryan Oliver, Brandon Lee Schafer
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Publication number: 20130212977Abstract: Provided is a structure that may include a structural tube having at least one slot extending from an end thereof, an end plate attached to the end of the structural tube, and at least one cross member extending through the at least one slot, the at least one cross member including a first region outside of the structural tube and a second region inside the structural tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Derek Jay Hemphill, Jake Bigelow, Jason Hoffman, Ross Robert Ingwersen, Christopher Alan Jacob, Ryan Oliver, Brandon Lee Schafer
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Publication number: 20130030784Abstract: Embodiments for determining an optimal configuration for a renewable energy power plant are provided. The power plant, which may be a virtual power plant, includes one or more generator devices and one or more energy storage devices that may be operated to undertake one or more operating applications. Data indicative of the power output of the power plant and the voltage level at the energy storage system connection point is received as an input. Using this data, combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications stored on a database are processed and, for each energy storage and operating application pair, a value indicative of the profitability of undertaking the operating application is determined. These values are used to rank the combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications according to their profitability, which in turn is used to select the most efficient or profitable application/energy storage pair.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Daniel VIASSOLO, Sridhar SAHUKARI, Gerald MURPHY, Bo HESSELBÆK, Jianhui ZHANG, Aditya UPADHYE, Yonatan ABEBE, Jason HOFFMAN, Juan SANTOS, Brett ROLLOW
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Patent number: 8346935Abstract: Systems and methods to manage workloads and hardware resources in a data center or cloud. In one embodiment, a method includes a data center having a plurality of servers in a network. The data center provides a virtual machine for each of a plurality of users, each virtual machine to use a portion of hardware resources of the data center. The hardware resources include storage and processing resources distributed onto each of the plurality of servers. The method further includes sending messages amongst the servers, some of the messages being sent from a server including status information regarding a hardware resource utilization status of that server. The method further includes detecting a request from the virtual machine to handle a workload requiring increased use of the hardware resources, and provisioning the servers to temporarily allocate additional resources to the virtual machine, wherein the provisioning is based on status information provided by one or more of the messages.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Joyent, Inc.Inventors: Mark G Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazón Candel, Jason A Hoffman, David P Young
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Patent number: 8329859Abstract: The present invention provides a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. The invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to tumor lymphatic vasculature in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research InstituteInventors: Pirjo Laakkonen, Kimmo Porkka, Jason A. Hoffman, Erkki I. Ruoslahti
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Publication number: 20120233315Abstract: Systems and methods for sizing resources in a cloud-based environment are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving quality of service requirements and a functional description of a cloud architecture associated with the application, including application resources and relations between the application resources, performing latency analysis of data packets in a compute layer of the cloud architecture, with the latency analysis including comparing size per time metrics of the data packets, determining minimal resources to guarantee the quality of service requirements based on the latency analysis and the quality of service requirements, and providing to the data center the minimal resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo, David P. Young
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Publication number: 20120233626Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for transparently optimizing a workload of a containment abstraction are provided herein. Methods may include monitoring a workload of the containment abstraction, the containment abstraction being at least partially hardware bound, the workload corresponding to resource utilization of the containment abstraction, converting the containment abstraction from being at least partially hardware bound to being entirely central processing unit (CPU) bound by placing the containment abstraction in a memory store, based upon the workload, and allocating the workload of the containment abstraction across at least a portion of a data center to optimize the workload of the containment abstraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo, David P. Young
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Publication number: 20120053837Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for estimating a consumed battery life of a battery used in a wind energy application. An energy storage system for use with a wind farm includes a rechargeable battery configured to be selectively charged by wind turbines or the power grid and configured to be selectively discharged to a power grid. One or more remaining battery life algorithms are used to compute a consumed battery life for the battery. A battery life curve characteristic of the battery and a state of charge profile are used as inputs to each remaining battery life algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Daniel Viassolo, Jason Hoffman, Jianhui Zhang
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Publication number: 20120004781Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for dampening oscillations of the electrical power on a power grid. The system includes a wind park with multiple wind turbines. Each wind turbine includes a rotor, a generator operatively coupled with the rotor for generating electrical power, and an inverter coupling the generator with the power grid to output the electrical power to the power grid. A controller is configured to generate a first control signal to cause the inverter of the first wind turbine to modulate the electrical power output by the first wind turbine for dampening oscillations of one frequency in electrical power on the power grid and to generate a second control signal to cause the inverter of the second wind turbine to modulate the electrical power output by the second wind turbine for dampening oscillations of a different frequency in the electrical power on the power grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Juan Santiago Santos, Brett D. Rollow, Jason Hoffman
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Publication number: 20110179132Abstract: Systems and methods to manage workloads and hardware resources in a data center or cloud. In one embodiment, a method includes a data center having a plurality of servers in a network. The data center provides a virtual machine for each of a plurality of users, each virtual machine to use a portion of hardware resources of the data center. The hardware resources include storage and processing resources distributed onto each of the plurality of servers. The method further includes sending messages amongst the servers, some of the messages being sent from a server including status information regarding a hardware resource utilization status of that server. The method further includes detecting a request from the virtual machine to handle a workload requiring increased use of the hardware resources, and provisioning the servers to temporarily allocate additional resources to the virtual machine, wherein the provisioning is based on status information provided by one or more of the messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazón Candel, Jason A. Hoffman, David P. Young
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Publication number: 20110179162Abstract: Systems and methods to manage workloads and hardware resources in a data center or cloud. In one embodiment, a method includes a data center having a plurality of servers in a network. The data center provides a virtual machine for each of a plurality of users, each virtual machine to use a portion of hardware resources of the data center. The hardware resources include storage and processing resources distributed onto each of the plurality of servers. The method further includes sending messages amongst the servers, some of the messages being sent from a server including status information regarding a hardware resource utilization status of that server. The method further includes detecting a request from the virtual machine to handle a workload requiring increased use of the hardware resources, and provisioning the servers to temporarily allocate additional resources to the virtual machine, wherein the provisioning is based on status information provided by one or more of the messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazón Candel, Jason A. Hoffman, David P. Young
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Publication number: 20110179134Abstract: Systems and methods to manage workloads and hardware resources in a data center or cloud. In one embodiment, a method includes a data center having a plurality of servers in a network. The data center provides a virtual machine for each of a plurality of users, each virtual machine to use a portion of hardware resources of the data center. The hardware resources include storage and processing resources distributed onto each of the plurality of servers. The method further includes sending messages amongst the servers, some of the messages being sent from a server including status information regarding a hardware resource utilization status of that server. The method further includes detecting a request from the virtual machine to handle a workload requiring increased use of the hardware resources, and provisioning the servers to temporarily allocate additional resources to the virtual machine, wherein the provisioning is based on status information provided by one or more of the messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazón Candel, Jason A. Hoffman, David P. Young
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Publication number: 20110165083Abstract: The present invention provides a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. The invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to tumor lymphatic vasculature in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Burnham Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Pirjo Laakkonen, Kimmo Porkka, Jason A. Hoffman, Erkkil Ruoslahti