Patents by Inventor Michael Giroux

Michael Giroux 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: 20240069736
    Abstract: Various embodiments include techniques for performing self-synchronizing remote memory operations in a multiprocessor computing system. During a remote memory operation in the multiprocessor computing system, a source processing unit transmits multiple segments of data to a destination processing. For each segment of data, the source processing unit transmits a remote memory operation to the destination processing unit that includes associated metadata that identifies the memory location of a corresponding synchronization object. The remote memory operation along with the metadata is transmitted as a single unit to the destination processing unit. The destination processing unit splits the operation into the remote memory operation and the memory synchronization operation. As a result, the source processing unit avoids the need to perform a separate memory synchronization operation, thereby reducing inter-processor communications and increasing performance of remote memory operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Srinivas Santosh Kumar MADUGULA, Olivier GIROUX, Wishwesh Anil GANDHI, Michael Allen PARKER, Raghuram L, Ivan TANASIC, Manan PATEL, Mark HUMMEL, Alexander L. MINKIN
  • Publication number: 20210093906
    Abstract: An anchor support and roof vent for a pitched roof, Comprising a support member having a first end and a second end, the support member being sized so that the first end is fixable to a first roof truss and the second end is fixable to a second roof truss, an anchor line attachment fixable to the support member, and a roof vent cover attachable over the anchor support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 10898741
    Abstract: An anchor support and roof vent for a pitched roof, comprising a support member having a first end and a second end, the support member being sized so that the first end is fixable to a first roof truss and the second end is fixable to a second roof truss, an anchor line attachment fixable to the support member, and a roof vent cover attachable over the anchor support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Publication number: 20190030380
    Abstract: An anchor support and roof vent for a pitched roof, comprising a support member having a first end and a second end, the support member being sized so that the first end is fixable to a first roof truss and the second end is fixable to a second roof truss, an anchor line attachment fixable to the support member, and a roof vent cover attachable over the anchor support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Publication number: 20080009615
    Abstract: The present invention provides for control of seed grain hardness resulting in improved cereals for both agricultural feed and commercial food products for human consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Giroux, Craig Morris
  • Publication number: 20030150027
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for producing plants with increased seed and biomass production. More specifically, this invention provides methods for producing plants which have increased yields for a number of plant traits, including seed number, seed weight, the number of seed heads, flag leaf weight and total plant weight. This invention also provides methods for improving the Harvest Index of a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 6289347
    Abstract: A data communications system for supporting World Wide Web (WWW) database queries to enterprise level databases utilizes two server based programs. A first program retrieves and transmits a specified version of a specified form to an intermediate forms program. The second program has two modes of operation. In either mode, database queries to the enterprise level database are performed and results transmitted. However, in a first, standard, mode of operation, a specific version of a specific form is read from a forms database and transmitted to the requester along with the query response. In the second mode of operation, only the database query results are transmitted, along with a modified header that specifies the appropriate form. The corresponding forms are retrieved from a local forms database and merged with the query response before being displayed by a Web browser. Missing forms are requested from the Web forms program and cached for subsequent requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 6247170
    Abstract: Instrumentation statistics are tallied at the procedure level in instrumentation stack frames corresponding to subroutine stack frames. Elapsed CPU time for each entry into a procedure is computed and accumulated into a statistics table corresponding to that procedure. Also accumulated into that statistics table are the accumulated elapsed execution times of the subroutines called by this procedure. These values are initially accumulated into the instrumentation stack frame for each subroutine's parent upon subroutine exit, and then accumulated into the statistics table upon subroutine exit of the parent. Elapsed CPU time is computed by subtracting CPU time of last dispatch from the current hardware clock, then adding this to an accumulated CPU time at the time of dispatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 5872216
    Abstract: The subject invention pertains to novel variants of the maize gene, Shrunken2 (Sh2) and a method of using that gene. The variant gene, Sh2-m1Rev6, encodes a subunit of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) enzyme that has additional amino acids inserted in or near the allosteric binding site of the protein. Corn seed expressing the Sh2-m1Rev6 gene has a 15% weight increase over wild type seed. The increase in seed weight is not associated simply with an increase in percentage starch content of the seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: L. Curtis Hannah, Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 5650557
    Abstract: The subject invention pertains to novel variants of the maize gene, Shrunken2 (Sh2) and a method of using that gene. The variant gene, Sh2-m1Rev6, encodes a subunit of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) enzyme that has additional amino acids inserted in or near the allosteric binding site of the protein. Corn seed expressing the Sh2-m1Rev6 gene has a 15% weight increase over wild type seed. The increase in seed weight is not associated simply with an increase in percentage starch content of the seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: University of Florida
    Inventors: L. Curtis Hannah, Michael Giroux
  • Patent number: 5589618
    Abstract: The subject invention pertains to a novel variant of the maize gene, Shrunken2 (Sh2) and a method of using that gene. The variant gene, Sh2-m1Rev6, encodes a subunit of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) enzyme that has additional amino acids inserted near or in the allosteric binding site of the protein. Corn seed expressing the Sh2-m1Rev6 gene has a 15% weight increase over wild type seed. The increase in seed weight is not associated simply with an increase in percentage starch content of the seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: University of Florida
    Inventors: L. Curtis Hannah, Michael Giroux