Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm A & J
  • Patent number: 8346769
    Abstract: System, method and program for managing bookmarks. A user hovers a cursor over a primary bookmark displayed on a client computer. In response, the client computer automatically sends a request to a server corresponding to the primary bookmark to identify one or more alternate bookmarks that correspond to the primary bookmark. In response to receipt of the identification of the one or more alternate bookmarks from the server, the client computer displays the one or more alternate bookmarks adjacent to the primary bookmark. If a user selects one of the alternate bookmarks which is displayed, the client computer sends a request to a web server corresponding to the selected alternate bookmark for a web page corresponding to the selected alternate bookmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Robert D. Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8342385
    Abstract: A transfer process for bonding a solderable device to a solderable firsl substrate having a first oxidized surface comprises placing the solderable device proximate to the first substrate in a reducing chamber, where the first surface cannot be visually observed. We place a second substrate having a second oxidized surface in the chamber in a way to visually observe the second surface. Selecting the first substrate and the second substrate so that the reduction of the second surface correlates with the reduction of the first surface provides an indication of the degree of reduction of the first surface. Introducing a reducing agent into the chamber under reducing conditions reduces the surfaces which we track by irradiating and observing the second surface; evaluate any change in the second surface during irradiation and correlate the change with first surface reduction. When sufficiently reduced, we solder the first substrate to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bing Dang, Raymond R. Horton, Robert J. Polastre
  • Patent number: 8342669
    Abstract: An ink set including at least two inks. A first ink includes an optional colorant, a first multi-functional monomer, a second multi-functional monomer that is different from the first multi-functional monomer, and a peroxide initiator comprising a thermal free radical initiator. A second ink includes an optional colorant, a first multi-functional monomer, a second multi-functional monomer that is different from the first multi-functional monomer, and an amine activator having a catalyst which catalyzes the homolytic cleavage of the thermal free-radical initiator at low temperatures into radicals. The first ink is free of the amine activator and the second ink is free of the peroxide initiator. The first multi-functional monomer and the second multi-functional monomer accelerate reaction kinetics through a Trommsdorff effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santiago Faucher, Cheryl Lynn Pearce, Peter G. Odell, David Allen Mantell, Emily L. Moore
  • Patent number: 8346528
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for modeling a plurality of devices of an integrated circuit design as a single statistically equivalent wide device. An integrated circuit design is analyzed to identify a portion of the integrated circuit design having the plurality of devices. For the plurality of devices, a statistical model of a single statistically equivalent wide device is generated which has a statistical distribution of at least one operating characteristic of the single statistically equivalent wide device that captures statistical operating characteristic distributions of individual devices in the plurality of devices. At least one statistical operating characteristic of the single statistically equivalent wide device is a complex non-linear function of the statistical operating characteristics of the individual devices. The integrated circuit design is modeled using the single statistically equivalent wide device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajiv V. Joshi, Rouwaida N. Kanj, Sani R. Nassif
  • Patent number: 8344018
    Abstract: A compound of general Formula (I) having histone deacetylase (HDAC) and/or CDK inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method useful to treat diseases using the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Graupe, Chandrasekar Venkataramani
  • Patent number: 8345075
    Abstract: A duplex thermal dye transfer element has a substrate, a non-voided compliant layer and a thermal dye image receiving layer. These imaging elements can be imaged on either or both sides in combination with one or more thermal dye donor elements in a thermal dye transfer process. Imaging can form a dye image or transfer clear films or laminates or metalized layers to either or both sides of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Narasimharao Dontula, Richard S. Paoletti, Steven J. Tomanovich
  • Patent number: 8343477
    Abstract: Macrocyclic peptides are disclosed having the general formula: wherein R3, R?3, R4, R6, R?, X, Q and W are described. Compositions comprising the compounds and methods for using the compounds to inhibit HCV are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Stanley D'Andrea, Zhizhen Barbara Zheng, Paul Michael Scola
  • Patent number: 8344516
    Abstract: A silicon chip includes a silicon substrate, a plurality of pads, and a plurality of through vias to connect back-end-of-line wiring to the plurality of pads. The silicon substrate includes a layer of active devices and the back-end-of-line wiring connected to the active devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy J. Chainer
  • Patent number: 8345728
    Abstract: The present invention describes a spread spectrum communication system wherein the frequency of carriers and the code channels of the carriers or both for transmission to a given remote station user vary in time. This provides for a direct sequence spectrum communications system which changes frequency or code channel according to a predetermined pattern. The code channels and frequencies can be determined in accordance with a deterministic function or based upon a subset of the data to be transmitted. A receiver structure is also described for receiving the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8341964
    Abstract: A power generation system includes a first compressor, a second compressor, a combustor configured to receive compressed air from the second compressor to produce an exhaust stream, a first turbine, and a power turbine. The first turbine is configured to receive the exhaust stream, generate a rotational power from the exhaust stream, output the rotational power to a second compressor, and output the exhaust stream. The system includes a coupling device configured to couple and decouple the first compressor to/from a second turbine, an electrical generator coupled to an output of the power turbine and configured to output electrical power, and a controller configured to cause the coupling device to mechanically decouple the second turbine from the first compressor, and cause the coupling device to direct compressed air from an air storage cavern to an inlet of the second compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Matthias Finkenrath, Balachandar Naidu, Charles Michael Booth, Garland Ferguson, Stephanie Marie-Noelle Hoffmann, Sebastian W. Freund
  • Patent number: 8347044
    Abstract: A programmable logic processor (PLC) with multiple PLC functions is disclosed. The PLC includes at least one memory storing at least one of a plurality of programs or data, and one or more processor assigned to each of the PLC function and couple to the memory. The PLC functions are run in parallel. A method of operating the PLC and a PLC system with multiple processors are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Weihua Shang, Yongzhi Liu, William Henry Lueckenbach, Li Liu, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8345053
    Abstract: A graphics processor capable of parallel scheduling and execution of multiple threads, and techniques for achieving parallel scheduling and execution, are described. The graphics processor may include multiple hardware units and a scheduler. The hardware units are operable in parallel, with each hardware unit supporting a respective set of operations. The hardware units may include an ALU core, an elementary function core, a logic core, a texture sampler, a load control unit, some other hardware unit, or a combination thereof. The scheduler dispatches instructions for multiple threads to the hardware units concurrently. The graphics processor may further include an instruction cache to store instructions for threads and register banks to store data. The instruction cache and register banks may be shared by the hardware units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guofang Jiao, Yun Du, Chun Yu
  • Patent number: 8344428
    Abstract: Techniques for incorporating nanotechnology into electronic fuse (e-fuse) designs are provided. In one aspect, an e-fuse structure is provided. The e-fuse structure includes a first electrode; a dielectric layer on the first electrode having a plurality of nanochannels therein; an array of metal silicide nanopillars that fill the nanochannels in the dielectric layer, each nanopillar in the array serving as an e-fuse element; and a second electrode in contact with the array of metal silicide nanopillars opposite the first electrode. Methods for fabricating the e-fuse structure are also provided as are semiconductor devices incorporating the e-fuse structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satya N. Chakravarti, Dechao Guo, Huiming Bu, Keith Kwong Hon Wong
  • Patent number: 8341926
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine has a lifting device for a front attachment and at least one crawler track assembly which is provided with a damping system, and which is formed by a crawler track disposed on an axle of the harvesting machine and on either side of the axle, and the height of the harvesting machine can be changed by varying the spring travel of the hydropneumatic damping system of the crawler track assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Speckamp, Jan Philipp Behra, Heinrich Hermeler
  • Patent number: 8345508
    Abstract: A modular and tileable sensor array with routing in the interposer carrying the signals from the sensors to the integrated circuits. In one embodiment a large area modular sensor array assembly includes one or more tileable modules coupled together. The tileable modules have a plurality of transducer cells forming a sensor, an interposer coupled on a first side to the plurality of transducer cells by a plurality, one or more integrated circuits coupled to a second side of the interposer, wherein the interposer is configured to form the connection of at least some of the transducer cells to the integrated circuits, and one or more input/output connectors coupled to the interposer and providing an external interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Gideon Wodnicki, Rayette Ann Fisher, Charles Gerard Woychik, Shubhra Bansal, Albert Taesung Byun
  • Patent number: 8342713
    Abstract: A method of lighting for use in motion picture and video production including, in various embodiments, the steps: providing lighting modules, each having one or more manual controls for controlling light output characteristics such as the intensity and hue of light produced and each capable of wirelessly communicating with other lighting modules over a wireless data network; interconnecting the lighting modules on the wireless data network; and adjusting the light produced by all lighting modules through adjustments using any one of the networked lighting modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Zylight LLC
    Inventors: James H. Collias, Charles H. Collias, Nicholas J. Foster
  • Patent number: D673609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp.
    Inventors: Allison Michelle Hammer, José Manuel Fernandes dos Santos
  • Patent number: D673644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Chapin Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: John D. DeLorme
  • Patent number: PP23311
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Sedum plant, ‘Nonel’, characterized by its glossy foliage that emerges shiny green in color, holding this color during summer, then turning dark red-purple during fall and winter, its green stems, its flowers in late spring and early summer are bright canary yellow in color upon flat, somewhat drooping inflorescences atop a dense, low growing plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hortech, Inc.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: PP23313
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Sedum plant, ‘Nonof’, characterized by its glossy foliage that emerges shiny green in color, holding this color during summer, fall, and winter, its green stems, its flowers in late spring and early summer that are bright lemon yellow upon flat, somewhat drooping inflorescences, atop a dense low growing plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hortech, Inc.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie