Patents Represented by Attorney Cantor Colburn
  • Patent number: 8133466
    Abstract: A carbonization catalyst for forming graphene may be exfoliated from a graphene sheet by etching. A binder layer may be formed on the graphene sheet on which a carbonization catalyst is formed, to support and fix all or part of the graphene sheet. Further, the graphene sheet from which the carbonization catalyst is exfoliated may be transferred to a device. When exfoliating the carbonization catalyst from the graphene sheet, an acid may be used together with a wetting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon Jin Shin, Jaeyoung Choi, Seonmi Yoon
  • Patent number: 8133019
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention is directed to a turbine engine having a circumferential casing with a circumferentially extending slot formed in an inner wall. A radially inwardly facing fin-ring is disposed in the slot and has a radially inwardly projecting fin extending axially there across. A radially inwardly extending stator blade has a base and an airfoil. The base is disposed in the casing slot, radially inwardly of the fin-ring. A complementary base slot is disposed in the stator blade base and is configured to receive the fin therein for the transfer of a circumferential force, applied to the stator blade, to the fin-ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Donald Joseph Kasperski
  • Patent number: 8133772
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes an active semiconductor layer, a semiconductor device having a gate disposed on top of the active semiconductor layer, and source and drain regions and a body/channel region disposed within the active semiconductor layer, an insulator layer having a first and second side, the first side being adjacent to the active semiconductor layer, a substrate disposed adjacent to the second side of the insulator layer, a deep trench capacitor disposed under the body/channel region of the semiconductor device. The deep trench capacitor electrically connects with and contacts the body/channel region of the semiconductor device, and is located adjacent to the gate of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor structure increases a critical charge Qcrit, thereby reducing a soft error rate (SER) of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Barth, Jr., Kerry Bernstein, Ethan H. Cannon, Francis R. White
  • Patent number: 8135982
    Abstract: A method for controlling a system includes receiving an indication that an operation has failed in a secondary storage device, suspending data operations sent to the secondary data storage device from a primary storage device, determining a failure policy set by a user, and initiating a first policy responsive to determining that the first policy is active, the first policy including sending a status query to the secondary storage device, determining whether a response has been received from the secondary storage device, determining whether the response indicates a failure of the secondary storage device responsive to determining that the response has been received from the secondary storage device, and continuing processing tasks on the server and data operations on the primary storage device responsive to determining that the response indicates a failure of the secondary storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David B. Petersen, Gail A. Spear
  • Patent number: 8134560
    Abstract: A method for avatar wandering in a computer based interactive environment including for each avatar within a range of a current avatar, obtaining profiles of a user represented by the avatar, for each profile of the user represented by the avatar that has a same profile type as a profile of a user represented by the current avatar, comparing the profiles for matching data, computing a match score for the avatar based on the matching data, and moving the current avatar toward the avatar that has a greatest match score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cary L. Bates, Bryan M. Logan
  • Patent number: 8133017
    Abstract: A diffuser for a turbine engine, including an annular casing to seal compressor discharge air and struts attached to the casing to delimit an annular array of intra-strut regions, is provided and includes a ring portion, including a ring shaped annular body with a forward face disposed on a forward side thereof, the ring portion being supportable by one or more of the struts, and a splitter portion, including a ring shaped annular body with an aft face disposed on an aft side thereof to mate with the forward face of the ring portion body, the splitter portion further including a lead edge, on a forward side of the splitter portion body, which is extendable into a flow path of the compressor discharge air to split the flow path into secondary flow paths defined radially outside of and inside of the splitter portion body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Carl Gerard Schott, Stanley Kevin Widener, Anil Salunkhe
  • Patent number: 8135186
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging system including a source generating an x-ray beam, a detector array receiving the x-ray beam and generating projection data, a translatable table configured for disposal of an object thereon and operable to translate in relation to the source and the detector array, the source and the detector array rotating about the translatable table to scan the object, and an image reconstructor electrically coupled to the detector array and configured to reconstruct an image in response to the projection data via an iterative reconstruction technique configured to perform a targeted statistical reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignees: Purdue Research Foundation, General Electric Company, University of Notre Dame Du Lac
    Inventors: Charles A. Bouman, Ken David Sauer, Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Zhou Yu
  • Patent number: 8134040
    Abstract: Modular reactor panel (1) for catalytic processes, comprising a feed header (5), a product header (7) and adjacent channels (3), each channel (3) having a length, running from an entrance end to an exit end, and wherein the entrance ends are directly connected to and open into the feed header (5) and the exit ends are directly connected to and open into the product header (7) and wherein the feed header (5) has at least one connection (9) to a feed line (51) and the product header (7) has at least one connection to a product line (55) and wherein part (21) of at least one of the feed header (5) and the product header (7) is detachable giving access to the channel ends and reactor comprising a housing (47) containing one or more of said reactor panels (1, 29), the reactor further comprising a feed line (51) and a product line (55), the panels (29) being connected to the feed line (51) and to product line (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Hubertus Kösters
  • Patent number: 8134016
    Abstract: A method for purifying dianhydrides is provided. In one aspect, purified oxybisphthalic anhydrides, intermediates useful in the preparation of polyetherimides are provided. In one embodiment, a first solution containing a dianhydride compound, a solvent, and a phase transfer catalyst is contacted with a solid inorganic adsorbent material having a total pore volume of about 0.5 milliliters/gram or greater and a cumulative pore volume distribution of about 20 percent or greater of particles having a pore diameter in a range between about 3 nanometers and about 20 nanometers. The solution containing the dianhydride compound is then separated from the solid inorganic adsorbent material to provide a purified dianhydride compound which is substantially free of the phase transfer catalyst. The purification technique is especially valuable for preparing high purity oxybisphthalic anhydrides, such as 4,4?-oxybisphthalic anhydride (4,4?-ODPA), which are substantially free of residual phase transfer catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Albert Santo Stella, David Bruce Hall
  • Patent number: 8134238
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a wafer level chip size package may include a semiconductor substrate having an integrated circuit formed thereon; a plurality of electrode pads formed on the semiconductor substrate; at least one rewiring layer which may include rewiring formed adjacent to the plurality of electrode pads; and a plurality of external electrodes formed on the rewiring layer. The plurality of electrodes and plurality of external electrodes may be sectioned and arranged in four areas having the same shapes. Each area may include a first group of N number of external electrodes arranged along an edge of the semiconductor substrate, a second group of (N-2) number of external electrodes arranged inside the first group of external electrodes, and a plurality of (2N-2) number of electrode pads arranged between the first and second groups of external electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 8134652
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes: a first substrate; a sensor pad disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; a sensor spacer and a supporting spacer disposed on the second substrate; and a supporting dielectric portion disposed between the supporting spacer and the first substrate. The sensor spacer is spaced apart from the sensor pad, and includes a sensor electrode disposed on a portion of the sensor spacer which faces the sensor pad. The supporting spacer is spaced apart from the first substrate, and the supporting dielectric portion uniformly maintains a cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Guy Rho, Seong-Jun Lee, Chul-Hwan Park, Kee-Han Uh
  • Patent number: 8136092
    Abstract: A system for packaging a dynamically linked computer program function includes a compiler configured to compile a source file iteratively to create a plurality of corresponding object files, the source file associated with a specific computer program function having an established an attribute, with each attribute exhibiting a plurality of at least one of variations, characteristics and parameters, wherein each iteration of the compiling the source file results in the plurality of object files having the specific computer program function but with each object file having distinct attributes from one another; and a linker configured to link the plurality of resulting object files to create a single executable file, such that the single executable file comprises different versions of the specific computer program function; and wherein the single executable file is configured to facilitate choice of a selected version of the specific computer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anuja Deedwaniya, Chauho M. Leung, Barry L. Lichtenstein, Eric L. Porter, David J. Sudlik, Richard Tallman
  • Patent number: 8136105
    Abstract: A computer program product is provided for extracting SIMD parallelism. The computer program product includes instructions for providing a stream of input code comprising basic blocks; identifying pairs of statements that are semi-isomorphic with respect to each other within a basic block; iteratively combining into packs, pairs of statements that are semi-isomorphic with respect to each other, and combining packs into combined packs; collecting packs whose statements can be scheduled together for processing; and generating SIMD instructions for each pack to provide for extracting the SIMD parallelism..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Kai-Ting Amy Wang, Peng Wu, Peng Zhao
  • Patent number: 8132624
    Abstract: A method for uniform heating of a formation including applying a high temperature fluid to a tubular located within an open hole formation borehole; modifying a permeability of the tubular along its length by reducing permeability at a heel of the borehole and by increasing permeability towards a toe of the borehole; and impeding annular movement of the heated fluid by radially extending one or more baffles from the tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael H. Johnson, Namhyo Kim
  • Patent number: 8134678
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with improved display characteristics includes a first display plate and a second display plate which face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a seal bonding the first display plate to the second display plate to prevent leakage of the liquid crystal layer, and an impurity blocking and liquid crystal flowing structure disposed inside a perimeter of the seal to prevent impurities from flowing from the seal to an active region in the first and second display plates while providing a flow path allowing liquid crystals to flow to the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Yoon-jang Kim, Dong-jin Seo, Yun-seok Lee, Cheon-jae Maeng, Ji-hyeon Son, Jae-yong Shin
  • Patent number: 8135568
    Abstract: A system for creating a risk analysis for at least one turbomachine includes a database storing characteristics of one or more turbomachines and a processing module coupled to the database that receives the characteristics from the database and creates the risk analysis. The processing module includes a modeling module that creates a representation of the amount of rocking in a particular turbomachine based on the characteristics and a performance modeler coupled to the modeling module and that, based on the representation of the amount of rocking, creates the risk analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Achalesh Kumar Pandey, Yoon Seok Choi, Scott Mordin Hoyte, Wei Ning, Jagmeet Singh
  • Patent number: 8133969
    Abstract: A method for removing a carbonization catalyst from a graphene sheet, the method includes contacting the carbonization catalyst with a salt solution, which is capable of oxidizing the carbonization catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Choi, Keun Soo Kim, Byung Hee Hong
  • Patent number: 8134654
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an LCD includes forming an align key including metal on a first substrate, coating a light blocking layer overlapping the align key, transmitting an infrared ray thought the light blocking layer on the align key, recognizing the align key by the transmitting the infrared ray to align key and the light blocking layer, and forming a light blocking member by exposing and developing the light blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hun Lee, Chul Huh, Se-Hwan Yu, Gwan-Soo Kim, Sun-Young Chang
  • Patent number: 8129488
    Abstract: Provided are a novel transition metal complex where a monocyclopentadienyl ligand to which an amido or alcoxy group is introduced is coordinated, a method of synthesizing the same, and olefin polymerization using the transition metal complex. Compared to a conventional transition metal complex having a silicon bridge and an oxido ligand, the transition metal complex has a phenylene bridge, so that a monomer easily approaches the transition metal complex in terms of structure and a pentagon ring structure of the transition metal complex is stably maintained. The catalyst composition including the transition metal complex is used to synthesize a polyolefin copolymer having a very low density less than 0.910 g/cc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Choong Hoon Lee, Eun-Jung Lee, Seungwhan Jung, Jong Joo Ha, Beomdoo Seo, Bun Yeoul Lee, Ui Gab Joung, Dae June Joe
  • Patent number: 8132157
    Abstract: A method of automatic regression testing includes loading binary code representing a first version of a program, extracting a second version of the program embedded within the binary code of the first version of the program, executing a standalone model of the second version of the program based on the extracted second version, wherein executing includes executing a set of instructions to identify at least one error, determining if the standalone model causes the at least one error, and storing results based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charulatha Dhuvur, Eli M. Dow, Marie R. Laser, Jassie Yu