Patents Represented by Law Firm Christie, Parker & Hale
  • System for scheduling routing rules in a contact center based on forcasted and actual interaction load and staffing requirements
    Patent number: 8315370
    Abstract: A system for scheduling resources and rules for routing includes a server connected to a network, a scheduling application executable from the server, and at least one programmable software agent for scheduling routing rules. The scheduling application receives statistics about forecast arrival rates for incoming interactions and current resource availability data and schedules resources and routing rules according to the forecast requirements the software agent propagating the portion of scheduling relative to the routing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Plasma display device
    Patent number: 8314753
    Abstract: A plasma display device having a first diode with an anode coupled to an electrode. A first switch is coupled between a cathode of the first diode and a first voltage source that supplies a first voltage. A first inductor and a second switch are coupled in series between a power recovery capacitor and the cathode of the first diode, and a third switch is coupled between the anode of the first diode and a second voltage source that supplies a second voltage lower than the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Yul Lee
  • Method of fabricating an anode and a lithium battery
    Patent number: 8313539
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing a negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery. The steps include vacuum-drying a negative electrode precursor, the negative electrode precursor comprising a negative active material and an aqueous binder. The steps may further include vacuum-drying a lithium cell battery that includes a vacuum-dried negative electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jun Kim, Jae-Hou Nah
  • Functionally-graded three-dimensional ordered open-cellular microstructure and method of making same
    Patent number: 8315499
    Abstract: A method for creating or forming a functionally graded 3D ordered open-cellular microstructure, and a functionally graded 3D ordered open-cellular microstructure. In one embodiment, the functionally-graded three-dimensional ordered open-cellular microstructure includes a first three-dimensional interconnected pattern of polymer waveguides having a first three-dimensional pattern; a second three-dimensional interconnected pattern of polymer waveguides having a second three-dimensional pattern differing from the first three-dimensional pattern; and an interface connected with the first three-dimensional interconnected pattern of polymer waveguides and the second three-dimensional interconnected pattern of polymer waveguides. Here, the term “functionally graded” refers to a spatial variation in the physical microstructure—and thus the properties—through the thickness of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Alan J. Jacobsen, Gregory L. Olson
  • Gel electrolyte and dye-sensitized solar cell using the same
    Patent number: 8314194
    Abstract: A gel electrolyte including a non-volatile polymer solvent including hydrogen bonding groups with at least two hydrogen bonding sites, and a dye-sensitized solar cell including the gel electrolyte. The dye-sensitized solar cell includes: opposing first and second electrodes; a porous layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, including an adsorbed dye; and the gel electrolyte, which is disposed between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Moonsung Kang, Yongsoo Kang, Jiwon Lee, Byongcheol Shin
  • Lithium rechargeable battery
    Patent number: 8313851
    Abstract: A lithium rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly having a first and second electrodes wound together with a separator interposed between them, a can containing the electrode assembly, and a cap plate coupled to the top opening of the can. The cap plate includes an electrolyte injection hole and a rib formed adjacent to the electrolyte injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Sok Jung, Se Yun Kim
  • Pixel and organic light emitting display using the same
    Patent number: 8310417
    Abstract: A pixel capable of compensating for the deterioration of an organic light emitting diode. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode; a second transistor to control a capacity of an electric current that is supplied from a first power source to the organic light emitting diode; a first transistor coupled between a data line and a gate electrode of the second transistor and for turning on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line; a first capacitor coupled between a power line (that receives a power signal overlapping with the scan signal and having a wider interval (or width) than that of the scan signal) and the gate electrode of the second transistor; and a feedback capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the second transistor and an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Anode active material, method of preparing the same, and anode and lithium battery containing the material
    Patent number: 8309252
    Abstract: Silicon oxide based composite anode active materials including amorphous silicon oxides are provided. In one embodiment, the amorphous silicon oxide is represented by SiOx (where 0<x<2), has a binding energy of about 103 to about 106 eV, a silicon peak with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) ranging from about 1.6 to about 2.4 as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectrometry, and an atomic percentage of silicon greater than or equal to about 10 as calculated from an area of the silicon peak. The anode active material is a composite anode active material obtained by sintering hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ). Anodes and lithium batteries including the anode active material exhibit improved charge and discharge characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-su Kim, Sang-kook Mah
  • Plasma display and driving method thereof
    Patent number: 8310411
    Abstract: A plasma display includes a plurality of discharge cells, and is driven with one frame divided into a plurality of subfields having respective weight values. Light emitting cells are selected through address discharge during an address period of each subfield, and sustain discharge is performed on the light emitting cells for a number of times corresponding to a weight value of the corresponding subfield during a sustain period of each subfield to display images. The plasma display provides a sensing period for identifying an external contact with the plasma display prior to the address period in at least one subfield of the plurality of subfields, and discharges the plurality of discharge cells during a sensing period. The plasma display identifies the external contact based on light generated from the discharge cells during the sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Hoon Yim
  • Terminal of rechargeable battery and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8309246
    Abstract: A terminal of a rechargeable battery, which can provide a current path having reduced resistance between a bus bar and the terminal by separately forming a collector terminal and a coupling terminal while increasing a coupling force between the bus bar and the collector terminal, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the terminal includes a collector terminal electrically connected to an electrode assembly disposed at the inside of a case and protruding toward the outside of the case, a lower fixing member having the collector terminal passing therethrough, a coupling terminal coupled to the lower fixing member in a sliding manner and protruding toward the outside of the lower fixing member, and an upper fixing member allowing the coupling terminal to pass therethrough and to be coupled thereto and covering the lower fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: SB Limotive Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiyoung Lee, Seokyoon Yoo, Joongheon Kim, Jongseok Moon
  • Isobaric tags for analyte detection and quantification
    Patent number: 8309359
    Abstract: Isobaric reagents for labeling analytes are provided. The isobaric reagents have facile design and synthesis that allows for differential labeling of an unlimited number of analyte samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Chang Ho Sohn, Jesse L. Beauchamp
  • Battery management system and driving method thereof
    Patent number: 8307223
    Abstract: A battery management system includes at least one slave battery management system and a master battery management system. The slave battery management system outputs a ready signal when power is applied thereto, and the master battery management system provides a synchronization start signal to the slave battery management system in response to the ready signal. The master battery management system periodically provides a synchronization reset signal to the slave battery management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: SB LiMotive Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongjun Tae, Yusai Murakami
  • Method for manufacturing a solar cell
    Patent number: 8304282
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solar cell comprises disposing a first doping layer on a substrate, forming a first doping layer pattern by patterning the first doping layer to expose a portion of the substrate, disposing a second doping layer on the first doping layer pattern to cover the exposed portion of the substrate, diffusing an impurity from the first doping layer pattern which forms a first doping region in a surface of the substrate, and diffusing an impurity from the second doping layer which forms a second doping region in the surface of the substrate, wherein the forming of the first doping layer pattern uses an etching paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Su Kim, Sang Ho Kim
  • Dispenser mechanism
    Patent number: 8302820
    Abstract: A dispenser mechanism 1 for a foamed product comprises a liquid chamber 9 and air chamber 10, each compressed by a common actuator mechanism 6a, 6b, wherein the liquid and air simultaneously enter a foaming chamber 15. The liquid is forced through a diffuser 18a defining a plurality of distributed channels 18e, each channel 18e having a predetermined cross section such that in use the liquid is forced through the channels and enters the foaming chamber as a plurality of jets. The dispenser mechanism 1 provides a particularly advantageous arrangement for producing foam and may be arranged to prevent the foam dripping from an outlet after the end of a dispensing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Packaging Innovation Ltd
    Inventor: Michael O'Brien
  • Instrument for assembling a bone anchoring device
    Patent number: 8303602
    Abstract: An instrument for assembling a bone anchoring device includes a shank with a shaft section to be anchored in a bone and a engagement end, a head being separate from the shank and having a through bore, and a receiving part having a first end, a second end and a longitudinal bore extending from the first to the second end, the head being positionable within the bore at the second end. The instrument includes a holding portion arranged to hold a pin, which has a rod section with a length and a diameter suited to fit and extend at least through the bore of the head, and which has a free end portion extending from the rod section such as to project from the bore of the head when the pin is inserted, and configured to engage with the engagement end of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Biedermann Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lutz Biedermann, Wilfried Matthis, Jürgen Harms
  • Scaleable parallel flow micro-channel heat exchanger and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 8302671
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger, heat sink or coldwall having a machined manifold for receiving a plurality of individual, modular micro-channel heat exchanger elements. The manifold further includes a parallel flow network or flow distribution network for distributing a cooling fluid uniformly to all micro-channel heat exchanger elements. Each micro-channel heat exchanger element is individually manufactured and tested prior to integration with the manifold. The design of the micro-channel heat exchanger elements may include a straight fin, a high density fin, lanced offset fin, and perforated offset layers fin configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Rohn Sauer, Scott Johnson, Ediberto R. Garcia
  • Method and pavement structure for protecting highway subgrade in frozen soil area
    Patent number: 8303211
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and pavement structure for protecting highway subgrade in frozen soil areas. The pavement structure has two or more pavement layers having gradient thermal conductivity; the thermal conductivity is layered among the pavement layers and is lowered from top to bottom, so that the pavement forms a uni-directional thermal conducting tunnel from the subgrade to the air. Heat can be easily released from the subgrade into the air, and is prevented from being transferred from the air to the subgrade. In this way, the frozen soil layer beneath the subgrade is cooled, so that the frozen soil table is made stable, and the highway subgrade in frozen soil areas is protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: CCCC First Highway Consultants Co., Ltd, Southeast University
    Inventors: Shuangjie Wang, Shengyue Wang, Jianbing Chen, Xiaofeng Zhou, Juan Zhang, Qiyang Zhu
  • Jet propulsion construction toy assembly
    Patent number: 8303365
    Abstract: A jet propulsion construction toy assembly includes a container mounted on a movable brick assembly. A launching unit includes a launching seat permitting extension of a nozzle of the container thereinto and having an inlet. When the nozzle extends into the launching seat, an actuator mounted movably in said launching seat is operable to engage the nozzle such that said container is filled with fluid including air and liquid and pumped out of a barrel by a pump through first and second conduits, the inlet and the nozzle. Thereafter, when the nozzle is released from the launching seat due to disengagement between the nozzle and the actuator, jet of the fluid from the container through the nozzle forms a propulsion force to drive movement of a combination of the brick assembly and the container away from the launching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Wen-Pin Lin
  • Cryptographic module for secure processing of value-bearing items
    Patent number: 8301572
    Abstract: An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database is disclosed. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing the USPS Information Based Indicia Program Postal Security Device Performance Criteria and other required VBI standards. The modules encipher the information stored in the central database for all of the on-line VBI system customers and are capable of preventing access to the database by unauthorized users. Additionally, the cryptographic module is capable of preventing unauthorized and undetected modification, including the unauthorized modification, substitution, insertion, and deletion of VBI related data and cryptographically critical security parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Stamps.com
    Inventors: Craig L. Ogg, William W. Chow
  • Anode active material, method of manufacturing the same, and lithium battery using the same
    Patent number: RE43794
    Abstract: Anode active materials, methods of producing the same and lithium batteries using the same are provided. More particularly, an anode active material having high capacity and excellent capacity retention, a method of producing the same and a lithium battery having a long lifespan using the same are provided. The anode active material comprises complex material particles comprising silicon and graphite, a carbon layer covering the surface of the complex material particles, and a silicon-metal alloy formed between the complex material particles and the amorphous carbon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-su Kim, Dong-min Im