Patents Represented by Attorney Daniel B. Dehlinger & Associates Curtis
  • Patent number: 5942432
    Abstract: Apparatus are disclosed that thermally cycles samples between at least two temperatures. These apparatus operate by impinging fluid jets onto the outer walls of a sample containing region. Because the impinging fluid jets provide a high heat transfer coefficient between the jet and the sample containing region, the sample containing regions are uniformly cycled between the two temperatures. The heat exchange rate between the jets and the sample regions are substantially uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: The Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas H. Smith, John Shigeura, Timothy M. Woudenberg
  • Patent number: 5831594
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed to assist a user of a display device to more quickly recover from a distraction causing the user to look away from the display device. The user is also assisted when navigating hypertext documents by the invention indicating where the user last looked in a restored, previously viewed hypertext document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Tognazzini, Jakob Nielsen, Robert Glass