Patents Represented by Attorney Fletcher Yoder

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  • Video program authoring systems and methods
    Patent number: 8208789
    Abstract: Video program authoring systems and methods in a processor-based system removes an author from consideration of low-level configuration functions during authoring. The authoring systems and methods provide an authoring engine having an interactive graphical authoring interface, a data management engine, an emulator, a compiler, a multiplexer and a simulator. Using summary authoring data, the compiler builds a skeleton-faun layout structure comprising abstracted components that include movie chapters, menu buttons and command segements. The compiler then resolves abstracted connections between combinations of the abstracted components to produce a video program. Instructions associated with the command segments and a configuration of the command segments within a video program video space and domain structure are abstracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Brodersen, Gregory Kent Wallace
  • Methods of indirect register access including automatic modification of a directly accessible address register
    Patent number: 8209521
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing access to registers. A system may include a set of direct registers and a set of indirect registers. The indirect registers may be accessed through the direct registers, and the direct registers may provide various features to provide faster access to the indirect registers. One of the direct registers may indicate access modes for accessing the indirect registers. The access modes may include auto-increment, auto-decrement, auto-reset, and no change modes. Based on the access mode, the currently accessed address may be automatically modified after accessing the indirect register at the address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold B Noyes, Mark Jurenka, Gavin Huggins
  • Turbine engine shroud ring
    Patent number: 8206085
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a turbine engine that includes a rotor including multiple blades. The turbine engine also includes a shroud disposed about the blades. The shroud includes multiple segments engaged with one another via mating teeth. The mating teeth are oriented in an axial direction along a longitudinal axis of the turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Luke J. Ammann
  • Image mask interface
    Patent number: 8209632
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an image editing process on an electronic device that uses an image mask to edit an image object. The image editing process may include an image mask overlying the image object and having a frame and an aperture. The image editing process may crop the image object based on the portions of the image object overlaid by the mask frame and the mask aperture. The image object and the image mask may be separately selected and manipulated by selecting different regions of the image object or the image mask. Additionally, a user may resize the image object by moving a slider, such as by touching and moving a slider knob along an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Gloria Guarino Reid, Kurt Allen Revis
  • Turbine coverplate systems
    Patent number: 8206119
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a coverplate may be configured to axially overlay a plurality of blade retaining slots within a wheel post of a rotor wheel. The coverplate may include a tab for radially securing the coverplate within a complementary groove of the rotor wheel and an aperture configured to align with a corresponding aperture of the turbine wheel to receive a fastener for axially securing the coverplate to the rotor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gary Charles Liotta, Christopher Sean Bowes, John Wesley Harris, Jr.
  • Packing seal rotor lands
    Patent number: 8206082
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a packing seal has a plurality of lands that align with annular teeth. Each land has opposite axial sides relative to a rotational axis of a rotary component. Each land also has a recess in at least one of the opposite sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nestor Hernandez Sanchez, Dhaval Ramesh Bhalodia
  • System and method for measuring pressure and flow in a loop reactor
    Patent number: 8202949
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring pressure and flow rate of polymer slurry circulating in a loop reactor. For flow rate measurement, the loop reactor has a pressure tap on an outside radius of an elbow of the loop and a pressure tap on an inside radius of the elbow. The pressure taps incorporate diaphragms. Sensing legs couple the pressure taps with a differential pressure meter configured to provide a signal indicative of the flow rate of the polymer slurry. For pressure measurement, pressure taps without diaphragms at the loop reactor wall may be disposed at various points along the loop reactor, the pressure taps coupled to pressure sensing lines. A diluent flush line having a screen disposed therein may provide diluent to the pressure taps. The screen may reduce fouling of the pressure tap and sensing line with solids from the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Robert R. McElvain, John D. Hottovy, Larry W. Ezell, Anurag Gupta
  • On-machine power supply with integral coupling features
    Patent number: 8205101
    Abstract: A power supply for providing power to devices in a network is described as incorporating an integral coupling feature that terminates the provision of power from an upstream power supply while maintaining connectivity of communications signals and ground from an upstream portion to a downstream portion of the network relative to the power supply. The power supply includes a logic feature that monitors a power status of an upstream power supply and/or its own power status. When the logic feature detects a power cycle, it initiates a coordinated power cycle of the associated power supply and/or other networked power supplies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Furukawa, Nicholas R. Goebel, Amy L. Stachowiak
  • Methods of making self-aligned nano-structures
    Patent number: 8202804
    Abstract: A method for creating structures in a semiconductor assembly is provided. The method includes etching apertures into a dielectric layer and applying a polymer layer over the dielectric layer. The polymer layer is applied uniformly and fills the apertures at different rates depending on the geometry of the apertures, or on the presence or absence of growth accelerating material. The polymer creates spacers for the etching of additional structure in between the spacers. The method is capable of achieving structures smaller than current lithography techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Gurtej Sandhu
  • Control method and system with feedback indicative of load flux
    Patent number: 8203304
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including an induction-motor controller having a phase path; a solid-state switch interposed on the phase path; and a controller coupled to the solid-state switch. In certain embodiments, the controller is configured to switch the solid-state switch so that the solid-state switch is conductive during a conduction angle of a cycle of an incoming AC power waveform conveyed by the phase path, calculate the conduction angle based on a generally sinusoidal reference value that has a frequency lower than a frequency of the incoming AC power waveform, and adjust the generally sinusoidal reference value based on a value indicative of flux in a load coupled to the phase path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Haihui Lu, David M. Messersmith, Thomas A. Nondahl
  • Multi-elastomer seal
    Patent number: 8201832
    Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments has, a fluid seal having a seal body, including a seal interface having one or more engagement portions, a first elastomer portion disposed along the seal interface, and a second elastomer portion disposed along the seal interface, wherein the first and second elastomers have material properties that are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher George Kocurek
  • Optical article having an electrically responsive layer as an anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft
    Patent number: 8202598
    Abstract: A method of changing a functionality of an optical article is provided. The method includes exposing the optical article to an external stimulus. The optical article includes an electrically responsive layer being configured to transform from a first optical state to a second optical state upon exposure to the external stimulus. The electrically responsive layer is configured to transform from a first optical state to a second optical state upon exposure to an external stimulus, and is capable of irreversibly transforming the optical article from the pre-activated state of functionality to the activated state of functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Jeannine Peters, Marc Brian Wisnudel, Ben Purushotam Patel, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Kasiraman Krishnan, Kaustubh Ravindra Nagarkar
  • Endotracheal cuff and technique for using the same
    Patent number: 8196584
    Abstract: An inflatable grooved balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. Configurations of these cuffs that include grooved regions may provide improved sealing of the trachea by complementing naturally grooved tracheal tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Seamus Maguire, Sean Morris, Paul O'Neill, Patrick Joseph Tiernan
  • Opaque views for graphical user interfaces
    Patent number: 8201102
    Abstract: A system and method of rendering a graphical user interface for a media based device which employs techniques for layering graphical elements. The method includes providing a background layer for the graphical user interface and graphical layers over the background layer. The method also superimposing an opaque view over a portion of the translucent graphic layer and marking the opaque view as opaque so that the portion of the translucent layer is not redrawn when the content in the opaque view is altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Theodore Lee, Szu-Wen Huang, Jesse William Boettcher
  • Software radio frequency canceller
    Patent number: 8199681
    Abstract: A full-duplex RF communication system and corresponding methods use digital adaptive filters for interference cancellation. As provided, the techniques allow full-duplex radio frequency communication without frequency-, time-, or code-division multiplexing and without the use of hardware RF cancellers. Such techniques may be useful for wireless communication, such a cellular communication, radio communication, broadcasting, short-range point-to-point communication, wireless sensor networks, and wireless computer networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Louis Zinser, Michael James Hartman, John Erik Hershey, John Anderson Fergus Ross
  • Shaft current control brush ring assembly
    Patent number: 8199453
    Abstract: A shaft current control brush ring assembly includes a cup and a brush ring assembly secured within the cup. The cup is secured to a motor faceplate, within a recess formed in the faceplate by interference fit, or by means of a clamp attached to the faceplate. A slinger can be associated with the brush ring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Hieyoung W. Oh, Adam H. Willwerth
  • Dynamic soft program trims
    Patent number: 8199585
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for modifying soft-programming trims of a non-volatile memory device, such as a flash memory device. The soft-programming trims may be modified based on a count of erase pulses applied to memory cells of the memory device. The number of erase pulses used to erase memory cells may be indicative of accumulated charge in the memory cell. The start voltage, step size, pulse width, number of pulses, pulse ramp, ramp rate, or any other trim of the soft-programming operation may be modified in response to the number of erase pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Marquart
  • Battery charger dashboard
    Patent number: D662046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert Fred Unger, Timothy Corcoran Repp
  • Battery charger housing
    Patent number: D662047
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Daryl Charles Brockman, James Cameron Douglass, Robert Fred Unger, Timothy Corcoran Repp
  • Vehicle battery charger
    Patent number: D662048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Julie Christine Roberts, Daryl Charles Brockman, James Cameron Douglass, Gerald Jay Demirjian, Robert Fred Unger, Timothy Corcoran Repp