Patents Represented by Attorney Fletcher Yoder
  • Patent number: 8009004
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical apparatus comprising a magnetic core, a conductive coil wound around at least a part of the core, a cooling element configured to receive a cooling fluid to cool the core and the coil during operation, and at least one biasing element operatively associated with the core to urge the core and the coil into engagement with the cooling element despite differential expansion or contraction of the core and the coil and manufacturing tolerances. Further provided is a method for making an electrical apparatus comprising disposing a conductive coil wound around at least a part of a magnetic core, disposing a cooling element between the core and the coil, the cooling element configured to receive a cooling fluid to cool the core and the coil during operation, and urging the core and the coil into engagement with the cooling element despite differential expansion or contraction of the core and the coil and manufacturing tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdolmehdi Kaveh Ahangar, Jeremy J. Keegan
  • Patent number: 8002851
    Abstract: A thermochromic ink composition comprises at least one thermochromic optical-state change material, at least one thermally responsive pH modifier, and at least one base and at least one binder material. The quantity of the thermally responsive pH modifier is less than or equal to about 0.25 milli moles based on the amount of optical-state change material. The ink composition is capable of transforming from a first optical state to a second optical state upon exposure to a thermal stimulus. The thermochromic ink composition may comprise a nitro dye. A thermochromic coating composition formed using the thermochromic ink composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Fyvie, David Gilles Gascoyne, Andrea Jeannine Peters, Marc Brian Wisnudel
  • Patent number: 8004608
    Abstract: An exemplary method relates to buffering closed captioning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Janghwan Lee
  • Patent number: 7997540
    Abstract: A system for sequentially switching a plurality of guide ways to accommodate at least one vehicle with a plurality of ground engaging portions following a plurality of plural track segments is provided. The system includes a primary guide way to receive at least one of the plurality of ground engaging portions of the at least one vehicle and a secondary guide way located in proximity to the primary guide way. The secondary guide way may be configured to receive another of the plurality of ground engaging portions of the at least one vehicle. The system may also include a controller configured to sequentially switch the primary guide way and the secondary guide way whereby the at least one vehicle may travel in one direction or in another direction. A method of switching a plurality of guide ways is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Eric A. Vance, David Halliday, Waldemar L. Brzezik
  • Patent number: 7999044
    Abstract: A flash chamber sized to receive the effluent discharged from a polyolefin reactor during normal operation of the reactor and during a reactor dump, advantageously eliminating a reactor dump tank or alternate flash tank from the equipment outlay of a polyolefin manufacturing process. The flash chamber is sized to hold at least the polyolefin solids discharged from the reactor. A condenser fluidically coupled to an overhead portion of the flash chamber is sized to condense the flow rate of vaporized hydrocarbon (e.g., diluent, monomer, etc.) discharged overhead from the flash chamber during normal operation and during the reactor dump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: John D. Hottovy, John H. Tait, David H. Burns, Donald W. Verser, James E. Hein
  • Patent number: 8001211
    Abstract: A system integrates standards-defined multimedia storage system and an Internet browser. In one example, Universal Resource Locator (URL) information corresponding to web sites accessible by the browser is stored in fields within the DVD data. When a user actuates a DVD element that has a corresponding URL, the web browser displays information from that site. When the user actuates an HTML menu or other browser-implemented feature, the DVD system accesses a portion of the DVD data specified in the menu. This arrangement provides for two-way communication, i.e., HTML in the browser is able to control DVD content and vice-versa. Having WWW information embedded in the DVD brings a number of benefits, the foremost of which is the ability to write a “one size fits all” template web page that can interrogate the DVD for URL information and present WWW content corresponding to the URL synchronized with the DVD information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fergal John Mohan, Rainer Brodersen
  • Patent number: 8000760
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods that relate to pulse oximetry. Specifically, one embodiment includes an oximeter sensor comprising a light emitting element configured to emit light, a light detector configured to detect the light, and a memory storing an optical shunting measurement for the oximeter sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Mannheimer, Michael E. Fein, Marcia Fein, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8001410
    Abstract: There is provided a system for comparing the phase characteristics of three generated clock signals, each having a unique phase relationship with an original clock signal, with the original clock signal and to select a signal based on the proximity of the phase characteristic of the three signals to the original signal. The selection of a clock signal that most closely approximates the original significantly reduces lock time when attempting to synchronize an internal clock with an external clock. Additionally, there is provided a method for comparing three clock signals with an original clock signal and selecting from the three clock signals one that is approximately in phase with the original clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 8000890
    Abstract: Provided is a method of image-guided navigation comprising determining a final navigated point in a three-dimensional reconstructed coordinate system based at least partially on two or more navigated points in a coordinate system associated with a two-dimensional array of image pixels and without specifying a coordinate of each of the two or more navigated points in a direction orthogonal to the two-dimensional array of image pixels, wherein each of the two or more navigated points is for a different position of a C-arm gantry. Also provided is an image-guided navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Litvin, Mohamed Ali Hamadeh
  • Patent number: 8000512
    Abstract: A technique is presented for establishing a patient's BMD using a dual-energy X-ray imaging system. In the technique, the dual-energy X-ray imaging system utilizes a slit collimator to expose a series of portions of a region of interest within a patient with X-rays of two different energies. A flat-panel digital X-ray detector detects the X-rays passing through the patient's region of interest and produces data representative of the intensity of the X-rays reaching the detector. The image intensity data is corrected for scatter based on identifying the regions of the image intensity data that are produced from scatter only, and not primary X-rays. A first-order derivative of the image intensity data is used to identify these regions. A value for the intensity of the scatter at the boundary of the scatter-only region is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Michael Sabol, Kadri Nizar Jabri, Adam Ellis Boden, Meghan Lynn Yue
  • Patent number: 7997799
    Abstract: A mobile dual-energy X-ray imaging system is presented. The mobile dual-energy X-ray imaging system is a digital X-ray system that is designed both to acquire original image data and to process the image data to produce an image for viewing. The system has an X-ray source and a portable flat-panel digital X-ray detector. The system is operable to produce a high energy image and low energy image, which may be decomposed to produce a soft tissue image and a bone image for further analysis of the desired anatomy. The system is disposed on a carrier to facilitate transport. The imaging system has an alignment system for facilitating alignment of the flat-panel digital detector with the X-ray source. The imaging system also comprises an anti-scatter grid and an anti-scatter grid registration system for removing artifacts of the anti-scatter grid from images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kadri Nizar Jabri, Gopal Biligeri Avinash, John Michael Sabol, Renuka Uppaluri
  • Patent number: 7998546
    Abstract: A wirelessly powered flexible tag configured to be in contact with a substrate is provided. The tag includes a coupling layer configured to couple the tag to the substrate. An electrical circuit disposed on the coupling layer and configured to interact wirelessly with an external stimulus. The tag further includes at least one electrode or at least one heating element in operative association with the electrical circuit, and configured to generate electrical energy or thermal energy, respectively. Upon wireless interaction with the external stimulus the tag is configured to induce an electrical response, a thermal response, or a combination of both in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media LLC
    Inventors: Marc Brian Wisnudel, Ben Purushotam Patel, Richard Louis Frey, Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, Kyle Erik Litz, Peng Jiang, Andrea Peters
  • Patent number: 8000522
    Abstract: A technique is provided for three-dimensional imaging in a non-calibrated geometry. In one embodiment, the technique includes acquiring a plurality of projection images through an imaging volume; estimating an imaging geometry using at least one of fiducial markers or anatomical features represented in the projection images; and reconstructing a configurable volumetric representation of some or all of the imaging volume using the estimated imaging geometry, wherein the act of reconstructing accounts for one or more geometry dependent factors. In addition, a system is provided which includes a computer configured to estimate an imaging geometry using at least one of fiducial markers or anatomical features represented in a plurality of projection images acquired through an imaging volume and to reconstruct a configurable volumetric representation of some or all of the imaging volume using the estimated imaging geometry, wherein the act of reconstructing accounts for one or more geometry dependent factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus
  • Patent number: 7996666
    Abstract: There is provided a method for altering a sequence in which programs and content are loaded upon startup of an electronic device. A user may change the loading sequence by selecting a program or content before the loading sequence has finished. In addition, the altered loading sequence may be saved and utilized when the electronic device is powered on again. There is also provided a tangible, machine-readable medium for performing the described method. Finally, there is provided an electronic device having a memory device for storing a loading program that defines a loading sequence, a processor for loading programs and content based on the loading sequence, and a user interface for delivering user input to the loading program to alter the loading sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Shayer, Szu-Wen Huang, Jesse W. Boettcher
  • Patent number: 7994664
    Abstract: A system for cooling a superconducting rotary machine includes a plurality of sealed siphon tubes disposed in balanced locations around a rotor adjacent to a superconducting coil. Each of the sealed siphon tubes includes a tubular body and a heat transfer medium disposed in the tubular body that undergoes a phase change during operation of the machine to extract heat from the superconducting coil. A siphon heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the siphon tubes for extracting heat from the siphon tubes during operation of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Adolf Ackermann, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Xianrui Huang, James William Bray
  • Patent number: 7993988
    Abstract: Methods for fabricating a non-planar transistor. Fin field effect transistors (finFETs) are often built around a fin (e.g., a tall, thin semiconductive member). During manufacturing, a fin may encounter various mechanical stresses, e.g., inertial forces during movement of the substrate and fluid forces during cleaning steps. If the forces on the fin are too large, the fin may fracture and possibly render a transistor inoperative. Supporting one side of a fin before forming the second side of a fin creates stability in the fin structure, thereby counteracting many of the mechanical stresses incurred during manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Werner Juengling
  • Patent number: 7992453
    Abstract: An erosion-resistant insert is provided for a flow measurement device having a fluid displacement member. The insert includes a flange and a sleeve extending axially from the flange. The sleeve may be inserted into a recess machined into a fluid conduit of the fluid measurement device to protect the inner wall of the conduit. The insert maintains the inner diameter of the conduit and the beta ratio of the flow measurement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventor: Philip A. Lawrence
  • Patent number: D643116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Roger Harrington, Alonzo W. Baker, Jr., Seamus Maguire
  • Patent number: D643532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Roger Harrington, Alonzo W. Baker, Jr., Seamus Maguire
  • Patent number: D643533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Roger Harrington, Alonzo W. Baker, Jr., Seamus Maguire