Patents Represented by Attorney Fletcher Yoder

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  • Method of printing marks on an optical article
    Patent number: 8118229
    Abstract: An optical article with a plurality of optically detectable marks on a first surface of the optical article, wherein a mark of the plurality of marks has a thickness of less than or equal to about 1 micrometer, and wherein the plurality of optically detectable marks have uniform thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Kasiraman Krishnan, Marc Brian Wisnudel, James Mitchell White, David Gilles Gascoyne, Katherine Lee Jackson, Swapnil Girish Bondre
  • RFID transponder enclosure for harsh environments
    Patent number: 8120497
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification device is enclosed in an enclosure suitable for harsh environments, and is resistant to physical, chemical, temperature, and electro-magnetic abuse. The enclosure includes a shell member configured to deflect direct blows to the transponder and can be shaped to fit various types of surfaces to which it can be affixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Merrick Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Rex Binmore
  • JFET devices with increased barrier height and methods of making same
    Patent number: 8120072
    Abstract: Devices and methods for providing JFET transistors with improved operating characteristics are provided. Specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to JFET transistors with a higher diode turn-on voltage. For example, one or more embodiments include a JFET with a doped silicon-carbide gate, while other embodiments include a JFET with a metal gate. One or more embodiments also relate to systems and devices in which the improved JFET may be employed, as well as methods of manufacturing the improved JFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Chandra Mouli
  • System and method for detection of skin wounds and compartment syndromes
    Patent number: 8116852
    Abstract: A system configured to provide feedback regarding fluid parameters in the skin and/or compartments of an individual to facilitate early diagnosis of skin wounds and compartment syndromes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Clark R. Baker, Jr., Shannon E. Campbell
  • Layer-to-layer interconnects for photoelectric devices and methods of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 8115093
    Abstract: Interconnects for electronic devices. More specifically, stacked photoelectric devices, such as parallel tandem photovoltaic devices are provided. Each of the photovoltaic devices comprises photovoltaic cells formed between two substrates. Each of the substrates may include one or more interconnects to route a voltage from one side of the substrate to another. Each substrate includes an edge portion extending beyond the edge portion of an immediately adjacent substrate. All interconnects are exposed to one side of the device for easy and flexible electric connectivity and fabrication. The interconnects, which may include conductive vias or conductive edge wraps, are formed in the edge portion of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Yupeng Gui, Eladio Clemente Delgado
  • Error detection for multi-bit memory
    Patent number: 8117520
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including a device that includes a plurality of data locations, a quantizing circuit coupled to the plurality of data locations, and an error detection module coupled to the quantizing circuit. In some embodiments, the error detection module includes an encoder configured to encode incoming data with redundant data derived from the incoming data and a decoder configured to detect errors in stored data based on the redundant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: R. Jacob Baker
  • Method for energy sensitive computed tomography using checkerboard filtering
    Patent number: 8111803
    Abstract: Methods for energy-sensitive computed tomography systems that use checkerboard filtering. A method of enhancing image analysis of projection data acquired using a detector configured with a checkerboard filter includes disposing in a system a detector to receive a transmitted beam of X-rays traversing through an object, where the system is configured so the detector receives both high- and one of total- and low-energy projection data; receiving the high- and one of total- and low-energy projection data at the detector; and then estimating an effective atomic number of the object and/or processing the projection data so as to mitigate reconstruction artifacts. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appended claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter Michael Edic, Colin Richard Wilson, Samit Kumar Basu
  • Method and circuit for storing and providing historical physiological data
    Patent number: 8112137
    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 values of skin temperature at which a motion signal algorithm can be accurately utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Paul D. Mannheimer, Michael E. Fein, Marcia Fein, legal representative
  • Rank select using a global select pin
    Patent number: 8111534
    Abstract: Methods, memory devices, and systems are disclosed, such as those for accessing a memory circuit through the use of reduced external pins. With one such system, a single external pin receives a global memory select signal which transmits an access signal for one of a plurality of memory circuits in a system. The memory circuits may be stacked and may also be ranked memory circuits. The global memory select signal may be sent to a counter. Such a counter could count the length of time that the global memory select signal is active, and based on the counting, sends a count signal to a comparator. The comparator may compare the count signal with a programmed value to determine if a specific memory chip and/or port is to be accessed. This configuration may be duplicated over multiple ports on the same memory device, as well as across multiple memory ranks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Walker
  • Exhaust plenum for a turbine engine
    Patent number: 8109720
    Abstract: An exhaust system for gas turbine engine is provided that reduces turbulence and backflow within the exhaust system and, thus, increases the efficiency of the turbine engine. In various embodiments, the system includes an exhaust plenum that provides a gradual expansion of the exhaust gases. The exhaust plenum may also include one or more flow splitters that further reduce turbulence in the plenum and provide a more uniform gas flow in the plenum and other downstream exhaust components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Prabhakaran Saraswathi Rajesh
  • Method and circuit for storing and providing historical physiological data
    Patent number: 8112136
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods that relate to pulse oximetry. Specifically, one embodiment includes an oximeter sensor, comprising a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light, a light detector configured to receive the light, and a memory device that stores code to determine which of the plurality of light emitting elements to use to emit the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Paul D. Mannheimer, Michael E. Fein, Marcia Fein, legal representative
  • Carbon dioxide-sensing airway products and technique for using the same
    Patent number: 8109272
    Abstract: An airway device is provided that may track the flow of respiratory gases through the device with sensing elements at a plurality of locations along the gas flow path of the device. Such a device may be useful for assessing a variety of clinical states, for adjusting patient ventilator settings, or for determining whether or not an airway device has been properly inserted into a patient airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Clark R. Baker, Jr., Roger Mecca, Michael P. O'Neil, Rafael Ostrowski
  • Coding for optical storage systems with multiple reader heads and multiple optical disks
    Patent number: 8107333
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems of encoding and decoding techniques in an optical storage system having a multi-head detector. In one embodiment, source data may be encoded using error correction coding (e.g., turbo coding) techniques, and the encoded data may be interleaved and distributed to more than one detector head of the multi-head detector. Data recorded in an optical disc may be retrieved by the multi-head detector, and a read data from more than one detector head may be concurrently decoded to retrieve estimates of the original information in the source data. Further, more than one encoder/decoder may be used, and each encoder/decoder may encode or decode data from multiple data heads. Some embodiments also include replicating multiple discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Anderson Fergus Ross, John Erik Hershey, Xiaolei Shi, Xuefeng Wang
  • Unidirectional spin torque transfer magnetic memory cell structure
    Patent number: 8102700
    Abstract: Spin torque transfer magnetic random access memory devices configured to be programmed unidirectionally and methods of programming such devices. The devices include memory cells having two pinned layers and a free layer therebetween. By utilizing two pinned layers, the spin torque effect on the free layer from each of the two pinned layers, respectively, allows the memory cells to be programmed with unidirectional currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Gurtej Sandhu
  • System and method for data read of a synchronous serial interface NAND
    Patent number: 8103936
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for operating a NAND memory device. The NAND memory device is operated by transmitting serial peripheral interface signals from a host to a NAND memory device, whereby the signals are communicated to a NAND memory in the NAND memory device without modifying the signals into a standard NAND memory format. Similarly, a method and system is disclosed for receiving signals from the NAND memory device without modifying the signals from a standard NAND format into a serial format. The system also incorporates error detection and correction techniques to detect and correct errors in data stored in the NAND memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore T. Pekny, Victor Y. Tsai, Peter S. Feeley
  • Integrators for delta-sigma modulators
    Patent number: 8102295
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are disclosed. Among the disclosed devices is an electronic device that, in certain embodiments, includes a plurality of memory elements or imaging elements connected to a bit-line and a delta-sigma modulator connected to the bit-line. The delta-sigma modulator may include an integrator having a differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: R. Jacob Baker
  • System and method for installing a device
    Patent number: 8103372
    Abstract: A technique is provided for installing a device in which a part of the device and the location of the part are automatically determined. An installer is notified of the part and its location for installation. Routines implementing some or all of the technique may be provided on a computer-readable medium. A method is also provided for locating a part to be installed using a project manager application. An installer retrieves the part from the location and installs the part. In one embodiment, the present techniques are implemented using an installation system including a processor-based system and a locator system. The processor-based system is configured to indicate a location of a part to be installed while the locator system is configured to provide the location to the processor-based system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Crispian Lee Sievenpiper, Sandra Fieldstad Wiley
  • Using S-parameter measurements to manage SAR and transmit gain in MRI
    Patent number: 8102177
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging system are provided. In one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging system includes a radio frequency coil with a plurality of conductive coil elements, control circuitry that determines, based at least in part on a measurement of scattering parameters, a plurality of forward voltages that will cause power deposition into an object within a predetermined specific absorption rate, and an amplifier configured to apply the determined plurality of forward voltages respectively to the plurality of coil elements. The control circuitry may determine the plurality of forward voltages based at least in part on an unloaded measurement of scattering parameters and a loaded measurement of scattering parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Graeme Colin McKinnon
  • Voltage measurement in an imaging system
    Patent number: 8100584
    Abstract: Methods and systems are generally described for measuring a voltage used by an imaging system to generate radiation used in imaging. In embodiments, different datasets are acquired using different degrees of attenuation of the radiation. The differently attenuated datasets are processed to derive a ratio of the differential attenuation. The attenuation ratio is processed to derive a measure of the voltage used by the imaging system to generate the radiation used to acquire the different datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ariel Friedlander, Jonathan Richard Schmidt, Thomas Louis Toth
  • Method and circuit for storing and providing historical physiological data
    Patent number: 8103325
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a sensor for facilitating detection of a physiological characteristic of a patient. Specifically, one embodiment includes a detector configured to obtain signals from the patient, the signals being indicative of the physiological characteristic and to send the signals to a monitor, and a sensor memory coupled with the sensor and separate from the monitor, the sensor memory storing patient physiological data derived by the monitor from the signals, the patient physiological data being indicative of the physiological characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: David Swedlow, Stephen L. Daleo, Thomas J. Yorkey, Edward M. Richards, Charles Porges, Charles Stuart, Daniel M. Nemits, Russell L. DeLonzor