Patents Assigned to "A" Company
  • Identifying a fan connected to a computing device
    Patent number: 8788111
    Abstract: Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to identifying a target fan connected to a computing device. In example embodiments, the target fan may be identified based on a fan speed profile of the target fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephen G Uhlmann, Robert Lee Crane
  • Method for purifying difluoroacetic acid chloride
    Patent number: 8785689
    Abstract: A method for purifying difluoroacetic acid chloride, including the step of bringing a difluoroacetic acid chloride composition that contains at least difluoroacetic acid fluoride into contact with calcium chloride at a temperature enabling reaction thereof thereby converting difluoroacetic acid fluoride into difluoroacetic acid chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoto Takada, Masamune Okamoto, Hideaki Imura
  • Method for controlling microbial biofilm in aqueous systems
    Patent number: 8784659
    Abstract: A process has been found which increases the efficiency and effectiveness of introducing antimicrobial compounds into complex biofilm matrices through the use of liposome carriers, thereby removing the biofouling in industrial water bearing systems, including piping, heat exchanges, condensers, filtration systems and fluid storage tanks. According to one embodiment of the invention, antimicrobial compound containing liposomes are added to water systems prone to biofouling and biofilm formation. The liposomes, being similar in composition to microbial membranes or cells, are readily incorporated into the existing biofilm. Once the antimicrobial compound containing liposomes become entrained with the biofilm matrix, the decomposition or programmed disintegration of the liposome proceeds. Thereafter, the biocidal aqueous core is released to react directly with the biofilm encased microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wilson Kurt Whitekettle, Gloria Jean Tafel, Qing Zhao, Linna Wang, Dorothy Reynolds, Paul Frail, Juan Jiang, David M. Polizzotti
  • Devices and methods for print job tracking using assignable mobile devices
    Patent number: 8786883
    Abstract: Devices and methods for tracking a print job using an assignable electronic device on a print service provider (PSP) production floor are provided. One such method includes scanning a barcode-enabled job ticket assigned to a print job using a mobile electronic device assigned to a location on a print service provider production floor and sending barcode data from the barcode-enabled job ticket from to a PSP controller. The mobile electronic device may receive workflow instructions associated with the print job from the PSP controller. In addition, the mobile electronic device may display a representation of the workflow instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Hoarau, Jun Zeng, Giordano B. Beretta, I-Jong Lin
  • Sliding puck for seating assembly
    Patent number: 8783612
    Abstract: A device comprising a base, and a coupler connected to the base and adapted to attach the base to a seat assembly of a passenger aircraft. The seat assembly is connected to the coupler, wherein the base further comprises a slidable lining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Joseph B. Barr, Daniel M. Coon, Richard N. Dainard, Richard D. Griffin, Gregory W. Hewett, William B. Mann, Thomas Eugene Robbins, Dean W. Sang, Karl J. Schaefer, Ralph M. Soto, Jody A. Taylor, III
  • Labeled molecular imaging agents and methods of use
    Patent number: 8784774
    Abstract: Imaging agents are described that comprise labeled substrates capable of being introduced into cells via the cystine/glutamate antiporter. The substrates may be used for imaging or detecting oxidative stress in cells by introducing the labeled agents into cells via the cystine/glutamate antiporter and subsequent detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jack Mathew Webster, Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Chittari Pabba, Michael James Rishel
  • Process for preparing ethylene and propylene
    Patent number: 8785703
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing ethylene and/or propylene, comprising the steps of contacting a stream comprising C4+ olefins with a zeolite-comprising catalyst at a temperature in the range of from 350 to 1000° C. and retrieving an olefinic product stream comprising: ethylene and/or propylene, and a C4+ hydrocarbon fraction, comprising paraffins, normal olefins and iso-olefins; The C4+ hydrocarbon fraction is recycled while part of the fraction is purged. The part of the C4+ hydrocarbon with is purged is treated to extract C4+ isoolefins as tert-alkyl ethers. At least part of tert-alkyl ethers are converted to further ethylene and propylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Sivakumar Sadasivan Vijayakumari, Jeroen Van Westrenen
  • Computer operation control and item selection and vending methods and systems
    Patent number: 8783572
    Abstract: A signal is transmitted into a computer in response to an image on a display screen of the computer such that the computer operates in response to the signal; this includes moving a scanner in optical communication with the display screen such that the scanner detects an image (for example, a bar code) displayed on the screen and generates the signal in response. One or more computers may be used, and this may be used for vending a product or other purposes. With or without such scanning, a portion of a store environment may be displayed on a screen of a computer, including showing images of actual products for sale at the store, in which images of actual products are accessed via the computer from a database containing in-store images recorded in the store during a period of non-existent or minimal customer presence in the store. A vending system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Xoranno Group Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: John A Kenney
  • Lamp for vehicle
    Patent number: 8783926
    Abstract: A lamp apparatus for a vehicle may include a hollow tub having a mirror surface, an upper cover mounted at a side of the tub and having a first surface perpendicular to an axial direction of the tub, wherein the first surface includes a semi-mirror surface which divides light into a transmitted light passing to the outside and a reflected light reflected to the inside, a lower cover mounted at the other side of the tub and having a second surface perpendicular to the axial direction of the tub, wherein the second surface includes a mirror surface formed on an inner side thereof, and a plurality of point light sources mounted on the mirror surface of the lower cover, wherein light emitted from the point light sources is multiple-reflected between the semi-mirror surface of the upper cover and the mirror surface of the lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Low friction seal for bearings
    Patent number: 8783953
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an annular inner member defining a first outer surface and a first inner surface, and a shaft extending therefrom. The bearing assembly includes an annular outer member defining a second outer surface and a second inner surface which is adapted to engage a recess defined in the first outer surface. An annular flexible seal defines a base adapted to engage the outer member, a head adapted to engage a groove defined in one of the inner member or the shaft, and a neck having a curvilinear cross-section which is adapted to bias the base toward the recess and the head toward the groove. The flexible seal is positioned adjacent to one end of the outer member and extends between the inner member and outer member. An annular low-friction liner has a cross-section that defines an interior area adapted to engage the flexible seal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.
    Inventors: James Voisine, Bradley Smith
  • Striking face of a golf club head
    Patent number: 8784233
    Abstract: A golf club head with improved striking face performance is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention discloses a golf club head having a thickened central region surrounded by an internal and an external transition region; wherein the thickened central region has an inner perimeter that takes on a shape that substantially resembles the shape of an outer perimeter of the striking face of the golf club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: John Morin, Noah de la Cruz, Christopher D. Harvell, Thomas O. Bennett
  • High strength aluminum alloy fin material and method of production of same
    Patent number: 8784582
    Abstract: A heat exchanger use high strength aluminum alloy fin material having a high strength and excellent in thermal conductivity, erosion resistance, sag resistance, sacrificial anodization effect, and self corrosion resistance, characterized by containing Si: 0.8 to 1.4 wt %, Fe: 0.15 to 0.7 wt %, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0 wt %, and Zn: 0.5 to 2.5 wt %, limiting the Mg as an impurity to 0.05 wt % or less, and having a balance of ordinary impurities and Al in chemical composition, having a metal structure before brazing of a fibrous crystal grain structure, a tensile strength before brazing of not more than 240 MPa, a tensile strength after brazing of not less than 150 MPa, and a recrystallized grain size after brazing of 500 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Suzuki, Yoshito Oki, Tomohiro Sasaki, Masae Nagasawa
  • Coil cutting tool and method
    Patent number: 8783149
    Abstract: A tool and a method are disclosed for cutting coils in a dynamoelectric machine. In an embodiment, the tool includes a blade having a cutting edge on a distal end thereof. The blade is operably connected on a proximal end thereof to a double acting hydraulic cylinder. The tool further includes at least one guide arm coupled to and extending longitudinally in a distal direction from the double acting hydraulic cylinder, wherein the at least one guide arm is disposed alongside the blade and extends parallel to a path of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Syed Wajahat Ali, John Matthew Sassatelli, Andrew John Tomko
  • CMOS FinFET device
    Patent number: 8786019
    Abstract: A CMOS FinFET device and method for fabricating a CMOS FinFET device is disclosed. An exemplary CMOS FinFET device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region. The CMOS FinFET further includes a fin structure disposed over the substrate including a first fin in the first region and a second fin in the second region. The CMOS FinFET further includes a first portion of the first fin comprising a material that is the same material as the substrate and a second portion of the first fin comprising a III-V semiconductor material deposited over the first portion of the first fin. The CMOS FinFET further includes a first portion of the second fin comprising a material that is the same material as the substrate and a second portion of the second fin comprising a germanium (Ge) material deposited over the first portion of the second fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Wu, Chih-Hsin Ko, Clement Hsingjen Wann
  • System for cooling syngas
    Patent number: 8783036
    Abstract: A system includes a syngas cooler configured to cool a syngas. The syngas cooler includes a first syngas cooler section configured to cool the syngas and a second syngas cooler section configured to cool the syngas and generate a first superheated steam with an enthalpy of less than approximately 3800 kJ/kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Judeth Brannon Corry, Leroy Omar Tomlinson, James Michael Storey, Paul Stephen Dimascio, Mark Joseph Steffen, Wei Chen, Benjamin Campbell Steinhaus, Richard Anthony De Puy
  • Syringe with disinfecting tip feature
    Patent number: 8784388
    Abstract: Syringe assemblies comprising a disinfecting reservoir collar to ensure adherence to aseptic techniques for use in flush procedures for vascular access devices (VAD's) are described. The syringe assemblies include a plunger rod, a syringe barrel, and reservoir collar that permits disinfection of a hub of a VAD connector upon connection to the reservoir collar. Also described are methods of disinfecting vascular access devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Nichola Charles, Adam Zerda
  • Package with a fan-out structure and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 8785299
    Abstract: An embodiment is a device comprising a semiconductor die, an adhesive layer on a first side of the semiconductor die, and a molding compound surrounding the semiconductor die and the adhesive layer, wherein the molding compound is at a same level as the adhesive layer. The device further comprises a first post-passivation interconnect (PPI) electrically coupled to a second side of the semiconductor die, and a first connector electrically coupled to the first PPI, wherein the first connector is over and aligned to the molding compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Chao Mao, Chin-Chuan Chang, Jui-Pin Hung, Jing-Cheng Lin
  • Marketing method and system using domain knowledge
    Patent number: 8788321
    Abstract: A method of evaluating advertising is disclosed based on analysis of user behavior in a market focused directory. Users actions are logged over a given time period. Implicit measures are derived from the log files and read into one or more databases. The implicit measures are aggregated across a plurality of user sessions and a report of the user behavior with respect to a single URL or a comparison between URLs is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Thomas Publishing Company
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Lettow, Jr., John Gennaro
  • Structure for integrated circuit alignment
    Patent number: 8786054
    Abstract: A method and device for pattern alignment are disclosed. The device can include an exposure field; a die within the exposure field, wherein the die comprises an integrated circuit region, a seal ring region, and a corner stress relief region; and a die alignment mark disposed between the seal ring region and the corner stress relief region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Chyi Harn, Sophia Wang, Chun-Hung Lin, Hsien-Wei Chen, Ming-Yen Chiu
  • Systems and methods for using rule-based fault detection in a building management system
    Patent number: 8788097
    Abstract: A controller for a building management system includes a system of rules for detecting faults in the building management system. The rules include content conditions and trigger conditions. The content conditions are not checked until one or more of the trigger conditions are met. A rule-based fault detection engine may be implemented by a low level building equipment controller. One or more thresholds for a rule may be automatically or manually adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Kirk H. Drees, Andrew J. Boettcher, James P. Kummer