Patents Assigned to Insight, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130127466Abstract: A scanner for assessing localized oxygenation of a desired region of interest includes a handheld housing having a proximal end and a distal end. A resonator coil is disposed within the housing and also disposed adjacent the distal end of the housing. The resonator coil is configured to both excite and read paramagnetic materials. A magnet is disposed within the housing and also disposed adjacent the distal end of the housing. The magnet is configured to provide a substantially uniform magnetic field over the desired region of interest. The scanner is configured to use electron paramagnetic resonance to assess localized oxygenation in the desired region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: 02 Insights, Inc.Inventors: Periannan Kuppusamy, Samit Kumar Gupta, Robert Lawrence Rushenberg
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Patent number: 8434029Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for displaying information pertaining to physical infrastructure in a building or on a property via a mobile software application operating or a mobile device are provided. The mobile software application includes steps of (a) optionally displaying a list of selectable buildings and/or areas at a property, (b) optionally displaying a list of selectable floors if a building having multiple floors is selected, (c) displaying a list of points of interest for the selected floor, building or area, and (d) displaying a floor plan or area map with selected points of interest highlighted.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Albright Insights, Inc.Inventor: James Albright
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Publication number: 20130095953Abstract: A golf putter head includes a metal back body adapted to be secured to a golf club shaft and a metal face body including a golf ball contact surface. The metal back body and the metal face body have non-planar, inter-fitting surfaces facing one another without contact across a gap defined by the inter-fitting surfaces. The golf putter head further includes a vibration dampening intermediate body filling the gap to isolate the metal face body from the metal back body. Other embodiments of golf putters and golf putter heads are further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: PRODUCT INSIGHT, INC.Inventors: Bryan R. Hotaling, James R. Varney
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Patent number: 8347262Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium and system are described for deriving a schematic diagram representative of an integrated circuit (1C) comprising a plurality of circuit elements. In general, the method, computer-readable medium and system are configured to receive as input a working schematic diagram identifying at least some of the circuit elements, and at least one existing schematic diagram from one or more libraries thereof. Based on this input, at least a portion of the working schematic diagram that matches at least a portion of the at least one existing schematic diagram is identified and replaced, thereby forming a revised schematic diagram.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Vyacheslav Zavadsky, Edward Keyes, Shane Edmonds, Alexei Novikov
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Patent number: 8219940Abstract: A method and apparatus to reduce occurrences of electrically non-functional elements, known as dummy features, from a source data structure is described. The source data structure may be image data, a vector based data structure or some other data format. Dummy features in the source data structure are detected and then deleted. Dummy features may be detected by selecting a representative dummy feature, using it as a reference pattern or polygon and comparing it to features in the source data structure. The step of comparing the selected reference to the comprises selecting a cut-off correlation threshold value, and computing the correlation coefficients between the reference and the feature. Features are selectively removed based on a comparison between their correlation coefficients and the selected cut-off correlation threshold value. This threshold value may require updating to remove all dummy features in the source data structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Mohammed Ouali, Jason Abt, Edward Keyes, Vyacheslav Zavadsky
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Patent number: 8217945Abstract: Systems and methods of social annotation of a single evolving visual representation of a changing dataset are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the method includes generating a visual representation of a dataset at an initial time and automatically updating the visual representation of the dataset to reflect the dataset at a changed time through an algorithm that applies changed values between the dataset at the initial time and the dataset at the changed time while maintaining a previous calculation of an unchanged portion of the dataset at the initial time. The method further includes generating an alert when the change status indicates that the underlying data has changed beyond the threshold tolerance range. The method further includes placing a note associated with a first user on the visual representation.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Metric Insights, Inc.Inventor: Marius Andy Moscovici
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Patent number: 8132813Abstract: A spinner anchors to a variety of magnetic and non-magnetic surfaces. The spinner includes a base, a spinner arm rotatably coupled to the base, and an indicator coupled to the spinner arm. The base of the spinner is shaped to receive a coupling member, such as a cylindrical magnet, configured to anchor the spinner to a plurality of surfaces regardless of their orientation and maintain its location relative to the support surface while the spinner arm and indicator rotate.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Educational Insights, Inc.Inventors: Riley Wilkinson, Damon R. Saddler
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Patent number: 8122053Abstract: A method of normalizing a bibliographic field of a structured field relational database is disclosed. The method includes weighting potential candidate records according to the value in the corresponding field in the records, together with other related fields in the candidate record and other related records in the database. Each of the candidate records is successively evaluated and compared against an acceptable threshold. If the weight exceeds the threshold, the candidate record is returned from the query. Otherwise, a new entry in the database is created. Optionally, before creating such a new entry, the highest weighted candidate record may be compared against a minimally acceptable threshold and if the weight exceeds such a lower threshold, the candidate is returned from the query.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Semiconductor Insights, Inc.Inventor: Jason M. White
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Patent number: 8051395Abstract: The present invention seeks to provide a simple, but novel regime, for re-labelling swappable pins that permits swappability information to be maintained without significantly increasing computational complexity and is conducive to inexact pattern matching for the purposes of developing more complex logical processing blocks from elementary components in design analysis. The method comprises a recursive application of a simple labelling procedure. This method is repeated recursively until all gate instances in the circuit fragment have been assigned a swappability number.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Sergei Sourjko, Vyacheslav Zavadsky
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Patent number: 8015808Abstract: Power plant systems and processes are described that enable recovery of at least a portion of the fuel storage energy associated with a storage system for supplying fuel to the power plant systems. A first embodiment of an energy-recovery power plant system includes at least one fuel storage container and at least one expander that can receive fuel from the fuel storage container at a first pressure and provide the fuel to the power plant at a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure. A second embodiment of an energy-recovery power plant system includes a first conduit fluidly coupling the fuel storage container and the power plant for delivering fuel from the fuel storage container to the power plant and at least one regenerative thermodynamic cycle engine thermally coupled to the first conduit such that heat may be exchanged between the fuel and a working fluid for the regenerative thermodynamic cycle engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: G4 Insights Inc.Inventors: Bowie G. Keefer, Surajit Roy, Jean St.-Pierre, Amy E. Nelson, Shanna D. Knights
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Patent number: 7976468Abstract: A soft tissue diagnostic apparatus for diagnosis of stress and injury in anatomical soft tissue by detecting the response of the soft tissue to acoustic energy and a method of detecting soft tissue damage or stress and treating the tissue. An acoustic transmitter transmits excitation acoustic energy toward a target area of soft tissue of a subject. An acoustic receiver receives responsive acoustic energy generated by the soft tissue in response to the excitation acoustic energy transmitted by the acoustic transmitter and generates an output signal representative of the response of the soft tissue to the excitation acoustic energy. An analyzer receives the output signal of the acoustic receiver and provides an indication of at least one of stress and injury in the soft tissue based on the output signal. Areas of stress are inhibited to find the origin of soft tissue pain.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Signal Insight Inc.Inventors: Ariel Wilcox, Charles E. Tarr, Judith A. Hilton
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Patent number: 7970699Abstract: The invention relates to methods that create and update a centralized and searchable database of lenders' underwriting and pricing guidelines that can be utilized by the consumer and to a system that matches the consumer's qualifications and needs to the best available loan products with associated rate pricing.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Loan Insights, Inc.Inventors: William Bramlage, Jonathan Strike
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Patent number: 7899640Abstract: There is presented a system and method for characterizing an integrated circuit (IC) for comparison with a pre-defined system-level characteristic related to an aspect of IC operation, wherein a test procedure on the IC that invokes this aspect is executed, while at least one operational bottleneck is invoked to constrain operation of the IC to exhibit a system-level operation thereof related to the aspect. Data generated via the test procedure in response to the bottleneck is collected and the system-level operation exhibited thereby is compared for consistency with the pre-defined system-level characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Vyacheslav L. Zavadsky, Mykola Sherstyuk
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Patent number: 7886258Abstract: A method and apparatus to reduce occurrences of electrically non-functional elements, known as dummy features, from a source data structure is described. The source data structure may be image data, a vector based data structure or some other data format. Dummy features in the source data structure are detected and then deleted. Dummy features may be detected by selecting a representative dummy feature, using it as a reference pattern or polygon and comparing it to features in the source data structure. The step of comparing the selected reference to the comprises selecting a cut-off correlation threshold value, and computing the correlation coefficients between the reference and the feature. Features are selectively removed based on a comparison between their correlation coefficients and the selected cut-off correlation threshold value. This threshold value may require updating to remove all dummy features in the source data structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Insights, Inc.Inventors: Mohammed Ouali, Jason Abt, Edward Keyes, Vyacheslav Zavadsky
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Patent number: 7873203Abstract: The present invention involves a computationally efficient method of determining the locations of standard cells in an image of an IC layout. The initial step extracts and characterizes points of interest of the image. A coarse localization of possible standard cell locations is performed and is based on a comparison of the points of interest of an instance of an extracted standard cell and the remaining points of interest in the image. A more rigid comparison is made on the list of possible locations comprising a coarse match and a fine match. The coarse match results in a shortlist of possible locations. The fine match performs comparisons between the template and the shortlist. Further filtering is done to remove the effects of noise and texture variations and statistics on the results are generated to achieve the locations of the standard cells on the IC layout.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Vyacheslav L. Zavadsky, Val Gont, Edward Keyes, Jason Abt, Stephen Begg
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Publication number: 20100257501Abstract: A method and apparatus to reduce occurrences of electrically non-functional elements, known as dummy features, from a source data structure is described. The source data structure may be image data, a vector based data structure or some other data format. Dummy features in the source data structure are detected and then deleted. Dummy features may be detected by selecting a representative dummy feature, using it as a reference pattern or polygon and comparing it to features in the source data structure. The step of comparing the selected reference to the comprises selecting a cut-off correlation threshold value, and computing the correlation coefficients between the reference and the feature. Features are selectively removed based on a comparison between their correlation coefficients and the selected cut-off correlation threshold value. This threshold value may require updating to remove all dummy features in the source data structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Mohammed OUALI, Jason Abt, Edward Keyes, Vyacheslav Zavadsky
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Patent number: 7765517Abstract: A method and apparatus to reduce occurrences of electrically non-functional elements, known as dummy features, from a source data structure is described. The source data structure may be image data, a vector based data structure or some other data format. Dummy features in the source data structure are detected and then deleted. Dummy features may be detected by selecting a representative dummy feature, using it as a reference pattern or polygon and comparing it to features in the source data structure. The step of comparing the selected reference to the comprises selecting a cut-off correlation threshold value, and computing the correlation coefficients between the reference and the feature. Features are selectively removed based on a comparison between their correlation coefficients and the selected cut-off correlation threshold value. This threshold value may require updating to remove all dummy features in the source data structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Mohammed Ouali, Jason Abt, Edward Keyes, Vyacheslav Zavadsky
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Patent number: 7751643Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for reducing uneven brightness in an image from a particle based image system. This uneven brightness is most often seen as regions of shadow, but may also be seen as regions of over brightness. In cases where the uneven brightness is in the form of shadowing, the method corrects for the shadowy regions by first identifying the area of shadow, obtaining brightness information from a region near the shadow, where the brightness is optimal, applying statistical methods to determine the measured brightness as a regression function of the optimal brightness, and number and proximity of shadowy objects, then correcting the shadow area brightness by calculating the inverse of the function of the shadow brightness. With this method, the brightness within the shadowy or over brightness regions are corrected to appear at a substantially similar level of brightness as the region of optimal brightness in the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Vyacheslav L. Zavadsky, Jason Abt
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Patent number: 7693348Abstract: A method of registering and vertically aligning multiply-layered images into a mosaic is described. The method comprises performing an iterative process of vertical alignment of layers into a mosaic using a series of defined alignment correspondence pairs and global registration of images in a layer using a series of defined registration correspondence points and then redefining the identified alignment correspondence pairs and/or registration correspondence points until a satisfactory result is obtained. Optionally, an initial global registration of each layer could be performed initially before commencing the alignment process. The quality of the result could be determined using a least squares error minimization or other technique.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Insights Inc.Inventors: Vyacheslav Zavadsky, Jason Abt, Mark Braverman, Edward Keyes, Vladimir Martincevic
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Patent number: D642078Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Educational Insights, Inc.Inventors: Nancy Balter, Adam O'Hern, Riley Wilkinson, Jessie Cho