Patents Assigned to IT Corporation
  • Patent number: 9640084
    Abstract: A computer-based apparatus including a computer including a processor arranged to select a first video regarding a medical condition; create a second video including segments from the first video; transmit the second video for viewing by qualified medical personnel; receive input from the personnel; based on the input confirm accuracy of a first segment or modify a second segment or delete a third segment; create, from the second video, by at least including the first or second segment or deleting the third segment; transmit the third video for viewing by viewers; receive a respective response from each viewer identifying a respective fourth segment of the third video deemed relevant to the medical condition or enjoyable; create a fourth video including at least a portion of the respective fourth segments; and store the fourth video for inclusion in a video regarding the medical condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart Schweid, Beilei Xu, Michael P. Kehoe, Lee Anne Williams, Robert P. Loce
  • Patent number: 9637993
    Abstract: A hydraulic connector for a wellhead hub is provided that includes a piston and a bottom portion configured to move in an axial direction via hydraulic pressure applied to one or more hydraulic ports in the connector. The movement of the piston and the bottom portion moves a ring and a segment of the connector in a radial direction to engage recesses in the wellhead hub. The connector may be unlocked by applying hydraulic pressure to a hydraulic port of the connector. A system and method of operating the connector are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis P. Nguyen, Richard Altman
  • Patent number: 9638566
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for measuring pressurized liquid fuel level in a fuel tank used on a vehicle comprising measuring the pressure of the fuel to generate a pressure signal and measuring the temperature of the fuel to generate a temperature signal. A fuel level signal is determined from the pressure signal and the temperature signal and changes in the fuel level signal are determined over time. A first point of the fuel level signal indicating approaching emptying of the tank is identified when changes in the fuel level signal exceed a given value and the approaching emptying of the tank is signaled to an operator of the vehicle in response to identifying the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Brent J. Grothaus, Nicholas J. Stein
  • Patent number: 9642172
    Abstract: A mobile communication system that supports Device to Device (D2D) communications, comprises: a base station that notifies a plurality of user terminals of a D2D common RNTI that is a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) which is common in the plurality of user terminals, and that is used to collectively transmit, to the plurality of user terminals, a D2D control signal for controlling the D2D communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9639067
    Abstract: A timepiece can acquire time information in a short time, reduce power consumption, and display the correct time. A timepiece comprises a receiver to receive a satellite signal, and a time information generator to generate internal time information. The receiver runs a first reception process that acquires first information including week information from the satellite signal, a second reception process that acquires second information including leap second information from the satellite signal, or a third reception process that acquires third information including hour, minute and second information from the satellite signal. In the first reception timing, after the internal time information is initialized, the receiver runs the first reception process and runs the second reception process after running the first. In a next reception timing, after the first reception timing, the receiver runs the third reception process if the first and second information are acquired in the first reception timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Norimitsu Baba
  • Patent number: 9641773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved imaging devices having high dynamic range and to monitoring and automatic control systems incorporating the improved imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jon H. Bechtel, Jeremy C. Andrus
  • Patent number: 9639559
    Abstract: Partial-image search criteria are derived that include a combination of multiple partial-image user selections of portions of at least one image. Visual search results are returned responsive to a search for images that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria. The visual search results include at least one identified image that includes features that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria that include the combination of the multiple partial-image user selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimberly H. Cady, Scott B. Greer, Andrew J. Lavery, Sarah R. Plantenberg
  • Patent number: 9638150
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine cover including an upper cover and a lower cover which form an engine room and which can be separated from each other vertically, the lower cover has a bottom wall and a circumferential wall which extends upward from an outer circumference of the bottom wall, an external air inlet through which to introduce air into the engine room is provided adjacent to the outer circumference of the bottom wall, and an inside wall extends upward from the bottom wall alongside the circumferential wall so as to be opposed to the circumferential wall with the external air inlet interposed between the inside wall and the circumferential wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiichiro Umaoka
  • Patent number: 9638456
    Abstract: A generator assembly for mounting to a container. The generator assembly includes a container frame having a top casting and a receiver bracket. The generator assembly includes a frame, a generator coupled to the frame, a clamp mounting system including a first clamp coupled to the frame and configured to be coupled to the top casting, and a pin mounting system including a first bracket coupled to the frame and configured to be coupled to the receiver bracket. The generator assembly is such that one of the first clamp and the first bracket is repositionable on the frame to avoid interference with the container when the other of the first clamp and the first bracket is coupled to the corresponding one of the top casting and the receiver bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: THERMO KING CORPORATION
    Inventors: David J. Renken, Bernard W. Benson, Tom J. Niemi
  • Patent number: 9639182
    Abstract: A capacitive stylus, as an inputting device of a touch sensitive device, comprises a pen and a detachable eraser. The pen comprises a tip for writing on a screen of the touch sensitive device, a control circuit for emitting signals to the touch sensitive device, and a battery for providing electricity to the control circuit. The eraser includes an erasing circuit and a first end to combine with the pen, so that the erasing circuit electrically connects with the control circuit. The eraser includes a second end that is compressible, so that the control circuit can emit an erasing signal to the touch sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Waltop International Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Hwa Tang, A-Li Wong
  • Patent number: 9639594
    Abstract: A data model for managing identity and access management (IAM) data implemented at an electronic database may include a set of logical resource elements, a set of physical resource elements, and a set of access requests elements that respectively model logical resources, physical resources, and access requests received at an access request manager of an enterprise. The physical resource elements may be respectively associated with the logical resource elements such that access rights for the physical resources may be obtained based on a logical resource specified in the access request. A system for managing IAM may include a mapping module configured to transform heterogeneous IAM data provided by a plurality of IAM data sources into homogeneous IAM data formatted according to the common IAM data format. A data store may implement the IAM data model such that the data store is configured to store the homogeneous IAM data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John H. Kling, Abdulkader Barbir, Cynthia A. Frick, Radu Marian, Ronald W. Ritchey
  • Patent number: 9635995
    Abstract: Support structures for dishwashers are disclosed. An example dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation includes a tub defining a treating chamber with an opening, a frame coupled to and structurally supporting at least a portion of the tub, a dish rack mount coupled to the frame, and a dish rack coupled to the dish rack mount, wherein the weight of the dish rack is substantially borne by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Harshal J. Bhajak, Rexford W. Cordill, Steven J. Kuehl, Thomas M. O'Brien, Donald J. Wilson
  • Patent number: 9639802
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a neural network comprising multiple modalities. Each modality comprises multiple neurons. The neural network further comprises an interconnection lattice for cross-associating signaling between the neurons in different modalities. The interconnection lattice includes a plurality of perception neuron populations along a number of bottom-up signaling pathways, and a plurality of action neuron populations along a number of top-down signaling pathways. Each perception neuron along a bottom-up signaling pathway has a corresponding action neuron along a reciprocal top-down signaling pathway. An input neuron population configured to receive sensory input drives perception neurons along a number of bottom-up signaling pathways. A first set of perception neurons along bottom-up signaling pathways drive a first set of action neurons along top-down signaling pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9641671
    Abstract: A notifying device according to the present invention includes a plurality of vibration means (4, 5) that generate vibrations in at least one different direction; attitude detection means (2) that detects an attitude of its own device; and selection means (3) that selects which vibration means from among the plurality of vibration means (4, 5) is to be operated based on the attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Manzen
  • Patent number: 9636257
    Abstract: A patient interface assembly for interfacing an ophthalmic intervention system with an eye of a patient includes a housing, an optical lens coupled to the housing, an eye engagement assembly coupled to the housing, the eye engagement assembly including an inner seal and an outer seal, and a tissue migration bolster structure positioned between the inner seal and outer seal and configured to apply a resisting load against portions of the eye in a vacuum zone which are capable of distending upon application of the vacuum load. The eye engagement assembly is adapted to be placed into contact with the eye of the patient by sealably engaging the eye with the inner and outer seals, thereby defining the vacuum zone as being between the inner and outer seals when placed into contact with the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Optimedica Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip Gooding, Christine Beltran, Jonathan Talamo
  • Patent number: 9636255
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating intraocular pressure are disclosed. The devices include drug delivery implants for treating ocular tissue. Optionally, the devices also include shunts for draining aqueous humor from the anterior chamber to the uveoscleral outflow pathway, including the supraciliary space and the suprachoroidal space. The drug delivery implants can be implanted in ab interno or ab externo procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DOSE MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Haffner, Kenneth Curry
  • Patent number: 9636641
    Abstract: Disclosed are polymers suitable for hydrophilically modifying the surface of porous fluoropolymer supports, for example, a copolymer of the formula: Also disclosed are a method of preparing the polymers, a method of hydrophilically modifying porous fluoropolymer supports, hydrophilic fluoropolymer porous membranes prepared from the polymers, and a method of filtering fluids through the porous membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Pall Corporation
    Inventors: Khaled Abdel-Hakim Helmy Aamer, Jian Qiu, Hassan Ait-Haddou
  • Patent number: 9636665
    Abstract: Catalyst compositions for production of higher alcohols comprise a hydrotalcite or hydrotalcite-like support impregnated with molybdenum and an alkali metal. When the compositions are used to convert syngas, selectivity to higher (C2+) alcohols is increased in comparison to conversions accomplished over many other catalyst systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher W. Jones, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Tien Thao Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9636824
    Abstract: A transfer system includes a first station at which a workpiece is placed, a second station which receives the workpiece from the first station, a robot including a holder for holding the workpiece and for transferring the workpiece from the first station to the second station, an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the workpiece that reflects a position of the workpiece in the first station, a first memory unit that stores intended placement position information indicating an intended placement position of the workpiece in the first station, and a deviation calculator that calculates a deviation of the position of the workpiece in the first station relative to the intended placement position. The deviation calculator calculates the deviation based on the image of the workpiece and the intended placement position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DAIHEN Corporation
    Inventor: Takumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9638726
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a system monitor for a load center comprising a current sensor configured to be coupled to a circuit branch within the load center and to produce a measurement signal having a level related to a current level of the circuit branch, a sensor circuit coupled to the current sensor and removably coupled to a terminal, the sensor circuit configured to provide the measurement signal to the terminal, and a controller coupled to the terminal and configured to monitor signals at the terminal, wherein the controller is further configured to detect disconnection of the current sensor from the terminal based on a signal level at the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishwas Mohaniraj Deokar, Brian Patrick Mearns, Bret Alan Orner