Patents Assigned to IT Corporation
  • SPATIALLY MODIFYING POLARIZATION STATE OF LIGHT
    Publication number: 20130088688
    Abstract: Systems and methods configured for outputting light having a polarization state distribution that is spatially uniform by applying a correction to, for example, a beam of light with a spatially uniform polarization state distribution that has been altered (unintentionally or otherwise) to become spatially non-uniform are described. A projection system can include an optical element and a polarization-altering device (PAD). The optical element can cause a polarization of light in the projection system to be spatially non-uniform. The PAD can change the polarization state distribution of the light spatially based on an amount of spatial non-uniformity on the light caused by the optical element and before the light enters the optical element. The projection system can output the light having a spatially uniform polarization state distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: IMAXX Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Charles Read, John William
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING COUMESTROL OR A BEAN EXTRACT CONTAINING COUMESTROL
    Publication number: 20130090377
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for activating mitochondria comprising coumestrol or a bean extract containing coumestrol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: AMOREPACIFIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hee Young Jeon, Si Young Cho, Hyun Woo Jeong, Dae Bang Seo, Sang Jun Lee
  • BATTERY ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20130089764
    Abstract: A battery assembly includes a housing having an inside surface and an outside surface. The outside surface has a bottom portion, a side portion, and a junction portion between the bottom portion and the side portion. The inside surface defines an internal cavity, and a drain aperture extends through the wall from the outside surface to the cavity at the junction portion. At least one battery cell is disposed within the cavity. A contact is coupled to the housing and is in electrical communication with the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
  • RECOMMENDING DATA BASED ON USER AND DATA ATTRIBUTES
    Publication number: 20130091164
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for recommending data based on user and data attributes. User information and accessed data sets are periodically (and possibly automatically) accessed and updated. Source attributes are derived from user information and accessed data sets. Target attributes are derived from data directories and data services. Source attributes for an accessed data set are used along target attributes for a data directory or data service to determine the desirability of data directory or data service as a source of data relevant to the accessed data set. The data directory and/or data service can be recommended as able to provide relevant data. Accordingly, recommend relevant data can be recommended to a user without the user having to expressly search for the relevant data or even know that the relevant data exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Finnigan, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Anthony Nino Bice
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORIENTING AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE WIND DAMAGE
    Publication number: 20130090772
    Abstract: An irrigation system comprises a central pivot; a main section pivotally connected to the central pivot; and a control system for positioning the main section to minimize wind damage. The control system comprises a location-determining component for determining a current position or bearing of the main section; a wind sensor for determining wind direction; and a computing device coupled with the wind sensor and the location-determining component for determining an optimal orientation of the main section based on an output of the wind sensor and the current position or bearing of the main section and for directing the motors to drive the wheels of the mobile towers to orient the main section in the optimal orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Lindsay Corporation
    Inventor: Jochen Pfrenger
  • EXHAUST GAS PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130086888
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment method having a particulate matter (PM) sensor on which a part of PM exhausted from a diesel particulate filter (DPF) may be attached and that generates a signal, may include determining a sensor trap PM model amount that may be trapped on the PM sensor in a condition that the diesel particulate filter may be operated normal according to an engine driving condition and a variation thereof, determining a sensor trap PM real amount that may be attached on the PM sensor by using the signal that may be generated from the PM sensor, and determining a condition of the diesel particulate filter by comparing the sensor trap PM model amount and the sensor trap PM real amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Ha Lee, Ji Ho Cho
  • High Power Semiconductor Laser with Phase-Matching Optical Element
    Publication number: 20130089115
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser that includes a single mode semiconductor laser coupled to a flared power amplifier is provided, the device including an internal or an external optical element that reinforces the curved wave front of the flared section of the device through phase-matching. By reinforcing the curved wave front via phase-matching, the device is less susceptible to thermal and gain-index coupled perturbations, even at high output powers, resulting in higher beam quality. Exemplary phase-matching optical elements include a grating integrated into the flared amplifier section; an intra-cavity, externally positioned binary optical element; and an intra-cavity, externally positioned cylindrically curved optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NLIGHT PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manoj Kanskar
  • Avoiding Micro-loops in a Ring Topology of a Network
    Publication number: 20130088974
    Abstract: In one embodiment, micro-loops are avoided in ring topologies of packet switching devices by changing the order of propagation of link state information concerning failed communications between a particular packet switching device and a neighbor packet switching device. In one embodiment, the particular packet switching device communicates link state information of a high cost of the particular communications (e.g., in the direction from particular to neighbor packet switching devices) such that this link state information will propagate towards the particular packet switching device from at least from the furthest packet switching device in the ring topology that is currently configured to forward packets having a destination address of the neighbor packet switching device through the particular packet switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc., a corporation of California
    Inventors: Stewart Frederick Bryant, Clarence Filsfils, Ian Michael Charles Shand
  • RUNTIME TYPE IDENTIFICATION OF NATIVE HEAP ALLOCATIONS
    Publication number: 20130091337
    Abstract: During compilation, a table mapping relative virtual address of a memory-allocating instruction of a native language program to a user type of the instance is created. During execution of the program, a module injected into the process intercepts calls to memory allocating functions and records the virtual address of the instruction calling the memory allocating function and the virtual address of the instance created. When a snapshot of the process heap is requested, the user type of the corresponding compile time instruction is assigned to the created instance. User type and heap information can he used to compute sizes of memory allocations and to aggregate user type instance counts and sizes. Using the static debugging information, a reference graph that displays the nesting of objects in live instances can be computed and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Schmich, Aaron R. Robinson
  • INPUT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130087691
    Abstract: An input device capable of lowering the vertical position of light beams traveling within the frame of a frame-shaped optical waveguide without using optical path conversion is provided. The input device includes a light-emitting module incorporating a light-emitting element connected to light-emitting cores of the optical waveguide, and a light-receiving module incorporating a light-receiving element connected to light-receiving cores of the optical waveguide. A section of the optical waveguide on a light-receiving side, in which the light-receiving cores are formed, is placed upside down so that an over cladding layer is positioned on the underside. Accordingly, the light-receiving module is also placed upside down. Thus, the light-receiving module protrudes along the height thereof in such a manner that the amount of downward protrusion is less than the amount of upward protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
  • SEALING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130087978
    Abstract: A sealing device (1) having an oil seal (10) mounted to non-rotatable housing (2) and also having a slinger (20) mounted to a rotating body (5) on the inner peripheral side of the oil seal (10) so as to be located on the axially outer side of the oil seal (10), the oil seal (10) having an oil-resistant seal lip (13) slidably in close contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body (5), wherein a seal ring (30) axially opposed to the slinger (20) is provided outward of the oil-resistant seal lip (13), a gap (G3) being formed between the seal ring (30) and the slinger (20) so as to decrease to the outer diameter side. The construction prevents muddy water etc. from entering from the outside (A) into a slide section (S1) of the oil-resistant seal lip (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: NOK Corporation
  • Client and database problem determination and monitoring
    Patent number: 8417691
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for collecting client information for client applications running on a client computer, wherein the client information includes a client application identifier for each client application that issues queries to a database along with text of each of the queries that the client application issues; collecting database monitoring information that includes text of each query issued against the database and performance information for each query; combining the client information and the database monitoring information based on the text of the queries to obtain combined information that provides the client application identifier and the performance information for each of the queries; and identifying a problem query and at least one client application that has issued the problem query using the combined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Brodsky, Zeus Orion Courtois, Anshul Dawra, Tom William Jacopi, Tony Kai-chi Leung, Sonali Surange
  • In situ calibration of multiple printheads to reference ink targets
    Patent number: 8414102
    Abstract: A method for calibrating in situ a plurality of printheads in an imaging device has been developed. Firing signals operate a plurality of printheads to form ink test patterns on an image receiving member. Reflectance measurements of light reflected from the test patterns and optical density measurements for a portion of the patterns formed by only one printhead in the plurality of printheads are used to adjust the firing signals and enable the printheads to print within a predetermined range about an average reflectance value and a predetermined optical density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: R. Enrique Viturro, Yeqing Zhang, Patricia J. Donaldson
  • Analyzing multiple induced systematic and statistical layout dependent effects on circuit performance
    Patent number: 8418087
    Abstract: A method for implementing systematic, variation-aware integrated circuit extraction includes inputting a set of processing conditions to a plurality of variation models, each model corresponding to a separate systematic, parametric variation associated with semiconductor manufacturing of an integrated circuit layout; generating, for each variation model, a netlist update attributable to the associated variation, wherein the netlist update is an update with respect to an original netlist extracted from the integrated circuit layout; and storing the netlist updates generated for each of the processing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shayak Banerjee, Dureseti Chidambarrao, James A. Culp, Praveen Elakkumanan, Saibal Mukhopadhyay
  • Signal edge detection circuitry and methods
    Patent number: 8416903
    Abstract: Double data rate (“DDR”) circuitry or the like is modified or enhanced to include edge detection capability. During edge detection mode the circuitry is supplied with serial training data that includes successive pairs of equal-valued bits. Several, differently-phased, candidate clock signals are used one after another in order of increasing phase to clock the DDR circuitry. Adjacent bits in the training data that should be equal-valued are captured by the DDR circuitry and compared. Any candidate clock signal that causes the bits thus compared to be unequal is flagged as having phase close to edges in the data. The approximate phase of data edges is thereby indicated by the phase (or phases) of the candidate clock signal (or signals) causing the bits compared as described above to be unequal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: John Oh, Samson Tam, Curt Wortman, Jean Luc Berube
  • Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method
    Patent number: 8417007
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a correction unit, a sorting unit and an image reconstruction unit. The data acquisition unit acquires data for imaging and projection data. The correction unit performs motion correction of the data using respiratory motion data obtained based on the projection data. The sorting unit sorts the data after motion correction into a cardiac time phase order based on electrocardiographic information. The image reconstruction unit reconstructs three-dimensional image data based on the sorted data after motion correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Yui
  • Flash drive fast wear leveling
    Patent number: 8417881
    Abstract: A system for wear-leveling of a non-volatile memory may include a controller configured to allocate memory blocks in the non-volatile memory, a logical-to-physical table populated with pointers to memory blocks in the nonvolatile memory, and a wear-leveling table configured to store two or more pointers to unallocated memory blocks in the non-volatile memory. The unallocated memory blocks are previously allocated to store data by the controller according to the pointers in the logical-to-physical table. The controller is further configured to identify two or more pointers in the wear-leveling table and to store data to the two or more memory blocks associated with the identified pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Steve Kolokowsky
  • Using a control policy to implement power saving features
    Patent number: 8417973
    Abstract: Managing power-consumption, for use in a storage system comprising first data stored on one or more storage devices is provided. A receiver receives a policy comprising a power-management parameter, a first parameter and a rule associated with the policy. An analyser, responsive to receipt of a policy, analyzes second data associated with the rule. A determiner, responsive to the analysis, determines third data in accordance with the second data. The third data is associated with migration of the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alastair Cooper, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Long nose manipulatable catheter
    Patent number: 8414524
    Abstract: The long nose manipulatable catheter includes a main lumen, a wire lumen with a push-pull wire therethrough, and a flexible joint region. The catheter section includes a control including a handle and a wire control member engaging the push-pull wire for manipulating the flexible joint region. The push-pull wire may be tapered, having a proximal portion of a first diameter and a smaller diameter distal portion. A coil may be placed around the smaller diameter to prevent buckling of the smaller diameter portion. A strapping coil may also disposed around the outside of the catheter, and an outer covering may be disposed around the strapping coil. An outer covering of a mesh may also be disposed around the distal tip of the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Micrus Endovascular Corporation
    Inventors: Marc-Alan Levine, Stephen Hebert, Thomas G. Breton, David A. Watson
  • Compliant monopolar micro device transfer head with silicon electrode
    Patent number: 8415768
    Abstract: A compliant monopolar micro device transfer head array and method of forming a compliant monopolar micro device transfer array from an SOI substrate are described. In an embodiment, the micro device transfer head array including a base substrate and a patterned silicon layer over the base substrate. The patterned silicon layer may include a silicon interconnect and an array of silicon electrodes electrically connected with the silicon interconnect. Each silicon electrode includes a mesa structure protruding above the silicon interconnect, and each silicon electrode is deflectable into a cavity between the base substrate and the silicon electrode. A dielectric layer covers a top surface of each mesa structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: LuxVue Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Dariusz Golda, Andreas Bibl