Patents Assigned to pe
  • Patent number: 7615606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for continuously producing copolyamides with melting points greater than approximately 265° C. According to the invention, in a continuous process, partially aromatic and partially crystalline polyamides of the following chemical systems with defined molar percentages of the individual components are produced during the synthesis of polymers: 30 to 50 mol % of aromatic dicarboxylic acids, which are derived from terephthalic acid; 30 to 50 mol % of aliphatic diamines, which are derived from hexamethylenediamine or of cycloaliphatic diamines having at least 6 C atoms, and; 0.5-25 mol % of aromatic diamines or cyclic diamines with at least 6 C atoms. The sum of all polymer-forming components add up to a composition of 100 mol %, and a stoichiometric ratio between amines and carboxylic acids exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: PE Polymer Engineering GmbH & Co. Forschungs KG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Wiltzer, Gunda Morgenstern, Peter Lausmann
  • Patent number: 7603312
    Abstract: This document describes tools capable of determining ways in which to alter interchange categories assigned to credit-card transactions and the accompanying potential fee savings. In some embodiments, the tools receive parameters for interchange categories and transaction information for merchants that have been charged interchange fees based on some of these categories. The tools may determine, based on these parameters and transaction information, parameter changes that enable similar credit-card transactions to be assigned a lower-cost interchange category and the accompanying potential fee savings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: PE Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Wayne McElroy, Thomas P. Parrish, Kelly Birr
  • Publication number: 20080270298
    Abstract: This document describes tools capable of determining ways in which to alter interchange categories assigned to credit-card transactions and the accompanying potential fee savings. In some embodiments, the tools receive parameters for interchange categories and transaction information for merchants that have been charged interchange fees based on some of these categories. The tools may determine, based on these parameters and transaction information, parameter changes that enable similar credit-card transactions to be assigned a lower-cost interchange category and the accompanying potential fee savings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: PE Systems
    Inventors: Alan Wayne McElroy, Thomas P. Parrish, Kelly Birr
  • Publication number: 20080270275
    Abstract: This document describes tools capable of auditing and/or determining reductions to card-issuer interchange fees charged for credit-card transactions. The tools may do so automatically and with user interaction for thousands or even millions of transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: PE Systems
    Inventors: Alan Wayne McElroy, Thomas P. Parrish, Kelly Birr
  • Publication number: 20080270297
    Abstract: This document describes tools capable of gathering information from websites of financial institutions. In some embodiments, the tools gather financial statements by automatically navigating through a website for each entity of a group. The tools may then download and save into a single batch all of the financial statements for the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: PE Systems
    Inventors: Alan Wayne McElroy, Thomas P. Parrish, Kelly Birr
  • Publication number: 20080003275
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for treating premature ejaculation in a male or prolonging intercourse comprising administering to the male an antidepressant via a route selected from the group consisting of mucosal administration (preferably nasal, buccal or rectal), administration to the lungs (preferably by inhalation), local administration to at least a part of the male genitalia (applied to the penis for example, in the form of a gel) and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Worldwide PE Patent Holdco Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Jakov Vaisman
  • Patent number: 7279090
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel integrated method for economically processing vacuum residue from heavy crude oils. This is accomplished by utilizing a solvent deasphalter (SDA) in the first step of the process with a C3/C4/C5 solvent such that the DAO product can thereafter be processed in a classic fixed-bed hydrotreater or hydrocracker. The SDA feed also includes recycled stripper bottoms containing unconverted residue/asphaltenes from a downstream steam stripper unit. The asphaltenes from the SDA are sent to an ebullated-bed reactor for conversion of the residue and asphaltenes. Residue conversion in the range of 60-80% is achieved and asphaltene conversion is in the range of 50-70%. The overall residue conversion, with the DAO product considered non-residue, is in the range of 80 W %-90 W % and significantly higher than could be achieved without utilizing the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Pe'trole
    Inventors: James J. Colyar, Stéphane Kressmann, Christophe Gueret
  • Patent number: 7197790
    Abstract: A hinge which includes a gas strut. The hinge in one embodiment further includes a first control arm and a second control arm which is coupled to the first control arm. The gas strut in this one embodiment is coupled to both first and second control arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: PE Marine Designz, Ltd
    Inventor: Paul Charles Edmondson
  • Patent number: 7185692
    Abstract: A fabric blind slat for a window blind includes a base fabric made from an opaque knitted fabric, two coil units respectively coupled to and extended along two opposite edges of the base fabric, and two supporting sleeves respectively enclosed inside the two coil units. The coil unit is knitted from a thread looped on a thread at the edge of the basic fabric. The supporting sleeve is a tubular member having two open ends for insertion of a rigid supporting member therein. The supporting sleeve is enclosed inside the coil unit at the time while the coil unit is formed by knitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignees: Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd., Yuan Peing Garment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Nien, Hermes Huang
  • Patent number: 7080238
    Abstract: A packet processor whose processing capabilities are optimized by concurrently processing multiple packets within various pipelined stages. At each stage, multiple packets are processed via an internally pipelined sub-processor. In one embodiment, the packets are processed in a round robin fashion. When a particular packet is done processing at a particular stage, it may pass another packet whose processing is not complete, and move to a next stage. In another embodiment, a packet is processed until a conditional branch instruction or any other instruction causing a potential stall is encountered. If such an instruction is encountered, a next available packet is selected and processed instead of wasting processing cycles during the stall, or proceeding with the processing of the current packet based on a predicted result. The sub-processor resumes processing of the packet once the stall is over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking, (PE), Inc.
    Inventors: Werner Van Hoof, Jerrold Wheeler, Mathieu Tallegas
  • Patent number: 7075926
    Abstract: A programmable packet switching controller has a packet buffer, a pattern match module, a programmable packet classification engine and an application engine. The packet buffer stores inbound packets, and includes a header data extractor to extract header data from the inbound packets and to store the extracted header data in a header data cache. The header data extractor also generates a header data cache index and provides it to the packet classification engine for it to retrieve the extracted header data. The packet classification engine has a decision tree-based classification logic for classifying a packet. Each of the leaves of the tree represents a packet classification. The packet classification engine uses the header data cache index to retrieve the header data to perform multiple header checks, starting at a root of the tree and traversing branches until a leaf has been reached. The application engine has a number of programmable sub-engines arrayed in a pipelined architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc. (PE)
    Inventors: Jim Cathey, Timothy S. Michels
  • Patent number: 7065082
    Abstract: A method of processing frames received at a sending port of a switching device for communication to a destination port includes storing in the switching device an offset value, a comparator value, and an expectant value; comparing information located at a position in a frame determined by the offset value with the comparator value to obtain an outcome; and processing the frame with the outcome. Processing the frame may include communicating the frame to a destination port or setting the priority of the frame. The offset and comparator values may be part of a filter that also includes an anchor value from which the offset value is measured and a mask value that masks the frame information before comparison with the comparator value. Where there are a multiple of filters in the switching device, the method may include combining the filter outcomes to obtain a filter group outcome; and processing the frame with the group outcome. Combining the filter outcomes may include logically combining their outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking (PE), Inc.
    Inventors: Jayansenan Sundara Ganesh, Timothy S. Michels, James E. Cathey
  • Patent number: 7055572
    Abstract: A window blind includes a headrail, a bottom rail and a plurality of fabric slats arranged in parallel between the headrail and the bottom rail. Each fabric slat has two stiff support rods disposed at the two opposite long sides thereof. A plurality of ladder tapes are symmetrically connected between the headrail and the bottom rail and located respectively at the two opposite long sides of the fabric slats. Each ladder tape is formed of a plurality of strands by weaving and has a plurality of through holes in the netting structure thereof for the insertion of the support rods of the fabric slats so as to join the fabric slats to the ladder tapes between the headrail and the bottom rail at different elevations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignees: Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd., Yuan Peing Garment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Nien, Hermes Huang
  • Publication number: 20060048897
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method for the simultaneous fusion of multiple plastic pipe sections. A plurality of pipe sections may be rigidly held, faced off, heated, and joined at the same time using a single piece of equipment. The inventive process allows increased throughput of the fusion process without significant additional costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: PE Fusion, LLC
    Inventor: William Temple
  • Publication number: 20060032349
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and design of a fusion welded pipe wherein the effects of an inner bead of the fusion weld are minimized. The internal shape of the pipe prior to welding may be configured in several different shapes so that the beads or lips produced by the fusion welding process are unobtrusive and do not interfere with the function of the pipe. In a likewise manner, the outer shape of the pipe prior to welding may be configured so that the lips are unobtrusive on the external surface of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: PE Fusion, LLC
    Inventor: William Temple
  • Publication number: 20060035217
    Abstract: Binary probe and clamp compositions conduct methods for target hybridization detection. Where the probe is a substrate for exonuclease cleavage, the composition provides quantitation and detection of PCR products, by real-time and end-point measurements. Where the probe is an amplification primer, the composition provides an improved method for labelling and detection of PCR products. Probes and clamps may be labelled with fluorescent dyes, quenchers, hybridization-stabilizing moieties, chemiluminescent dyes, and affinity ligands. Clamps may be nucleic acid analogs, such as 2-aminoethylglycine PNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: PE Corporation (NY)
    Inventors: Kenneth Livak, Michael Egholm, Michael Hunkapiller
  • Patent number: 6994766
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and design of a fusion welded pipe wherein the effects of an inner bead of the fusion weld are minimized. The internal shape of the pipe prior to welding may be configured in several different shapes so that the beads or lips produced by the fusion welding process are unobtrusive and do not interfere with the function of the pipe. In a likewise manner, the outer shape of the pipe prior to welding may be configured so that the lips are unobtrusive on the external surface of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: PE Fusion, LLC
    Inventor: William J. Temple
  • Patent number: 6956854
    Abstract: A switching device for forwarding network traffic to a desired destination on a network, such as a telephone or computer network. The switching device includes multiple ports and uses a lookup table containing lookup keys to determine which port to forward network traffic over. The lookup tables are populated based on use. Consequently, the lookup tables on different ports contain different addresses. By storing only addresses that a port uses, each port's lookup table is unique to that port's characteristics. Additionally, aging techniques are used on both source and destination addresses in the lookup table so that stale entries are removed and memory is conserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking (PE), Inc.
    Inventors: Jayasenan Sundara Ganesh, Timothy Scott Michels, Parmajeet Singh, Greg W. Davis
  • Patent number: 6957272
    Abstract: Multiple lookup engines stacked upon one another in a single data communication switch. The lookup engine at the top of the stack transmits its result to the neighboring downstream lookup engine which either validates and transmits the received result or its own result based on the quality of its match. The result preferably indicates an exact match, partial match, or no match. Although several lookup engines can return a partial match, an exact match preferably occurs in only one lookup engine. The comparison, validation, and transmission steps are repeated by each downstream lookup engine, with the lookup engine at the bottom of the stack validating and returning a final result to the packet processor. The returned final result reflects a search result with the highest match quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking (PE), Inc.
    Inventors: Mathieu Tallegas, Abdelkahim Safir
  • Publication number: 20050189108
    Abstract: For extracting a liquid (such as oil) from a porous medium, the liquid is subjected to pulses that propagate through the liquid flowing through the pores of the medium. The pulses cause momentary surges in the velocity of the liquid, which keeps the pores open. The pulses can be generated in the production well, or in a separate excitation well. If the pulses travel with the liquid, the velocity of travel of the liquid through the pores can be increased. The solid matrix is kept stationary, and the pulses move through the liquid. The pulses in the liquid can be generated directly in the liquid, or indirectly in the liquid via a localised area of the solid matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: PE-TECH Inc.
    Inventor: Brett Davidson