Patents Assigned to Research
  • Publication number: 20130325742
    Abstract: The processing of data and inventory, particularly with regards to packages having an issue affecting their delivery, is disclosed. Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help enable the quick, efficient, and accurate resolution to such issues. According to various embodiments, a method performed by a computer program operating on a computer system is disclosed, the method comprising: storing, by the computer system, a first record in a database in communication with the computer system, the first record including a first key associated with the first record, and a second key associated with a second record stored in the database; updating, by the computer system, an entry in an index table, wherein the entry includes the second key associated with the second record, and updating the entry includes adding at least a portion of the first key to the entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Northwest Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Asay, Thomas Brenna
  • Publication number: 20130325949
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for operating a first electronic device for sharing items with a second electronic device. The method comprises determining that the second electronic device requires a software capability to process a first item to be shared by the first electronic device; providing information to the second device for obtaining the software capability; and sending the first item to the second device after the software capability has been acquired by the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Barket VIRANI, Naresh PARMAR, Theban GANESHALINGAM, Aaron STUART
  • Publication number: 20130326392
    Abstract: A method includes displaying information on a display of an electronic device, the information comprising an entry field and a placeholder for the entry field, detecting a first interaction event in relation to the entry field, and when the first interaction event is associated with a placeholder altering function, altering the placeholder to maintain display of the placeholder for the entry field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Karl Gösta Malte MALTESSON
  • Publication number: 20130323774
    Abstract: The present invention provides homogenous, fully-glycosylated, full length erythropoietin and the methods of producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    Inventors: Samuel J. Danishefsky, Ping Wang, Suwei Dong, Malcolm Andrew Stephen Moore, Jae-hung Shieh, John Andrew Brailsford
  • Publication number: 20130323858
    Abstract: The invention is a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor to determine the presence and quantity of biological or chemical entities in an analyte. The sensor comprises a metal periodic structure deposited as a thin layer of a noble metal, comprising a one dimensional array of nanoslits or a two dimensional array of nanoholes on a transparent dielectric substrate, a nm-thick layer of transparent dielectric protection layer on top of the metal periodic structure and a functionalization layer, which acts as a binding layer to biological or biochemical entities in an analyte that is in contact with the functionaliztion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Research and Development Authority
    Inventor: Ibrahim Abdulhalim
  • Publication number: 20130323099
    Abstract: A synthetic jet equipment is provided, including a base, a frame fixed to the base, a first member, a pump diaphragm, a second member, and a valve diaphragm. The pump diaphragm connects the first member to the frame, and the valve diaphragm connects the second member to the frame. The base, the frame, the first member, the pump diaphragm, the second member, and the valve diaphragm define a chamber forming an intake and an outlet. When the first member moves in a first direction, the second member moves in a second direction opposite to the first direction and the external air flows into the chamber through the inlet. When the first member moves in the second direction, the second member moves in the first direction, such that the air is exhausted from the chamber through the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chien Li, Chung-De Chen, Pin Chang
  • Publication number: 20130323932
    Abstract: A method for etching a metal layer, comprising plurality of cycles is provided. In each cycle, an etch gas comprising PF3, CO and NO, or COF2 is flowed into a process chamber. In each cycle, the etch gas is formed into a plasma. In each cycle, the flow of the etch gas is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joydeep GUHA
  • Publication number: 20130324661
    Abstract: The present invention relates to caps and closures comprising a specific propylene random copolymer, obtained by polymerization with a metallocene-based polymerization catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY
    Inventors: Philippe Hoslet, Patrizio Andriolo
  • Publication number: 20130322031
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit connector structure and assembly method. A panel with a back side that is parallel to a first plane and a flexible printed circuit backer that has a base and a backing structure. The base is attached to the back side of the panel. The backing structure depends from the base and extends along a second plane that forms an angle with the first plane. A first flexible circuit side of the flexible printed circuit is attached to a first side and an opposite second side of the backing structure. The flexible printed circuit has exposed conductors on a second flexible circuit side that is opposite the first flexible circuit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rohit Krishna KOPPAL, Martin Earl HOLMAN, IV, Patrick Yves MAS, Douglas Wayne MOSKOWITZ
  • Publication number: 20130318947
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treatment of a heated exhaust gas including hydrocarbons are provided. A method includes providing a first gas including a gaseous mixture of vaporized diesel fuel and steam and treating the first gas using at least one corona discharge including a combination of streamers to transform the first gas into a second gas including volatile partially oxidized hydrocarbons (PO—HC) and hydrogen gas (H2), the combination of streamers including primarily surface streamers. The method also includes extracting at least a portion of vaporized diesel fuel and steam from the second gas to form a third gas and directing a combination of the third gas and the exhaust gas into a nitrogen oxides (NOx) reduction reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Muhammad Arif MALIK, Karl H. SCHOENBACH, Richard HELLER
  • Publication number: 20130320864
    Abstract: In a light-installed area where a plurality of lights are installed, a light managing system senses a moving object that enters the light-installed area and predicts an predicted stop position of the moving object based on record information on a channel of movement corresponding to identification information on the moving object. The light managing system calculates a predicted channel of movement of the moving object based on the predicted stop position, and selects lights to be driven based on the calculated predicted channel of movement. The light managing system turns on the selected lights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and telecommunications research institute
    Inventor: Electronics and telecommunications research institute
  • Publication number: 20130319231
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the removal of acid gases from gas streams. The system comprises an integrated membrane-based and liquid solvent-based system for the capture of acid gases. The invention also relates to methods of acid gas capture from gas streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Aqil Jamal, Raghubir P. Gupta, Lora Toy, Luke Coleman
  • Publication number: 20130325970
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for sharing annotated videos. During operation, the system establishes a real-time video-sharing session between a remote field computer and a local computer. During the established real-time video-sharing session, the system receives a real-time video stream from a remote field computer, forwards the real-time video stream to a local computer to allow an expert to provide an annotation to the real-time video stream, receives the annotation from the local computer, and forwards the annotation to the remote field computer, which associates the annotation with a corresponding portion of the real-time video stream and displays the annotation on top of the corresponding portion of the real-time video stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Roberts, Shane P. Ahern, Doron Kletter, Anselm Hook
  • Publication number: 20130321481
    Abstract: A self-luminescent display apparatus is provided. The self-luminescent display apparatus includes a self-luminescent panel, a display controller and an adaptive adjusting unit. The self-luminescent panel comprises self-luminescent elements and an allowed active region. When the allowed active region is configured to a first range, the display controller drives the self-luminescent elements in the first range to display an image frame. The adaptive adjusting unit configures the allowed active region to a second range according to a trigger condition, and scales the image frame to correspond to the second range. The adaptive adjusting unit controls the display controller to drive the self-luminescent elements in the second range to display an adjusted image frame, and controls the self-luminescent elements outside the second range to turn off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yi-Lun Wen, Jing-Shan Liang
  • Publication number: 20130324751
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of purifying the compound (20R)-19-nor-24-difluoro-1?,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to obtain the compound in crystalline form. The methods typically include the steps of dissolving a product containing the compound in a solvent comprising hexane and 2-propanol, cooling the solvent and dissolved product below ambient temperature for a sufficient amount of time to form a precipitate of crystals, and recovering the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hector F. DeLuca, Agnieszka Flores, James B. Thoden, Hazel M. Holden
  • Publication number: 20130322462
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described herein related to techniques for synchronizing a slave device to a master device that communicates using a unified bus communication protocol or some aspect thereof. In one example, the method may comprise assuming a first mode of operation for the unified bus communication protocol; searching for a synchronization pattern at one or more locations in transmitted data according to the first mode of operation; obtaining synchronization when the located synchronization pattern is verified according to at least one synchronization rule for the mode of operation; and if synchronization is not obtained based on the assumed first mode of operation, a second mode of operation for the unified bus communication protocol is assumed and the searching and obtaining acts are carried out on the transmitted data according to the second mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Jens Kristian Poulsen
  • Publication number: 20130324479
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for diagnosing or characterizing epithelial cancer or its stages based on the level of expression of the Wnt5a gene or protein are provided. The level of nucleic acids encoding Wnt5a or the level of Wnt5a protein is measured in a tissue sample, and the level is compared with reference values. Methods for inducing senescence of an epithelial cancer cell are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Institute for Cancer Research d/b/a The Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center ("Fox Chase
    Inventors: Rugang Zhang, Benjamin Bitler
  • Publication number: 20130326552
    Abstract: Methods and devices for providing companion services to video are described. In one example embodiment, the method includes: identifying text contained within a video; determining, by performing pattern matching, if the identified text in the video contains actionable text; and if the identified text in the video contains actionable text, providing access to one or more features based on the actionable text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Neil Patrick Adams
  • Publication number: 20130324054
    Abstract: An apparatus receives a first wireless message via a first wireless transceiver, which first wireless message includes a content payload. The apparatus categorizes this first wireless message (for example, with respect to service type, a specific service, and/or a communication thread) and transmits, via a second wireless transceiver, a second message that includes the categorization information but not all (or necessarily even any) of the content payload. Upon then receiving, via that second wireless transceiver, a corresponding third message the apparatus determines a need to forward the content payload via that second wireless transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Allan Jeffrey STIRRETT, Christopher F. SARTORI, Sanjay NATHWANI
  • Publication number: 20130323197
    Abstract: Characteristics of the VSELs stem cell population of a mammal are correlated with aging, including VSEL number, imprinting status of genetic loci, and expression of markers of pluripotent stem cells. The present invention provides VSEL-based methods and compositions for determining the biological age of a mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Mariusz Ratajczak, Magdalena Kucia, Janina Ratajczak