Patents Assigned to Searete LLC
  • Method, device, and kit for maintaining physiological levels of steroid hormone in a subject
    Publication number: 20110190201
    Abstract: A method, device, or kit is provided which maintain a substantially physiological cyclic pre-menopausal level of one or more steroid hormones in a mammalian subject in need thereof. The method, device, or kit includes providing to the subject at least one treatment regimen including replacement therapy for the one or more steroid hormones or metabolites or modulators thereof, wherein the at least one treatment regimen is determined based on pre-menopausal cyclic steroid hormone levels of the subject and on current cyclic steroid hormone levels of the subject, wherein the at least one treatment regimen is configured to maintain the subject's one or more steroid hormones or metabolites or modulators thereof at substantially physiological cyclic pre-menopausal levels. The method, device, or kit can be used for the treatment of a disease or condition in the mammalian subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Dennis J. Rivet, Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Micro-impulse radar detection of a human demographic and delivery of targeted media content
    Publication number: 20110166940
    Abstract: A micro-impulse radar (MIR) may be configured to provide information about at least one person in a region. A media output device may be driven responsive to the information to output media content to the at least one person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Media output with micro-impulse radar feedback of physiological response
    Publication number: 20110166937
    Abstract: A system and method for providing media and/or advertising content determines content and/or parameters responsive to physical and/or physiological information about a viewer detected by a micro-impulse radar (MIR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Plasmon multiplexing
    Publication number: 20110129183
    Abstract: A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for multiplexing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K.Y. Jung, Nathan P. Myhrvold, John Brian Pendry, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials
    Publication number: 20110122501
    Abstract: An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain incident angles, rays may be refracted on the same side of the normal as the incident ray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene
  • Transmitting aggregated information arising from appnet information
    Publication number: 20110060809
    Abstract: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for signaling a first application relating with a first core and with a second core, and for aggregating information in response to data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core, transmitting at least a portion of the information aggregated in response to the data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core, or signaling via a third core a partial service configuration change at least in the first core in response to data received after signaling the first application relating with the first core and with the second core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cohen, Edward K.Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, William Henry Mangione-Smith
  • Mobile directional antenna
    Publication number: 20110028099
    Abstract: In one aspect, adjusting a directional antenna from a first state to a second state to improve a network operation of the directional antenna relative to a mobile node to at least partially compensate for motion of the mobile node. In another aspect, identifying a network operational characteristic; determining a desired directional antenna configuration to direct a directional antenna at least partially with respect to a first mobile node at least partially according to the network operational characteristic; and establishing a directional antenna directionality at least partially according to a desired directional antenna direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cohen, Edward K.Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, John D. Rinaldo, JR., Clarence T. Tegreene
  • Instrumented fluid-surfaced electrode
    Publication number: 20110027628
    Abstract: An electrochemical device (such as a battery) includes at least one electrode having a fluid surface and one or more sensors configured to detect an operating condition of the device. Fluid-directing structures may modulate flow or retain fluid in response to the sensors. An electrolyte within the device may also include an ion-transport fluid, for example infiltrated into a porous solid support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey F. Deane, Bran Ferren, William Gates, W. Daniel Hillis, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Thomas Allan Weaver, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Promotional correlation with selective vehicle modes
    Publication number: 20110029187
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, systems and components enable selective control of an operational mode for a vehicle that is subject to an administrative standard. In some instances a qualified person or entity may attain a possible consequential result related to a user-selected vehicle operation mode that may involve a vehicle operation paradigm and/or a vehicle travel route and/or a vehicle travel destination. In some embodiments, implementation of the selected vehicle operation mode may modify a conformity status of the vehicle relative to the administrative standard. Various accessible records may be maintained regarding administrative compliance states and their respective benefits, as well as regarding certification of preferable consequential results available to qualified recipients based on a correlated vehicle operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC, a limited liability corporation of the state of Delaware
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Thomas J. Nugent, JR., Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Drinking vessels and related systems and methods
    Publication number: 20110029255
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems configured to determine an amount of alcohol in an alcohol-containing liquid discharged from a drinking vessel or an amount of the alcohol-containing liquid discharged from the drinking vessel, drinking vessels configured to measure alcohol content or other property of an alcohol-containing liquid held therein, other related components such as mat devices that facilitate determining the amount, and related methods. The systems, drinking vessels, and methods disclosed herein facilitate determination of an amount of alcohol in an alcohol-containing liquid discharged from a drinking vessel or an amount of alcohol-containing liquid discharged from the drinking vessel, which may be indicative of an amount of alcohol consumed by a drinker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Maintaining insulators in power transmission systems
    Publication number: 20110012437
    Abstract: An electrical power transmission system includes electrical insulators arranged to electrically isolate live power lines. Surface reconditioning units are incorporated or integrated in the insulator structures. A sensor arrangement determines surface conditions of the electrical insulators in use to isolate live power lines. In response, the surface reconditioning units automatically recondition the surfaces of the in-service electrical insulators if appropriate for maintaining the electrical insulators in healthy state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Color filters and demosaicing techniques for digital imaging
    Publication number: 20110013054
    Abstract: Color filter arrays or mosaics are provided for imaging a scene with diffraction limited optics. A distribution of color types in a color filter array is biased toward smaller wavelengths to avoid or reduce loss of spatial resolution information at higher wavelengths due to a larger extent of diffraction at the higher wavelengths. Demosaicing methods for reconstructing a partial or full color image from raw image data involve applying correction factors to account for diffraction. The correction factors are based on pixel size and/or a measure of the extent of diffraction (e.g., an Airy disk diameter) for each wavelength in the color filter array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventor: Nathan P. Myhrvold
  • Polarized lightning arrestors
    Publication number: 20110013332
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically defending a site from lightning strikes are provided. The systems and methods involve dynamically altering electrostatic fields above the site and/or dynamically intervening in lightning discharges processes in the vicinity of the site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Thomas Allan Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Polarized lightning arrestors
    Publication number: 20110013336
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically defending a site from lightning strikes are provided. The systems and methods involve dynamically altering electrostatic fields above the site and/or dynamically intervening in lightning discharges processes in the vicinity of the site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Thomas Allan Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Smart link coupled to power line
    Publication number: 20110011624
    Abstract: A smart link in a power delivery system includes an insulator, which electrically isolates a power line, and a switchable conductance placed in parallel with the insulator. The switchable conductance includes switchgear for sourcing, sinking, and/or dispatching real and/or reactive power on the power line to dynamically in response to dynamic loading, transient voltages and/or currents, and phase conditions or other conditions on the power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, William Gates, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Systems and methods for grounding power line sections to clear faults
    Publication number: 20110013324
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically clearing faults in a power transmission line involve automatically terminating ends of a section of the power line while preserving electrical and/or physical continuity of the power line. The terminating of the ends is reversed at about voltage zero-crossings in the power line to clear a fault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Smart link coupled to power line
    Publication number: 20110011623
    Abstract: A smart link in a power delivery system includes an insulator, which electrically isolates a power line, and a switchable conductance placed in parallel with the insulator. The switchable conductance includes switchgear for sourcing, sinking, and/or dispatching real and/or reactive power on the power line to dynamically in response to dynamic loading, transient voltages and/or currents, and phase conditions or other conditions on the power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, William Gates, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Polarized lightning arrestors
    Publication number: 20110011611
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically defending a site from lightning strikes are provided. The systems and methods involve dynamically altering electrostatic fields above the site and/or dynamically intervening in lightning discharges processes in the vicinity of the site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Thomas Allan Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Polarized lightning arrestors
    Publication number: 20110013333
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically defending a site from lightning strikes are provided. The systems and methods involve dynamically altering electrostatic fields above the site and/or dynamically intervening in lightning discharges processes in the vicinity of the site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC,
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Thomas Allan Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Systems and methods for assessing standoff capabilities of in-service power line insulators
    Publication number: 20110012436
    Abstract: An electrical power transmission system includes electrical insulators arranged to electrically isolate live power lines. Measurement devices are physically incorporated or integrated in the insulator structures. The measurement devices measure and report insulator properties during live wire conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood