Patents Assigned to Service
  • Gaming display flexible belt system and method
    Patent number: 8047916
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus has several primary gaming devices. Each of the primary gaming devices is configured to accept a wager and to generate a bonus qualifying event. A central display device is mounted in association with the primary gaming devices. The central display device has several flexible belt displays having indicia thereon. A controller is in communication with the gaming devices and the central display device. The controller is configured to detect the bonus qualifying event and to position the flexible belt displays such that at least one of the indicia appearing on the flexible belt displays convey a game outcome. A gaming method using the gaming apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerald C. Seelig, Lawrence M. Henshaw
  • Slip segments for downhole tool
    Patent number: 8047279
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a mandrel with slip assemblies positioned thereon above and below a packer element. The slip assemblies are positioned in a manner to anchor the downhole tool in the well. The slip assemblies include a slip ring which has a plurality of slip segments. Each slip segment has inserts disposed in cavities therein. The cavities are oriented such that the longitudinal central axis of each cavity is parallel to the longitudinal central axis of each of the other cavities in the slip segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Barlow, Jesse Porter
  • Spotting fluid compositions and associated methods
    Patent number: 8048829
    Abstract: Fluids and associated methods useful in subterranean applications are provided. Compositions are provided that may be useful in subterranean applications for addressing, among other things, drill string sticking problems. More particularly, spotting fluid compositions are provided having a water insoluble external phase fluid; a water soluble internal phase fluid; and an ether carboxylic acid emulsifying agent. Additional optional components may be used, such as viscosifiers, weighting agents, and wetting agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventor: Jay P. Deville
  • Optoelectronic devices and a method for producing the same
    Patent number: 8049406
    Abstract: A light-emissive device comprising a light-emissive material provided between first and second electrodes such that charge carriers can move between the first and second electrodes and the light-emissive material, wherein the device includes a layer of a polymer blend provided between the first and second electrodes, phase separation of the polymers in the polymer blend having been induced in at least a portion of the polymer blend so as to control the propagation of light emitted by the light-emissive material in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Cambridge University Technical Services Limited
    Inventors: J. Devin Mackenzie, Ana Claudia Arias, Richard Henry Friend, Wilhelm Huck
  • Hair styling composition comprising an arylated silicone
    Patent number: 8048836
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a hair styling composition for keratin fibers especially for hair comprising at least one film forming polymer and at least one arylated silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: KPSS-Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Molenda, Martin Hoffmann, Jutta Klutzny
  • Geomorphology for environmental remediation process and systems
    Patent number: 8047743
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for investigating a site for possible selective removal of sediment containing a contaminant. The methods include calculating an adjusted contaminant concentration for sediment zones on the site. The site preferably contains a water course. The methods may also include determining whether sediment zone need remediation by comparing the adjusted contaminant concentration to a standard. The invention also includes a system for carrying out the described methods, at least partially implemented in a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Ann Arbor Technical Services, Earth-Tech
    Inventors: Philip B Simon, David Richardson, Peter M Simon
  • Hospital bed control apparatus
    Patent number: 8048005
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hospital bed including a force sensor or scale apparatus configured to detect the weight of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Dixon, Jeffrey R. Welling, James R. Stolpmann, Andrew F. Skinner
  • Wireless handheld device and method with remote GUI control
    Patent number: 8049723
    Abstract: A wireless handheld device is disclosed that includes a device housing, a wireless transmitter, such as a short range wireless transmitter, a local display and a housing motion detector that is operative to detect motion of the housing, for example, relative to a surface or other reference point, and outputs graphic user interface control information for transmission by the wireless transmitter to an external device. In one embodiment, a wireless pointing device is operably coupled with a wireless handheld device such as a cell phone or any other suitable wireless handheld device that includes a short range wireless transmitter and/or transceiver to remotely control operation of a graphic user interface for an external device. The housing motion detector utilizes the battery power of the wireless handheld device as its sole source of power or as an auxiliary source of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Peter L. Simon
  • Transferable patient care equipment support
    Patent number: 8047484
    Abstract: A patient care equipment support is transferable between a first device having a first coupling member and a second device having a second coupling member. The equipment support comprises an equipment supporting portion configured to support patient care equipment and a coupler coupled to the equipment supporting portion and having first and second clamps. The first clamp is configured to grip the first coupling member and the second clamp is configured to grip the second coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Newkirk, Cristian J. Daugbjerg
  • Filter medium for strainers used in nuclear reactor emergency core cooling systems
    Patent number: 8048319
    Abstract: A filter medium for strainers used in the emergency sump of a nuclear power plant ECCS. The filter medium is employed with double wall, concentric tube type strainer modules. The filter medium is preferably constructed of a woven or knitted stainless steel wire material and is shaped in a cylinder so that it can be inserted between two concentric strainer walls, concentric tube type strainer in such a manner that water that passes through the strainer must pass through and be filtered by the filter medium before the water can be pumped to the reactor core. The filter medium is inserted through the bottom of the strainer module and is held in place by an x-shaped retainer. The filter creates varied approach velocity of the fluid and results in non-uniform fibrous debris accumulation on the strainer, insuring acceptable strainer debris hydraulic head loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Enercon Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James Aaron Smith, Atul Harihar Patel, Louis Thomas Carr, Jr.
  • Cushion-less aircraft seat
    Patent number: 8047613
    Abstract: A cushion-less passenger seat. The passenger seat includes spaced left and right spreaders, each having a front and rear leg with top and bottom ends and a seating surface formed from a flexible bottom diaphragm attached to and extending between the left and right spreaders. The passenger seat also includes a lumbar support having lower and upper sections and front and back sides formed from a flexible diaphragm. The lower section of the lumbar support is attached to and between the left and right spreaders. The lumbar support upper section extends upwardly above the seat's rear legs and seating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam J. Ahad
  • Semi-quantitative risk analysis
    Patent number: 8050993
    Abstract: A semi-quantitative analysis on the risk management process increases the possibility of performing an accurate risks comparison, making easier the identification of which risks shall be prioritized and shall receive the greatest mitigation efforts. Specifically, the semi-quantitative risk analysis enables an improved risks comparison for evaluating the consequences of each risk considering its impacts on the project's Net Present Value (NPV), reflecting the project's cash flow at different times. The use of such method makes the prioritization process more efficient, helping the managers and other personnel involved on the process to focus their efforts to the most critical risks for the project's success. In this sense, the risk management process becomes more efficient and better able to provide better support to the project decision makers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Denis Del Bianco, Julio Rangel De Albernaz, Deram Tavares, Henrique Fernandes Carvalho, Patricia Gastro Jardim, legal representative, Luiz Guilherme Pereira Da Silva, Acyr Avila da Luz Neto, Dario Derenzi Neto, Derval Beltrame, Jr.
  • Systems and methods for creating documents from templates
    Patent number: 8051103
    Abstract: A merge application creates a particular set of documents for a particular matter. The merge application receives a selection of a particular master template corresponding to the particular set of documents, where the selected master template specifies a plurality of slave templates, and also receives a selection of a data structure from a database with data relating to the particular matter. The selected master template and the selected data structure are employed to produce the set of documents for the particular matter in an electronic form, where a corresponding document of the set is produced for each specified slave template in the selected master template. Each corresponding document is produced according to common content in the slave template and data in the selected data structure in the database referred to by placeholders in the slave template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Isauro Bargas, Maheshwer Annamalai, Anil C. Abraham
  • Performance based auto loans
    Patent number: 8051002
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a loan having an interest rate and a loan period. The systems and methods dynamically adjust the interest rate during the loan period based on actual payment performance of a borrower, thereby resulting in an improved reward structure, greater borrower loyalty and an improved experience for the borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Timothy Paul Booker
  • Recovering packaged ingredients from multi-component product packets
    Patent number: 8048318
    Abstract: A process for recovering packaged ingredients from multi-component product packets, comprises the steps of: (a) Providing a supply of multi-component product packets that contain at least two components; (b) orienting the multi-component product packets so that one of the components is in a desired position and feeding the oriented multi-component product packets to a breaching station; (c) breaching the multi-component product packets so as to access one of the components; (d) manipulating the multi-component product packets to collect the component accessed in step (c); and (e) further manipulating the multi-component product packets to release and collect another one of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Heritage Environmental Services, LLC
    Inventor: David Mogan
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    Publication number: 20110264379
    Abstract: A method of investigation a sample is provided, the sample being a mixture of DNA arising from more than one source. The method includes analysing the sample to obtain a genotype for the DNA present in the sample and assigning a prior probability distribution to the genotype. The likelihood function is considered and a posterior probability distribution for the genotype is established. In this way a probabilistic assessment of the genotype of the major or minor contributor to the sample can be obtained. This is beneficial over prior methods which use a deterministic method, and so involve the use of rule based methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Forensic Science Service Ltd.
    Inventors: James CURRAN, Christopher Triggs
  • MARKING
    Publication number: 20110262913
    Abstract: The invention provides a marking system, markers and methods of use of such marking systems and markers which enable unique marking of articles and subsequent detection of that marking. In particular the invention provides a marking system, the marking system comprising a plurality of different DNA fragment types, each of the plurality of different DNA fragment types comprising a plurality of different length DNA fragments and a method in which a sample of the DNA fragment type is taken, amplified and analysed to determine the identity of the marker for an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Forensic Science Service Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Harold WETTON, Andrew John Hopwood
  • METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING FLUIDS BEFORE INJECTION INTO SUBTERRANEAN ZONES
    Publication number: 20110259592
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for producing or recovering an aqueous-based fluid to be utilized or injected in a wellbore or surrounding subterranean formation. The method comprises the step of contacting an aqueous-based fluid with an aqueous-soluble breaker composition comprising an oxidizing agent and a catalyst for a time sufficient to reduce or eliminate one or more deleterious substances in the aqueous-based fluid to produce a treated aqueous-based fluid suitable for use or injection in a wellbore or surrounding subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventor: Enrique A. Reyes
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING MARKETING PROGRAMS
    Publication number: 20110264490
    Abstract: A system and method provide rewards or loyalty incentives to transaction account customers. The system includes a computing platform comprising application programming interfaces that enable users to define marketing programs. The system thus enables an efficient, automated and extensible platform for creating, managing and executing rewards and other marketing related programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Sastry Durvasula, Luke Gebb, Priyadarshini Koul, Michael Morris, Sherree Newhouse, Manjushri Puranik, Scott Roen, Jennifer Russo, Sripriya Tiku, Robert Wilmes, David Wolf
  • Folded pack
    Patent number: D647395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Altria Client Services Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mitten, Christopher J. Hession, Ed Fuller