Patents Examined by A. K. A.
  • Systems and methods for remote call redirection detection and treatment
    Patent number: 8355492
    Abstract: Systems and methods in which call intelligence, such as may be deployed in communication with signaling systems utilized in controlling calls and telecommunication databases, is used to analyze information about a call in order to make a determination as to the likelihood or risk that call redirecting, such as call forwarding or remote call forwarding, will be invoked with respect to a call are shown. The call intelligence, upon a determination that an unacceptable risk that call redirecting will be invoked, preferably institutes appropriate call treatment or handling procedures, such as to block the call or to allow the call while invoking additional call treatment action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle L. Polozola, Stuart Rosenfield, Randy Hoffman
  • Teleconference scheduling and activity reporting method
    Patent number: 8355489
    Abstract: A teleconference system that monitors the activity levels of one or more attendees of a teleconference and, based on that monitoring, provides information about attendees who are active participants and attendees who are passive listeners. The information includes evaluative feedback or a conference roster that is ordered based on the activity levels of the attendees, or both. Furthermore, the teleconference system takes into account that the potential invitees to a teleconference being scheduled can be different from one another in terms of their importance to a teleconference being scheduled, or in terms of the relevance of the teleconference to those invitees. The system is also able to consider the activity levels that are reported for a teleconference in progress when the system schedules a new teleconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Gartner, Ramanujan Kashi, Colm Smyth
  • Spring plate and voice coil motor using the same
    Patent number: 8354762
    Abstract: A spring plate includes an engaging portion, a connecting portion, a first elastic portion, a second elastic portion, a first fixing portion, and a second fixing portion. The first elastic portion and the second elastic portion are connected to the engaging portion and the connecting portion, the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion are formed on opposite ends of the connecting portion. The engaging portion defines a recess. The present disclosure further provides a voice coil motor using the spring plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shun-Fan Chiang
  • Lockable cap
    Patent number: 8353419
    Abstract: A lockable cap assembly including a handle having at least one protrusion, and a flip cap defining an internal chamber surrounded by a flip cap edge. The flip cap including at least one locking groove configured to engage the at least one protrusion, and an engagement surface. The lockable cap also including a collar having a release mechanism for engaging with the engagement surface. The flip cap being moveable between an open configuration in which a portion of the flip cap edge is not in contact with a surface of the collar and a closed configuration in which the flip cap edge is in full contact with the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Takeya USA Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Jung
  • Fuel injection system with compensation element
    Patent number: 8353272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection system for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. At least one fuel injection valve is arranged on a cylinder head in a receiving bore in order to inject fuel into the combustion chamber. A fuel distribution line is provided for feeding the fuel to the fuel injection valve. A compensation element for a position compensation and/or tolerance compensation, is arranged in the radial direction between the fuel injection valve and the cylinder head and is arranged in the axial direction of the fuel injection valve between a first sealing element, sealing between the fuel injection valve and the cylinder head on a side facing the combustion chamber of the fuel injection valve, and a second sealing element, sealing between the fuel injection valve and the fuel distribution line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Scheffel
  • Electrophoretic display device
    Patent number: 8355196
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a common electrode, an electrophoresis layer, and pixel electrodes. The electrophoretic layer includes cavities, with each cavity arranged between one of the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and comprises suspension fluid, first type charged particles, and second type charged particles. The first type charged particles and the second type charged particles are dispersed in the suspension fluid. Three cavities constitute a pixel unit. The first type charged particles and the second type charged particles in each of the three cavities constituting the pixel unit are one of red, green, and blue particles, and one of yellow, magenta, and cyan particles, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Jia Yan, Ying Luo, Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Chun-Wei Pan
  • Small area, robust silicon via structure and process
    Patent number: 8354737
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes: at least one silicon surface wherein the surface can be a substrate, wafer or other device. The structure further includes at least one electronic circuit formed on each side of the at least one surface; and at least one conductive high aspect ratio through silicon via running through the at least one surface. Each through silicon via is fabricated from at least one etch step and includes: at least one thermal oxide dielectric for coating at least some of a sidewall of the through silicon via for a later etch stop in fabrication of the through silicon via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul S Andry, John M Cotte, John Ulrich Knickerbocker, Cornelia K Tsang
  • Variable resistance memory device having reduced bottom contact area and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 8354661
    Abstract: A variable resistance memory element and method of forming the same. The memory element includes a substrate supporting a bottom electrode having a small bottom contact area. A variable resistance material is formed over the bottom electrodes such that the variable resistance material has a surface that is in electrical communication with the bottom electrode and a top electrode is formed over the variable resistance material. The small bottom electrode contact area reduces the reset current requirement which in turn reduces the write transistor size for each bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hasan Nejad
  • Gyro-aided pointing control for laser communications
    Patent number: 8355635
    Abstract: A method for pointing control of a laser communication terminal on a spacecraft may include measuring a line-of-sight (LOS) error of the laser communication terminal. The method may also include estimating a LOS error of the laser communication terminal based on measurements from a spacecraft gyro and a gimbal gyro onboard the spacecraft. The method may further include switching from a LOS error measurement feedback to a LOS error estimate feedback to control pointing of the laser communication terminal during a power fade condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ketao Liu, Qinghong W. Wang
  • Substrate processing apparatus
    Patent number: 8353986
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus comprising a processing unit where a specific type of processing is executed on a wafer and a transfer chamber through which a wafer is carried into/out of the processing unit, the transfer chamber includes an air intake unit through which external air is drawn into the transfer chamber, a discharge unit disposed so as to face opposite the air intake unit, through which the discharge gas in the transfer chamber is discharged and a discharge gas filtering means disposed at the discharge unit and constituted with a harmful constituent eliminating filter through which a harmful constituent contained in the discharge gas, at least, is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Sasaski, Yusuke Muraki, Eiichi Nishimura, Yuko Ono
  • Reception device, reception method and integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8355454
    Abstract: A reception device for receiving an OFDM signal whose level is maintained constant by performing an AGC control which adjusts an amplification gain by means of a discrete gain value includes an equalization section operable to execute an equalization process of detecting, respectively, distortions of a plurality of reference subcarriers regularly included in the OFDM signal on which the fast Fourier transform has been performed, and of estimating, by means of an interpolation using the detected distortions, a distortion of the OFDM signal, which distortion is caused by transmission path propagation so as to correct the estimated distortion of the OFDM signal, and the equalization section corrects, by using the AGC control signal, an estimated error of the distortion of the OFDM signal, which distortion is caused by a discrete amplification gain variation of the OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Ippei Kanno
  • Circuit arrangement for operating a series circuit of at least two low-pressure gas-discharge lamps, and a corresponding method
    Patent number: 8354797
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a circuit arrangement for operating a series circuit of a first and a second low-pressure gas-discharge lamp is provided, which may include an input with a first and a second input connection for application of a supply voltage; an output with a first arrangement, which has a first and a second connection pair for connection of the first lamp, and a second arrangement, which has a first and a second connection pair for connection of the second lamp, wherein a first connection of the second pair of the first arrangement is coupled to a first connection of the first pair of the second arrangement; a resonant circuit; and a capacitive voltage divider, which has a first capacitor, which is coupled in parallel with the first arrangement, and a second capacitor, which is coupled in parallel with the second arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Bernd Rudolph
  • Negative electrode active material, lithium secondary battery using the same, and method of manufacturing negative electrode active material
    Patent number: 8354194
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material characterized in that carbonaceous matter essentially consisting of carbon adheres to the surface of a tin particle essentially consisting of tin, with a mixture phase, in which tin and carbon are mixed, interposed between the carbonaceous matter and the tin particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Yoshida
  • Accessory drive for a stop/start vehicle
    Patent number: 8355859
    Abstract: An engine with vacuum and coolant pumps is disclosed. In one example, the vacuum and coolant pumps are mechanically coupled together and driven by a single motor. The approach may reduce system cost and complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Maki, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • System and method for bandwidth reservation protocol for spatial reuse in a wireless communication network
    Patent number: 8355387
    Abstract: A system and method for providing spatial reuse in a wireless network for communicating compressed and uncompressed audio/video is disclosed. A bandwidth reservation request for data communication with a receiver to a coordinator is transmitted. A first response indicating availability of the receiver for the data communication is received. A channel is listened to by a station for channel busy indication (CBI) messages transmitted by other stations in the wireless network. A local channel occupation report comprising data indicative of one or more time periods during which one or more other stations in the wireless network are scheduled to transmit data messages is transmitted to the coordinator. A second response comprising data indicative of one or more allocated channel time slots is received. Audio and/or video (A/V) data is transmitted to the receiver during the allocated channel time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangping Qin, Pengfei Xia, Chiu Ngo
  • Power-stage antenna integrated system
    Patent number: 8353903
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for generating and delivery electrosurgical energy, the system including a microwave generator and a power-stage device. The microwave generator further including a microwave signal generator configured to generate a microwave frequency signal at a first power level and a DC power supply configured to generate a DC power signal. The power-stage device connects to the microwave signal generator by a transmission line and is configured to receive the microwave frequency signal and the DC power signal from the transmission line. The power-stage device further including a power-stage microwave signal amplifier configured to amplify the microwave frequency signal from the first power level to at least one second power level and a microwave antenna configured to transmit the microwave frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Vivant Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald J. Podhajsky
  • Engine throttle control with brake booster
    Patent number: 8353266
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing variability in air-fuel control due to variations in brake booster vacuum levels at an engine start. A throttle position is adjusted during an engine start based on the vacuum availability in the brake booster to control a rate of intake aircharge flow. By allowing aircharge to enter the intake manifold at a more consistent rate, air-fuel control is improved and exhaust emissions are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Michael White, Mike Liebert, Andrew Clement Dame, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Power module for portable electronic devices
    Patent number: D674333
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Third Rail Mobility, LLC.
    Inventors: Brian Lemelman, Alexandra Lemelman, David Lemelman, Paul Koh, David Northway, Victoria Slaker, Gregoire Vandenbussche, William Franklin Dunn, Jr.
  • Charger
    Patent number: D674336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Suzuka, Akira Takagi, Kazuya Kato, Hiroaki Fukuchi
  • Charger for an automobile
    Patent number: D674340
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Wada