Patents by Inventor A. Andrews

A. Andrews has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Opening price process for trading system
    Patent number: 8024254
    Abstract: A system for determining an opening price for products traded over a distributed, networked computer system is described. The system includes a plurality of workstations for entering orders for financial products into the distributed, networked computer system, said orders specifying a quantity of the financial product. A plurality of workstations for entering orders and a server computer coupled to the workstations, said server computer executing a server process that determines an opening price for the product. The opening price process posting an allocation message to market maker participants to communicate an expected allocation of the imbalance for execution at an initial opening of the market in the event that the imbalance exists at the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Primex Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Peter B. Madoff, Glen R. Shipway, Andrew S. Margolin
  • Multi-speed transmission
    Patent number: 8021266
    Abstract: A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting mechanisms. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting mechanisms include clutches and a brake. The torque transmitting mechanisms are each selectively engageable to interconnect at least one of the first, second, and third members of the planetary gear sets with at least another one of the first members, second members, third members of the planetary gear sets, and the stationary element. The torque transmitting mechanisms are selectively engageable in combinations of at least two to establish at least eight forward speed ratios and at least one reverse speed ratio between the input member and the output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hukill, Andrew W. Phillips, Scott H. Wittkopp, Clinton E. Carey, James M. Hart
  • Opening device for fluid product dispensing device
    Patent number: 8020554
    Abstract: An opening device (40) for opening an individual reservoir (21) containing a single dose of fluid, such as powder, said reservoir (21) including a closure wall (23), said opening device (40) comprising perforator and/or cutter means (41) that are adapted to cut said closure wall (23) of the reservoir (21) in such a manner that the cut portion(s) (24) does/do not obstruct the opening(s) (25) that is/are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Valois SAS
    Inventors: Andrew Pocock, Stuart Kay, Paul Greenhalgh, Wayne O'Hara, Xavier Donnette
  • Ferroelectric thin films
    Patent number: 8022454
    Abstract: Ferroelectric structures and methods of making the structures are presented. The ferroelectric structures can include an electrode in contact with a ferroelectric thin film. The contact can be arranged so that a portion of the atoms of the ferroelectric thin film are in contact with at least a portion of the atoms of the electrode. The electrode can be made of metal, a metal alloy, or a semiconducting material. A second electrode can be used and placed in contact with the ferroelectric thin film. Methods of making and using the ferroelectric structures are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Andrew Marshall Rappe, Na Sai, Alexie Michelle Kolpak
  • Heat sink fin with stator blade
    Patent number: 8020608
    Abstract: Systems, methodologies, and other embodiments are associated with a heat sink with a fin configured with a stator blade. One example includes a heat sink apparatus configured to experience a fan-assisted air flow. The example heat sink apparatus may be configured to include a fan that is configured to produce an air flow in the heat sink apparatus and a heat sink that houses the fan. The example heat sink may include a base and fins that are configured with stator blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Delano, Brandon Aaron Rubenstein
  • System and method for connecting network sockets between applications
    Patent number: 8024469
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing communication over a network includes devices, instructions, and/or operations for: executing a browser application within a web browser, the web browser including a security mechanism for restricting access to and from the browser application; receiving, by the browser application, a private network address of an endpoint device; establishing a first network socket connection and a second network socket connection between the browser application and an application; and sending loss-sensitive network traffic over the first network socket connection and loss-tolerant network traffic over the second network socket connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Brass Monkey Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen, Trevor Burton, Andrew Zupko
  • Multi-speed transmission having three planetary gear sets
    Patent number: 8021263
    Abstract: A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, three planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: James M. Hart, Andrew W. Phillips, Clinton E. Carey, Scott H. Wittkopp
  • Apparatus and method for generating reports with masked confidential data
    Patent number: 8024339
    Abstract: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to receive a query, receive information about the identity of the query requester, send the query to at least one data source, receive data from the at least one data source, and apply confidentiality criteria to the data based on a set of rules to produce masked confidential data. The masked confidential data is returned in a report in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Barker, Philip John Marson
  • Apparatus and method for detecting a leak within a duplex valve assembly
    Patent number: 8020585
    Abstract: A leak detection system for detecting a leak within a duplex valve assembly is disclosed. The duplex valve assembly includes a first valve, a second valve and an intermediate fluid flow passageway fluidly interconnecting the first valve to the second valve. The leak detection system includes a means for indicating whether the first valve is maintained in a closed position or an open position, a means for indicating whether the second valve is maintained in a closed position or an open position, and a pressure change detector within the intermediate fluid flow passageway. The pressure change sensing means is at least partially positioned within the intermediate fluid flow passageway for detecting a pressure change within the intermediate fluid flow passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Airgas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Shock, Steven Weiss, Andrew Mieczkowski
  • Method, system, and program for an adaptor to read and write to system memory
    Patent number: 8024524
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for an adaptor to read and write to system memory. A plurality of blocks of data to write to storage are received at an adaptor. The blocks of data are added to a buffer in the adaptor. A determination is made of pages in a memory device and I/O requests are generated to write the blocks in the buffer to the determined pages, wherein two I/O requests are generated to write to one block split between two pages in the memory device. The adaptor executes the generated I/O requests to write the blocks in the buffer to the determined pages in the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Benhase, James Chien-Chung Chen, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Matthew Joseph Kalos, Carol Spanel, Andrew Dale Walls
  • Dynamic storage of documents
    Patent number: 8024427
    Abstract: Various systems and techniques are disclosed relating to dynamic storage of documents. According to one or more exemplary systems and techniques, a location may be dynamically determined from a group of locations to store a state associated with a document based on one or more criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R Lawrence, Andrew P Begun
  • Logging system, method of logging an earth formation and method of producing a hydrocarbon fluid
    Patent number: 8022838
    Abstract: A logging system for use in a wellbore formed in an earth formation. A tubular conduit is provided extending from surface into the wellbore, as well as a surface communication and control device located at the surface. A telemetry device located inside the wellbore is capable of sending and receiving signals to and/or from the surface communication and control device, the signals representing commands and/or data. Also provided is a logging tool string that is capable of passing from a position within the conduit to a position outside the conduit at a lower end part thereof and capable of being suspended by the conduit in said position outside the conduit. Communication of the commands and/or data between the logging tool string and the telemetry device is established using a communication interface between the logging tool string and the telemetry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Thrubit B.V.
    Inventor: Eugene Andrew Murphy
  • Method for manufacturing solid oxide electrochemical devices
    Patent number: 8021795
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid oxide electrochemical device comprising disposing electrolyte between a first electrode and a second electrode, applying a bonding agent between the first electrode and a first interconnect, applying a sealing agent between the first electrode and the first interconnect, disposing a second interconnect adjacent to the second electrode, heating the first interconnect, the first electrode, the electrolyte, the second electrode, the second interconnect, the bonding agent, and the sealing agent to at least one intermediate temperature for at least one intermediate length of time, and then to a curing temperature, for a curing time, effective to bond and seal the first electrode to the first interconnect, wherein the at least one intermediate temperature is less than the curing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Xiwang Qi, Rong Fan, Andrew Philip Shapiro, Dacong Weng, Jie Guan, James Daniel Power, Stanley F. Simpson
  • Transducer with decoupled sensing in mutually orthogonal directions
    Patent number: 8020443
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducer (90) is adapted to sense acceleration in mutually orthogonal directions (92, 94, 96). The MEMS transducer (90) includes a proof mass (100) suspended above a substrate (98) by an anchor system (116). The anchor system (116) pivotally couples the proof mass (100) to the substrate (98) at a rotational axis (132) to enable the proof mass (100) to rotate about the rotational axis (132) in response to acceleration in a direction (96). The proof mass (100) has an opening (112) extending through it. Another proof mass (148) resides in the opening (112), and another anchor system (152) suspends the proof mass (148) above the surface (104) of the substrate (98). The anchor system (152) enables the proof mass (148) to move substantially parallel to the surface (104) of the substrate (98) in response to acceleration in at least another direction (92, 94).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhen Lin, Andrew C. McNeil
  • Agents for preventing and treating disorders involving modulation of the RyR receptors
    Patent number: 8022058
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells. Such disorders and diseases include, by way of example only, cardiac disorders and diseases, skeletal muscular disorders and diseases, cognitive disorders and diseases, malignant hyperthermia, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Marks, Donald W. Landry, Shixian Deng
  • Metal leadframe package with secure feature
    Patent number: 8022516
    Abstract: A fabrication method for a BGA or LGA package includes a low-cost metal leadframe with internally extended leads. I/O attach lands can be placed at any location on the metal leadframe, including the center of the package. An I/O attach land can be fabricated at any position upon an extended lead (e.g., near the center of the package). During fabrication of the package, an isolation saw cut to the bottom of the package can be used to electrically disconnect the leadframe circuit from the peripheral extension traces to prevent tampering with the IC die by probing the edge metal traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Lam, Julius Andrew Kovats
  • Container
    Patent number: D645349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventor: Andrew T. Tilton
  • Detector cowling
    Patent number: D645372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Air Products and Controls Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Hall, Andrew D. Frost
  • Frame in face mask assembly
    Patent number: D645558
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Jr. Jerome Matula, Derrick Andrews
  • Laundry appliance
    Patent number: D645623
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Andrew Roberson, Carsten Weber