Patents by Inventor A. Shirley

A. Shirley 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).

  • Patent number: 9716318
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of multilayer printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) that integrally define or include patch antenna radiating elements. The radiating elements may be defined or formed from electrically-conductive layers of the PCBAs. Also disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of antenna assemblies, systems, or modules comprising such multilayer PCBAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Laird Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Shirley, David A. Swartwood, Gary Keith Reed
  • Patent number: 9593929
    Abstract: A device for measuring turkey beard length and turkey spur length, including a beard stop, a beard ruler, one or more apertures sized to accommodate a turkey foot, and a spur ruler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventor: Charles A. Shirley
  • Publication number: 20160123713
    Abstract: A device for measuring turkey beard length and turkey spur length, including a beard stop, a beard ruler, one or more apertures sized to accommodate a turkey foot, and a spur ruler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Charles A. Shirley
  • Publication number: 20160118719
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of multilayer printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) that integrally define or include patch antenna radiating elements. The radiating elements may be defined or formed from electrically-conductive layers of the PCBAs. Also disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of antenna assemblies, systems, or modules comprising such multilayer PCBAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas A. Shirley, David A. Swartwood, Gary Keith Reed
  • Patent number: 9188737
    Abstract: A display system for displaying images on a textured surface. The system includes a display device with a monitor having a screen operable to output light associated with still or animated images. The system further includes an optical block comprising a plurality of optical fibers bonded together to define parallel guide paths. First ends of the optical fibers define a first block surface and second ends of the optical fibers define a second block surface. The first block surface is positioned adjacent the screen to receive and transmit the output light along the guide paths to the second block surface. The system includes a textured display element covering the second block surface for receiving light exiting the second block surface and having a non-planar exterior surface emitting or projecting the received light. The textured display element has a body with an optical index matching that of the optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, David A. Shirley
  • Patent number: 9135158
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed in which a derived table can inherit a growth pattern from a template table. A growth pattern is used to define how memory is allocated to a table as the table grows. The derived table can inherit the growth pattern defined by its template table or it can provide an override growth pattern. Inheritance of the growth pattern can be performed by explicit copying or by reference or link. Growth patterns can be edited, and the edits can be applied universally or locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brett A. Shirley, Marcus E. Markiewicz
  • Patent number: 9013515
    Abstract: An apparatus providing a viewer with a blend of displayed and reflected content. The apparatus includes an emissive display device with a display screen operable providing digital content. The emissive display device includes a light source selectively articulating and transmitting light through the display screen at a particular illumination level to display digital content such as text and graphics. The apparatus includes a thematic overlay positioned over the display screen with a front surface configured to provide diffuse reflection of light striking the front surface from a viewer space such that the front surface appears substantially opaque to the viewer and the viewer cannot see the display screen when the light source is inactive or at low brightness. When the light source is in active mode, the displayed content is visible as emissive display content concurrently with the diffuse reflection content but the display screen remains hidden from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, Mark A. Reichow, David A. Shirley, James D. Moore, Everett Kevin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140362348
    Abstract: A display system for displaying images on a textured surface. The system includes a display device with a monitor having a screen operable to output light associated with still or animated images. The system further includes an optical block comprising a plurality of optical fibers bonded together to define parallel guide paths. First ends of the optical fibers define a first block surface and second ends of the optical fibers define a second block surface. The first block surface is positioned adjacent the screen to receive and transmit the output light along the guide paths to the second block surface. The system includes a textured display element covering the second block surface for receiving light exiting the second block surface and having a non-planar exterior surface emitting or projecting the received light. The textured display element has a body with an optical index matching that of the optical fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: DANIEL M. JOSEPH, David A. Shirley
  • Patent number: 8868618
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for employing usage-optimized tables with a computer database system. In one embodiment, the database system stores create, update, and delete database operations in the usage-optimized table. The create, update, and delete database operations remain in the usage-optimized table until a flush condition is reached. When the flush condition is reached, the create, update, and delete operations are transferred to their corresponding real tables. In embodiments, the read operation does not flush the contents of the usage-optimized table to the real table. In such embodiments, the database system modifies read operations to account for data resident on the usage-optimized tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Naresh Sundaram, Marcus E. Markiewicz, Brett A. Shirley
  • Patent number: 8768890
    Abstract: A continuous set of committed transactions can be lost without destroying the integrity of the database, by deferring the writing of the database pages stored in cache to the database on stable storage. A waypoint tracks a point in the transaction log following which transactions have not been applied to the database on stable storage and thus records after the waypoint are not needed for recovery to a consistent database. When there is a failover of an active database on Node A to a passive database on Node B, log records are compared starting with the most current and moving backwards and the point at which divergence in the log occurs is determined. When the lost portion of the log occurs after the point indicated by after the waypoint, the database is recoverable by log-based incremental reseed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Laurion D. Burchall, Andrew E. Goodsell, Brett A. Shirley
  • Patent number: 8621267
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for using an extended patching procedure for correction or repair of logical data portions, pages, or sectors of a computer data storage device. The extended patching procedure targets for repair not only the page(s) appearing to be defective or unusable based on a failed read operation for a data transfer request, but also additional pages. Determining the additional pages to include for automatic patching is based on: statistical distribution analyzes to include pages within the physical or logical vicinity of the original page, information about the underlying storage device technology or Input/Output (I/O) subsystem, and/or historical data about error conditions for areas related to the original page. Preemptively patching pages based on extended page lists improves system performance by reducing the total number of costly repair processes and by avoiding situations involving correction actions that fail to resolve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Santana da Costa, Umair Ahmad, Brett A. Shirley, Matthew G. Gossage
  • Patent number: 8388942
    Abstract: Improved methods for purification and recovery of interferon-beta (IFN-?) and compositions comprising substantially monomeric IFN-? are provided. In one purification method, substantially purified IFN-? or variant thereof is precipitated and then dissolved in a guanidine hydrochloride (HCl) solution. Renaturation of the protein occurs by dilution with a suitable buffer. A similar purification method absent the precipitation step is also provided. Following renaturation of the IFN-?, residual guanidine HCl is removed by diafiltration or dialysis with a pharmaceutically acceptable buffer to prepare pharmaceutical compositions comprising substantially monomeric IFN-?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney N Wolfe, Bret A Shirley, Susan Babuka, Dennis Fordham, Irina Esikova
  • Patent number: 8333958
    Abstract: Stabilized pharmaceutical compositions comprising substantially monomeric interferon-beta (IFN-?) and methods useful in their preparation are provided. The compositions comprise the IFN-? solubilized in a low-ionic-strength formulation that maintains the composition at a pH of about 3.0 to about 5.0. Methods for preparing these compositions, and for increasing solubility of IFN-? in pharmaceutical compositions, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bret A Shirley, Susan Babuka, Bao-Lu Chen, Maninder Hora, Minna Choe, Melanie Tellers
  • Publication number: 20120159262
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for using an extended patching procedure for correction or repair of logical data portions, pages, or sectors of a computer data storage device. The extended patching procedure targets for repair not only the page(s) appearing to be defective or unusable based on a failed read operation for a data transfer request, but also additional pages. Determining the additional pages to include for automatic patching is based on: statistical distribution analyses to include pages within the physical or logical vicinity of the original page, information about the underlying storage device technology or Input/Output (I/O) subsystem, and/or historical data about error conditions for areas related to the original page. Preemptively patching pages based on extended page lists improves system performance by reducing the total number of costly repair processes and by avoiding situations involving correction actions that fail to resolve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Santana da Costa, Umair Ahmad, Brett A. Shirley, Matthew G. Gossage
  • Publication number: 20120150917
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for employing usage-optimized tables with a computer database system. In one embodiment, the database system stores create, update, and delete database operations in the usage-optimized table. The create, update, and delete database operations remain in the usage-optimized table until a flush condition is reached. When the flush condition is reached, the create, update, and delete operations are transferred to their corresponding real tables. In embodiments, the read operation does not flush the contents of the usage-optimized table to the real table. In such embodiments, the database system modifies read operations to account for data resident on the usage-optimized tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Naresh Sundaram, Marcus E. Markiewicz, Brett A. Shirley
  • Publication number: 20120151173
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed in which a derived table can inherit a growth pattern from a template table. A growth pattern is used to define how memory is allocated to a table as the table grows. The derived table can inherit the growth pattern defined by its template table or it can provide an override growth pattern. Inheritance of the growth pattern can be performed by explicit copying or by reference or link. Growth patterns can be edited, and the edits can be applied universally or locally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brett A. Shirley, Marcus E. Markiewicz
  • Patent number: 8108587
    Abstract: A computing system stores a database comprising pages. Each of the pages is the same size. When a page is requested, a block of virtual memory addresses is associated with the page and a set of physical data storage locations is committed to the block of virtual memory addresses. A copy of the page is then stored into the set of physical data storage locations. Physical data storage locations committed to the virtual memory addresses associated with available free space in the copy of the page are deallocated, thereby allowing reuse of these physical data storage locations. A reference to the copy of the page is then returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brett A. Shirley, Laurion Burchall, Matthew Gossage
  • Publication number: 20110104116
    Abstract: Stabilized pharmaceutical compositions comprising substantially monomeric interferon-beta (IFN-?) and methods useful in their preparation are provided. The compositions comprise the IFN-? solubilized in a low-ionic-strength formulation that maintains the composition at a pH of about 3.0 to about 5.0. Methods for preparing these compositions, and for increasing solubility of IFN-? in pharmaceutical compositions, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Bret A. Shirley, Susan Babuka, Bao-Lu Chen, Maninder Hora, Minna Choe, Melanie Tellers
  • Patent number: 7892531
    Abstract: Stabilized pharmaceutical compositions comprising substantially monomeric interferon-beta (IFN-?) and methods useful in their preparation are provided. The compositions comprise the IFN-? solubilized in a low-ionic-strength formulation that maintains the composition at a pH of about 3.0 to about 5.0. Methods for preparing these compositions, and for increasing solubility of IFN-? in pharmaceutical compositions, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
    Inventors: Bret A Shirley, Susan Babuka, Bao-Lu Chen, Maninder Hora, Minna Choe, Melanie Tellers
  • Patent number: D803710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Charles A. Shirley