Patents by Inventor Alan E. Turner
Alan E. Turner 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).
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Patent number: 11912819Abstract: Semicrystalline polyethylene-2,2?-bifuran-5,5?-dicarboxylate (PEBF) homopolyester or copolyester with up to 5 mole percent isophthalate or up to 2.7 mole percent terephthalate, based on the diacid component, or up to 2.5 mole percent 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM), based on the diol component, prepared by esterifying or transesterifying the diacid and the diol components with a catalyst including about 10 to about 50 ppm wt metal, and polycondensation, wherein the bifuran polyester has an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.4 g/dL and a semicrystalline melting peak (Tm) with ?Hf equal to or greater than 5 J/g on the second heating ramp.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents, Inc., Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Monica Lotz, Kapil Kandel, Michael Salciccioli, Stephen Cohn, Alan A. Galuska, Javier Guzman, S. Richard Turner, Hans Eliot Edling, Edward E. Paschke
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Publication number: 20160012016Abstract: Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Alan E. Turner, Vernon L. Crow, Deborah A. Payne, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Kristin A. Cook, Wendy E. Cowley
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Patent number: 9069847Abstract: Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Alan E. Turner, Vernon L. Crow, Deborah A. Payne, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Kristin A. Cook, Wendy E. Cowley
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Patent number: 8996993Abstract: Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes a display configured to depict visible images, and processing circuitry coupled with the display and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a first vector of a text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to access a second vector of the text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to weight the components of the first vector providing a plurality of weighted values, to weight the components of the second vector providing a plurality of weighted values, and to combine the weighted values of the first vector with the weighted values of the second vector to provide a third vector.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Grant C. Nakamura
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Patent number: 8452767Abstract: Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes processing circuitry configured to analyze initial text to generate a measurement basis usable in analysis of subsequent text, wherein the measurement basis comprises a plurality of measurement features from the initial text, a plurality of dimension anchors from the initial text and a plurality of associations of the measurement features with the dimension anchors, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a viewpoint indicative of a perspective of interest of a user with respect to the analysis of the subsequent text, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to use the viewpoint to generate the measurement basis.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Grant C. Nakamura
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Patent number: 7822701Abstract: Lexicon generation methods, computer implemented lexicon editing methods, lexicon generation devices, lexicon editors, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a lexicon generation method includes providing a seed vector indicative of occurrences of a plurality of seed terms within a plurality of text items, providing a plurality of content vectors indicative of occurrences of respective ones of a plurality of content terms within the text items, comparing individual ones of the content vectors with respect to the seed vector, and responsive to the comparing, selecting at least one of the content terms as a term of a lexicon usable in sentiment analysis of text.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Richard J. Carter, Jonathon D. McCall, Paul D. Whitney, Michelle L. Gregory, Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Amanda M. White, Christian Posse, Grant C. Nakamura
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Patent number: 7636730Abstract: Document clustering methods, document cluster label disambiguation methods, document clustering apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described. In one aspect, a document clustering method includes providing a document set comprising a plurality of documents, providing a cluster comprising a subset of the documents of the document set, using a plurality of terms of the documents, providing a cluster label indicative of subject matter content of the documents of the cluster, wherein the cluster label comprises a plurality of word senses, and selecting one of the word senses of the cluster label.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Battelle Memorial ResearchInventors: Antonio Sanfilippo, Augustin J. Calapristi, Vernon L. Crow, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Alan E. Turner
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Publication number: 20080109454Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2006Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Margaret MacGregor, Catherine Nancarrow, Grant C. Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080071762Abstract: Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes a display configured to depict visible images, and processing circuitry coupled with the display and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a first vector of a text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to access a second vector of the text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to weight the components of the first vector providing a plurality of weighted values, to weight the components of the second vector providing a plurality of weighted values, and to combine the weighted values of the first vector with the weighted values of the second vector to provide a third vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Grant C. Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080069448Abstract: Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes processing circuitry configured to analyze initial text to generate a measurement basis usable in analysis of subsequent text, wherein the measurement basis comprises a plurality of measurement features from the initial text, a plurality of dimension anchors from the initial text and a plurality of associations of the measurement features with the dimension anchors, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a viewpoint indicative of a perspective of interest of a user with respect to the analysis of the subsequent text, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to use the viewpoint to generate the measurement basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Grant C. Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080005051Abstract: Lexicon generation methods, computer implemented lexicon editing methods, lexicon generation devices, lexicon editors, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a lexicon generation method includes providing a seed vector indicative of occurrences of a plurality of seed terms within a plurality of text items, providing a plurality of content vectors indicative of occurrences of respective ones of a plurality of content terms within the text items, comparing individual ones of the content vectors with respect to the seed vector, and responsive to the comparing, selecting at least one of the content terms as a term of a lexicon usable in sentiment analysis of text.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Inventors: Alan E. Turner, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Christian Posse
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Patent number: 7158983Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Catherine Naucarrow, legal representative, Grant C. Nakamura, Margaret MacGregor, deceased
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Patent number: 6747650Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes displaying a first object and a second object with a computer system. The first object represents data corresponding to a first combination of a number of variables and a second object represents data corresponding to a second combination of the variables. The first object is moved in a first pattern and the second object is moved in a second pattern during this display with the computer system. These patterns include a common characteristic to represent one of the variables common to the first and second combinations and a varying characteristic indicative of variation of the one of the variables.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Alan E. Turner, Lucille T. Nowell
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Publication number: 20040059736Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2002Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Margaret MacGregor, Grant C. Nakamura, Catherine Naucarrow
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Publication number: 20030197702Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes displaying a first object and a second object with a computer system. The first object represents data corresponding to a first combination of a number of variables and a second object represents data corresponding to a second combination of the variables. The first object is moved in a first pattern and the second object is moved in a second pattern during this display with the computer system. These patterns include a common characteristic to represent one of the variables common to the first and second combinations and a varying characteristic indicative of variation of the one of the variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Alan E. Turner, Lucille T. Nowell