Patents by Inventor Alex An

Alex An 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).

  • Orthogonal connector
    Patent number: 7331802
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating face and a mounting face. The housing holds signal contacts and ground contacts arranged in rows. Each of the signal contacts and ground contacts include a mating end extending from the mating face of the housing and a mounting end extending from the mounting face of the housing. For each row, the mating ends of the signal contacts and ground contacts are aligned in a common plane. The mounting ends of the ground contacts are aligned in the common plane, and the mounting ends of the signal contacts are offset from the common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Wayne Samuel Davis, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster
  • Battery pack with integrated human interface devices
    Patent number: 7331526
    Abstract: A power pack with human interface devices that includes a power pack housing, which is detachably interfaced to a portable device. The power pack includes a power source internal to the housing for providing power, a light source internal to the housing for producing a light signal associated with a status, which light signal is viewable external to the housing, and an audio source internal to the housing for producing an audio signal associated with the status. The power pack interfaces electrically to the portable device to provide power thereto, and receive therefrom control signals associated with the status, which control signals activate at least one of the light source and audio source according to the status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Terlizzi, Alex Breytman, Jorg Schlieffers, Kevin Cordes, Jean Tu, Jay Paul White, Chin-Hung Jwo, David Tsi Shi
  • Table driven programming system for a services processor
    Patent number: 7333490
    Abstract: The invention provides apparati and methods for processing a packet. The processing is done according to a table and context based scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alex E. Henderson, Walter E. Croft
  • Error Correction For Disk Storage Media
    Publication number: 20080040645
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for improving the reliability of data stored on disk media. Logical redundancy is introduced into the data, and the data within a logical storage unit is divided into sectors that are spatially separated by interleaving them with sectors of other logical storage units. The logical redundancy and spatial separation reduce or minimize the effects of localized damage to the storage disk, such as the damage caused by a scratch or fingerprint. Thus, the data is stored on the disk in a layout that improves the likelihood that the data can be recovered despite the presence of an error that prevents one sector from being read correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: PowerFile, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Pashenkov, Alex Miroshnichenko, Chris Carpenter
  • Heat sink
    Publication number: 20080037224
    Abstract: A heat sink has a heat-dissipating portion and a contact portion for contacting an electric device generating heat. The diameter of the contact portion is smaller than that of the heat-dissipating portion. The heat-dissipating portion has a plurality of fins. The contact portion is disposed on a bottom surface of the heat-dissipating and formed with the heat-dissipating portion as a single unitary member. The contact portion includes a first axial cross section and a second axial cross section. The first axial cross section is away from the heat-dissipating portion, and the second axial cross section is near the heat-dissipating portion. The diameter of the first axial cross section is larger than that of the second axial cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Chin-Ming Chen, Yu-Hung Huang, Alex Hsia, Tsung-Lin Chen
  • Method, System and Apparatus for Matching Sellers to a Buyer Over a Network and for Managing Related Information
    Publication number: 20080040141
    Abstract: An improved system and method for facilitating a transaction between a buyer and one of a number of sellers is provided. The transaction is related to a project specified by the buyer. A set of sellers are identified from a database. A flow control process operates over a number of processing cycles. In each processing cycle, the flow control process selects sellers from the set for classification as sellers of a particular type (“Invited Sellers”). The system automatically enables at least one action carried out by the sellers of the particular type. The duration of the processing cycles preferably varies over the processing cycles and is derived from a time period specified by the buyer as well as a predetermined constant that results in exponential reduction of the process cycle durations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Alex Torrenegra, Tania Zapata
  • System and Method for Providing Passive Haptic Feedback
    Publication number: 20080036735
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be, for example, electromagnetic or piezo-electric. An embodiment of the present invention may include a processor in communication with the actuator for providing the haptic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: George Anastas, Erik Shahoian, Alex Jasso
  • Probe beam profile modulated optical reflectance system and methods
    Publication number: 20080036998
    Abstract: The present invention provides a probe beam profile—modulated optical reflectivity metrology system having a modulated pump source for exciting the sample. A separate probe beam is directed to interact with the sample in a manner so that the rays within the probe beam create a spread of angles of incidence. A detector array simultaneously measures intensities of the rays within the reflected/diffracted probe beam simultaneously at different angles of incidence. The intensity and angle of incidence information is used to analyze the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Alex Salnik, Lena Nicolaides, Jon Opsal
  • System and Method for Providing Passive Haptic Feedback
    Publication number: 20080035435
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be, for example, electromagnetic or piezo-electric. An embodiment of the present invention may include a processor in communication with the actuator for providing the haptic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: George Anastas, Erik Shahoian, Alex Jasso
  • Method, system, and computer program product for multi-mission scheduling
    Publication number: 20080040190
    Abstract: Described is a system for multi-mission scheduling. The system is configured to compile a list of missions, where each mission includes at least one task. Additionally, each mission has a mission value associated with it such that the mission value reflects an ordering priority of the mission. The system also compiles a list of available resources that can be utilized to complete the tasks. The resources have, varying capabilities of completing tasks. Based on the lists, the system allocates and schedules the resources to complete tasks within the missions to maximize a total mission value of completed missions. Thus, the system schedules multiple missions to maximize the value of completed missions given available resources, whereby a mission is scheduled when the totality of its tasks have been allocated a sufficient amount of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Deepak Khosla, Alex Dow
  • System and Method for Providing Passive Haptic Feedback
    Publication number: 20080036736
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be, for example, electromagnetic or piezo-electric. An embodiment of the present invention may include a processor in communication with the actuator for providing the haptic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: George Anastas, Erik Shahoian, Alex Jasso
  • Apparatus For Guiding A Surgical Instrument
    Publication number: 20080039850
    Abstract: Apparatus for guiding a cutting tool in a surgical procedure on a bone. The apparatus includes a fixation block which can be fitted on to a bone, a guide block which can be fitted on to the fixation block, and a worm drive assembly for adjusting the orientation of the guide block rotationally relative to the fixation block about the said pivot axis. The guide block defines a path for a cutting tool, in which (i) the guide block can be translated relative to the fixation block along a translation axis so as to vary the distance between the guide block and the fixation block, and (ii) the orientation of the guide block relative to the fixation block can be adjusted lo rotationally about a pivot axis which is approximately perpendicular to the translation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Liam Rowley, Alex Hogg, Michael Rock, Mark Fulton
  • Mid-Roll Insertion of Digital Media
    Publication number: 20080040215
    Abstract: An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process for inserting a source media stream into a target media stream, which media streams might be in container file format. The process opens and reads into memory structural information from a target media stream and structural information from a source media stream. The process then finds the nearest prior key frame to an insertion time and splits a chunk of media samples if the key frame's sample is not at the beginning of a chunk. The process adjusts the structural information for both streams in order to effect the mid-roll insertion of the source media stream into the tamer media stream. The process then writes onto an output media stream the adjusted structural information for the source and target media streams and then pipes onto the output media stream the media data for the source and target media streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Ad Infuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Xueyuan Huang, Carl Ludewig
  • Sensor and ink-jet print-head assembly and method related to same
    Patent number: 7328996
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor and ink-jet print-head assembly comprised in a housing for a hand-held and hand-operated printing device controlled by a processor, and a method therefore. It provides a control for navigation with coordinate systems and angles on a print medium that preferably is bigger than the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Inventor: Alex M. Walling
  • Probes for identifying cancer-specific antigens
    Patent number: 7329542
    Abstract: This invention relates to the diagnosis of cancer, and in particular to the identification and detection of cancer-specific antigens, the invention provides antibody probes and methods for using the probes for detection and purification of cancer-specific antigens, and in the preparation of vaccine compositions. Antibodies against cancer-specific antigens are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Cancerprobe Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Lopata, Elza Meeusen, Nunzio Mancuso
  • Inkjet printer ink cartridge
    Patent number: 7328974
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inkjet printer ink cartridge, which configures a sponge-free ink-filling device into a combined structure of a case and an ink outlet base body, which is then attached onto a printed circuit by PECVD. A stand having a recess on the ink outlet base body thereon can be used to dispose a socket. A nozzle plate connected to a heater chip can be inserted to the socket therein. The heater chip is electrically connected to a heating element in airflow guides formed on a surface of the socket thereto. A vertical wire attached to the socket is electrically connected to the vertical wire bent on the printed circuit at an edge of the stand. Therefore, when the heater chip has been used for some time and is required to be replaced, only the nozzle plate and the heater chip are independently replaced, whereas the case and the ink outlet base body can both be repeatedly used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Inventor: Alex Kuo-Shen Wang
  • Non-destructive testing of pipes
    Patent number: 7328618
    Abstract: To perform a non-destructive condition assessment of a pipe carrying a fluid, an actual value representative of the propagation velocity of an acoustic disturbance propagating between two longitudinally separated points on the pipe is determined. A corresponding predicted value for the propagation velocity is computed as a function of at least one wall thickness parameter of the pipe by using a theoretical model for the propagation of acoustic waves in the pipe that assumes said pipe has a finite wall thickness with a predetermined circumferential thickness profile. The wall thickness parameter is then computed by matching the actual value with the predicted value, for example, by substituting the actual value in a formula predicting the theoretical value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignees: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Osama Hunaidi, Marc Bracken, Alex Wang
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D561595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: PepsiCo, inc.
    Inventors: Robert Nathan Le Bras-Brown, Alex E. Gnann, Christopher James Mero, Taek Kim, Stuart Leslie
  • Glove
    Patent number: D561947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Protective Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Hong
  • Roof tile
    Patent number: D562469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignees: Boral Lifetile Inc., Monier Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Charles Vandewater, Jr., Wade Shepherd, Alex Burman, Andy Truss, Tat-On Man, Jeffery James Palm