Patents by Inventor Andrew Klein
Andrew Klein 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: 8428680Abstract: A miniature microdrive system may be affixed to the skull and used to advance recording electrode bundles or injection cannula through the brain of freely moving test subjects, e.g., rodents. The microdrive may be constructed using a hybrid fabrication technique utilizing a printed circuit board and a small number of mechanical parts. The printed circuit board provides the base for both the electrical components and the mechanical components. The movement of a screw advances a shuttle that in turn moves an electrode bundle through the brain. Independently moving screws advance independent electrode bundles. The electrode wires are connected through the printed circuit board to a connector on the back of the board. Stainless steel cannulae are soldered to a grounding trace on the printed circuit board to guide the electrode bundle and provide a ground connection. With this system, multiple brain structures may be targeted simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: J. Wayne Aldridge, Andrew Klein, Marc Bradshaw
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Patent number: 8382945Abstract: Expandable microspheres formed by suspension polymerization using a shot growth method are provided. The microspheres are formed of a continuous, gas impermeable shell surrounding a blowing agent. The shell includes a first polymer layer formed from primary monomers and a second layer that includes a chemically reactive monomer or a high Tg monomer. To form the microspheres, the primary monomers are polymerized in a reaction vessel to an approximate 90% polymerization, at which time a secondary monomer that is either a monomer having a Tg of at least 85° C. or a chemically reactive monomer, is added to the reaction vessel to drive the polymerization reaction to completion. The outer layer thus contains either a larger amount of the high Tg monomer or a chemically reactive monomer that possesses the ability to covalently bond a cationic species. The microspheres may be used in papermaking processes to increase the paper bulk.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventors: Yaoliang Hong, Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Peter M. Froass, Mark Fagan, Christopher D. Anderson, Brian Boyars, Eric Scott Daniels, Victoria Laurentia Dimonie, Edward David Sudol, Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 8088482Abstract: Hollow thermoexpandable particles or microspheres are provided that contain hydrocarbon blowing agents and have a shell polymer that can be softened at the onset of the expansion temperature and solidified at a higher temperature (thermoset) in an expanded state. Preferably, the microspheres have a shell of thermally expandable and thermally crosslinkable polymer and a hollow interior that contains a hydrocarbon liquid that boils at a temperature below the heat activated crosslinking temperature of the polymer shell. The crosslinking of the shell polymer during or after expansion, which is heat activated at an elevated temperature, can solidify the shell polymer and, then, maintain the expanded volume of the microspheres. The thermoexpandable thermoset polymer particles are useful in insulation, packaging, for making foam materials such as polyurethane or polyisocyanurate rigid foams.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: IP Rights, LLCInventors: Sammie J. (Joey) Glorioso, Jr., James H. Burgess, Jiansheng Tang, Victoria L. Dimonie, Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 7919184Abstract: A method and composition for making hybrid nanoparticles and use of such nanoparticles are disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise a phase change material (PCM) and a metal layer encapsulating the phase change material. In another embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise a phase change material, a polymer layer encapsulating the phase change material, and an outer metal layer encapsulating the polymer layer. In another embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise an inner core of a PCM encapsulated by a polymer shell containing embedded nanoparticles that have a high thermal conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Inventors: Satish C. Mohapatra, Edward David Sudol, Kejian Bian, Li Zhang, Eric Scott Daniels, Victoria Laurentia Dimonie, Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 7885836Abstract: An integrated payment system directed to the care of a subject and method of same is described herein. This system and method includes a care planner for accurately approximating the costs for the subject during the course of care, an insurance verifier and estimator that identifies the portion of the costs for the subject that is covered by the subjects insurance, wherein the approximated costs less the covered insurance leaves a subject payment, a discount planner that evaluates the application of at least one discount to the subject payment, and a payment planner that enables a payment arrangement for the subject for the subject payment less any applied discounts.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Advanced Provider Solutions, LLCInventors: Keith Pendleton, David Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 7778842Abstract: A system dynamically displays graphic identifier information, such as corporate logos, and value information for financial instruments, such as recent trade information, on a video wall having several monitors arranged to form a larger display. The system has input ports to receive feeds with identifiers and corresponding values of financial instruments, a filter to extract the identifiers and corresponding values of the financial instruments, a memory to store the extracted information and a table associating the financial instrument identifiers with graphic symbols, and processors to form a display signal with the graphic symbols and values.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Apple, Paul Noble, John Footen, Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20100051220Abstract: Expandable microspheres formed by suspension polymerization using a shot growth method are provided. The microspheres are formed of a continuous, gas impermeable shell surrounding a blowing agent. The shell includes a first polymer layer formed from primary monomers and a second layer that includes a chemically reactive monomer or a high Tg monomer. To form the microspheres, the primary monomers are polymerized in a reaction vessel to an approximate 90% polymerization, at which time a secondary monomer that is either a monomer having a Tg of at least 85° C. or a chemically reactive monomer, is added to the reaction vessel to drive the polymerization reaction to completion. The outer layer thus contains either a larger amount of the high Tg monomer or a chemically reactive monomer that possesses the ability to covalently bond a cationic species. The microspheres may be used in papermaking processes to increase the paper bulk.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYInventors: Yaoliang Hong, Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Peter M. Froass, Mark Fagan, Christopher D. Anderson, Brian Boyars, Eric Scott Daniels, Victoria Laurentia Dimonie, Edward David Sudol, Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20090281827Abstract: An integrated payment system directed to the care of a subject and method of same is described herein. This system and method includes a care planner for accurately approximating the costs for the subject during the course of care, an insurance verifier and estimator that identifies the portion of the costs for the subject that is covered by the subjects insurance, wherein the approximated costs less the covered insurance leaves a subject payment, a discount planner that evaluates the application of at least one discount to the subject payment, and a payment planner that enables a payment arrangement for the subject for the subject payment less any applied discounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Keith Pendleton, David Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20090105776Abstract: A miniature microdrive system may be affixed to the skull and used to advance recording electrode bundles or injection cannula through the brain of freely moving test subjects, e.g., rodents. The microdrive may be constructed using a hybrid fabrication technique utilizing a printed circuit board and a small number of mechanical parts. The printed circuit board provides the base for both the electrical components and the mechanical components. The movement of a screw advances a shuttle that in turn moves an electrode bundle through the brain. Independently moving screws advance independent electrode bundles. The electrode wires are connected through the printed circuit board to a connector on the back of the board. Stainless steel cannulae are soldered to a grounding trace on the printed circuit board to guide the electrode bundle and provide a ground connection. With this system, multiple brain structures may be targeted simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: J. Wayne Aldridge, Andrew Klein, Marc Bradshaw
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Publication number: 20080272331Abstract: A method and composition for making hybrid nanoparticles and use of such nanoparticles are disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise a phase change material (PCM) and a metal layer encapsulating the phase change material. In another embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise a phase change material, a polymer layer encapsulating the phase change material, and an outer metal layer encapsulating the polymer layer. In another embodiment of the invention, the hybrid nanoparticles comprise an inner core of a PCM encapsulated by a polymer shell containing embedded nanoparticles that have a high thermal conductivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Satish C. Mohapatra, Edward David Sudol, Kejian Bian, Li Zhang, Eric Scott Daniels, Victoria Laurentia Dimonie, Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20080153386Abstract: Action toys and methods of assembling and using the toys. A first aspect the invention includes assembleable sectioned portions of background play scenes that are easily assembleable and rearrangeable into virtually endless diorama-like arrangements using a specialized connection system that allows any base and backdrop to be connected in multiple orientations. A second aspect of the invention includes specially designed and constructed figures usable with the background scenes. The figures include central body portions from which flexible limbs and head extend and features that allow the figures to free stand and to hold objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Odyssey ToysInventors: Andrew KLEIN, Ty Eason
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Patent number: 7357692Abstract: Action toys and methods of assembling and using the toys. A first aspect the invention includes assembleable sectioned portions of background play scenes that are easily assembleable and rearrangeable into virtually endless diorama-like arrangements using a specialized connection system that allows any base and backdrop to be connected in multiple orientations. A second aspect of the invention includes specially designed and constructed figures usable with the background scenes. The figures include central body portions from which flexible limbs and head extend and features that allow the figures to free stand and to hold objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Odyssey ToysInventors: Andrew Klein, Ty Eason
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Patent number: 7147537Abstract: Action toys and methods of assembling and using the toys. A first aspect the invention includes assembleable sectioned portions of background play scenes that are easily assembleable and rearrangeable into virtually endless diorama-like arrangements using a specialized connection system that allows any base and backdrop to be connected in multiple orientations. A second aspect of the invention includes specially designed and constructed figures usable with the background scenes. The figures include central body portions from which flexible limbs and head extend and features that allow the figures to free stand and to hold objects.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Odyssey ToysInventors: Andrew Klein, Ty Eason
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Publication number: 20060243324Abstract: An additive pump system for fire-fighting vehicles is automatically engaged when the water pump is engaged. Upon engagement of the water pump, the water pump communicates with a hydraulic pump to engage the hydraulic pump. Engagement of the hydraulic pump results in a rise in hydraulic pressure. A pressure switch is tripped when a pressure of a pre-determined set point is reached. The pressure switch communicates with a controller to indicate that sufficient pressure has been obtained. In response to the receiving the signal of sufficient hydraulic pressure, the controller signals the additive pump system to engage the additive pump system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Andrew Klein, Chad Pietrowski
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Publication number: 20060178080Abstract: Action toys and methods of assembling and using the toys. A first aspect the invention includes assembleable sectioned portions of background play scenes that are easily assembleable and rearrangeable into virtually endless diorama-like arrangements using a specialized connection system that allows any base and backdrop to be connected in multiple orientations. A second aspect of the invention includes specially designed and constructed figures usable with the background scenes. The figures include central body portions from which flexible limbs and head extend and features that allow the figures to free stand and to hold objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Andrew Klein, Ty Eason
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Patent number: 7082398Abstract: A system dynamically displays graphic identifier information, such as corporate logos, and value information for financial instruments, such as recent trade information, on a video wall having several monitors arranged to form a larger display. The system has input ports to receive feeds with identifiers and corresponding values of financial instruments, a filter to extract the identifiers and corresponding values of the financial instruments, a memory to store the extracted information and a table associating the financial instrument identifiers with graphic symbols, and processors to form a display signal with the graphic symbols and values.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1996Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Apple, Paul Noble, John Footen, Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20060095360Abstract: A system dynamically displays graphic identifier information, such as corporate logos, and value information for financial instruments, such as recent trade information, on a video wall having several monitors arranged to form a larger display. The system has input ports to receive feeds with identifiers and corresponding values of financial instruments, a filter to extract the identifiers and corresponding values of the financial instruments, a memory to store the extracted information and a table associating the financial instrument identifiers with graphic symbols, and processors to form a display signal with the graphic symbols and values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Thomas Apple, Paul Noble, John Footen, Andrew Klein
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Publication number: 20050079352Abstract: Hollow thermoexpandable particles or microspheres are provided that contain hydrocarbon blowing agents and have a shell polymer that can be softened at the onset of the expansion temperature and solidified at a higher temperature (thermoset) in an expanded state. Preferably, the microspheres have a shell of thermally expandable and thermally crosslinkable polymer and a hollow interior that contains a hydrocarbon liquid that boils at a temperature below the heat activated crosslinking temperature of the polymer shell. The crosslinking of the shell polymer during or after expansion, which is heat activated at an elevated temperature, can solidify the shell polymer and, then, maintain the expanded volume of the microspheres. The thermoexpandable thermoset polymer particles are useful in insulation, packaging, for making foam materials such as polyurethane or polyisocyanurate rigid foams.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2002Publication date: April 14, 2005Inventors: Joey Glorioso, James Burgess, Jiansheng Tang, Victoria Dimonie, Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 6608134Abstract: This invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising: microgels of at least one acrylic polymer; and an interlinking polymer covalently bonding at least some of said microgels to each other through said interlinking polymer. In one embodiment, the adhesive further comprises at least one non-gelled polymer, said interlinking polymer covalently bonding at least some of said microgels to said non-gelled polymer. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an aqueous dispersion, comprising: water; microgels of at least one acrylic polymer dispersed in said water; and at least one interlinking polymer capable of covalently bonding said microgels to each other through said interlinking polymer. In one embodiment, the dispersion further comprises at least one non-gelled polymer, and the interlinking polymer is capable of covalently bonding said microgels to said non-gelled polymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2000Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Singa D. Tobing, Andrew Klein, Thomas Edward White
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Publication number: 20020194105Abstract: Disclosed is a method for computerized trading of options in which the number of contracts and the “bid and ask” data are displayed in a succession of windows maintained by an “electronic book.” Each window is open for 20 seconds. In the first 5 seconds after a window has closed, a specialist has exclusive access to the window to place trades and publish the executed trade data. After that, traders and brokerage agencies have access to the new window to place trades. The general public has access to the window to observe the trading process. All trades are made on a real time basis and in the order, by time, in which they are received by the electronic book. Trades are limited to a predetermined range within each window so as to maintain a stable and orderly market.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2001Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventor: Andrew Klein