Patents by Inventor Chris D'Aoust

Chris D'Aoust 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: 9244012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a new silver coating/nanoparticle scaffold that significantly enhances the luminescence of near-field fluorophores via the metal enhanced fluorescence phenomenon. The silver coating/nanoparticle scaffold can be used for numerous applications in metal-enhanced fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY
    Inventors: Chris D. Geddes, Anatoliy I. Dragan
  • Publication number: 20160015005
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a pet includes a base station and a first monitoring device configured to capture first data relating to a first monitored area and to transmit the first data to the base station. The system further includes a second monitoring device configured to capture second data relating to a second monitored area and to transmit the second data to the base station, wherein the first monitored area and the second monitored area are adjacent. The base station is configured to determine a location of the pet as being in at least one of the first monitored area and the second monitored area. The base station is configured to determine a status of the pet based on at least one of the first and second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Allen L. Brown, JR., Douglas C. Burger, Alistair K. Chan, Eric Horvitz, Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K.Y. Jung, Chris D. Karkanias, John L. Manferdelli, Craig J. Mundie, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Barney Pell, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160010018
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are fuel formulations comprising C4-C12 aliphatic hydrocarbons and cumidine. In embodiments, the formulations further include a limited amount of aromatic hydrocarbons. In other embodiments, the aliphatic hydrocarbons are alkylates, and in still other embodiment the alkylates are alkanes. These fuel formulations provide unique and advantageous physical properties suitable for piston engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Chris D'Acosta, Thomas Albuzat
  • Publication number: 20160010019
    Abstract: Described are preferred compositions for a motor fuel. Such motor fuels may be particularly well suited for use in the motor of an aircraft. In particular, compositions of the present disclosure may comprise 50-75 wt % isooctane/alkylates, 20-40 wt % ETBE, 0-3 wt % isobutane, and 0-5 wt % aromatics. The present disclosure describes a full spectrum of unleaded fuels with various motor octane (MON) values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Chris D'Acosta, Thomas Albuzat
  • Patent number: 9217746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detecting and/or measuring scattering effects due to the aggregating metallic nanostructures or the interaction of plasmonic emissions from approaching metallic nanoparticles. The scattering effects may be measured at different angles, different wavelengths, changes in absorption and/or changes in polarization relative to changes in the distances between nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
    Inventor: Chris D. Geddes
  • Patent number: 9176560
    Abstract: A method for power management may include collecting data related to resource utilization and process information from a server. The method may further include using the collected data to generate use and state models respectively based on use and state categories of the server. The method may also include determining a state condition of the server through use of the generated use and state models to manage power utilization of the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chris D. Hyser, Daniel Juergen Gmach, Yuan Chen, Umesh Markandaya Lakshminarasimha, Suryanarayana Vijay
  • Patent number: 9178763
    Abstract: According to an example, an application performance measurement for an application for a current time interval, a performance specification for the application, and a resource consumption metric for a resource of a plurality of resources that are to process the application for the current time interval may be accessed. In addition, the application performance measurement, the performance specification, and the resource consumption metric may be used to determine a resource specification for a next time interval for the resource of the plurality of resources. Moreover, the resource specification may be used to determine, by a processor, a resource weight for the resource of the plurality of resources for the next time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Juergen Gmach, Sergey Blagodurov, Martin Arlitt, Yuan Chen, Chris D. Hyser
  • Publication number: 20150312167
    Abstract: A method of maximizing server utilization within a datacenter comprising collocating a number of workloads to a subset of a number of physical servers within a datacenter, adjusting access to resources by critical and non-critical workloads, isolating a number of critical workloads that share resources to the subset of resource instances, and controlling resource utilization of the collocated workloads. A system for collocating workloads in a datacenter, the system comprising a number of servers communicatively coupled to each other and a collocation module that receives information from each server and decides whether to leave a workload running on one of any of the servers on that server, or migrate a workload running on one of the number of servers to another server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Sergey Blagodurov, Martin Arlitt, Daniel Juergen Gmach, Yuan Chen, Chris D. Hyser, Cullen E. Bash
  • Patent number: 9170197
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assay including a surface having silver colloids or islands attached thereto. Attached to the surface and/or silver colloids/islands are polynucleotides which are complimentary to a target polynucleotide sequence. The assay is performed by adding the target polynucleotide sequence to the assay surface and allowing it to hybridize with the capture polynucleotides. Fluorophore-labeled capture polynucleotides are added and hybridize to the target polynucleotide. Bound target polynucleotides are detected by metal enhanced fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY
    Inventors: Chris D. Geddes, Joseph R. Lakowicz, Leslie W. J. Baillie
  • Publication number: 20150286506
    Abstract: To provide an arrangement of virtual machines on physical machines, at least one controller compares indicators associated with plural different layouts of the virtual machines on the physical machines, wherein the indicators provide information regarding performances of corresponding layouts. The at least one controller selects one of the plural layouts based on the comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Chris D. Hyser, Bret A. McKee, Robert D. Gartner, Daniel J. Magenheimer
  • Publication number: 20150281003
    Abstract: A device user may determine what applications from a set of applications may access the corporate network and which applications do not access the network. An indication of the limits on what a corporate network may access on a user personal device may provided to a user and either accepted or rejected. The user, if the user agreement is accepted, may receive a list of allowed applications and modify the list by removing applications on the list which the user does not want to send data to the corporate network. Both the user and a corporate network administrator may view the user accepted limits and track what user device applications actually have accessed the corporate network to confirm compliance with the limits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chris D. Peterson, Praveen Kumar
  • Publication number: 20150281281
    Abstract: An appliance works in conjunction with an agent on a remote device to control application access to a corporate network. In conjunction with an SSL tunnel and policy operating at the appliance, granular application control may be implemented. In particular, a device user may determine what applications from a set of applications may access the corporate network and which applications do not access the network. The policies applied to application traffic may be generated by an administrator. Policies may also be applied from a remote server to data stored on the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chris D. Peterson, Jeffrey Kauffman
  • Publication number: 20150281282
    Abstract: An appliance works in conjunction with an agent on a remote device to control application access to a corporate network. In conjunction with an SSL tunnel and policy operating at the appliance, granular application control may be implemented. In particular, a device user may determine what applications from a set of applications may access the corporate network and which applications do not access the network. The applications may be analyzed to determine whether the application is good or bad, as what security configurations, approvals and denials are associated with the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chemira Medappa, Chris D. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20150259619
    Abstract: Described are preferred compositions for a motor fuel. Such motor fuels may be particularly well suited for use in the motor of an aircraft. In particular, compositions of the present disclosure may comprise alicyclic alkanes, straight or branched chain alkanes, and aromatics. In a preferred embodiment, the fuel comprises cyclopentane, isooctane, and one or more aromatics selected from xylene, toluene, and trimethylbenzenes. The present disclosure describes a full spectrum of unleaded fuels with various motor octane (MON) values to address a wide range of aviation fuel needs in the global marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Albuzat, Chris D'Acosta
  • Publication number: 20150225143
    Abstract: A product includes a use indicator carried inside a container so that, upon removal of a closure from the container or upon removal of flowable product from within the container, a coloration of the product changes irreversibly to indicate to a user that the package has been used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Chris D. Anderson, Megan Herman, Brad Malcolm, Paola A. Rubiano
  • Patent number: 9104498
    Abstract: A method of maximizing server utilization within a datacenter comprising collocating a number of workloads to a subset of a number of physical servers within a datacenter, adjusting access to resources by critical and non-critical workloads, isolating a number of critical workloads that share resources to the subset of resource instances, and controlling resource utilization of the collocated workloads. A system for collocating workloads in a datacenter, the system comprising a number of servers communicatively coupled to each other and a collocation module that receives information from each server and decides whether to leave a workload running on one of any of the servers on that server, or migrate a workload running on one of the number of servers to another server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sergey Blagodurov, Martin Arlitt, Daniel Juergen Gmach, Yuan Chen, Chris D. Hyser, Cullen E. Bash
  • Patent number: 9092250
    Abstract: To provide an arrangement of virtual machines on physical machines, at least one controller compares indicators associated with plural different layouts of the virtual machines on the physical machines, wherein the indicators provide information regarding performances of corresponding layouts. The at least one controller selects one of the plural layouts based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chris D. Hyser, Bret A. McKee, Robert D. Gardner, Daniel J. Magenheimer
  • Patent number: 9075018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of imaging structures and features using plasmonic emissions from metallic surfaces caused by chemiluminescence based chemical and biological reactions wherein imaging of the reactions is enhanced by the use of microwave energy and further enhanced by using metallic geometric structures for spatially and temporally controlling the biological and chemical reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY
    Inventors: Chris D. Geddes, Michael Previte
  • Publication number: 20150184100
    Abstract: A motor fuel comprising gasoline comprising 70-99 wt % gasoline and 1 to 30 wt % of mesitylene. This fuel can advantageously contain conventional additives used in gasoline. The use of mesitylene in gasoline blend yields a fuel blend with a higher research octane number and motor octane number. In addition, an improved jet fuel is provided, having from 1-10 wt % mesitylene added to the jet fuel, having improved carbon emission characteristics while maintaining required specifications. Further, an improved bio-fuel is provided, which may function as a replacement for conventional Jet A/JP-8 fuel and has lowered carbon emission specifications, the bio-fuel comprised of 75-90 wt % synthetic parafinnic kerosene (SPK) and 10-25 wt % mesitylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Donald L. Bower, Philip J. Catania, Edward Johnson, Kenneth Kasper, John J. Rusek, Jonathon D. Ziulkowski, Chris D'Acosta, Thomas Albuzat, Brian Stirm
  • Publication number: 20150175918
    Abstract: Describe are preferred formulations for Avgas meeting the requirements for use in aircraft, including requirements established under ASTM standards and by the Federal Aviation Administration. In one embodiment, a binary mixture of 1,3,5-trimethyl benzene (mesitylene) and isopentane is used to provide a MON of at least 100, and more preferably at least 102. In other embodiments, the amounts of mesitylene and/or isopentane may be changed, and other fuel components are included. These various Avgas formulations are thereby adjusted to meet a variety of requirements as to octane rating, RVP, cold start, and other fuel characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Chris D'Acosta