Patents by Inventor Christopher Burbank Lirakis

Christopher Burbank Lirakis 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).

  • System and method for imaging and tracking contacts within a medium
    Patent number: 7366053
    Abstract: A system for processing one or more detection signals from an acoustic signal detection system to image and track one or more contacts within a medium including a computer configured to receive the detection signal and a computer readable medium operatively coupled to the computer, that is capable of applying an image processing method to one or more images derived from the received one or more detection signals to estimate the kinematic characteristics of the one or more contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: BBN Technologies, Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Patrick Audi, Matthew Patrick Daily, Lynne Maria Dillman, Christopher Burbank Lirakis
  • System and method for automatically optimizing heterogenous multiprocessor software performance
    Patent number: 6539542
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for optimizing the mapping of processes within a parallelized software program among individual processors in a high performance, scalable computing system. The resulting mapping enhances the usage of the available inter-processor communications bandwidth and balances the computational processing load among the processors of the system, improving upon mappings generated by skilled programmers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Genuity Inc.
    Inventors: David Bruce Cousins, Matthew Paul Daily, Christopher Burbank Lirakis
  • Computer assembly housing
    Patent number: D1063146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Burbank Lirakis, Mark Edward Podlaseck, Jerry M. Chow, Pieter Vorselman, Amir Niknammoghadam