Patents by Inventor David A. Alexander

David A. Alexander 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).

  • Persistent and Unified Electronic Shopping Cart
    Publication number: 20140279214
    Abstract: A persistent, unified electronic shopping cart that permits a user to select and aggregate goods or services for future purchase from two or more unrelated e-commerce websites, display and modify the content of the electronic shopping cart, and then complete the purchase of the goods or services through the one electronic shopping cart. The user of the persistent, unified electronic shopping cart is able to add and remove items from the electronic shopping cart, compare the prices, shipping and taxes for items from different e-commerce sites, move items to a wish list and see the total for all purchases at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: David Alexander Wagoner-Edwards, Aanarav Sareen
  • Dual-Function Read/Write Cache for Programmable Non-Volatile Memory
    Publication number: 20140241066
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory, such as a one-time programmable memory, with a dual purpose read/write cache. The read/write cache is used as a write cache during programming, and stores the data to be written for a full row of the memory array. The programming operation simultaneously programs all cells in the selected row based on the contents of the write cache. In subsequent read operations, the read/write cache is used as a read cache. A full row of the array is simultaneously read in a read access, and the contents of that row are stored in the read cache. Subsequent access to that same row causes the data to be read from the read cache rather than requiring access of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: David Alexander Grant, Louis A. Williams, III
  • EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES FOR THE APPLICATION OF ATOMIZED FLUID TO A WEB SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20140238295
    Abstract: An apparatus for the application of atomized fluid to a web material having a first surface and a second surface opposed thereto is disclosed. The apparatus is provided with a fluid source disposed adjacent to the first surface of the web material and a receipt plenum disposed adjacent to the second surface of the web material. The receipt plenum provides a source of negative pressure to the second surface of the web material. A fluid disposed from the fluid source contacts the first surface of the web material and is caused to traverse therethrough by the source of negative pressure. A portion of the fluid contacting the first surface of the web material is contained by the receipt plenum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Miguel Angel VALLE, Katie Kristine Glass, Hasan Eroglu, David Warren Loebker, Kurt David Alexander, André Mellin, Kevin Benson McNeil, David William Cabell, John Gerhard Michael, Stanford Royce Jackson, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Retinal fundus surveillance method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8807751
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for quantitative imaging of the retinal fundus. The method for retinal health assessment comprises imaging the retinal fundus of a patient's eye at different wavelengths within a spectral range and determining spectral reflectivity of the retina for each pixel within a field of view (FOV). The retinal health is assessed based on the spectral reflectivity of the retina. The metabolic and anatomical activity of the eye is monitored to detect, at the earliest stage, activity that could lead to the onset of blinding eye diseases such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataracts, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Annidis Health Systems Corp.
    Inventors: David Alexander Kahn, Ian Powell, Alan Boate, Jeremy Lloyd Gribben
  • Communication systems and methods for transmitting communications between a charge system and an AC adapter
    Patent number: 8810207
    Abstract: Communications systems and methods for transmitting communications between a charge system and an AC adapter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a communication system comprises an AC adapter disconnect switch that is switchable between coupling and decoupling an AC adapter DC output voltage to the charge system and a charge controller configured to modulate the AC adapter disconnect switch between coupling and decoupling to provide a communication signal to the AC adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Ashley Carpenter, David Alexander Grant, Garry Trevor Tomlins, Ben A. Dowlat
  • Process
    Publication number: 20140221668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing (R)-5-(2-(benzylamino)ethyl)-1-(6,8-difluorochroman-3-yl)-1H-imidazole-2(3H)-thione, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, especially the hydrochloride salt. The invention also relates to a process for making intermediates useful in the formation of said compound, and to the intermediates, per se.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: BIAL-PORTELA & CA, S.A.
    Inventors: Alexander Beliaev, Jorge Bruno Reis Wahnon, David Alexander Learmonth, Jonathan Madec, Jean-Marie Schneider, William Maton
  • Plant Treatment Compositions and Methods for Their Use
    Publication number: 20140213544
    Abstract: Plant treatment compositions comprising metal alginate salts and at least one amine compound are useful in the treatment of plants, particularly food crops. The metal alginate salts are found to be highly effective in the absence of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Cowan Co.
    Inventors: Wallace Keith Majure, Nicholas William Vandervort, Paul Joseph David, Brian Duane Deeter, Gary Joseph Melchior, James Richard Brazzle, Kenneth Roger Muzyk, Frank Rene Miranda, Tak Wai Cheung, Oaxford George Bain, John Edward Frieden, David Alexander Marsden, Olaf Christian Moberg, Susan Toddie Oeltjen, John Christopher Rueb, William Arthur Hendrickson
  • MACROPHAGE INHIBITORY CYTOKINE-1 (MIC-1) AS A PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
    Publication number: 20140205684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of prognosing the survival of a diseased subject, particularly a subject with chronic kidney disease (CKD), as well as selecting an end-stage renal disease subject for a kidney transplant. The methods involve detecting an elevated amount of macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1) in a test body sample from the diseased subject. A method of preventing or reducing the risk of death in a CKD subject which involves removing or inactivating MIC-1 present in the blood, plasma or serum of the subject, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Limited
    Inventors: Samuel Norbert Breit, David Alexander Brown
  • CONTROLLING A COMPUTING-BASED DEVICE USING HAND GESTURES
    Publication number: 20140208274
    Abstract: Methods and system for controlling a computing-based device using both input received from a traditional input device (e.g. keyboard) and hand gestures made on or near a reference object (e.g. keyboard). In some examples, the hand gestures may comprise one or more hand touch gestures and/or one or more hand air gestures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel Gavin Smyth, Peter John Ansell, Christopher Jozef O'Prey, Mitchel Alan Goldberg, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Toby Sharp, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Jane Sellen, Richard Malcolm Banks, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harry Robert Harper, Eric John Greveson, David Alexander Butler, Stephen E Hodges
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE
    Publication number: 20140197977
    Abstract: A composition for destructive interference in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz can comprise a dielectric and a conductive filler mixed with at least a portion of the dielectric, wherein the percentage volume of the conductive filler relative to the total volume of the composition is configured such that the wavelength of sensitivity for the composition is on the order of a wavelength of an incident electromagnetic radiation in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Davide Louis Simone, Gary Stephen Balch, David Alexander Gibson, III, Harold Jay Patchen, Allen Lawrence Garner, Gregory John Parker, Daniel Qi Tan, Francis Johnson
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENFORCING SECURITY IN MOBILE COMPUTING
    Publication number: 20140201807
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein relate to enhancing security on a device by configuring one or more software functions in a trusted zone of a processor using object firewalls, IPC mechanisms, and/or a policy engine. An inter-process communication mechanism and inter-process communication bus enable secure inter-process communication between inter-process communication applications within the trusted zone and inter-process communication applications external to the trusted zone. Adapting, filtering, blocking, redirecting, or otherwise modifying inter-process communications is enabled by the inter-process communications mechanism. Modifications may be controlled by a policy engine within the trusted zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Optio Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Jules WHITE, Brian DOUGHERTY, David Alexander HAMRICK, Grayson Gates SHARPE, Robert Austin HANLIN, Krzysztof Kamil ZIENKIEWICZ, Christopher Michael THOMPSON, Thomas Charles CLANCY, III
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENERGY DISSIPATION
    Publication number: 20140197352
    Abstract: A method for forming a composition exhibiting energy dissipation in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz can comprise treating a magnetic lossy material to increase the brittleness of the material, processing at least a portion of the magnetic lossy material into a powder, and mixing at least a portion of the powder with a dielectric resin, wherein the percentage volume of the powder relative to the total volume of the composition is configured such that dissipation of incident electromagnetic radiation is substantially optimized in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Davide Louis Simone, Gary Stephen Balch, David Alexander Gibson, III, Harold Jay Patchen, Allen Lawrence Garner, Daniel Qi Tan, Francis Johnson, Gregory John Parker
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENERGY DISSIPATION
    Publication number: 20140197978
    Abstract: A composition for energy dissipation in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz, the composition can comprise a dielectric and graphene mixed with at least a portion of the dielectric, wherein the percentage volume of the graphene relative to the total volume of the composition is configured such that dissipation of incident electromagnetic radiation is substantially optimized in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Davide Louis Simone, Gary Stephen Balch, David Alexander Gibson, III, Harold Jay Patchen, Allen Lawrence Garner, Gregory John Parker
  • Exploratory linktrace operations in a computer network
    Patent number: 8767587
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an exploratory linktrace is initiated from an initiating network device with an exploratory linktrace message (ELM) having a target address. Each network device receiving the ELM may then propagate the ELM on a plurality of its ports to a plurality of downstream network devices based on the target address. In addition, each receiving network device returns an exploratory linktrace reply (ELR) for each of the plurality of ports, where each ELR is returned according to one or more mechanisms to mitigate stormed replies to the initiating network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman W. Finn, Samer Salam, John Monaghan, Iain McDade, David Alexander Ball, Simon Chatterjee
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING AN IMAGE OF A LOCATION WITH A REPRESENTATION OF A TRANSIENT OBJECT
    Publication number: 20140168258
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to augment an image of a location with a representation of a transient object. In the context of a method, an image of a location to be presented is identified. The method also includes identifying a transient object that is not in the image of the location, but that is anticipated to be at the location during at least one period of time. The method further includes causing the image of the location to be presented with augmentation that provides a representation of the transient object. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: David Alexander Dearman, Raymond Rischpater, Carmen Au, Jason Wither
  • Aircraft information management system
    Patent number: 8755953
    Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising an existing aircraft node and an information agent located in the existing aircraft node. The existing aircraft node is connected to a number of aircraft systems and a network in an aircraft network data processing system. The information agent is configured to provide access to information received by the existing aircraft node to other aircraft nodes in the aircraft network data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Tri Minh Phan, Douglas Lee Wiese, David Alexander Bush
  • Grease Removal Apparatus, Systems and Methods
    Publication number: 20140157739
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a filter pad comprising fibers including natural, synthetic and/or hybrid fibers. A stabilizer frame formed of a non-metallic material may be imbedded in the filter pad. The stabilizer frame may be configured to provide support to the filter pad to maintain the filter pad in a generally flat configuration. In accordance with a particular embodiment, the filter pad may be comprised of at least first and second fibrous mats that are coupled together. In this embodiment, the stabilizer frame may be disposed between and coupled with the first and second fibrous mats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventor: Glenn David Alexander
  • READ MARGIN MEASUREMENT IN A READ-ONLY MEMORY
    Publication number: 20140140141
    Abstract: Read margin measurement circuitry for measuring the read margin of floating-gate programmable non-volatile memory cells. In some embodiments, the read margin of a cell with a floating-gate transistor in a non-conductive state is measured by periodically clocking a counter following initiation of a read cycle; a latch stores the counter contents upon the cell under test making a transition due to leakage of the floating-gate transistor. Logic for testing a group of cells in parallel is disclosed. In some embodiments, the read margin of a cell in which the floating-gate transistor is set to a conductive state is measured by repeatedly reading the cell, with the output developing a voltage corresponding to the duty cycle of the output of the read circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: David Alexander Grant
  • System and Method to Transform a Complex Database Into a Simple, Faster, and Equivalent Database
    Publication number: 20140129514
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for representing complex databases having an arbitrary number of tables with a simple database comprising at least two tables, in which each attribute of each object is represented in a first table and in which each object is represented as a list of attributes in a second table. There is also provided a method for converting a complex database in a simple database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SageTea Inc.
    Inventor: David Alexander Harry LONG
  • Fluid activatable adhesives and fluids for activating same for use with liner-free labels
    Patent number: 8716389
    Abstract: Fluid activatable adhesive compositions and activating fluid(s) for activating the adhesive composition are described herein. The adhesive compositions contain at least two polymers with different hydrophilicities. The hydrophilic polymer has quick tack when exposed to a hydrophilic solvent, such as water or other aqueous solvent, while the hydrophobic polymer provides strong adhesion to a paper or polymeric substrate. The adhesive composition may contain particulate fillers which enable fast exhaustion of the activation fluid out of the adhesive when applied to a substrate, thereby allowing the hydrophobic polymers of the adhesive composition to achieve strong adhesion of the liner-free label to the paper or polymeric substrate. The particulate fillers may also function as anti-blocking agents when liner-free label media are tightly wound in a roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: NuLabel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Lux, Daniel Youngwhan Cho, David Alexander Sonshine