Patents by Inventor David A. Hull
David A. Hull 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: 8848290Abstract: Thermal wake proximate to an optical element of a telescope may be reduced. Signal(s) related to respective temperatures of support struts supporting the optical element may be generated. The respective temperatures of the support struts may be determined based on the signal(s). Individual support struts may be heated based on the respective temperatures of the support struts. Heating a given support strut may cause the given support strut to thermally expand. Individual support struts may be at least partially enclosed with corresponding shrouds. Airspaces may be disposed between individual support struts and the corresponding shrouds. Heat emitted in the airspaces by the support struts may be ejected away from the optical element to prevent a thermal wake from reaching a volume proximate to the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventor: David A. Hull
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Publication number: 20140213905Abstract: An ultrasound system performs duplex colorflow and spectral Doppler imaging, with the spectral Doppler interrogation performed at a sample volume location shown on the colorflow image. The colorflow image is displayed in a color box overlaid on a co-registered B mode image. A color box position and steering angle processor analyzes the spatial Doppler data and automatically sets the color box angle and location over a blood vessel for optimal Doppler sensitivity and accuracy. The processor may also automatically set the flow angle correction cursor in alignment with the direction of flow. In a preferred embodiment these optimization adjustments are made automatically and continuously as a user pauses at points for Doppler measurements along a length of the blood vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Ashraf Saad, Thanasis Loupas, David Hull, Steven John Hill
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Patent number: 8459160Abstract: A multiple slicing device includes a frame including a receptacle and a plurality of cutting elements, and a working portion including an activation mechanism, a cam mechanism, and a forcing member. The activation mechanism can include two handles where moving one of the handles toward the other handle collapses the forcing member via the cam mechanism, onto a food item placed in the receptacle between the forcing member and the cutting elements, to efficiently and simultaneously cut or slice the food item into multiple pieces.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David A. Holcomb, Matthew Krus, Adam A. Jossem, Jonah S. Griffith, David Hull
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Patent number: 8444022Abstract: A pouring device includes a container, a stiffening member with first and second stiffening portions having respective terminating ends spaced from each other. The first and second stiffening portions are coupled to the container with a deformable region of the container being positioned between the terminating ends of the first and second stiffening portions. The deformable region can be more resilient than the stiffening member to form a pour spout at least in part from the deformable region upon application of a force to the container toward opposing sides of the deformable region.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David A. Holcomb, David Hull
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Patent number: 8312138Abstract: Provided are methods and computer program products for identifying and monitoring related business application processes executing on at least one networked device. Methods may include identifying a first process that corresponds to a specified business application process; identifying root processes by tracing a dependency path from the first process to each of the root processes; grouping at least one of the root processes into a root group; and identifying a dependency chain of the at least one root process in the root group.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Blue Stripe Software, Inc.Inventors: David Hull, Nathaniel Williams, John B. Bley
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Publication number: 20120257275Abstract: Thermal wake proximate to an optical element of a telescope may be reduced. Signal(s) related to respective temperatures of support struts supporting the optical element may be generated. The respective temperatures of the support struts may be determined based on the signal(s). Individual support struts may be heated based on the respective temperatures of the support struts. Heating a given support strut may cause the given support strut to thermally expand. Individual support struts may be at least partially enclosed with corresponding shrouds. Airspaces may be disposed between individual support struts and the corresponding shrouds. Heat emitted in the airspaces by the support struts may be ejected away from the optical element to prevent a thermal wake from reaching a volume proximate to the optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventor: David A. HULL
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Publication number: 20120198642Abstract: In one particular embodiment, a basting device incorporates a handle body, having a handle portion and a working portion, and a bristle cartridge removably coupled to the working portion of the handle body. The bristle cartridge has a set of first bristles projecting outwardly from the cartridge in a first direction and a set of second bristles projecting outwardly from the cartridge in a second direction different from the first direction. At least one of the first and second bristles has a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being attached to the bristle cartridge and the distal end having a slit therein extending from the distal end toward the proximal end. The slit has a width sized to cause fluid to be drawn into the slit through capillary action when the distal end of the bristle is submerged in the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: CHEF'N CORPORATIONInventors: Adam A. Jossem, Theresa H. Lee, David Hull
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Patent number: 8234975Abstract: A hulling device includes a cap, a pushing member, a spring between the cap and pushing member, and at least one nipper having two nipping members coupled to the pushing member and extending toward the cap. The nipping members are mutually shaped with the cap and slide contiguous respective contact regions of the cap to separate tips of the nipping members upon actuation of the pushing member. The separated tips can be inserted in a food item, such as a strawberry, and twisted and pulled to hull the food item. The user can release the pushing member when the tips are in the food item to improve gripping and severing the hull. The hulling device can also include a main body housing at least a portion of the pushing member, cap, spring, and first and second nippers, the main body being coupled to the cap, the pushing member, or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David A. Holcomb, David Hull
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Publication number: 20120072258Abstract: Provided are methods and computer program products for identifying and monitoring related business application processes executing on at least one networked device. Methods may include identifying a first process that corresponds to a specified business application process; identifying root processes by tracing a dependency path from the first process to each of the root processes; grouping at least one of the root processes into a root group; and identifying a dependency chain of the at least one root process in the root group.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: David Hull, Nathaniel Williams, John B. Bley
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Publication number: 20110114678Abstract: A pouring device includes a container, a stiffening member with first and second stiffening portions having respective terminating ends spaced from each other. The first and second stiffening portions are coupled to the container with a deformable region of the container being positioned between the terminating ends of the first and second stiffening portions. The deformable region can be more resilient than the stiffening member to form a pour spout at least in part from the deformable region upon application of a force to the container toward opposing sides of the deformable region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David Holcomb, David Hull
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Publication number: 20110000351Abstract: A multiple slicing device includes a frame including a receptacle and a plurality of cutting elements, and a working portion including an activation mechanism, a cam mechanism, and a forcing member. The activation mechanism can include two handles where moving one of the handles toward the other handle collapses the forcing member via the cam mechanism, onto a food item placed in the receptacle between the forcing member and the cutting elements, to efficiently and simultaneously cut or slice the food item into multiple pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: CHEF'N CORPORATIONInventors: David A. Holcomb, Matthew Krus, Adam A. Jossem, Jonah S. Griffith, David Hull
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Patent number: 7846103Abstract: An improved probe guide and probe guide system for use in conjunction with a medical imaging device is disclosed. The medical imaging device may be any type of imaging device that generates a cross-sectional image of a portion of a patient's body in a single image plane, such as, ultrasound, CT, or MRI imaging devices. The probe guide allows maintaining the movement of the probe within the image plane and accurate placement of a probe, such as a biopsy needle, by allowing a range of angular translation of the probe. The probe guide system enables extrapolation of the penetration path of the probe held by the probe guide and superimpose it on to the cross-sectional image allowing the medical personnel to view the penetration path of the probe within the patient in advance.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Medical Equipment Diversified Services, Inc.Inventors: Charles Cannon, Jr., David Hull, William R. Camerer, III
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Publication number: 20100236425Abstract: A hulling device includes a cap, a pushing member, a spring between the cap and pushing member, and at least one nipper having two nipping members coupled to the pushing member and extending toward the cap. The nipping members are mutually shaped with the cap and slide contiguous respective contact regions of the cap to separate tips of the nipping members upon actuation of the pushing member. The separated tips can be inserted in a food item, such as a strawberry, and twisted and pulled to hull the food item. The user can release the pushing member when the tips are in the food item to improve gripping and severing the hull. The hulling device can also include a main body housing at least a portion of the pushing member, cap, spring, and first and second nippers, the main body being coupled to the cap, the pushing member, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: CHEF'N CORPORATIONInventors: David A. Holcomb, David Hull
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Publication number: 20100237107Abstract: A pouring device includes a container, a stiffening member with first and second stiffening portions having respective terminating ends spaced from each other. The first and second stiffening portions are coupled to the container with a deformable region of the container being positioned between the terminating ends of the first and second stiffening portions. The deformable region can be more resilient than the stiffening member to form a pour spout at least in part from the deformable region upon application of a force to the container toward opposing sides of the deformable region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: CHEF'N CORPORATIONInventors: David A. Holcomb, David Hull
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Patent number: D627198Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David Hull, David A. Holcomb
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Patent number: D631663Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: Matthew Krus, David Hull, Jonah S. Griffith, Adam A. Jossem
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Patent number: D631712Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David Hull, David A. Holcomb
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Patent number: D634654Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: David Hull, David A. Holcomb
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Patent number: D636092Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventor: David Hull
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Patent number: D644061Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Chef'n CorporationInventors: Jonah S. Griffith, Matthew Krus, David Hull, Joseph Gray, Adam A. Jossem, David A. Holcomb