Patents by Inventor Douglas Faulkner

Douglas Faulkner 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).

  • Publication number: 20120158750
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to providing a medical application with access to medical information from validated medical information experts. The medical information experts can be validated by scoring attributes of a purported medical information expert, generating a rank based on the score, and comparing the score to a pre-set threshold. The medical information from validated medical information experts can be stored in a knowledge database. A request from a medical application can be received and used to search the knowledge database to generate a response to the request that includes part of the medical information. The response can be provided to the medical application in a format that can be customized by the medical application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: INTERFIX, LLC
    Inventors: SCOTT DOUGLAS FAULKNER, GARY EDWARD HIGBIE
  • Patent number: 8145644
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to providing a medical application with access to medical information from validated medical information experts. The medical information experts can be validated by scoring attributes of a purported medical information expert, generating a rank based on the score, and comparing the score to a pre-set threshold. The medical information from validated medical information experts can be stored in a knowledge database. A request from a medical application can be received and used to search the knowledge database to generate a response to the request that includes part of the medical information. The response can be provided to the medical application in a format that can be customized by the medical application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Interfix, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Douglas Faulkner, Gary Edward Higbie
  • Publication number: 20090037474
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to providing a medical application with access to medical information from validated medical information experts. The medical information experts can be validated by scoring attributes of a purported medical information expert, generating a rank based on the score, and comparing the score to a pre-set threshold. The medical information from validated medical information experts can be stored in a knowledge database. A request from a medical application can be received and used to search the knowledge database to generate a response to the request that includes part of the medical information. The response can be provided to the medical application in a format that can be customized by the medical application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Scott Douglas Faulkner, Gary Edward Higbie
  • Publication number: 20070187469
    Abstract: In an assembly of facing metal sheets separated by a polymer layer, welded metallurgical bonds are formed between the metal sheets by use of a friction stir weld tool. A rotating tool penetrates the first sheet, locally displaces the encountered portion of polymer film and penetrates into the second sheet. The affected metal of the two sheets is momentarily plasticized and stirred, and the plasticized metal of the two sheets combines to form a weld between the metal sheets. The interposed polymer film may be intended to serve as an adhesive or a vibration damping medium or the like. The facing metal sheets can be layers of facing laminated metal sheet structures that each comprise two metal sheets bonded by an adhesive interlayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Lung Chen, Douglas Faulkner, Peter Parlow, Mark Verbrugge, Xiaohong Gayden, John Fickes, Peter Foss