Patents by Inventor Edward Cannon
Edward Cannon 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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Publication number: 20150149246Abstract: A computing device receives a first user input requesting an estimated revenue for a projected time period. The computing device receives a second user input. The computing device determines an expected revenue for the projected time period from new maintenance contracts and renewed maintenance contracts and an expected revenue for the projected time period from warranty upgrades on units based on at least the current number of installed units as of the base time period, the expected number of unit installations for the projected time period, the attrition rate and the warranty option upgrade rate. The computing device determines a total expected revenue for the projected time period based on at least the computing device determining the expected revenue for the projected time period from new maintenance contracts and renewed maintenance contracts and the expected revenue for the projected time period from warranty upgrades on installed units.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward Cannon, Sue Lynn Chong, John J. Dillon, Dawn M. Fritz, Kurt W. Mueller, Nitin Singhal
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Patent number: 7910891Abstract: Unused camera pixel locations are recovered when shifting from photographing an x-ray scintillation image of a larger subject to that of a substantially smaller one by using a suitably shorter optical path combined with appropriate changes in focus. The optical path for large subjects involves a first mirror followed by a second mirror. The camera receives light from the second mirror, and is in a fixed and unchanging physical relationship to that second mirror, forming a unitary mirror-camera assembly. To shorten the optical path that unitary assembly is rotated about an axis from a position where it was in the optical path downstream from the first mirror to one where the second mirror is interposed between the scintillation screen and the first mirror, and also such that the camera looks in a different direction along the shortened optical path length.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20100072378Abstract: Unused camera pixel locations are recovered when shifting from photographing an x-ray scintillation image of a larger subject to that of a substantially smaller one by using a suitably shorter optical path combined with appropriate changes in focus. The optical path for large subjects involves a first mirror followed by a second mirror. The camera receives light from the second mirror, and is in a fixed and unchanging physical relationship to that second mirror, forming a unitary mirror-camera assembly. To shorten the optical path that unitary assembly is rotated about an axis from a position where it was in the optical path downstream from the first mirror to one where the second mirror is interposed between the scintillation screen and the first mirror, and also such that the camera looks in a different direction along the shortened optical path length.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 7231704Abstract: A high-bandwidth electrical test probe having a probe contact spring of reduced size and characteristic capacitance is presented. The probe includes a contact spring connected at one end to the input port of a probe circuit. The opposite end of the contact spring enters the a probe socket and a predetermined angle of entry. The probe socket has a bore formed therein which is arranged at a non-zero angle relative to the angle of entry of the contact spring into said probe socket bore, thereby guaranteeing electrical contact with the bore. The design allows the use of a very small contact spring, on the order of tens of mils, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance of the spring and allowing much higher bandwidths than heretofore achievable.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6911811Abstract: A high-bandwidth electrical test probe having a probe contact spring of reduced size and characteristic capacitance is presented. The probe includes a contact spring connected at one end to the input port of a probe circuit. The opposite end of the contact spring enters the a probe socket and a predetermined angle of entry. The probe socket has a bore formed therein which is arranged at a non-zero angle relative to the angle of entry of the contact spring into said probe socket bore, thereby guaranteeing electrical contact with the bore. The design allows the use of a very small contact spring, on the order of tens of mils, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance of the spring and allowing much higher bandwidths than heretofore achievable.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6790080Abstract: A sub-chassis bracket attached to a horizontal motherboard has holes: (a) through which the connectors pass and that space the connectors apart by an intended nominal amount; and (b) that allow the connectors to shift horizontally as needed to form the mechanical path from a particular spacing on the motherboard to a front panel, with its own actual particular spacing, and to which panel the connectors are each fastened with a nut. The nuts are have a symmetrically tapered or curved surface on the side that contacts the outside of the panel, whose holes therethrough are somewhat oversize. The nuts individually center the connectors in their respective panel holes, and draw each connector perpendicular to the panel. To provide a particular connector feature orientation, and to prevent the connectors from rotating and disturbing that orientation during the tightening of the nuts, each connector has a central region of increased diameter that has two flats and that forms a shoulder.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20040121407Abstract: This disclosure provides, inter alia, treatments and compositions that alter life span regulation and cellular responses to diseases and disorders by antagonizing the GH/IGF-1 axis. Also provided are methods of screening for agents that can modulate the GH/IGF-1 axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: ELIXIR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: Peter Distefano, Cynthia A. Bayley, L. Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20040082212Abstract: A sub-chassis bracket attached to a horizontal motherboard has holes: (a) through which the connectors pass and that space the connectors apart by an intended nominal amount; and (b) that allow the connectors to shift horizontally as needed to form the mechanical path from a particular spacing on the motherboard to a front panel, with its own actual particular spacing, and to which panel the connectors are each fastened with a nut. The nuts are have a symmetrically tapered or curved surface on the side that contacts the outside of the panel, whose holes therethrough are somewhat oversize. The nuts individually center the connectors in their respective panel holes, and draw each connector perpendicular to the panel. To provide a particular bayonet pin orientation, and to prevent the connectors from rotating and disturbing that orientation during the tightening of the nuts, each connector has a central region of increased diameter that has two flats and that forms a shoulder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2002Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6717803Abstract: A bracket attached to a peripheral device of a computer system aligns and attaches the peripheral device to the inside of a computer system chassis. The bracket is detachably mountable and includes a bracket body having an aperture therein through which the peripheral device is inserted. The bracket includes a support bar having a tab that fits into a slot in the chassis to securely hold the peripheral device in position such that the front panel of the peripheral device is aligned within an aperture in a face of the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6639796Abstract: A fastenerless clip attaches a system component to the inside of a chassis of a computer system. The clip is detachably mountable and includes a clip body with a resilient portion to provide a compressive force that securely holds the system component in position against a face of the chassis. The fastenerless clip is useful in attaching rotary cooling fans to a lateral face of a computer system chassis.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20030173944Abstract: A high-bandwidth electrical test probe having a probe contact spring of reduced size and characteristic capacitance is presented. The probe includes a contact spring connected at one end to the input port of a probe circuit. The opposite end of the contact spring enters the a probe socket and a predetermined angle of entry. The probe socket has a bore formed therein which is arranged at a non-zero angle relative to the angle of entry of the contact spring into said probe socket bore, thereby guaranteeing electrical contact with the bore. The design allows the use of a very small contact spring, on the order of tens of mils, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance of the spring and allowing much higher bandwidths than heretofore achievable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6609925Abstract: A solution to problems of poor RF performance in conventional BNC connectors is to first, eliminate the use of Teflon, in favor of an air dielectric in the vicinity of the mating parts, and support the male and female center pins further back within the body of the connector, using other proven dielectric materials borrowed from the precision type N connector, or from another 7 mm RF connector. Next, a captive knurled draw nut provides positive displacement and the tension needed to draw the already mated male and female connector halves together, in place of the conventional spring tension. It is the bottoming out of the male shell inside the female shell that resists the positive displacement and the tension supplied by the knurled draw nut, ensuring that the two connector halves are actually in contact, and that the edges of shell surfaces that need to “vanish” for good operation do indeed vanish.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20030151889Abstract: A bracket attached to a peripheral device of a computer system aligns and attaches the peripheral device to the inside of a computer system chassis. The bracket is detachably mountable and includes a bracket body having an aperture therein through which the peripheral device is inserted. The bracket includes a support bar having a tab that fits into a slot in the chassis to securely hold the peripheral device in position such that the front panel of the peripheral device is aligned within an aperture in a face of the chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 6602093Abstract: A solution to problems of poor RF performance in conventional BNC connectors is to first, eliminate the use of Teflon, in favor of an air dielectric in the vicinity of the mating parts, and support the male and female center pins further back within the body of the connector, using other proven dielectric materials borrowed from the precision type N connector, or from another 7 mm RF connector. Next, a captive knurled draw nut provides positive displacement and the tension needed to draw the already mated male and female connector halves together, in place of the conventional spring tension. It is the bottoming out of the male shell inside the female shell that resists the positive displacement and the tension supplied by the knurled draw nut, ensuring that the two connector halves are actually in contact, and that the edges of shell surfaces that need to “vanish” for good operation do indeed vanish.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20030137806Abstract: A fastenerless clip attaches a system component to the inside of a chassis of a computer system. The clip is detachably mountable and includes a clip body with a resilient portion to provide a compressive force that securely holds the system component in position against a face of the chassis. The fastenerless clip is useful in attaching rotary cooling fans to a lateral face of a computer system chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: James Edward Cannon
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Publication number: 20030082597Abstract: Disclosed is a method of identifying an biological age-associated marker. The method can include: providing a first organism having a first genotype and a second organism having a second genotype, wherein the first and second organisms are derived from the same species and are the same chronological age; and comparing a property associated with a biomolecule in the first organism to a property associated with the biomolecule in the second organism to identify a biomolecule having a preselected value for said property, thereby identifying the biomolecule as an biological age-associated marker.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Inventors: L. Edward Cannon, Cynthia A. Bayley, Cynthia J. Kenyon, Leonard P. Guarente, Alan D. Watson
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Patent number: 6083760Abstract: An immunoassay procedure for detection of analytes in urine wherein an immunological reaction is conducted in an aqueous phase containing the urine and a filterable immunocomposite containing an inherently colored gold sol particle is formed if the assay is positive. The colored, gold sol particle containing immunocomposite is collected for direct visual observation on a filter element.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1992Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Hygeia Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Charles C. Ditlow, L. Edward Cannon, Francis X. Cole, Gene A. Davis, Eric C. Sigillo, Alicia G. Danti
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Patent number: 5242804Abstract: A simultaneous dual analyte assay for determining the fertile period of the human menstrual cycle. The assay utilizes a capture reaction component consisting of P-3-G immobilized on a microporous membrane, a blocking reaction component consisting of anti E.sub.1 -3-G antibody, a labelled reaction component consisting of gold particle labelled anti E.sub.1 -3-G antibody, and an ambifunctional reaction component consisting of a hybrid immunoreactive substance having an anti P-3-G antibody binding site and a plurality of E.sub.1 -3-G determinant binding sites. An aqueous sample containing P-3-G and E.sub.1 -3-G is contacted with the components and the assay is calibrated to provide a positive assay result only when the concentration of P-3-G in the sample is less than a predetermined concentration and the concentration of E.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1992Date of Patent: September 7, 1993Assignee: Hygeia Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Izak Bahar, Francis X. Cole, L. Edward Cannon
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Patent number: 5202267Abstract: An immunoassay procedure for detection of analytes in urine wherein an immunological reaction is conducted in an aqueous phase containing the urine and a filterable immunocomposite containing an inherently colored gold sol particle is formed if the assay is positive. The colored, gold sol particle containing immunocomposite is collected for direct visual observation on a filter element.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1988Date of Patent: April 13, 1993Assignee: Hygeia Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Charles C. Ditlow, L. Edward Cannon, Francis X. Cole, Gene A. Davis, Eric C. Sigillo, Alicia G. Danti
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Patent number: 4931385Abstract: Detection of bindable substances such as antibodies and antigens using enzyme linked immunosorbent assays having particular utility in home diagnostic applications. The preferred implementation of the invention is characterized by the steps of admixing a sample suspected of containing the bindable substance to be detected with an antibody-enzyme conjugate, immersing an antibody coated solid support into the mixture and then exposing the coated support to an activated chromogenic solution. The conjugate for use in the home diagnostic assay is preferably contained within a lyophilized mixture. The lyophilized mixture contains components which preserve the antibody-conjugate's reactivity and immunologic binding specificity even if the lyophilized mixture had been subjected to hot, humid environmental conditions. Active components in the lyophilized mixture include polyethylene glycol, sugars, and surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1988Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Hygeia Sciences, IncorporatedInventors: Elliott Block, Izak Bahar, Frank Cole, Cheryl A. Eaton, Wendy Jones, Eric Sigillo, Mary Coseo, Nancy J. Cicia, L. Edward Cannon, Walter Cantarow