Patents by Inventor George An

George An 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).

  • Compositions, methods, and plant genes for the improved production of fermentable sugars for biofuel production
    Patent number: 9856512
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions comprising at least one auxin transport inhibitor for pre-treating a plant or seed to increase saccharification, or saccharide release by hydrolysis, the at least one auxin transport inhibitor being in an amount effective to increase sugar release from a plant tissue by hydrolysis. Also described are plant mutations, and methods to screen for such plant mutations, having an improved sugar release phenotype. The described compositions, methods and plant mutations are particularly useful for producing biofuel crops, such as maize, to improve sugar extractability from lignocellulosic biomass and hence, the efficiency of bioethanol production overall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Dario Torquato Bonetta, Peter John McCourt, Danielle Vidaurre, George Stamatiou
  • Wire retention seal for a terminal assembly
    Patent number: 9859626
    Abstract: A terminal assembly includes a terminal having a wire barrel configured to be crimped to a wire and a mating segment configured to be mated to a mating component. The terminal assembly includes a wire retention seal received in the wire barrel. The wire retention seal has a terminal mounting flange engaging the wire barrel to axially secure the wire retention seal to the terminal. The wire retention seal has a wire retention sleeve defining a wire bore configured to receive an end of the wire. The wire retention sleeve is configured to interfere with the wire to axially retain the wire retention seal on the end of the wire prior to crimping the wire barrel to the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Kevin Michael Thackston, Albert Tsang, James Scott Showers, George E. Kell
  • Systems and methods for facilitating efficiencies in inventory management and control
    Patent number: 9858536
    Abstract: A system and method provide automated identification mechanisms that facilitate efficiencies in inventory monitoring, management and control, including reducing labor costs associated with product placement, product inventorying, and shelf stocking/re-stocking in retail marketing scenarios, and advising consumers/customers regarding product pricing, promotional, nutritional and other information. Near field communication or other similar identification devices are embedded in retail-ready composite packaging. The embedded communication and identification devices provide identification information regarding the product with which the packaging is associated to a wireless reader device as a retailer's employee walks by a set of shelves stocked with an assortment of such packaged products. Mechanisms are included for tracking the addition or removal of items from the retail-ready container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: George Gibson, Linn C. Hoover
  • Hotspot navigation within documents
    Patent number: 9858248
    Abstract: Suggesting navigation to a user between multiple spots in a document by creating a hotspot graph based on a list of hotspots in the document which are frequently traveled to or edited by the user, monitoring user actions within the document and storing each action as a history element in a repository; and if the user is detected as navigating away from a hotspot in the document or from a spot which is not contained in a hotspot to a hotspot, displaying a list of hotspots in which the user would travel to within the document, ordered based on the probability associated with arcs between the nodes of the hotspot graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Georges-Henri Moll
  • Methods and apparatus for electromagnetic signal polarimetry sensing
    Patent number: 9857316
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying changes utilizing radio frequency polarization includes receiving a reflected and/or transmitted polarized radio frequency signal at a receiver, filtering, amplifying and conditioning the received signal, converting the received signal from an analog format to a digital format, processing the digital signal to elicit a polarization mode dispersion feature of the received signal, and comparing the polarization mode dispersion features to a known calibration to detect a change in a characteristic of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Jeffrey George Mueller
  • Metering system for an agricultural vehicle
    Patent number: 9854732
    Abstract: A metering system for an agricultural vehicle includes a meter roller oriented substantially parallel to a direction of travel of the agricultural vehicle. The meter roller includes multiple protrusions, and each protrusion is configured to drive agricultural product downwardly in response to rotation of the meter roller. The metering system also includes a drive shaft configured to be driven in rotation. In addition, the metering system includes a gear assembly having an input coupled to the drive shaft and an output configured to drive the meter roller to rotate. A first rotational axis of the input is substantially perpendicular to a second rotational axis of the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dennis George Thompson, Dennis W. Chahley
  • Method and communication node for broadband distribution
    Patent number: 9860075
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication node having a modem that receives first data streams from a source communication node via a first plurality of twisted pair transmission lines. A multiplexer selects a first subset of the first data streams and a second subset of the first data streams. A wireless transceiver wirelessly transmits the first subset of the first data streams as radio frequency signals via an antenna to at least one device. A distribution point unit transmits the second subset of the first data streams on a second plurality of twisted pair transmission lines to a destination communication node of a distributed antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, George Blandino
  • Multi printhead refractive gradient inkjet printing
    Patent number: 9855752
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a volumetric continuous gradient complex dielectric element with drop-on-demand techniques, such as inkjet printing, by calculating spatial placement of nanocomposite-ink droplets are disclosed. The methods comprise determining or having a multi-dimensional gradient profile representing a volumetric gradient complex dielectric element. Providing or having a plurality of nanocomposite-inks, at least one of the nanocomposite-inks having a curable organic-matrix and a concentration of nanoparticles dispersed within to print the volumetric continuous gradient complex dielectric device. A print mask is determined in one-, two-, or three-dimensions that reconstructs the multi-dimensional gradient profile as a discretized pattern based on the material properties of the plurality of nanocomposite-inks and properties of a printing apparatus with a plurality of printheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Vadient Optics, LLC
    Inventors: George Williams, John Paul Harmon, Charles G. Dupuy, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Sang-ki Park, Bradley J. Hermens
  • Straight line gesture recognition and rendering
    Patent number: 9857909
    Abstract: Techniques for determining whether touch-input gestures approximate straight lines and for animating a display with such gestures are described. The techniques determine a linear regression line for pixel locations comprising a gesture, determine distances of the pixel locations from the linear regression line, and render the set of pixel locations to the display based on the distances and a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Julien George Beguin, Tomer Moscovich
  • Multi-suture knotless anchor for attaching tissue to bone and related method
    Patent number: 9855028
    Abstract: A multi-suture knotless anchor and related method for securing soft tissue, such as tendons, to bone are described. The suture anchor includes a body, a sleeve, and an outer deformable bone locking structure. The bone locking structure has a first low profile configuration for insertion into the bone, and a second larger profile configuration for engaging the bone when actuated. The bone anchor and methods permit a suture attachment that lies beneath the cortical bone surface and does not require tying of knots in the suture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventors: Francis Vijay, George W. White
  • Ion mobility separation buffer gas composition
    Patent number: 9857334
    Abstract: A method of separating ions comprises causing ions to separate according to their ion mobility or differential ion mobility by virtue of their interactions with a buffer gas within an ion mobility or differential ion mobility separation device. The buffer gas comprises one or more organic, organosilicon or silicon-based compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Martin Raymond Green, Keith George Richardson
  • Modular prosthesis
    Patent number: 9855147
    Abstract: Modular prosthesis components having first and second relief patterns, the first relief pattern being complementary to the second relief pattern such that a component having the first relief pattern may seat fully on and in register with a component having the second relief pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: OMNI Life Science Inc.
    Inventors: George B. Cipolletti, Carl A. Knobloch, Edward J. Cheal, Bryan Horan
  • Ranking analysis results based on user perceived problems in a database system
    Patent number: 9858551
    Abstract: Methods and systems for ranking analysis results based on user perceived problems of a database system are described. During operation, an embodiment may receive a designation of a perceived database system performance problem from a user, wherein the problem is associated with one or more database system metrics. Next, the embodiment may determine a set of recommendations for alleviating the perceived database system performance problem. The embodiment may then analyze the set of recommendations to determine, for each recommendation in the set of recommendations, an impact the recommendation is expected to have on the one or more database system metrics. Finally, the embodiment may rank the set of recommendations according to the impact each recommendation is expected to have on the perceived database performance problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BBS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: George E. Bailey, Jr., Kurt V. Goolsbee, Everett T. Miskelly
  • Printed circuit module having a semiconductor device with a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer
    Patent number: 9859183
    Abstract: A printed circuit module having a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The printed circuit module includes a printed circuit substrate with a thinned die attached to the printed circuit substrate. The thinned die includes at least one device layer over the printed circuit substrate and at least one deep well within the at least one device layer. A protective layer is disposed over the at least one deep well, wherein the protective layer has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity of greater than 106 Ohm-cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, Julio C. Costa, Baker Scott, George Maxim
  • End plate for an electric machine, electric machine and method for assembling an electric machine
    Patent number: 9859769
    Abstract: An end plate for an electric machine includes: a bearing receptacle in which a magnetic bearing which is configured for rotatably mounting a rotor of the electric machine can be accommodated; and a radially outwardly pointing circumferential contour on which a number of at least three supporting elements are provided, which supporting elements each protrude radially beyond the circumferential contour by a determined protruding amount, with the result that the supporting elements define a discontinuous external circumferential contour of the end plate. The respective protruding amounts of the support elements are dimensioned such that the end plate can be fitted in by making a center of the magnetic bearing correspond to at least one of a geometric longitudinal axis of the electric machine and a magnetic longitudinal axis of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventors: Gino Kabs, George Kleynhans, Markus Dettwyler, Marcel Vetter
  • Swarm management
    Patent number: 9857792
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with swarm management are described. One example system comprises a communication component configured to establish a communication link with at least one element, where the at least one element is part of a swarm. The example system also comprises a management component configured to manage performance of a task list by the swarm through the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventors: Philip George Ammar, Ronald Charles Krosky, Brendan Edward Clark
  • Apparatus and method for controlled pressure drilling
    Patent number: 9856713
    Abstract: A rotating flow head (RFH) has a housing having an internal bore with diameter substantially equal to that of a riser and at least one flow port proximate one longitudinal end thereof. First and second arrays of radially extensible and retractable locking elements are disposed circumferentially around the RFH housing. The RFH has a bearing assembly (BA) housing having an exterior diameter selected to fit within the internal bore of the RFH housing so as to provide an annular space therein. The BA housing engages one of the arrays of locking elements when extended. A mandrel is rotatably, sealingly supported within the BA housing. Another end of the BA housing and the other array of locking elements provide longitudinal force on the BA housing when the other array is extended. A seal element disposed in the annular space is energized by the longitudinal force applied to the BA housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Zaurayze Tarique, George James Michaud
  • Chair
    Patent number: D806426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Comfort Research, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. George, II, Matthew Jung, Jean Joseph
  • Flask cap
    Patent number: D806468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Brian George Goodwin, Ryan James Diener
  • Trim reveal extrusion
    Patent number: D806901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventor: Joshua George Singh