Patents by Inventor Greg Watson

Greg Watson 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).

  • Patent number: 10170281
    Abstract: A system including a directional dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) energy system, including a first electrode assembly configured to generate energy, including a first housing having a first fluid disposed in a first chamber, a first magnet, wherein the first magnet is configured to help guide or contain the energy generated by the first electrode assembly, and a first dielectric barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: PLASMOLOGY4, INC.
    Inventors: Greg A. Watson, Jeffrey I. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20160358760
    Abstract: A system including a directional dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) energy system, including a first electrode assembly configured to generate energy, including a first housing having a first fluid disposed in a first chamber, a first magnet, wherein the first magnet is configured to help guide or contain the energy generated by the first electrode assembly, and a first dielectric barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Greg A. Watson, Jeffrey I. Meyers
  • Patent number: 9437401
    Abstract: A system including a directional dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) energy system, including a first electrode assembly configured to generate energy, including a first housing having a first fluid disposed in a first chamber, a first magnet, wherein the first magnet is configured to help guide or contain the energy generated by the first electrode assembly, and a first dielectric barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: PLASMOLOGY4, INC.
    Inventors: Greg A. Watson, Jeffrey I. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20160181069
    Abstract: A system including a directional dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) energy system, including a first electrode assembly configured to generate energy, including a first housing having a first fluid disposed in a first chamber, a first magnet, wherein the first magnet is configured to help guide or contain the energy generated by the first electrode assembly, and a first dielectric barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Greg A. Watson, Jeffrey I. Meyers
  • Patent number: 8935270
    Abstract: A content search system for determining whether an input string matches one or more of a number of patterns embodied by a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) includes a plurality of DFA engines that simultaneously compare sequential overlapping segments of the input string. The overlap region shared by adjacent pairs of input string segments is of a predetermined size. Initially, the first DFA engine is designated as the master engine, and the remaining DFA engines are designated as slave engines whose state results are speculative. Resolution logic compares the state results of the master engine with the state results of the adjacent slave engine to selectively validate the state results of the successor engine, which upon validation becomes the new master engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Netlogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cristian Estan, Greg Watson
  • Patent number: 8862603
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining whether an input string of characters matches a pattern. The pattern has the form of an activator expression, a counter expression, and a tail. The method involves monitoring one or more active states associated with the pattern, and comparing each character to the activator expression and the counter expression for each of the one or more active states. An input character match to the activator expression comprises an activator match, and a character match to the counter expression without matching the activator expression comprises a non-activator match. The number of one or more active states corresponds to the number of non-activator to activator character transitions between adjacent received matching characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Netlogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Watson, Kumaravel Senniappan
  • Patent number: 8812480
    Abstract: A content search system for determining whether an input string matches one or more rules includes a parser, a rules database, and a search engine. The parser, which has an input to receive the input string, is to extract one or more selected portions of the input string to form a filtered input string, and is to generate a rule select signal in response to the selected portions of the input string. The rules database stores a plurality of sets of rules. The search engine is to compare the filtered input string with a selected set of rules selected in response to the rule select signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Watson, Cristian Estan, Mark Birman, Alexei Starovoitov
  • Patent number: 8700593
    Abstract: A content search system includes multiple pipelined search engines that implement different portions of a regular expression search operations. For some embodiments, the search pipeline includes a DFA engine, an NFA engine, and a token stitcher that combines partial match results generated by the DFA and NFA engines in a manner that prevents either engine from becoming a bottleneck. In addition, the token stitcher can be configured to implement unbounded sub-expressions without utilizing resources of the DFA or NFA engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Netlogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cristian Estan, Greg Watson
  • Publication number: 20140015664
    Abstract: A child car seat system that alarms a guardian of a child that the child has accidently been left in the child car seat. The system comprises of a child car seat that has seat belt that is wired to a transmitter, the seat belt has a first terminal and second terminal locking latch, when the first terminal and second terminal locking latches are latched to each other, a closed electrical loop is formed and a first signal is transmitted from the transmitter, when the first and second terminal locking latches are unlatched, a second signal is transmitted from the transmitter. The system further comprises of a receiver, the receiver defines at least one alarm that warns the user of the system that a child has been left in the child car seat, the receiver activates when it receives the first signal and deactivated when it receives the second signal, the receiver has a sensor that will activate the alarm if the receiver is moved a certain distance away from transmitter when the receiver is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Greg Watson
  • Patent number: 8516456
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed that compiles a sub-expression associated with an inexact pattern contained in a regular expression into a plurality of microprogram instructions that can be stored in contiguous locations of an instruction memory. At least one of the microprogram instructions includes a next instruction address and a fetch length value, where the next instruction address indicates the instruction memory address of the next instruction to be executed and the fetch length value indicates the number of sequentially-executed instructions that are to be fetched from contiguous locations of the instruction memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Starovoitov, Greg Watson
  • Patent number: 8369121
    Abstract: The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gyllenhammer, Greg Watson, Venkat Gaddam, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Sandeep Khanna, Chetan Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20120113703
    Abstract: The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Carl Gyllenhammer, Greg Watson, Venkat Gaddam, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Sandeep Khanna, Chetan Deshpande
  • Patent number: 8111533
    Abstract: The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gyllenhammer, Greg Watson, Venkat Gaddam, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Sandeep Khanna, Chetan Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20110317462
    Abstract: The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Carl Gyllenhammer, Greg Watson, Venkat Gaddam, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Sandeep Khanna, Chetan Deshpande
  • Patent number: 8031503
    Abstract: The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gyllenhammer, Greg Watson, Venkat Gaddam, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Sandeep Khanna, Chetan Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20110163579
    Abstract: A child car seat cover, the child car seat cover is made of insulating materials and has a temperature measuring gauge within the child car seat cover. The temperature measuring gauge measures the temperature of a child car seat prior to placing a child in the child car seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: GREG WATSON
  • Patent number: 7915185
    Abstract: A high performance flame retardant textile fabric is provided which is suitable for use in producing close-fitting garments, such as undergarments, that come into direct contact with the skin of the wearer and provide a protective function, as well as in non-apparel applications. The fabric is formed of yarns of rayon continuous filaments, the yarns having outer filaments along the periphery of the yarn and inner filaments in the interior of the yarn. A cured phosphorus-based flame retardant compound is durably affixed to the filaments and imparts flame retardant properties to the fabric. The outer filaments of the yarns have a phosphorus content at least 25% greater than the inner filaments of the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: SSM Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott N. Hilleary, Greg Watson
  • Publication number: 20100038942
    Abstract: An insulating seat cover that can be securely donned over most seats. The insulating seat cover comprises of an insulating sheet of material and a sleeve that attaches to the insulating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventor: GREG WATSON
  • Patent number: 7575783
    Abstract: A high performance flame retardant textile fabric is provided which is suitable for use in producing close-fitting garments, such as undergarments, that come into direct contact with the skin of the wearer and provide a protective function, as well as in non-apparel applications. The fabric is formed of yarns of rayon continuous filaments, the yarns having outer filaments along the periphery of the yarn and inner filaments in the interior of the yarn. A cured phosphorus-based flame retardant compound is durably affixed to the filaments and imparts flame retardant properties to the fabric. The outer filaments of the yarns have a phosphorus content at least 25% greater than the inner filaments of the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: SSM Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott N. Hilleary, Greg Watson
  • Patent number: RE44108
    Abstract: A high performance flame retardant textile fabric is provided which is suitable for use in producing close-fitting garments, such as undergarments, that come into direct contact with the skin of the wearer and provide a protective function, as well as in non-apparel applications. The fabric is formed of yarns of rayon continuous filaments, the yarns having outer filaments along the periphery of the yarn and inner filaments in the interior of the yarn. A cured phosphorus-based flame retardant compound is durably affixed to the filaments and imparts flame retardant properties to the fabric. The outer filaments of the yarns have a phosphorus content at least 25% greater than the inner filaments of the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: SSM Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Hilleary, Greg Watson