Patents by Inventor Ivan To

Ivan To 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).

  • LARGE STRING ACCESS AND STORAGE
    Publication number: 20150142819
    Abstract: Techniques for handling large string values in a string dictionary within an in-memory database system are presented. The string dictionary can be a paged-column main dictionary. For example, a value block of a dictionary may be loaded into memory, where the dictionary stores values for dictionary compression. The value block may include a first portion of a large string value and one or more logical pointers to one or more large string pages containing a remainder of the large string value. The large string value may be materialized into a contiguous location in memory, and a pointer to the materialized large string value may be created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Colin Florendo, Ivan Schreter, Mihnea Andrei
  • Light sources with highly stable output intensity
    Publication number: 20150136945
    Abstract: A light source includes a semiconductor light emitter having an electrical drive input and operatively configured to emit a light beam; a first weakly polarizing beam splitter positioned to capture the light beam, reflecting one portion, and transmitting another portion with an output intensity P. The light source includes a second polarizing beam splitter positioned to capture the reflected portion of the light beam and split it into first and second detector light beams of orthogonal polarizations. The light source further includes first and second detectors capturing those detector light beams, and is configured to deliver corresponding first and second output signals from corresponding detector outputs. The light source includes an electronic circuit coupled to those electrical outputs and to the electrical drive input of the light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Dubravko Ivan Babic, Marko Bosiljevac
  • Bioreactor for controlling cellular growth
    Patent number: 9034640
    Abstract: A system includes a first chamber configured to receive a hydrogel and a scaffold comprising a cell, wherein the hydrogel is in fluid communication with the scaffold, and wherein the hydrogel includes a plurality of unidirectional pores. The system also includes a second chamber configured to receive a first fluid and a second fluid, wherein the second chamber includes a wall that separates the first fluid from the second fluid. The system further includes a porous membrane configured to separate the first chamber from the second chamber. The wall is configured to move along the porous membrane as cellular extensions are projected into at least a portion of the plurality of unidirectional pores of the hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Marvi A. Matos, William B. Carlson, Ivan Vesely, Yansong Gu
  • Sputtering apparatus
    Patent number: 9034156
    Abstract: Provided is a sputtering apparatus which deposits a metal catalyst on an amorphous silicon layer at an extremely low concentration in order to crystallize amorphous silicon, and particularly minimizes non-uniformity of the metal catalyst caused by a pre-sputtering process without reducing process efficiency. This sputtering apparatus improves the uniformity of the metal catalyst deposited on the amorphous silicon layer at an extremely low concentration. The sputtering apparatus includes a process chamber having first and second regions, a metal target located inside the process chamber, a target transfer unit moving the metal target and having a first shield for controlling a traveling direction of a metal catalyst discharged from the metal target, and a substrate holder disposed in the second region to be capable of facing the metal target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Hoon Yang, Ki-Yong Lee, Jin-Wook Seo, Byoung-Keon Park, Yun-Mo Chung, Dong-Hyun Lee, Kil-Won Lee, Jae-Wan Jung, Jong-Ryuk Park, Bo-Kyung Choi, Won-Bong Baek, Byung-Soo So, Jong-Won Hong, Min-Jae Jeong, Heung-Yeol Na, Ivan Maidanchuk, Eu-Gene Kang, Seok-Rak Chang
  • Flight deck lighting for information display
    Patent number: 9035801
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for lighting a flight deck on an aircraft. A status of the aircraft is identified by a processor unit. The processor unit controls the lighting on the flight deck in response to the status of the aircraft to indicate the status of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Ivan Nikolic, Stephen J. Minarsch
  • Method and apparatus of decoding low-rate visible light communication signals
    Patent number: 9037001
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to the detection of low-rate visible light communication (VLC) signals and the recovery of information communicated by the VLC signals are described. Various methods and apparatus are well suited for embodiments in which a device, e.g., a smartphone, including a camera which uses a rolling shutter. The rolling shutter facilitates the collection of different time snapshots of a received low rate time varying VLC signal with different pixel rows in the image sensor of a frame corresponding to different time snapshots. In some embodiments, demodulation is used to recover and identify a single tone being communicated in a frame from among a plurality of possible alternative tones that may be communicated, each different tone corresponding to a different set of information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Jovicic, Thomas Joseph Richardson, Ivan Klimek
  • Process for triphosphate oligonucleotide synthesis
    Patent number: 9035041
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing an oligonucleotide 5?-triphosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Zlatev, Francois Morvan, Jean-Jacques Vasseur, Francoise Debart, Muthiah Manoharan
  • System and method for using a visual password scheme
    Patent number: 9037993
    Abstract: A system and method for inputting a password. The system and method operates to associate unique non-descriptive graphical features with unique text-based characters. The system and method operates to receive in sequence, a plurality of text-based characters. The system and method operates to display in sequence, in accordance with a sequence scheme, the non-descriptive graphical features associated with the plurality of text-based characters. The system and method also operates to process the plurality of text-based characters as the password. In addition, the system and method operates wherein the password, including text-based characters, may be deciphered from both the display of the non-descriptive graphical features associated with the plurality of text-based characters and the sequence scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ivan Hugh McLean
  • Method for selecting a LDPC candidate code
    Patent number: 9037944
    Abstract: A method for estimating error probability of LDPC codes includes ordering LDPC codes according to features in each code with known error characteristics. The method includes identifying features in each LDPC code having known error characteristics; adding each code to one or more categories based on the existence of such features; and ranking the LDPC codes according to the level of error risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Alexandrovich Petyushko, Anatoli Aleksandrovich Bolotov, Yang Han, Ivan Leonidovich Mazurenko, Alexander Borisovich Kholodenko, Denis Vladimirovich Zaytsev, Denis Vasilievich Parfenov
  • Forearm exercise apparatus
    Patent number: 9033854
    Abstract: A forearm exercise apparatus includes a frame having a pair of rear vertical support legs and a pair of front vertical support legs with upper longitudinal bars coupling the respective rear and front vertical support legs. A seat platform is disposed over the upper longitudinal bars and a pair of pivoting forearm support platforms is disposed in front of the seat platform. The pivoting forearm support platforms have sleeves disposed on an underside thereof. An angle of the forearm support platforms relative to a horizontal plane of the apparatus is adjustable by rotating the respective sleeve around the respective upper longitudinal bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: Ivan Butkovic
  • LDPC-coded modulation for ultra-high-speed optical transport in the presence of phase noise
    Patent number: 9036992
    Abstract: Methods and systems for decoding a signal include compensating for impairments in a received signal using at least carrier phase estimation, where residual phase error remains after compensation; calculating symbol log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for symbols in the compensated signal using Monte Carlo integration; demapping the symbols in the compensated signal using the symbol LLRs and extrinsic information from signal decoding to produce one or more estimated codewords; and decoding each estimated codeword with a decoder that generates a decoded codeword and extrinsic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan B. Djordjevic, Ting Wang
  • Text overlay techniques in realtime translation
    Patent number: 9037450
    Abstract: Architecture that employs techniques for overlaying (superimposing) translated text on top of (over) scanned text in realtime translation to provide clear visual correlation between original text and translated text. Algorithms are provided that overlay text in cases of translated scanned text of language written in first direction to a language written in same direction, translate scanned text from a first language written in a first direction to a second language written in the opposite direction, and translated scanned text from a language written in a first direction to language written in a different direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Magdalena Vukosavljevic, Ruchita Bhargava, Matthew S. Ashman, Ivan Stojiljkovic, Pavle Josipović, Djordje Nijemcevic, Milan Vugdelija
  • Compositions and Methods for Oxygenation of Nucleic Acids Containing 5-Methylpyrimidine
    Publication number: 20150132750
    Abstract: 5-methylpyrimidine oxygenases and their use in the modification of nucleic acids are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Zheng, Lana Saleh, June Pais, Nan Dai, Richard J. Roberts, Ivan R. Correa, JR., Megumu Mabuchi, ROMUALDAS VAISVILA
  • SPINNING DISK CONFOCAL USING PAIRED MICROLENS DISKS
    Publication number: 20150131148
    Abstract: A spinning-disk confocal unit uses a pair of microlens arrays to create an infinity space directly after the pinhole array. This at least allows flexibility in the confocal unit design and also allows incorporation of superresolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Glen Ivan Redford
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE REHABILITATION EXERGAMING
    Publication number: 20150133206
    Abstract: An exercise gaming system includes a motion-detect device including a plurality of sensors configured to monitor movement of the motion-detect device during a user motion, and a first processor configured to receive input data from the plurality of sensors and provide information related to the data for transmission via a first wireless communication interface. The exercise gaming system further includes a computing device including a second wireless communication interface configured to receive information transmitted from the motion-detect device, a second processor configured to compare the received information to data stored in a memory and identify the user motion as a predefined movement, and a display configured to visually provide feedback related to the identified predefined movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Majid Sarrafzadeh, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jack Bobak Mortazavi
  • EXERCISE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150133279
    Abstract: Exercise device (1) comprising an exercise ball (10) and a cover (20) for housing and completely surrounding this ball (10); the cover being designed to couple, in use, in a substantially form-fitting manner to the outer surface of the shell (11) of the exercise ball (10) and being provided with a respective closing device (25) that can be selectively opened to allow the exercise ball (10) to be inserted into and extracted from the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: TECHNOGYM S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nerio ALESSANDRI, Ivan FAEDI, Claudio CRISTOFORI
  • The Process For Preparing a Ketosulfone Derivative
    Publication number: 20150133671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a ketosulfone derivative and, more particularly, to an improved method for synthesising 1-(6-methylpyridin-3-yl)-2-[(4-methylsulfonyl)-phenyl]ethanone by means of Pd-catalysed alpha arylation process of a heteroaromatic ketone derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Elisa Melotto, Ivan Michieletto, Vincenzo Frega, Livius Cotarca, Massimo Verzini, Franco Massaccesi, Ilaria Munari
  • Electrically conductive frame on substrate for accommodating electronic chips
    Publication number: 20150131247
    Abstract: A method which comprises arranging a plurality of electronic chips in a plurality of chip accommodation cavities each defined by a respective surface portion of a substrate and a wall delimited by a respective one of a plurality of holes in an electrically conductive frame arranged on the substrate, at least partially encapsulating the electronic chips in the chip accommodation cavities by an encapsulant, and forming electrically conductive contacts for electrically contacting the at least partially encapsulated electronic chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ivan NIKITIN, Petteri PALM, Joachim MAHLER
  • IMAGE PROCESSING FOR PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20150131903
    Abstract: Image processing for productivity applications is provided. An image may be received by a computing device. The computing device may detect the edges comprising the received image and adjust the image based on a skew state of the detected edges. The computing device may then process the adjusted image to correct imbalances. The computing device may then assign an image classification to the processed image. The computing device may then adjust the processed image based on the assigned image classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi Kato, Yasufumi Shiraishi, Daniel J. Moffitt, Kenji Nikaido, Daniel Eduardo Martinez, Lu Yuan, Jiangyu Liu, Aleksandar B. Tomic, Ivan Stojiljkovic, Zhengyou Zhang
  • FORMULATIONS
    Publication number: 20150132396
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation comprising a pharmaceutically active ingredient and a coating. The invention also relates to the use of the formulation in the treatment and prevention of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Also disclosed are methods for preparing the formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SIGMOID PHARMA LIMITED
    Inventors: Ivan Coulter, Vincenzo Aversa, Mónica Rosa, Bernard Francis McDonald