Patents by Inventor James Nieters
James Nieters 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: 20100037163Abstract: In an example embodiment, an online advertising management platform receives a login that identifies a user as a user allowed access to an account maintained by the platform. The platform displays a toolbar having a textbox that allows the user to search for data relating to all accounts to which the user has access. The platform displays a combo box after the user enters a fixed number of characters in the textbox. The combo box includes a list of descriptions of each data object that is accessible and that is relevant to the fixed number of characters. The platform locates the combo box contiguous to the toolbar over some but not all of the view displaying the data relating to the order. The platform displays a data object, rather than a page of search results, after the user clicks a description of a data object from the combo box.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.Inventors: Petra Griffith, Vineet Gossain, Claude Jones, James Nieters, Todd Barlok, Matthew Catrow Crampton, Naga Viswanathan Malepati
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Patent number: 7546769Abstract: A method and system for microstructural evaluation and degradation evaluation of an object are provided. The method comprises insonifying at least one subvolume of the object with ultrasonic energy at a fundamental frequency and acquiring receive energy from the object at the fundamental frequency and at least one harmonic frequency thereof. A nonlinearity parameter is determined using the receive energy. The nonlinearity parameter is then used to determine a grain size for the subvolume of the object and a variation of the grain size within the object. The nonlinearity parameter is also used to determine fatigue damage or a residual stress.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompnayInventors: Sivaramanivas Ramaswamy, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy, Richard Eugene Klaassen, Edward James Nieters, Mandayam Tondanur Shyamsunder, Michael Everett Keller, Nihat Kurkcu
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Publication number: 20080236288Abstract: A method for inspecting a part is provided. The method includes immersing the part in a couplant medium, delivering ultrasonic wave energy to at least one subvolume of the part using an ultrasonic transducer immersed in the couplant medium and receiving ultrasonic wave energy from the part at a fundamental frequency and at least one harmonic frequency using an ultrasonic receiver immersed in the couplant medium. The method also includes generating a nonlinear image corresponding to at least one material property variation of the part using the received ultrasonic energy and using the nonlinear image of the part to determine whether one or more material property anomalies are present in the part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Edward James Nieters, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Ramkumar Kashyap Oruganti, Sivaramanivas Ramaswamy, Balachandar Ramadurai, Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy, Ganesan Baskaran, Michael Everett Keller
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Patent number: 7014433Abstract: A valve assembly including a valve seat and a valve member movable relative to the valve seat between an open position and a closed position and defining in the closed position a high pressure side and a low pressure side, the valve member further being deformable to a deformed shape in the closed position, and the valve seat having a seat edge adapted to conform to the valve member in the deformed shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventor: Jeffrey James Nieter
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Patent number: 6927686Abstract: A method for remotely monitoring at least one sensor and a measurement system. The method includes making a first measurement using a first sensor of the at least one sensor. The method also includes converting the first measurement into a first data signal; and transmitting the first data signal via a wireless connection to a first processor. The measurement system includes at least one sensor unit having at least one sensor for making a first measurement; and a first wireless transceiver coupled to the at least one sensor for transmitting a data signal based on the first measurement. The measurement system includes a second wireless transceiver arranged for receiving the data signal from the first wireless transceiver, and a first processor coupled to the second wireless transceiver arranged for receiving the data signal from the second wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Edward James Nieters, Robert John Filkins, Carl Stephen Lester
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Patent number: 6789427Abstract: A method for inspecting a component includes exciting a number of transducers forming an array to produce an ultrasonic transmission beam (beam) focused into the component. The array and the component are separated by a standoff. A number of echo signals are generated using the transducers, and the echo signals are processed in a number of channels. The processing includes both dynamical focus and providing a dynamic aperture on receive, both of which compensate for refraction of the beam at the component/standoff interface. A single-turn inspection method includes: (a) positioning the array facing the component, (b) exciting the transducers, (c) generating a number of echo signals, (d) changing the relative angular orientation of the array and the component around an axis and repeating steps (b) and (c), and (e) processing the echo signals to form at least one processed echo signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas James Batzinger, Wei Li, Robert Snee Gilmore, Edward James Nieters, William Thomas Hatfield, Richard Eugene Klaassen, James Norman Barshinger, Bruno Hans Haider, Carl Lawrence Chalek, Robert John McElligott, David Charles Franklin
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Publication number: 20040161352Abstract: A valve assembly including a valve seat and a valve member movable relative to the valve seat between an open position and a closed position and defining in the closed position a high pressure side and a low pressure side, the valve member further being deformable to a deformed shape in the closed position, and the valve seat having a seat edge adapted to conform to the valve member in the deformed shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventor: Jeffrey James Nieter
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Patent number: 6753873Abstract: An imaging system shares control of host memory between a detector framing node and a host processor. The detector framing node is programmable to control generation and reception of image data. Image data is acquired and communicated to host memory independently from control by a host operating system. The detector framing node controls events according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received image data to the host memory through a computer communication bus. Image data is received by the detector framing node from a flat panel detector. Host memory has a first section managed by the host operating system and a second section not managed by the host operating system. Image data is communicated from the detector framing node into the second section of host memory. Event instruction sequences are communicated from the first section of host memory to the detector framing node to control the generation and reception of image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Walter Vincent Dixon, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Edward James Nieters
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Publication number: 20040113773Abstract: A method for remotely monitoring at least one sensor and a measurement system. The method includes making a first measurement using a first sensor of the at least one sensor. The method also includes converting the first measurement into a first data signal; and transmitting the first data signal via a wireless connection to a first processor. The measurement system includes at least one sensor unit having at least one sensor for making a first measurement; and a first wireless transceiver coupled to the at least one sensor for transmitting a data signal based on the first measurement. The measurement system includes a second wireless transceiver arranged for receiving the data signal from the first wireless transceiver, and a first processor coupled to the second wireless transceiver arranged for receiving the data signal from the second wireless transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Edward James Nieters, Robert John Filkins, Carl Stephen Lester
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Publication number: 20040050166Abstract: A method for inspecting a component includes exciting a number of transducers forming an array to produce an ultrasonic transmission beam (beam) focused into the component. The array and the component are separated by a standoff. A number of echo signals are generated using the transducers, and the echo signals are processed in a number of channels. The processing includes both dynamical focus and providing a dynamic aperture on receive, both of which compensate for refraction of the beam at the component/standoff interface. A single-turn inspection method includes: (a) positioning the array facing the component, (b) exciting the transducers, (c) generating a number of echo signals, (d) changing the relative angular orientation of the array and the component around an axis and repeating steps (b) and (c), and (e) processing the echo signals to form at least one processed echo signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Thomas James Batzinger, Wei Li, Robert Snee Gilmore, Edward James Nieters, William Thomas Hatfield, Richard Eugene Klaassen, James Norman Barshinger, Bruno Hans Haider, Carl Lawrence Chalek, Robert John McElligott, David Charles Franklin
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Publication number: 20030030004Abstract: An imaging system shares control of host memory between a detector framing node and a host processor. The detector framing node is programmable to control generation and reception of image data. Image data is acquired and communicated to host memory independently from control by a host operating system. The detector framing node controls events according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received image data to the host memory through a computer communication bus. Image data is received by the detector framing node from a flat panel detector. Host memory has a first section managed by the host operating system and a second section not managed by the host operating system. Image data is communicated from the detector framing node into the second section of host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Walter Vincent Dixon, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Edward James Nieters
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Patent number: 6504895Abstract: An image detector monitoring system includes a detector framing node and a host computer having at least one host processor and a host memory. The detector framing node acquires image data, buffers the acquired image data, and outputs the image data to the host memory according to a predetermined communication protocol. The host computer executes operations according to a non-real time operating system, and a host memory stores the image data received from the detector framing node. The detector framing node is controlled by executing a plurality of event instructions, which are stored in an event queue. Some event instructions control a radiation generation system, while others control communication with an image detection system or control the detector framing node itself. Each event instruction executed by the detector framing node includes a bit flag indicating whether the event is to be traced by the detector framing node. Traced events are stored as entries in a response log in host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Walter Vincent Dixon, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, Edward James Nieters
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Publication number: 20020176535Abstract: An image detector monitoring system includes a detector framing node and a host computer having at least one host processor and a host memory. The detector framing node acquires image data, buffers the acquired image data, and outputs the image data to the host memory according to a predetermined communication protocol. The host computer executes operations according to a non-real time operating system, and a host memory stores the image data received from the detector framing node. The detector framing node is controlled by executing a plurality of event instructions, which are stored in an event queue. Some event instructions control a radiation generation system, while others control communication with an image detection system or control the detector framing node itself. Each event instruction executed by the detector framing node includes a bit flag indicating whether the event is to be traced by the detector framing node. Traced events are stored as entries in a response log in host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Walter Vincent Dixon, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, Edward James Nieters