Patents by Inventor John Cowan
John Cowan 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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Patent number: 8230268Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing infrastructure failure rates. The apparatus and methods may compile and store data related to the physical devices and applications associated with an infrastructure change. Variables may be derived from the stored data using a range of methods and multiple variable values may be consolidated. A model may be developed based on the values and relationships of the derived variables. The model may be applied to assess the risk of a prospective infrastructure change.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Rachel Nemecek, John Cowan, Edward M. Dunlap, Jr., Eric Hunsaker, Charles C. Howie
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Publication number: 20120053994Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing infrastructure failure rates. The apparatus and methods may compile and store data related to the physical devices and applications associated with an infrastructure change. Variables may be derived from the stored data using a range of methods and multiple variable values may be consolidated. A model may be developed based on the values and relationships of the derived variables. The model may be applied to assess the risk of a prospective infrastructure change. The risk may include an index that corresponds to the likelihood that the infrastructure change will lead to a failure. The model may predict the magnitude of a failure should the infrastructure change fail. The model may predict the expected failure impact based on the index and the failure magnitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Bank of AmericaInventors: John Cowan, Rachel Nemecek, Edward M. Dunlap, JR., Charles C. Howie
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Publication number: 20120041494Abstract: An implant and method for attaching to vertebral members with the implant including a plate and a cage. The plate is configured to be positioned against and anchored to the bodies of the vertebral members. The plate may also extend into the intervertebral space between the vertebral members. The cage extends outward from the plate and is positioned within the intervertebral space. The implant provides a low profile that is positionable between the bodies of the vertebral members and the lamina/pars/facet joint. The implant may be implanted utilizing a lateral access to the spine. The implant and method may further include just the plate without the cage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventor: John A. Cowan
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Publication number: 20110282817Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing infrastructure failure rates. The apparatus and methods may compile and store data related to the organizational segments associated with the approval and implementation of an infrastructure change. Variables may be derived from the data using a range of methods, and multiple variable values may be consolidated. A model may be developed based on the values and relationships of the derived variables. The model may be applied to assess the risk involved in a prospective infrastructure change.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Bank of AmericaInventors: Rachel Nemecek, John Cowan, Edward M. Dunlap, JR., Eric Hunsaker, Charles C. Howie
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Publication number: 20110283145Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing infrastructure failure rates. The apparatus and methods may compile and store data related to the physical devices and applications associated with an infrastructure change. Variables may be derived from the stored data using a range of methods and multiple variable values may be consolidated. A model may be developed based on the values and relationships of the derived variables. The model may be applied to assess the risk of a prospective infrastructure change.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Bank of AmericaInventors: Rachel Nemecek, John Cowan, Edward M. Dunlap, JR., Eric Hunsaker, Charles C. Howie
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Publication number: 20110283146Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing infrastructure failure rates. The apparatus and methods may involve reduction of data complexity. The reduction may be based on the use of nonlinear analysis to derive representative variables, which may be multi-valued. Multi-valued variables may be consolidated. A model may be developed based on the values and relationships of the derived variables. The model may be applied to assess the risk involved in a prospective infrastructure change.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Bank of AmericaInventors: Rachel Nemecek, John Cowan, Edward M. Dunlap, JR., Eric Hunsaker, Charles C. Howie
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Patent number: 7991196Abstract: Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Gene D. Tener, Barry Mattox, Jennifer K. Park, John Cowan, William R. Herzog, Hai-Wen Chen, James P. Kane, III, David J. Huber, Timothy Alderson
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Patent number: 7978880Abstract: Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Gene D. Tener, Barry Mattox, Jennifer K. Park, John Cowan, William R. Herzog, Hai-Wen Chen, James P. Kane, III, David J. Huber, Timothy Alderson
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Patent number: 7970170Abstract: Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Gene D. Tener, Barry Mattox, Jennifer K. Park, John Cowan, William R. Herzog, Hai-Wen Chen, James P. Kane, III, David J. Huber, Timothy Alderson
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Publication number: 20110124559Abstract: Novel compounds which are antagonists or inverse agonists at one or more of the opioid receptors, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2007Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Smithkline Beecham CorporationInventors: David John Cowan, Andrew Lamont Larkin, Cunyu Zhang, David Lee Musso, Gary Martin Green, Rodolfo Cadilla, Paul Kenneth Spearing, Michael Joseph Bishop, Jason Daniel Speake
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Patent number: 7939528Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonist or inverse agonists at an opioid receptor. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of obesity and related diseases and/or conditions in mammals, particularly humans. Methods of making and using such compounds are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: Kevin Karl Barvian, Jason Daniel Speake, David John Cowan, Andrew Lamont Larkin, Jerzy Ryszard Szewczyk
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Patent number: 7834063Abstract: This invention relates to benzonitryl and nitrobenzyl derivatives that are modulators of androgen, glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and progesterone receptors, and also to the methods for the making and use of such compounds. These compounds are useful, for example, in the treatment or prophylaxis of conditions or disorders that respond to selective androgen receptor modulation.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: Philip Stewart Turnbull, Andrew Lamont Larkin, Istvan Kaldor, Rodolfo Cadilla, David John Cowan, Eugene Lee Stewart
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Publication number: 20100253855Abstract: Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Gene D. Tener, Barry Mattox, Jennifer K. Park, John Cowan, William R. Herzog, Hai-Wen Chen, James P. Kane, III, David J. Huber, Timothy Alderson
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Publication number: 20100254572Abstract: Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Gene D. Tener, Barry Mattox, Jennifer K. Park, John Cowan, William R. Herzog, Hai-Wen Chen, James P. Kane, III, David J. Huber, Timothy Alderson
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Publication number: 20100222345Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonists or inverse agonists at one or more of the opioid receptors, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation, and to their use in therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2007Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Caroline Jean Diaz, Curt Dale Haffner, Jason Daniel Speake, Cunyu Zhang, Wendy Yoon Mills, Paul Kenneth Spearing, David John Cowan, Gary Martin Green
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Patent number: 7723385Abstract: This invention relates to non-steroidal compounds that are modulators of androgen, glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and progesterone receptors, and also to the methods for the making and use of such compounds.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: Philip Stewart Turnbull, Rodolfo Cadilla, David John Cowan, Andrew Lamont Larkin, Istvan Kaldor, Eugene Lee Stewart
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Publication number: 20090163588Abstract: This invention relates to non-steroidal compounds that are modulators of androgen, glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and progesterone receptors, and also to the methods for the making and use of such compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATIONInventors: Philip Stewart Turnbull, Rodolfo Cadilla, David John Cowan, Andrew Lamont Larkin, Istvan Kaldor, Eugene Lee Stewart
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Patent number: 7539746Abstract: Electronic commerce transaction messages are processed over a network between a client and a server in a highly reliable fashion by establishing a secure or un-secure communications connection between the network client and the network server at an electronic transaction assurance (eTA) system, which is located in a communication path between the network client and the network server. The transaction type is identified in the message and the progress of the transaction is tracked using transaction models. Any failure in the back-end server system or in the network connections is detected and the failure is recovered from using an outcome determination technique. The failure of a node within the eTA system is masked from the network client by formulating an appropriate response and sending it back to the client such that the network client and network server that were using the selected node do not see any interruption in their communications.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: John Bankier, Ronald Brown, John Cowan, Mohamed Dekhil, Jerremy Holland, Phillip Love, Stuart MacNeil, Eric McCall
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Patent number: D595582Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser (UK) LimitedInventors: John Cowan-Hughes, Carl Dibnah, Chris Padain, Matthew Wright
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Patent number: D625613Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Mars, IncorporatedInventors: John Cowan-Hughes, Hayley Woolford, Bruce Hannant