Patents by Inventor John McGill
John McGill 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: 11635968Abstract: The present disclosure may include a processor that uses idle caches as a backing store for a boot code. The processor designates a boot core and an active cache from a plurality of cores and a plurality of caches. The processor configures remaining caches from the plurality of caches to act as a backing store memory. The processor modifies the active cache to convert cast outs to a system memory into lateral cast outs to the backing store memory. The processor copies a boot image to the backing store memory and executes the boot image by the boot core.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernard C. Drerup, Guy L. Guthrie, Joseph John McGill, IV, Alexander Michael Taft, Derek E. Williams
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Publication number: 20230078861Abstract: The present disclosure may include a processor that uses idle caches as a backing store for a boot code. The processor designates a boot core and an active cache from a plurality of cores and a plurality of caches. The processor configures remaining caches from the plurality of caches to act as a backing store memory. The processor modifies the active cache to convert cast outs to a system memory into lateral cast outs to the backing store memory. The processor copies a boot image to the backing store memory and executes the boot image by the boot core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Bernard C. Drerup, Guy L. Guthrie, Joseph John McGill, IV, Alexander Michael Taft, Derek E. Williams
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Patent number: 10889148Abstract: The present invention is directed to airless tires. Exemplary airless tires include a hub configured for attachment to an axle and includes a hub support extending away from the hub. Such exemplary airless tires also include a heel configured around the hub and connected at a distal end of the hub support, whereby the heel includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the hub support. Such exemplary airless tires also include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel. Other exemplary airless tires include a centerless hub assembly configured for attachment to an axle and a heel configured around the centerless hub assembly. The heel in such exemplary airless tires includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the centerless hub assembly. These other exemplary airless tires include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: John McGill
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Publication number: 20210001663Abstract: The present invention is directed to airless tires. Exemplary airless tires include a hub configured for attachment to an axle and includes a hub support extending away from the hub. Such exemplary airless tires also include a heel configured around the hub and connected at a distal end of the hub support, whereby the heel includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the hub support. Such exemplary airless tires also include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel. Other exemplary airless tires include a centerless hub assembly configured for attachment to an axle and a heel configured around the centerless hub assembly. The heel in such exemplary airless tires includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the centerless hub assembly. These other exemplary airless tires include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventor: John McGill
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Patent number: 10458427Abstract: A compressor aerofoil for a turbine engine or an axial process compressor, the compressor aerofoil includes a suction surface wall having a suction surface and a pressure surface wall having a pressure surface, the suction surface wall and the pressure surface wall meet at a leading edge and a trailing edge and define a tip having a tip surface, the aerofoil has a maximum thickness Tmax. A mean camber line is defined as passing through the leading edge and the trailing edge. The compressor aerofoil further includes a winglet at the tip and which extends from the suction surface, the winglet has an overhang W that has a perpendicular extent from the suction surface in the range 0.1Tmax to 1.5Tmax. The winglet has a maximum overhang Wmax that occurs within 50% of the length of the mean camber line from the leading edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: John McGill, Robert Miller, Roger Wells
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Publication number: 20190162407Abstract: An interchangeable enclosed combustor for combustion of vapors includes: an interchangeable multi-paneled, multi-tiered combustor housing having a plurality of panels coupled together in polygonal form and further arranged in multiple tiers of polygonal forms, thereby to form a vertical, columnar, polygonal stack to flame combust combustible vapors; and a burner manifold disposed within the vertical, columnar, polygonal stack to flame combust combustible vapors to reduce toxic emissions. The burner manifold natural draft burners and nozzles are configured to the ratio of air and fuel to mix to achieve stoichiometric combustion and reduce harmful emissions at a rate >98% destruction efficiency and inlet pressure of <1 oz./in?2. The burner manifold includes at least one orifice of a predetermined size through which to draw fuel into a plurality of mixing chambers where air is drawn in through multiple stages of air intake ports that are sized based upon fuel type and pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Russell Crump, Robert Bradley Ward, John McGill
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Patent number: 9801717Abstract: Apparatus for use with a prosthetic heart valve includes a holder, to which the heart valve is releasably attached, and an elongated handle. The handle can be connected to the holder simply by pushing a distal end of the handle straight into a recess in the holder. After this has been done, the holder preferably releasable latches onto the handle, and the handle can also be rotated about its longitudinal axis to transmit torque to the holder (e.g., a rotatable portion of the holder). Rotation of such a rotatable portion of the holder can be used to deflect portions of the valve radially inward. This operation of a rotatable portion of the holder is preferably one-way only. The handle can be released from the holder at any time, and it can similarly be reconnected to the holder at any time.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Inc.Inventors: Brian James Edquist, Melinda Kaye Kovach, Timothy John McGill, Julia Ann Schraut, Matt Quest, Ralph J. Thomas, Scott Patrick Thome
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Publication number: 20170218976Abstract: A compressor aerofoil for a turbine engine or an axial process compressor, the compressor aerofoil includes a suction surface wall having a suction surface and a pressure surface wall having a pressure surface, the suction surface wall and the pressure surface wall meet at a leading edge and a trailing edge and define a tip having a tip surface, the aerofoil has a maximum thickness Tmax. A mean camber line is defined as passing through the leading edge and the trailing edge. The compressor aerofoil further includes a winglet at the tip and which extends from the suction surface, the winglet has an overhang W that has a perpendicular extent from the suction surface in the range 0.1 Tmax to 1.5 Tmax. The winglet has a maximum overhang Wmax that occurs within 50% of the length of the mean camber line from the leading edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: John McGill, Robert Miller, Roger Wells
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Publication number: 20160242903Abstract: Apparatus for use with a prosthetic heart valve includes a holder, to which the heart valve is releasably attached, and an elongated handle. The handle can be connected to the holder simply by pushing a distal end of the handle straight into a recess in the holder. After this has been done, the holder preferably releasable latches onto the handle, and the handle can also be rotated about its longitudinal axis to transmit torque to the holder (e.g., a rotatable portion of the holder). Rotation of such a rotatable portion of the holder can be used to deflect portions of the valve radially inward. This operation of a rotatable portion of the holder is preferably one-way only. The handle can be released from the holder at any time, and it can similarly be reconnected to the holder at any time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Brian James Edquist, Melinda Kaye Kovach, Timothy John McGill, Julia Ann Neuman, Matt Quest, Ralph J. Thomas, Scott Patrick Thome
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Patent number: 9333076Abstract: Apparatus for use with a prosthetic heart valve includes a holder, to which the heart valve is releasably attached, and an elongated handle. The handle can be connected to the holder simply by pushing a distal end of the handle straight into a recess in the holder. After this has been done, the holder preferably releasable latches onto the handle, and the handle can also be rotated about its longitudinal axis to transmit torque to the holder (e.g., a rotatable portion of the holder). Rotation of such a rotatable portion of the holder can be used to deflect portions of the valve radially inward. This operation of a rotatable portion of the holder is preferably one-way-only. The handle can be released from the holder at any time, and it can similarly be reconnected to the holder at any time.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Inc.Inventors: Brian James Edquist, Melinda Kaye Kovach, Timothy John McGill, Julia Ann Neuman, Matt Quest, Ralph J. Thomas, Scott Patrick Thome
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Publication number: 20150035290Abstract: A member, for example a bolt of a bolting mechanism, has a direction of translation. A plurality of blades are arranged to slide progressively across an arrest of the member, in a direction transverse to the simultaneous movement of the member in the direction of translation, to thereby prevent reverse movement of the member over a continuous range of member positions. In particular, each blade prevents return movement over a different range of member positions than the other blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: John McGILL, Andrew Allan STAINES, Stuart Kenneth PARKER
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Patent number: 8123802Abstract: A mitral valve annuloplasty prosthesis (ring or C) has a generally saddle shape, i.e., portions of the prosthesis that are or will be adjacent the anterior and posterior commissures of the valve are relatively low as compared to at least some other portions of the prosthesis that are or will be between the commissures. However, the saddle shape is asymmetrical, in that the portion that is or will be adjacent the posterior commissure is lower than the portion that is or will be adjacent the anterior commissure.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventors: Irving L. Kron, Melinda Kaye Kovach, Timothy John McGill, Nathaniel Zacharias Zenz-Olson
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Publication number: 20100324670Abstract: A mitral valve annuloplasty prosthesis (ring or C) has a generally saddle shape, i.e., portions of the prosthesis that are or will be adjacent the anterior and posterior commissures of the valve are relatively low as compared to at least some other portions of the prosthesis that are or will be between the commissures. However, the saddle shape is asymmetrical, in that the portion that is or will be adjacent the posterior commissure is lower than the portion that is or will be adjacent the anterior commissure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: ST. JUDE MEDICAL, CARDIOLOGY DIVISION, INC.Inventors: Irving L. Kron, Melinda Kaye Kovach, Timothy John McGill, Nathaniel Zacharias Zenz-Olson
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Publication number: 20090029026Abstract: This invention relates to a unique lightweight packaging system for an effervescing carbonated alcoholic beverage and a method, which allows for instantaneous cooling, below ambient air conditions with carbonation of an alcoholic beverage while hiking.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Alan D. McClure, John McGill
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Publication number: 20070293423Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds, methods, and formulations useful for the oral delivery of a GLP-1 compound or an MC4 agonist peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2004Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: ELI LILLY AND COMPANYInventors: Louis Jungheim, John McGill, III, Kenneth Thrasher, Robert Herr, Muralikrishna Valluri
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Publication number: 20050125294Abstract: For an organization having a central station and a plurality of distributed outlets, each of the outlets having a cashier's terminal, each of the cashier's terminals coupled to a respective point-of-sale (POS) controller, a method of permitting a billee to pay an invoice issued by a biller is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Applicant: TRILOGY PAYMENT SERVICES, INC.Inventors: William Dupre, John McGill
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Publication number: 20050125300Abstract: For an organization having a central station and a plurality of distributed outlets, each of the following a cashier's terminal, each of the cashier's terminals coupled to a respective point-of-sale (POS) controller, a method of permitting an individual to add value to a pre-paid card issued by a card provider is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2004Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: John McGill, William Dupre
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Patent number: 6285339Abstract: Two-axis positioning apparatus utilizes a yoke including a hub mounted on a base for rotation about a first axis, an integral bight member extending radially away from the hub in opposite directions and a pair of upstanding legs distant from the hub extending away from the bight member at spaced apart locations. A load, such as an antenna, extends between and is mounted on the upstanding legs of the yoke member for rotation about a second axis distant from the bight member. A first drive system rotatably positions the yoke about the first axis and a second drive system intermediate the yoke and the load includes a first drive component rotatable about the first axis for rotatably positioning the load about the second axis as a function of the difference in angular movement of the support member about the first axis and the angular movement of the first drive component about the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: L-3 Communications CorporationInventor: Jeffrey John McGill
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Patent number: 5658730Abstract: Disclosed are diagnostic techniques for the detection of human prostate cancer. Genetic probes and methods useful in monitoring the progression and diagnosis of prostate cancer are described. The invention relates particularly to hybridization methods for evaluating the prevalence of gene amplification in a limited regions of human chromosome 8q24.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1994Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: CTRC Research FoundationInventors: John McGill, Carla Van Den Berg, Jeffrey Trent, Daniel Von Hoff, Paul Meltzer
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Patent number: 5437527Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement in a pipe handling system, especially for handling pipes (4P) in connection with a derrick 1A, wherein the arrangement comprises a tower (1) and two preferably individually controlled operating arms (2a, 2b). The pipe handling system operates favorably in connection with a finger board (4) in which all fingers (4a, 4n) are pointing towards the center of the pipe handling system and especially towards a disc-shaped locking unit (4R) mounted on the top of the tower (1), and in connection with a side-step retraction system designed for use with a top drive drilling system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1993Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Hitech A/SInventors: John McGill, Bjorn A. Eilertsen