Patents by Inventor Keith Michael

Keith Michael 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).

  • Publication number: 20110189064
    Abstract: A centrifugal processing bag, system and method for separating the components of a mixed material is presented. The processing bag includes a hub and a first port for receiving the mixed material, where the first port includes an outlet positioned within the processing bag at a perimeter of the bag. The processing bag also including a second port having a second port inlet spaced proximate the hub and away from a central axis of the hub. The second port directs a separated material collected from the second port inlet out of the processing bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Keith Michael Rosiello
  • Publication number: 20110177769
    Abstract: A blade sharpening assembly generally including a pair of clamping members disposable in coextensive relationship, each providing end portions for receiving a blade therebetween with a cutting edge thereof disposed beyond the ends thereof; means interengaging the clamping members functional as a fulcrum in permitting the end portions to displace in clamping a blade therebetween; means interconnecting the clamping members for angularly displacing the clamping members about the fulcrum; a guide member pivotally connected to a second end portion of each of the clamping members, pivotal between a first position disposed coextensively with a connected clamping member, and a second position at an angle relative to the connected clamping member, alignable with the guide member of the other of the clamping members, when the clamping members are disposed in coextensive; means interconnectable between the guide members when the guide members are disposed in alignment for releasably retaining the guide members in alignm
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventor: Keith Michael Nakoff
  • Publication number: 20110164966
    Abstract: A wake flow injector method and apparatus are presented to improve the power production of wind and water turbines by directly injecting higher-energy fluid or air directly into the wake flow region behind the rotor or turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Keith Michael Werle
  • Publication number: 20110146478
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the automatic scoring of a vocal performance are provided. The systems and methods for providing feedback and scoring a vocal performance generally relate to receiving/processing a user's vocals, measuring the various performance qualities of the performance according stored evaluation policies and rendering a score according to stored scoring policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Keith Michael Andrews, Jerald Perry, Christopher Hercules Claudatos
  • Patent number: 7961728
    Abstract: This document describes tools useful in relaying a data stream from a data device to a network tunnel, such as by enabling virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier. These tools, for example, may use an inexpensive switch module to create virtual switch instances. To do so, the tools may assign data packets to a virtual switch instance by mapping the data packets to a particular provisional identifier and then modifying the data packets to include the provisional identifier. The switch module may then forward the data packets based on the provisional identifier rather than on the user identifier. The tools may remove the provisional identifier before forwarding the data packets to a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: World Wide Packets, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Q Daines, Keith Michael Bly, Kelly Donald Fromm, C Stuart Johnson
  • Publication number: 20110133030
    Abstract: A support for an aircraft seat, table or other piece of equipment has a lower support link that sweeps out a lateral arc. The lower support link cooperates with a conventional linear track to support the piece of equipment. The linear track provides fore/aft movement substantially orthogonal to a line tangent to the center of the lateral arc. A pilot link is operatively attached to the piece of equipment to form a four-bar linkage that maintains the equipment in a predetermined rotational attitude as the lower support link sweeps out its lateral arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Othar P. KENNEDY, Ryan Stuart Porter, Keith Michael Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20110135445
    Abstract: A pressure balance seal includes a sealing surface facing an inward radial direction, and a stator interface comprising at least one surface interfacing with a stator. The pressure balance seal further includes a friction reducing feature. The friction reducing feature includes a cavity on the sealing surface. The cavity is configured to receive a fluid such that a normal force acting on the pressure balance seal is counterbalanced by a force generated by a pressure of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, Keith Michael Parker, Xiaoqing Zheng, Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger, Robbert Christiaan Pannekeet, Alexander Kimberley Simpson, Biao Fang
  • Patent number: 7958425
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing data encoding involving encoding data bits according to an outer convolutional code to produce outer encoded bits processing the outer encoded bits using an interleaver and a logical unit to produce intermediate bits, wherein the logical unit receives a first number of input bits and produces a second number of corresponding output bits, the second number being less than the first number, and wherein the logical unit takes each of the first number of input bits into account in producing the second number of output bits, encoding the intermediate bits according to an inner convolutional code to produce inner encoded bits, wherein the inner convolutional code is characterized by at least two states, and combining the data bits and the inner encoded bits to produce encoded outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Trelliware Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Michael Chugg, Paul Kingsley Gray, Georgios Dimitrios Dimou, Phunsak Thiennviboon
  • Patent number: 7948874
    Abstract: Packet switch operating methods and packet switches provision a plurality of tunnels on a packet switch by associating each of the plurality of tunnels with a packet switch port and by configuring the packet switch to modify packets relayed by the tunnel to include a transport identifier associated with the tunnel. The tunnels of the plurality relay packets when permitted by a tunnel index. The plurality of tunnels and the tunnel index are associated with a virtual interface. The methods and packet switches also permit a first tunnel of the plurality of tunnels to relay packets by configuring the tunnel index to indicate the first tunnel. The tunnel index indicates only one tunnel. The methods and packet switches also enable a second tunnel of the plurality of tunnels to relay packets by configuring the tunnel index to indicate the second tunnel, thereby preventing the first tunnel from relaying packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: World Wide Packets, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Tadimeti, Asheesh Jadav, Kelly Donald Fromm, Keith Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20110085545
    Abstract: Packet switch operating methods and packet switches assign a packet to a virtual interface. The virtual interface is associated with a plurality of tunnels. One of the plurality is designated a primary tunnel configured to accept packets. Other tunnels of the plurality are designated as backup tunnels and are configured to reject packets. The methods and packet switches also determine which of the plurality of tunnels is the primary tunnel and determine a packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel. The methods and packet switches egress the packet via the primary tunnel on the packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Srinivasa Tadimeti, Asheesh Jadav, Kelly Donald Fromm, Keith Michael Bly
  • Patent number: 7905450
    Abstract: A support for aircraft seats and other equipment has a lower support link that sweeps out a lateral arc. The lower support link supports a platform that may have a conventional linear track. The linear track provides fore/aft movement substantially orthogonal to a line tangent to the center of the lateral arc. A pilot link is attached to the platform to form a parallelogram linkage that maintains the equipment platform in a rotationally fixed attitude as the lower support link sweeps out its lateral arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: AMI Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Othar P. Kennedy, Ryan Stuart Porter, Keith Michael Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20110049960
    Abstract: An aircraft seat has an adjustable armrest in which the armrest platform is supported by a hinged attachment to an armrest support member. The hinged attachment between the armrest platform and the arm support member is located at the wrist-end of the arm support member near the aircraft control stick. The armrest platform and the armrest support are locked into position by means of telescoping struts that are controlled at the wrist-end of the arm platform member. The telescoping struts can be selectively locked to create triangular and/or quadrilateral trusses that lock the armrest firmly into position and may include springs or other elements to bias the armrest platform up and forward so that the armrest “floats” when the telescoping struts re released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: AMI Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Michael FERGUSON, Donald R. Pinkal
  • Patent number: 7887020
    Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the position of a seat comprises a rack and a clock nut that grips the rack. The rack comprises a threaded rod, while the clock nut comprises a short cylindrical body that is drilled and threaded along its diameter with internal threads corresponding to the thread diameter and pitch of the rack. Circumferential reliefs are then formed in the threaded bore to enable the clock nut to be “clocked” from a position in which the threads of the clock nut engage the threads of the rack to a second position in which the threads of the clock nut disengage the threads of the rack. A pair of linkages are provided to rotate the clock nut between the engaged and disengaged positions and to transmit loads from the clock nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: AMI Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Michael Ferguson, Othar P. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 7860116
    Abstract: Packet switch operating methods and packet switches assign a packet to a virtual interface. The virtual interface is associated with a plurality of tunnels. One of the plurality is designated a primary tunnel configured to accept packets. Other tunnels of the plurality are designated as backup tunnels and are configured to reject packets. The methods and packet switches also determine which of the plurality of tunnels is the primary tunnel and determine a packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel. The methods and packet switches egress the packet via the primary tunnel on the packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Worldwide Packets, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Tadimeti, Asheesh Jadav, Kelly Donald Fromm, Keith Michael Bly
  • Patent number: 7848404
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for feed-forward equalization (FFE) in a transmission system. The method accepts a serial stream of input digital data signals. For each input data signal, a temporal sequence of signals is generated. Each of the signals in the temporal sequence is selectively shaped. Shaping map include varying the degree of amplification, modifying the slew rate, or varying the time delay. The contributions of the selectively shaped signals in the temporal sequence are then selectively weighted, and a summed output signal is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Inventors: Hongming An, Wei Fu, Allen Merrill, Keith Michael Conroy
  • Patent number: 7832690
    Abstract: Disclosed is a telescoping wing locking system for use in aircraft having wings that collapse and expand in a telescoping fashion, such as aircraft designed for use on roadways. Companion wing segments are locked in place when gas is supplied to inflate a bladder located between overlapping sections of the wing segments. Wing segments are unlocked when gas is removed from the bladder so that it deflates and allows the wing segments to be moved relative to each other. The wing segments may be locked in any position relative to each other in which a section of one segment overlaps a section of the neighboring segment with the bladder between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Mundus Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Levine, Keith Michael Field
  • Publication number: 20100285847
    Abstract: A means of creation of joy and enjoyment plus self identification during the process of charging a cell phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Greer, Keith Michael Greer
  • Patent number: 7830883
    Abstract: This invention includes methods and packet switches that modify duplicate packets to have different transport formats. A packet switch receives a plurality of duplicate packets from a switching fabric and modifies two or more of the duplicate packets so that the modified duplicate packets have different transport identifiers. The packet switch then transmits one of the duplicate packets on each of a plurality of ports of the packet switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: World Wide Packets, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Donald Fromm, Keith Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20100280454
    Abstract: A method and system for heating or cooling a fluid to be delivered into the body of a patient is provided and may include a controller and a fluid delivery line assembly. The fluid delivery line may include sterile fluid pathway and for communicating a fluid from a source to a destination, one or more terminating connectors, and an integral resistance element for producing heat in response to electrical current. The fluid delivery line may also include one or more thermal sensor positioned within the fluid pathway for detecting and reporting the temperature of the fluid being delivered. The controller may include an embedded control/feedback logic program with novel heat balance algorithm to precisely control the amount of heat applied to the fluid. The fluid delivery line assembly may be disposable with at least one of the thermal sensors being reusable while maintaining sterility within the fluid pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Keith Michael Rosiello
  • Patent number: 7793190
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for performing data encoding involving receiving a sequence of data bits, encoding the sequence of data bit according to a code characterized by a parity check matrix (H matrix) to generate a sequence of encoded bits, wherein the H matrix is capable of being expressed as H=[Hp|Hd]=[S|J*P*T], S being a dual-diagonal matrix, J being a single parity check matrix, P being an interleaver permutation matrix, and T being a repeat block matrix, wherein the H matrix is a column permuted version of an original H matrix, wherein clashes associated with an interleaver corresponding to the P matrix are reduced by adopting the H matrix instead of the original H matrix, and outputting the sequence of encoded bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Kingsley Gray, Keith Michael Chugg