Patents by Inventor Keith Owens
Keith Owens 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: 20120152782Abstract: The present invention is a sound-emitting beverage container. The container comprises a generally cylindrical receptacle having a substantially closed bottom and open top, and receiving at its bottom a removable coaster, which coaster includes a top member and a bottom member, each member having a hollowed space in its center, wherein the space receives therein a removable sound chip, which sound chip comprises an integrated circuit connected to a power source for powering the integrated circuit, a switch for controlling the power source upon actuation of said switch, and a speaker, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to store a signal corresponding to a pre-recorded sound and to transmit to the speaker the signal for producing the pre-recorded sound upon the integrated circuit being supplied with power from the power source upon actuation of the switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Randall Keith Owens
-
Patent number: 8194292Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing system, and a controller communicatively coupled to the image capturing system. A scanner body has a scanner opening. The image capturing system is located adjacent the scanner opening. An LCD document glass is adjacent to the scanner opening. The LCD document glass is communicatively coupled to the controller. The LCD document glass is controlled to be in a transparent state wherein the LCD document glass is clear and a translucent state wherein the LCD document glass is darkened.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Brian Dale Cook, Brian Keith Owens, Michael R. Wedding, John Thomas Writt
-
Patent number: 8078524Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for explaining credit scores, for example in connection with a credit score explanation service, in which consumers can identify the sources of information used to establish their credit score, supply their credit report and credit score information in connection with their application for credit-related products and services, such as loans, and determine the effect on their credit score and cost for credit-related products and services based upon various hypothetical changes in their credit behavior.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Stuart Crawford, Andrew Flint, Sharon Anne Hatcher, Keith Owen Hillestad, Thomas J. Quinn, Michael William Rapaport, Sue Ann Simon, Michael Scott Steele, Cheryl Lynne St. John
-
Patent number: 8053230Abstract: A device for culturing cells or tissue includes a culture dish with a bottom wall and at least one sidewall to define an interior cavity, at least one channel formed on the bottom wall to minimize the effect of fluid movement on biologics in the dish and, optionally, at least one barrier wall for partitioning the interior cavity into a plurality of compartments. The barrier wall maintains a biologic in one compartment separate from a biologic in another compartment. The barrier wall may also provide fluid communication between compartments.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Nalge Nunc International CorporationInventor: Keith Owen Whittlinger
-
Publication number: 20110169331Abstract: A system may include a module that includes a component, a logic device to provide an instruction on behalf of the component, and control logic to generate a desired output voltage signal in response to a constant current, where the desired output voltage signal indicates a determined voltage that the component is configured to operate with when performing an operation. The system may include a board that includes a power supply to produce the determined voltage based on the instruction, and an interface to couple the determined voltage to the component to allow the component to perform the operation on behalf of the board, send the constant current to the control logic, and receive the desired output voltage signal from the control logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Jaspal GILL, David Keith Owen, Troy Sheets, Daniel Lewis Kline
-
Patent number: 7936089Abstract: A system may include a module that includes a component, a logic device to provide an instruction on behalf of the component, and control logic to generate a desired output voltage signal in response to a constant current, where the desired output voltage signal indicates a determined voltage that the component is configured to operate with when performing an operation. The system may include a board that includes a power supply to produce the determined voltage based on the instruction, and an interface to couple the determined voltage to the component to allow the component to perform the operation on behalf of the board, send the constant current to the control logic, and receive the desired output voltage signal from the control logic.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Jaspal Gill, David Keith Owen, Troy Sheets, Daniel Lewis Kline
-
Patent number: 7729017Abstract: A scanning device including a controller and a light source operatively coupled to the controller. The light source is shaped and located such that at least part of the light emitted from the light source is reflected off of a document to be scanned, and the light source has a maximum output when the light source is fully warmed up. The scanning device further includes a receptor operatively coupled to the controller, the receptor being located to receive the light reflected from the document to be scanned such that the at least part of the visual properties of the document to be scanned are transmitted to the receptor in a scanning process. The controller is configured to selectively allow the scanning process to proceed when an output of the light source is less than about 80% of the maximum output.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Brian Keith Owens, William Chad Wedding
-
Publication number: 20100009324Abstract: Selecting a portable recording device having a selection menu with controls coordinated with an index to recall therapeutic signals to reproduce stimuli corresponding with pre-recorded stimuli to treat the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2008Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventors: E. Keith Owens, Trung M. Thai
-
Publication number: 20090168124Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing system. A controller is communicatively coupled to the image capturing system. A scanner body has a scanner opening. The image capturing system is located adjacent the scanner opening. A document planar member is positioned across the scanner opening. The document planar member is communicatively coupled to the controller. The document planar member has an input operating state wherein the document planar member receives at least one input from a user input object and supplies the at least one input to the controller for further processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Mark Joseph Edwards, Brian Keith Owens, Ricky Earl Robbins, John Thomas Writt
-
Publication number: 20090168118Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing system, and a controller communicatively coupled to the image capturing system. A scanner body has a scanner opening. The image capturing system is located adjacent the scanner opening. An LCD document glass is adjacent to the scanner opening. The LCD document glass is communicatively coupled to the controller. The LCD document glass is controlled to be in a transparent state wherein the LCD document glass is clear and a translucent state wherein the LCD document glass is darkened.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Brian Dale Cook, Brian Keith Owens, Michael R. Wedding, John Thomas Writt
-
Publication number: 20090054221Abstract: A closure for attachment to a centrifuge bottle. The closure comprises an end wall and a sidewall extending from the end wall. The sidewall comprises a first terminal end, a second terminal end, a first transition surface, and a second transition surface. The first terminal end has a first outer peripheral boundary at a first radial distance from an axial centerline. The second terminal end has a second outer peripheral boundary at a second radial distance from the axial centerline. The second radial distance is less than the first radial distance. The first transition surface extends between the first outer peripheral boundary and the second transition surface. The second transition surface extends between the first transition surface and the second outer peripheral boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Nalge Nunc InternationalInventors: Peter Kevin Baird, John David DeLorme, Keith Owen Whittlinger
-
Patent number: 7354211Abstract: An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, characteristics couples the printhead carriage to the perforator carriage.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Adam Jude Ahne, William Michael Connors, Mark Joseph Edwards, William George Goff, III, Brian Keith Owens, Ricky Earl Robbins, Douglas Laurence Robertson
-
Publication number: 20080064090Abstract: A device for culturing cells or tissue includes a culture dish with a bottom wall and at least one sidewall to define an interior cavity, at least one channel formed on the bottom wall to minimize the effect of fluid movement on biologics in the dish and, optionally, at least one barrier wall for partitioning the interior cavity into a plurality of compartments. The barrier wall maintains a biologic in one compartment separate from a biologic in another compartment. The barrier wall may also provide fluid communication between compartments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: NALGE NUNC INTERNATIONALInventor: Keith Owen Whittlinger
-
Publication number: 20080007189Abstract: A stage lighting lamp unit includes a processor for receiving control data from a remote console. Beam orientation data for the lamp unit is passed to the lamp in the form of the x, y and z co-ordinates of a point in space through which the beam is to pass. The processor divides the required lamp travel into a number of stages dependent on execution duration data sent with the position data, and calculates, for each stage, a new value for pan and tilt angles for the lamp. These values are passed to pan and tilt controlling co-processors which control servo-motors for pan and tilt operation. The lamp unit also incorporates a rotatable shutter for interrupting the lamp beam when required. The shutters of all the lamps in a system can be instructed from the remote console to open and close in synchronism, thereby providing a stroboscopic effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Mark Hunt, Keith Owen, Michael Hughes
-
Patent number: 7209252Abstract: A memory module, a printer assembly, and a method for storing a computer code for a printer-controller application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) having a non-ROM memory control. The memory module has ROM memory cells and a non-ROM to ROM interface operatively connected to the ROM memory cells. The printer assembly has the above-described ASIC, the above-described memory module, and a transmission cable operatively connected to the non-ROM memory control of the ASIC and the non-ROM to ROM interface of the memory module. The method stores non-final versions of the computer code in a memory module having non-ROM memory cells, which allows the code to be changed during development, and stores the final version of the computer code in the above-described memory module having the ROM memory cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2002Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Lexmark International, inc.Inventors: Brian Keith Owens, Tung-Fu Hsieh
-
Patent number: 7140708Abstract: An edge-to-edge imaging method includes generating a reflectance profile of a mid-frame of an imaging apparatus by taking optical readings along the mid-frame with no print media present in a direction substantially orthogonal to the sheet feed direction, the reflectance profile distinguishing between the media support surface and the waste ink collection trough; taking optical readings across the mid-frame in the direction substantially orthogonal to the sheet feed direction with the sheet of print media present; comparing the optical readings taken with the sheet of print media present with the reflectance profile of the mid-frame; and applying an algorithm to adjust an amount of ink overspray along the lateral edges of the sheet of print media based on a result of the comparing.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Michael William Lawrence, Brian Keith Owens
-
Publication number: 20050200318Abstract: A stage lighting lamp unit includes a processor for receiving control data from a remote console. Beam orientation data for the lamp unit is passed to the lamp in the form of the x, y and z co-ordinates of a point in space through which the beam is to pass. The processor divides the required lamp travel into a number of stages dependent on execution duration data sent with the position data, and calculates, for each stage, a new value for pan and tilt angles for the lamp. These values are passed to pan and tilt controlling co-processors which control servo-motors for pan and tilt operation. The lamp unit also incorporates a rotatable shutter for interrupting the lamp beam when required. The shutters of all the lamps in a system can be instructed from the remote console to open and close in synchronism, thereby providing a stroboscopic effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2005Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Mark Hunt, Keith Owen, Michael Hughes
-
Publication number: 20050129224Abstract: An echo canceler circuit (10) and method attenuates at least post-echo canceler uplink data (90) to produce attenuated uplink data (100) in response to uplink echo return loss based attenuation data (40). The echo canceler circuit (10) includes an echo return loss based attenuation data generator (20) and at least an uplink data attenuator (30). The echo return loss based attenuation data generator (20) produces the uplink echo return loss based attenuation data (40) in response to echo return loss data (70). The echo return loss data (70) is based on at least one of: attenuated downlink data (50), pre-echo canceler uplink data (60), and/or amplifier gain data (80). The uplink data attenuator (30) attenuates the post-echo canceler uplink data (90) to produce attenuated uplink data (100) based on the uplink echo return loss based attenuation data (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: James Piket, Keith Owens, Christopher Springfield
-
Patent number: D636678Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Nalge Nunc International CorporationInventors: Peter Kevin Baird, Keith Owen Whittlinger
-
Patent number: D637492Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Nalge Nunc International CorporationInventors: Peter Kevin Baird, Keith Owen Whittlinger