Patents by Inventor Kenneth Frank
Kenneth Frank 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: 20020060227Abstract: A canister assembly includes a canister, a plug enclosure, a vent mechanism, a delivery valve mechanism, and a protective handle. The plug enclosure may be attached to the canister at an opening and forms a pressurized seal of the interior cavity of the canister. The vent mechanism automatically reduces pressure when pressure inside the canister exceeds a preset level. The delivery valve mechanism can be automatically and remotely activated subject to a user's control to provide gaseous flow from the canister. The protective handle is fastened to the canister and includes the handle docking element. A docking assembly includes a canister assembly, a manifold assembly, a docking station, and a docking mechanism. The docking mechanism includes a handle docking element and a port docking element. The manifold assembly includes a manifold and at least one port attached to the manifold. The docking station includes a canister bay, protective housing, and the port docking element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Inventors: Kenneth Frank, James Morrow
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Patent number: 6381455Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing a warning of, and greater immunity from, an impending call drop in a digital wireless telecommunications system. During normal operations, data is transmitted at an initial information frame rate and a corresponding initial physical frame rate. Upon the data transmission producing errors in excess of a threshold, which indicates an impending call drop, the initial information frame rate is reduced while error correction codes are introduced into the data transmission to maintain the initial physical frame rate. The reduction in the information frame rate produces a subtle yet noticeable change in acoustic voice quality, which serves as a warning of the impending call drop. The introduction of error correction codes into the transmission provides greater immunity to the impending call drop by improving data integrity.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventor: Kenneth Frank Smolik
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Patent number: 6360914Abstract: A canister assembly includes a canister, a plug enclosure, a vent mechanism, a delivery valve mechanism, and a protective handle. The plug enclosure may be attached to the canister at an opening and forms a pressurized seal of the interior cavity of the canister. The vent mechanism automatically reduces pressure when pressure inside the canister exceeds a preset level. The delivery valve mechanism can be automatically and remotely activated subject to a user's control to provide gaseous flow from the canister. The protective handle is fastened to the canister and includes the handle docking element. A docking assembly includes a canister assembly, a manifold assembly, a docking station, and a docking mechanism. The docking mechanism includes a handle docking element and a port docking element. The manifold assembly includes a manifold and at least one port attached to the manifold. The docking station includes a canister bay, protective housing, and the port docking element.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Coleman Powermate, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Frank, James Morrow
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Patent number: 6361407Abstract: A modified process for chemical/mechanical polishing semiconductor wafers is provided. The process includes polishing a surface of the wafer, contacting the polished surface of the wafer with a surfactant, and drying the surface of the disengaged wafer for a sufficient period of time before contacting the surface of the wafer with a rinse media or subsequent process liquid. The process reduces defects, including etching stains, on the polished surface of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.Inventors: Yongqiang Lu, Kenneth Frank, Kevin Edwards
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Patent number: 6295584Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for allowing a multiprocessor computer system with shared memory distributed among multiple nodes to appear like a single-node environment. The single-node environment is implemented with a memory map that has a unique address for every memory location in the system. Overlapping address spaces in the multinode environment are also assigned unique representative addresses that are translated to actual addresses in conformance with the multinode environment. The apparatus and method allows a wide variety of operating systems to be run on the multinode environment. Additionally, industry standard BIOS and chip sets can be used.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald R. DeSota, Bruce M. Gilbert, Thomas D. Lovett, Robert J. Safranek, Kenneth Frank Dove
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Patent number: 6247041Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for allowing a user process to advise or control an operating system to place a process on a particular node or a node within a set of nodes. When a user process makes a system call to the operating system to either create, execute, move, or attach a process, a specified system resource is passed to the operating system with the system call. This advises the operating system to store the process on a node containing the system resource identified in the system call. The user process can also require the operating system to store a process on a particular node.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Phillip Eric Krueger, Corene Casper, Kenneth Frank Dove, Brent Alan Kingsbury, Paul Edward McKenney
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Patent number: 6119005Abstract: The system for automated determination of handoff neighbor list uses the data collected from mobile subscriber units to automatically update the handoff neighbor list. The mobile subscriber unit produces Pilot Strength Measurement (PSM) data that is indicative of the relative signal strength measured at the mobile subscriber unit from a plurality of pilot channels. The mobile subscriber unit transmits this data, along with a list of viable pilot channel candidates as determined by the mobile subscriber unit, to the base station serving the existing call. The system for automated determination of handoff neighbor list maintains a data structure that stores data indicative of the number of instances that a pilot channel is recommended, the sum of power levels that were measured by the various mobile subscriber units for these instances.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventor: Kenneth Frank Smolik
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Patent number: 6039955Abstract: A nontoxic, therapeutic agent having pharmacological activity comprising concentrated extract of Larrea tridentata plant material and ascorbic acid, an ascorbic acid ester, an ascorbic acid salt, butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, hydrogen sulfide, hypophosphorous acid, monothioglycerol, potassium bisulfite, propyl gallate, sodium bisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium thiosulfate, sulfur dioxide, sulfurous acid, a tocopherol or vitamin E is made by a process in which the plant material is extracted using an organic solvent, preferably acetone, and is then saturated with one of the listed reducing agents acid to reduce the toxic NDGA quinone, which naturally occurs in the plant material, to NDGA itself.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1999Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Larreacorp, Ltd.Inventors: Robert A. Sinnott, W. Dennis Clark, Kenneth Frank DeBoer
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Patent number: 6004559Abstract: A nontoxic, therapeutic agent having pharmacological activity comprising concentrated extract of Larrea tridentata plant material and ascorbic acid, an ascorbic acid ester, an ascorbic acid salt, butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, hydrogen sulfide, hypophosphorous acid, monothioglycerol, potassium bisulfite, propyl gallate, sodium bisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium thiosulfate, sulfur dioxide, sulfurous acid, a tocopherol, or vitamin E is made by a process in which the plant material is extracted using an organic solvent, preferably acetone, and is then saturated with one of the listed reducing agents acid to reduce the toxic NDGA quinone, which naturally occurs in the plant material, to NDGA itself.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Larreacorp, Ltd.Inventors: Robert A. Sinnott, W. Dennis Clark, Kenneth Frank DeBoer
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Patent number: 5938765Abstract: An apparatus and method for initializing a shared-memory, multinode multiprocessor computer system. The nodes in the multiprocessor computer system separately and independently run standard PC-based BIOS routines in parallel for initialization of the nodes. These BIOS routines set addresses of hardware components on each node as though the nodes are in a single-node environment. After completion of BIOS, the addresses of the hardware components are reprogrammed to conform with the multinode environment. A master processor then takes control to boot the operating system on the multinode environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Frank Dove, Darin Jon Perrigo, Robert Bruce Gage
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Patent number: 5923435Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically measuring a cylinder characteristic, such as a cylinder diameter or a cylinder run-out and then automatically adjusting the engraver in response to the measurement and subsequently engraving the cylinder to account for such characteristic. The engraver includes a run-out detector for detecting a cylinder characteristic of the cylinder on the engraver and the run-out detector includes an LVDT sensor and a run-out circuit for generating a signal generally corresponding to a shape of the cylinder surface. The run-out circuit is capable of generating a measured run-out using the signal generated by the LVDT sensor. The method and apparatus also provides a method and apparatus for automatically adjusting for the cylinder characteristic using manual, mechanical and/or electronic features of the method and apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Frank Bornhorst, Jr., Robert Dean Likins, Danny D. Myers, David R. Seitz, Curtis Woods
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Patent number: 5837252Abstract: A nontoxic, therapeutic agent having pharmacological activity comprising concentrated extract of Larrea tridentata plant material and ascorbic acid, an ascorbic acid ester, an ascorbic acid salt, butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, hydrogen sulfide, hypophosphorous acid, monothioglycerol, potassium bisulfite, propyl gallate, sodium bisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium thiosulfate, sulfur dioxide, sulfurous acid, a tocopherol, or vitamin E is made by a process in which the plant material is extracted using an organic solvent, preferably acetone, and is then saturated with one of the listed reducing agents acid to reduce the toxic NDGA quinone, which naturally occurs in the plant material, to NDGA itself.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1996Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: Larreacorp, Ltd.Inventors: Robert A. Sinnott, W. Dennis Clark, Kenneth Frank DeBoer
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Patent number: 5652659Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically measuring a cylinder characteristic, such as a cylinder diameter or a cylinder run-out and then automatically adjusting the engraver in response to the measurement and subsequently engraving the cylinder to account for such characteristic. The engraver includes a run-out detector for detecting a cylinder characteristic of the cylinder on the engraver, and the run-out detector includes an LVDT sensor and a run-out circuit for generating a signal generally corresponding to a shape of the cylinder surface. The run-out circuit is capable of generating a measured run-out using the signal generated by the LVDT sensor. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for automatically adjusting for the cylinder characteristic using manual, mechanical and/or electronic features of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1995Date of Patent: July 29, 1997Assignee: Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Frank Bornhorst, Jr., Robert Dean Likins, Danny D. Myers, David R. Seitz, Curtis Woods
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Patent number: 4093172Abstract: A hand-tool for mortaring bricks in a course includes a frame bent transversely at right angles, the side pieces of said frame carrying flanges to align the tool by engaging the side faces of bricks already laid. A handle is attached to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1977Date of Patent: June 6, 1978Inventor: Kenneth Frank Johnson
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Patent number: 4039178Abstract: The invention relates to a fly-tying device which enables a fisherman to adjust the position of a clamped hook in a universal manner during the tying operation, changing its position both in an up-and-down sense and in turning it to an inverted condition, both in the same movement. The device incorporates a lockable universal joint, mounting the hook-gripping means in a clamp stand.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1976Date of Patent: August 2, 1977Inventor: Kenneth Frank Odames
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Patent number: D455398Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Coleman Powermate, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Frank, James Morrow