Patents by Inventor Kenneth Howard
Kenneth Howard 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: 8655920Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a report on the basis of a plurality of remote datasets includes an intelligence server, one or more tree servers and one or more databases. Each tree server creates one or more segments, or slices, of a report, using information that resides on the tree server. Slices are aggregated into a tree structure, and the tree structure is converted into a report. The intelligence server receives updates from the tree servers. The tree servers and the intelligence server remain in communication for the purposes of passing update messages. The update messages are received and processed at the intelligence-server in a manner that facilitates synchronization with the contributing tree servers and provides live updates to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Armanta, Inc.Inventors: Bei Gu, Kenneth Howard, Eric J. Kaplan, Peter Chirlian, Aleksandr Shukhat
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Publication number: 20130031050Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a report on the basis of a plurality of remote datasets includes an intelligence server, one or more tree servers and one or more databases. Each tree server creates one or more segments, or slices, of a report, using information that resides on the tree server. Slices are aggregated into a tree structure, and the tree structure is converted into a report. The intelligence server receives updates from the tree servers. The tree servers and the intelligence server remain in communication for the purposes of passing update messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Armanta, Inc.Inventors: Bei Gu, Kenneth Howard, Eric J. Kaplan, Peter Chirlian, Aleksandr Shukhat
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Patent number: 8239417Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a report on the basis of a plurality of remote datasets. The system for achieving this includes an intelligence server, connected to one or more tree servers. The tree servers are in turn connected to one or more databases. A user specifies a report to be created by the system. A client, acting on behalf of the user, creates a report definition that is sent to the intelligence server and the tree servers. Each tree server creates one or more segments, or slices, of the report, using the information that resides on the tree server. These slices are then sent to the intelligence server, which aggregates the slices into a tree structure. The tree structure is then converted into a report for presentation to the client. Moreover, the intelligence server receives updates from the tree servers as necessary. To do so, the tree servers and the intelligence server remain in communication for the purposes of passing update messages.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Armanta, Inc.Inventors: Bei Gu, Kenneth Howard, Eric J. Kaplan, Peter Chirlian, Aleksandr Shukhat
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Patent number: 8122859Abstract: A piston cooling nozzle including a nylon body having a hub and a pair of integral legs extending from the hub and a tube for delivering coolant to a piston. The pair of legs are formed relative to the hub and the tube to ensure that when the body is mounted to an engine block, the legs engage a cylinder liner to thereby position the tube between a skirt of the piston and a connecting rod coupled to the piston.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: Neal R. Phelps, Stephen D. Cofer, Jr., Kent H. Clark, Eric D. Stahl, Kenneth Howard, John Cook
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Patent number: 7777888Abstract: A system and method for testing telescope optics are disclosed. The telescope optics can be testing in-situ, thus more accurately revealing the as-used optical conditions. The optical conditions are input to a test system which, by objective analysis, reveals a condition of the optics and an indication of the need for corrective action. A test bench for testing optics and for validating the test system using modeled telescope optics is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Howard Marshall, Paul TH Currie, Joseph Salg, Joseph B. Houston, James Harvey
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Patent number: 7760362Abstract: A system and method for testing telescope optics are disclosed. The telescope optics can be testing in-situ, thus more accurately revealing the as-used optical conditions. The optical conditions are input to a test system which, by objective analysis, reveals a condition of the optics and an indication of the need for corrective action. A test bench for testing optics and for validating the test system using modeled telescope optics is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Howard Marshall, Paul T H Currie, Joseph Salg, Joseph B. Houston, James Harvey
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Patent number: 7755766Abstract: A system and method for testing telescope optics are disclosed. The telescope optics can be testing in-situ, thus more accurately revealing the as-used optical conditions. The optical conditions are input to a test system which, by objective analysis, reveals a condition of the optics and an indication of the need for corrective action. A test bench for testing optics and for validating the test system using modeled telescope optics is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Howard Marshall, Paul Th Currie, Joseph Salg, Joseph B. Houston, James Harvey
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Publication number: 20100095910Abstract: A piston cooling nozzle including a nylon body having a hub and a pair of integral legs extending from the hub and a tube for delivering coolant to a piston. The pair of legs are formed relative to the hub and the tube to ensure that when the body is mounted to an engine block, the legs engage a cylinder liner to thereby position the tube between a skirt of the piston and a connecting rod coupled to the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Neal R. Phelps, Stephen D. Cofer, JR., Kent H. Clark, Eric D. Stahl, Kenneth Howard, John Cook
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Publication number: 20100036824Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a report on the basis of a plurality of remote datasets. The system for achieving this includes an intelligence server, connected to one or more tree servers. The tree servers are in turn connected to one or more databases. A user specifies a report to be created by the system. A client, acting on behalf of the user, creates a report definition that is sent to the intelligence server and the tree servers. Each tree server creates one or more segments, or slices, of the report, using the information that resides on the tree server. These slices are then sent to the intelligence server, which aggregates the slices into a tree structure. The tree structure is then converted into a report for presentation to the client. Moreover, the intelligence server receives updates from the tree servers as necessary. To do so, the tree servers and the intelligence server remain in communication for the purposes of passing update messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: ARMARNTA, INC.Inventors: Bei GU, Kenneth Howard, Eric J. Kaplan, Peter Chirlian, Alexandr Shukhat
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Publication number: 20090065381Abstract: A brush with a compartment containing one or more single-use size roll or rolls of auxiliary or emergency toilet tissue. The compartment protects the roll or rolls from ordinary damaging forces such as wear, dirt and moisture.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Inventors: Allen Garrett Burnett, Kenneth Howard Otto
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Publication number: 20070023566Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for constructing, operating, and marketing a vehicle that is alternatively adaptable for controlled, powered operation on the ground as an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), or in the air as a powered parachute, or for controlled, powered operation on both the ground and in the air as a flying ATV. On the ground, the vehicle is configured for controlled, powered operation over both smooth and rough terrain, as a true all-terrain vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2005Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventor: Kenneth Howard
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Patent number: 6772707Abstract: A resilient, impact-resistant, one-piece ballast apparatus is useful to provide external weight and stability for portable barricades and signs. The ballast is a solid, compression molded rubber device having a predetermined weight and design features including thickness, shape, perimeter contour and holes that permit the ballast device to be easily handled, quickly and securely affixed to or removed from barricade and sign structures, and stored for transport or between uses. The flat surface of the ballast permits application of identifying indicia of ownership that prevents loss and promotes reuse with resultant savings of economy and resources.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Inventor: Kenneth Howard Williamson
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Patent number: 6677565Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for high-speed autofocus and tilt of an inspection surface in a microscope system. The method and apparatus herein described projects an array of spots, lines, circles, grids or other shapes on the surface to be adjusted. The superposition of the array on the surface is imaged by a CCD camera and captured for subsequent analysis. Analysis of the captured image determines both the distance and angle through which the surface must be adjusted to bring it into the focal plane of the optical system. Focus and tilt error is estimated by comparing image dilation and distortion with calibrated data.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1998Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Veeco Tucson Inc.Inventors: Michael Hermann Wahl, Kenneth Howard Womack, Phillip Gregory Roberts
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Publication number: 20030131974Abstract: A radiator (10) with molded plastic header tanks (14,18) has an electric coolant pump and housing assembly (20) integrally formed with the outlet header tank (18). A first half (24) of the pump housing is integrally molded into the header tank (18) and a low point and across a smooth and wide transition. The second half of the pump housing (26) mates at a sealed circular seam to the first half, with an electric coolant pump (28) held closely inside the two. No fasteners are needed to mount the pump, and the assembly minimizes parts and potential leak points.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Inventors: Kenneth Howard Ellison, James A. Acre
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Patent number: 6314212Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for high precision image metrology. A feature dimension from the image is determined by measuring corresponding features in the Fourier power spectrum of the image with substantially improved precision due to immunity from noise and system response. Operationally, a digital image of the sample is acquired at sufficient resolution to capture the feature of interest. A sample widow is chosen which substantially isolates the feature of interest. The feature window is then piecewise extended to a predetermined window size for effective Fourier Transform interpolation. A Fourier Power Spectrum of the sample widow is generated at high sample density such that the loci of extremal points indicative of a feature dimension is identified with high precision. The relative spacing of the extremal points is measured and related to the desired feature dimension.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Veeco Instruments Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Howard Womack, Daniel Lee Abraham
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Patent number: 6278966Abstract: A method and device to generate behavior for emulated visitors traversing an internet web site. The visitors may display behavior that is indistinguishable from those of actual users, a subset of the actual users, or the behavior may be purely hypothetical, such as when a visitor acts without evidence of having made an intentional choice. The invention tracks the actions of the visitors and develops reference distributions that may be compared to a site's usage distributions as obtained from actual visitors to the site. The reference distributions are then used to implement statistical estimation methods that measure relative information content. The invention comprises a general implementation and a deterministic implementation. The general version may be applied to live production web sites, and the deterministic version is best suited to offline processing.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1998Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven Kenneth Howard, David Charles Martin, Mark Earl Paul Plutowski
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Patent number: 6230153Abstract: A method and apparatus that allows association rules defining URL-URL relationships, and URL-URL relationships that are strongly influenced by a web site's topology, to be identified and respectively qualified. Superfluous association rules may be separated from non-topology affected association rules and discounted as desired. The invention may be implemented in conjunction with a probalistic generative method used to model a web site and simulate the behavior of a visitor traversing the site. The invention further allows randomized web site visitor behavior to be separated into “interesting” and “uninteresting” behavior.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven Kenneth Howard, David Charles Martin, Mark Earl Paul Plutowski
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Patent number: 5661402Abstract: A sealed, modular downhole antenna for measuring electrical characteristics of wellbore fluids and formations. An antenna includes a thin-walled curved metal tube, which houses coil of a length of conductive wire. The wire may be insulated by an insulating coating, as well as a filler that resides in the tube. The tube includes a coupling gap, to facilitate coupling electromagnetic energy through the tube, to and from the conductive wire. The tube also has a wall opening, for ends of the wire to attach to an adapter-connector. The adapter-connector includes suitable features for modular connection to an electrical cable, electrical connectors, or other electrical equipment. Features of the invention may be provided to ensure that such connection is resistive to the high pressures that are often encountered downhole. In this respect, the tube may be also coated with a sealant layer, to hermetically seal the tube, coupling gap, and junction between the adapter-connector and the tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1996Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Kenneth Howard Hamlin, Paul Lincoln Sinclair
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Patent number: 4017888Abstract: A metal nitride oxide semiconductor device capable of use within a memory cell, having a more heavily doped region of the same type as the substrate provided directly under the channel of the depletion mode device. Application of a positive write voltage to the gate of the device, with the substrate at 0 volts potential and the source and drain biased to a suitable positive level, results in avalanche operation of the device whereby charge is stored in a nitride oxide interface under the gate, thereby converting the device to enhancement mode operation. The charge can be removed with the source and drain biased to the 0 volt potential of the substrate and a positive erase signal applied to the gate. A four device memory cell is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1975Date of Patent: April 12, 1977Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Howard Christie, David DeWitt, William Stanford Johnson
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Patent number: D706972Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mary Elle Fashions, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Howard, James Riley, Matthew Smith, Gavin Perry