Patents by Inventor Kevin L. Haas
Kevin L. Haas 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: 11958512Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device includes a camera or other optical sensor configured to be disposed at a trailing end of a first vehicle system. The camera or other optical sensor is configured to output one or more images or video of a field of view behind the first vehicle system. The monitoring device also includes a controller configured to receive output from one or more sensors and to activate the camera or other optical sensor to output the one or more images or video based on the output from the one or more sensors. The output from the one or more sensors indicates one or more of a change in movement of the first vehicle system, a temperature, an acoustic sound, or movement of a second vehicle system.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Carl L. Haas, Padam D. Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph W. Gorman, James A. Oswald, Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, James Trainor, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne, Robert Hoffman, Tim Gibson, Brian Kurz
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Patent number: 10990632Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Publication number: 20190034533Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Patent number: 10108710Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Publication number: 20140136504Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Publication number: 20130054631Abstract: Methods, computer systems and computer-readable media for adding social network data to search suggestions are provided. At least a portion of a search query is received, and a set of suggested search queries is determined for the at least a portion of the search query. A first suggested search query in the set of suggested search queries is determined to be associated with a person or entity. A social data store is accessed; the social data store includes social network data. It is determined that the person or entity is associated with a set of social network data in the social data store, and the set of social network data in association with the first suggested search query is provided to a search engine page.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: TABREEZ GOVANI, ASHWIN SATYANARAYANA, KEVIN L. HAAS, YI-AN LIN, SAMEER INDARAPU, SAMIR SHIRAZ PRADHAN
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Patent number: 6912387Abstract: A land mobile radio system receives paging messages communicated via a paging service communication protocol, decodes the paging messages to identify respective target recipients of the paging messages and determines whether the target recipients are members of a user group. If a target recipient is a member of the user group, a communication unit (e.g., radio or console) of the target recipient is identified, the message is converted to an appropriate protocol (e.g., a wireless protocol) and sent to the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, David Andrew Chrest, James Cunningham
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Publication number: 20030119498Abstract: A land mobile radio system receives paging messages communicated via a paging service communication protocol, decodes the paging messages to identify respective target recipients of the paging messages and determines whether the target recipients are members of a user group. If a target recipient is a member of the user group, a communication unit (e.g., radio or console) of the target recipient is identified, the message is converted to an appropriate protocol (e.g., a wireless protocol) and sent to the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, David Andrew Chrest, James Cunningham
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Patent number: 6519512Abstract: Detection of a locomotive or other vehicle is enhanced by transmitting an RF alert signal from the vehicle when the vehicle approaches a heightened alert area such as a railroad crossing. The RF alert signal is received by communication unit(s) carried by pedestrian(s) or residing in vehicle(s) approaching the heightened alert area, thereby providing an alert that supplements train whistles, gates, horns or other warning mechanisms known in the art. The RF alert signal may also be transmitted to infrastructure devices such as logging devices. In one embodiment, the RF alert signal is transmitted from a locomotive upon detecting operation of a train whistle associated with the locomotive and/or coincident to receiving an external alert signal or automatic vehicle location (AVL) information indicating that the locomotive is near a heightened alert area.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, Frank D. Panzica
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Patent number: 6179210Abstract: An improved punch out pattern for a hot melt tape used in smartcard manufacture. The hot melt tape is provided with punch out channels that direct the overflow of conductive adhesive away from the surface of the hot melt tape. In a preferred embodiment, the punch out channels are dimensioned to direct the overflow away from one another and toward a module receiving cavity formed in the smartcard body. In an alternate embodiment where it may not be feasible to direct overflow toward the overmold receiving cavity without affecting the electrical or mechanical performance of the smartcard, the punch out channels are dimensioned to direct overflow away from one another and along the periphery of the hot melt tape area. In either scenario, the channels do not interfere with module adhesion and, by virtue of the channeling of overfill matter, direct the conductive adhesive away from other connections in close vicinity and thus avoid the possibility of shorting.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, Kiron P. Gore
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Patent number: 5862236Abstract: Apparatus (100) for controlling the volume of a speaker (109) by restricting the volume level of the speaker (109) at power on. The apparatus (100) includes a microprocessor controller (103) for operating the speaker (109) at a first volume level prior to powering off. Upon power on, the microprocessor controller (103) determines a statistic based on a time of the received power-on command, and restricts the volume level of the speaker (109) based on the statistic.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1996Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Inventors: Kenneth Alan Haas, Kevin L. Haas
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Patent number: 5650075Abstract: A method for etching (200) photolithographically produced quartz crystal blanks for singulation. First, a quartz wafer is plated on both sides with metal and subsequently coated on both sides with photoresist (202). Second, the photoresist is patterned and developed and the metal layers etched to define the periphery of a quartz blank with a narrow quartz channel exposed between the blank to be singulated and the parent quartz wafer (204). Third, the quartz channel is preferentially etched partially into the wafer along parallel atomic planes to provide a mechanically weak junction between the quartz wafer and the blank to be singulated, while the periphery around the remainder of the quartz blank is etched completely through the parent quartz wafer (206). Fourth, the photoresist layers are stripped from the quartz wafer (208). Finally, the quartz blank is cleaved substantially along the bottom of the quartz channel to singulate the crystal blank from the wafer (210).Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, Robert S. Witte, Charles L. Zimnicki, Iyad Alhayek
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Patent number: 5487211Abstract: A surface-mountable crystal resonator (100) is provided in the following manner. A first predetermined electrode pattern (105) and a second predetermined electrode pattern (201) are formed on a first major surface (104) and a second major surface (200), respectively, of a piezoelectric crystal substrate (101). Additionally, a first predetermined attachment electrode pattern (106), electrically coupled to the second predetermined attachment electrode pattern, and a second predetermined attachment electrode pattern (202), electrically coupled to the first predetermined attachment electrode pattern, are formed on a first attachment area (102) and a second attachment area (103), respectively. The first and second attachment areas include extensions (107) that, when mounted, allow a conductive adhesive (301), placed on a mounting substrate (300), to flow and establish electrical connections with the first and second predetermined attachment electrode patterns.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1993Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, Ken A. Haas, Kimber J. Vought
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Patent number: 5444325Abstract: A surface-mountable crystal resonator (100) is provided in the following manner. A first predetermined electrode pattern (105) and a second predetermined electrode pattern (201) are formed on a first major surface (104) and a second major surface (200), respectively, of a piezoelectric crystal substrate (101). Additionally, a first predetermined attachment electrode pattern (106), electrically coupled to the second predetermined attachment electrode pattern, and a second predetermined attachment electrode pattern (202), electrically coupled to the first predetermined attachment electrode pattern, are formed on a first attachment area (102) and a second attachment area (103), respectively. The first and second attachment areas include extensions (107) that, when mounted, allow a conductive adhesive (301), placed on a mounting substrate (300), to flow and establish electrical connections with the first and second predetermined attachment electrode patterns.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1995Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Haas, Ken A. Haas, Kimber J. Vought