Patents by Inventor Michael Hurley

Michael Hurley 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: 20110179695
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, compositions and systems for drying coal fines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Philip HARSH, Michael Hurley, Andrew K. Jones, Vinod K. Sikka
  • Publication number: 20110107495
    Abstract: An article of apparel, which may be a pair of water shorts, includes a first textile and a second textile. The first textile forms a majority of an exterior surface and an opposite interior surface of the apparel, and the first textile exhibits at least thirty percent stretch prior to tensile failure. The second textile is located around a waistband portion of the apparel, and the second textile exhibits less than ten percent stretch prior to tensile failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: HURLEY INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Yin Moore, Ryan Michael Hurley
  • Publication number: 20110078917
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for drying coal fines using molecular sieves. The method and system dries the coal fines by combining coal fines with the molecular sieves. While in combination, the mixture is agitated to maximize surface contact between the molecular sieves and the coal fines. As the coal fines contact the molecular sieves, the surfactant moisture on the coal fines is then absorbed by the molecular sieves. The molecular sieves allow for the water molecules to pass into the sieves, thus being removed from the coal fines. After a period of agitation, the method and system thereby separates the molecular sieves and the coal fines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Richard W. Bland, Philip Harsh, Michael Hurley, Andrew K. Jones, Vinod K. Sikka
  • Patent number: 7849518
    Abstract: An article of apparel, which may be a pair of water shorts, includes a first textile and a second textile. The first textile forms a majority of an exterior surface and an opposite interior surface of the apparel, and the first textile exhibits at least thirty percent stretch prior to tensile failure. The second textile is located around a waistband portion of the apparel, and the second textile exhibits less than ten percent stretch prior to tensile failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hurley International, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Yin Moore, Ryan Michael Hurley
  • Publication number: 20100261812
    Abstract: An absorbent structure made at least in part from a superabsorbent material having a retention capacity (CRC) as determined by a Centrifuge Retention Capacity Test of at least about 25 g/g and a free swell gel bed permeability (GBP) as determined by a Free Swell Gel Bed Permeability Test of at least 575×10?9 cm2. In another embodiment, the absorbent structure is made at least in part from a superabsorbent material having a retention capacity (CRC) as determined by a Centrifuge Retention Capacity Test of at least about 25 g/g, an absorbency under load (AUL) at 0.9 psi as determined by an Absorbency Under Load Test of at least 18 and a free swell gel bed permeability (GBP) as determined by a Free Swell Gel Bed Permeability Test of at least about 350×10?9 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Jian Qin, Sandra Marie Rogers, Michael John Niemeyer, Kenneth Raymond Schueler, JR., Steven Michael Hurley, Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Whei-Neen Hsu, Mark C. Joy, Scott J. Smith, Markus Frank, Nancy Birbiglia Lange
  • Publication number: 20100261394
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to wet wipes having liquid wipe compositions that including an anti-adhesion component that reduces sheet-to-sheet adhesion, improves the stack height, increases flexibility and maintains strength in the wet wipe. The liquid wipe compositions include an organopolysiloxane having the following structure: wherein p+q=0 to 2000, R1 is independently selected from a monovalent hydrocarbon group or hydroxyl group, and R2 and R3 are independently selected from a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a hydroxyl group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group functional in amine, a monovalent hydrocarbon group functional in polyether, a monovalent hydrocarbon group functional in quaternary, and a monovalent hydrocarbon group functional in polyampholyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Elizabeth Oriel Bradley, Troy Michael Runge, Steven Michael Hurley, Christopher James Uecker, Corey Thomas Cunningham, Nathan John Vogel, Timothy James Van Himbergen, William Clayton Bunyard, Dave Allen Soerens
  • Publication number: 20090262597
    Abstract: An ultrasonic mixing system having a treatment chamber in which at least two separate phases can be mixed to prepare an emulsion is disclosed. The treatment chamber has an elongate housing through which the phases flow longitudinally from a first inlet port and a second inlet port, respectively, to an outlet port thereof. An elongate ultrasonic waveguide assembly extends within the housing and is operable at a predetermined ultrasonic frequency to ultrasonically energize the phases within the housing. An elongate ultrasonic horn of the waveguide assembly is disposed at least in part intermediate the inlet and outlet ports, and has a plurality of discrete agitating members in contact with and extending transversely outward from the horn intermediate the inlet and outlet ports in longitudinally spaced relationship with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Philip Eugene Kieffer, Corey Thomas Cunningham, Steven Michael Hurley, Scott W. Wenzel, Shiming Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20090222527
    Abstract: In a new Notification Service, applications can publish data and allow users to subscribe to that data how they wish, with methods for secure redaction and secure authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Vincent Arconati, Jonathan Michael Hurley, Alan Brett Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20090038046
    Abstract: An article of apparel, which may be a pair of water shorts, includes a first textile and a second textile. The first textile forms a majority of an exterior surface and an opposite interior surface of the apparel, and the first textile exhibits at least thirty percent stretch prior to tensile failure. The second textile is located around a waistband portion of the apparel, and the second textile exhibits less than ten percent stretch prior to tensile failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: HURLEY INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Yin Moore, Ryan Michael Hurley
  • Publication number: 20080195407
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling operational risk in a data processing system comprises a risk domain segmenter for segmenting the data processing system into a plurality of risk domains, a domain risk threshold selector for selecting a domain risk threshold for at least one of the plurality of risk domains, a system element monitor operable to query the data processing system for an indication of presence of system elements, a risk quantizer for evaluating a system element for element risk and for computing the potential contribution of the element risk to a domain risk total, a risk threshold comparator for comparing the domain risk total with the domain risk threshold, and a domain assignor operable to assign the system element to a risk domain in dependency upon an output of the risk threshold comparator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Michael Hurley, Barry Douglas Whyte
  • Publication number: 20080187507
    Abstract: A shampoo composition comprising: a) from about 5% to about 50% of one or more detersive surfactants, by weight of said shampoo composition; b) a dispersed solid crystalline gel network phase comprising: i) a first component comprising at least about 0.05% of one or more fatty acids by weight of said shampoo composition; ii) a second component comprising at least about 0.05% of one or more additional fatty amphiphiles by weight of said shampoo composition; iii) water; and c) at least about 20% of an aqueous carrier, by weight of said shampoo composition; wherein said first component is combined with said second component in the ratio of 10:1 to about 1:5 to form said solid crystalline gel network phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Eric Scott Johnson, Benjamin Parker Heath, Brian Michael Hurley
  • Publication number: 20080126486
    Abstract: A personal messaging application programming interface can be utilized by a developer in order to add groupware functionality to an application. The interface can include various schemas and providers that allow the schemas to connect to a collaboration server which provides the groupware functionality. The schemas can further include item and container classes and can extend other schemas so as to provide functionality that is more specific to the collaboration server. The items and containers can represent various entities on the collaboration server. The providers can use stubs in order to create connections to the collaboration server and can implement the schema hierarchy so as to map the functionality defined by the schema into various core calls on the collaboration server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Pete Heist, Nathan Cole, Jonathan Michael Hurley, Kevin John Agatone, Jeffrey Thomas Sposetti
  • Patent number: 6883031
    Abstract: The RUSH-DCS system provides a high performance, near real time data collection interface that can decipher, log, and route information for transaction processing. The interface supports dynamically loadable components for defining input data formats and transport mechanisms and protocols, which may be augmented and modified while running to minimize downtime. It supports multiple input types simultaneously, and is independent of the actual downstream services provided, allowing support for multiple, and scalable downstream services as needed by diverse applications. In addition, RUSH-DCS provides priority messaging, both uni- and bi-directional communication between clients and services, and the ability to route transactions to specific services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Hurley, James A. Parker
  • Publication number: 20040214499
    Abstract: An absorbent structure made at least in part from a superabsorbent material having a retention capacity (CRC) as determined by a Centrifuge Retention Capacity Test of at least about 25 g/g and a free swell gel bed permeability (GBP) as determined by a Free Swell Gel Bed Permeability Test of at least 575×10−9 cm2. In another embodiment, the absorbent structure is made at least in part from a superabsorbent material having a retention capacity (CRC) as determined by a Centrifuge Retention Capacity Test of at least about 25 g/g, an absorbency under load (AUL) at 0.9 psi as determined by an Absorbency Under Load Test of at least 18 and a free swell gel bed permeability (GBP) as determined by a Free Swell Gel Bed Permeability Test of at least about 350×10−9 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Qin, Sandra Marie Rogers, Michael John Niemeyer, Kenneth Raymond Schueler, Steven Michael Hurley, Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Whei-Neen Hsu, Mark C. Joy, Scott J. Smith, Markus Frank, Nancy Birbiglia Lange
  • Publication number: 20030228600
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the isolation of genomic DNA (gDNA) and Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACS) from a target source. Novel nucleic acid trapping membranes are also provided, the membranes composed of oleophobic coated or treated glass and/or acrylic fibers or beads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Domanico, J. Michael Hurley
  • Patent number: 6548256
    Abstract: A method and kit for isolating nucleic acids from a nucleic acid containing starting material is disclosed, where the nucleic acids are released from the starting material and precipitated onto a trapping membrane. The method and kit may be used in the context of isolating genomic DNA from blood and isolating BACs from transformed bacterial cultures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Kurt Lienau, J. Michael Hurley
  • Publication number: 20020072110
    Abstract: A method and kit for isolating nucleic acids from a nucleic acid containing starting material is disclosed, where the nucleic acids are released from the starting material and precipitated onto a trapping membrane. The method and kit may be used in the context of isolating genomic DNA from blood and isolating BACs from transformed bacterial cultures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Kurt Lienau, J. Michael Hurley
  • Patent number: D621273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: The Dial Corporation
    Inventors: Kacie Bruscha, Amy K. Rhodes, Richard Rangler, Kristen Jacokes, Gregory Michael Hurley, Ivan Frank Harris, Judith A. Wallis