Patents by Inventor Michael Or

Michael Or 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).

  • System and method for transvascularly stimulating contents of the carotid sheath
    Patent number: 7925352
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for stimulating contents of the carotid sheath using an intravascular pulse generator and lead. The lead carries an energy delivery device such as an electrode, which is anchor within the portion of the internal jugular vein that is disposed within the carotid sheath. The energy delivery device is energized to transvenously direct energy to target contents of the carotid sheath external to the internal jugular vein. Such target contents may include nervous system elements associated with the carotid sinus baroreceptors, the carotid sinus nerve and associated nerve branches, and or the vagus nerve and associated nerve branches. The system may be used to control blood pressure and/or to lower heart rate and may be suitable for treatment of hypertension, heart failure, or other conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Synecor LLC
    Inventors: Richard S. Stack, Michael S. Williams, Daniel W. Fifer, Richard A. Glenn, Geoffrey A. Orth, Lynn Elliott, Colleen Stack N'diaye
  • Utilizing early exclusive volume access and direct volume manipulation to remove protected files
    Patent number: 7926106
    Abstract: Upon detection of a rootkit, a host computer system is rebooted. The boot process is interrupted. Access to a media, e.g., a volume or disk, containing the rootkit is gained and the media is directly accessed. The rootkit is disabled, e.g., renamed or deleted, and the host computer system is rebooted a second time. If the rootkit has not been previously removed, e.g., only renamed, the rootkit is removed, e.g., using a conventional antivirus application. Thus, upon detection of a rootkit, the rootkit is removed without a clean boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kennedy, Michael Spertus, Peter Linhardt, Richard Gough, Adam Glick, Patrick Gardner, Spencer Smith, Tim Naftel
  • Method and system for transferring data between a discrete event environment and an external environment
    Patent number: 7925477
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for transfer of information between various modeling environments in a model of a system. In one embodiment, a system and method for transferring data between a discrete event model environment and an external model environment other than a discrete event environment is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael I. Clune
  • Water filter materials and water filters containing a mixture of microporous and mesoporous carbon particles
    Patent number: 7922008
    Abstract: A filter and filter material for providing or treating potable water is provided. The filter includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a filter material disposed within the housing, the filter material formed at least in part from a mixture of a plurality of mesoporous and microporous activated carbon particles. Preferably, at least some of the mesoporous activated carbon filter particles are coated with a cationic polymer, and even more preferably, at least some of the particles are coated with a cationic polymer and silver or a silver containing material. Kits comprising filters and information relating to the reduction, killing or removal of bacteria, viruses, microbials, and TTHM are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeannine Rebecca Bahm, Andrew Thomas Pearks, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Michael Donovan Mitchell, Robert E. Astle, Katharine L. K. Faye, Robert Andrew Governal, Thomas J. Hamlin, Rebecca A. Lucht, Hemang Patel
  • System and method for providing sticky applications
    Patent number: 7925988
    Abstract: A system and method for providing sticky applications are provided. A “sticky application” is an operating system (OS) level application that has the ability to “stick” to web applications and become a part of the web page on which the web application is running. While the sticky application is stuck to the web application, it behaves as if it were a web application with respect to the user. When the user chooses to “unstick” the application, it will return to behaving as an OS level application. The sticky application imitates being a web-based application instead of an operating system level application while stuck. This imitation involves the sticky application being placed on pixel coordinates within a web page of the web application and the sticky application remaining in the pixel coordinates within the web page where it is placed even when a user modifies the representation of the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael N. Abernethy, Jr., Travis M. Grigsby
  • Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system employing automatic object presence detection to control automatic generation of a linear targeting illumination beam within the field of view (FOV), and manual trigger switching to initiate illumination
    Patent number: 7922089
    Abstract: A hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system including a hand-supportable housing having an imaging window, and an area-type image formation and detection subsystem having image formation optics for projecting a field of view (FOV) through the imaging window and upon an object within the FOV, and forming and detecting 2D digital images of the object on an area-type image detection array. The system includes an object presence detection subsystem for automatically detecting an object within the FOV, and generating a first trigger event indicative of automatic object detection within the FOV. The system also includes an object targeting illumination subsystem for generating and projecting a visible targeting illumination beam within the FOV, in response to the generation of the first trigger event signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoly Kotlarsky, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Veksland, Ka Man Au, Patrick Giordano, Weizhen Yan, Jie Ren, Taylor Smith, Michael V. Miraglia, C. Harry Knowles, Sudhin Mandal, Shawn De Foney, Christopher Allen, David M. Wilz, Sr.
  • Medical illumination unit
    Patent number: 7922378
    Abstract: A medical illumination unit (1) has an LED chip (15) and a rod-shaped body (5) with a proximal end (11) and a distal end (7). A distal hollow section (9) begins before the distal end (7) and reaches the distal end (7), and a supply lead section (12) begins at the proximal end (11) and reaches the distal hollow section (9). The LED chip (15) is in the distal hollow section of the rod-shaped body (5) and is supplied with energy through the supply lead (12). A luminescent converter is between the LED chip (15) and the distal end (7) of the rod-shaped or tubular body or at the distal end of the rod-shaped body (5), the converter properties of which are selected to convert light emitted by the LED chip (15) into light with a desired wavelength distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Surgical GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Bausewein, Michael J. Eichler
  • Surrogate-based and extends-based context look-up
    Patent number: 7926022
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for processing of code that includes key fields having surrogate and extends relationships are described. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a pattern language code having definitions of a number of classes, wherein a definition of a first class of the number of classes comprises a reference to a field. The method also includes compiling the pattern language code to generate an object code, wherein the compiling comprises validating that the field is defined with a context of the first class. The context includes a second class of the number of classes that has a surrogate relationship with the first class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Lawson Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alexander Herrmann, Leon Curtis Johnson, Richard D. Patton
  • Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing an input/output (I/O) operation that includes a virtual drain
    Patent number: 7925796
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing an input/output (I/O) operation that includes a virtual drain. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for performing an input/output operation that includes a virtual drain. The method includes receiving a request to perform a consistent operation involving a storage entity, and in response to receiving the request: arresting write requests to the storage entity; performing a virtual drain, where performing a virtual drain includes identifying, and indicating as deferred, pending writes to the storage entity; performing the consistent operation; releasing write requests to the storage entity; and processing each deferred write using information that is associated with the write and that describes the context in which the write request was accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: C. Christopher Bailey, Michael L. Burriss, Alan L. Taylor, Miles Aram de Forest, Dennis Duprey
  • Systems and methods for authorizing account access
    Patent number: 7925589
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for authorizing access to one or more financial accounts. In some cases, the methods include providing an authorization document that incorporates a passcode. A request to authorize access to an account is received from an owner of the account. As part of the request, the passcode is provided. Based at least in part on the passcode, access to the account is authorized. In other cases, authorization can be provided via a representative of the account owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Western Union Company
    Inventor: Michael W. Rogers
  • Deposition from liquid sources
    Patent number: 7921805
    Abstract: A liquid injector is used to vaporize and inject a silicon precursor into a process chamber to form silicon-containing layers during a semiconductor fabrication process. The injector is connected to a source of silicon precursor, which preferably comprises liquid trisilane in a mixture with one or more dopant precursors. The mixture is metered as a liquid and delivered to the injector, where it is then vaporized and injected into the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: ASM America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Todd, Ivo Raaijmakers
  • Filling valve apparatus for a beverage filling machine
    Patent number: 7921886
    Abstract: A filling valve apparatus for filling a container with a fluid. The apparatus includes a body portion and a stem. A sleeve is disposed over the stem and is removable from the stem and the body portion when the filling valve apparatus is serviced. A seal is mounted to the bottom of the sleeve. At least one component is movably connected to the sleeve and remains connected to the sleeve when the sleeve is removed from the stem and the body portion during the servicing of the filling valve apparatus. Similarly, a valve assembly, having a housing and a movable plunger is removable from the body portion. At least one member is mechanically connected to one of the housing and plunger for creating a unitary valve assembly that remains intact when the valve assembly is removed from the body portion during servicing of the filling valve apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Adcor Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Demetrios Stavrakis, Edwin K. Ruble, Michael J. Brown
  • Method for determining cylinder-specific combustion features of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7921700
    Abstract: A method for determining cylinder-specific combustion features of an internal combustion engine, the cylinder-specific combustion features being ascertained from a variable which represents the crankshaft speed, especially being ascertained from a signal of a crankshaft sensor or camshaft sensor. The cylinder-specific combustion features include a combustion position of at least one cylinder and/or a torque of the crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Peter Skala, Andreas Rupp, Wolfgang Fischer, Michael Kessler, Mohamed Youssef, Joerg Breuninger, Haris Hamedovic, Axel Loeffler
  • Magnetic field sensor with automatic sensitivity adjustment
    Patent number: 7923996
    Abstract: Magnetic field sensors have a magnetic field sensing element and also a feedback circuit to provide a gain-adjustment signal to affect a sensitivity associated with the magnetic field sensing element. In some arrangements, the feedback circuit can include piezoresistors to sense a strain of a substrate over which the magnetic field sensor is disposed. With these arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate the gain-adjustment signal in accordance with the sensed strain. In other arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate pulsed magnetic fields proximate to the magnetic field sensing element in order to directly measure the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensing element. With these arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate the gain-adjustment signal in accordance with the sensed sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Allegro Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Doogue, Gerardo Monreal, William P. Taylor
  • Cost analysis and reduction tool
    Patent number: 7925557
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and related methods for performing cost reduction analyses, and selecting and implementing appropriate cost reduction programs. The systems include electronically enabled tools for automatically performing cost analyses, identifying cost levers, and selecting cost reduction strategies targeting those cost levers. Disclosed embodiments examine a target company's financial data and detect the key levers or drivers that affect the company's cost structure. Thereafter, the identified cost levers are linked to one or more pertinent business capability recommendations where each linked capability recommendation is tailored to provide at least one element of a cost reduction strategy adapted to address one or more of the identified levers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kristin L. Ficery, Michael Kirk Ostergard
  • Structure for applying sprayable wound treatment material
    Patent number: 7922743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to surgical instruments, structures and methods for enhancing the properties of tissue to be repaired or joined. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a surgical stapling apparatus is provided including a wound treatment material dispersion system for delivering wound treatment material to a target surgical site. The dispersion system includes an aperture formed in the anvil assembly oriented to dispense wound treatment material in an outward direction; and a source of wound treatment material in fluid communication with the aperture of the anvil assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Russell Heinrich, Michael J. Bettuchi, David Fowler, Robert Capella, John Hauschild
  • Buckle
    Patent number: D635891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Michael B. Grimm, Martin J. Nilsen, Christopher A. J. Iannello
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D635896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Frei, Klaus Frenzel, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Gorden Wagener
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D635897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Frei, Klaus Frenzel, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Gorden Wagener
  • Lighting fixture
    Patent number: D636112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Focal Point, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Casey Chung, Michael T. Thornton, Peter F. Thornton, Jr., Edwin Vice, Jr., Stephan Apetauer, Thomas Moeker, Burkhard Schlee, Detlef Kiel