Patents by Inventor Michael Philips

Michael Philips 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).

  • Patent number: 7778983
    Abstract: An application migration planning manager is provided for scanning and reporting compatibility information of stored application files, followed by conversion of selected files from a first application version format to a target application version format. A scanning module scans selected files to determine whether the scanned files are formatted according to application versions that may be incompatible with target application versions. A reporting module reports the compatibility data for the scanned files. If scanned files include multiple versions of a given document or data, the scanned files may be passed to a version extraction module for stripping the files of all but a single version of the given document or data. Each stripped version may be saved as a separate additional file. The version-stripped files and the saved additional files then may be reported back to the reporting module for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Philip Jorden, Tristan Michael Root, Eric Fisk, Joseph Anthony East, Vladimir Tankovich
  • Patent number: 7775183
    Abstract: The present invention removes voltage that accumulates over a period of time in an automotive engine cooling system. This accumulation of voltage is provided a path to travel inside the engine and cooling system by the cooling liquid used to cool the vehicles engine. This accumulation of voltage looks for a likable metal to bond with and the constant colliding of the voltage trying to bond with the metal creates damage know as electrolytic metal erosion. Overtime this act of nature erodes and weakens metal cooling system components causing them to fail. This process can lead to the vehicle breaking down due to its engine overheating. The electronic voltage remover is designed to remove and dissipate this harmful voltage from the vehicle's engine cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Vehicle Enhancement Labs
    Inventor: Michael Philip Green
  • Patent number: 7761050
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless communication networks particularly for indoor deployment, in which there typically directly exists a rapidly changing multipath propagation environment with limited opportunities for line of sight wireless communication. The present invention provides A wireless communications network for communicating with a mobile terminal; comprising: a number of repeater points each comprising means for communicating with the mobile terminal; an access point comprising means for communicating with the repeater points; the repeater points further comprising means for relaying signals between the terminal and the access point; means for determining a quality measure of signals sent by the terminal and received by the access point via the repeater points; means for selecting one or more repeater points to relay transmission signals from the access point to the terminal, said selection based on said quality measures of the terminal signals received by the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Michael Philip Fitton, Douglas John Gargin, Siew Chung Leong
  • Patent number: 7732189
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of treating irradiated material which includes reducing irradiated material to particulate form, suspending the particulate irradiated material, or derivatives thereof, in a fluid to form a suspension, and removing radioisotopes from the suspension by biological treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Proprietary) Limited
    Inventors: Michael Philip Hindley, Andrzej Leszek Kuczynski, Francis Pieter Van Ravenswaay
  • Publication number: 20100120785
    Abstract: The present invention provides selective 5-HT7 receptor antagonist compounds of Formula I and their use in the treatment of migraine, persistent pain, and anxiety: where A and B are each independently C(H)? or N?, provided that at least one of A and B is —N?, n is 1-3, m is 0-3, and R14 are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Valentina O. Badescu, Anne Marie Camp, Barry Peter Clark, Michael Philip Cohen, Sandra Ann Filla, Peter Thaddeus Gallagher, Sarah Lynne Hellman, Michael Philip Mazanetz, Marta Maria Pineiro-Nunez, John Mehnert Schaus, Patrick Gianpietro Spinazze, Maria Ann Whatton
  • Publication number: 20100115795
    Abstract: An article of footwear comprising a body portion consisting of a polymer material, the body portion being shaped to resiliently surround a substantial portion of a wearer's foot during use. The article of footwear also comprises a planar insert member locatable within the body portion so as to improve the puncture resistance of the footwear. The body portion may be formed as a single homogenous piece of moulded material and may be deformable between a storage condition and an in use condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Philip Stead
  • Publication number: 20100075976
    Abstract: The present invention provides selective 5-HT7 receptor antagonist compounds of Formula I and their use in the treatment of migraine: where A is —C(H)? or —N?; m is 0, 1 or 2; R1 is optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted pyrazol-4-yl; optionally substituted imidazolyl, optionally substituted pyridyl, or thienyl; R2 is hydrogen or methyl; and R3 and R4 are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Philip Cohen, Sarah Lynne Hellman, Sean Patrick Hollinshead, Sandra Ann Filla, Michael Wade Tidwell
  • Patent number: 7671412
    Abstract: A substrate, thermal treatment assembly and method of operating the thermal treatment assembly are described for controlling the temperature of a substrate. An electrical potential is applied across two or more locations on the substrate in order to generate an electrical current through a portion of the substrate, thereby altering a temperature of the substrate. The electrical current may dissipate electrical energy in the form of thermal energy due to the intrinsic resistance of the portion of substrate to the flow of electrical current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Michael A. Carcasi, Michael Philip Kincaid
  • Patent number: 7660064
    Abstract: A hard disk drive write driver circuit is described that can change the output impedance of the write driver by use of a lookup table of control values. A control value is selected from the lookup table by using an address based on a dynamic system variable and a program controlled value. The dynamic system variable is converted to a digital representation. The digital representation and a portion of the program controlled value are used as an address to the lookup table to select a control value. The write driver is responsive to the selected control value to control overshoot current. A method to digitally program the output impedance of a preamp write driver based on realistic operating data is also discussed. An additional approach to controlling overshoot current in a write driver through digital control of overshoot duration is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: James Patrick Howley, Michael Philip Straub
  • Patent number: 7653879
    Abstract: A contextually sensitive user interface for defining an e-mail message handling rule is provided. The user interface includes one or more user interface objects for specifying conditions for the rule and one or more user interface objects for defining the actions to be performed if the specified conditions are met. The conditions that are displayed within the user interface for selection are chosen, at least in part, based upon the context in which a request to create the e-mail handling rule is received. The displayed conditions may be based, in part, upon the contexts of reading an e-mail message, creating an e-mail message, creating an alert subscription, or selecting a user name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Paul Daley, Radu Bacioiu, Christopher Cameron White, Michael Philip Arcuri, Raja Charu Vikram Kakumani, Julie Madhusoodanan
  • Publication number: 20090306110
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), which are antagonists of the 5-HT6 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Zhaogen Chen, Michael Philip Cohen, Matthew Joseph Fisher, Bruno Giethlen, James Ronald Gillig, Jefferson Ray McCowan, Shawn Christopher Miller, John Mehnert Schaus
  • Publication number: 20090209563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof, where; R1 is C1-C6 alkyl, substituted C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C7 cycloalkyl, substituted C3-C7 cycloalkyl, C3-C7 cycloalkyl-C1-C3 alkyl, substituted C3-C7 cycloalkyl-C1-C3 alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, heterocycle, or substituted heterocycle; R2 is hydrogen, C1-C3 alkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl-C1-C3 alkyl, or a group of formula II R3 is hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl; R4 is hydrogen, halo, or C1-C3 alkyl; R5 is hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl; R6 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl; and n is an integer from 1 to 6 inclusively. The compounds of the present invention are useful for activating 5-HT1F receptors, inhibiting neuronal protein extravasation, and for the treatment or prevention of migraine in a mammal. The present invention also relates to a process for the synthesis of intermediates in the synthesis of compounds of Formula I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Philip Cohen, Daniel Timothy Kohlman, Sidney Xi Liang, Vincent Mancuso, Yao-Chang Xu
  • Publication number: 20090197740
    Abstract: A playground system includes a playground appliance and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to receive a sensor signal from the sensor indicative of the detected movement, and to control the display to indicate a user-selection responsive to the received sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: KOMPAN A/S
    Inventors: Niels Julskjaer, Karin Mueller, Peter Christian Raaby Gronfeldt, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Hans Jorgen Meyer Ibsen, Michael Philip Laris, Michael Stahl
  • Patent number: 7551165
    Abstract: An electronic device employs an electronic persistent visual display. One embodiment comprises a nonvolatile memory for storing information regarding the electronic device; an electronic persistent visual display having an input, the electronic persistent visual display providing a visual label display which persists indefinitely, until updated by an input signal at the input; an operational element, and a processor for operating the operational element. One type of electronic persistent visual display has a stable image “memory effect” for an extended period of time in the absence of power, and another type is powered by a power source. The processor, in response to a predetermined state, such as a power-on, provides an update input signal at the electronic persistent visual display input. The update input signal comprises information selected from the stored information regarding the electronic device, for updating the visual label display of the electronic persistent visual display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Gerard Goodman, Michael Philip McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20090116134
    Abstract: A hard disk drive write driver circuit is described that can change the output impedance of the write driver by use of a lookup table of control values. A control value is selected from the lookup table by using an address based on a dynamic system variable and a program controlled value. The dynamic system variable is converted to a digital representation. The digital representation and a portion of the program controlled value are used as an address to the lookup table to select a control value. The write driver is responsive to the selected control value to control overshoot current. A method to digitally program the output impedance of a preamp write driver based on realistic operating data is also discussed. An additional approach to controlling overshoot current in a write driver through digital control of overshoot duration is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: AGERE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: James Patrick Howley, Michael Philip Straub
  • Publication number: 20090099155
    Abstract: The present invention provides 6-substituted 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzoazepines of Formula I as selective 5-HT2C receptor agonists for the treatment of 5-HT2C associated disorders including obesity, obsessive/compulsive disorder, depression, and anxiety: where: R6 is -C?C-R10, -O-R12, -S-R14, or -NR24R25; and other substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: John Gordon Allen, Karin Briner, Michael Philip Cohen, Christopher Stanley Galka, Sarah Lynne Hellman, Maria Angeles Martinez-Grau, Matthew Robert Reinhard, Michael John Rodriguez, Roger Ryan Rothaar, Michael Wade Tidwell, Frantz Victor, Andrew Caerwyn Williams, Deyi Zhang, Steven Armen Boyd, Richard Gerard Conway, Arundhati S. Deo, Wai-Man Lee, Christopher Stephen Siedem, Ajay Singh, Michael Philip Mazanetz
  • Publication number: 20090069355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrazolo[1,2a]pyrazol-1-ones which inhibit the extracellular release of inflammatory cytokines, said cytokines responsible for one or more human or higher mammalian disease states. The present invention further relates to compositions comprising said 6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrazolo[1,2a]pyrazol-1-ones and methods for preventing, abating, or otherwise controlling enzymes which are understood to be the active components responsible for the herein described disease states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Philip Clark, Steven Karl Laughlin, Adam Golebiowski, Todd Andrew Brugel, Mark Sabat
  • Publication number: 20090062559
    Abstract: Alkyl esters boiling largely within the specification range for jet fuel may be made from triglycerides without a water-washing step, by centrifugation in a timely manner and at a sufficiently high time/G-force/distance product so as to bring about separation of a transitory second phase containing the residual catalyst. The esters or fractions thereof may be combined with jet or diesel fuels to lower the freezing and cloud points respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: SAUBER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Philip Doyle, Steve Smith
  • Patent number: 7483236
    Abstract: A cartridge storage device for a data storage and retrieval system according to one embodiment comprises a housing having a front and a back positioned on opposite ends of the housing; a plurality of cells in the housing, each cell adapted for receiving a media cartridge; and a drive mechanism for selectively driving the cells towards a front opening in the front of the housing, the front opening allowing insertion and retrieval of the cartridges from the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Philip McIntosh, Shawn Michael Nave
  • Patent number: D603457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Kompan A/S
    Inventors: Niels Julskjer, Karin Mueller, Peter Christian Raaby Gronfeldt, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Hans Jorgen Meyer Ibsen, Michael Philip Laris, Michael Stahl