Patents by Inventor P. Walker

P. Walker 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: 8104184
    Abstract: A shaving cartridge includes a cartridge housing having a front edge and a rear edge. One or more shaving blades are positioned between the front and rear edges of the housing. A connecting member is pivotally connected to the cartridge housing, the connecting member having a load-bearing surface arranged and configured to contact the housing only when the housing is pivoted beyond a limit angle that is greater than the normal pivot angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Vincent P. Walker
  • Publication number: 20120011152
    Abstract: A program generation system is described that generates a program based on a plurality of input-output examples. The input-output examples include input items and corresponding output items. The program generation system can include three component modules. A parsing module processes the input items and output items to provide a plurality of input parts and output parts, respectively. A transformation module determines, for each output part, whether the output part can be produced from a corresponding input part using one or more converter modules selected from a collection of candidate converter modules. A formatting module generates formatting instructions that transform selected output parts into a form specified by the output items. These three modules provide a generated program that embodies logic learned from the input-output examples; the generated program can be subsequently used to transform new input items into new respective output items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumit Gulwani, David P. Walker
  • Publication number: 20120006560
    Abstract: A method of forming a geologic model of a subsurface region is disclosed. Data related to the subsurface region is obtained. A framework is constructed to represent the subsurface region. A template is selected from a plurality of templates. The selected template provides at least one property that is characteristic of the subsurface region. The selected template is inserted into the framework, to form the geologic model. The geologic model is then outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Craig S. Calvert, Gregory S. Benson, Xiao-Hui Wu, Dachang Li, Deborah F. Kosich, Lawrence P. Walker
  • Publication number: 20110295908
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer usable program product for detecting a counterfeit device are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of parameters associated with a device is determined. An on-device signature stored on the device is located. A subset of parameters is selected from the set of parameters and a signature is computed using the subset of parameters. The computed signature is compared with the on-device signature. The device is detected as a counterfeit device if the computed signature does not match the on-device signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dang Tu To, Michael C. Elles, Eric Thomas Gamble, Ketan Bachubhai Patel, Rupert P. Walker
  • Patent number: 8061041
    Abstract: A safety razor has a blade unit having at least one blade with a sharp cutting edge. A dielectric handle is configured to carry the blade unit and a conductive ground member is disposed within the handle. The safety razor has an electrically operated device. An electrical arrangement having a sensor electrically coupled to the blade unit and the ground member senses skin contact with the blade unit and actuates the device based on the sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Paul Michael Jessemey, Roy Nicoll, Robert Anthony Hart, Vincent P. Walker
  • Publication number: 20110276125
    Abstract: Stents and other medical devices that can have specific geometric configurations (curves, contours, tapers) and/or patterns (e.g., grooves) thereon, methods of making such medical devices, and apparatuses for making such medical devices are disclosed. Projection photolithography is used to define patterns the medical devices. The methods can form grooves, ridges, channels, holes, wells, and other geometric patterns (e.g. parallelograms such as squares, rectangles and other trapezoids; triangles, pentagons, spirals, hexagons, etc.) on the surface of both the inner and outer diameters (e.g., on both the inner and outer surfaces) of stents or other cylindrical, tubular or curved-surface medical devices, allowing the manufacture of stents having customized geometry/contours on all surfaces, which can minimize endothelial surface disruption of blood flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. WALKER, Lev Drubetsky
  • Publication number: 20110258856
    Abstract: A shaving blade unit having a housing with a top surface, a bottom surface, a front edge, a rear edge and a pair of side edges extending between the front edge and the rear edge. The housing has a pair of apertures between the front edge and the rear edge. The pair of apertures extend through the housing from the top surface to the bottom surface. One or more shaving blades are disposed between the front edge and the rear edge. The one or more shaving blades each have a cutting edge. A clip has a pair of legs that extend through the pair of apertures. Each leg is bent about at least a portion of the bottom surface of the housing securing the clip to the housing and retaining the blades on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Vincent P. Walker, Corey E. Corbeil, Stephen Rawle
  • Patent number: 8015856
    Abstract: A gas chromatograph controlled by a pair of microprocessors to have improved thermal maintenance and process operation. The microprocessors are operable to run independently of each other, with one microprocessor controlling heaters and other control devices and the other microprocessor running a graphical user interface. The two microprocessors are separated by a gas chromatograph assembly that includes one or more separation columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: ABB Inc.
    Inventors: Vince B. Hadley, Jonathan W. Asher, Anthony P. Walker, Max A. Bailey, Bryan Joseph Acker, Rodney Wayne Dilbeck
  • Publication number: 20110194456
    Abstract: A dynamic network planning and cost estimation tool for designing, enhancing and deploying telecommunication networks that administers supplied definition data including service descriptions, equipment specifications and empirical network design and demographic data by storing that information and making it accessible to the tool. A user can provide a target coverage area along with some definitions related to the target area, such as services to include or exclude, equipment types to include or excludes, etc. Based on the available equipment and services, calculations are run to determine how many pieces of the equipment are required to provide full coverage, as well as meet desired throughput and data packet delivery requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Bradley S. Fordham, Adam P. Walker
  • Patent number: 7991046
    Abstract: Calibrating jitter in a communication channel between test equipment and a connection for a device under test (DUT) includes sampling test data in the communication channel at about a point of the connection to produce sampled data, where the test data travels through the communication channel at a first rate, and where the test data is sampled at a second rate that is less than the first rate, determining a first amount of jitter in the sampled data relative to the test data, and determining a second amount of jitter at about the point of connection based on the first amount of jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. Sartschev, Ernest P. Walker, Li Huang
  • Patent number: 7966731
    Abstract: A shaving blade unit includes a housing having a front edge, a rear edge and side edges extending between the front and rear edges. One or more shaving blades are positioned between the front edge and the rear edge and have cutting edges arranged to define a first cutting region. The shaving unit further includes a discrete trimming blade assembly having a blade carrier with a cap, guard and a solitary trimming blade defining a second cutting region. A clip is arranged to retain the one or more shaving blades on the housing and function as an anode in an anode-cathode cell to inhibit corrosion of the shaving and trimming blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Vincent P. Walker, Corey E. Corbeil, Stephen Rawle
  • Patent number: 7954360
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a field-mounted analyzer having a graphical user interface (GUI). The analyzer has a display screen visible from the exterior of the housing. A plurality of magnetically-actuatable switches are mounted behind the display screen. The GUI has a plurality of windows that may be displayed on the display screen. Navigation through the windows is accomplished by activating switches aligned with graphical navigation icons in the windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: ABB Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan W. Asher, Anthony P. Walker, James Michael Robinson
  • Publication number: 20110117623
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoresponsive nanoparticle useful for the stabilization of enzymes in environments having a temperature greater than thirty degrees Centigrade. The thermoresponsive nanoparticle has (a) a functionalized enzyme conjugate having one or more enzymes or biological catalysts, the enzymes or biological catalysts are modified with palmitic acid N-hydroxysuccinimide ester and acryclic acid N-hydroxysuccinimide ester, and (b) a thermally responsive polymer, wherein the functionalized enzyme conjugate is encapsulated within the thermally responsive polymer. A nanocatalyst is provided that has one or more proteins. The proteins are covalently immobilized and encapsulated within a thermally responsive polymer shell. The proteins are one or more enzymes or biological catalysts. A method for protecting the proteins is also set forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Jeremy P. Walker, Anna M. Leech
  • Publication number: 20110093332
    Abstract: A system is described for separating mobile search traffic from web search traffic. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store a keyword, mobile data related to the keyword, web data related to the keyword, and a search request. The interface may communicate with a user. The processor may be operatively connected to the interface and the memory and may store the mobile data and web data in the memory. The processor may receive a search request from a user via the interface and may determine if the search request is mobile traffic or web traffic. The processor may then retrieve and serve the mobile data to the user if the search request is mobile traffic, or may retrieve and serve the web data to the user if the search request is web traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Kenta Umezu, Sean P. Walker, Ian B. Brayshaw
  • Patent number: 7917392
    Abstract: A system is described for separating mobile search traffic from web search traffic. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store a keyword, mobile data related to the keyword, web data related to the keyword, and a search request. The interface may communicate with a user. The processor may be operatively connected to the interface and the memory and may store the mobile data and web data in the memory. The processor may receive a search request from a user via the interface and may determine if the search request is mobile traffic or web traffic. The processor may then retrieve and serve the mobile data to the user if the search request is mobile traffic, or may retrieve and serve the web data to the user if the search request is web traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Kenta Umezu, Sean P. Walker, Ian B. Brayshaw
  • Publication number: 20110028452
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-one derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof of structural formula I wherein the variables R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as described herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I as well as methods of treatment employing compounds of formula I to treat a disease or disorder characterized by abnormal bone or mineral homeostasis such as hypoparathyroidism, osteoporosis, osteopenia, periodontal disease, Paget's disease, bone fracture, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Mary T. Didiuk, Kevin K. Liu, David A. Griffith, Angel Guzman-Perez, Feng C. Bi, Daniel P. Walker
  • Patent number: 7856578
    Abstract: A test system timing method simulates the timing of a synchronous clock on the device under test. Strobe pulses can be generated by routing an edge generator to delay elements with incrementally increasing delay values. A data signal or synchronous clock signal can be applied to the input of each of a set of latches which are clocked by the strobe pulses. An encoder can convert the series of samples which are thereby latched to a word representing edge time and polarity of the sampled signal. If the sampled signal is a data signal, the word can be stored in memory. If the sampled signal is a clock signal, the word is routed to a clock bus and used to address the memory. The difference between clock edge time and data edge time is provided and can be compared against expected values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. Sartschev, Ernest P. Walker
  • Publication number: 20100318554
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which private content maintained behind a firewall (e.g., in a “mesh”) may be searched, browsed, and accessed via an index that exists outside of the firewall. Searching of the index may include checking permissions of a user against permissions associated with metadata in the index, e.g., per watch folder into which file content is added. When content is selected, e.g., by clicking on a search result, a request is made. An application polls for such requests, and when detected, pushes a copy of the content through the firewall to the requester. The search may be performed over more than one index, with aggregated search results returned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Walker, John A. Solaro, Robert Edward Parkin, Rahul R. Deshpande, Cyril S. Bouanna, Brian M. King
  • Publication number: 20100317078
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of producing organisms tolerant to alcohol, that includes selecting a microorganism needing tolerance to alcohol and modifying the selected microorganism under conditions effective to overproduce inositol by the microorganism compared to when the microorganism is not modified, with the modified microorganism being tolerant to alcohol. The present invention is also directed to a method of producing alcohol that includes providing a microorganism tolerant to alcohol which is modified to overproduce inositol by the microorganism compared to when the microorganism is not modified. A fermentable feedstock is treated with the modified microorganism under conditions effective to produce the alcohol. The modified microorganism is also able to produce and tolerate alcohol in high osmolarity feedstocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Manuel J. Villa-Garcia, Erin J. Krause, Larry P. Walker, Susan A. Henry
  • Patent number: 7849726
    Abstract: A gas chromatograph for connection to a source of carrier gas and a source of a sample gas. The gas chromatograph includes a first bridge circuit with a sample sensor connected therein and a second bridge circuit with a reference sensor connected therein. The outputs of the bridge circuits are digitized and then subtracted from each other in a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: ABB Inc.
    Inventors: Max A. Bailey, Vince B. Hadley, Jonathan W. Asher, Rodney Wayne Dilbeck, Anthony P. Walker, Steven Gene Lakey, Stephen P. Paetz, Brent E. Berry, Robert W. Rutledge