Patents by Inventor Philip To

Philip To 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).

  • Continuous process for converting natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons
    Patent number: 8273929
    Abstract: A method comprising: providing an alkyl halide stream; contacting at least some of the alkyl halides with a coupling catalyst to form a product stream comprising higher hydrocarbons and hydrogen halide; contacting the product stream with a solid reactant to remove at least a portion of the hydrogen halide from the product stream; and reacting the solid reactant with a source of oxygen to generate a corresponding halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: GRT, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Stoimenov, Charles Ian Cutier, Jihong Cheng, Charles J. Coronelia, Krishna Janmanchi, Zachary J. A. Komon, Saydul Amin Sardar, Vivek Julka, Sagar Gadewar, Philip Grosso, Daniel J. Auerbach, Jean Wheeler
  • Automatic calibration technique for time of flight (TOF) transceivers
    Patent number: 8274037
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically calibrating a Time-of-Flight (TOF) transceiver system for proximity/motion detection, is provided. Moreover, the system comprises a component that senses a signal (e.g., current or voltage) at an light emitting diode (LED), an attenuator, a signal injector at a sensor and a switching circuit that toggles between a normal mode (e.g., when signal from the sensor is input to the sensor front end) and a calibration mode (e.g., when signal from the attenuator is input to the sensor front end). During the calibration mode, the sensor front end identifies the phase delay error within the signal path, including board and/or package parasitic, and accounts for the phase delay error during proximity/motion detection in the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Ritter, Carl Warren Craddock, Philip Golden
  • High density electrical connector and PCB footprint
    Patent number: 8272877
    Abstract: An interconnection system that includes a daughter card and backplane electrical connectors, each mounted to a printed circuit board at a connector footprint. The backplane connector has conductive elements with transition regions that allow the mating contact portions to be positioned on a uniform pitch while contact tail portions can be shaped to improve signal integrity or to provide a more compact and/or mechanically robust footprint. The conductive elements in both connectors are configured such that the contact tails of the ground conductors align from column to column, but the planar portions of the ground conductors in one column align with a pair of signal conductors in the other column, which improves mechanical and signal integrity. Mechanical integrity may be improved by forming the connector footprints with pads for the ground conductors that span multiple columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Philip T. Stokoe, Mark W. Gailus, Huilin Ren, Donald A. Girard, Jr.
  • Adaptive data unit transmission and acknowledgment
    Patent number: 8274996
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for adaptive data unit transmission. A sliding window is filled with data units and designates a sliding window start position and a sliding window end position. A value for each of the data units in the sliding window is stored, the value representing a maximum number of times that each data unit is to be transmitted. The stored value is different among at least two of the data units. Data units are selected from the sliding window to be assembled into a packet. An assembled packet is transmitted to a receiving computerized device. A determination that the data unit positioned at the sliding window start position has been transmitted a maximum number of time is performed, and in response a different data unit is positioned at the sliding window start position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Yuan, Kevin C. Yu, Michial Allen Gunter, C. Philip Gossett, David James Carmichael
  • Analog beamforming to reduce interference in WiMAX networks
    Patent number: 8274930
    Abstract: A base station transmits a set of sounding requests to a set of mobile station (MS) in a cell, using a set of beams, wherein there is one beam for each sounding request. Qualities of sounding signals transmitted by the set of MSs in response to receiving the sounding request are measured, and the set of MSs are grouped into subsets according to the qualities, wherein there is one subset of MSs associated with each beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip V. Orlik, Toshiyuki Kuze, Andreas F. Molisch, Zhifeng Tao, Jinyun Zhang
  • Fabric for end fray resistance and protective sleeves formed therewith and methods of construction
    Patent number: 8273429
    Abstract: An elongated protective textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and methods of constructing a fabric substrate therefore. The fabric substrate has a plurality of filamentary members either woven, knitted or braided with one another. At least some of the filamentary members of the substrate extend to cut edges and are fabricated of a multi-component material that includes a core of a first polymeric material and an outer sheath of a second polymeric material. The outer sheath is heat-fusible and the inner core is heat-settable. The outer sheaths of the filamentary members are heat fused at least in the regions near the cut edges to keep the cut edges from fraying or the filamentary members from pulling out of the substrate. The core is heat set to form the desired shape of the protective sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy David Sellis, Matthew Ray Taulbee, William J. Schrepple, Philip Edward Marks
  • Method and apparatus for enhancing electronic reading by identifying relationships between sections of electronic text
    Patent number: 8275785
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected references to the concept. The information provided may comprise information related to the location of the reference to the concept in other sections of text, and the reader also is provided the ability to move from one reference to a concept directly to another reference to the same concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventor: Philip R Krause
  • System and method for component scattering
    Patent number: 8274509
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for component scattering, comprising calculating a bounding box for each of a plurality of parts; calculating a centroid corresponding to each of said bounding boxes; placing a first part having a bounding box and a centroid at said start position, and; placing said plurality of parts in a pre-determined direction from said first part; whereby in a single operation said plurality of parts are logically added to an assembly view in a pre-determined manner, and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Kumar, Adrian Fraser, Philip O. Williams
  • Sulfate process
    Patent number: 8273322
    Abstract: A sulfate process for producing titania from a titaniferous material (such as an iron-containing titaniferous material; such as ilmenite) is disclosed. The process includes precipitating titanyl sulfate from a process solution produced in the process. The titanyl sulfate precipitation step includes subjecting the precipitated titanyl sulfate to a shearing action during the course of precipitating titanyl sulfate from the process solution or after precipitation has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: BHP Billiton Innovation Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Eric Girvan Roche, Philip Ernest Grazier, Alan David Stuart
  • Anti-Mesothelin Antibodies
    Publication number: 20120237509
    Abstract: This invention relates to the use of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that specifically bind to and become internalized by mesothelin-positive cells and also induce an immune effector activity such as antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The antibodies are useful in specific delivery of pharmacologic agents to mesothelin expressing cells as well as eliciting an immune-effector activity particularly on tumor cells and precursors. The invention is also related to cells expressing the monoclonal antibodies, polyclonal antibodies, antibody derivatives, such as human, humanized, and chimeric monoclonal antibodies, antibody fragments, mammalian cells expressing the monoclonal antibodies, derivatives and fragments, and methods of treating cancer using the antibodies, derivatives and fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: MORPHOTEK INC.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ebel, Luigi Grasso, Nicholas C. Nicolaides, Philip M. Sass, Eric Routhier
  • Sponsored-Stories-Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream
    Publication number: 20120239750
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sponsor specifications designating story characteristics; monitoring an organic activity stream for entries matching the story characteristics; and, in response to identifying an entry as matching the story characteristics, providing for display the entry in a predetermined area of a web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Kent Schoen, Ning Li, Robert Kang Xing Jin, Philip Anastasios Zigoris, Jessica Gronski, Jordan Walke, Eric Michel Giovanola
  • ASSAYS FOR INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININS
    Publication number: 20120237545
    Abstract: A combination of ultrafiltration and HPLC is used to analyze influenza virus. This combination is able to quantify hemagglutinin (HA) and correlates well with single radial immunodiffusion (SRID) results, but can be performed without the delay of waiting for immunochemical SRID reagents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: NORVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Philip Dormitzer, Yingxia Wen, Paola Rinella, Gene Palmer
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CONTINUOUS CULTURE BIOSENSOR
    Publication number: 20120237965
    Abstract: A continuous culture system of genetically modified yeast or another biological organism detects contaminants in water through production of a fluorescent chemical continuously produced by the organism after it is contacted with a threshold concentration of a contaminant. Alternatively, a biological organism can detect toxins or extra nutrients by detecting a change in growth rate. Biological organisms can also be measured for mutagenic changes by comparing their genome with a control sample. A network of continuous culture systems may be used as part of a water contamination detection system for real-time water monitoring of contaminants from multiple sources simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Holly Vee Goodson, Julia Theresa Ott Philip
  • Systems and Methods for Allocating and Transmitting Uplink Data Block Transmissions with Piggy-Backed ACK/NACK Bitmap
    Publication number: 20120236833
    Abstract: Systems and methods for allocating and transmitting uplink data block transmissions with piggy-backed ACK/NACK bitmap field are provided. In a specific example, a mobile station receives a request for a data block combined with control information (DBCCI). The mobile station responds by transmitting a DBCCI using at least one timeslot corresponding to a timeslot used for the request. At least some of the time, the mobile station sends data blocks in an order different than that would be otherwise used (e.g. block sequence order).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Dennis Conway, Satish Venkob, David Philip Hole
  • ADVANCED LOW POWER PERSONNEL/VEHICLE DETECTING RADAR
    Publication number: 20120235855
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a method and apparatus for signal processing that reduces the average power used in a small size, frequency modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. Such a small size, frequency modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar is referred to herein as a micro radar. Specific embodiments of the invention can be used to detect and/or track personnel, vehicle, and/or other targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.
    Inventors: JAMES LYNN KURTZ, Charles Henry Overman, IV, Philip Russell Carlson
  • PROGRAMMABLE MOTOR FOR WINDOW COVERINGS
    Publication number: 20120234504
    Abstract: An architectural window covering having a programmable electric motor is disclosed. The architectural window covering includes a head rail comprising at least one cavity, a shade coupled to the head rail, a bottom rail coupled to the shade, and at least two tandem stacked motors coupled to the shade via a drive rail such that the at least two motors fit within the at least one cavity of the head rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Skinner, Richard Langille, Philip Chermak
  • System And Method To Eliminate Receiving Coins As Cents Due Less Than One Dollar
    Publication number: 20120239554
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for facilitating a transaction between a customer and a merchant in which a cash change amount between 1¢ and 99¢ is due the customer. According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method includes the steps of receiving information regarding an account associated with a customer, a merchant and a tracking fee amount; charging a tracking fee to an account associated with a customer; and crediting the tracking fee to an account associated with a merchant. Subsequently, an amount given by the sum of the amount of credit purchased and the tracking fee is credited to an account associated with a customer and charged to an account associated with a merchant. Accounts associated with a customer and a merchant are typically maintained electronically, and the charging and crediting are performed by a computing device. The credit purchase amount and tracking fee are equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Christopher Primbas, Philip Thomas Stamataky
  • Glutathione S-Transferase Omega 1 Wild Type Specific Antibody
    Publication number: 20120237947
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel antibody which binds to wild type (wt) Glutathione S-transferase Omega 1 (wtGSTO1) but not to mutant (mut) GSTO1 and methods and uses based on the antibody. The antibody is based on novel haptens and immunogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Stephen Fitzgerald, Ivan Robert McConnell, Philip Andrew Lowry, Elouard Benchikh
  • SYNERGISTIC PEROXIDE BASED BIOCIDAL COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20120237611
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling microbial growth in an aqueous system containing sulfite and/or bisulfite residues by addition of a peroxy compound at a pH of grater than 5. Also disclosed is a method for stabilizing an active halogen biocide in an aqueous system containing peroxide residues by addition of an N-hydrogen compound to the active halogen biocide before combining it with the peroxide containing aqueous system. Further disclosed is an optimized papermaking biocide program consisting of initially treating sulfite bleached pulp with peroxide followed by application of an N-hydrogen-stabilized active halogen compound to the paper producing white waters and an analytical method for determining peroxide concentrations in aqueous systems in the presence of sulfite and/or bisulfite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventor: Philip Gerdon Sweeny
  • REMOVAL OF NEEDLE SHIELDS FROM SYRINGES AND AUTOMATIC INJECTION DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120238961
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a needle shield remover that reliably engages with a distal cap of an automatic injection device and with one or more needle shields coupled to a syringe of the device. When a user removes the distal cap, the needle shield remover reliably removes the needle shields (e.g., a soft needle shield and a rigid needle shield) from the syringe, thereby exposing the injection needle for performing an injection. In an exemplary assembly method, a needle shield remover is engaged to a needle shield coupled to a syringe, prior to insertion of the syringe and needle shield remover assembly into a housing of the device. This exemplary assembly method allows visual inspection, outside the housing of the device, to ensure that the needle shield remover is correctly and reliably engaged to the needle shield before the syringe and needle shield remover assembly is inserted into the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph F. Julian, Chuan Li, Philip D. Anderson, Linas P. Laurusonis, Lior Raday, Ehud Carmel, Lior Marli, David Daily, Guy Keenan