Patents by Inventor Robert By

Robert By 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: 8063498
    Abstract: An energy harvesting apparatus is deployed on a vehicle and comprises a vehicular shock absorber capable of reciprocating translational movement in response to roadway perturbations. A coil is mounted within the shock absorber. An engine is also mounted within the shock absorber for converting the translational movement into rotational movement. A magnet is coupled to the engine and is configured to be rotated in the vicinity of the coil to produce electrical energy in the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Chandra S. Namuduri, Yunjun Li, Timothy J. Talty, Robert B. Elliott, Nancy McMahon
  • Patent number: 8065600
    Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web content in the scenario or to write non-declarative server-side logic to control navigation. This method determines a declaration in a source file for a web page. The declaration is associated with an object. The method determines the views associated with the object where each of the views includes a user-interface. A flow for navigating through the views is determined. The views are rendered in accordance with the navigational flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Chory, Matthew E. Gibbs, Scott D. Guthrie, Michael Harder, Robert M. Howard, Scott Kirk Imig, Nikhil Kothari, Shanku Shivabrata Niyogi, Ting-Hao Yang, Andres M. Sanabria
  • Patent number: 8063357
    Abstract: A method of searching for potentially unknown metabolites of pharmaceutical compounds is disclosed. The accurate mass of a pharmaceutical compound will generally be known and can be rendered in the form of an integer nominal mass or mass to charge ratio component and a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component. Possible metabolites are searched for on the basis of having a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component which is substantially very similar to the decimal mass or mass to charge ratio of the parent pharmaceutical compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
    Inventors: Jose M. Castro-Perez, Alan Millar, Robert S. Plumb
  • Patent number: 8065481
    Abstract: A RAID system is provided which can be implemented as a hardware RAID system while avoiding certain shortcomings of previous RAID systems. The RAID system makes it possible to avoid or reduce the number of buffers or processors and can take advantage of drive logic to achieve RAID functions or enhancements. RAID functionality can be provided in a manner to accommodate one or more ATA drive interfaces. To avoid drive replacement problems, host requests for drive serial numbers are responded to with a mirror serial number. In one embodiment, the read address is used to select which drive will perform a read operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Bernhard Hiller, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Don Brunnett, Chandra Buddhavaram, Thierry Chatard, David Chew, Samuel R. Duell, Jeff Griffiths, Johanna Hernandez, Robert L. Kimball, Eric Kvamme, LeRoy Leach, Michael Lee, James McGrath, Kathleen Fitzgerald, legal representative, Robert Milby, Bruce Schardt, Maurice Schlumberger, Erhard Schreck, Richard Sonnenfeld
  • Patent number: 8065125
    Abstract: An arrangement calculates a description of potential responses of a distributed system in response to at least one input stimulus. The distributed system including nodes whose operation is described by respective node behavior descriptions. The method involves applying symbolic evaluation to plural node behavior descriptions so as to produce plural response descriptions that describe responses of nodes, and combining at least the plural response descriptions so as to arrive at the description of potential responses of the distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert J. Hall
  • Patent number: 8065273
    Abstract: A priority restore agent in a data storage system generates a priority restore data set for a client computer system or device by identifying a set of active data sets and/or a set of key data sets within client system data generated by the client computer system. The priority restore agent looks at or processes file system attributes for the client system data and compares these attributes with predefined restore parameters. The restore parameters may indicate that any file that has been accessed, modified, or created within a particular period of time be included in the priority restore data set. The key data sets may be identified in a set of automated restore rules. A data protection application within the data storage system can restore data in the priority restore data set onto the client computer system after a disaster or system crash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Jedidiah Yueh, Clint L McVey, Thomas B Bolt, Scott Auchmoody, Eric Olsen, William Crosby, Scott Ogata, Jennifer Starling, Robert Ramos
  • Patent number: 8062710
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a carpet material that typically includes applying a coating to a substrate where the coating includes the reaction product of a B-side that includes an esterified vegetable oil-based polyol and a catalyst and an A-side that includes an isocyanate and the reaction product of a B-side that includes a vegetable oil-based polyol and a catalyst and an A-side that includes an isocyanate. The polyols may optionally be blown, oxylated, and/or neutralized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Urethane Soy Systems Company
    Inventors: Thomas M. Kurth, Richard A. Kurth, Robert B. Turner, Les P. Kreifels
  • Patent number: 8064559
    Abstract: To support a plurality of different mobile radio standards in mobile radio terminal devices using a single system oscillator, a sampling rate converter converts the sampling rates from an input rate to an output rate and additionally outputs control information which is suitable for operating signal processing components. The components receiving the control information are arranged in the signal flow upstream of the sampling rate converter, on average exactly at a virtual sampling frequency. The virtual sampling pattern is mapped onto the frame of the physical operating clock by simply gating out edges of the physical operating clock. Using the control signal, a clock control device generates a masked clock that has, on average, an edge repetition rate which corresponds to the virtual sampling frequency of the samples or to an integer multiple thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Robert Denk, Dietmar Wenzel, Robert Würth
  • Patent number: 8064238
    Abstract: Interface circuitry in communication with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory is disclosed. The memory includes a plurality of non-volatile memory elements that may have two-terminals, are operative to store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be determined by applying a read voltage across the memory element, and retain stored data in the absence of power. A plurality of the memory elements can be arranged in a cross-point array configuration. The interface circuitry electrically communicates with a system configured for memory types, such as DRAM, SRAM, and FLASH, for example, and is operative to communicate with the non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory to emulate one or more of those memory types. The interface circuitry can be fabricated in a logic plane on a substrate with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory vertically positioned over the logic plane. The non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memories may be vertically stacked upon one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Norman
  • Patent number: 8063137
    Abstract: Described is a method for producing a molded silicone rubber product using a liquid silicone rubber (LSR) base comprising at least one vinyl siloxane polymer, at least one hydride crosslinker, and optionally at least one injection molding inhibitor. The single LSR base is fed into a feed line, and into the feed line are fed an inhibitor master batch comprising at least one liquid injection molding inhibitor and at least one vinyl siloxane polymer, and a catalyst master batch comprising at least one catalyst and at least one vinyl siloxane polymer. The invention is further directed to: said LSR base; said inhibitor master batch; said catalyst master batch; and a molded silicone rubber article produced by the methods and compositions described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: BlueStar Silicones France
    Inventors: Edward Jeram, Reeshemah Beaty Chatham, Robert Higley
  • Patent number: 8063342
    Abstract: A cooking structure which provide for two or more side-by-side ovens separated by vertical, movable, hinged partition(s) whereby the oven structure may function as one large oven or as two or more smaller independent ovens, wherein for each oven a tangential fan blows air substantially evenly over upper electrical heating elements strung generally from side-to-side of the oven, wherein a flow director (baffle) structure functions as a radiant heat shield which is operator movable to either expose to or occlude from the oven cooking chamber the direct radiation from its heating elements, depending on the need to roast, bake, or broil the food product. Also provided are lower electrical heating elements positioned below a ceramic cooking surface for ensuring evenness of radiant heat transfer therefrom. Also provided is operator controlled top vs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Stickley Hines, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8062018
    Abstract: A guard member for use with a dough sheeter having a shut-off mechanism includes a first portion structured to be coupled at or near a dough feed opening of the dough sheeter and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The second portion having a front face and an opposite rear face, the rear face being structured to engage and activate the shut-off mechanism when contact is made with the front face by an outside force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Phoenix Intangibles Holding Company
    Inventors: Zack Ireland, James Mullen, Ralph Ronald Flory, Thomas Robert Ladley, Craig Todd Falk
  • Patent number: 8065219
    Abstract: A system architecture and method for energy industry trading and transaction management includes a business logic server-based layer and a database layer. The business logic server-based layer includes a parameter-based configuration of at least one business logic service. The business logic service is configurable to enable a deployment of the system to be compatible with a respective business practice of at least one client customer. The at least one business logic service is configured to support energy trading and transaction management and to utilize business rules operable on an event basis for processing via an API at least one of energy trading and transaction management data, including data specific to the at least one client customer. The database layer operatively connects to the business logic layer for storing the data processed by the business logic layer in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: SunGard Energy Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Haynie, Kevin Trevor Mossop, John F Pletka, Benjamin Curfman, Daryl A Pever, Leslie H Danielson, Shannon Hugetz, Joan Gilmer, Sunny Stockton, Robert Michael Alexander, Philip J Savoie, Nitin Kadam, Josiah Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8064948
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment providing for one or more improvements includes a method for use in a mobile station operating in a multi-protocol wireless network environment that supports a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol wherein the network environment allows the mobile station to seamlessly roam utilizing the first and second wireless communication protocols. The method includes establishing a first link layer connection using the first wireless communication protocol; and establishing a second link layer connection using the second wireless communication protocol wherein a single mobile identifier, corresponding to the mobile station, is used in the first and second connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Charles Meier, Keith Kenneth Dettloff, John Gary Waclawsky
  • Patent number: 8063673
    Abstract: A transit state element circuit. The transit state element circuit includes a clock input stage coupled to receive a clock signal, an output stage configured to drive an output signal on an output node and an activation stage coupled to an input node. The activation stage is configured to, responsive to the clock input stage detecting a transition from a first logic level to a second logic level and detecting a logical transition of an input signal on the input node, activate the output stage to drive an output signal on the output node. A storage element is configured to capture a logic value of the input signal when the clock is at the second logic level and to store the logic value, and to provide the output signal on the output node when the clock signal is at the first logic level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert P. Masleid
  • Patent number: 8062354
    Abstract: A tape-reinforced tubular vascular graft formed of sintered fluoropolymer(s), such as expanded, sintered PTFE. The graft includes a base graft and a reinforcing tape applied thereto. The tape may be spirally wrapped about the graft or spirally wrapped into a tube about a cylindrical mandrel and then applied to the exterior of the graft. Radial shrinkage of the combined base graft and tape, or of the reinforcing tape tube, renders the vascular graft subsequently radially enlargeable by more than 5%, without tearing or breaking of the reinforcement tape layer of the graft. Radially enlargeable grafts of the present invention may be combined with various types of stents or anchoring systems, to form endovascular graft devices which are transluminally insertable and implantable within the lumen of a host blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Shannon, John McIntyre, Chris Kuo, Chris McCollam, Robert Peterson
  • Patent number: 8062662
    Abstract: A liposome composition having a compound entrapped in a supersaturated solution and method for preparing such a composition are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Alza Corporation, Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Danilo D. Lasic, Robert M. Abra, Yechezkel Barenholz, Tal Peleg-Shulman
  • Patent number: 8062837
    Abstract: The umbilical cord blood (UCB) compositions of the present invention possess the unique features of having plasma that is substantially depleted from the UCB unit and red blood cells (RBC) that are not depleted from the UCB unit. Such UCB units can be prepared by a process that combines plasma depletion with cryopreservation, selection, thawing, and/or transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells to provide superior clinical outcome by maximizing post-processing cell recovery and post-thaw infusion cell dose. Methods for treating a wide variety of malignant diseases and benign diseases associated with the hematopoietic system by administering the UCB compositions of the present invention are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: StemCyte, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Chow
  • Patent number: D649031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Bud-Eze Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Robert John Rand
  • Patent number: D649267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Red Star Traders, LLC
    Inventors: William G. Apgood, II, Lenny Vainberg, William G. Apgood, Robert Glenn