Patents by Inventor Stephen An

Stephen An 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).

  • Publication number: 20150245706
    Abstract: A beverage station includes a tray having holes for supporting containers of various sizes. The largest holes on the outside of the bar are designed to hold larger bottles of liquor or mixers and other non-alcoholic beverages. Each hole can be adjusted down in size using insert reducers to accommodate smaller bottles so they fit snuggly and don't tip over or spill on a rocking boat. This is accomplished by using the different sized inserts to fit different sized liquor and wine bottles or other non-alcoholic mixers. A cutting board or serving tray can be used to support the beverage station. When the bar is in use it sits atop the serving tray and locks into place with small latches on the right, left and front of the serving tray surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: Stephen G. Fill
  • Publication number: 20150245757
    Abstract: A liquid extraction cleaning device comprises a main unit, a liquid pump, a flexible hose, and a hand tool. The main unit comprises a vacuum pump. The hand tool comprises a vacuum inlet port, an agitator, a spray nozzle, and a grip portion. The vacuum inlet port of the hand tool is operatively connected to the vacuum pump via the hose passageway in a manner such that the vacuum pump is capable of drawing fluid through the vacuum inlet port and into the hose passageway. The spray nozzle is operatively connected to the liquid pump in a manner such that the liquid pump is capable of forcing liquid out of the spray nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy Wall, Ann Marie Morrow, Walter Haug, Phuong Le, Charles Michael Ostendorf, Schubert Pereira, Ernest Matthew Chavana, JR., Vincent Lau, Jason Edward Hill, Jason Tilk, Evan Spirk, Lindsey Tufts, Craig Saunders, Paul Stephens
  • Publication number: 20150247084
    Abstract: An embodiment of a ceramic isolation ball is provided to cooperate with a ball seat to isolate a first portion of a well drilled into the earth's crust from a second portion of the well. Embodiments of the ball of the present invention are comprised of a ceramic material with excellent resistance to deformation when received into a ball seat and subjected to very high pressure differentials tending to force the ball into the ball seat to isolate a portion of a borehole below or beyond the ball and ball seat from a portion of the borehole above or before the ball and ball seat. Embodiments of the ball of the present invention include a hollow interior and a hole that receives a plug to close the hollow interior to prevent fluid intrusion therein. The ball is used to isolate a portion of a well during high-pressure fracturing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey Stephen Epstein
  • Publication number: 20150245657
    Abstract: A portable, personal storage and carrying case for an e-liquid e-cigarette PV which is operable to re-fill the PV with e-liquid if the PV is inserted, fully or in part, into the case, whilst maintaining the PV whole and intact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kaveh MEMARI, Adrian BENNETT, Ian MURISON, Stephen MARSH
  • Publication number: 20150248720
    Abstract: A system and method that computes a probability score indicating the probability that the user would prefer a particular item. The system prompts the user to review a particular item and subsequently prompts the user to reveal whether he liked the item or otherwise. The search engine also extracts the other review scores which were generated by the reviewers in respect of the item name specified by the user. Subsequently, the search engine also elicits the other review scores, preferably along with the corresponding reviews, in respect of the items reviewed by the reviewers who also reviewed the item specified by the user. The system further calculates probability scores indicating the probability that a user would prefer any of the items related to the reviews generated by the reviewers who also reviewed the item specified by the user. Accordingly the system generates recommendations based on the probability scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: INVENT.LY LLC
    Inventor: Stephen J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20150248288
    Abstract: A method performed by a computing system includes, with the computing system, extracting non-compiler specific components from a first compiled file, the first compiled file being compiled from a piece of source code, and with the computing system, rearranging the extracted non-compiler specific components into a normalized order, the normalized order being used to consistently arrange a plurality of compiled files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Grant Murphy, David Jorm, Arun Neelicattu, Stephen Milner
  • Publication number: 20150249624
    Abstract: A computer implemented messaging process that expands reply capabilities and employs functions for propagating and referencing content data in a messaging network is described. The invention expands comment replies to a special tier of nesting that renders replies to replies as subordinate initial content, which can extend from any nested replies in the network. Furthermore, the process includes functions for transforming special tier content into stand-alone content and special tier content-referencing that allows special tier content to be attached onto any and all existing content in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Alan Hilborn, II, Stephen Anthony Hilborn, Eric Raymond Hilborn, Ralph Warren Hilborn, III
  • Publication number: 20150248304
    Abstract: A data parallel pipeline may specify multiple parallel data objects that contain multiple elements and multiple parallel operations that operate on the parallel data objects. Based on the data parallel pipeline, a dataflow graph of deferred parallel data objects and deferred parallel operations corresponding to the data parallel pipeline may be generated and one or more graph transformations may be applied to the dataflow graph to generate a revised dataflow graph that includes one or more of the deferred parallel data objects and deferred, combined parallel data operations. The deferred, combined parallel operations may be executed to produce materialized parallel data objects corresponding to the deferred parallel data objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Craig D. Chambers, Ashish Raniwala, Frances J. Perry, Stephen R. Adams, Robert R. Henry, Robert Bradshaw, Nathan Weizenbaum
  • Publication number: 20150245974
    Abstract: A reduced pressure treatment system includes a control unit having a control system and a reduced pressure source. The reduced pressure treatment system further includes a manifold unit in fluid communication with the reduced pressure source and a component module to augment treatment. The component module is configured to communicate with the control system of the control unit, and the component module includes a first mounting region configured to be coupled to a complimentary mounting region of the control unit. The component module further includes a second mounting region identical to the complimentary mounting region of the control unit to allow a second component module to be coupled to the first component module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER BRIAN LOCKE, Timothy Mark Robinson, Mark Stephen James Beard, Aidan Marcus Tout
  • Publication number: 20150246883
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound which is: tert-butyl N-[2-{4-[6-amino-5-(2,4-difluorobenzoyl)-2-oxopyridin-1(2H)-yl]-3,5-difluorophenyl}ethyl)-L-alaninate or a salt, hydrate or solvate thereof. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers and/or excipients. The compound and composition are useful for inhibiting the activity of a p38 MAP kinase enzyme. As such they may be used in the treatment of a autoimmune or inflammatory disease, or a cell proliferative disease. In addition, the invention provides an acid produced by hydrolysis of the ester group of the compound of the invention. The acid is N-[2-{4-[6-amino-5-(2,4-difluorobenzoyl)-2-oxopyridin-1(2H)-yl]-3,5-difluorophenyl}ethyl)-L-alanine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: CHROMA THERAPEUTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Stéphane Pintat, Stephen John Davies, David Festus Charles Moffat
  • Publication number: 20150246264
    Abstract: A range of motion machine having two or four cranks driven directly by motors without exposed gears or chains. The speed and direction of crank rotation and the length of the crank arms may be varied with electronic controls. Crank arm length may be varied whether the crank is stationary or rotating. The cranks and motors are mounted at the top of pedestals which are adjustable in height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: David L. LAMPERT, Stephen Brigss, Edward William Cler, Daniel David Horein, Brian P. Lilly, Benjamin Berton Rund
  • Publication number: 20150248351
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for locking a cache line for a burst write operations on a bus. A cache line is allocated in a cache for a target address. A lock is set for the cache line, wherein setting the lock prevents the data in the cache line from being cast out. Data is written to the cache line. All the data in the cache line is flushed to the target address over a bus in response to completing writing to the cache line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Stephen L. Blinick, Charles S. Cardinell, Roger G. Hathorn, Benhard Laubli, Miguel A. Montoya, Timothy J. Van Patten
  • Publication number: 20150246797
    Abstract: A vehicle lift system incorporating one or more lift control modules having an advanced operating platform. The lift control module includes a user interface for receiving user instructions from a user, at least one control module processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium with an advanced operating platform stored thereon. The computer readable medium includes a first application operable executable by the advanced operating platform. The first application directs the control module processor to provide instructions to the vehicle lift to control the vehicle lift based on the user instructions. The computer readable medium further includes a second application executable by the advanced operating platform. The second application directs the control module processor to perform certain steps, with such certain steps not directed to controlling the vehicle lift. Furthermore, the advanced operating platform is configured to execute said first application and said second application simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Larry M. Jaipaul, Stephen J. Rucker, Raymond C. Chan
  • Publication number: 20150245615
    Abstract: 3-Phenylisoxazoline derivatives of the formula (I), and the use thereof as herbicides, are described. In this formula (I), X2 to X6 and R1 to R3 are radicals such as hydrogen, halogen, and organic radicals such as substituted alkyl. W* is carboxyl, cyano or CHO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Birgit Kuhn, Lothar Willms, Thomas Frenzel, Klaus Bernhard Haaf, Stephen David Lindell, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Dirk Schmutzler, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Publication number: 20150249859
    Abstract: The subject system allows a source device providing a content stream over a network connection to a sink device to adaptively bypass a transcoding portion of a content processing pipeline when the original content stream, e.g. the non-transcoded content stream, can be decoded by the sink device and/or when no actions that utilize transcoding have been requested for the content stream. The source device may power down the transcoding portion of the content processing pipeline when the transcoding portion is not in use. When an action that utilizes transcoding is requested, and the transcoding portion of the pipeline is being bypassed, the source device may power on the transcoding portion and adaptively modify the pipeline to pass the content stream through the transcoding portion. The source device may provide configuration messages to the sink device when the pipeline is modified to provide information for decoding the transcoded content stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Steven HARTLEY, Fabian Alberto Russo, James F. Dougherty, Stephen Ray Palm
  • Publication number: 20150248998
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying a precursor ion without using any a priori precursor ion information. In one method, a sample is analyzed using a tandem mass spectrometer, producing at least one measured product ion spectrum from a precursor mass-to-charge ratio range. The at least one measured product ion spectrum are received. A subset of measured product ions is selected from the at least one measured product ion spectrum. A list of candidate compounds is created by searching a dictionary of potential compounds that includes one or more predicted product ions for each of the potential compounds using the subset of measured product ions. A candidate compound on the list is selected as the identified compound. In another method, the measured product ions are assumed to correspond to shortened forms of the peptide and a protein database is searched for shortened forms of the peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Stephen A. Tate, Ronald F. Bonner
  • Publication number: 20150247786
    Abstract: An on-demand vapour generator includes a vapour chamber configured to produce a vapour and a vapour absorption assembly configured to receive flows of vapour from the vapour chamber. The vapour absorption assembly includes a first vapour-permeable passage having a passage outlet and at least one second vapour-permeable passage that is closed. When vapour absorption assembly receives a flow of vapour from the vapour chamber, the flow of vapour passes through the first vapour-permeable passage to the passage outlet at least substantially without absorption of vapour from the flow of vapour. However, when a flow of vapour is not received from the vapour chamber, vapour entering the vapour absorption assembly from the vapour chamber passes into the first vapour-permeable passage and the at least one second vapour-permeable passage and is at least substantially absorbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander PARKER, Marcel GOWERS, Jonathan ATKINSON, John FITZGERALD, Stephen TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20150248601
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to payment cards and methods for making payment cards. In one embodiment, a card comprises a first layer and a second layer adjacent to the first layer. The second layer comprises a plurality of particles comprising metal, and the plurality of particles comprise at least about 15 volume % of the second layer. In another embodiment, a mixture is prepared comprising polymer and a plurality of particles comprising metal. The plurality of particles comprise at least about 15 volume % of the mixture. The mixture is pressed and an outer layer is applied. The mixture and outer layer are then cut to form the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Sonia Reed, Kenneth M. Sippola, William Thaw, Mustafa Top, William B. Bedwell, Steven Crouch-Baker, Francis Louis Tanzella, Esperanza Alvarez, John Stephens Stotts
  • Publication number: 20150245752
    Abstract: A liquid extraction cleaning device comprises a vacuum pump, a liquid pump, a cleaning solution tank, a recovery tank, first and second spray nozzles, a spray selection switch, a vacuum inlet port, an agitator assembly, and a handle. The spray selection switch controls whether liquid is expelled from the second spray nozzle when liquid is expelled from the first spray nozzle. The agitator assembly comprises first and second agitators. The first agitator is configured to rotate. The second agitator is configured to reciprocate. The handle is pivotally connected to the rest of the liquid extraction cleaning device and is lockable in several pivotal orientations. The handle can also be pivoted forward from a rearwardly extending direction to an extent that it extends forward horizontally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy Wall, Ann Marie Morrow, Walter Haug, Phuong Le, Charles Michael Ostendorf, Schubert Pereira, Ernest Matthew Chavana, JR., Vincent Lau, Jason Edward Hill, Jason Tilk, Evan Spirk, Lindsey Tufts, Craig Saunders, Paul Stephens
  • Publication number: 20150246857
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing linear butenes from methanol. The problem addressed is that of specifying such a method in which the methanol used is converted, to the largest possible extent, into butenes. The problem is solved by combining a methanol-to-propylene process with a metathesis reaction by means of which the propene obtained from the methanol is converted into linear butenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG
    Inventors: Markus Winterberg, Ted M. Pettijohn, Stephen Bowers, Joerg Schallenberg, Shahbaz Naeem, Oliver Markus Busch