Patents by Inventor Steven C.

Steven C. 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: 8324525
    Abstract: A method processing a workpiece in a plasma reactor chamber in which a first one of plural applied RF plasma powers is modulated in accordance with a time-varying modulation control signal corresponding to a desired process transient cycle. The method achieves a reduction in reflected power by modulating a second one of the plural plasma powers in response to the time-varying modulation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Shannon, Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins
  • Patent number: 8327015
    Abstract: A system and method for conveying data include the capability to determine whether a transaction request credit has been received at a computer module, the transaction request credit indicating that at least a portion of a transaction request message may be sent. The system and method also include the capability to determine, if a transaction request message is to be sent, whether at least a portion of the transaction request message may be sent and to send the at least a portion of the transaction request message if it may be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Graphics International Corp.
    Inventors: Steven C. Miller, Thomas Edward McGee, Bruce Alan Strangfeld
  • Patent number: 8322294
    Abstract: An offshore fresh water reservoir disposed a distance from the mouth of a river. The reservoir includes a flotation portion in the salt sea that supports a downwardly extending tubular skirt that defines a barrier. A transverse intermediate-density interface having a bulk density greater than fresh water and less than salt water is provided. The interface floats on the salt water and sinks in fresh water. In an embodiment the interface includes a plurality of balls filled with a liquid having a density corresponding to a mixture of salt water and fresh water. The reservoir is anchored in position, and includes a pumping means. In a reservoir system a curtain assembly directs the fresh water effluent to a floating blanket assembly, which further directs the effluent to a pipe that transports the effluent to the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Inventor: Steven C. Bowhay
  • Patent number: 8323361
    Abstract: A capacitor, and method of making a capacitor, is provided wherein the capacitor has exceptionally high break down voltage. The capacitor has a tantalum anode with an anode wire attached there to. A dielectric film is on the tantalum anode. A conductive polymer is on the dielectric film. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode wire. A cathode lead is in electrical contact with the conductive polymer and the capacitor has a break down voltage of at least 60 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Kemet Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Freeman, Jake Yongjian Qiu, Steven C. Hussey, Philip M. Lessner, Yongjian Qiu
  • Patent number: 8324951
    Abstract: A dual data rate flip-flop circuit for reducing single event upset errors in the flip-flop circuit including two or more latch circuits connected in parallel. The latch circuits each have a clock input, data input, and latch circuit output. The dual data rate flip-flop circuit also includes a C-element, which has a plurality of inputs and a C-element output. The outputs of the latch circuits are provided to inputs of the C-element, and a keeper circuit is connected to the C-element output. An output buffer inverter connects to the C-element output and has an output corresponding to the dual data rate flip-flop circuit output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Vallabh Srikanth Devarapalli, Steven C. Suddarth
  • Publication number: 20120299714
    Abstract: The described method and system provide for HMI steering for a telematics-equipped vehicle based on likelihood to exceed eye glance guidelines. By determining whether a task is likely to cause the user to exceed eye glance guidelines, alternative HMI processes may be presented to a user to reduce ASGT and EORT and increase compliance with eye glance guidelines. By allowing a user to navigate through long lists of items through vocal input, T9 text input, or heuristic processing rather than through conventional presentation of the full list, a user is much more likely to comply with the eye glance guidelines. This invention is particularly useful in contexts where users may be searching for one item out of a plurality of potential items, for example, within the context of hands-free calling contacts, playing back audio files, or finding points of interest during GPS navigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: General Motors LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Tengler, Bijaya Aryal, Scott P. Geisler, Michael A. Wuergler
  • Publication number: 20120302909
    Abstract: A screening method can be used to determine whether a subject is a suitable candidate for interventional therapy. The method can be used to determine the likelihood the subject will receive a therapeutic effect from denervation therapy. The determination is based, at least in part, on lung information obtained by performing lung function tests with and without treating the subject's lungs with a test agent. Based on the response to a test agent, the subject's response to a therapy is predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Martin L. Mayse, Steven C. Dimmer
  • Publication number: 20120302188
    Abstract: A tunable multi-band receiver supporting operation on a plurality of frequency bands is disclosed. In an exemplary design, the tunable multi-band receiver includes an antenna tuning network, a tunable notch filter, and at least one low noise amplifier (LNA). The antenna tuning network tunes an antenna (e.g., a diversity antenna) to a receive band in a plurality of receive bands. The tunable notch filter is tunable to a transmit band in a plurality of transmit bands and attenuates signal components in the transmit band. One LNA among the at least one LNA amplifies an output signal from the tunable notch filter. The tunable multi-band receiver may further include one or more additional tunable notch filters to further attenuate the signal components in the transmit band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gurkanwal Singh Sahota, Steven C. Ciccarelli, Sang-June Park, Charles J. Persico
  • Patent number: 8320562
    Abstract: A method and system for generating one or more keys includes obtaining at two or more devices data based on movement of at least one of the devices with the respect to the other device. At least one key is generated based on the obtained data at each of the devices for use in securing communications between the devices. The key at each of the devices is substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Digital Lobe, LLC
    Inventors: Peter M. Hammond, James F. Munro, Steven C. Kapp
  • Patent number: 8321125
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a recommended route, based, in part, on fuel consumption, to a requesting vehicle using data collected from other vehicles. The system includes, but is not limited, to a communication system that is configured to receive vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles. A data storage system is in communication with the communication system and is configured to store the vehicle data as compiled vehicle data. A processor is in communication with the data storage system and the communication system. The processor is configured to utilize the compiled vehicle data to calculate a recommended route that is based, in part, on fuel consumption. The communication system is further configured to transmit the recommended route to the requesting vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: General Motors LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Tengler, Richard A. Johnson, Gary A. Watkins, Laurence J. Tretyak, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8321634
    Abstract: A processor may operate in one of a plurality of operating states. In a Normal operating state, the processor is not involved with a memory transaction. Upon receipt of a transaction instruction to access a memory location, the processor transitions to a Transaction operating state. In the Transaction operating state, the processor performs changes to a cache line and data associated with the memory location. While in the Transaction operating state, any changes to the data and the cache line is not visible to other processors in the computing system. These changes become visible upon the processor entering a Commit operating state in response to receipt of a commit instruction. After changes become visible, the processor returns to the Normal operating state. If an abort event occurs prior to receipt of the commit instruction, the processor transitions to an Abort operating state where any changes to the data and cache line are discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Graphics International Corp.
    Inventors: Steven C. Miller, Martin M. Deneroff, Curt F. Schimmel, Larry Rudolph, Charles E. Leiserson, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Krste Asanovic
  • Publication number: 20120291556
    Abstract: An acoustic navigation system includes a vessel and an interrogation unit towed behind the vessel below the surface of the water, a tail acoustic transponder trailing behind the interrogation unit, and a pair of surface acoustic transponders towed behind the vessel on the surface of the body of water. The interrogation unit generates an acoustic interrogation signal and receives responses from each of the tail acoustic transponder and the surface acoustic transponders from which it triangulates its position. The surface acoustic transponders may further include GPS receivers for receiving positioning information from GPS satellites. Additional acoustic transponders on instruments located on the floor of the body of water respond to the interrogation signal to allow triangulation of the location of the instruments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Steven C. Constable, Kerry W. Key
  • Publication number: 20120291686
    Abstract: A watercraft hull has a flat pad keel whose beam tapers towards the bow and at the transom is 15% to 25% of the beam at its chines. The hull is symmetric about its centerline, has a fine entry bow, and a pair of hard chines. Between the pad keel and the chines the hull has at least one pair of generally flat longitudinal steps having approximately 0 degrees of deadrise forming planing surfaces symmetrically about the hull centerline. The hull also includes at least one pair of ultra high deadrise panels, outboard of and adjacent to the pad keel, symmetrically about the hull centerline, and extending to the flat planing panels above them. The ultra high deadrise panels have a deadrise approximately 50 degrees. Additional flat planing surface structures having approximately 0° deadrise are installed longitudinally on the hull between the pad keel and the hard chine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: NAVATEK, LTD.
    Inventors: Steven C. H. Loui, Mealani Parish, Scott Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120291803
    Abstract: A novel firearm pull-through cleaning tool with an integrated foldable handle. The handle is pivotable at a first tool end between a closed position wherein a portion of the handle occupies a longitudinal well in the tool body and an open position wherein the handle is substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of body. When in closed position the diameter of the tool is less than the bore diameter of a weapon to be cleaned. In use, the handle is pivoted in a first direction to place the tool in the closed position; the tool is inserted into the firearm bore; a cleaning tool is attached to the attachment portion; the tool is passed through the bore; the handle is pivoted in a second direction to place said tool in the open position; and the handle is pulled to cause the cleaning tool to be passed through the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: The Otis Patent Trust
    Inventors: Kel Shipman, Steven C. Buxton
  • Publication number: 20120293917
    Abstract: A method for forming a hermetically sealed capacitor including: forming an anode; forming a dielectric on the anode; forming a conductive layer on the dielectric thereby forming a capacitive element; inserting the capacitive element into a casing; electrically connecting the anode to an exterior anode connection; electrically connecting the cathode to an exterior cathode connection; filling the casing with an atmosphere comprising a composition, based on 1 kg of atmosphere, of at least 175 g to no more than 245 g of oxygen, at least 7 g to no more than 11 g of water, at least 734 grams to no more than 818 grams of nitrogen and no more than 10 grams of a minor component; and hermetically sealing the casing with the atmosphere with the capacitive element contained in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Kemet Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Qingping Chen, Yurl Freeman, Steven C. Hussey
  • Patent number: 8315687
    Abstract: An ECG monitoring device comprises an integral handheld device including a ECG electronic module and an electrode patch having a plurality of electrodes which contact a subject by conductive hydrogel. A release liner covers and protects the hydrogel prior to use and is removed to expose the hydrogel. A second release liner is removed to expose a pressure sensitive adhesive by means of which the device is attached to a subject. The first and second release liners may be parts of a single release liner layer. After use the electrode patch is disposable and the ECG electronic module is detached from the patch for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Brett Cross, Shannon Fong, Stacy E. Gehman, Kim J. Hansen, Earl C. Herleikson, Steven C. Hugh, Thomas D. Lyster, Thomas A. Solosko
  • Patent number: 8315941
    Abstract: An automated loan risk assessment system and method are described. The system is adapted to receive information about a loan or an insurance application requesting insurance to cover same. The system calculates a risk score for the loan based on a plurality of risk factors including at least two of a fraud risk factor, a credit risk factor and a property valuation risk factor. The risk score can be used by a loan service provider in deciding whether or not to fund or insure the loan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Interthinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Halper, Constance A. Wilson, Stephen M. Hourigan
  • Publication number: 20120288608
    Abstract: The invention encompasses pet food composition that delivers a slow, sustained-release amount of lipoic acid or a salt thereof when fed orally to a companion animal. The invention also encompasses methods of manufacture and use of the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Zicker, Kathy Lynn Gross
  • Patent number: 8310815
    Abstract: A capacitor, and method of making a capacitor, is provided wherein the capacitor has exceptionally high break down voltage. The capacitor has a tantalum anode with an anode wire attached there to. A dielectric film is on the tantalum anode. A conductive polymer is on the dielectric film. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode wire. A cathode lead is in electrical contact with the conductive polymer and the capacitor has a break down voltage of at least 60 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kemet Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Freeman, Yongjian Qiu, Steven C. Hussey, Philip M. Lessner
  • Patent number: D671018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Steven C. Maste