Patents by Inventor Steven John

Steven John 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).

  • Method for assembling tendons
    Patent number: 8585326
    Abstract: A tendon is assembled in a horizontal orientation using connectors or by welding at a weld station on a barge or other vessel located at or near the installation site of a tension leg platform. During assembly, the tendon is pulled away from the assembly vessel and tensioned by a tug or offshore work vessel. When fully assembled, the tendon may be up-ended in a manner similar to a wet-towed tendon, and then either pre-installed using floats or passed over to a TLP which is on-site and ready to receive tendons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seahorse Equipment Corp.
    Inventor: Steven John Leverette
  • Model based control of Parkinson's disease
    Patent number: 8588899
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel means to use a fundamental model of the parts of the brain that are dysfunctional in Parkinson's disease, and related dynamical diseases of the brain, as part of a feedback control system to modulate the signs and symptoms of disease. Fundamental computational models that embody our knowledge of the anatomy, neurons, and dynamics of the parts of the brain we wish to control, and use those models to reconstruct what is inaccessible to our measurements. Through emulation the controller synchronizes to the parts of the brain we wish to observe and track. By passing simultaneous control pulses to both the model controller, as well as the brain, we control both the model and the brain. The detailed framework to embed fundamental models of the brain within a control scheme to control symptoms of Parkinsons and related dynamical diseases of the brain are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Inventor: Steven John Schiff
  • HARDWARE ENFORCED OUTPUT SECURITY SETTINGS
    Publication number: 20130305342
    Abstract: Generally, aspects of this disclosure are directed to copy protection techniques. Areas in memory may be secured to establish a secure memory area in the memory that is not accessible by unauthorized clients. A request to decode video content stored in the secure memory area may be received. If the video content to be decoded is stored in the secure memory area, a first MMU associated with the hardware decoder may enforce a rule that the video content is to be decoded into one or more output buffers in the secure memory area. A request to display the decoded video content stored in the secure memory area may be received. If the decoded video content is stored in the secure memory area, a second MMU associated with a hardware display processor may enforce a rule that a secure link be established between the hardware display processor and an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudeep Ravi Kottilingal, Gary Arthur Ciambella, Steven John Halter
  • Managing communication operations of wireless devices
    Patent number: 8582631
    Abstract: Management of communication operations of wireless devices is provided. A traffic-control parameter is generated, for example at a base station, indicative of desired aspects of communication operations of the wireless devices. The one or more traffic-control parameters may comprise a delay parameter, such as a maximum value for generating random backoff times, and/or a connection-time parameter, indicative of the maximum length of time a wireless device can hold a connection. A bit sequence indicative of the one or more traffic-control parameters is generated and communicated to the wireless devices. A wireless device determines the traffic-control parameter based on the communicated bit sequence and adapts its operation based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustav Gerald Vos, Steven John Bennett, Huaming Wu, Richard Thomas Kavanaugh
  • Method of making composite membrane
    Patent number: 8580341
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite membrane comprising a porous base membrane and a polyamide coating disposed on said porous base membrane, said polyamide coating comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound and a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety. In addition the present invention provides a method of preparing a composite membrane comprising contacting under interfacial polymerization conditions an organic solution comprising a polyacid halide with an aqueous solution comprising a polyamine, said contacting being carried out on a surface of a porous base membrane, said organic solution further comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound, said aqueous solution comprising a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Su Lu, Hua Li, Steven Thomas Rice, Joseph Anthony Suriano, Bing Zhang, Chen Wang, Lawrence Charles Costa, Steven John Harrold, David Allen Olson, Wenqing Peng
  • Liability management system
    Patent number: 8568220
    Abstract: A method of determining liability for a plurality of multiples bets placed via a computerised betting system, each multiples bet comprising a single transaction on a plurality of outcomes selected from a group of possible transactions, the method comprising selecting a most popular transaction from the group, evaluating all other transactions within the group on the basis that the most popular transaction is a winning transaction to produce a first result, evaluating all other transactions within the group on the basis that the most popular transaction is not a winning transaction to produce a second result and selecting one of the first and second results that indicates the worst case liability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: The Sporting Exchange Ltd.
    Inventors: Iain Johnson Andersen, Matthew James Searle, David Glen Jeffery, Steven John High
  • Highly Compliant Resonant Diffraction Gratings, And Methods And Use Thereof
    Publication number: 20130279004
    Abstract: Highly-compliant polymer-based resonant diffraction gratings, and methods of use thereof, are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, an amount of pressure applied to a grating surface may be determined by straining a grating, adapted to move into a plurality of pitches, to an applied pitch in the plurality of pitches in response to an application of strain onto a surface adjacent the grating. Electromagnetic radiation comprising a plurality of wavelengths may be applied to the grating, and a resonance wavelength, in the plurality of wavelengths, may be identified while the strain is applied to the grating. The amount of strain applied to the grating surface may then be determined based on the resonant wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Steven John Foland, Jeong Bong Lee
  • Portable Stand for an Information Display Article
    Publication number: 20130270413
    Abstract: A portable display stand including a sheet of substantially rigid but not inflexible material having a plurality of cuts to provide four sections which are moveable relative to one another such that the sheet may be converted from a first, flat configuration to a second, erected configuration in which it is able to support an information display article in an inclined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: John Wilber, Steven John Douglas Wilber
  • Integrated humidifier chamber and lid
    Patent number: 8555879
    Abstract: A blower unit for use as part of an integrated blower/humidification system is described. The blower unit has an outer casing, which encloses and forms part of the blower unit, the casing including an air inlet vent. The blower unit further includes a humidifier compartment for receiving a humidifier unit with a separate gases inlet and outlet, the compartment having a heater base for heating the contents of the humidifier unit. The compartment also has a blower inlet port which aligns with the humidifier unit inlet in use, the blower providing a gases path through the casing between the inlet vent and the inlet port. The blower unit also includes a fan for providing a pressurized gases stream along the gases path, and a power supply unit for powering the fan. The gases path is routed over the power supply unit in order to provide a cooling air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Venkata Subbarao Potharaju, Christie Jayne Stanton, Andrew Salmon, Yi-Cheng Sun, Hayden Briscoe, Samuel Frew, Steven John Worthington, Phillip Dickinson, Cameron Jon Haxton
  • AUGMENTED REALITY AND PHYSICAL GAMES
    Publication number: 20130267309
    Abstract: Augmented reality and physical game techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an indication is received by a computing device of a location of a physical gaming piece of a game. An augmentation is computed based on the indication by the computing device to be displayed as part of the game. The augmentation is displayed by the computing device on a display device that is at least partially transparent such that a physical portion of the game is viewable through the display device concurrently with the augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven John Robbins, William J. Westerinen, Lisa M. Hanson, Sung Ho Son, Richard J. Wattles
  • SUBSTITUTED BENZOPYRAZIN DERIVATIVES AS FGFR KINASE INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER DISEASES
    Publication number: 20130267525
    Abstract: The invention relates to new quinoxaline derivative compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to processes for the preparation of said compounds and to the use of said compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: ASTEX THERAPEUTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gordon Saxty, Christopher William Murray, Valerio Berdini, Gilbert Ebai Besong, Christopher Charles Frederick Hamlett, Steven John Woodhead, Yannick Aime Eddy Ligny, Patrick René Angibaud
  • Flexible hang-off arrangement for a catenary riser
    Patent number: 8550171
    Abstract: Flexible hang-off arrangement is provided for a catenary riser suspended from an offshore or inshore platform, which includes floating or fixed platforms, vessels or/and buoys. The bending loads in the top segments of the said riser are reduced by incorporating a pivot at the riser hang-off. Pressure containing welded, bolted, rolled or swaged pipe spools transfer fluids, including hydrocarbons between the riser and the platform. Along significant spool lengths the tangents to the center lines of said spools are orthogonal to and offset from the tangent to the center line of the riser at the hang-off. The said pressure containing spools include arbitrary looped, spiral and helicoidal designs that are subject to torsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Seahorse Equipment Corp.
    Inventors: Krzysztof J. Wajnikonis, Steven John Leverette
  • Mobile Device Light Guide Display
    Publication number: 20130258701
    Abstract: Light guide techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing, a light guide supported by the housing, a light engine disposed within the housing and optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to cause the light engine to output a user interface for display using the light guide along an image plane focused at infinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William J. Westerinen, Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck
  • PET DETECTOR MODULES UTILIZING OVERLAPPED LIGHT GUIDES
    Publication number: 20130256537
    Abstract: When constructing a nuclear detector module in a gantry, a plurality of overlapping light guide modules (10) are mounted to the gantry in a spaced-apart fashion, and a plurality of underlapping light guide modules (12) are mounted in between each pair of overlapping light guide modules (10). Each of the underlapping modules and the overlapping modules includes a scintillation crystal array (16) on an interior surface thereof, and a plurality of PMTs on an exterior surface thereof. Overlapping modules (10) have overlapping structures (22) that interface with underlapping structures (18) on the underlapping modules (12) and thereby eliminate a seam directly beneath PMTs that overlap the crystal arrays of both an overlapping module and an underlapping module. Optical grease is used to form a resilient grease coupling and reduce light scatter between the underlapping and overlapping modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Leroy Laurence, Jinling Liu, Steven E. Cooke, Steven John Plummer
  • COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20130260341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition comprising synthetic nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite or a synthetic precursor thereof doped with a rare earth ion, the use of the composition in restorative or cosmetic dentistry, a process for preparing the composition and a method of generating an image of an exposed dentinal surface of a tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Wilson Sibbett, Christian Thomas Alcuin Brown, Animesh Jha, Steven John Milne, Colin Robinson, Mandeep Singh Duggal, Kyriacos Jack Toumba
  • Augmented Reality Light Guide Display
    Publication number: 20130257848
    Abstract: Augmented reality light guide display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing configured in a hand-held form factor, one or more sensors configured to detect a position and orientation of the housing in three dimensions in a physical environment of the housing, a light guide that is at least partially transparent and supported by the housing, a light engine that is optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to calculate a position and orientation of an augmentation and cause the light engine to output the augmentation for display using the light guide such that the augmentation is viewable concurrently with at least a portion of the physical environment through the light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William J. Westerinen, Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck
  • Ortho-condensed pyridine and pyrimidine derivatives (e.g., purines) as protein kinases inhibitors
    Patent number: 8546407
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound for use as a protein kinase B inhibitor, the compound being a compound of the formula (Ic) or salts, tautomers or N-oxides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Astex Therapeutics Limited, The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Valerio Berdini, Robert George Boyle, Gordon Saxty, David Winter Walker, Steven John Woodhead, Paul Graham Wyatt, Alastair Donald, John Caldwell, Ian Collins, Tatiana Faria Da Fonseca
  • LIGHT GUIDE DISPLAY AND FIELD OF VIEW
    Publication number: 20130249895
    Abstract: Light guide display and field of view techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware to configure a user interface and a display device communicatively coupled to the one or more modules to output the user interface to be viewable by a user within a range of distances from the display device such that closer distances within the range permit the user to have an increased field of view in comparison with distances within the range that are further away from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William J. Westerinen, Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING IDENTITY INFORMATION TO A WIRELESS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130252576
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring identity information for temporary use by a wireless device, visiting a foreign operator network, is provided. A user is presented, at a kiosk, with an opportunity to download a temporary identity which is recognized by the operator network as belonging to a local subscriber, and the user may make a request for service. In response to the user-generated request for service, local identity information is transferred to the wireless device for use thereby. The transfer is short-range wireless communication from the kiosk to the wireless device. The temporary identity, once installed on the wireless device, makes the wireless device appear as a local subscriber. Upon termination of use, the temporary identity is returned to a pool and usable for another wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Syal, Steven John Bennett, Gustav Gerald Vos
  • CUSHION FOR MASK SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130239973
    Abstract: A mask system for use between a patient and a device to deliver a breathable gas to the patient includes a frame including a channel and a cushion provided to the frame. The cushion includes an end portion that is inserted and retained within the channel. The frame includes a recess that communicates with the channel and a hole that connects the recess to a frame exterior. The hole and recess provide an exit route for air contained within the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Rupert Christian SCHEINER, Scott Alexander Howard, Gregory Scott Smart, Christopher Scott Skipper, Steven John Lubke, Timothy Shawn Nelson