Patents by Inventor Steven Josephs

Steven Josephs 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).

  • Optical package comprising an adjustable lens component coupled to a multi-directional lens flexure
    Patent number: 7898752
    Abstract: An optical package is provided comprising a lens system, the lens system comprising an adjustable lens component, a plurality of magnetic elements, and a multi-directional lens flexure. The adjustable lens component is mechanically coupled to a lens mounting portion of the multi-directional lens flexure. The magnetic elements comprise at least one fixed magnetic element and at least one motive magnetic element. The arrangement of the fixed and motive magnetic elements relative to each other forms a first fixed/motive element pair and a second fixed/motive element pair. The motive magnetic element of each fixed/motive element pair is mechanically coupled to a motive portion of the multi-directional lens flexure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Gregorski, Matthew Patrick Hammond
  • Method for using image depth information in identifying illumination fields
    Patent number: 7894662
    Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining illumination information in an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of identifying depth information in the image, identifying spatio-spectral information for the image, as a function of the depth information and utilizing the spatio-spectral information to identify illumination flux in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Bushell, Richard Mark Friedhoff, Bruce Allen Maxwell
  • Optical autodiscovery for automated logical and physical connectivity check between optical modules
    Patent number: 7881612
    Abstract: Optical autodiscovery is provide between two optical modules to insure that when an optical signal is coupled between the two optical module, the optical signal from a first module does not interfere with operation of a second module. The autodiscovery is implemented by sending an optical identification signal from the first optical module via the coupling to the second optical module from which signal, the second optical module can verify and determined acceptance of the coupled first optical module. During this autodiscovery process, the optical identification signal from the first optical module may be attenuated or shifted in optical spectrum so as not to interfere with the operation of the second optical module. Autodiscovery may also be employed in cases where a first optical module is to receive an optical signal from a second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew L. Mitchell, Robert B. Taylor, Alan C. Nilsson, Steven Joseph Hand, Daniel P. Murphy
  • Selective profiling of program code executing in a runtime environment
    Patent number: 7877734
    Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method associate a unique key with routines in an application to enable a profiler to ascertain whether to collect profile information for a routine during its execution. A key may be generated, for example, during deployment or installation of an application in an application server or other runtime environment, and subsequently associated with the routines in the application, e.g., by storing the key in the class and/or library files for the application. By doing so, each application in a runtime environment may be uniquely identified by a profiler during execution, such that profile information will only be collected for those applications for which profiling has been enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Branda, John Joseph Stecher
  • Method and system for automatic correction of chromatic aberration
    Patent number: 7865031
    Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for an automatic chromatic aberration correction. The method comprises the steps of setting a range of test correction factors, applying the test correction factors of the range, incrementally, to a test block of the image, measuring chromatic aberration error at the test block after application of each of the test correction factors, and selecting a test correction factor having a lowest chromatic aberration error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Bushell, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Richard Mark Friedhoff
  • INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLER USING MEMBRANE-CONTAINED, LIQUID DESICCANT FOR DEHUMIDIFICATION
    Publication number: 20100319370
    Abstract: An indirect evaporative cooler for cooling inlet supply air from a first temperature to a second, lower temperature using a stream of liquid coolant and a stream of exhaust or purge air. The cooler includes a first flow channel for inlet supply air and a second flow channel adjacent the first for exhaust air. The first and second flow channels are defined in part by sheets of a membrane permeable to water vapor such that mass is transferred as a vapor through the membrane from the inlet supply air to a contained liquid desiccant for dehumidification and also to the exhaust air as heat is transferred from the inlet supply air to the liquid coolant. A separation wall divides the liquid desiccant and the coolant but allows heat to be transferred from the supply air to the coolant which releases water vapor to the counter or cross flowing exhaust air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Eric Joseph Kozubal, Steven Joseph Slayzak
  • Methods for producing optical fibers
    Publication number: 20100281922
    Abstract: Methods for producing optical fibers along nonlinear paths include incorporating fluid bearings. An optical fiber is drawn from a preform along a first pathway, contacted with a region of fluid cushion of a fluid bearing, and redirected along a second pathway as the fiber is drawn across said region of fluid cushion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: John Joseph Costello, III, James Henry Faler, Andrey V. Filippov, Steven Joseph Gregorski, Bruce Warren Reding, John Christopher Thomas
  • Method for image modification
    Publication number: 20100278448
    Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, performing an image segregation operation on the image file to generate a set of intrinsic images corresponding to the image, modifying a preselected one of the set of intrinsic images according to a set of preselected operations and merging the modified one of the set of intrinsic images relative to the set of intrinsic images to provide a modified output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Mark Friedhoff, Casey Arthur Smith, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Neil Alldrin, Steven Joseph Bushell, Timothy King Rodgers, JR.
  • PYRIDOPYRIMIDINE PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20100280021
    Abstract: The present invention comprises pyridopyrimidinediamine compounds of the general formula I: The compounds of the present invention are potent inhibitors of PTP1B. Accordingly, the invention also encompasses pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating or preventing PTP-1B mediated diseases, including diabetes, obesity, and diabetes-related diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Berthel, Adrian Wai-Hing Cheung, Kyungjin Kim, Shiming Li, Kshitij Chhabilbhai Thakkar, Weiya Yun
  • Method and apparatus for debugging application software in information handling systems over a memory mapping I/O bus
    Patent number: 7818619
    Abstract: A test system includes a debugging system and a system under test (SUT). The debugging system includes a debugging processor that couples to an SUT processor in the SUT via a memory mapping interface bus therebetween. In one embodiment, the debugging processor operates as a master to conduct test operations on the SUT via the memory mapping interface bus. The debugging processor and the SUT processor operate together in a cluster mode to provide non-invasive debugging of the (SUT) while the SUT executes application software in a real time environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Joseph Smolski
  • Logging lock data
    Patent number: 7818743
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, wait for expiration of a poll interval and in response to expiration of the poll interval, retrieve data regarding locks on objects and store the data in a log. In an embodiment, the stored data may include an identifier of the lock, a name of a class from which the threads were instantiated, a number of the threads, and a thread stack. The threads are waiting on the locks, and the lock wait times for the threads are calculated and stored in the log. The lock wait time is the time that the respective thread has waited on the lock. If any of the lock wait times exceeds a threshold, an identifier of the thread associated with the lock wait time that exceeds the threshold is stored in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Branda, John Joseph Stecher
  • Electronic image cash letter monitoring
    Patent number: 7802717
    Abstract: Monitoring an electronic check processing status of an image cash letter (“ICL”) and items in the ICL includes processing each ICL item by performing at least one electronic check processing event in connection with the item. For each electronic check processing event and for each item, a record comprising information related to a status of the electronic check processing event is created. Each record is associated with the corresponding item and the ICL. A status of each item can be determined based on the information stored in the records corresponding to that item. A status of the ICL can be determined based on the status of the items from the ICL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignees: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
    Inventors: Randall Lee Mueller, Thomas Edwin Schaadt, Steven Joseph Harris, Eric Lendl, V. Srinivas Nori, Steven Q. Purser
  • MCH receptor antagonists
    Patent number: 7803816
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful for the treatment of obesity, hyperphagia, anxiety, depression and related disorders and diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Berthel, Shawn David Erickson, Nader Fotouhi, Robert Francis Kester, Kyungjin Kim, Steven Gregory Mischke, Yimin Qian, Kshitij Chhabilbhai Thakkar, Jefferson Wright Tilley, Hong Wang
  • ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS, AND COLOR FILTERS FOR USE THEREIN
    Publication number: 20100225995
    Abstract: A process for producing a color electro-optic display uses an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising an electro-optic layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. This sub-assembly is laminated to a backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes with the electro-optic layer disposed between the backplane and the electrically-conductive layer. A flowable material is placed over the sub-assembly and a color filter array is placed over the electrically-conductive layer and aligned with the electrodes of the backplane to form the color electro-optic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, JR., Steven Joseph Battista, Jonathan D. Albert
  • Efficient synchronization of element management systems to network element attributes
    Patent number: 7783746
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and a method are described that synchronizes multiple element management systems with a network element. The synchronization between the management entities within the element is maintained by employing special attributes, such as sentry identification for managed objects and guard attributes for managed object tables. Using these attributes, resynchronization between the management systems is improved by reducing the amount of data retrieved by the systems and reducing the processing load caused by the resynchronization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Hand, How Tung Lim, Kasi Pydi Viswanadham, Kiran Dintakurthi
  • Methods for discriminating moving objects in motion image sequences
    Patent number: 7760942
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for classifying pixel values in a motion sequence of images. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of determining spectral information relevant to the sequence of images, and utilizing the spectral information to classify a pixel as one of background, shadow and object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Bushell, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Richard Mark Friedhoff
  • Image segregation system with method for handling textures
    Patent number: 7760912
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of converting a color band representation of the image to a homogeneous representation of spectral and spatial characteristics of a texture region in the image and utilizing the homogeneous representation of spectral and spatial characteristics of a texture region in the image to identify homogeneous tokens in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristin Jean Dana, Steven Joseph Bushell, Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Bruce Allen Maxwell
  • METHOD FOR WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT IN A WDM NETWORK
    Publication number: 20100158529
    Abstract: In accordance with the present disclosure, a method of configuring a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network is presented. The WDM network includes circuits that carry optical signals, with each signal corresponding to a wavelength. The WDM network includes nodes, with links connecting the nodes to one another. Each circuit includes at least one link and at least one node. The method comprises assigning each of the circuits to an optical signal, based on first and second criteria, and configuring the nodes based on the assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Josue Kuri, Steven Joseph Hand, Raj Venkatesan, Jayaram Hanumanthappa, Maneesh Jain, Shyamtanu Majumder
  • MONOCARBAMS
    Publication number: 20100160281
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating bacterial infections using compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Brickner, Mark Edward Flanagan, Manjinder Singh Lall
  • Pyrrolidinone glucokinase activators
    Patent number: 7741327
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful for the treatment of metabolic diseases and disorders such as, for example, type II diabetes mellitus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Berthel, John A Brinkman, Stuart Hayden, Nancy-Ellen Haynes, Robert Francis Kester, Lee Apostle McDermott, Yimin Qian, Ramakanth Sarabu, Nathan Robert Scott, Jefferson Wright Tilley