Patents by Inventor Steven TO

Steven TO 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: 8798759
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a user interface with a menu that facilitates stimulation therapy programming. The user interface displays a representation of the electrical leads implanted in the patient and at least one menu with icons that the user can use to adjust the stimulation therapy. The user may drag one or more field shapes from a field shape selection menu onto the desired location relative to the electrical leads. A manipulation tool menu may also allow the user to adjust the field shapes placed on the electrical leads, which represent the stimulation region. The programmer that includes the user interface then generates electrical stimulation parameter values for the stimulator to deliver stimulation according to the field shapes or field shape groups defined/located by the user. The field shapes may represent different types of stimulation representations, such as current density, activation functions, and neuron models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Goetz, Jeffrey T. Keacher, Rajeev Sahasrabudhe, Wende L. Dewing, Jon P. Davis, John Rondoni, Gabriela C. Miyazawa, Gary W. King
  • Patent number: 8799774
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to generating a translatable and annotated multimedia or video presentation of a software program operation. An aspect of the disclosure comprises recording user interaction data that includes user interface gestures and text entries from a keyboard and other user devices while the program is operating. Embodiments of the disclosure transform recorded text and visual contents of the program to a selected format or language, annotate contents of interest, and merge recorded user interface gestures, transformed text and visual contents, and transformed annotations into the output presentation. The embodiments of the disclosure optionally generate an accessibility script in a selected format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Randall Chafy, Mario Francois Daigle, Craig Allen Statchuk, Wayne Robert Stevens
  • Patent number: 8797465
    Abstract: A handheld wireless device for controlling an electronic device. Ambient noise is automatically detected using a microphone and user preference parameters (e.g., volume) are adjusted, compensating for the detected noise. Plurality of signals are sent and received, operable to determine the location of the remote control, thereby operable to automatically tune various user preference parameters (e.g., surround sound). The remote control may be used as a telephone. When receiving a call, the caller information may be displayed using a popup window (e.g., on a television set). A call may be answered and the program may be paused/recorded/muted. The electronic device is automatically configured by identifying the user. A reader may read information on a payment card in a contactless manner. In one embodiment a radio frequency signal is used to reduce interference with LCD wavelength. The remote control may respond to a user command in order to be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Hardacker, Steven Richman, Brant Candelore, Behram DaCosta, Peter Shintani, Takaaki Ota
  • Patent number: 8796002
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to engineered ketoreductase polypeptides and uses thereof for the preparation of ? chloroalcohols from ? chloroketones. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase polypeptides and host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Koy Bong, Michael Vogel, Steven J. Collier, Vesna Mitchell, Jagadeesh Mavinahalli
  • Patent number: 8794019
    Abstract: A refrigerator, including a cabinet having top, bottom, rear and opposing side walls that collectively define a freezer compartment and a fresh food compartment, employs a cooling system and an air plenum to deliver a cooling air flow into the freezer and fresh food compartments. The air plenum includes a variable position air damper having a first, substantially straight portion and a second arcuate portion that forms an air scoop. The air damper is slidably mounted within the air plenum between first and second positions. The variable position air damper is selectively arranged in the first position to efficiently deliver a volume of the cooling air flow into the freezer compartment, the second position to deliver the cooling airflow into the fresh food compartment or in an infinite number of intermediate positions to deliver the cooling airflow into both compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Steven John Kuehl, James Charles Leslie Guarino
  • Patent number: 8794717
    Abstract: In a rail vehicle hand brake having a release activated by a pneumatic cylinder, the present control system includes a manual valve having an output connected to a source of pressure at an input when manually activated. A volume is to be charged by the source of pressure. A choke connects the volume to exhaust. The volume and the choke prolong the time the source of pressure is connected to the pneumatic cylinder after the manual valve is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: New York Air Brake Corporation
    Inventors: Derick Call, Steven R Newton, Lawrence E. Vaughn, Jeffrey F. Sauter, Howard E. Huber, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8798278
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for deriving a signal-to-noise ratio based at least in part on a measured level of a signal carrying far-end speech, and a measured level of a signal carrying ambient acoustic noise; determining a target gain adjustment based at least in part on the derived signal-to-noise ratio; applying the target gain adjustment to the signal carrying far-end speech to produce a gain-adjusted signal; and providing the gain-adjusted signal for audio output from a communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Steven H. Isabelle, Vasu Iyengar
  • Patent number: 8799025
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, workers' compensation claims are received at a payor processing system from a plurality of remote bill input devices. The workers' compensation claims may be transformed in accordance with a jurisdiction-based claims processing rule. The transformed workers' compensation claims may then be transmitted to a workers' compensation adjudication engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Anthony C. Ruszala, Steven A. Hatch
  • Patent number: 8796188
    Abstract: A process for forming a strong, low-density proppant, which process includes heating pumice particulates, or shaped agglomerates thereof, so as to form heat-treated pumice particulates, or heat-treated, shaped pumice agglomerates, having an apparent density of 2.4 or less and a crush resistance of no more than 10% fines at 4000 psi. Proppants, and well treatment fluids comprising proppants, meeting these characteristics and processes for treating subterranean formations using fluids which include such proppants are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas J. Pisklak, Richard F. Stevens, Jr., Qi Qu, Elizabeth G. Morillo
  • Patent number: 8796244
    Abstract: The invention relates to new bicyclic heterocyclic derivative compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and to the use of the compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Astex Therapeutics Ltd
    Inventors: Valerio Berdini, Maria Grazia Carr, Miles Stuart Congreve, Martyn Frederickson, Charlotte Mary Griffiths-Jones, Christopher Charles Frederick Hamlett, Andrew Madin, Christopher William Murray, Rajdeep Kaur Benning, Gordon Saxty, Emma Vickerstaffe, Andrew James Woodhead, Steven John Woodhead, Eddy Jean Edgard Freyne, Tom Cornelis Hortense Govaerts, Patrick René Angibaud, Marian Williams
  • Patent number: 8797773
    Abstract: An isolated DC to DC converter including zero voltage switching and a current doubler. Current sensors are located between a positive input of the DC to DC converter and a current doubler is used in an output stage of the DC to DC converter in order to enable more accurate current sensing in a main transformer to prevent saturation of the transformer core and provide increased efficiency and power output with lower electromagnetic noise. The input of the DC to DC converter is isolated from the output of the DC to DC converter, and the DC to DC converter may be used in a hybrid or all-electric vehicle to provide an accessory bus from a power source of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven George
  • Patent number: 8794414
    Abstract: A coupling assembly for use in transmitting force includes a housing which at least partially encloses a rotatable disc. The housing has a plate portion with an annular force transmitting surface which is engagable with the rotatable disc. A cooling fluid channel is at least partially defined by a side of the plate portion opposite from the force transmitting surface. A plurality of projections extend into a path of flow of cooling fluid through the cooling fluid channel. A cooling fluid inlet includes a passage having a portion with a large cross section connected in fluid communication with a radially outer portion of the cooling fluid channel. A portion of the inlet passage having a small cross section is connected in fluid communication with a radially inner portion of the cooling fluid channel. Ribs extend across the radially inner and outer portions of the cooling fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Jeremy Steven Culmer
  • Patent number: 8795740
    Abstract: A tablet for use in a drip tray including an excipient selected so that the tablet will not fully dissolve in water at ambient temperature for a period of at least one month, more preferably up to 12 months, a biocide, at least one enzyme, preferably a proteolytic or hydrolase enzyme, and enzyme preserving means, such as a boron compound for maintaining enzyme activity in a moist environment. The excipient may be for example poly vinyl alcohols, high molecular weight polyethylene glycols, high molecular weight polypropylene glycols, esters or partial esters of polyethylene glycols or of polypropylene glycols, and high molecular weight thermoplastic surfactants. The invention also relates to methods for inhibiting the growth of biofilm in an drip tray or the like, including the step of adding to the tray a tablet according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Novapharm Research (Australia) Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Steven Kritzler, Alex Sava
  • Patent number: 8794117
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for cutting an elastomeric laminate that may include a layer of reinforcement cords, into a desired length without cutting through the cords. The method includes the step of cutting through the gum portion of the elastomeric composite material at a desired skive angle, and then opening up the skived cut. Next, the cord reinforcement layer is cut without severing the reinforcement cords. An elastomeric composite strip cut to the desired length is produced and has cut ends. One of the cut ends has the gum portion cut at a desired skive angle adjacent an overhang portion of the reinforcement layer. The opposite end of the elastomeric composite segment also has a skived portion to mate with the skived portion of the first cut end, and a gap in the cord ply to mate with the cord overhang of the first end, resulting in a splice. An improved anvil having independently controlled vacuum zones is also provided, as well as improved cutting mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Ray Downing, David Michael Dejacimo, Dennis Alan Lundell, Steven Leonard Kitz, Mark Alan Thompson
  • Patent number: 8794394
    Abstract: A brake assembly and system (202) characterized by the use of a flexible force transfer member (230) to enable an electric motor (220) to be mounted remotely from other brake components and preferably at a location shielded from the elements and/or more easily accessible for maintenance and repair. By mounting the electric motor (220) in a less confining area, and using a force distribution device (350) to distribute force to a plurality of rams (342,344), one larger motor (220) may be used to drive multiple disk engagement members rather than several smaller motors mounted on the brake assembly. Since larger motors are typically more efficient than smaller motors, using one larger motor increases the overall efficiency of the brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Ortman, Steven Anderson, Eric Schwaigert
  • Patent number: 8797457
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to match an input frame rate of a video stream with an output frame rate of an output stream, the apparatus comprising, at least one memory buffer, an output frame generator, and a threshold measurement unit, the threshold measurement unit configured to generate a control feedback, wherein the box is configured to analyze the control feedback to monitor a state of the at least one memory buffer, the threshold measurement unit further configured analyze the control feedback to regulate between two or more different settings, wherein the two or more different settings include slowing down or speeding up the output frame, wherein the two or more different settings further include slowing down or speeding up of the line rate of the output stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Stevens
  • Patent number: 8799522
    Abstract: A facility is provided to enable operator message commands from multiple, distinct sources to be provided to a coupling facility of a computing environment for processing. These commands are used, for instance, to perform actions on the coupling facility, and may be received from consoles coupled to the coupling facility, as well as logical partitions or other systems coupled thereto. Responsive to performing the commands, responses are returned to the initiators of the commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Thomas C. Shaw
  • Patent number: 8795668
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the treatment of fibrosing diseases are described. More specifically, the invention demonstrates that inhibiting or otherwise decreasing the activity of CCL21 either alone or in combination with CCL19 will be effective in reducing the presence of fibrotic lesions and ameliorating the symptoms of fibrosing disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Cory M. Hogaboam, Steven L. Kunkel
  • Patent number: 8794970
    Abstract: This disclosure describes novel aircraft control systems for propeller-driven training aircraft, and methods for their use. In an aspect of some embodiments, a control system might comprise an integrated power control that takes a single power input from the pilot and translates that input into controls for a throttle, a propeller pitch setting, and a fuel/air mixture. In another aspect of some embodiments, a glass cockpit may be provided, with computer displays emulating the instruments of the aircraft for which the pilot is training. Advantageously, this allows a pilot in training to learn, from the beginning, the power controls and/or instrumentation for the aircraft for which the pilot is training, instead of having to learn one power control and instrumentation system, only to later have to learn another system. In a specific embodiment, the instrumentation displays may be reconfigurable, allowing the displays to emulate those of a variety of jet aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventor: Steven G. Testrake
  • Patent number: 8795052
    Abstract: The present application relates to methods and systems for playing a strategy game in which two players take turns assigning a representative symbol to one or more locations of a playing field, with the ultimate goal being to own all (or most) of the playing field. In its most basic form, the playing field is defined by a plurality of nodes, each of which is directly connected to one or more adjacent nodes and indirectly connected to every other node of the playing field via a chain of adjacent nodes. After the current player assigns his symbol to a selected null node, it can be determined how the set of nodes owned by the current player partitions the set of nodes not owned by the current player into one or more transferable bounded sets. Ownership of the transferable bounded set(s) can then be transferred to the current player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventors: Steven Khajehnouri Shepherd, Allen Khajehnouri Shepherd