Patents by Inventor William Griffin

William Griffin 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: 20060123334
    Abstract: A computer-implemented process takes content created collaboratively from a workgroup environment and converts it into a scheduled web page that is publishable on the Internet. The computer-implemented process loosely relates the generated collaboration content and the published web page such that each may be independently modified and have independent life cycles, but still reflect changes to the collaboration content on the published web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Balasubramanyan, William Griffin, Ryan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20060076007
    Abstract: A kitchen exhaust hood assembly comprises a front subassembly and a rear subassembly connected together. The connected subassemblies including a top portion and opposed side surfaces. A pair of side panels is connected to opposed sides of the front and rear subassemblies. A series of threaded studs welded to either the front or rear subassemblies or to the side panels project into and through openings formed through either the front or rear subassemblies or the side panels such that the side panels are secured to the front and rear subassemblies secured to the threaded studs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Luddy, William Griffin, Nicholas Perry
  • Publication number: 20060060187
    Abstract: A system for directing two separate streams of air to a commercial or industrial kitchen environment. The system includes a dual airflow plenum that is normally disposed adjacent a kitchen exhaust hood. Typically one stream of air is a tempered, that is heated or cooled, and is directed through the dual airflow plenum to where it is exhausted at an area or point adjacent the exhaust hood. A second untempered, that is ambient air, air stream is directed through the same dual air flow plenum and is exhausted into an area adjacent the exhaust hood. Preferably the plenum is positioned with respect to the exhaust hood such that the outlet for the untempered air is disposed generally between the exhaust hood and the outlet for the tempered air. Moreover, the relative velocity of the two air streams is maintained or controlled such that the velocity of the tempered air stream is equal to or greater than the velocity of the untempered air stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Luddy, William Griffin, Nicolas Perry
  • Publication number: 20050182742
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a portal is described. A portal server application includes a portal manager in communication with a user interface of a web browser. The portal manager includes a database for storing metadata related to elements accessible from a portal. The user interface displays a navigational hierarchy of the elements that a user is authorized to access from the portal. The navigational hierarchy of elements is arranged in accordance with metadata in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William Griffin, Guo-Wei Shieh, Howard Crow
  • Publication number: 20050097098
    Abstract: A system and method for categorizing a document in a document management system, wherein said document management system comprises a tree of nodes, and enables a document to be categorized in a plurality of nodes. Each node has a category label indicative of a document category. Unique vocabulary terms are listed wherein each vocabulary term represents only one node in the tree and comprises that node's category label. A checkbox is provided for each of the vocabulary terms whereby a user may select one or more vocabulary term by checking a corresponding checkbox. From the checked terms, a set of vocabulary terms is generated for associating a document with all of the nodes corresponding to the selected vocabulary terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Mazner, William Griffin, Deana Fuller
  • Publication number: 20040167664
    Abstract: The Dispenser Activation Control System (DACS) provides an automated mechanism to control how many times a dispenser will dispense product in the presence of the same activator. Encoded activators are used to enable the dispenser so it can be operated. The main components are: A sensor, a processing unit, a memory device and encoded activators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventor: Dowell Williams Griffin
  • Publication number: 20040128112
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for data analysis that enables a user, among other things, to assess a particular product's relative risk and potential return, quantify the impact of individual risk drivers, determine a range of potential outcomes for a given scenario, monitor financial progress over time, identify critical factors for success or failure in a situation, measure the diversification impact of buying or selling a block of businesses, and perform other analysis functions. Disclosed embodiments include a processor implemented method for evaluating risk and return by determining one or more risk drivers, determining a forecast model based, at least in part, upon the one or more risk drivers, enabling a processor to run a simulation using the forecast model and the one or more risk drivers and generating one or more output displays that enable an evaluation of risk and return based, at least in part, upon the simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Howard W. Mikytuck, Mark William Griffin
  • Publication number: 20040069505
    Abstract: This invention concerns a method, an apparatus, and a process to extinguish fire in areas or in high-rise buildings where the ground or highest floor is beyond the reach of standard fire equipment such as ground/aerial ladders or hoses. The apparatus is a missile-like device that is launched above or into a targeted area. It can be guided remotely from the ground by computer. It can accept commands from and transmit information to the ground crew.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventor: Joseph William Griffin
  • Patent number: 6529203
    Abstract: The current invention discloses a method and apparatus and a computer program for editing the colors in a text line from a rotating color word selector on a personal desktop computer. The current invention comprises a select word button on the rotating color word selector. Activating this button allows the user to select color data from the color library. The color date is shown on the select order bar display apparatus as a visual color image. The order of colors on the select order bar determines the color of the words in the text line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph William Griffin
  • Patent number: 6272349
    Abstract: A GPS receiver (1) has an antenna (3) mounted directly on a first side (4) of a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) substrate 2. Electrical conductors interconnect the antenna (3) with an RF processing system (11,12) and a digital processing system (10, 14, 15, 16) mounted directly on a second side (5) of the PCB substrate (2). A position connector (17) is disposed on one side of the PCB substrate (2) and provides power, ground, and direct electrical access of processed GPS signals for an external system such as a mobile vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Finbarr McGrath, William Griffin, John LaChapelle, David Martin, David Frederick Jordan
  • Patent number: 6191306
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropylglycine by a 5-step process wherein cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde is reacted with an &agr;-aminoalkylaromatic compound to obtain an imine which is reacted with a cyanide to produce an aminonitrile compound; the aminonitrile compound is hydrolyzed to the corresponding aminocarboxylic acid and finally the arylalkyl residue is removed from the amino group by hydrogenolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Daniel John Bayston, Jonathan Luke William Griffin, Arne Gruman, Mario Eugenio Cosimino Polywka, Ronald Michael Scott
  • Patent number: 6103929
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropylglycine by a 5-step process wherein cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde is reacted with an .alpha.-aminoalkylaromatic compound to obtain an imine which is reacted with a cyanide to produce an aminonitrile compound; the aminonitrile compound is hydrolyzed to the corresponding aminocarboxylic acid and finally the arylalkyl residue is removed from the amino group by hydrogenolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Daniel John Bayston, Jonathan Luke William Griffin, Arne Grumann, Mario Eugenio Cosimino Polywka, Ronald Michael Scott
  • Patent number: 6090982
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropylglycine by a 5-step process wherein cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde is reacted with an .alpha.-aminoalkylaromatic compound to obtain an imine which is reacted with a cyanide to produce an aminonitrile compound; the aminonitrile compound is hydrolyzed to the corresponding aminocarboxylic acid and finally the arylalkyl residue is removed from the amino group by hydrogenolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Daniel John Bayston, Jonathan Luke William Griffin, Arne Gruman, Mario Eugenio Cosimino Polywka, Ronald Michael Scott
  • Patent number: 5898706
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for reliability testing of an integrated circuit. The present invention provides a test structure and method for testing gate and node dielectrics of an integrated circuit wherein a self-heating gate structure is integrated with the product structure itself. Selected conductive lines within the product structure are used as heater elements to provide temperature stressing of the integrated circuit. The localized self-heating gate structure is an integral part of the product chip. Thus, etch and deposition characteristics of the test structure are kept identical to the etch and deposition characteristics of the product itself. As low-voltage technologies make it harder to obtain significant acceleration due to voltage stressing, temperature stressing may be used instead to increase acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Aime Dufresne, Charles William Griffin, Chorng-Lii Hwang, William Alan Klaasen, Alvin Wayne Strong
  • Patent number: 5495903
    Abstract: A pulsation nozzle is adapted for insertion in a drill bit such as a single body or tri-cone bit, for delivery of a pulsed jet of thixotropic drilling fluid during drilling operations. The nozzle defines an inlet orifice (31) communicating with an internal cavity (32) and an outlet orifice (33), the dimensions of which are chosen in such a way as to induce the cyclical propagation of disturbances in a shear boundary defined between fluid passing directly through the nozzle and fluid which is momentarily trapped in the cavity, thereby inducing a self-excited oscillating flow of said fluid within the nozzle, and a rapid pulsing flow emitting from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventors: William A. Griffin, Sextus M. De Almeida
  • Patent number: 4112606
    Abstract: A muzzle-loading device for carrying materials for muzzle-loading firearms includes a tubular body with one end adapted to hold a projectile and radially extending ears for holding percussion caps, an elongate container for holding powder having a closed end extending within the tubular body and graduations therealong for indicating the amount of powder in the container, and a cover extending over an open end of the container and removably secured to an end of the tubular body opposite the end holding the projectile to seal the open end of the container and hold the container in the body. The tubular body, the elongate container and the cover are preferably constructed of a resilient, transparent plastic material to permit viewing of the materials carried by the muzzle-loading device, and the elongate container has a bottom portion of reduced diameter adapted to be pushed through the tubular body to force the projectile into the muzzle of a firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Inventor: William Griffin