Patents by Inventor William Noble

William Noble 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: 7872180
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PHHEB and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHHEB with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHHEB through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHHEB or a trait conversion of PHHEB with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHHEB, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHHEB and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7868233
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PHH7E and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHH7E with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHH7E through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHH7E or a trait conversion of PHH7E with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHH7E, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHH7E and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7820892
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PHF0D and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHF0D with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHF0D through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHF0D or a trait conversion of PHF0D with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF0D, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF0D and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7576271
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PHF3D and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHF3D with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHF3D through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHF3D or a trait conversion of PHF3D with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF3D, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF3D and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7511205
    Abstract: A novel inbred maize variety designated PHCHP and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHCHP with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHCHP through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHCHP or a trait conversion of PHCHP with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHCHP, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHCHP and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7504568
    Abstract: A novel hybrid maize variety designated X5F802 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X5F802 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X5F802 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize hybrid variety X5F802, the hybrid seed, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of hybrid maize variety X5F802. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from hybrid maize variety X5F802 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen William Noble, Jr., Dennis James Dolan
  • Patent number: 7329806
    Abstract: A novel inbred maize line designated PH8TN and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PH8TN with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH8TN through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred line PH8TN or an introgressed trait conversion of PH8TN with another maize line. Inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8TN, methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8TN and the inbred maize lines and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20070083678
    Abstract: This invention (The Customer Contact Channel Changer) enables the integration of different Customer Contact Channels such as live call centre ACD (Automatic Call Distribution) agents, ADSI (Analog Display Services Interface) enhanced IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and WWW (World Wide Web) servers. The world wide web servers are used to allow customers with computer equipment to access information from an organizations databases in a self service mode. Frequently these customers have questions best answered by human ACD agents. With this invention the connection between the customer with the question and the agent with the answer is done quickly and efficiently with both parties sharing screens of common information. Also control is retained by the customer to make the call happen when they want it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: INNOVATIA, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Bateman, Bruce Kierstead, William Noble, Timothy Curry, John Lockett, Laurie Mersereau, Robert Ouellette
  • Patent number: 6972357
    Abstract: A novel inbred maize line designated PH8TN and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PH8TN with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH8TN through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred line PH8TN or an introgressed trait conversion of PH8TN with another maize line. Inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8TN, methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8TN and the inbred maize lines and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6959431
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of software program testing combines information from existing debugging and analysis tools to provide various displays of the logical paths of a program under test that have been executed, as well as related data. Logical path execution is determined based on the number of times a decision block has been executed and the number of times statements coming out of the decision block have been executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela L. Shiels, William Noble, Michael A. Horwitz, David Lagermeier
  • Publication number: 20050183262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-shot, non-shut-off method of manufacturing a 100% grained trim component for a vehicle. The method includes actuating a tool insert between a mold cavity and a secondary void to form a molded trim component having a groove. A first shot of material is injected to form a first trim element having a grained class-A side. During the first shot, flash enters the secondary void to provide a non-shut-off condition. The tool insert is retracted to define a ditch in the first trim element. A second shot of material is injected to form a second trim element having a grained class-A side, during which time a portion of the second shot enters the ditch to provide a non-shut-off condition. The trim elements are then bonded where a portion the second trim element bonded to the first trim element within the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Schoemann, John Youngs, Thomas Spanos, William Noble, David Turczynski
  • Patent number: 6933427
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 33N09, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 33N09, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 33N09. This invention also relates to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by those methods. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize lines derived from hybrid maize line 33N09 and to the maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6895577
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for improving the efficiency of testing a process by focusing the testing in the highest risk areas of the process. One application of this computer-implemented system and method is in software testing to improve the effectiveness of software testing by focusing the testing efforts on the parts of the software that have a highest risk of failure and also by focusing the testing on the types of tests needed to reduce the risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: William Noble, Troy Roberts
  • Publication number: 20050100992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computation method for detecting remote sequence homologies. The method comprises the following steps: First, a training sequence set of positive and negative examples each having a corresponding binary label is provided together with a database query sequence set (typically large) of unlabeled sequences. Second, each sequence in the training set is converted into a fixed-length vector of real values by computing pairwise sequence similarity scores with respect to the vectorization set to obtain vectorized training sequences each having corresponding binary labels. Third, the vectorized training sequences (along with their binary labels) are used to train a discriminative classification algorithm to obtain a trained discriminative classification algorithm. Fourth, the the database of unlabeled sequences are converted into pairwise score vectors, using the vectorization set to obtain vectorized database sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventor: William Noble
  • Publication number: 20040172722
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 33N09, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 33N09, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 33N09. This invention also relates to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by those methods. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize lines derived from hybrid maize line 33N09 and to the maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble
  • Patent number: 6587464
    Abstract: A method and system for partial reporting of missing sequence numbered information frames within a telecommunication system using selective reject (SREJ) frames. Upon receiving a sequence numbered information frame from a transmit terminal, a receive terminal determines if it is out of sequence. If the sequence numbered information frame is out of sequence, the receive terminal further checks the sequence numbered information frame to see if a poll bit has been set. If the poll bit is not set, the receive terminal further checks to see if the sequence numbered information frame is new or retransmitted. If the sequence numbered information frame is new, a list of missing sequence numbers is constructed beginning with the missing sequence number one greater than the largest number in the receive queue and ending with N(S)−1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Brown, Richard K. Doll, Martin Louis Joseph Gallant, Scott William Noble
  • Patent number: 6434147
    Abstract: A method and system for sequential ordering of missing sequence numbered information frames within a telecommunication system using selective reject (SREJ) frames is disclosed. Upon receiving a sequence numbered information frame from a transmit terminal, a receive terminal determines if it is out of sequence. If the sequence numbered information frame is out of sequence, the receive terminal further checks the sequence numbered information frame to see if a poll bit has been set. If the poll bit is not set, the sequence numbered information frame further checks to see if the sequence numbered information frame is new or retransmitted. If the sequence numbered information frame is new, a list of missing sequence numbers is constructed in ascending sequential order beginning with the missing sequence number one greater than the largest number in the receive queue and ending with N(S)−1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Nortel Netwoks Limited
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Brown, Richard K. Doll, Martin Louis Joseph Gallant, Scott William Noble
  • Patent number: 5822585
    Abstract: An object-oriented framework is used to build cooperative objects. Objects can span processes on different machines connected by a network. The objects are used to build distributed or cooperative applications which execute in multiple environments without having to write significant additional code to enable such functionality. Each cooperative object has two parts: an agent object and a server object. Requests for services are made to agent objects by the application program (via an asynchronous interface) as if they were local objects. The server object performs the requested service in the server process, possibly using other server objects or systems (e.g., DB/2), and returns the result to the associated agent object. A Distributor and Dispatcher object in each process handle communication between agent and server objects. The Distributor receives all incoming messages and routes them to the appropriate objects in the process. The Dispatcher is used for sending messages to other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: William Noble, Michael Knight, Karen Nelson-Katt
  • Patent number: 5763744
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH67A, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH67A, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line PH67A with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH67A with another maize line or plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen William Noble, Jr.
  • Patent number: D563726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Inventor: William Noble Fraser