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  • Versioned file system with global lock
    Publication number: 20230177016
    Abstract: A versioned file system comprising network accessible storage is provided. Aspects of the system include globally locking files or groups of files so as to better control the stored files in the file system and to avoid problems associated with simultaneous remote access or conflicting multiple access requests for the same files. A method for operating, creating and using the global locks is also disclosed. A multiprotocol global lock can be provided for filing nodes that have multiple network protocols for generating local lock requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Robert M. Mason, JR., David M. Shaw, Kevin W. Baughman, Christopher S. Lacasse, Matthew M. McDonald, Russell A. Neufeld, Akshay K. Saxena
  • Substituted 2,10-dihydro-9-oxa-1,2,4A-triazaphenanthren-3-ones and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9115151
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of Formula (I) pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pro-drugs, biologically active metabolites, stereoisomers and isomers thereof wherein the variable are defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating immunological and oncological conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Dawn M. George, Maria A. Argiriadi, Martine Barth, Dominique Bonafoux, Eric C. Breinlinger, Linlin Dai, Jeremy Edmunds, Michael M. Friedman, Fabrice Guillier, Adrian D. Hobson, Dominique Potin, Didier Thomas, Jianfei Wang, Wentao Wu, Yang Zhang
  • Corrosion resistant coatings containing an amorphous phase
    Patent number: 6165257
    Abstract: An amorphous mineralized coating upon an iron containing surface wherein the amorphous mineralized coating has a formula A.sub.x B.sub.y O.sub.z --nH.sub.2 O wherein A comprises iron and B comprises silicon and the values of x, y and z are greater than zero; wherein the amorphous mineralized coating comprises an amorphous phase and inorganic complex oxide crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co. LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, Nancy M. McGowan, David M. Price
  • Motor and bearing cooling paths and a transfer tube for another cooling channel
    Patent number: 11668324
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor configured to compress air and driven by a shaft. A motor is drives the shaft. The first and second journal bearings facilitate rotation of the shaft. The first journal bearing is upstream from the motor and the second journal bearing is downstream from the motor. The transfer tube is configured to provide cooling air from a bearing cooling air inlet to the first journal bearing. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Brent J. Merritt, Craig M. Beers, John M. Beck
  • Method for locating a centrifuge body
    Patent number: 6659932
    Abstract: A rotor locator and centrifuge body locator includes a pair of locator arms that close about the rotor shaft and an alignment pin to center the rotor shaft. A registration mechanism rotates the rotor shaft and the centrifuge body until it reaches a known home position. A method of consistently registering the centrifuge body includes centering a rotor shaft of the body along a known center line and aligning the body to a home position both before and after centrifugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Gentra Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn M. Campbell, Jr., Douglas J. Kluge, Glenn M. Campbell, Sr., Ellen M. Heath, Ruth Shuman
  • WINCH
    Publication number: 20160167935
    Abstract: A winch includes a motor having a motor housing including a motor case and an integrated first drum support attached to the motor case for closing an end of the motor case. A gear reduction unit is drivingly attached to the motor and has a gear housing including a gear case and second drum support attached to the gear case. A tie plate is connected to the first and second drum supports. A control unit is removably mounted to the tie plate. A rotatable drum is supported by the first and second drum supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Bryan M. Averill, Steven W. Shuyler, Bryon M. Borntrager, Kyle A. Hartelt, Glenda M. Steele
  • Automated cleansing sprayer
    Patent number: 7837132
    Abstract: An automated sprayer for spraying the walls of a shower enclosure with a liquid cleanser dispenses the cleanser using a pumping system and rotatable spray head. The sprayer has a showerhead mountable housing with an adjustable hanger. There is a portion of the housing for supporting a bottle of cleanser in an inverted fashion. The bottle is vented through a piercing post. A single motor both drives the pump and rotates the spray head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Amber N. Mazooji, Terry M. Kovara, Peter M. Neumann, Michael W. Allen, Stephen D. Beverley, Paul M. Blankenship, Mark K. Romandy
  • Method for designing ultrasonic transducers using constraints on feasibility and transitional Butterworth-Thompson spectrum
    Patent number: 5706564
    Abstract: A method for designing ultrasonic transducers used in diagnostic ultrasonic imagers, in particular, transducers made up of at least one piezoelectric layer and at least one acoustic matching layer, plus various bonding and backing layers. The method of transducer design uses a particular family of spectra as the basis of the bandpass characteristic. The approach is to specify a transfer function from the Transitional Butterworth Thompson family of spectra. The specification is influenced by trade-offs in bandwidth, transient response and design feasibility. This family is indexed by a design parameter called M. Using the M factor, a designer can more readily make the engineering trade-offs needed. By adjusting this parameter, any dynamic response from maximally flat to Gaussian can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Theodore Lauer Rhyne
  • Corn Transgenic Event MON 95379 and Methods for Detection and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20200032289
    Abstract: The invention provides a transgenic corn event MON 95379, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising event MON 95379. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 95379 and methods for using and detecting event MON 95379 as well as plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising event MON 95379.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Heather M. Anderson, Sarah L. Brown, Renato A. Carvalho, Ancideriton A. Castro, Katherine M. Dunkmann, Adam J. Evans, Stanislaw Flasinski, Cara L. Griffith, Tianxiang Shen, Todd R. Smith, Heidi M. Windler
  • Methods and systems for subsea electric piezopumps
    Patent number: 8733090
    Abstract: In at least some embodiments, an apparatus includes a hydraulic directional control manifold and a plurality of electric piezopumps. The apparatus also includes an electric piezopump controller that operates the plurality of electric piezopumps in varying combinations to provide generation and directional control of hydraulic power to linear hydraulic actuators using localized closed-loop hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventors: Don Coonrod, Melvyn F. Whitby, Gerrit M. Kroesen, Ronald W. Webb, Mac M. Kennedy, Katherine Harvey, David Gonzalez, Thomas M. Bell, James W. Wilkirson
  • Composition of lubricating base oil with high monocycloparaffins and low multicycloparaffins
    Patent number: 7083713
    Abstract: A composition of lubricating base oil having a weight percent of all molecules with at least one aromatic function less than 0.30, a weight percent of all molecules with at least one cycloparaffin function greater than 10, and a ratio of weight percent of molecules with monocycloparaffins to weight percent of molecules with multicycloparaffins greater than 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Susan M. Abernathy, David C. Kramer, John M. Rosenbaum, Stephen J. Miller, Russell R. Krug
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TAGGING IN A NETWORKED SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090012991
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for providing information tagging in a networked system is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a tag engine configured to process a database of categorized product listings; to receive a user-provided tag associated with at least one of the product listings; to retain the user-provided tag; and to serve the user-provided tag to a user viewing at least one of the product listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Ebay, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Scott Johnson, Brian M. Johnson, Badrul M. Sarwar, Benny Soetarman, Rajyashree Mukherjee, Venkat Sundaranatha, Neelakantan Sundaresan, Randall Scott Shoup, Daniel Kramer, Jason M. Heidema, Musaab At-Taras, Alvaro Bolivar, Jean-David Ruvini
  • Systems and methods for forming apertures in microfeature workpieces
    Patent number: 10010977
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming apertures in microfeature workpieces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes directing a laser beam toward a microfeature workpiece to form an aperture and sensing the laser beam pass through the microfeature workpiece in real time. The method can further include determining a number of pulses of the laser beam and/or an elapsed time to form the aperture and controlling the laser beam based on the determined number of pulses and/or the determined elapsed time to form a second aperture in the microfeature workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles M. Watkins, William M. Hiatt
  • Method of making a hydrogen transport membrane, and article
    Patent number: 9084970
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a hydrogen transport membrane and the composite article itself. More specifically, the invention relates to producing a membrane substrate, wherein the ceramic substrate is coated with a metal oxide slurry, thereby eliminating the need for an activation step prior to plating the ceramic membrane through an electroless plating process. The invention also relates to modifying the pore size and porosity of the substrate by oxidation or reduction of the particles deposited by the metal oxide slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Schwartz, Joseph M. Corpus, Hankwon Lim
  • Ranking system
    Patent number: 10305974
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes ranker logic. The ranker logic is to rank each of a plurality of compute nodes in a data center based, at least in part, on a respective node score. Each node score is determined based, at least in part, on a utilization (U), a saturation parameter (S) and a capacity factor (Ci). The capacity factor is determined based, at least in part, on a sold capacity (Cs) related to the compute node. The ranker logic is further to select one compute node with a highest node score for placement of a received workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Leckey, Joseph M. Butler, Thijs Metsch, Giovani Estrada, Vincenzo M. Riccobene, John M. Kennedy
  • MULTIPLE USER BIOMETRIC FOR AUTHENTICATION TO SECURED RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20160162671
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to the provision and use of multiple person biometric authentication systems. An apparatus including a processor element and logic executable by the processor component is disclosed. The logic is configured to cause the apparatus to receive information including an indication of a plurality of biometric measurements and generate a combined biometric indicator based in part on the plurality of biometric measurements. The combined biometric indicator can be generated using fuzzy hashing techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jim S. Baca, Arjun M. Karpur, Dhaval R. Patel, Preetham M. Shambhat, Naissa Conde, Prital B. Shah, Anavai G. Ramesh, Tobias M. Kohlenberg
  • Use of metal organic frameworks for H2O sorption
    Patent number: 11266948
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of sorption of H2O from an environment by associating the environment with a porous material such that the association results in the sorption of H2O to the porous material. The porous material includes a (M)-2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer, where M is a divalent metal ion selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mg, and combinations thereof. The coordination polymer has a one-dimensional pore structure and shows reversible soft-crystal behavior. The porous material may be a Mg(II) 2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer (i.e., Mg-CUK-1). The methods of the present disclosure may also include one or more steps of releasing the sorbed H2O from the porous material and reusing the porous material after the releasing step for sorption of additional H2O from the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Simon M. Humphrey, Jong-San Chang, Young Kyu Hwang
  • INTEGRATED STRONTIUM-RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPE INFUSION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20170224908
    Abstract: Methods for setting up, maintaining and operating a radiopharmaceutical infusion system, that includes a radioisotope generator, are facilitated by a computer of the system. The computer may include pre-programmed instructions and a computer interface, for interaction with a user of the system, for example, in order to track contained volumes of eluant and/or eluate, and/or to track time from completion of an elution performed by the system, and/or to calculate one or more system and/or injection parameters for quality control, and/or to perform purges of the system, and/or to facilitate diagnostic imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen E. Hidem, Aaron M. Fontaine, Janet L. Gelbach, Patrick M. McDonald, Kathryn M. Hunter, Rolf E. Swenson, Julius P. Zodda
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DUAL-MODE IMAGING USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGING
    Publication number: 20180092538
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to obtain optical coherence tomography data and fluorescence imaging data from an object. The systems and methods use a single light source to illuminate and excite fluorescence in the object and a common optical path including an optical fiber to provide illumination and excitation light and collect reflected and emitted light at the object. The optical coherence tomography data and fluorescence imaging data can be combined to produce morphological images of an object with additional location-specific fluorescence cues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Nandini Rajan, Andrew M. Siegel, Angela M. Belcher, Neelkanth M. Bardhan
  • PHOSPHACYCLE COMPOUND AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20180291048
    Abstract: The invention relates to oligomerization of olefins, such as ethylene, to higher olefins, such as a mixture of 1-hexene and 1-octene, using a catalyst system that comprises a) a source of chromium b) one or more activators and c) a phosphacycle-containing ligating compound. Additionally, the invention relates to a phosphacycle-containing ligating compound and a process for making said compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jerzy Klosin, Kara A. Milbrandt, Scott D. Boelter, David R. Wilson, Mari S. Rosen, Dean M. Welsh, Peter M. Margl, Kyoung Moo Koh, David M. Pearson, Rafael Huacuja
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