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  • Method and apparatus for displaying video data
    Patent number: 6417859
    Abstract: This invention provides a method to control the buffering of encoded video data organized as frames or fields. This method involves determining the picture number of each incoming decoded frame, determining the expected presentation number at any time and marking any buffer as ready when its picture number is on or after the presentation number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Discovision Associates
    Inventors: Martin W. Sotheran, Helen Rosemary Finch
  • Nanocrystalline bainitic steels, shafts, gas turbine engines, and methods of manufacturing nanocrystalline bainitic steels
    Patent number: 10457996
    Abstract: A nanocrystalline bainitic steel consisting of, by weight percentage: 0.3% to 0.6% carbon; 9.0% to 20.0% nickel; up to 10% cobalt; 1.0% to 4.5% aluminium; up to 0.5% molybdenum; up to 0.5% manganese; up to 0.5% tungsten; up to 3.0% chromium; and the balance being iron and impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Paul O Hill, Steve W Ooi, Christopher N Hulme-Smith, Harshad K Bhadeshia, Martin J Rawson, Mathew J Peet
  • Optical interface device
    Patent number: 5901260
    Abstract: An optical interface device for extracting, inserting and passing light transmitted bi-directionally on one or more fiber optic line, comprises: a first optical coupler for receiving light to be inserted onto or extracted from the fiber optic line; and a fiber optic-line, optical coupler, coupled to the fiber optic line and to the first optical coupler, for passing light on the fiber optic line, for receiving light from the first optical coupler to be inserted onto the fiber optic line and transmitting said received light in opposite directions on the fiber optic line, and for extracting light from opposite directions on the fiber optic line and transmitting said extracted light to the first optical coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Steve W. Braun
  • Spring-fit surgical guides
    Patent number: 10588639
    Abstract: Various embodiments of devices, systems, and methods for surgical procedures, including spring-fit guides for improved guidance of surgical instruments, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Fraone, Scott Doody, Paul Dietz, Martin J. Polinski, Raymond A. Bojarski
  • Anti-syphon freezeless water hydrant
    Patent number: 4475570
    Abstract: A water hydrant is provided with a number of valves operable to eliminate freezing problems and to prevent backflow into potable water, thereby precluding the danger of contamination. Water and air valves operate in conjunction such that trapping of water in the hydrant is averted by the admission of air after each closing of the water valve. By a somewhat different arrangement in outlet spout valving, air is also admitted to the spout after each closing of the water valve or other reduction in water pressure, the spout valving having the additional feature of blocking backflow, all of which meets the anti-contamination requirements of the hydrant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Assignee: Prier Brass Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Daniel W. Pike, Phillip J. Crawley, John L. Marshall, Steve A. Martin
  • Blow molding apparatus
    Patent number: 4523904
    Abstract: In a blow molding apparatus where a plurality of sets of molds are mounted on a wheel rotatable about an axis and the molds are moved toward and away from one another to enclose a parison and the parison is blown to the confines of the cavity between the mold sections as the wheel rotates by the application of air, an apparatus for controlling the application of the air comprising a valve assembly associated with each set of molds on the wheel and comprising a valve which is opened and closed to control the flow of air to the mold. The valve assembly includes a rotatable cam for moving the valve to open and closed positions, a starwheel associated with the cam, and a first actuator mounted at a first position along the path of the wheel for engagement with the starwheel to rotate the cam and open the valve and a second actuator mounted at a second position along the path of the wheel for engagement with the starwheel to rotate the cam and close the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Merritt W. Martin
  • Gas laser
    Patent number: 4101846
    Abstract: There is disclosed a gaseous laser, whose cathode is a conductive coating upon the walls of a cathode volume, the geometric design of the cathode, cathode volume, and cathode-connecting volume being such as to impede sputtering of the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Fein, Charles W. Salisbury
  • Gas laser with improved cathode life
    Patent number: 4122411
    Abstract: There is disclosed a gaseous laser, whose cathode is a conductive coating upon the walls of a cathode volume, the geometric design of the cathode, cathode volume, and cathode-connecting volume being such as to impede sputtering of the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Fein, Charles W. Salisbury
  • Method and apparatus for improved measurement of tension and compression in a wireline
    Patent number: 6343515
    Abstract: A tension measuring device including an elongated body having two ends and a deflection block secured to each end of the elongated body for holding a line spaced apart from the elongated body. The deflection blocks are positioned equidistant from a center of the elongated body. A clamping mechanism between the deflection blocks clamps the line to the elongated body wherein increased tension in the line will bend the elongated body. A strain gage element is connected to the elongated body for producing an output signal proportional to the bending of the elongated body. The strain gage element is positioned on the elongated body and is applied directly to the bending of the elongated body. A linearizing signal device is connected to the strain gage element for processing the output signal and for providing a readable output representative of the tension on the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Martin-Decker Totco
    Inventor: Steve W. Dodson
  • Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto
    Patent number: 7149811
    Abstract: A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit stream, A reconfigurable decode and parser processing means positioned in certain of the stages is responsive to a recognized control token and reconfigures a particular stage to handle an identified data token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Discovision Associates
    Inventors: Adrian P Wise, Martin W Sotheran, William P Robbins, Anthony M Jones, Helen R Finch, Kevin J Boyd, Anthony Peter J Claydon
  • Temperature door for a vehicle and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system
    Patent number: 7575511
    Abstract: A temperature door for air-handling system of a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system for a vehicle is disclosed, wherein a cost and a weight of the system are minimized and a temperature stratification, a flow efficiency, and a NVH/noise of the system are optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric K. Haupt, David W. Lumley, Brent M. Mitrzyk
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DONNING HYGIENIC GLOVES
    Publication number: 20200352265
    Abstract: An apparatus for donning hygienic gloves comprising a stack of glove sheets, a box and a dispenser. The box contains the stack of glove sheets and the dispenser removably holds the box. Each glove sheet comprises a top and bottom layer sealed together at a hand-shaped seam that defines a glove and a frangibly attached remnant portion, the bottom layer being longer the top layer at a cuff of the glove, the cuff having a hand opening therein. The box has a removable flap, preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. The dispenser includes an opening preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. In a preferred embodiment, the hand-shaped seam, hand-shaped flap portion, and hand-shaped dispenser opening are configured to substantially match and align.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: HYGIENEXT, LLC
    Inventors: Martin W. Harrison, Steve B. Kalish
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DONNING HYGIENIC GLOVES
    Publication number: 20200138130
    Abstract: An apparatus for donning hygienic gloves comprising a stack of glove sheets, a box and a dispenser. The box contains the stack of glove sheets and the dispenser removably holds the box. Each glove sheet comprises a top and bottom layer sealed together at a hand-shaped seam that defines a glove and a frangibly attached remnant portion, the bottom layer being longer the top layer at a cuff of the glove, the cuff having a hand opening therein. The box has a removable flap, preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. The dispenser includes an opening preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. In a preferred embodiment, the hand-shaped seam, hand-shaped flap portion, and hand-shaped dispenser opening are configured to substantially match and align.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: HYGIENEXT, LLC
    Inventors: Martin W. Harrison, Steve B. Kalish
  • Apparatus and method for donning hygienic gloves
    Patent number: 10786021
    Abstract: An apparatus for donning hygienic gloves comprising a stack of glove sheets, a box and a dispenser. The box contains the stack of glove sheets and the dispenser removably holds the box. Each glove sheet comprises a top and bottom layer sealed together at a hand-shaped seam that defines a glove and a frangibly attached remnant portion, the bottom layer being longer the top layer at a cuff of the glove, the cuff having a hand opening therein. The box has a removable flap, preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. The dispenser includes an opening preferably including a hand-shaped portion on a front panel of the box. In a preferred embodiment, the hand-shaped seam, hand-shaped flap portion, and hand-shaped dispenser opening are configured to substantially match and align.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hygienext, LLC
    Inventors: Martin W. Harrison, Steve B. Kalish
  • Self-cleaning filter assembly
    Patent number: 7662278
    Abstract: A self-cleaning assembly comprising an enclosed casing 1 with a movable piston 31 and filters 32,33 therein. The preferred assembly has a casing 1 with a dirty water inlet 5, a first outlet 6 for clean filtered water and a second outlet 7 for the removal of sludge from the casing. The filter assembly is constructed and arranged to provide, in its normal operating mode, a liquid flow path through the filter 32,33 in a first direction between the dirty water inlet 5 and the clean water outlet 6 and, in a cleaning mode, to provide a liquid flow path in a second direction between the dirty water inlet 5 and the sludge outlet 7. In the cleaning mode, the movable member 31 compresses the filters 32,33 during the liquid flow in the second direction and contaminant is released therefrom for removal from the filter assembly via the second outlet 7. In an alternative embodiment, the sludge outlet 7 is omitted and sludge is removed from the casing via the outlet 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pet Mate Ltd.
    Inventors: Steve Martin Brooks, Robert Ivan John Wiedemann, David Goodwin
  • Mass data storage and retrieval system
    Patent number: 5504873
    Abstract: A plurality of data storage modules form a library, with a directory archive maintaining a directory of the information contained on each data storage module (file server application) or on the storage modules retained in the library (volume server application). A plurality of interface computers are coupled to a plurality of host computers for receiving data and for generating request signals to access the library. In response to a received request signal, the directory archive locates a data storage module and generates a location output signal. A control computer receives the location output signal and generates a media access signal for causing the data storage module to be loaded into a selected data recorder. An input/output data channel couples the interface computer generating the access request signal to the selected data recorder for reading or writing an entire volume of information or selected file information to/from the data storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: E-Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles W. Martin, Fredrick S. Reid, Gary L. Forbus, Steve M. Adams, C. Patrick Shannon, Eric A. Pirpich
  • N-(5-membered aromatic ring)-amido anti-viral compounds
    Patent number: 7595398
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds having Formula (I) and the compositions and methods thereof for treating or preventing a viral infection mediated at least in part by a virus in the Flaviviridae family of viruses, wherein A, R2, m, R, V, W, T, Z, R1, Y, and p are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Franz Ulrich Schmitz, Christopher Don Roberts, Ali Dehghani Mohammad Abadi, Ronald Conrad Griffith, Martin Robert Leivers, Irina Slobodov, Roopa Rai
  • Pond pump with reversing means to prevent rotation in the opposite direction
    Patent number: 6524078
    Abstract: A pond pump having a housing (1) enclosing a synchronous motor (9) with a drive shaft (40) on which an impeller (20) is loosely fitted so that, on start up, the shaft (40) can rotate relative to the impeller (20) until a pair of diametrically opposed keyways (43) on the shaft engage and entrain keyways (27) on the impeller (20) to rotate it continuously in one direction. If the drive shaft initially rotates in the opposite direction, pegs (25) on the rear face of the impeller (20) engage with a detent (60) located behind the impeller (20) to stop said rotation until the motor (9) restarts and rotates the drive shaft (43) in said first direction. One end of the drive shaft (40) is received in a first bearing (50) mounted in the housing (1), the other end of said shaft being received in a blind bore (28) in the impeller (20) which is coaxial with the axis of rotation of the shaft (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Pet Mate Ltd.
    Inventors: Steve Martin Brooks, Robert Weidemann
  • Ceramic honeycomb structure with applied inorganic skin
    Patent number: 9028946
    Abstract: A skin is applied to a ceramic honeycomb. The skin is formed by applying a skin-forming composition and drying it. The skin-forming composition includes a carrier liquid, colloidal silica and/or colloidal alumina, and an inorganic filler. The filler includes an inorganic fiber. The filler may contain low aspect ratio particles that have the same or nearly the same CTE as the inorganic fiber. The filler may include a small proportion of a low aspect ratio filler particle that has a different CTE than the inorganic fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jun Cai, Aleksander J. Pyzik, Michael T. Malanga, Kwanho Yang, Steve J. Martin
  • Mass data storage library
    Patent number: 5412791
    Abstract: A mass data storage unit includes a plurality of first data storage modules that form a mass information storage library, a data directory archive for maintaining a directory of the information contained on each data storage module, and data record/playback modules for receiving any selected any data storage module in the mass storage library. A plurality of interface computers are coupled to a plurality of host computers for receiving data and for generating request signals to access information stored in the mass storage library. A file directory is coupled to the interface computers and the data directory archive for receiving the request signals, locating in the data directory archive the address containing the stored information and generating a data address location output signal for the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: E-Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles W. Martin, Frederick S. Reid, Gary L. Forbus, Steve M. Adams, C. Pat Shannon, Eric A. Pirpich
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