Shepard, TX
Allan Shepard, Fort Worth, TX US
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20110092523 | AGENTS WHICH REGULATE, INHIBIT, OR MODULATE THE ACTIVITY AND/OR EXPRESSION OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR (CTGF) AS A UNIQUE MEANS TO BOTH LOWER INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE AND TREAT GLAUCOMATOUS RETINOPATHIES/OPTIC NEUROPATHIES - The present invention provides a method for lowering intraocular pressure and providing neuroprotection to a patient in need thereof by administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one non-nucleotide or non-protein agent that inhibits expression and/or signaling of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF). | 04-21-2011 |
20120101160 | Use of chemical chaperones to treat glaucoma caused by misfolded or misprocessed proteins - The present invention provides methods for treating glaucoma by administering compounds capable of stabilizing misprocessed or misfolded proteins that are responsible for the condition. | 04-26-2012 |
Bradley Scott Shepard, Wylie, TX US
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20100255167 | Method for Reducing Acrylamide in Food Products - Disclosed is a method for reducing the level of acrylamide in a thermally processed food. In one aspect, acrylamide is first formed in a thermally processed food or food ingredient and is subsequently removed from the food or food ingredeint. The acrylamide can be removed by polymerizing the acrylamide, dissolving the acrylamide, and/or causing vaporization of the acrylamide. | 10-07-2010 |
Clayton Shepard, Houston, TX US
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20120071141 | HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ACCESS ON DEVICES WITH ONE OR MORE NETWORK INTERFACES - A method for managing TCP flows in a mobile device adapted to connect to two or more wireless network types includes enabling connection to a number of networks of different types at the mobile device and executing a plurality of Internet-enabled applications on the mobile device. Each such application forms an existing TCP connection over a first one of the wireless networks. The routing table is modified such that any additional TCP connection will be created on a second one of the wireless networks. The device determines that a termination condition has occurred and in response to determining that the termination condition has occurred, renders an interface on the mobile device to the first one of the wireless networks inoperative. | 03-22-2012 |
Daniel P. Shepard, Austin, TX US
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20150219767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) NAVIGATION AND VISUAL NAVIGATION TO RECOVER ABSOLUTE POSITION AND ATTITUDE WITHOUT ANY PRIOR ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL FEATURES WITH KNOWN COORDINATES - An apparatus includes a global navigation satellite system antenna, a global navigation satellite system receiver, a camera, and a processor. The mobile global navigation satellite system receiver produces a set of carrier-phase measurements from a global navigation satellite system. The camera produces an image. The processor determines an absolute position and an absolute attitude of the apparatus solely from three or more sets of data and a rough estimate of the absolute position of the apparatus without any prior association of visual features with known coordinates. Each set of data includes the image and the set of carrier-phase measurements. In addition, the processor uses either a precise orbit and clock data for the global navigation satellite system or another set of carrier-phase measurements from another global navigation satellite system antenna at a known location in each set of data. | 08-06-2015 |
Frank W. Shepard, Houston, TX US
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20090115623 | Bidirectional Telemetry Apparatus And Methods For Wellbore Operations - A system and method for communicating data between a downhole tool and a surface controller is provided that comprises a rotating drill string extending in a borehole and having a downhole telemetry module disposed proximate a bottom end thereof and transmitting a first signal across a telemetry channel. A surface telemetry module is disposed proximate a top end of the rotating drill string and is adapted to receive the first signal transmitted by the downhole telemetry module across the transmission channel. The surface telemetry module has a radio frequency transmitter disposed therein for transmitting a second signal related to the first signal. A stationary communication module has a radio frequency receiver adapted to receive the second signal. | 05-07-2009 |
Jamie Shepard, Fort Worth, TX US
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20080292768 | LOW-CARBOHYDRATE DAIRY PRODUCT - A reduced carbohydrate fermented dairy product having less than 4.9% carbohydrate, a viscosity ranging from 900-1,600 mPa·s and a pH ranging from 4.1 to 4.5 which may be a fermented dairy product produced using ultrafiltered milk, a low carbohydrate or low glycemic sweetener, and a fruit preparation. | 11-27-2008 |
20090061047 | HIGH-FIBER DAIRY PRODUCT - A process for producing a fermented dairy product supplemented with fiber, especially a purified digestion resistant fiber such as maltodextrin, inulin or oligofructose. This process takes advantage of the naturally acidic nature and enzymatic properties of fermented milk products such as yogurt and specific mixing and blending steps which produce a product having a superior organoleptic and textural properties. A fermented dairy product supplemented with at least 1-5% fiber, especially, a purified digestion-resistant fiber such as maltodextrin, inulin or oligofructose. | 03-05-2009 |
Jeremy P Shepard, Cleburne, TX US
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20110303434 | Wireway for conveyor - The present invention is a wireway for a conveyor system which is integrally molded into the sideguard of the conveyor system. The sidewall, or sideguard, has both an inner wall and an outer wall, and there is an intermediate wall connected to both the inner wall and outer wall. The inner wall, outer wall, and intermediate wall form an upper passage and a lower passage which function as a wireway in which wires are fed through and connect to various components of the conveyor system. | 12-15-2011 |
John R. Shepard, Austin, TX US
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20090097415 | WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE AND SUPPORT FOR PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - A wireless communication system for use in a process environment uses mesh and possibly a combination of mesh and point-to-point communications to produce a wireless communication network that can be easily set up, configured, changed and monitored, thereby making a wireless communication network that is less expensive, and more robust and reliable. The wireless communication system allows virtual communication paths to be established and used within the process control system in a manner that is independent of the manner in which the wireless signals are sent between different wireless transmitting and receiving devices within the process plant, to thereby operate in a manner that is independent of the specific messages or virtual communication paths within the process plant. Still further, communication analysis tools are provided to enable a user or operator to view the operation of the wireless communication network to thereby analyze the ongoing operation of the wireless communications within the wireless communication network. | 04-16-2009 |
20110015764 | Apparatus and Method for Merging Wireless Data Into an Established Process Control System - A method and system of communicating between a wireless network and a process control system communicatively coupled to a server, such as OPC. The server receives data from the wireless network, where the data is generated from an input/output data point within the wireless network. The server maps the data between the input/output data point and a data point placeholder within the process control system. The server writes the mapped data to the corresponding data point placeholder of the process control system via a process control interface, and the mapped data is provided to the process control system as process control data native to the process control system. Process control data may also be provided to the server, mapped between a data point placeholder of the process control system and an input/output data point of the wireless network, and written to the corresponding input/output data point. | 01-20-2011 |
20120155317 | Wireless Architecture and Support for Process Control Systems - A wireless communication system for use in a process environment uses mesh and possibly a combination of mesh and point-to-point communications to produce a wireless communication network that can be easily set up, configured, changed and monitored, thereby making a wireless communication network that is less expensive, and more robust and reliable. The wireless communication system allows virtual communication paths to be established and used within the process control system in a manner that is independent of the manner in which the wireless signals are sent between different wireless transmitting and receiving devices within the process plant. Still further, communication analysis tools are provided to enable a user or operator to view the operation of the wireless communication network to thereby analyze the ongoing operation of the wireless communications within the wireless communication network. | 06-21-2012 |
20120296448 | SOFTWARE LOCKOUT COORDINATION BETWEEN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND AN ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A process control system coordinates with an associated asset management system to implement a plant safety mechanism and, in particular, to prevent unintended changes to, or otherwise undesired operation of, one or more process control equipment resources in a process plant. A maintenance technician uses the asset management system to request access to one or more of the process control equipment resources. A process operator receives the request via the process control system and grants or denies the request. Process control equipment resources for which a process operator grants a request are inoperable, in part or in whole, by the process control system. Upon completion of the maintenance task, the maintenance technician requests to return control of the process control equipment resource to the process operator. The return is complete when the process operator acknowledges the return of the resource to the process control system. | 11-22-2012 |
Kevin Blake Shepard, Austin, TX US
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20100299140 | IDENTIFYING AND ROUTING OF DOCUMENTS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST TO SUBSCRIBERS USING INTEREST DETERMINATION RULES - A method, system and computer program product for identifying documents of interest. A profile of a subscriber is created based on information obtained about the subscriber. Subscriber-interest determination rules are used to identify potential topics of interest of the subscriber based on the subscriber's profile as well as based on external knowledge sources. Each potential interest of the subscriber may be represented by a pointer that references a concept. Additionally, concepts in the documents published by the publishers are identified. A comparison may be made between the concepts identified in the documents published by the publishers with those concepts representing the potential topics of interests of the subscriber. Those documents with matching concepts may then be identified as potentially being of interest for the subscriber. In this manner, documents of interest are more accurately identified for the document seeker. | 11-25-2010 |
Mark Shepard, Sugar Land, TX US
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20100180540 | Hybrid Top Chord Bearing Framing System - A method and system is provided for constructing a multilevel structure using a hybrid top chord bearing floor framing system. The method and system may include a top chord bearing floor truss positioned on a first frame structure. The top chord of the truss may include a load-bearing interface with a top surface and a bottom surface. The truss may be wholly supported by the load-bearing interface of the top chord. The method and system may further include a second frame structure on the top surface of the truss. The first frame structure may be secured to the second frame structure via a fastener that extends through both the second bottom load bearing member and load-bearing interface of the truss into the first top load bearing member of the first frame structure. | 07-22-2010 |
20130239515 | HYBRID TOP CHORD BEARING FRAMING SYSTEM - A method and system is provided for constructing a multilevel structure using a hybrid top chord bearing floor framing system. The method and system may include a top chord bearing floor truss positioned on a first frame structure. The top chord of the truss may include a load-bearing interface with a top surface and a bottom surface. The truss may be wholly supported by the load-bearing interface of the top chord. The method and system may further include a second frame structure on the top surface of the truss. The first frame structure may be secured to the second frame structure via a fastener that extends through both the second bottom load bearing member and load-bearing interface of the truss into the first top load bearing member of the first frame structure. | 09-19-2013 |
Roy Shepard, Mckinney, TX US
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20140327728 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ROOMS BETWEEN 2 INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS - Disclosed is a system and method integrating two different conferencing systems through an automatic mapping mechanism. Conference across two different systems are automatically connected without users in both systems being required to be provisioned. | 11-06-2014 |
Tom Shepard, Austin, TX US
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20150106091 | CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method include processing multiple individual participant speech in a conference call with an audio speech recognition system to create a transcript for each participant, assembling the transcripts into a single transcript having participant identification for each speaker in the single transcript, and making the transcript searchable. In one embodiment, encoder states are dynamically tracked and the state of each encoder is continuously tracked to allow interchange of state between encoders without creating audio artifacts, and re-initializing an encoder during a brief period of natural silence for encoders whose states continuously diverge. In yet a further embodiment, tracking of how each of multiple users has joined a conference call is performed to determine and utilize different messaging mechanisms for users. | 04-16-2015 |