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20150068540 | WATER PIPE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - An water pipe mold for making a water pipe includes an outer concentric sheath, an inner concentric sheath, a bottom, an outside sleeve and an inside rib. The water pipe mold is flexible and is configured to make an ice water pipe by being filled with water and then freezing the water. The ice water pipe includes a body comprising ice, the body and an opening at a side of the body, a base coupled to a bottom of the body, a mouth piece coupled to a top of the body, and a grommet coupled to an opening at the side of the body. The grommet is made of a flexible material and includes a concaved oval portion configured to stay coupled to the opening as the ice of the body of the water pipe melts or deforms. | 03-12-2015 |
20150342250 | WATER PIPE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - An water pipe mold for making a water pipe includes an outer concentric sheath, an inner concentric sheath, a bottom, an outside sleeve and an inside rib. The water pipe mold is flexible and is configured to make an ice water pipe by being filled with water and then freezing the water. The ice water pipe includes a body comprising ice, the body and an opening at a side of the body, a base coupled to a bottom of the body, a mouth piece coupled to a top of the body, and a grommet coupled to a circumference of the body. The base includes an opening configured to be filled by a plug. | 12-03-2015 |
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20110071981 | AUTOMATED INTEGRATED HIGH AVAILABILITY OF THE IN-MEMORY DATABASE CACHE AND THE BACKEND ENTERPRISE DATABASE - A cluster manager is configured to manage a plurality of copies of a mid-tier database as a mid-tier database cluster. The cluster manager may concurrently manage a backend database system. The cluster manager is configured to monitor for and react to failures of mid-tier database nodes. The cluster manager may react to a mid-tier database failure by, for example, assigning a new active node, creating a new standby node, creating new copies of the mid-tier databases, implementing new replication or backup schemes, reassigning the node's virtual address to another node, or relocating applications that were directly linked to the mid-tier database to another host. Each node or an associated agent may configure the cluster manager to behave in this fashion during initialization, based on common cluster configuration information. Each copy of the mid-tier database may be, for example, a memory resident database. Thus, a node must reload the entire database into memory to recover a copy of the database. | 03-24-2011 |
20130046731 | AUTOMATED INTEGRATED HIGH AVAILABILITY OF THE IN-MEMORY DATABASE CACHE AND THE BACKEND ENTERPRISE DATABASE - A cluster manager manages copies of a mid-tier database as a mid-tier database cluster. The cluster manager may concurrently manage a backend database system. The cluster manager is configured to monitor for and react to failures of mid-tier database nodes. The cluster manager may react to a mid-tier database failure by, for example, assigning a new active node, creating a new standby node, creating new copies of the mid-tier databases, implementing new replication or backup schemes, reassigning the node's virtual address to another node, or relocating applications that were directly linked to the mid-tier database to another host. Each node or an associated agent may configure the cluster manager during initialization, based on common cluster configuration information. Each copy of the mid-tier database may be, for example, a memory resident database. Thus, a node must reload the entire database into memory to recover a copy of the database. | 02-21-2013 |
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20120075249 | PROXIMITY SENSING FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - A method and apparatus for operating an input device having an array of capacitive sensor electrodes and a proximity sensor electrode are disclosed herein. The input device includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the array of capacitive sensor electrodes and the proximity sensor electrode and configured to operate in an input mode and a proximity mode. When operating in the input mode, the processing system scans the array of capacitive sensor electrodes to detect input from an object in an active region of the input device. When operating in the proximity mode, the processing system drives a sensing signal on at least one sensor electrode of the array of capacitive sensor electrodes and receives a resulting signal from the proximity sensor electrode. Based on the resulting signal, the processing system generates an indication of an object presence in a second sensing region from the resulting signal. | 03-29-2012 |
20120268143 | CAPACITIVE SENSING PATTERN - A capacitive input device includes a plurality of receiver sensor electrodes oriented substantially parallel to a first axis proximate to a sensing region of the capacitive input device. The capacitive sensing device also includes a plurality of transmitter sensor electrodes oriented substantially parallel to a second axis proximate to the sensing region and configured to be capacitively coupled with the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes. The at least one receiver sensor electrode of the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes is disposed in a configuration forming multiple crossings with a line that is parallel to the second axis, the multiple crossings occurring proximate to the sensing region. | 10-25-2012 |
20120327012 | CAPACITIVE SENSOR PATTERN - A capacitive sensor pattern comprises a first plurality of sensor electrode elements, a second plurality of sensor electrode elements, and a third plurality of sensor electrode elements. The first plurality of sensor electrode elements is disposed in a first layer above a substrate. The second plurality of sensor electrode elements is disposed above the substrate in an additional layer. At least one of the second plurality of sensor electrode elements is physically coupled with at least two of the first plurality of sensor electrode elements. The third plurality of sensor electrode elements is disposed above the substrate in the additional layer. At least one element of the third plurality is ohmically coupled to a single element of said first plurality. | 12-27-2012 |
20130173211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LOW GROUND MASS CONDITIONS IN SENSOR DEVICES - A processing system for an input device includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry and is configured to acquire a first plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of a first set of sensor electrodes and a second set of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is further configured to acquire a second plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of the second set of sensor electrodes and an input object. The determination module is configured to determine a first combined measurement based on the first plurality of measurements, determine a second combined measurement based on the second plurality of measurements, and determine positional information for the input object based on a low ground mass parameter. The low ground mass parameter is based on the first combined measurement and the second combined measurement. | 07-04-2013 |
20130181942 | SINGLE LAYER CAPACITIVE IMAGING SENSORS - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device that includes a plurality of sensing elements that are interconnected in desired way to acquire positional information of an input object, so that the acquired positional information can be used by other system components to control a display or other useful system components. One or more of the embodiments described herein, utilizes one or more of the techniques and sensor electrode array configuration disclosed herein to reduce or minimize the number of traces and/or electrodes required to sense the position of an input object within a sensing region of the input device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181943 | SINGLE LAYER CAPACITIVE IMAGING SENSORS - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device that includes a plurality of sensing elements that are interconnected in desired way to acquire positional information of an input object, so that the acquired positional information can be used by other system components to control a display or other useful system components. One or more of the embodiments described herein, utilizes one or more of the techniques and sensor electrode array configuration disclosed herein to reduce or minimize the number of traces and/or electrodes required to sense the position of an input object within a sensing region of the input device. | 07-18-2013 |
20140132552 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINITE ELEMENT IMAGING SENSOR DEVICES - A processing system includes a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a determination module. The transmitter module is configured to drive a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact of a first transmitter electrode, wherein the first contact is disposed between the second contact and the third contact. This produces a first voltage gradient between the first contact and the second contact, and produces a second voltage gradient between the first contact and the third contact. The receiver module receives, with a first receiver electrode, a first resulting signal including effects of the first voltage gradient, and to receive, with a second receiver electrode, a second resulting signal comprising effects of the second voltage gradient. The determination module determines positional information for an input object located within a sensing region based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal. | 05-15-2014 |
20150261377 | COMBINED CAPACITIVE SENSING - A processing system comprises a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module comprises sensing circuitry coupled to sensor electrodes of a sensor electrode pattern. The sensor module is configured to: drive a modulated signal onto a first sensor electrode of the sensor electrode pattern; receive first resulting signals from the first sensor electrode; and receive second resulting signals from a second sensor electrode of the sensor electrode pattern. The second resulting signals comprise effects corresponding to the modulated signal, and the first resulting signals and the second resulting signals are simultaneously received. The determination module configured to determine a change in capacitive coupling between an input object and the first sensor electrode based on the first resulting signals and a change in capacitive coupling between the first and second sensor electrodes based on the second resulting signals. | 09-17-2015 |
20150355746 | DRIVING SENSOR ELECTRODES FOR ABSOLUTE CAPACITIVE SENSING - In an example, a processing system includes a sensor module having sensor circuitry. The sensor module is configured to drive sensor electrodes with a capacitive sensing signal to acquire first changes of capacitance between each of the sensor electrodes and at least one input object; and drive at least one sensor electrode in a first set of the sensor electrodes with a reference signal and at least one sensor electrode in a second set of the sensor electrodes with a capacitive sensing signal to acquire second changes of capacitance between the at least one sensor electrode in the second set and the at least one input object. The processing system further includes a capacitive measurer module configured to determine a capacitive image based at least in part on the first and second changes of capacitance. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355757 | CAPACITIVE SENSING PATTERN - A capacitive input device comprises a plurality of receiver electrodes and a plurality of transmitter electrodes. The plurality of receiver sensor electrodes is oriented substantially parallel to a first axis proximate to a sensing region of the capacitive input device. The plurality of transmitter sensor electrodes is oriented substantially parallel to a second axis proximate to the sensing region and configured to be capacitively coupled with the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes. At least one of a receiver sensor electrode of the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes and a transmitter sensor electrode of the plurality of transmitter sensor electrodes is disposed in a configuration forming multiple crossings with a line that is perpendicular to the first axis, the multiple crossings occurring proximate to the sensing region. | 12-10-2015 |
20150378467 | DRIVING SENSOR ELECTRODES FOR PROXIMITY SENSING - In an example, a processing system includes: a sensor module comprising sensor circuitry, the sensor module configured to: drive, during a first time period, a first sensor electrode of a first plurality of sensor electrodes for absolute capacitive sensing, a second sensor electrode of the first plurality of sensor electrodes with a reference signal, and at least one sensor electrode of a second plurality of sensor electrodes with a guard signal, to acquire first changes of capacitance between the first sensor electrode and at least one input object in proximity with the first sensor electrode; and a determination module configured to determine positional information for the at least one input object based at least in part on changes of capacitance acquired by the sensor module. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378468 | TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE X-POSITION IN GRADIENT SENSORS - Embodiments of the invention generate a voltage gradient across a sensor electrode by driving a negative and positive voltage on respective ends of the electrode to identify a location of an input object. Because both negative and positive voltages are used, one location on the sensor electrode will be at a reference voltage (e.g., system ground). This location is used to divide the sensor electrode into two different regions. Based on measuring a change in charge relative to a baseline, the input device identifies in which of the two regions the input object is located. The input device can then generate a new voltage gradient to shift the location of the reference voltage into the identified region thereby dividing the region into two sub-regions. By iteratively repeating this process using progressively small sub-regions, the input device can identify the location of the input object. | 12-31-2015 |
20160026330 | FULL IN-CELL SENSOR - A display device having an integrated capacitive sensing device includes receiver electrodes disposed on a back side of a color filter glass. Transmitter electrodes of the capacitive sensing device are configured with a size and geometry that reduces the capacitive coupling between the transmitter and receiver electrodes. The transmitter electrodes may be made of one or more prongs or segments from a segmented common electrode. | 01-28-2016 |
20160041654 | SINGLE LAYER CAPACITIVE IMAGING SENSORS - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device that includes a plurality of sensing elements that are interconnected in desired way to acquire positional information of an input object, so that the acquired positional information can be used by other system components to control a display or other useful system components. One or more of the embodiments described herein, utilizes one or more of the techniques and sensor electrode array configuration disclosed herein to reduce or minimize the number of traces and/or electrodes required to sense the position of an input object within a sensing region of the input device. | 02-11-2016 |
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20100082120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A PAPER MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A technique is disclosed for optimizing a quality parameter in a process that is not directly measurable online using conventional measurement devices. The technique includes the use of a first inferential model to predict a value for the parameter based upon other process variables. A second inferential model predicts a residual component of the process parameter based off non-controllable residual variables of the process. The inferential model outputs are combined to produce a composite predicted value which may be further adjusted by an actual prediction error determined via comparison with an offline measurement. The adjusted predicted value is provided to a dynamic predictive model which may be adapted to implement control actions to drive or maintain the quality parameter at a target set point. The technique may further consider cost optimization factors and production reliability factors in order to produce a product meeting the target quality set point or range while considering production requirements and minimizing overall costs. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082121 | VALIDATION OF LABORATORY TEST DATA - The present invention provides novel techniques for validating laboratory data values for properties of interest of products produced by a process system. In particular, samples of the product may be sent to a laboratory testing facility, where laboratory testing procedures may be used to obtain the laboratory data values for the property of interest. The laboratory data values may be sent to a control system which includes a laboratory data validation module. The laboratory data validation module may be capable of validating the laboratory data values of the property of interest by comparing the laboratory data values of the property of interest with predicted values generated by a model. The model may be created using inputs such as laboratory and measured data values of the property of interest as well as laboratory and measured data values of other properties of the product. In particular, the laboratory data validation module may, in certain embodiments, include a laboratory data validation model, which may aid the validation of the laboratory data values of the property of interest. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082124 | ASYMETRICAL PROCESS PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique is disclosed for asymmetrically controlling a process parameter based upon the direction of a prediction error between a predicted value determined using an inferential model and a laboratory measurement of the parameter. The present technique provides for the adaptive biasing of the predicted value based upon the direction of the prediction error. In one embodiment, a biasing factor may be determined by filtering the prediction error, such that the prediction error is emphasized more heavily in the biasing factor if the prediction error is in a less tolerable direction and emphasized less heavily if the prediction error is in the opposite direction. The biasing factor may further be determined as a function of a previous biasing factor computed during the process. Asymmetric control of the process parameter may be performed by controlling the parameter using model predictive control techniques based on the biased predicted values of the parameter. | 04-01-2010 |
20120023061 | ASYMMETRICAL PROCESS PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique is disclosed for asymmetrically controlling a process parameter based upon the direction of a prediction error between a predicted value determined using an inferential model and a laboratory measurement of the parameter. The present technique provides for the adaptive biasing of the predicted value based upon the direction of the prediction error. In one embodiment, a biasing factor may be determined by filtering the prediction error, such that the prediction error is emphasized more heavily in the biasing factor if the prediction error is in a less tolerable direction and emphasized less heavily if the prediction error is in the opposite direction. The biasing factor may further be determined as a function of a previous biasing factor computed during the process. Asymmetric control of the process parameter may be performed by controlling the parameter using model predictive control techniques based on the biased predicted values of the parameter. | 01-26-2012 |
20130124443 | VALIDATION OF LABORATORY TEST DATA - The present invention provides novel techniques for validating laboratory data values for properties of interest of products produced by a process system. In particular, samples of the product may be sent to a laboratory testing facility, where laboratory testing procedures may be used to obtain the laboratory data values for the property of interest. The laboratory data values may be sent to a control system which includes a laboratory data validation module. The laboratory data validation module may be capable of validating the laboratory data values of the property of interest by comparing the laboratory data values of the property of interest with predicted values generated by a model. The model may be created using inputs such as laboratory and measured data values of the property of interest as well as laboratory and measured data values of other properties of the product. In particular, the laboratory data validation module may, in certain embodiments, include a laboratory data validation model, which may aid the validation of the laboratory data values of the property of interest. | 05-16-2013 |
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20120232598 | POLYAXIAL PEDICLE SCREW WITH INCREASED ANGULATION - A polyaxial bone anchor including a housing and a bone screw. A bottom surface of the housing includes an aperture that defines an angulation limit of the bone screw for each azimuthal angle around a longitudinal axis of the housing. The aperture is V-shaped, with the V-shape having converging side walls that define a low-angulation direction near their intersection and a high-angulation direction opposite the low-angulation direction. In some cases, the angulation limit of the bone screw is generally constant over a range of azimuthal angles centered around the high-angulation direction. The housing may be modular, including tabs on one component that are plastically deformed to engage a lip on another component. During assembly, a mandrel advances longitudinally along a bore in the housing, and forces the tabs radially outward toward the lip to a radially outward plastically deformed state. | 09-13-2012 |
20130013004 | POLYAXIAL PEDICLE SCREW WITH INCREASED ANGULATION - A polyaxial bone anchor including a housing and a bone screw. A bottom surface of the housing includes an aperture that defines an angulation limit of the bone screw for each azimuthal angle around a longitudinal axis of the housing. The aperture is V-shaped, with the V-shape having converging side walls that define a low-angulation direction near their intersection and a high-angulation direction opposite the low-angulation direction. In some cases, the angulation limit of the bone screw is generally constant over a range of azimuthal angles centered around the high-angulation direction. The housing may be modular, including tabs on one component that are plastically deformed to engage a lip on another component. During assembly, a mandrel advances longitudinally along a bore in the housing, and forces the tabs radially outward toward the lip to a radially outward plastically deformed state. | 01-10-2013 |
20140142640 | POLYAXIAL PEDICLE SCREW WITH INCREASED ANGULATION - A polyaxial bone anchor including a housing and a bone screw. A bottom surface of the housing includes an aperture that defines an angulation limit of the bone screw for each azimuthal angle around a longitudinal axis of the housing. The aperture is V-shaped, with the V-shape having converging side walls that define a low-angulation direction near their intersection and a high-angulation direction opposite the low-angulation direction. In some cases, the angulation limit of the bone screw is generally constant over a range of azimuthal angles centered around the high-angulation direction. The housing may be modular, including tabs on one component that are plastically deformed to engage a lip on another component. During assembly, a mandrel advances longitudinally along a bore in the housing, and forces the tabs radially outward toward the lip to a radially outward plastically deformed state. | 05-22-2014 |
20150374414 | TRANSVERSE CONNECTOR - A transverse connector for coupling between first and second elongate members of a spinal stabilization system. The transverse connector includes a connector arm, a first coupling assembly proximate a first end of the arm, and a second coupling assembly proximate a second end of the arm. The first and second coupling assemblies are secured to the connector arm through a plurality of mating engagement features, such as dovetail grooves. | 12-31-2015 |
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20120330791 | CONFIGURABLE INTERACTIVE ASSISTANT - The present invention employs branded virtual characters across multiple network platforms throughout various stages of complex transactions (eg, selling insurance). These characters initially engage prospective customers on a network platform, such as a social network, and persist over time across other network platforms (eg, university and company websites) to educate consumers until they are ready to purchase—e.g., from their “trusted advisor”—particular products and services offered by various providers. An extensible configuration tool (“Config Tool”) is provided to simplify the continued development of such a system, as well as customization of individual Product Modules (e.g., a Life Insurance Module) by product and service providers (e.g., insurance companies and employers) and other third-party developers (before and during runtime). This Config Tool provides a variety of extension points permitting virtual characters to be added and their appearance and behavior modified, along with the details of the products and services being offered. | 12-27-2012 |
20140310127 | CONFIGURABLE INTERACTIVE ASSISTANT - The present invention employs branded virtual characters across multiple network platforms throughout various stages of complex transactions (eg, selling insurance). These characters initially engage prospective customers on a network platform, such as a social network, and persist over time across other network platforms (eg, university and company websites) to educate consumers until they are ready to purchase—e.g., from their “trusted advisor”—particular products and services offered by various providers. An extensible configuration tool (“Config Tool”) is provided to simplify the continued development of such a system, as well as customization of individual Product Modules (e.g., a Life Insurance Module) by product and service providers (e.g., insurance companies and employers) and other third-party developers (before and during runtime). This Config Tool provides a variety of extension points permitting virtual characters to be added and their appearance and behavior modified, along with the details of the products and services being offered. | 10-16-2014 |
20150066686 | PORTFOLIO-LEVEL DECISION SUPPORT - The present invention employs branded virtual characters to engage and educate users regarding an array of health-related insurance, financial, and other benefits, enabling informed decision-making during this complex process. Information is collected gradually on an “as-needed” basis to avoid overwhelming users with lengthy and redundant requests for information, while still providing a safe environment for users to freely discuss personal, health, financial and related sensitive issues. Throughout the process, the system employs a portfolio-driven approach to identify inter-dependencies among different benefit products and plans, and prioritize and recommend “portfolio-level” benefit solutions. Back-end components enable users to complete transactions (e.g., via third-party quoting and enrollment systems and employer HRIS systems, as well as via access to external medical and claims data), and provide third parties with access to the educational, decision-making and transactional aspects of this process, including various authoring and other tools to generate and modify system content over time. | 03-05-2015 |
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20110293745 | AURORA KINASE INHIBITORS - The present invention provides Compound 1, solid forms thereof, compositions thereof, as Aurora kinase inhibitor for use as an oncology agent. The present invention also provides synthetic methods of preparing Compound 1 and intermediates thereto. | 12-01-2011 |
20140357659 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AND EVALUATING RESPONSIVENESS TO CANCER TREATMENT WITH DNA-DAMAGING CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS - Provided herein are methods directed to the prediction and early assessment of the efficacy of cancer treatment regimens, in particular in patients undergoing therapy with a DNA-damaging chemotherapeutic agent, by determining expression levels of certain proteins found to be useful as biomarkers in circulating tumor cells obtained from the patient both prior to and post-treatment. | 12-04-2014 |
20140378404 | Treatment of Patients Suffering from Cancer - The invention relates to (among other things) a method comprising the steps of (a) administering to a patient a topoisomerase II-inhibiting amount of a long-acting topoisomerase II inhibitor; and (b) administering to the patient a topoisomerase I-inhibiting amount of a long-acting topoisomerase I inhibitor. | 12-25-2014 |
20150309032 | Method for Assessing and Predicting Efficacy of Breast Cancer Treatment with a Long-Acting Topoisomerase I Inhibitor - Provided is a method of treating an individual suffering from a cancer such as breast cancer by administering to the individual a long-acting topoisomerase I inhibitor such as SN-38 or irinotecan, and correlating the level of at least one tumor marker such as CA27.29 in the individual with response of the cancer to treatment with the long-acting topoisomerase I inhibitor, to thereby provide a method for predicting and assessing the therapeutic efficacy of the treatment. | 10-29-2015 |