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Catherine Anderson, Durham, NC US
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| 20090126043 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE - The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a PRDT1 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100275321 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE - The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a PRDT1 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype. | 10-28-2010 |
Darrell Anderson, Durham, NC US
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| 20120036367 | Systems and Methods for Transparent Configuration Authentication of Networked Devices - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing secure transmissions across a network comprising a transmitting device and a receiving device. At the transmitting device, a stream of watermark bits is generated. Next, a plurality of watermarks is generated, each of the plurality of watermarks comprising an index number and a portion of the stream of watermark bits. The watermarks are inserted into each header of a plurality of outgoing packets. At the receiving device, the plurality of outgoing packets are received and it is determined if a received packet is valid based on the watermark in the header of the received packet. The stream of watermark bits may be generated using a stream cipher such as RC4, a block cipher such as 3DES in CBC mode, or other equivalent pseudo-random stream generating techniques. | 02-09-2012 |
David Kent Anderson, Cary, NC US
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| 20100294360 | PROCESS OF FORMING A GRID ELECTRODE ON THE FRONT-SIDE OF A SILICON WAFER - A process of forming a front-grid electrode on a silicon wafer having an ARC layer, comprising the steps: | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100294361 | PROCESS OF FORMING A GRID ELECTRODE ON THE FRONT-SIDE OF A SILICON WAFER - A process of forming a front-grid electrode on a silicon wafer having an ARC layer, comprising the steps: | 11-25-2010 |
Dawn Michelle Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20120101837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CLINICAL TRIAL SITE VISIT REPORTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing site visit report creation. Data relationships and process flow rules can be utilized to output reminder messages regarding deadlines associated with a site visit report completion and determine and present proper questions to associates to elicit relevant information about a site visit. Site visit reports can be generated in an efficient and accurate manner and submitted quickly to a sponsor. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101838 | Systems and Processes for Managing and Supporting Regulatory Submissions in Clinical Trials - Systems and processes for managing and supporting clinical trials and clinical trial operations, more particularly for managing and supporting governmental authority, ethics committee, and/or other regulatory authority notifications and submissions in the context of clinical trials in various countries throughout the world. Such systems and processes leverage the insight that such regulatory authority requirements vary from one country to the next, but that all or essentially all such regulatory authority requirements can be categorized into a limited number of groups as to which a limited number of workflows can be created. Such workflows can be automated and supported with systems and processes according to embodiments of the invention, which can then control sequence of activities to comply with regulations and requirements in the various countries in which a clinical trial occurs. | 04-26-2012 |
Edward R. Anderson, Mcleansville, NC US
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| 20080224486 | DOOR JAMB REINFORCING SYSTEM - A door jamb reinforcing system comprising a first reinforcing member, wherein the first reinforcing member comprises a plurality of first screw receiving openings for receiving mounting screws, a latch bolt receiving aperture, and at least one deadbolt latch bolt receiving aperture; a strike plate; and a second reinforcing member, wherein the second reinforcing member has a substantially L-shaped cross section and comprises a plurality of corresponding second screw receiving openings for receiving mounting screws, a strike plate receiving aperture, and at least one deadbolt latch bolt receiving aperture, wherein the deadbolt latch bolt receiving aperture is formed to correspond to the deadbolt latch bolt receiving aperture; wherein when the first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member are attachable to a door frame in overlying contacting abutting relation with each other and with the door jamb with mounting screws. | 09-18-2008 |
Erick E. Anderson, Walkertown, NC US
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| 20100219185 | Sealing System For Pressure Vessels - A pressure vessel that includes a housing having separable portions is provided. A seal is provided in a groove formed between the separable portions. A retaining mechanism is provided for retaining the seal in the groove, wherein the seal is prevented from obstructing a passageway formed between the separable portions when the separable portions have not been properly compressed against each other. | 09-02-2010 |
Ethan J. Anderson, Greenville, NC US
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| 20090253641 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING INSULIN RESISTANCE - The invention provides methods of preventing or treating insulin resistance in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide having at least one net positive charge; a minimum of four amino acids; a maximum of about twenty amino acids; a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (p | 10-08-2009 |
Jason S. Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20080265681 | Self-Testing Power Supply Apparatus, Methods and Computer Program Products - A power supply apparatus includes first and second parallel-connected uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), each including an AC/DC converter circuit and a DC/AC converter circuit having an input coupled to an output of the AC/DC converter circuit by a DC link, inputs of the AC/DC converter circuits of the first and second UPSs connected in common to an AC source and outputs of the DC/AC converter circuits of the first and second UPSs connected in common to a load. The first and second UPSs are configured to support a test mode wherein the first UPS is test loaded by transferring power from the output of the DC/AC converter circuit of the first UPS to the output of the DC/AC converter circuit of the second UPS. The first UPS may be configured to provide power to the load concurrent with test loading by the second UPS. | 10-30-2008 |
Jason Scott Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20090158056 | Battery Load Allocation in Parallel-Connected Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems - An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) of a UPS system including a plurality of UPSs connected in parallel at a load bus and configured to provide power thereto from respective batteries of a plurality of batteries is operated such that a difference between a variable, for example, battery voltage, indicative of battery capacity for a battery associated with the subject UPS and an average value of the variable for the plurality of batteries is determined and a power flow between the subject UPS and the load bus is controlled responsive to the determined difference. Controlling a power flow between the subject UPS and the load bus responsive to the determined difference may include, for example, controlling a phase of an inverter of the subject I 0 UPS responsive to the determined difference. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20110278932 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING ISOLATED INTERFACE FOR VARIABLY AVAILABLE POWER SOURCE - Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems include an AC input configured to be coupled to an AC power source, an AC output configured to be coupled to a load and a UPS circuit including a first converter circuit coupled to the AC input, a second converter circuit coupled to the AC output and a DC bus coupling the first converter circuit to the second converter circuit. The system further includes a third converter circuit having an output coupled to the AC output and an input configured to receive power from a variably available power source and a control circuit operatively associated with the UPS circuit and the third converter circuit and configured to cooperatively control the UPS circuit and the third converter circuit to selectively transfer power to the load from the AC power source and the variably available power source. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110278933 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS SUPPORTING HIGH-EFFICIENCY BYPASSED OPERATION WITH A VARIABLY AVAILABLE POWER SOURCE - An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system includes an AC input configured to be coupled to an AC power source, an AC output configured to be coupled to a load, a power conversion circuit comprising a first converter circuit configured to receive power from a variably available power source, a second converter circuit coupled to the AC output, a DC link coupling the first and second converter circuits, and a switching circuit, e.g., a bypass circuit, configured to selectively couple and decouple the AC input and the AC output. The UPS system further includes a control circuit operatively associated with the power conversion circuit and the switching circuit and configured to cause concurrent transfer of power to a load at the AC output from the AC power source and the variably available power source via the switching circuit and the power conversion circuit, respectively. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120068541 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A UPS INTERFACED GENERATOR - An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system includes a power transfer circuit having a power output configured to be coupled to a load, a UPS circuit having first power input configured to be coupled to a generator, such as a diesel- or gas-powered engine-generator set. The UPS circuit also has a second power input configured to be coupled to a backup power source, such as a battery or other energy storage device. The UPS circuit further has a power output configured to be coupled in common to the load with the power output of the power transfer circuit. The UPS system further includes a control circuit operatively associated with the UPS circuit and configured to control provision of power to the load from the generator and the backup power source via the UPS circuit responsive to a status of the power transfer circuit. The power transfer circuit may include, for example, another UPS circuit or other power transfer device, such as a static switch. | 03-22-2012 |
Kent T. Anderson, Wilson, NC US
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| 20090311136 | Enzymatic antibacterial cleaner having high pH stability - The present invention is directed to an antibacterial cleaning composition comprising: (a) an enzyme in an amount effective to promote cleaning; (b) viable microorganisms in an amount effective to degrade and promote the degradation of organic materials; (c) a surfactant; and (d) an aqueous carrier; said cleaning composition maintaining at least 95% enzymatic activity at a pH range of from about 5.5 to about 13.5. | 12-17-2009 |
Kevin L. Anderson, Cary, NC US
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| 20090082997 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING CLUSTERS AND CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN CLUSTERS - The present invention relates to a method for predicting outcome and evaluation of clusters. Particularly the invention relates to a method of determining deviation and predict future out comes of clusters with certain attributes. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to epidemic outbreaks of disease and, more particularly, to a method for predicting the spread thereof. | 03-26-2009 |
Mark A. Anderson, Cary, NC US
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| 20090125846 | Facility to Show Secondary Relationships in a Topological Graph Using an Associated View - A method, system, and computer program product for identifying the relationships between managed resources and displaying these relationships and resources in an interactive computerized system. A Relationships Display and Highlight (RDH) utility provides both an interactive view of a primary relationship via a topological graph and an interactive associated view to highlight the secondary relationships between a set of managed resources. The RDH utility links the graphical view to the associated view by displaying and/or highlighting the resources in the graphical view when secondary relationships are interactively explored in the associated view. When a secondary relationship is selected via the associated view, each resource which participates directly in the selected secondary relationship is highlighted, within the topological graph. When a resource is selected via the primary view, the RDH utility identifies a set of relationships in the associated view in which the resource participates. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090132936 | Message Flow Interactions for Display in a User Interface - Display of message flow interactions corresponding to service invocations in a computing environment based on a service-oriented distributed computing model. Aggregations are created, where multiple instances of a particular deployed service operation may be represented by a single node (even though those instances may be hosted on different application servers). Links are depicted between the nodes, where the links represent call paths or invocations among the service operations. A user obtains a high-level, in-context view of the as-observed interactions among service operation instances, and may drill down for further details. A presentation to the user can be automatically scoped to the set of services which are observed as interacting (i.e., via their call relationships), so that the user can be shown that part of the environment that is immediately relevant to a context in which the user launches the view. | 05-21-2009 |
Michael Gary Anderson, Charlotte, NC US
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| 20090307599 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE SUPPLY CHAIN - A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20120017082 | Virtual Private Supply Chain - A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine. | 01-19-2012 |
Miles F. Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20080199529 | NANOPARTICLE DELIVERY VEHICLE - A nanoparticle delivery vehicle, comprising a nanoparticle, an active agent and a nuclear localization signal and methods of modulating gene expression and protein expression employing the nanoparticle delivery vehicle. A representative method includes providing a nanoparticle delivery vehicle comprising a nanoparticle having a diameter of about 30 nm or less, an active agent and a nuclear localization signal; and contacting a target cell with the nanoparticle delivery vehicle, whereby an active agent is delivered to the nucleus of a target cell. Another representative method includes providing a nanoparticle delivery vehicle comprising a nanoparticle having a diameter greater than or equal to about 30 nm, an active agent and a nuclear localization signal; and contacting a target cell with the nanoparticle delivery vehicle, whereby an active agent is delivered to the cytoplasm of a cell. | 08-21-2008 |
Owen Theodore Anderson, Chapel Hill, NC US
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| 20100205156 | Remote Access Agent for Caching in a SAN File System - A system and method is disclosed for maintaining, in a Storage Area Network (SAN), the consistency of a local copy of a remote file system sub-tree obtained from a remote source. Directory structure of the remote file system sub-tree is mapped to a remote container attached to the SAN and each remote object of the remote file system sub-tree is represented as a local object component of the remote container. Next, each of the local objects are labeled with attributes associated with the represented remote object, and metadata describing each of the local objects is stored in a metadata server. Also, a consistency policy is associated with each of the local objects in the remote container (wherein the policy defines conditions for checking freshness of said labeled attributes), and the local object components of remote container is updated in accordance with the consistency policy. | 08-12-2010 |
Paul L. Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20110126043 | Operating System-Firmware Interface Update Recovery - Operating system (‘OS’)-firmware interface update recovery including determining, for each of a plurality of available OS-firmware interface images for booting a computer, whether each available OS-firmware interface image is corrupted or uncorrupted; setting, for each corrupted OS-firmware interface image, a predictive failure analysis (‘PFA’) bit in nonvolatile memory available to the OS-firmware interface update recovery module; selecting an uncorrupted OS-firmware interface image; initiating a boot for the computer with the selected OS-firmware interface image; determining whether a previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images was interrupted; and notifying a user that the previous update was interrupted if the previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images interrupted. | 05-26-2011 |
Peyton Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20080306439 | Devices for mixing and applying a fluid composition - An applicator device of the invention and a mixer applicator unit of the invention are each configured to enable mixing of two or more constituents to form a fluid composition. The applicator device comprises a syringe, a mixing chamber, and an applicator tip. The mixing chamber and applicator tip may be two separate components, or may be assembled into one integrated unit such as a mixer applicator unit of the invention. Provided in the applicator device or the mixer applicator are one or more fluid modifying elements for promoting mixing between two or more constituents. A reservoir is provided in the mixing chamber for storing a dry constituent in an embodiment wherein a constituent to be mixed comprises a dry constituent. The applicator device and mixer applicator unit each may further comprise a fluid control element for controlling the dispensing of a fluid composition from the applicator device or mixer applicator unit. Also provided with the present invention are kits comprising, as kit components, an applicator device (assembled or as separate component parts), and one or more accessories for use with the applicator device or mixer applicator unit, or combinations thereof. | 12-11-2008 |
Rayne S. Anderson, Charlotte, NC US
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| 20080222651 | MULTIPLE MESSAGE SOURCE ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) ENVELOPER WITH BATCHING SUPPORT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to EDI enveloping and provide a method, system and computer program product for multiple message source EDI enveloping with batching support. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-format EDI enveloping can include receiving messages from multiple concurrent message sources, transforming the received messages into an EDI format, inserting the transformed messages into a minimal number of envelopes, and forwarding the envelopes as an EDI interchange to designated trading partners. | 09-11-2008 |
Scott Anderson, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20110072643 | Transformer Core Assembly Apparatus - The system and method make transformer core assemblies from core segments output from a segment forming machine. The system includes a rack assembly and a transfer mechanism for moving the segments from the segment forming machine to the rack assembly. A work table is positioned adjacent to the rack assembly. The rack assembly is rotatable and holds a pair of racks, wherein one rack receives segments and the other may be lowered at the same time to perform finishing steps. The system further increases efficiency by including a second segment forming machine, transfer mechanism, and rack assembly. | 03-31-2011 |
Scott R. Anderson, Winston Salem, NC US
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| 20110145191 | Proxy-Based, Distributed Computer-Aided Dispatch System - In one embodiment, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system includes a database for storing data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a first manager that manages access to the data stored in the database; one or more second managers communicatively connected with the first manager; and the CAD stations. Each one of the second managers is communicatively connected with particular ones of the CAD stations. The particular ones of the CAD stations communicatively connected with the same second manager are communicatively connected with each other. For each one of the second managers communicatively connected with the particular ones of the CAD stations: while the second manager is available, the particular ones of the CAD stations exchange data via the second manager; and while the second manager is unavailable, the particular ones of the CAD stations exchange data directly with each other. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145344 | Fault Tolerant Distributed Messaging Architecture for Computer-Aided Dispatch System - In one embodiment, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system includes a database for storing data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a manager that manages access to the data stored in the database; and the plurality of CAD stations communicatively connected to the manager and to each other. While the manager is available, each CAD station transmits the critical data and the non-critical data originated at the CAD station to the manager and receives the critical data and the non-critical data originated at one or more other CAD stations from the manager. While the manager is unavailable, each CAD station transmits the critical data originated at the CAD station directly to all other CAD stations and receives the critical data originated at the one or more other CAD stations directly from the one or more other CAD stations. | 06-16-2011 |
Stephen Anderson, King, NC US
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| 20100314485 | Center-Pull Dispenser for Web Material - According to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a center-pull bottom feed dispenser includes a housing defining a compartment and including a center-pull bottom feed arrangement for dispensing a sheet material that is in the form of a roll of the sheet material. The sheet material can be a pre-moistened airlaid web. The dispenser also includes a tray that supports the airlaid web roll and includes an outlet opening through which the airlaid web is fed to be accessible to a user. The tray includes a moisture retaining feature that directs fluid from the pre-moistened air-laid web away from the outlet opening and toward an outer peripheral edge of the roll. | 12-16-2010 |
William David Anderson, Chapel Hill, NC US
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| 20110098011 | MULTIMODE POWER AMPLIFIER WITH PREDISTORTION - A device may include an envelope detector to generate an envelope signal from the input signal, a drain bias controller to adjust a drain bias of the amplifier based on the envelope signal, a gate bias controller to adjust a gate bias of the amplifier based on the envelope signal, a predistortion controller to predistort the input signal based on the envelope signal, based on the adjusted drain bias, and based on the adjusted gate bias, and to output the predistorted signal, and an amplifier to receive the predistorted signal and to generate an amplified output signal from the predistorted signal. The device may be selectable to operate in a linear mode or a nonlinear mode. The nonlinear mode may be selected by applying a large gate offset bias. | 04-28-2011 |