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Christopher Lyle Borst, Plano, TX US
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| 20090087956 | Dummy Contact Fill to Improve Post Contact Chemical Mechanical Polish Topography - State of the art Integrated Circuits (ICs) encompass a variety of circuits, which have a wide variety of contact densities as measured in regions from 10 to 1000 microns in size. Fabrication processes for contacts have difficulty with high and low contact densities on the same IC, leading to a high incidence of electrical shorts and reduced operating speed of the circuits. This problem is expected to worsen as feature sizes shrink in future technology nodes. This invention is an electrically non-functional contact, known as a dummy contact, that is utilized to attain a more uniform distribution of contacts across an IC, which allows contact fabrication processes to produce ICs with fewer defects, and a method for forming said dummy contacts in ICs. | 04-02-2009 |
Christopher Lyle Borst, Latham, NY US
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| 20080220698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT SLURRY APPLICATION FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING - An embodiment relates generally to a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus. The apparatus includes a platen adapted to receive a wafer to be chemical-mechanically polished and a polishing pad configured to polish the wafer. The apparatus also includes a slurry feed line configured to provide slurry to the polishing pad and at least one slurry dispensing outlet coupled to the slurry feed line and configured to dispense slurry as a mist of small droplets ranging from submicron to about 500 microns. | 09-11-2008 |
George A. Borst, Kansas City, MO US
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| 20090308877 | Emergency Relief Vent for Fuel Storage Tanks - A relief vent assembly for a fuel storage tank includes a vent body defining a chamber to provide a substantially axially smooth and unencumbered path of flow for pressurized fluid to vent out from the tank. Such a path of flow allows the pressurized fluid to remain laminar throughout approximately the entire path through the chamber, maintaining a high flow rate. The vent assembly includes a crossbar that supports the rod of a lid that covers a distal margin of the vent body. The crossbar is disposed substantially at the distal margin of the vent body to prevent any premature turbulent flow of the pressurized fluid, which would slow the flow rate. A widening tapered bore of the chamber increases the flow area and serves to offset the area occupied by the crossbar. | 12-17-2009 |
Jeroen De Borst, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090327354 | NOTIFICATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF UPDATED DATA - Techniques for notification and synchronization are described. Some techniques may comprise receiving a synchronization request and establishing an updating session connection. The updating session may be based on a delay interval parameter specifying a length of a delay interval and a collection parameter specifying one or more collections to be synchronized. When data for the collections to be synchronized is unchanged, the updating session may be maintained, and the synchronization request may be kept pending. Upon receiving a notification from a data store during the delay interval that updated data is available for one or more of the collections to be synchronized, a synchronization session connection is established with the data store to retrieve the updated data. A notification and synchronization message comprising the updated data may be sent as a response to the pending synchronization request. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-31-2009 |
Laurence V. Borst, Vaughan, NJ US
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| 20110057140 | MODULAR SPOOL VALVE - A control valve comprising a plurality of interchangeable valve body modules, each module having a main valve cavity and a plurality of separate cross valve communication ports communicating; and at least one interchangeable gasket disposed between adjacent modules and configured to individually communicate the main valve cavity and the communication ports between adjacent valve body modules, wherein the gasket is further configured to selectively communicate between the main valve cavity and a selected one of the cross valve communication ports. In one embodiment, each valve body module further includes a passage communicating with the main valve cavity. In this case, the gasket may be configured to selectively communicate between the passage and the selected one of the cross valve communication ports, thereby selectively communicating between the main valve cavity and the selected one of the cross valve communication ports through the passage by selective orientation of the gasket. | 03-10-2011 |
Laurence Vaughan Borst, Long Valley, NJ US
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| 20100276615 | PROPORTIONAL PILOT ACTING VALVE - A valve assembly comprising a pilot valve; a solenoid; and a main valve, the main valve having an actuator in communication with a pressure control; the pilot valve may facilitate opening the main valve in proportion to an energized level of the solenoid. The solenoid may move the first disc to isolate the inlet port from the pressure control and/or move the second disc to communicate the outlet port with the pressure control. The actuator may move the second disc to isolate the outlet port from the pressure control and/or move the first disc to communicate the inlet port with the pressure control. The pilot valve may isolate both the inlet port and the outlet port from the pressure control when the pilot valve experiences forces in equilibrium from the solenoid and the actuator. | 11-04-2010 |
Robert G. Borst, Renton, WA US
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| 20100292869 | AIRCRAFT DISPATCH INFORMATION - Systems and methods to manage aircraft dispatch information are provided. A particular method includes receiving fault information at a dispatch information computing system. The fault information is associated with an aircraft. The method also includes accessing operational restriction information associated with the aircraft based on the fault information. The method further includes automatically determining a set of bottom line operational limitations of the aircraft based on the fault information and the operational restriction information. The method also includes generating customized checklists for the various users of the information. The method also includes sending output data from the dispatch information computing system to an output device. The output data identifies the set of bottom line operational limitations of the aircraft and tasks to be completed by the various users. | 11-18-2010 |
Ronald W. Borst, Grain Valley, MO US
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| 20090308877 | Emergency Relief Vent for Fuel Storage Tanks - A relief vent assembly for a fuel storage tank includes a vent body defining a chamber to provide a substantially axially smooth and unencumbered path of flow for pressurized fluid to vent out from the tank. Such a path of flow allows the pressurized fluid to remain laminar throughout approximately the entire path through the chamber, maintaining a high flow rate. The vent assembly includes a crossbar that supports the rod of a lid that covers a distal margin of the vent body. The crossbar is disposed substantially at the distal margin of the vent body to prevent any premature turbulent flow of the pressurized fluid, which would slow the flow rate. A widening tapered bore of the chamber increases the flow area and serves to offset the area occupied by the crossbar. | 12-17-2009 |
Simon Borst, Convent Station, NJ US
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| 20110107030 | SELF-ORGANIZING METHODOLOGY FOR CACHE COOPERATION IN VIDEO DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - A content distribution network (CDN) comprising content storage nodes (CSNs) or caches having storage space that preferentially stores more popular content objects. | 05-05-2011 |
Simon C. Borst, Morris County, NJ US
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| 20100184480 | POWER LOAD BALANCING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - In one aspect, a system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of wireless base stations that are located in a contiguous spatial coverage region of a cellular communication system. Each wireless base station that is configured to generate a coverage pilot beam to enable wireless mobile devices to set up spread spectrum wireless communication links with the generating wireless base station. The wireless base stations are configured to transmit data to the wireless mobile devices to cause a portion of the wireless mobile devices to reselect ones of wireless base stations for wireless communication links in a manner that reduces power load imbalances between the wireless base stations. The transmitted data is indicative of a set of shadow prices, wherein each of the wireless base stations is associated with a corresponding one of the shadow prices. | 07-22-2010 |
Simon C. Borst, Convent Station, NJ US
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| 20080242309 | MIMO Communication System with User Scheduling Based on Reduced Channel State Information - A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is configured to perform user scheduling with reduced channel station information. The system includes multiple terminals and at least one base station configured to communicate with the terminals. The base station is operative to obtain channel vector magnitudes for respective ones of the terminals, to identify a subset of the terminals based on the channel vector magnitudes, to obtain channel vector phase information for the identified subset of terminals, and to utilize the channel vector phase information to control transmission to the identified subset of terminals. The system may be, for example, a multi-user MIMO system in which the multiple terminals comprise autonomous single-antenna terminals. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20100070700 | CACHE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM INCORPORATING THE SAME - A cache management system and method and a content distribution system. In one embodiment, the cache management system includes: (1) a content request receiver configured to receive content requests, (2) a popularity lifetime prediction modeler coupled to the content request receiver and configured to generate popularity lifetime prediction models for content that can be cached based on at least some of the content requests, (3) a database coupled to the popularity lifetime prediction modeler and configured to contain the popularity lifetime prediction models and (4) a popularity lifetime prediction model matcher coupled to the content request receiver and the database and configured to match at least one content request to the popularity lifetime prediction models and control a cache based thereon. | 03-18-2010 |
Terence Borst, Austin, TX US
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| 20090114403 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRILLING AND SERVICING SUBTERRANEAN WELLS WITH ROTATING COILED TUBING - A system is provided for drilling and/or servicing a well bore using continuous lengths of coiled tubing in which a turntable assembly rotates a coiled tubing reel assembly and a counter balance system about the well bore such that the coiled tubing is rotated while in the wellbore. A coiled tubing injector may be provided on a separate turntable assembly or on the same turntable assembly as the reel assembly. A swivel support assembly may be provided for managing operation lines associated with the system. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090126946 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRILLING AND SERVICING SUBTERRANEAN WELLS WITH ROTATING COILED TUBING - A system is provided for drilling and/or servicing a well bore using continuous lengths of coiled tubing in which a turntable assembly rotates a coiled tubing reel assembly and a counter balance system about the well bore such that the coiled tubing is rotated while in the wellbore. A coiled tubing injector may be provided on a separate turntable assembly or on the same turntable assembly as the reel assembly. | 05-21-2009 |