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Brent J. Bos, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20080252488 | Vehicle vision system - A vehicular vision system includes at least one imaging sensor for sensing images of objects in a forward field of view of the imaging sensor. The imaging system includes a control responsive to an output of the imaging sensor. The control modulates at least one headlamp of the vehicle in response to the output of the imaging sensor. The control may process an output of the imaging sensor to identify a headlamp or taillight of another vehicle in the forward field of view of the at least one imaging sensor and to determine a distance between the controlled vehicle and the identified headlamp or taillight of another vehicle. The control may modulate the at least one headlamp of the vehicle in response to the image processing. | 10-16-2008 |
Daniel M. Bos, Itasca, IL US
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| 20100181726 | PORTABLE HORSESHOE/RING TOSS GAME - A portable horseshoe game suitable for use in connection with an existing bags game. The game includes a rod which may be secured within the opening of the bags game. More specifically, the rod may be secured in a generally perpendicular position with respect to the target surface of the bags game. In an alternative embodiment, the rod may be secured in a generally perpendicular position with respect to the ground. The game has a first plate and a second plate secured to the rod wherein the first plate covers the top side of the opening of the target surface of the bags game and the second plate covers the bottom side of the opening of the target surface of the bags game. Once the rod is secured within the opening, users may play horseshoes on the existing bags target surface. The game may be played indoors or outdoors. | 07-22-2010 |
Gary D. Bos, Moxee, WA US
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| 20090222007 | MODULAR STEM EXTENSION - The modular stem component may include a shaft portion, a head, and a sleeve. The shaft portion is configured for receipt within the intramedullary canal of a bone and the head is configured to receive another component of a modular prosthetic system, such as a femoral neck, thereon. In one exemplary embodiment, the head extends radially around at least a portion of the stem and includes a rib defining a flange extending therefrom. The sleeve, which is formed as an independent part of the modular stem component and is made at least partially of a highly porous biomaterial, includes opposing ends and has a bore extending therethrough. The bore is configured to facilitate sliding receipt of the sleeve on the head. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110009973 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ATTACHING TISSUE TO ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS - Methods and apparatuses for attaching tissue structures to orthopaedic implants. In one exemplary embodiment, the methods and apparatuses are used to attach soft tissue and/or bone to a proximal tibial implant. In another exemplary embodiment, the methods and apparatuses are used to attach soft tissue and/or bone to a proximal femoral implant. | 01-13-2011 |
Jeremy Bos, Grand Haven, MI US
Jeremy Bos, Coopersville, MI US
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| 20090069999 | ONBOARD TRIP COMPUTER FOR EMISSIONS SUBJECT TO REDUCTION CREDITS - Methods and a system are provided for monitoring and processing the emissions footprint of one or more vehicles. An embodiment of an onboard vehicle method involves the collection of vehicle data from onboard data sources and the computation of an emissions value from the vehicle data. The emissions value indicates a total amount of a substance, such as carbon dioxide, released from the vehicle during a measurement period. The method also generates indicia of the emissions value with an onboard subsystem. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100007516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENROLLMENT OF A REMOTELY CONTROLLED DEVICE IN A TRAINABLE TRANSMITTER - A wireless control system is configured to be trainable to control any number of remotely controlled devices. The system can be configured to gather and learn information relating to a signal transmitted by the original transmitter in a manner that is blind to a user of the system. The system can be designed to learn signals automatically such that fewer steps are necessary for a user to train the system to control a particular remotely controlled device. The system can train to remotely controlled devices in this manner with little or no user action required. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20110025456 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENROLLMENT OF A REMOTELY CONTROLLED DEVICE IN A TRAINABLE TRANSMITTER - A wireless control system is configured to be trainable to control any number of remotely controlled devices. The system can be configured to gather and learn information relating to a signal transmitted by the original transmitter in a manner that is blind to a user of the system. The system can be designed to learn signals automatically such that fewer steps are necessary for a user to train the system to control a particular remotely controlled device. The system can train to remotely controlled devices in this manner with little or no user action required. | 02-03-2011 |
Jeremy Bos, Houghton, MI US
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| 20100052943 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT ON A DEDICATED SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of managing a Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) network in a vehicle having a primary DSRC system is provided. The method comprises detecting a secondary DSRC system operating in proximity to the vehicle and transmitting a suppression notice in response to detecting the secondary DSRC system, where the suppression notice conveys an instruction to the secondary DSRC system to suspend DSRC transmissions. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100245124 | E85 GAS STATION LOCATOR APPLICATIONS USING V2X PEER-TO-PEER SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system and method for wirelessly exchanging information concerning the location of E85 gas stations between E85 vehicles. The method includes transmitting messages from an E85 gas station that identifies the location of the E85 gas station, the time of the transmission and the price of the E85 gas, and receiving the messages by E85 vehicles that pass within a certain distance of the E85 gas station. The method also includes identifying that two E85 vehicles pass close to each other, where the vehicles periodically broadcast an E85 beacon identifying them as E85 vehicles. When two E85 vehicles are identified, the vehicles exchange information concerning a list of the E85 gas stations that they have stored from messages received from E85 gas stations and/or other E85 vehicles. The two vehicles update their lists to include those E85 gas stations that one vehicle may have that the other does not. | 09-30-2010 |
Joseph J. Bos, Christiansburg, VA US
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| 20110317148 | REGISTRATION OF AN EXTENDED REFERENCE FOR PARAMETER MEASUREMENT IN AN OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM - An interferometric measurement system measures a parameter using at least one optical waveguide. A memory stores reference interferometric pattern data associated with a segment of the optical waveguide. Interferometric detection circuitry detects and stores measurement interferometric pattern data associated with the segment of the optical waveguide during a measurement operation. A spectral range of the reference interferometric pattern of the optical waveguide is greater than a spectral range of the measurement interferometric pattern of the optical waveguide. A processor shifts one or both of the measurement interferometric pattern data and the reference interferometric pattern data relative to the other to obtain a match and to use the match to measure the parameter. An example parameter is strain. | 12-29-2011 |
Mark Bos, West Olive, MI US
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| 20080217389 | Multi-Level Partition Assembly - A partition assembly for dividing the space inside a container into two levels is provided. The partition assembly comprises first and second sets of parallel dividers or partitions. The dividers of the first set each have at least one tongue. One divider from the second set of parallel dividers has a series of spaced passages which are aligned with and adapted to receive the respective tongues of the dividers of the first set of dividers. When the one divider is folded or bent, multiple levels are created in the partition assembly. | 09-11-2008 |
Paula Bos, New York, NY US
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| 20100029748 | Metastasis Promoting Genes and Proteins - Two sets of genes and their encoded proteins, one set of 17 genes/proteins and one set of 18 genes/proteins that can be used in predicting the risk of cancer metastasis to the brain, and as a screening assay to identify the suitable treatments for brain metastases. Genes/proteins within the sets that are found to be differentially expressed relative to a control value are suitable targets for therapy. | 02-04-2010 |
Philip Bos, Hudson, OH US
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| 20080284973 | LAYER ALIGNMENT OF SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS - A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device by introducing a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) between two substrates, contacting the FLC to a molecularly smooth edge, and aligning the FLC by introducing a temperature gradient normal to the edge. In one embodiment, the FLC is aligned by cooling it from an isotropic phase to a smectic phase at a rate that is relatively slow. For example, the cooling rate may be less than about 3 degrees Celsius per hour. In one embodiment, smectic layers are formed that are parallel to the edge. In one embodiment, the molecularly smooth edge is an air bubble. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20110025955 | Tunable electro-optic liquid crystal lenses and methods for forming the lenses - Electro-optic lenses, including liquid crystals, wherein the power of the lenses can be modified by application of an electric field. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal-based lenses include ring electrodes having a resistive bridge located between adjacent electrodes, and in a preferred embodiment, input connections for several electrode rings are spaced on the lens. In a further embodiment, liquid crystal-based lenses are provided that can increase optical power through the use of phase resets, wherein in one embodiment, a lens includes ring electrodes on surfaces of the substrates on opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell such that a fixed phase term can be added to each set of electrodes that allows for phase change across each group of electrodes to be the same and also be matched with respect to a previous group. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110170039 | Photo-patterned pre-tilt liquid crystal cells, lenses and methods - Liquid crystal cells and lenses having a variable resulting pre-tilt across two or more areas of the cell, and in particular, cells and lenses are provided wherein a resulting pre-tilt is varied across the cell according to any desired birefringence profile that can be utilized in liquid crystalline optical elements and liquid crystal displays. Methods of fabrication of the liquid crystal cells with variable resulting pre-tilt are disclosed. | 07-14-2011 |
Philip J. Bos, Hudson, OH US
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| 20090073331 | TUNABLE LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES, DEVICES USING SAME, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME - An electro-optical device comprises a liquid crystal material disposed in a cell and electrodes configured to bias the liquid crystal material into a generally in-plane director configuration having a non-constant spatial pattern selectable or adjustable by an in-plane component of the biasing to produce a desired refractive of diffractive optical effect. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090322971 | POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT LIQUID CRYSTAL-BASED ETALON AND DEVICES USING SAME - A liquid crystal etalon includes a chiral nematic material contained in a liquid crystal cell having alignment surfaces configured to bias the chiral nematic material toward a twisted liquid crystal configuration with a twist less than 360°. Electrodes are arranged to apply an operative electrical bias to the liquid crystal cell. Mirrors disposed about the chiral nematic material define a resonant optical cavity. At a first electrical bias the etalon is transmissive for light of a first wavelength via a selected liquid crystal twist angle and cavity thickness at which different non-equal eigenmodes reach resonance conditions simultaneously. In a projector embodiment, a projection system with a field sequential image projection light source is coupled with the liquid crystal etalon, the etalon electrodes are patterned into pixels defining a display area, and the projector is operated in a field sequential illumination mode. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100014037 | Liquid crystal device and methods thereof - Provided is a liquid crystal (LC) device and method thereof. The device comprises (i) a body of liquid crystal, (ii) a first layer comprising a first material, and (iii) a second layer comprising a second material; wherein the first layer is located between the body of liquid crystal and the second layer; the first layer alone aligns the liquid crystal in a first orientation; the second layer alone aligns the liquid crystal in a second orientation; and the first orientation is different from the second orientation. With optimized first layer thickness, the invention can be used in sensor applications to improve detection sensitivity, and in LCD applications with enhanced control over LC pretilt transition. | 01-21-2010 |
Richard Bos, Saratoga Springs, UT US
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| 20100177921 | RESPONSE SPEAKER SYSTEM - A sound generator like a guitar supplies an electrical out put to operate speakers that are mounted in a chassis. The electrical output is divided into three frequency ranges, separately amplified and delivered to speakers mounted in a three separate enclosures each acoustically isolated from the other. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110017048 | DROP TUNE SYSTEM - A tuning device receives the electrical output of an instrument that reflects sound at a first tone level. The tuning device digitizes electrical output. The user has switches operable to generate control signals that are processed to effect a bypass of the device or to digitally drop the tone level in half steps up to an octave and to selectively mix the drop tone level with the input tone level. The user may then broadcast one of the bypassed signal, the drop tone signal or a mixed signal of the drop tone and the input tone level. | 01-27-2011 |
Tamara Lee Bos, Reno, NV US
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| 20090000032 | EASY WASH - In accordance with the aspects of the present invention, an improved way for textile bedding products, particularly comforters and quilts, is by individual panels that are connected together by the “EASY WASH” application pocket for easier and less costly cleaning in standard size home washing machines and dried in standard size home clothes dryers. The “EASY WASH” application for textiles, generally comforters and quilts, also allows for the flipping over of specific panels to create and form one textile product with a different color, or color pattern. | 01-01-2009 |