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Andrew Bourne, Bothell, WA US
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| 20100001136 | AIRCRAFT DOOR AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - An external door for use in accessing a cargo area of an aircraft fuselage. The door includes a locking system, a latching system, a lock monitoring system, an uplock used to secure the door in an open position, and an actuating system that assists in at least one of opening and closing the door. The locking system works by interfering with the movement of the latching system components. The locking system includes a monitoring device that prevents the aircraft from being pressurized in case of a malfunction in the locking system. The latching system includes a handle locking system that prevents operation of the latch handle by accident or by ground loading or flight forces. The systems of the door are preferably manually operated, and utilize rigid members. | 01-07-2010 |
Christopher Bourne, Stans Bury Park, UT US
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| 20100271287 | Dual-display transportable media cart - The claimed systems relate generally to a cart having repositionable displays, and more particularly to a mobile cart having a frame on which is affixed two or more fixtures having a display mount, the fixtures providing for the movement of displays affixed thereto in a position for viewing, and another position for cart movement, such as movement between rooms through a doorway or an elevator. Also disclosed are particular articulating arms for such fixtures, mounted to one or more posts, some having one or more pivotable arms allowing for repositioning of displays relative to a cart. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims. | 10-28-2010 |
Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne, Campbell, CA US
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| 20110276027 | APPLICATORS FOR MICRONEEDLES - An applicator for a microprojection array is described. In one embodiment, the applicator comprises an energy-storing element. Application of force causes the compressed energy-storing element to extend or transition from first and second configurations, releasing stored energy to deploy a holding member in the application which is configured to hold an array of microprojections. In another embodiment, the applicator comprises an energy storing element with two stable configurations, a first stable configuration and second stable configuration. Application of force causes the energy-storing element to transition from the higher energy first stable configuration to the lower energy second stable configuration, releasing the difference in energies of the two states to deploy a holding member in the application which is configured to hold an array of microprojections. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110292640 | Workspace lighting system - A modular lighting system for lighting a work area is disclosed. The system includes a power supply with power outlets for powering LED fixtures. The power supply preferably operates at or below a fixed power output level, such as to illuminate the work area using less than 0.2 Watts per square foot of energy. The lighting system also includes an occupancy sensor and/or a light level sensor for controlling lighting levels in the work area in response to detection of a person, ambient light levels and/or a combination thereof. The lighting system can also include computer unit with a micro-processor and a memory unit for running software or firmware the executes lighting programs, stores light usage histories and/or provides system reports to a remote computer by a wireless means and/or over a computer network. | 12-01-2011 |
George Bourne, Southborough, MA US
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| 20090156893 | FLATTENED TUBULAR MESH SLING AND RELATED METHODS - The invention generally relates to surgically implantable supportive slings. More specifically, in various embodiments, the invention is directed to multilayer mesh slings formed from a tubular mesh material. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20110054312 | Reinforced Venous Access Catheter - A catheter for medical procedures comprises a shaft portion having a distal end insertable into a body lumen, the shaft portion having a wall defining a working lumen extending therewithin and a first strengthening element coupled to the wall to increase a burst pressure of the shaft portion, wherein the first strengthening element cooperates with a base material of the wall to define a flexible region of the shaft portion allowing the shaft portion to be atraumatically inserted into the body lumen. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110064774 | BULKING AGENT - The invention relates to bulking agents and apparatus and methods for using the disclosed bulking agents. The bulking agents can be used to treat such conditions as urinary and fecal incontinence, gastro-esophageal reflux, aneurismal blockages, and cosmetic deformities. The invention also relates to an injection method that reduces the injection pressure required to place the bulking agents. | 03-17-2011 |
George Bourne, Southboro, MA US
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| 20110054448 | MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAINING CATHETER ANCHORING FEATURE - An indwelling drainage catheter is disclosed that is configured to include spiral, helical or radial geometry on the external surface that allows the catheter to be introduced and locked into the anatomy via threading, linear indexing or similar action. | 03-03-2011 |
Jeffrey Thomas Bourne, Harrisonburg, VA US
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| 20110191136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB-BASED SPORTS EVENT SCHEDULING - A system and methods are provided for communication between entities that need to coordinate on scheduling events. Communication between schedulers, such as coaches, athletic administrators or organization administrators who may be in charge of a multiplicity of sports or activities at institutions, such as colleges or universities, who need to connect and communicate on a particular task. These tasks may include scheduling of events such as sports competitions or other events or activities in which there may be shared or common interests or a shared network of users, players or participants. Search by criteria to find matching potential opponents for scheduling events is also provided. Automatic schedule updates are maintained, typically in a logically centralized database, facilitated by a messaging system to facilitate ease of scheduling. | 08-04-2011 |
John M. Bourne, Tustin, CA US
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| 20090032123 | Check Valve - A check valve having a piston-like ball or stopper a pre-determined distance from the valve seat so that the ball or stopper seats against the valve seat only under backflow pressure. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100076471 | Spring-Less Check Valve For A Handpiece - A hand piece for a surgical instrument is provided. The handpiece has an inlet, a chamber (with upstream and downstream portions), a flow control member, a pulse engine, and an outlet. The inlet communicates with the upstream portion of the chamber. The downstream portion of the chamber communicates with the engine. The engine communicates with the outlet. In a closed position of the member, flow from the inlet moves the member to the open position thereby allowing flow through the flow path. In the open position, pulses from the engine move the member to the closed position before pulses from the pulse engine can flow through the flow path, thereby preventing flow through the flow path. | 03-25-2010 |
John Morgan Bourne, Tustin, CA US
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| 20100324476 | FLUIDICS CONTROL VIA WIRELESS TELEMETRY - In various embodiments, a pressure sensor may be configured to detect pressure information associated with pressure in an eye during an ophthalmic surgical procedure. The pressure information may be wirelessly communicated, through a transmitter coupled to the pressure sensor, to a receiver communicatively coupled to a surgical console. The receiver may provide the received pressure information to the surgical console to use in controlling pressure at a surgical site during the surgical procedure. For example, controlling the pressure may include maintaining a desired IOL pressure level within the surgical site at the eye. In some embodiments, the pressure sensor may include a strain gage coupled to a contact lens or a sleeve of an ocular surgical handpiece. Other pressure sensor configurations are also contemplated. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110144632 | Flooded Liquefaction Hand Piece Engine - In various embodiments, an ophthalmic handpiece may include a handpiece body with a pulse chamber and flooded engine compartment configured to receive fluid from a surgical console through a fluid inlet port. Heated pulses from the pulse chamber and cooler fluid from the flooded engine compartment may flow through a tip into the eye. In some embodiments, the tip may be a dual lumen tip that keeps the flows from the pulse chamber and flooded engine compartment separate until they exit the tip. In some embodiments, a tip, coupled to a merging chamber where the flows may merge prior to the tip, may be a single lumen tip that directs the heated pulses and irrigation fluid simultaneously to a lens to liquefy the lens for removal from the eye. | 06-16-2011 |
Joshua Slocum Bourne, Bethesda, MD US
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| 20110004850 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WEBSITE VALIDITY - In one embodiment, a computer-readable medium comprises code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive a fetch response based on a webpage address that may be associated with a webpage. The code can additionally represent instructions to calculate a webpage validity score for the webpage. The validity score can be based on at least one of content or metadata associated with the webpage. The code can also represent instructions to cause the processor to store a thumbnail image of the webpage, along with an indicator of the validity score. The validity indicator can be based on the webpage validity score and a threshold value. | 01-06-2011 |
Julian J. Bourne, Weston, MA US
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| 20090005040 | Method and computer system for matching mobile device users for business and social networking - A business or social networking method is operative in a server. The method enables mobile device users to meet one another, on a permission basis. The determination of whether a given pair of mobile device users are introduced depends on whether the server determines they are in intellectual or “cognitive” proximity, which is typically a function of one or more factors, such as: each user's reciprocal networking objective, the nature of the industry in which the user works, the user's level within the management hierarchy of his or her company, any specialty function the individual may possess, and so on. Individuals who are matched in one or more of such attributes to a given degree or threshold are said to be in intellectual proximity. According to the invention, when given mobile devices users are within physical proximity of one another during an overlapping time window, the server determines whether the users are also within a given intellectual proximity. If so, and if both users have opted to receive new introductions, the server issues a mutual collaboration opportunity message to each of the mobile device users to determine whether they desire to be introduced to one another. Preferably, the mutual collaboration opportunity message masks personally identifying information. If the mobile device users agree to be introduced, the server establishes a direct private messaging session between them. In an alternative embodiment, a mobile device user initiates a contact by performing a networking search query that identifies one or more prospects who can then be contacted by the mobile device user asynchronously. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090192702 | Situation-aware personal information management for a mobile device - A technique for providing a mobile device user with a “when to leave” alarm on his or her mobile device. The user has scheduled an appointment at a given time and location in the user's personal information manager (PIM) executing on the mobile device. A representative PIM is a calendar on the mobile device. The “when to leave” alarm is provided to the end user in the form of a display widget (or “countdown alarm”) that automatically activates a given time (e.g., 30 minutes) before a latest departure time for an event in the user's PIM. | 07-30-2009 |
Keith Allen Bourne, Urbana, IL US
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| 20110132169 | HIGH-PRECISION MICRO/NANO-SCALE MACHINING SYSTEM - A high precision micro/nanoscale machining system. A multi-axis movement machine provides relative movement along multiple axes between a workpiece and a tool holder. A cutting tool is disposed on a flexible cantilever held by the tool holder, the tool holder being movable to provide at least two of the axes to set the angle and distance of the cutting tool relative to the workpiece. A feedback control system uses measurement of deflection of the cantilever during cutting to maintain a desired cantilever deflection and hence a desired load on the cutting tool. | 06-09-2011 |
Keith Edward Bourne, Ann Arbor, MI US
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| 20110231445 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for sharing a central knowledge base across social networks, the method comprising: allowing a user to generate a piece of information and store it on a server; allowing the user to merge pieces of information into one or more collections of information which are saved on one or more servers; allowing the user to access other pieces and collections of information which are stored on one or more servers; enabling the user to request automated updates of pieces and collections of information which are stored on one or more servers; allowing the user to restrict modifications to information which he generated and which is stored on one or more servers; and allowing the user to modify pieces and collections of information which were generated by other users and are stored on one or more servers, where permission to modify the information has been granted by the first user to generate the information. | 09-22-2011 |
Mary Lou Garber Bourne, Harrisonburg, VA US
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| 20110191136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB-BASED SPORTS EVENT SCHEDULING - A system and methods are provided for communication between entities that need to coordinate on scheduling events. Communication between schedulers, such as coaches, athletic administrators or organization administrators who may be in charge of a multiplicity of sports or activities at institutions, such as colleges or universities, who need to connect and communicate on a particular task. These tasks may include scheduling of events such as sports competitions or other events or activities in which there may be shared or common interests or a shared network of users, players or participants. Search by criteria to find matching potential opponents for scheduling events is also provided. Automatic schedule updates are maintained, typically in a logically centralized database, facilitated by a messaging system to facilitate ease of scheduling. | 08-04-2011 |
Philip E. Bourne, Poway, CA US
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| 20110022449 | Multimedia User Interfaces For Documents And Associated Digital Videos - Generating a multimedia user interface with synchronized digital video and document content can include receiving a document, receiving a digital video that corresponds to the document, generating a plurality of mappings, wherein each of the mappings maps a section of the document to a segment of the digital video, and generating a multimedia user interface responsive to the document, the digital video, and the plurality of mappings. | 01-27-2011 |
Richard C. Bourne, Davis, CA US
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| 20090126913 | Vertical counterflow evaporative cooler - An evaporative plate-type heat exchanger is provided having a plurality of alternating first plates and second plates positioned in side-by side relationship to form a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a rear surface. The first and second plates form a plurality of dry air flow passages, between first faces of the first plates and first faces of adjacent second plates, that are in communication with dry air flow inlet openings and dry air flow outlet openings formed in the front surface. The first and second plates form a plurality of dry air flow passages, between second faces of the first plates and second faces of adjacent second plates, that are in communication with wet air flow inlet openings formed in the bottom surface and with wet air flow outlet openings formed in the rear surface. A method of forming the plate-type heat exchanger includes forming alternating first plates and second plates in a continuous sheet, and folding the continuous sheet in a fan fold arrangement. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100212346 | WICKING CONDENSATE EVAPORATOR FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides an air conditioning (AC) system that evaporates its own condensate. This AC system includes a condenser coil and an evaporator coil that produces condensate. The AC system also includes a wicking-evaporative device that is configured to wick and evaporate the condensate in the vicinity of the condenser coil. | 08-26-2010 |
Richard Curtis Bourne, Davis, CA US
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| 20120055921 | Space- and Structurally-Efficient Recta-Cylinder Molded Liquid Storage Tanks - This invention is an improvement to the shape of liquid storage tanks, in particular to unpressurized molded polymer tanks used for thermal storage in solar systems. Although solar storage tanks represent the first commercial application, this invention is well suited to ambient-temperature water and chemical storage tanks as well. | 03-08-2012 |
Robert H. Bourne, New York, NY US
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| 20090313203 | PREDICTIVE WIKI OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A method, system, and device readable medium for running a predictive wiki optimization application is disclosed. The optimization application provides an improved decision-making or valuation method for formalizing and systematizing the decision-making or valuation process. The application leverages collective knowledge about a field of endeavor in order to yield better decisions or more accurate valuations. In some embodiments, the application represents an application of predictive markets within a wiki-style wrapper. | 12-17-2009 |
Sidney Bourne, Sudbury, MA US
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| 20100000943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESOLVATING FLOWING LIQUID - Methods and apparatus for desolvating flowing liquid streams while retaining temporal resolution of dissolved substrates are disclosed. A novel small-scale self-regulating spray dryer preserves temporal resolution while desolvating a liquid chromatography eluent stream and depositing the solute onto an optical surface for infrared spectrographic analysis. The liquid eluent is pumped through a heated nebulizer to create a high-speed jet of solute containing liquid and solvent vapor. This jet is directed circumferentially inside a hot cylindrical cavity. Centrifugal force causes the larger liquid droplets to travel along the outer diameter of the cavity. The cavity surface is heated to cause the droplets to film boil. Film boiling reduces droplet contact with the cavity surface thereby retaining the solute in the droplets. The solute temperature is limited by controlling the pressure into which the solvent evaporates from the droplets. When the droplets are sufficiently small, Stokes drag from the exiting solvent vapor carries the droplets out through the center of the cylindrical cavity. After exiting, the superheated solvent vapor further dries the droplets. Solvent vapor is removed by condensation onto a cooled surface. A freezing point reducing agent may be added to improve removal of solvent condensate. Stokes drag from a non-condensable gas maintains the dried droplets in suspension. This suspension travels through an orifice that focuses the impaction of the dried droplets onto the optical surface for infrared analysis. The deposition surface is in an evacuated chamber and is temperature controlled to freeze liquid solutes yet allowing sublimation of residual solvent. | 01-07-2010 |
Stephen James Bourne US
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| 20110139462 | METHODS OF INVESTIGATING AN UNDERGROUND FORMATION AND PRODUCING HYDROCARBONS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method of investigating an underground formation underneath the earth's surface, comprising obtaining a first data set representing change in a predetermined seismic parameter over a period of time for a plurality of points in the underground formation, which first data set is derived from a time-lapse seismic survey of the earth formation spanning the period of time; obtaining a second data set representing geodetic deformation over substantially the same period of time at a plurality of locations on the earth's surface, which second data set is derived from a geodetic survey spanning the period of time; jointly processing the first and second data sets to obtain a map of a parameter related to volume change in the underground formation; wherein a geomechanical model of the underground formation is postulated; also a method of producing hydrocarbons and a computer program. | 06-16-2011 |
Steve Bourne, Seattle, WA US
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| 20080215896 | Issuing a Publisher Use License Off-Line in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) System - A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20100281253 | ISSUING A PUBLISHER USE LICENSE OFF-LINE IN A DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) SYSTEM - A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license. | 11-04-2010 |
Steven Bourne, Seattle, WA US
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| 20110173605 | Automated Configuration and Installation of Virtualized Solutions - An installation system for a multiple device, multiple application solution may include options for installing and configuring one or more of the devices as virtual machines. The installation system may start from bare hardware, install a virtual machine host, and configure one or more devices as virtual machines. The installation system may provide a set of predefined configurations from which an administrator may choose, and some embodiments may provide various algorithms or optimization routines to select an appropriate configuration based on intended uses or other factors. The configurations may be customized to create one or more documents that may be consumed during the installation process to automate many configuration settings. | 07-14-2011 |
Thomas M. Bourne, Mountain View, CA US
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| 20110077672 | Devices For Installing Stasis Reducing Means In Body Tissue - Devices for insertion into an atrial appendage of stasis reducing components such as mesh members, chemical bonding agents or expandable anchors are disclosed. | 03-31-2011 |