Brent, US
David A. Brent, Torrance, CA US
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20120235848 | METAMATERIAL FOR A RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - A metamaterial for a radio frequency communications apparatus is disclosed. The metamaterial can comprise a flex circuit and an array of circuit elements mounted on the flex circuit. Each of the circuit elements can comprise a conductive trace and at least one hybrid component electrically coupled to the conductive trace. | 09-20-2012 |
Donald E. Brent, Phoneix, AZ US
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20090132157 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING VARIABLE OFFSET PATHS - A method is provided for constructing an offset, and includes constructing the capture path, which includes selecting a capture path start point on a first leg of the flight path and selecting a first capture path angle; determining whether a first capture path segment extending from the capture path start point at the first capture path angle intersects a) a first bisector or b) a first bisector backcourse; establishing, if the first capture path segment intersects the first bisector backcourse, the first capture path segment as the capture path; establishing, if the first capture path segment intersects the first bisector, the intersection as a first point; determining one or more subsequent capture path segments until the one or more subsequent capture path segments intersect a subsequent bisector; and establishing the first capture path segment and the one or more subsequent capture path segments as the capture path. | 05-21-2009 |
Fred D. Brent, Houston, TX US
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20090163347 | Recovery of slurry unsupported catalyst - A method of recovering unsupported fine catalyst from heavy oil comprises combining a slurry comprising unsupported fine catalyst in heavy oil with solvent to form a combined slurry-solvent stream. The combined slurry-solvent stream is filtered in a deoiling zone. A stream comprising unsupported fine catalyst and solvent is recovered from the deoiling zone. Unsupported fine catalyst is separated from the stream comprising unsupported fine catalyst and solvent. Filtering in the deoiling zone can comprise filtering the slurry and solvent through a cross-flow microfiltration unit, recovering a retentate stream of the cross-flow microfiltration unit, combining the retentate stream of the cross-flow microfiltration unit with solvent to form a combined retentate-solvent stream, and filtering the combined retentate-solvent stream through a cross-flow microfiltration unit. | 06-25-2009 |
Harper Brent, Blackfoot, ID US
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20120199713 | SUPPORT BRACKET AND METHOD OF USE - An improved support bracket is provided which may include a channel having spaced top and bottom walls and a connecting wall having a first and second end. The bracket may include at least one engagement member for releasably engaging a structural member, such as shelving, and a guide to facilitate attachment of the bracket to the structural member. The connecting wall of the bracket may be bent or angled. Thus, the bracket may releasably engage at least two structural members disposed at an angle relative to each other such that the inner surface of the connecting wall is substantially flush with the outer edge of the structural members. Brackets may be made such that the connecting wall is bent or angled to different degrees. | 08-09-2012 |
Jason B. Brent, Foothill Ranch, CA US
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20100088703 | Multi-core system with central transaction control - There is provided a multi-core system that includes a lower-subsystem including a first processor and a number of slave processing cores. Each of the slave processing cores can be a coprocessor or a digital signal processor. The first processor is configured to control processing on the slave processing cores and includes a system dispatcher configured to control transactions for execution on the slave processing cores. The system dispatcher is configured to generate the transactions to be executed on the slave processing cores. The first processor can include a number of hardware drivers for receiving the transactions from the system dispatcher and providing the transactions to the slave processing cores for execution. The multi-core system can further include an upper sub-system in communication with the lower-subsystem and including a second processor configured to provide protocol processing. | 04-08-2010 |
20100131955 | Highly distributed parallel processing on multi-core device - There is provided a highly distributed multi-core system with an adaptive scheduler. By resolving data dependencies in a given list of parallel tasks and selecting a subset of tasks to execute based on provided software priorities, applications can be executed in a highly distributed manner across several types of slave processing cores. Moreover, by overriding provided priorities as necessary to adapt to hardware or other system requirements, the task scheduler may provide for low-level hardware optimizations that enable the timely completion of time-sensitive workloads, which may be of particular interest for real-time applications. Through this modularization of software development and hardware optimization, the conventional demand on application programmers to micromanage multi-core processing for optimal performance is thus avoided, thereby streamlining development and providing a higher quality end product. | 05-27-2010 |
Jered G. Brent, Indianapolis, IN US
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20150198461 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING CONTROLLER CONFIGURED FOR KEYBOARD EMULATION - A portable electronic device includes a housing including a computer communication interface and a controller configured for generating, onboard the portable electronic device, a current measure of dynamic information. The portable electronic device also includes a memory storing the current measure and a website address. The controller includes a keyboard emulator providing keystroke data over the computer communication interface to launch an internet browser, navigate to the website address, and transmit the current measure. A specific device driver does not need to be installed on a computer for the portable electronic device to automatically launch the internet browser, navigate to the website address, and transmit the current measure when the portable electronic device is connected to communicate with the computer. | 07-16-2015 |
Kenneth W. Brent, Murphy, TX US
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20130229282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT (PSAP) DISCREET ALERT SYSTEM - A method, apparatus and system for automatically generating an e911 alert are provided in a public safety answering point (PSAP) server including at least one messaging interface supporting message-based interaction with one or more user devices, wherein in response to a request for assistance message including location information associated with a user device, the PSAP server determines the emergency services resources proximate the requesting device and communicates location information associated with the requesting device toward the determined emergency services resources. | 09-05-2013 |
20140004819 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Telephone Service | 01-02-2014 |
Kenneth W. Brent, Aurora, IL US
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20100302944 | System & method for load spreading - Various method and apparatus are provided directed to load allocation. In one embodiment, a distributor distributes a load to one of a plurality of peer nodes, each peer node having associated thereto a corresponding scalar based on a load factor value, the scalar of the one peer node satisfying a load management condition. The corresponding scalar of the plurality of peer nodes may be tested in a sequentially order until the load management condition is satisfied by the scalar of the one peer nodes. Testing may include threshold testing and begin with the scalar of a last remote peer node to which a most recent prior load was distributed. When the load management condition is satisfied by a scalar, it is decremented based on the load factor value, which may approximate a first number divided by the number of peer nodes in the plurality. | 12-02-2010 |
Nelson S. Brent, Bradenton, FL US
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20100084359 | Plastic Container - A plastic container, especially suitable for long-term storage of beverages that are hot filled into the containers, having in one embodiment four relatively flat vacuum panels, having in another embodiment a seven layer polymeric material with a nylon interior layer, and having in another embodiment a combination of the other embodiments. | 04-08-2010 |
Randall J. Brent, Solon, OH US
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20090084471 | METHODS FOR TREATING A FERROUS METAL SUBSTRATE - Disclosed are methods for treating and coating a ferrous metal substrate, such as cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, and electrogalvanized steel. These methods include contacting the ferrous metal substrate with an aqueous pretreatment composition comprising: (a) a Group IIIB and/or IVB metal compound; (b) phosphate ions; and (c) water. | 04-02-2009 |
20120076940 | METHODS FOR TREATING A FERROUS METAL SUBSTRATE - Disclosed are methods for treating and coating a ferrous metal substrate, such as cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, and electrogalvanized steel. These methods include contacting the ferrous metal substrate with an aqueous pretreatment composition comprising: (a) a Group IIIB and/or IVB metal compound; (b) phosphate ions; and (c) water. | 03-29-2012 |
20140272405 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AND TREATING A STEEL SUBSTRATE - Disclosed are methods for treating metal substrates, including ferrous substrates, such as cold rolled steel and electrogalvanized steel. The methods include contacting the metal substrates with a conditioning composition including a free fluoride source and then depositing a pretreatment composition including a Group IIIB and/or IVB metal on a portion of the substrate contacted with the conditioning composition. Also disclosed are electrophoretically coated substrates treated by the methods. | 09-18-2014 |
Roger Brent, Cambridge, MA US
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20090130676 | Interaction trap systems for detecting protein interactions - Disclosed herein is a method of determining whether a first protein is capable of physically interacting with a second protein, involving: (a) providing a host cell which contains (i) a reporter gene operably linked to a protein binding site; (ii) a first fusion gene which expresses a first fusion protein, the first fusion protein including the first protein covalently bonded to a binding moiety which is capable of specifically binding to the protein binding site; and (iii) a second fusion gene which expresses a second fusion protein, the second fusion protein including the second protein covalently bonded to a gene activating moiety and being conformationally-constrained; and (b) measuring expression of the reporter gene as a measure of an interaction between the first and the second proteins. Also disclosed are methods for assaying protein interactions, and identifying antagonists and agonists of protein interactions. Proteins isolated by these methods are also discussed. Finally, populations of eukaryotic cells are disclosed, each cell having a recombinant DNA molecule encoding a conformationally-constrained intracellular peptide. | 05-21-2009 |
Taylor W. Brent, San Francisco, CA US
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20160055421 | HEURISTIC GRAPH EMBEDDING METHODS FOR ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION OPTIMIZATION - Methods are provided for implementing schemes for embedding a particular optimization problem into a particular hardware solution employing unique graph embedding techniques. The disclosed methods implement an adiabatic quantum optimization in a quantum computing device or a quantum processor. Heuristics for graph minor embedding are employed to map a problem graph structure of a particular binary unconstrained optimization problem onto a physical graph structure (topology) of the quantum computing device or quantum processor to provide an optimized hardware implementation. Known constraints that are presented with current schemes in their application to particular hardware solutions are avoided, including limited qubit connectivity and the presence of faulty qubits. | 02-25-2016 |
Timothy J. Brent, Johnson City, TN US
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20110064600 | CO-SINTERED MULTI-SYSTEM TUNGSTEN ALLOY COMPOSITE - A composite is produced by the steps of (a) blending a first mixture of metallic powders; (b) compacting the blended first mixture of metallic powders to a plurality of discretely shaped articles; (c) blending a second mixture of metallic powders; (d) mixing the plurality of discretely shaped articles with the blended second mixture of metallic powders to form a precursor blend; (e) compacting the precursor blend; and (f) sintering the precursor blend. The composite has a metallic matrix with embedded shapes dispersed throughout the matrix where the embedded shapes have an incipient liquid phase sintering temperature less than an incipient liquid phase sintering temperature of the matrix. | 03-17-2011 |