| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080307676 | Article of Footwear with Shock Absorbing Heel System - An article of footwear with a shock absorbing heel system is disclosed. The heel system includes a lower heel plate, a set of support members, and an upper heel plate. Also, the heel system includes a heel cover configured to hide the upper heel plate from view. The lower heel plate is associated with a cantilever portion that supports the upper heel plate laterally. As force is applied to the heel system, the support members may compress slightly and the cantilever portion may lower, absorbing energy and or shocks applied by the ground. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20100170108 | Footwear With A Sole Structure Incorporating A Lobed Fluid-Filled Chamber - A fluid-filled chamber for an article of footwear and a method for manufacturing the chamber are disclosed. The chamber may be incorporated into a sole structure of the footwear and includes a central area and a plurality of lobes extending outward from the central area. The lobes are in fluid communication with the central area and are formed from a first surface, a second surface, and a sidewall. The sidewall joins with the first surface with the second surface to seal the fluid within the chamber, but no internal connections are generally utilized to join interior portions of the first surface with interior portions of the second surface. The fluid within the chamber may be air at a pressure that is approximately equal to an ambient pressure. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100170110 | Footwear With A Sole Structure Incorporating A Lobed Fluid-Filled Chamber - A fluid-filled chamber for an article of footwear and a method for manufacturing the chamber are disclosed. The chamber may be incorporated into a sole structure of the footwear and includes a central area and a plurality of lobes extending outward from the central area. The lobes are in fluid communication with the central area and are formed from a first surface, a second surface, and a sidewall. The sidewall joins with the first surface with the second surface to seal the fluid within the chamber, but no internal connections are generally utilized to join interior portions of the first surface with interior portions of the second surface. The fluid within the chamber may be air at a pressure that is approximately equal to an ambient pressure. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100251578 | Traction Elements - Traction elements for an article of footwear can include stabilizer elements. An extendable traction element for an article of footwear can include an elongatable extender attached to another portion of a sole structure. An actuator can rest within the extender and cause elongation of the extender in response to a force from the foot of a wearer. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100299961 | Article of Footwear With A Shape Correcting Member - An article of footwear with a shape correcting member is disclosed. The shape correcting member includes an inner surface associated with a portion of a foot and an outer surface disposed opposite of the inner surface. The inner surface is pre-shaped to fit the contours of a portion of the foot and the outer surface is substantially non-protruding. With this arrangement, the outer surface may facilitate accurate kicking. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100299967 | Article Of Footwear With Ball Control Portion - A ball control portion for an article of footwear is disclosed. The ball control portion includes a plurality of protrusions that are configured to bend to provide increased surface contact between an upper and a ball, such as a soccer ball. The plurality of protrusions are arranged in an arc-like configuration on the upper that generally corresponds to the curvature of a ball. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110239490 | Article of Footwear With Shock Absorbing Heel System - An article of footwear with a shock absorbing heel system is disclosed. The heel system includes a lower heel plate, a set of support members, and an upper heel plate. Also, the heel system includes a heel cover configured to hide the upper heel plate from view. The lower heel plate is associated with a cantilever portion that supports the upper heel plate laterally. As force is applied to the heel system, the support members may compress slightly and the cantilever portion may lower, absorbing energy and or shocks applied by the ground. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20110233709 | SUB-PIXEL NBN DETECTOR - A method of making a two-dimensional detector array (and of such an array) comprising, for each of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of individual detectors, forming an n-doped semiconductor photo absorbing layer, forming a barrier layer comprising one or more of AlSb, AlAsSb, AlGaAsSb, AlSb, AlGaPSb, and HgZnTe, and forming an n-doped semiconductor contact area. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120001288 | SUB-PIXEL NBN DETECTOR - A method of making a two-dimensional detector array (and of such an array) comprising, for each of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of individual detectors, forming an n-doped semiconductor photo absorbing layer, forming a barrier layer comprising one or more of AlSb, AlAsSb, AlGaAsSb, AlPSb, AlGaPSb, and HgZnTe, and forming an n-doped semiconductor contact area. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20100060924 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DRIVER FOR VIRTUAL FULFILLMENT - A system for virtual fulfillment is also disclosed. The system has one or more distributed fulfillment devices. The system also has one or more fulfillment controllers coupled to the one or more distributed fulfillment devices. The system further has a client and a virtual fulfillment driver installed on the client. The virtual fulfillment driver is configured to: a) render a document; b) bundle the rendered document into an order for later communication to the one or more fulfillment controllers; and c) communicate the order to the one or more fulfillment controllers. A related method, virtual fulfillment driver, and machine executable instructions embodied on a machine readable medium are also disclosed. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110007357 | Method of Scheduling Photograph Print Jobs - A system and method of scheduling print jobs is provided. In particular, photograph print jobs at a printing facility are scheduled by a scheduling application program which takes into account at least one parameter of each print order as the orders are received, including the time that the order is to be filled and the type of paper to be used. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110197123 | System and Method for Linking Images Between Websites to Provide High-Resolution Images From Low-Resolution Websites - A system and method that combines features of existing websites to link images between websites to create products with high-resolution images from sites that support only low-resolution data is provided. Even further, a system and method are provided for an integrated account management, image storage and product ordering means to upload images to multiple sites at once. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110251914 | System and Method for Providing Scalable and Customized Product Offerings to Customers - The present invention is directed to a data driven methodology to construct software configurations and product catalogs. A system and method are provided for tracking and maintaining large numbers of groupings of data and their interrelationships and thereby providing scalable and customized product offerings to customers. In particular, the present invention relates to a product catalog tagging methodology for specifying and making available specific product items from a catalog of products, to individual customers or locations. Such product offering of related data items include, product availability information, product descriptions and graphics, associated pricing, shipping/delivery options, product specifications (e.g., image sizes in the case of a photography related implementations), mappings of orderable products to fulfillment instructions, and specifications for centralized/common data files that may be relevant to particular fulfillment locales. | 10-13-2011 |