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Blake Daily, Chicago, IL US
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| 20110266239 | DISPLAY WITH MULTIPLE NESTING COMPONENTS - A product display includes nestable shelves and foldable uprights that allow the display to be packaged within a relatively small storage container. The uprights include three sections pivotally connected to one another and are adjustable between a folded configuration, in which the sections are at least partially nested with one another, and an unfolded configuration in which each of the uprights are generally angled relative to the other uprights. Spanning members and cross braces are coupled to and extend between the uprights. The nestable shelves can be detachably positioned at selectable heights along the upright for supporting products. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110278246 | DISPLAY HAVING VARIABLE INCLINE SHELVES - A display includes a frame and a plurality of shelves supported by the frame. Each shelf includes a product support surface having a first inclined portion adjacent a front of the display and a second inclined portion extending rearwardly from the first inclined portion. The second inclined portion having a reduced incline relative to the first inclined portion. | 11-17-2011 |
Daniel J. Daily, Westminster, CO US
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| 20110302562 | HIGHER ORDER LOGIC APPLIED TO EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR ALARM ANALYSIS, FILTERING, CORRELATION AND ROOT CAUSE - The present invention is directed to a system and method for applying second- and higher-order logic to analysis of event descriptive information, such as alarms, error messages, and fault signals. | 12-08-2011 |
Dean R. Daily, Torrance, CA US
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| 20110242663 | SPACE-BASED OCCULTER - A space-based occulter is selectively movable between stowed and deployed configurations. A base hub has a longitudinally oriented center axis. A plurality of petals are provided, each petal extending radially outward from, and spaced radially apart from, the base hub when in the deployed configuration. Each petal has a hypergaussian edge made up of a plurality of hypergaussian edge panels. Each hypergaussian edge panel defines a portion of the hypergaussian edge of the petal. Each hypergaussian edge panel is made substantially of a material having a near zero coefficient of thermal expansion. A circular central portion is located radially between the base hub and the plurality of petals. A covering skin extends laterally between the hypergaussian edges of each petal and over the circular central portion. The covering skin defines a substantially planar surface oriented substantially perpendicular to the center axis when the occulter is in the deployed configuration. | 10-06-2011 |
Jesse Daily, West Bend, WI US
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| 20110005559 | Crutch Assembly - An improved crutch assembly and walking aid is provided. The crutch assembly can be retrofitted to an existing walking aid and provides spring assisted motion. The assembly includes a ball-in-socket joint and a spring operably connecting the joint to a walking aid shaft. | 01-13-2011 |
Kevin C. Daily, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20090089291 | System and Method for Defining and Manipulating Roles and the Relationship of Roles to Other System Entities - The capability to design and implement roles in a role-based system is disclosed. The system and data architecture enable organizations to model and assign relationships between Roles and other entities in a computing environment. The complex interrelation of Groups and Roles is established in an environment where: users need not be a member of a Group to use the capabilities of a Role; Role ownership is distinct from Role usage; and Roles themselves have attributes. A collection of methods enable creation, configuration, maintenance, ownership and usage of roles and for implementing relationships between the Role and other system entities, attributes and permissions. | 04-02-2009 |
Michael A. Daily, Claremont, NC US
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| 20080211671 | SMART RFID CHECKOUT KIOSK - The invention relates to a self-checkout kiosk that utilizes RFID tags and a distance and direction RFID reader to detect sales merchandise. The kiosk includes POS software, which automatically detects items selected by a patron that have previously been received into inventory and tagged, which facilitates the completion of the sale by detecting the distance and direction of the RFID tag. The kiosk incorporates a communication system and means for the patron to communicate with a store employee located distant from the kiosk. The POS software utilizes multiple payment methods and has the capability to display advertisements based on product being detected. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080249883 | Self Checkout Kiosk and Retail Security System - A self-checkout kiosk enables a patron to purchase product carrying a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID} tag. The kiosk includes a frame defining a portal through which the patron must exit from a vending area in which product is stored and available for purchase. A card reader, bill acceptor and a computer monitor adjacent the portal enables the patron to complete a purchase transaction prior to exiting the vending area through the portal. The frame carries RFID reading antennas for detecting product being transferred through the portal. A security system responds to transfer of product through the portal without completion of a purchase transaction. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080266099 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION POINT OF SALE UNASSISTED RETAIL TRANSACTION AND DIGITAL MEDIA KIOSK - The invention relates to a self-checkout system that selectively activates an alarm when an item is determined to be stolen, engages the user regarding the purchase of the item, and informs the user of the purchase status of the item. When an item is determined to be stolen, and a number of occurrences of the item in the database indicating it is stolen is greater than a predetermined amount over a predetermined period of time, a theft detection module does not transmit a security signal to activate an alarm. The invention can also include a touch-screen display including a first portion dedicated to displaying POS transactions and online shopping and a second portion dedicated to displaying interactive digital media related to the item. Furthermore, the invention can include indicators on the touch screen display to indicate the status of an item. | 10-30-2008 |
Michael E. Daily, Highland, IL US
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| 20100303548 | Erosion control Islands in high bank stream remediation - This process will provides an efficient cost effective method for reducing and potentially alleviating high bank erosion without using rip rap stone. The process will utilize a series of geotextile islands and sand bag walls interconnected into energy deflecting, erosion control structures. Each geotextile island is constructed from a water-permeable fabric tube with a diameter up to 45 feet. This fabric may be cut into lengths of approximately five to twelve feet, with one end subsequently folded and secured to become a drop shaped geotextile island. The islands will be placed as a hard point connecting structure with an interlocking sand bag wall. | 12-02-2010 |
Robert J. Daily, Clarksville, IN US
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| 20080264432 | Device for filling a cigarette tube with a metered amount of tobacco - A device that can be designed and used manually, partially automatically or fully automatically for packing a cigarette tube with a metered, precise amount of tobacco that leads to a consistent filling of the tube to an even and complete density such that the burning rate and continuity are consistently the same, regardless of the cut of tobacco being used, and independent of operator control variables. | 10-30-2008 |
Robert M. Daily, Swann Point, MD US
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| 20100023267 | Method and system for determining cloud-to-ground lightning information - A real-time, multi-sensor local-area lightning detection network system. The system uses waveform indicative of electrostatic field changes with respect to time is generated at each of N locations due to a cloud-to-ground lightning strike occurring in the vicinity of the N locations. Each waveform is integrated to generate a corresponding electric field associated with a corresponding one of the locations. A mathematical relationship is used to determine a ground surface location of the lightning strike, height of the lightning strike, and charge per unit length of the lightning strike using each electric field generated during integration of the waveforms. | 01-28-2010 |
Stephen Richard Daily, Broken Arrow, OK US
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| 20090285102 | Manual configuration for sites that cannot give read/write credentials to a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) monitor - Read-only VoIP node configuration includes monitoring the VoIP network to determine the performance of the various nodes, and data from nodes is collected and stored. Where the nodes are not currently operating or cannot be monitored, no data is assigned in the non-operating nodes. The monitoring results are presented to a user, and misconfigured or faulty nodes are identified based upon predefined criteria. Information is then provided to a user to guide the user through the process of configuring the identified faulty/misconfigured node. The configuration commands for an appropriate network device may be presented to user so that user (with write authority) may implement and carry out the configurations commands. | 11-19-2009 |
Steve Daily, Brookfield, WI US
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| 20100165118 | PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM WITH PREDICTIVE IMAGE - A print control system is provided. The print control system comprises an image capturing device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of a printed image on a printed product of a print device. The print control device further comprises a control system comprising an input device and a module. The input device is configured to allow a user to vary a print parameter. The module is configured to calculate a predictive image based on the print parameter variation from the input device. The predictive image is representative of a resultant image on the printed product following implementation of the print parameter variation on the print device. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110286019 | PRINT IMAGING SYSTEM - A printing machine includes a high-speed print device configured to receive a print media and discharge a printed product that includes a printed image. An image capturing device is positioned adjacent the print device and is configured to capture an image of the printed image on the printed product. A computer includes a monitor, a processor, an input device, and a communication device configured to communicate with the print device. The monitor is configured to display the captured image, the input device is configured to allow a user to vary the displayed image, and the processor is configured to calculate an adjustment to the print device in response to the varied image. | 11-24-2011 |
Thomas H. Daily, Pinetop, AZ US
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| 20080250197 | Physical Tape Interchange Format - A virtual tape server for executing a method involving a partitioning of a virtual tape volume into a plurality of virtual tape blocks. The virtual tape volume includes a virtual tape volume header having recovery information, each virtual tape block includes a virtual tape block header identifying the virtual tape volume and a block sequence number, and one or more of the virtual tape blocks includes the virtual tape volume header. The method further involves a formatting of a physical tape volume including each virtual tape block. | 10-09-2008 |
William Daily, Santa Maria, CA US
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| 20080299593 | Luminogenic and fluorogenic compounds and methods to detect molecules or conditions - A method to detect the presence or amount of at least one molecule in a sample which employs a derivative of luciferin or a derivative of a fluorophore is provided. Compounds and compositions for carrying out the methods of the invention are also provided. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090023173 | Luminescence-based methods and probes for measuring cytochrome P450 activity - The invention provides compounds, compositions, methods, substrates, and kits useful for analyzing the metabolic activity in cells, tissue, and animals and for screening test compounds for their effect on cytochrome P450 activity. In particular, a one-step and two-step methods using luminogenic molecules, e.g. luciferins or coelenterazines, that are cytochrome P450 substrates and that are also bioluminescent enzyme, e.g., luciferase, pro-substrates are provided. The present method further provides a method for stabilizing and prolonging the luminescent signal in a luciferase-based assay using luciferase stabilizing agents such as reversible luciferase inhibitors. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100249427 | BIOLUMINESCENT PROTEASE ASSAY - A sensitive bioluminescent assay to detect proteases including caspases, trypsin and tryptase is provided. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110003316 | LUMINESCENCE-BASED METHODS AND PROBES FOR MEASURING CYTOCHROME P450 ACTIVITY - The present invention provides methods, compositions, substrates, and kits useful for analyzing the metabolic activity in cells, tissue, and animals and for screening test compounds for their effect on cytochrome P450 activity. In particular, a one-step and two-step methods using luminogenic molecules, e.g. luciferin or coelenterazines, that are cytochrome P450 substrates and that are also bioluminescent enzyme, e.g., luciferase, pro-substrates are provided. Upon addition of the luciferin derivative or other luminogenic molecule into a P450 reaction, the P450 enzyme metabolizes the molecule into a bioluminescent enzyme substrate, e.g., luciferin and/or luciferin derivative metabolite, in a P450 reaction. The resulting metabolite(s) serves as a substrate of the bioluminescent enzyme, e.g., luciferase, in a second light-generating reaction. Luminescent cytochrome P450 assays with low background signals and high sensitivity are disclosed and isoform selectivity is demonstrated. The present invention also provides an improved method for performing luciferase reactions which employs added pyrophosphatase to remove inorganic pyrophosphate, a luciferase inhibitor which may be present in the reaction mixture as a contaminant or may be generated during the reaction. The present method further provides a method for stabilizing and prolonging the luminescent signal in a luciferase-based assay using luciferase stabilizing agents such as reversible luciferase inhibitors. | 01-06-2011 |
William Daily, Sant Maria, CA US
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| 20080248511 | METHODS TO QUENCH LIGHT FROM OPTICAL REACTIONS - The present invention relates to single and dual reporter luminescence assays utilizing reagents to quench an optical, e.g., an enzyme-mediated luminescence, reaction. In one embodiment of the invention, a reagent is added to an assay which selectively quenches a first enzyme-mediated luminescence reaction without affecting a subsequent distinct enzyme-mediated luminescent reaction(s). An assay kit containing one or more selective quench reagents, and compositions comprising the quench reagent(s), are also provided. | 10-09-2008 |
W. Mark Daily, Denver, CO US
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| 20100064001 | Distributed Processing - A distributed processing system for acquiring utility usage information from customer facilities, processing the utility usage information, and delivering the utility usage information in formats that facilitate understanding by end-users. The distributed processing system may include a server system that may store utility usage information, generate real-time alert messages, and create spreadsheet report attachments that may be pushed to end-users. Some of the spreadsheet reports may include a number of navigations buttons allowing a user to toggle between various tools that analyze utility usage information. | 03-11-2010 |