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De Guzman, US
Dawn Cindy De Guzman, Pleasant Hill, CA US
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| 20100261520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WAGERING BADGES - A method for wagering badges. The method includes establishing badges representing an associated event, such as a window of time that the badge was available. A predetermined criteria for the badges are established, such as an activity required for a gamer to obtain a particular badge, and a determination is made that a gamer is entitled to the badge, based on the predetermined criteria. Similarly, other gamers can also obtain badges by meeting the criteria for the badge. Each gamer, is associated with their badges and a wager or trade between gamers can be established whereby the gamers wager or trade chosen badges. Ownership of the wagered badges is then transferred based on the outcome of the wager or trade. | 10-14-2010 |
Neil De Guzman, Houston, TX US
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| 20080270328 | Building and Using Intelligent Software Agents For Optimizing Oil And Gas Wells - A system and method for monitoring processes in the production of oil and gas uses intelligent software agents employing associative memory techniques that receive data from sensors in the production environment and from other sources and perform pattern matching operations to identify normal and abnormal behavior of the well production. The agents report the behaviors to human operators or other software systems. The abnormal behavior may consist of any behavior of the production processes that is other than the desired behavior of the well. The intelligent software agents are trained to identify both specific behaviors and behaviors that have never before been observed and recognized in the well. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090276094 | Apparatus And Method For An Autonomous Robotic System For Performing Activities In A Well - An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor for additional propulsion. A control system of associated systems controls the robot, enabling the robot to share plans and goals, situations, and solution processes with wells, pipelines, and external control systems. The control system includes decision aids in a series of knowledge bases that contain the expertise in appropriate fields to provide intelligent behavior to the control system. The intelligent behavior of the control system enables real time maintenance management of wells and pipelines, through actively collecting information, goal-driven system, reasoning at multiple levels, context sensitive communication, activity performing, and estimation of the operators' intent. | 11-05-2009 |
Neil De Guzman, Weston, MA US
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| 20080275594 | Apparatus And Method For An Autonomous Robotic System For Performing Activities In A Well - An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor for additional propulsion. A control system of associated systems controls the robot, enabling the robot to share plans and goals, situations, and solution processes with wells, pipelines, and external control systems. The control system includes decision aids in a series of knowledge bases that contain the expertise in appropriate fields to provide intelligent behavior to the control system. The intelligent behavior of the control system enables real time maintenance management of wells and pipelines, through actively collecting information, goal-driven system, reasoning at multiple levels, context sensitive communication, activity performing, and estimation of the operators' intent. | 11-06-2008 |
Peter-Patrick De Guzman, Orange, CA US
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| 20090042319 | Biosensor Detection By Means Of Droplet Driving, Agitation, and Evaporation - Methods of improving microfluidic assays are disclosed. Assays can be improved (better signal to noise ratio) by using sessile drop evaporation as an analyte concentration step (enhanced signal) and repeated passes of wash droplets as a means to reduce non-specific binding (noise reduction). In addition multiple massively parallel analyses improve the statistical precision of the analyses. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090280251 | Mitigation of Biomolecular Adsorption with Hydrophilic Polymer Additives - Molecular adsorption to the microfluidic device surfaces can be passively and actively mitigated by mixing certain hydrophilic polymers (organic polymers with repeating hydrophilic groups—the preferred polymers being amphipathic surfactants—with the sample liquid during or prior to relevant microfluidic operations. Nonionic surfactants such as polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate and polyoxyethylene octyl phenyl ether are especially effective. High molecular weight polyethylene polymers are also effective. The hydrophilic polymers appear to prevent binding of the fouling molecules to the microfluidic by occupying the surface sites in place of the fouling molecules or by interacting with the fouling molecules to prevent binding of the fouling molecules the surface. When surface adsorption is thus mitigated, microfluidic devices can readily handle samples containing biomolecules to enable active sample concentration, filtering, washing, transport, mixing and other sample handling operations. | 11-12-2009 |
Veronica S. De Guzman, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20100291221 | Method of administering dose-sparing amounts of formoterol fumarate-budesonide combination particles by inhalation - Disclosed are methods, and related compositions, that include administering a dose-sparing amount of a formulation that includes inhalation particles to a subject by inhalation; wherein the inhalation particles comprise formoterol fumarate and budesonide, the formoterol fumarate and budesonide being in a distributed encapsulated morphology with respect to one another within said inhalation particles and the formoterol fumarate being in a predetermined mass ratio with regard to the budesonide within said inhalation particles. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100319694 | Delivery of powdered drug via inhalation - Described herein are hand-held inhalation devices for use with tidal breathing that deliver powdered active agents to the respiratory system. The inhalation devices deliver a unit dose of the powdered active agent over a series of inhalations during tidal breathing. Methods for using the inhalation devices and kits for inhalation delivery of various active agents are also described. | 12-23-2010 |