Dollar, US
Aaron Dollar, New Haven, CT US
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20090302626 | Robust Compliant Adaptive Grasper and Method of Manufacturing Same - A mechanical grasping system that is both simple to fabricate and operate and robust. A multi-fingered hand may be driven by a single actuator, yet can grasp objects spanning a wide range of size, shape, and mass. The hand may be constructed using polymer-based Shape Deposition Manufacturing, with joints formed by elastomeric flexures and actuator and sensor components embedded in tough rigid polymers. The passively compliant, adaptive hand has superior robustness properties, able to withstand large impacts without damage and capable of grasping objects in the presence of large positioning errors, appropriate for use in unstructured and/or human environments. | 12-10-2009 |
20140276304 | Friction-Based Orthotic Impedence Modulation Device - The present invention relates to an impedance modulation device for an orthotic application. The device includes a high-stiffness loading spring, a low-stiffness return spring, a shaft having an output connector, and an engagement mechanism. When the engagement mechanism engages the shaft, the device exhibits a high stiffness at the output connector, and wherein when the engagement mechanism disengages the shaft, the device exhibits a low stiffness at the output connector. | 09-18-2014 |
Christopher Dollar, Oceanside, CA US
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20150107630 | Systems and Methods for Cleaning Glassware - Removal of spots from glassware may benefit from various techniques and systems. For example, glassware may benefit from a steamer that can be configured to individually steam an item of glassware to remove unsightly spots caused by the drying of hard water, or similar causes. A system can include a steam generator configured to generate steam. The system can also include a distributor configured to apply the steam to an item of glassware. The system can further include an enclosure configured to support the item of glassware during steam application and retain the steam. | 04-23-2015 |
Elliott B. Dollar, Port Neches, TX US
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20140202367 | Weight Distribution Device and Method for Modifying Wake - The present invention is a device mounted on a watercraft that creates a method of systematic weight distribution, which modifies a vessel's wake as it travels through water. The device uses systematically moveable ballast object(s) that are supported in a variety of positions along a specified path. As a ballast object is selectively moved towards a specific extremity of a watercraft, it causes that side or end to sink deeper in the water, and raises the opposing side or end, thus controlling or influencing the vessel's relative position on a body of water. When the watercraft is operating at higher speeds, the invention's ability to control the vessels' position allows an operator to selectively control the shape, size and slope of the watercraft's wake, as referenced in the disclosed method. | 07-24-2014 |
Graeme R. Dollar, Menlo Park, CA US
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20090313345 | CLEARINGHOUSE FOR MESSAGES BETWEEN DISPARATE NETWORKS - A system and method are directed towards managing interoperability between disparate IM networks. A clearinghouse server is provided that receives IM messages from disparate IM networks. The clearinghouse server examines the IM message to determine it is in a compatible protocol for a destination IM network. If the IM message is incompatible a translation service is used to translate the message into a compatible protocol. The translation service further determines if the destination IM network supports a feature employed by the received IM message. If the feature is supported or can be translated to a supported feature, the translation service will also perform the feature translation. Otherwise, the translation service may return an error message indicating that the received IM message includes an unsupported feature for the destination IM network. Upon satisfactory translation, the clearinghouse server forwards the translated IM message towards the destination IM network. | 12-17-2009 |
20120271897 | CLEARINGHOUSE FOR MESSAGES BETWEEN DISPARATE NETWORKS - A system and method are directed towards managing interoperability between disparate IM networks. A clearinghouse server is provided that receives IM messages from disparate IM networks. The clearinghouse server examines the IM message to determine it is in a compatible protocol for a destination IM network. If the IM message is incompatible a translation service is used to translate the message into a compatible protocol. The translation service further determines if the destination IM network supports a feature employed by the received IM message. If the feature is supported or can be translated to a supported feature, the translation service will also perform the feature translation. Otherwise, the translation service may return an error message indicating that the received IM message includes an unsupported feature for the destination IM network. Upon satisfactory translation, the clearinghouse server forwards the translated IM message towards the destination IM network. | 10-25-2012 |
James E. Dollar, Austin, TX US
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20090193118 | Non-centralized network device management using console communications apparatus - A apparatus for the management of one or more wide area or local area network connected devices by a collocated managing device. The managing device includes communications connectivity to each of the managed devices via a console connection and optionally via shared local area network connections. Additionally, the managing device includes a control system and a database. The device is designed to operate securely and operate autonomously or coupled with an external device, for example a management system, or a user. | 07-30-2009 |
20110055367 | SERIAL PORT FORWARDING OVER SECURE SHELL FOR SECURE REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKED DEVICES - A system and method for the management of one or more wide area or local area network connected devices by a collocated managing device. The managing device uses serial port forwarding over a secure connection, such as a secure shell connection, to allow a centrally located administrative user to control the managed device. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055899 | SECURE REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK DEVICES WITH LOCAL PROCESSING AND SECURE SHELL FOR REMOTE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION - A system and method for the management of one or more wide area or local area network connected devices by a collocated managing device. The managing device forwards information in graphical form using a secure connection to a remotely located administrative user workstation. | 03-03-2011 |
James R. Dollar, Orange Beach, AL US
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20120180543 | THREADED REBAR MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention comprise forming a billet from molten steel and hot rolling the billet to reduce the cross sectional area of the billet. Thereafter, the billet is hot rolled into a lead pass bar having a cross-sectional area comprising a reduced width dimension located adjacent to the center longitudinal axis of the bar. In one embodiment of the invention, the billet can be formed into a lead pass bar having a cross-sectional area in the shape of an hourglass or peanut by feeding the billet through a first set of rolls. After the lead pass bar is formed, it is passed through a second set of rolls in order to form the substantially continuous threaded rebar without longitudinal ribs. The cross-sectional area of the lead pass bar helps to produce a substantially continuous threaded rebar product without longitudinal ribs using standard rebar manufacturing tooling and equipment. | 07-19-2012 |
Jocelyn Dollar, Redmond, WA US
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20110055696 | GLOBE CONTAINER - A globe container includes a front-side spherical cap. A plurality of content items are arranged with a convex three-dimensional perspective on the front-side spherical cap. The globe container has a changeable virtual orientation that determines which of the plurality of content items are arranged with the convex three-dimensional perspective on the front-side spherical cap. The globe container allows selection of any of the content items displayed on the front-side spherical cap. | 03-03-2011 |
Michael L. Dollar, Garland, TX US
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20090076439 | Inflation System for Balloon Catheter - The present invention is directed towards an inflation system for a balloon catheter that automatically determines and outputs a balloon diameter. The present invention is also directed towards an inflation system that automatically controls the surgical procedure using the balloon diameter. | 03-19-2009 |
20090076446 | ADJUSTABLE CATHETER FOR DILATION IN THE EAR, NOSE OR THROAT - The improved balloon catheter includes a first tubular segment, which has multiple zones of differing malleability along its length. The catheter further includes a coaxially aligned hypotube formed of a malleable material, which is positioned within the lumen of the first tubular segment and extends from the distal end of the first tubular segment. In one embodiment the hypotube runs the length of the first tubular segment; while in another embodiment, the hypotube runs along only a portion of the length of the first tubular segment. A portion of the outer circumferential surface of the hypotube is permanently affixed and sealed to an inner circumferential surface of the first tubular segment in the vicinity of the distal end of the first tubular segment. The outer circumference of the distal end of the first tubular segment is gently tapered along its length so as to smoothly transition to the circumference of the hypotube. The hypotube terminates with an atraumatic tip and includes a balloon dilator affixed near the tip. An aperture near the tip of the hypotube fluidly connects the interior of the balloon with the lumen of the hypotube enabling the balloon to selectively expand and contract. | 03-19-2009 |
20090088728 | MALLEABLE SLEEVE FOR BALLOON CATHETER AND ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL METHOD - The present invention is directed towards a malleable sleeve used in conjunction with a multi-lumen catheter with an expandable device, such as a balloon, incorporated into its surface. The malleable sleeve allows the catheter to be pre-formed into a shape that corresponds with the shape of the nasal passageway. The present invention also covers endoscopic surgical methods utilizing the malleable sleeve. | 04-02-2009 |
20130190717 | Cardioplegia Apparatus and Method - A microplegia console for controlling the delivery of cardioplegia to a patient, comprising an integrated display/touch screen for displaying cardioplegia information and patient information and allowing inputting of parameters via the display/touch screen into the console for computer-controlled perfusion of cardioplegia into the patient. The invention further comprises a method for delivery of cardioplegia to a patient, including defining and selecting a protocol from a displayed list and sequencing a series of the protocols. The invention also comprises a method for cardioplegia delivery to achieve aortic valve closure. Additionally, the invention comprises a method for activating an icon whereby, upon a first selection of the icon, displaying an indicia indicating that the icon has been first selected; and upon a second selection of the icon, activating the icon. | 07-25-2013 |
Piotr Dollar, Redmond, WA US
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20140169688 | CROSSTALK CASCADES FOR USE IN OBJECT DETECTION - Technologies pertaining to object detection are described herein. A cascaded classifier executes over subwindows of an image in a plurality of stages. A crosstalk cascade is employed to reject subwindows as being candidates for including an object that is desirably detected, where the crosstalk cascade is a combination of multiple cascades. | 06-19-2014 |
20140270489 | LEARNED MID-LEVEL REPRESENTATION FOR CONTOUR AND OBJECT DETECTION - Various technologies described herein pertain to constructing mid-level sketch tokens for use in tasks, such as object detection and contour detection. Sketch patches can be extracted from binary images that comprise hand-drawn contours. The hand-drawn contours in the binary images can correspond to contours in training images. The sketch patches can be clustered to form sketch token classes. Moreover, color patches from the training images can be extracted and low-level features of the color patches can be computed. Further, a classifier that labels mid-level sketch tokens can be trained. Such training of the classifier can be through supervised learning of a mapping from the low-level features of the color patches to the sketch token classes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140341474 | MOTION STABILIZATION AND DETECTION OF ARTICULATED OBJECTS - The techniques and systems described herein are directed to isolating part-centric motion in a visual scene and stabilizing (e.g., removing) motion in the visual scene that is associated with camera-centric motion and/or object-centric motion. By removing the motion that is associated with the camera-centric motion and/or the object-centric motion, the techniques are able to focus motion feature extraction mechanisms (e.g., temporal differencing) on the isolated part-centric motion. The extracted motion features may then be used to recognize and/or detect the particular type of object and/or estimate a pose or position of a particular type of object. | 11-20-2014 |
20140376770 | STEREOSCOPIC OBJECT DETECTION LEVERAGING ASSUMED DISTANCE - A method of object detection includes receiving a first image taken by a first stereo camera, receiving a second image taken by a second stereo camera, and offsetting the first image relative to the second image by an offset distance selected such that each corresponding pixel of offset first and second images depict a same object locus if the object locus is at an assumed distance from the first and second stereo cameras. The method further includes locating a target object in the offset first and second images. | 12-25-2014 |
William Dollar, Renton, WA US
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20110035593 | ESTABLISHING SECURE MUTUAL TRUST USING AN INSECURE PASSWORD - A process for establishing secure mutual trust includes generating a one-time-password. The one-time-password is transferred between the devices in a communication occurring off of the network. Each device generates a set of authenticators by hashing a plurality of sub-strings of the password and the device's authentication certificate with a respective set of nonces. The devices exchange the respective sets of authenticators. Each device then alternates revealing its respective set of nonces and its authentication certificate in a multi-stage process. The devices re-calculate the authenticators based upon the respective set of nonces and authentication certificate revealed by the other device along with the one-time-password sub-strings that it posses. If each device determines that the authenticators re-calculated by the given device matches the authenticators previously received from the other device, secure mutual trust is established. | 02-10-2011 |
William A. Dollar, Seattle, WA US
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20120297324 | Navigation Control Availability - Techniques for navigation control availability are described that provide dynamic navigation controls configured to remain available throughout viewing operations including scrolling and resizing. A page of content (e.g., a webpage or document) having one or more dynamic navigation controls can be rendered within a viewing pane of a client application. Dynamic navigation controls within the page can be detected by parsing code associated with the page that defines the controls. When a viewing operation is performed that changes the display of the rendered page, the detected navigation controls can be dynamically adjusted to remain visually available according to associated behaviors. Behaviors associated with dynamic navigation controls can include, for example, docking of the controls to a visible position in or adjacent to the viewing pane, relocating of the controls, and/or resizing of the controls within the rendered page to keep the controls visible. | 11-22-2012 |
20130152040 | GENERATING TASK DURATION ESTIMATES FOR CONTENT INGESTION - Embodiments establish duration estimates for tasks associated with media content ingestion, such as in application or game production. A content ingestion system receives a content submission request from a publisher. The request identifies a media content type that has a plurality of associated tasks. Based on previous submissions from the publisher, duration estimates for the tasks are generated and adjusted based on historical transaction data associated with other publishers (e.g., global averages). The duration estimates are provided to the publishers along with, for example, start and end dates for the tasks presented on a calendar or other workback schedule. | 06-13-2013 |