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Benjamin Fairbanks, Boulder, CO US
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| 20100291357 | HYDROGELS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to hydrogels and methods for producing and using the same. In particular, some embodiments of the invention relate to hydrogels and methods for patterning the same. | 11-18-2010 |
Charles Fairbanks, Liverpool, NY US
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| 20100017083 | Traction Control System for 4WD/AWD Vehicles - A method controls a powertrain that directs power from an engine and a transmission to all four wheels or to just front wheels or to just rear wheels. The method includes monitoring information transmitted over a communications network. The method determines whether one or more components of the powertrain are in an active condition or in an inactive condition. The one or more components of the powertrain are in the inactive condition when not connected to the transmission and not connected to the front wheels or the rear wheels. The one or more components of the powertrain are in the active condition when connected to the transmission and connected to the front wheels and the rear wheels. The method switches the one or more components of the powertrain between the inactive condition and the active condition based only on the information from the communications network and without intervention from a user. | 01-21-2010 |
Clifford D. Fairbanks, Plano, TX US
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| 20080218630 | Content-Dependent Scan Rate Converter with Adaptive Noise Reduction - A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate converter is able to perform the tasks of film-mode detection, motion-adaptive scan rate conversion, and content-dependent video noise reduction. Adaptive video noise reduction is incorporated in the process where temporal noise reduction is performed on the still parts of the image, thus preserving high detail spatial information, and data-adaptive spatial noise reduction is performed on the moving parts of the image. A low-pass filter is used in flat fields to smooth out Gaussian noise and a direction-dependent median filter is used in the presence of impulsive noise or an edge. Therefore, the selected spatial filter is optimized for the particular pixel that is being processed to maintain crisp edges. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100246992 | Content-Dependent Scan Rate Converter with Adaptive Noise Reduction - A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate converter is able to perform the tasks of film-mode detection, motion-adaptive scan rate conversion, and content-dependent video noise reduction. Adaptive video noise reduction is incorporated in the process where temporal noise reduction is performed on the still parts of the image, thus preserving high detail spatial information, and data-adaptive spatial noise reduction is performed on the moving parts of the image. A low-pass filter is used in flat fields to smooth out Gaussian noise and a direction-dependent median filter is used in the presence of impulsive noise or an edge. Therefore, the selected spatial filter is optimized for the particular pixel that is being processed to maintain crisp edges. | 09-30-2010 |
Cody Fairbanks, Salt Lake City, UT US
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| 20100319105 | Facial Spacer Device and Associated Methods - The present invention provides systems and methods for decreasing breath condensation on a facial garment or covering. In one aspect, for example, a system for creating a breathing space between a facial covering and a subject's mouth and nose can include a facial covering operable to at least partially encircle at least a portion of a subject's head and/or neck and a facial spacer operable to be removably positioned between the facial covering and the subject adjacent the subject's mouth and nose. The facial spacer is free to move relative to the facial covering when the facial covering is in position adjacent the subject's mouth and nose. | 12-23-2010 |
Douglas Fairbanks, Beach Park, IL US
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| 20090173581 | Air Tool Oil Apparatus - An air tool oil apparatus is disclosed that may be used by all automotive mechanics to provide easy and convenient maintenance of all air tool equipment. The air tool apparatus may include a holding tank, a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion may include a vent and a fill plug. The bottom portion may include a nozzle and a drain valve positioned above the nozzle. The apparatus may further include a valve actuator configured to open and close the drain valve. The valve actuator may be embodied in different forms including a side mounted push-button, a lever, and a movable nozzle. | 07-09-2009 |
Dylan M. Fairbanks, Oakland, CA US
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| 20110088387 | Methods of manufacturing highly integrated SMA actuators - A shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator assembly is provided that includes an SMA component. The SMA component is used to impart motion in an output shaft. Also provided is a return force component that provides a variable, tailored return force to the SMA component. Additionally, a variety of protective mechanisms are disclosed and utilized to prevent damage to the internal workings and components within the SMA actuator assembly as well as provide protection and safety for external workings. | 04-21-2011 |
Dylan Miller Fairbanks, Oakland, CA US
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| 20100023133 | Semi-actuated transfemoral prosthetic knee - A semi-actuated above knee prosthetic system, which is mostly passive in nature and includes a shank link coupled to an artificial foot, a knee mechanism connected to the shank link and a thigh link attached to an above-knee remaining lower limb of an amputee, is operable in either an actuated mode or an un-actuated mode controlled by a signal processor linked to various prosthetic mounted sensors. In the actuated mode, power is delivered to a torque generator connected to the knee mechanism to cause a forced movement between the thigh and shank links. In the un-actuated mode, a control circuit operates in a non-powered manner to allow operation of the knee mechanism with modulated resistance. Power is delivered through an electric motor connected to a battery source and employed to drive a hydraulic pump which is part of an overall hydraulic power unit including the torque generator. | 01-28-2010 |
Eric Fairbanks, Fountain Valley, CA US
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| 20100243688 | WRISTWATCH BAND WITH LONGITUDINAL, TRANSVERSE AND TORSIONAL FLEXIBILITY - The present invention relates generally to a wristband, and in particular, to a wristband for a watch, wherein the watchband can flex and pivot about a longitudinal axis extending the length of the watchband and a transverse axis extending across the width of the watchband. The watchband has a plurality of segments spaced along its length, and each segment has a first and second adjacent section extending across the width of the watchband. Each segment can pivot about the transverse axis, and each section can pivot about the longitudinal axis. The watchband can stretch in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction. | 09-30-2010 |
Flyod Fairbanks, Naugatuck, CT US
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| 20110123889 | Fuel Cell Supply Including Information Storage Device and Control System - The present invention is directed to a fuel cell system with various features for optimal operations of an electronic device, a battery charger or a fuel refilling device. The fuel cell system includes an information storage device associated with the fuel supply, pump and/or refitting device. The information storage device can be any electronic storage device including, but not limited to, an EEPROM or a PLA. The information storage device can include encrypted information. The information storage device can include software code for confirming the identification of the cartridge before operation of the electronic device and/or refilling device. The information storage device can include instructions for a hot swap operation to shut down property when the fuel supply is ejected while the electronic device is in operation. The present invention is also directed to system architecture for a fuel cell system that utilizes information storage devices. The system architecture may have flow regulators, which include a regulating valve. | 05-26-2011 |
Jason Brooks Fairbanks, Salt Lake City, UT US
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| 20090108538 | Two-Component Seal With Integral Locking Feature To Prevent Relative Rotation - A rotary seal is provided. The rotary seal includes an annular seal element having a sealing surface. The seal element further includes a surface opposite of the sealing surface including a first coupling portion. The rotary seal also includes an annular energizer including a second coupling portion complementary to the first coupling portion. The first and second coupling portions engage so as to inhibit relative rotation between the seal element and the energizer. | 04-30-2009 |
John Fairbanks, San Diego, CA US
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| 20100150348 | RFID AUTHENTICATION ARCHITECTURE AND METHODS FOR RFID AUTHENTICATION - A method for mutual authentication in an RFID system comprising an RFID reader and an RFID tag, the method comprising requesting an identification from the tag, receiving the identification, using the received identification to select a password associated with the identification, generating a password key based on the selected password, encrypting the selected password using the password key, and transmitting the encrypted password to the tag. | 06-17-2010 |
Larry R. Fairbanks, Columbus, OH US
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| 20090056257 | FOAMING OF SIMULATED STONE STRUCTURES - Simulated stone, masonry, and brick textured products such as siding having a foam backing or with the hollow parts injected with foam or molded with foam in one or more steps, obtained when specially selected materials are properly admixed and formed via molding techniques. The foam backing is applied to the product in either a one or two step process. The foam backing may be used on panels, wall structures, and other products that may have contoured and textured surfaces and may simulate the appearance of conventional building and construction materials including, but not limited to, stone, brick, masonry, concrete, stucco, wood, other conventional building materials, and combinations of any of these materials are disclosed. The foam backing provides improves thermal insulation, improved sound reduction, improved rigidity, and improved dimensional stability. The disclosed invention is not limited to products in the building or construction industries and may be applied in the manufacture of a wide variety of products in other industries. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090062413 | COMPOSITION OF FILLERS WITH PLASTICS FOR PRODUCING SUPERIOR BUILDING MATERIALS - The use of high aspect fillers in the production of simulated stone, masonry and brick textured products such as cladding, siding, panels, or other building and construction materials. High aspect fillers increase the dimensional stability, rigidity, thermal and sound insulation. The high aspect fillers may be included into a matrix polymer with or without chemical bonding. The disclosed invention is not limited to products in the building or construction industries and may be applied in the manufacture of a wide variety of products in other industries. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090062431 | COMPOSITION OF MATTER - Composition of matter for the production of simulated stone, masonry, and brick textured products. Exemplary embodiments of panels, wall structures, and other products may have contoured and textured surfaces and may simulate the appearances of conventional building or construction materials including, but not limited to, stone, bricks, masonry, concrete, stucco, wood, or other conventional building materials, and combinations of any of these materials are disclosed. The disclosed invention is not limited to products in the building or construction industries and may be applied in the manufacture of a wide variety of products in other industries. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20110185662 | FOAMING OF SIMULATED STONE STRUCTURES - Simulated stone, masonry, and brick textured products such as siding having a foam backing or with the hollow parts injected with foam or molded with foam in one or more steps, obtained when specially selected materials are properly admixed and formed via molding techniques. The foam backing is applied to the product in either a one or two step process. The foam backing may be used on panels, wall structures, and other products that may have contoured and textured surfaces and may simulate the appearance of conventional building and construction materials including, but not limited to, stone, brick, masonry, concrete, stucco, wood, other conventional building materials, and combinations of any of these materials are disclosed. The foam backing provides improves thermal insulation, improved sound reduction, improved rigidity, and improved dimensional stability. The disclosed invention is not limited to products in the building or construction industries and may be applied in the manufacture of a wide variety of products in other industries. | 08-04-2011 |
Michael Fairbanks, Lindon, UT US
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| 20110209064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL DESKTOP EXTENSIONS ON A CLIENT DESKTOP - The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud. | 08-25-2011 |
Michael David Fairbanks, Katy, TX US
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| 20110303413 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING FLUID FROM AN IN SITU CONVERSION PROCESS - A system that includes a plurality of heat sources configured to heat a portion of a formation is described. At least one production well is in the formation. A bottom portion of the production well is a sump in an underburden of the formation below the heated portion of the formation. Fluids from the heated portion of the formation are allowed to flow into the sump. A pump system has an inlet in the sump. A production conduit is coupled to the pump system. The production conduit is configured to transport fluids in the sump out of the formation. | 12-15-2011 |
Putnam R. Fairbanks, Thousand Oaks, CA US
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| 20110283946 | Combination storage, dispensing and feeding device for domestic animals - A feeding device that is comprised of an outer containment module and inner compression device, so configured that a multiplicity of disposable liners can be nested within the device and then be individually dispensed as required for each new feeding. The disposable liners are held inside the bowl without need for mechanical hinges, moving rims or retaining devices, but rather by a very careful cooperation between the size of the liners and an inwardly extending retaining flange or lip on the top inner edge of the containment module. This unique design allows the user to simply press liners into the device or peel them out, whenever the circumstances require it. The compression device in the bottom of the containment module supports the liners and continuously keeps the supply of disposable liners conveniently staged at the top edge of the module, as well as keeps them from moving during feedings. | 11-24-2011 |
Robert Paul Fairbanks, Cincinnati, OH US
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| 20090142496 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS - A method for fabricating a reinforced matrix composite comprising the step of providing a composite preform having a fibrous structure and applying matrix material onto the preform in locations along the preform. A barrier material is applied to at least a portion of the coated preform to direct the flow of matrix material into the preform. The composite preform is heated to a temperature sufficient to render the matrix material viscous and insufficient to cure the matrix material. The pressure to the interior of the composite preform is reduced, while the pressure to the barrier material is increased. The temperature is maintained to flow the matrix material into the composite preform and to force gases from the fibrous structure. The composite preform is then cured and cooled to form a reinforced matrix composite having a low void content and a substantially uniform matrix distribution. | 06-04-2009 |
Ronald Ray Fairbanks, Haymarket, VA US
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| 20110116728 | EDGE RINGING ARTIFACT SUPPRESSION METHODS AND APPARATUSES - In some embodiments, the present invention relates to methods or suppressing edge ringing in images. For example, in some embodiments a method of processing an image to suppress ringing and broadened edges induced by image correction processing, includes high-pass filtering a first image to obtain a second image, processing said second image including applying non-linear apodization to said second image to obtain a third image, low-pass filtering said first image to obtain a fourth image, and combining the third image and the fourth image to obtain an output image, wherein the output image is characterized by having reduced edge-response sidelobes as compared to the first images. In some embodiments, the present invention relates to devices comprising means and/or modules to suppress edge ringing in images. | 05-19-2011 |
Scott M. Fairbanks, Mountain View, CA US
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| 20080238474 | BOOSTER CIRCUITS FOR REDUCING LATENCY - A booster circuit for reducing the nominal latency of a logic gate. The booster circuit includes a charge sharing mechanism to transfer a stored charge to the output of the logic gate in response to a logic state transition on the input of the logic gate. The transfer of stored charge also reduces the charge drawn from the supply during the output transition. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080238509 | BOUNDING A DUTY CYCLE USING A C-ELEMENT - A duty cycle bounding circuit for restoring the unbounded duty cycle of a periodic signal such as a forwarded clock signal. The duty cycle bounding circuit comprises a state holding logic element, such as a C-element, and a delay line. The delay line feeds back an inverted version of the output of the state holding logic element to an input of the state holding logic element. The periodic signal is applied to another input of the state holding logic element. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090085629 | DUAL EDGE TRIGGERED FLIP FLOPS - An implicitly pulsed dual edge triggered pulsed latch. The implicitly pulsed latch includes an overlapping clock generator and a transparency circuit designed to cause a transparent latch circuit to become transparent on each edge of a clock signal. A logic value on the input node of the latch is transferred to the output node of the latch in response to each clock edge transition. An explicitly pulsed dual edge triggered pulsed latch including a pulse generator and a transparent latch circuit. The explicitly pulsed latch includes a symmetrical pulse generator designed to cause the latch circuit to pass a logic value from the input node of the latch to the output node of the latch in response to a pulse on the clock node. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090273362 | BOOSTER CIRCUITS FOR REDUCING LATENCY - A booster circuit for reducing the nominal latency of a logic gate. The booster circuit includes a charge sharing mechanism to transfer a stored charge to the output of the logic gate in response to a logic state transition on the input of the logic gate. The transfer of stored charge also reduces the charge drawn from the supply during the output transition. | 11-05-2009 |
Scott M. Fairbanks, Corvallis, OR US
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| 20090079498 | OFFSET CANCELLATION IN A CAPACITIVELY COUPLED AMPLIFIER - A method for calibrating an offset voltage of an amplifier used to amplify capacitively coupled communication signals is described. During this process, a common voltage is applied to one or more inputs to the amplifier. Next, an output of the amplifier is iteratively, measured, and charge is applied to the one or more inputs until the offset voltage is less than a pre-determined value. Note that applying the charge may involve applying a sequence of one or more charge pulses. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090086768 | COMMUNICATING SIGNALS BETWEEN SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS USING ROUND-ROBIN-COUPLED MICROPIPELINES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for transferring data between a receiver chip and a transmitter chip. The system includes a set of data path circuits in the transmitter chip and a set of data path circuits in the receiver chip coupled to a shared data channel. In addition, the system includes a set of asynchronous control circuits for controlling corresponding data path circuits in the transmitter chip and receiver chip. Upon detecting the transition of a control signal for an asynchronous control circuit in the transmitter chip, the asynchronous control circuit is configured to enable a transfer of data from the corresponding data path circuit in the transmitter chip across the data channel to a corresponding data path circuit in the receiver chip, and generate a control signal to cause a next asynchronous control circuit to commence the transfer of a data signal. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090086793 | REPEATER CIRCUIT - A repeater circuit configured to duplicate or otherwise coordinate signal transitions between state conductors, such as for use in asynchronous communication systems. The repeater circuit may include a state node or other feature to facilitate enforcing or otherwise ordering transitioning of the state conductors. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090315157 | PROTECTION FOR PROXIMITY ELECTRONICS AGAINST ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE - A system of protecting a proximity communication system against electrostatic discharge (ESD). The proximity communication system includes two chips, each having an array of electrical pads at its surface and covered by a thin dielectric layer such that capacitive coupling circuits are formed between the chips when they are joined together. In at least one of the chips, an additional protection pad is formed away from the array, and heavy protection circuitry is connected to it. Its surface is exposed through the dielectric surface over it such that, when an ESD aggressor approaches, the discharge occurs to the protection pad. | 12-24-2009 |
Stephen Fairbanks, Queen Creek, AZ US
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| 20090300574 | Methods for Defining and Utilizing Sub-Resolution Features in Linear Topology - Regular layout shapes are placed in accordance with a virtual grate. A determination is made as to whether an unoccupied layout space adjacent to a regular layout shape to be reinforced, and extending in a direction perpendicular to the regular layout shape, is large enough to support placement of a sub-resolution shape. Upon determining that the unoccupied layout space is large enough to support placement of the sub-resolution shape, the sub-resolution shape is placed so as to be substantially centered upon a virtual line of the virtual grate within the unoccupied layout space. Also, one or more sub-resolution shapes are placed between and parallel with neighboring regular layout shapes when windows of lithographic reinforcement associated with each of the neighboring regular layout shapes permit. The sub-resolution shapes may be placed according to a virtual grate, or may be placed based on proximity to edges of the neighboring regular layout shapes. | 12-03-2009 |
W. Cody Fairbanks, Sandy, UT US
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| 20120018932 | Lift Assist Device and Associated Methods - The present invention provides devices to assist a subject in lifting and associated methods. In one aspect for example, a lift assist device can include a harness operable to be secured about or to a torso of a user, and at least one cord having a first end operably coupled to the harness and a second end operably coupleable to a forelimb of the user. Additionally, at least one of the harness and the at least one cord are substantially elastic, and where the first and second ends of the at least one cord are positioned to assist the user in lifting an object. In one aspect, the at least one cord is substantially elastic and the harness is substantially inelastic. | 01-26-2012 |