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Alan Gilchrist, Danville, CA US
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| 20090295461 | DEVICE CONFIGURATION - A process and apparatus for configuring one or more integrated circuits within a device in a manufacturing process is described. In an exemplary process, a device is manufactured by assembling a chip onto a board such as a printed circuit substrate and the chip is fused from power routed across the board to the chip. The power source for the fusing can be generated from the internal power supply on the board or received on a test point on the board itself or a connection interface (e.g. a USB interface) coupled to the board. In an exemplary apparatus, a device comprises a chip with a plurality of fuses that are used to configure the device and a board coupled to the chip, with the board capable of routing power from the board to the chip and the power is used to blow one or more of the plurality of fuses. | 12-03-2009 |
Alan R. Gilchrist, Danville, CA US
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| 20100312517 | Test Method Using Memory Programmed with Tests and Protocol To Communicate between Device Under Test and Tester - In an embodiment, a test method is implemented to test an integrated circuit that includes at least one processor. The method may include programming a memory to which the integrated circuit is coupled during testing with one or more test programs. The integrated circuit may be booted, and the processor may execute the test programs from the memory. In one embodiment, the memory may also store a control program that may manage the execution of the tests. In an embodiment, the control program may also implement a protocol to communicate with the ATE to perform the testing. The protocol may be implemented over a set of general purpose input/output (I/O) pins, for example. Using the protocol and test vectors on the ATE, the tests may be selected and executed, and test results may be reported. | 12-09-2010 |
Allen Gilchrist, Houston, TX US
Annette Gilchrist, Barrington, IL US
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| 20080280308 | G protein coupled receptor signaling modulation - This invention relates to methods for identifying peptides and other compounds which block or enhance G protein coupled receptor mediated signaling with high affinity and specificity and/or which stabilize a particular conformer of a G protein coupled receptor. Assays, methods of treatment and other methods developed in conjunction with these methods also are disclosed. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090281019 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION - The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating heart conditions. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods that block G protein coupled receptor mediated signaling for treating atrial fibrillation. | 11-12-2009 |
Brian E. Gilchrist, Ann Arbor, MI US
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| 20090056305 | SCALABLE FLAT-PANEL NANO-PARTICLE MEMS/NEMS THRUSTER - A scalable flat-panel nano-particle MEMS/NEMS thruster includes a grid having a plurality of electrodes to establish electrical fields. A liquid is disposed in a liquid reservoir of the grid. The liquid is positioned within the electrical fields. A plurality of nano-particles are suspended in the liquid. A plurality of MEMS and NEMS micron-size vias are disposed in the grid. The electrical fields extract the plurality of nano-particles from the liquid and accelerate the nano-particles in the vias to provide propulsion system thrust. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100018184 | NANO-PARTICLE FIELD EXTRACTION THRUSTER - A nano-particle field extraction system comprising a grid having a plurality of electrodes each defining an electrical field, wherein the grid has a plurality of vias extending therethrough. The system further comprises a reservoir having a generally dry mixture disposed therein, a plurality of particles suspended in the generally dry mixture, a biasing member applying a biasing force to the generally dry mixture in the reservoir, and a sieve electrode system in electrical communication with the grid. The sieve electrode system has a plurality of through-holes extending from the reservoir to the grid, such that the sieve electrode system cooperates with the biasing member to extract at least one particle from the generally dry mixture and into the grid whereby the electrical fields charge and accelerate the particle in the vias. | 01-28-2010 |
George M. Gilchrist, Greenville, SC US
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| 20090301054 | TURBINE SYSTEM HAVING EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION AND REHEAT - While the invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the disclosed embodiment, but on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. | 12-10-2009 |
George Martin Gilchrist, Greenville, SC US
Glen R. Gilchrist, Danvers, MA US
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| 20110108058 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING RESIDUE FROM AN ION SOURCE COMPONENT - Some techniques disclosed herein facilitate cleaning residue from a molecular beam component. For example, in an exemplary method, a molecular beam is provided along a beam path, causing residue build up on the molecular beam component. To reduce the residue, the molecular beam component is exposed to a hydro-fluorocarbon plasma. Exposure to the hydro-fluorocarbon plasma is ended based on whether a first predetermined condition is met, the first predetermined condition indicative of an extent of removal of the residue. Other methods and systems are also disclosed. | 05-12-2011 |
Ian J. Gilchrist, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20100237187 | INVERTED AIRFOIL PYLON FOR AN AIRCRAFT - An aircraft including a wing and a pylon, wherein the pylon provides an airfoil inverted for an airfoil of the wing, and an improvement and method for improved flight dynamics for 20 and 30 Series LEARJET® is provided. The improvement includes an increased distance between a leading edge of a wing and an intake of an engine of the aircraft, which reduces drag and increases lift for improved flight dynamics of the aircraft. The inverted airfoil of the pylon negates an influence of the pylon on flight dynamics for improved overall flight dynamics of the aircraft. The method includes steps of removing an original engine from an original pylon, removing the original pylon from the fuselage of the aircraft, and mounting a new pylon in a new location adjacent to the fuselage, wherein the new location is aft of the original location. | 09-23-2010 |
James Andrew Gilchrist, Charlestown, MA US
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| 20090142736 | Goal Based System Utilizing a Table Based Architecture - A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a business opportunity to understand and solve optimally. Mistakes are noted and remedial educational material presented dynamically to build the necessary skills that a user requires for success in the business endeavor. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized video and graphics used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and entails realtime decision-making and synthesis of the educational material. The system is architectured around a table of components to manage and control the system. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20120003613 | Goal Based System Utilizing a Table Based Architecture - A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a business opportunity to understand and solve optimally. Mistakes are noted and remedial educational material presented dynamically to build the necessary skills that a user requires for success in the business endeavor. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized video and graphics used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and entails realtime decision-making and synthesis of the educational material. The system is architectured around a table of components to manage and control the system. | 01-05-2012 |
James F. Gilchrist, Allentown, PA US
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| 20090315013 | EFFICIENT LIGHT EXTRACTION METHOD AND DEVICE - A tight emitting device comprises at least one p-type layer and at least one n-type layer and a microlens array surface. A method for improving light efficiency of a light emitting device, comprises depositing polystyrene microspheres by rapid convection deposition on surface of light emitting device; depositing a monolayer of close-packed SIO | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110155999 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES HAVING CONCAVE MICROSTRUCTURES PROVIDING IMPROVED LIGHT EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A conventional semiconductor LED is modified to include a microlenslayer over its light-emitting surface. The LED may have an active layer including at least one quantum well layer of InGaN and GaN. The microlens layer includes a plurality of concave microstructures that cause light rays emanating from the LED to diffuse outwardly, leading to an increase in the light extraction efficiency of the LED. The concave microstructures may be arranged in a substantially uniform array, such as a close-packed hexagonal array. The microlens layer is preferably constructed of curable material, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and is formed by soft-lithography imprinting by contacting fluid material of the microlens layer with a template bearing a monolayer of homogeneous microsphere crystals, to cause concave impressions, and then curing the material to fix the concave microstructures in the microlens layer and provide relatively uniform surface roughness. | 06-30-2011 |
James H. Gilchrist, Dunbar, WV US
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| 20100298610 | ALDEHYDE COMPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM SEED OILS - An aldehyde composition derived by hydroformylation of a transesterified seed oil and containing a mixture of formyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters having the following composition by weight: greater than about 10 to less than about 95 percent monoformyl, greater than about 1 to less than about 65 percent diformyl, and greater than about 0.1 to less than about 10 percent triformyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and having a diformyl to triformyl weight ratio of greater than about 5/1; preferably, greater than about 3 to less than about 20 percent saturates; and preferably, greater than about 1 to less than about 20 percent unsaturates. | 11-25-2010 |
Jimmy Don Gilchrist, Ben Wheeler, TX US
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| 20100325980 | Door assembly, wall construction, and system for detecting force applied to a door - A door assembly includes a door adapted to be supported for movement from one of an open position and a closed position to the other of the open and closed positions without moving in a first direction in which earth gravitational force acts upon the door. A sensor is positioned on the door for sensing presence of a force other than earth gravitational force acting on the door in the first direction, and providing signaling indicative of that presence. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110273290 | Door assembly, wall construction, and system for detecting objects near a door and forces applied to a door - An object sensing arrangement is provided in combination with a door that is adapted to be supported for movement from one of an open position and a closed position to the other of the open and closed positions without moving in a first direction in which earth gravitational force acts upon the door. The object sensing arrangement is positioned relative to the door for sensing presence of an object adjacent an end surface of the door that faces in a second direction opposite the first direction. The object sensing arrangement further provides signaling to indicate that object presence is sensed. | 11-10-2011 |
Jonathan Gilchrist, Houston, TX US
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| 20110017584 | Desalination System and Method - A system for desalinating water includes a generally cylindrical enclosure ( | 01-27-2011 |
Kristin Hedgepath Gilchrist, Durham, NC US
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| 20110006204 | HIGH DENSITY FARADAY CUP ARRAY OR OTHER OPEN TRENCH STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A detector array and method for making the detector array. The detector array includes a substrate including a plurality of trenches formed therein, and a plurality of collectors electrically isolated from each other, formed on the walls of the trenches, and configured to collect charged particles incident on respective ones of the collectors and to output from the collectors signals indicative of charged particle collection. In the detector array, adjacent ones of the plurality of trenches are disposed in a staggered configuration relative to one another. The method forms in a substrate a plurality of trenches across a surface of the substrate such that adjacent ones of the trenches are in a staggered sequence relative to one another, forms in the plurality of trenches a plurality of collectors, and connects a plurality of electrodes respectively to the collectors. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110031388 | FARADAY CUP ARRAY INTEGRATED WITH A READOUT IC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A detector array and method for making the detector array. The array includes a substrate including a plurality of trenches formed therein, and includes a plurality of collectors electrically isolated from each other, formed on the walls of the trenches, and configured to collect charge particles incident on respective ones of the collectors and to output from said collectors signals indicative of charged particle collection. The array includes a plurality of readout circuits disposed on a side of the substrate opposite openings to the collectors. The readout circuits are configured to read charge collection signals from respective ones of the plurality of collectors. | 02-10-2011 |
Rael M. Gilchrist, Hollywood, FL US
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| 20080216947 | Temporary Tatoo for Rubber Tires - The present invention is an article and method for applying a moisture transferable image to the surface of a tire, whereby the image retains visual integrity for up to six months. | 09-11-2008 |
Robert A. Gilchrist, Jackson, MS US
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| 20090112411 | Patcher System And Associated Methods - A patcher system for patching a paved surface includes a remotely controllable arm attachable to a vehicle and a patching material dispensing subsystem disposed on the remotely controllable arm. The patcher system may be part of a mobile patcher system which additionally includes a vehicle, a patching material distribution subsystem disposed on the vehicle, and a control subsystem. A software product may include instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform steps for controlling the patcher system. | 04-30-2009 |
Russell Gilchrist, Ponce Inlet, FL US
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| 20080270326 | System and methods for rating plural products - A system and method for rating of each of plural products comprising identifying plurality of attributes associated with a category of product, applying a scalar structure for each attribute to provide scalar value of each attribute for each of the plural products, determining an incremental competitive index for each attribute of each product based on the scalar value of each attribute and a number of products having the scalar value, and rating each product based on the determined competitive index. | 10-30-2008 |
W. Allen Gilchrist, Houston, TX US
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| 20080224031 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH RESOLUTION GAMMA RAY MEASUREMENTS - A method for measuring radiation, the method includes selecting at least two radiation detectors, each detector having a spatial resolution that differs from the spatial resolution of other detectors; measuring the radiation with the detectors; and combining a response from at least two of the detectors to produce a composite response exhibiting a spatial resolution. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20100332138 | PULSED NEUTRON BASED MONITORING OF CO2 IN ENHANCED RECOVERY AND SEQUESTRATION PROJECTS - A method for estimating a concentration of carbon dioxide (CO | 12-30-2010 |
W. Allen Gilchrist, Fort Davis, TX US
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| 20120056083 | Elemental Concentration Determination Using Neutron-Induced Activation Gamma Radiation - The present disclosure relates to borehole logging methods and apparatuses for estimating formation properties using nuclear radiation, particularly an apparatus and method for estimating amounts of silicon and/or oxygen in the formation using exposure time information. The method may include using nuclear radiation information from at least one nuclear radiation detector to estimate at least one parameter of interest. The method may also include reducing an error in the estimated formation properties due to speed variations of a nuclear radiation source that activates the silicon and oxygen in the formation. The apparatus may include at least one nuclear radiation detector. The apparatuses may include an information processing device to perform the methods. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059588 | Elemental Concentration Determination Using Neutron-Induced Activation Gamma Radiation - The present disclosure relates to borehole logging methods and apparatuses for estimating formation properties using nuclear radiation, particularly an apparatus and method for estimating amounts of silicon and/or oxygen in the formation. The method may include using nuclear radiation information from at least one nuclear radiation detector to estimate at least one parameter of interest. The method may include separating a gross nuclear radiation count into separate nuclear radiation components. The method may also include reducing an error in the estimated formation properties due to speed variations of a nuclear radiation source that activates the silicon and oxygen in the formation. The apparatus may include at least one nuclear radiation detector. The apparatuses may include an information processing device to perform the methods. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059589 | Water Saturation Determination Using an Oxygen Estimate and Formation Lithology - The present disclosure relates to borehole logging methods and apparatuses for estimating formation properties using nuclear radiation, particularly an apparatus and method for estimating amounts of silicon and/or oxygen in the formation. The present disclosure includes estimating a formation property using an oxygen estimate and at least a formation lithology. The method may include using nuclear radiation information from at least one nuclear radiation detector generate the oxygen estimate. The apparatus may include at least one nuclear radiation detector. The apparatuses may include an information processing device to perform the methods. | 03-08-2012 |