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20110041275 | Oral Care Implement Having A Liquid Collection System - An oral care implement includes a collection system for oral fluids. Some embodiments of the implement may include an oral care region having a wearable oral member having a thickness that is reduced during use, a reservoir for retaining an oral fluid, a receiver coupled to the oral member for receiving an oral fluid, and a fluid pathway in communication with the receiver to provide the oral fluid to the reservoir. | 02-24-2011 |
20120255134 | ORAL CARE IMPLEMENT HAVING A LIQUID COLLECTION SYSTEM - An oral care implement includes a collection system for oral fluids. Some embodiments of the implement may include an oral care region having a wearable oral member having a thickness that is reduced during use, a reservoir for retaining an oral fluid, a receiver coupled to the oral member for receiving an oral fluid, and a fluid pathway in communication with the receiver to provide the oral fluid to the reservoir. | 10-11-2012 |
20120309042 | DIAGNOSTIC ORAL DEVICE - Described herein are devices and methods for identifying the existence of an oral condition in a subject. | 12-06-2012 |
20140123424 | ORAL CARE IMPLEMENT - A toothbrush comprising: a body comprising a handle and a head; a plurality of tooth cleaning elements extending from the head; an oral member coupled to the body, the oral member comprising a water-soluble material; a reservoir in the body; and a fluid pathway in the body, the fluid pathway in fluid communication with the oral member | 05-08-2014 |
20150087074 | DIAGNOSTIC ORAL DEVICE - Described herein are devices and methods for identifying the existence of an oral condition in a subject. | 03-26-2015 |
20150216293 | ORAL CARE IMPLEMENT - An oral care implement includes a collection system for oral fluids. Some embodiments of the implement may include a body comprising a head, a handle, and a neck located between the head and the handle, the head having a front surface and an opposite rear surface. Tooth cleaning elements may extend from the front surface of the head. A collecting member may be coupled to the body and a reservoir may be located within the handle or the neck of the body. A fluid pathway may extend from the collecting member to the reservoir so that an oral fluid can pass through the collecting member and into the reservoir for storage. | 08-06-2015 |
20150335551 | Compositions and Methods for Treating Dental Caries - Described herein are oral compositions comprising a basic amino acid, in free or salt form, and a sesquiterpene alcohol; and methods of making and using the same. | 11-26-2015 |
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20130318577 | TRUSTED APPLICATION MIGRATION ACROSS COMPUTER NODES - An embodiment includes a secure and stable method for sending information across a compute continuum. For example, the method may include executing an application (e.g., video player) on a first node (e.g., tablet) with a desire to perform “context migration” to a second node (e.g., desktop). This may allow a user to watch a movie on the tablet, stop watching the movie, and then resume watching the movie from the desktop. To do so in a secure and stable manner, the first node may request security and performance credentials from the second node. If both credential sets satisfy thresholds, the first node may transfer content (e.g., encrypted copy of a movie) and state information (e.g., placeholder indicating where the movie was when context transfer began). The second node may then allow the user to resume his or her movie watching from the desktop. Other embodiments are described herein. | 11-28-2013 |
20140317337 | METADATA MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR PHASE CHANGE MEMORY WITH SWITCH (PCMS) - Methods and apparatus related to management and/or support of metadata for PCMS (Phase Change Memory with Switch) devices are described. In one embodiment, a PCMS controller allows access to a PCMS device based on metadata. The metadata may be used to provide efficiency, endurance, error correction, etc. as discussed in the disclosure. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 10-23-2014 |
20150067163 | LOCATION AWARE RESOURCE LOCATOR - Systems and methods providing a location-aware resource locator model for facilitating communication with networked electronic devices are generally disclosed herein. One embodiment includes a resource locator using a standard Uniform Resource Locator (URL) format, but enabling identification of one or many devices based on logical location information provided in the resource locator. The resource locator may also enable identification of the one or many devices based on logical proximity information (such as a logical term indicating a location property) relative to a dynamic location. Further disclosed embodiments include uses of a hierarchical structure to define logical terms and classes for use with a resource locator, and various location determination and lookup techniques used in connection with accessing an electronic device. | 03-05-2015 |
20160065573 | Trusted Application Migration Across Computer Nodes - An embodiment includes a secure and stable method for sending information across a compute continuum. For example, the method may include executing an application (e.g., video player) on a first node (e.g., tablet) with a desire to perform “context migration” to a second node (e.g., desktop). This may allow a user to watch a movie on the tablet, stop watching the movie, and then resume watching the movie from the desktop. To do so in a secure and stable manner, the first node may request security and performance credentials from the second node. If both credential sets satisfy thresholds, the first node may transfer content (e.g., encrypted copy of a movie) and state information (e.g., placeholder indicating where the movie was when context transfer began). The second node may then allow the user to resume his or her movie watching from the desktop. Other embodiments are described herein. | 03-03-2016 |
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20130105145 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING OPERATIONALLY INDUCED DEFORMITIES IN WELL PRODUCTION SCREENS | 05-02-2013 |
20140345859 | HYDROCARBON RECOVERY FACILITATED BY IN SITU COMBUSTION - A process for hydrocarbon recovery from an oil sands deposit includes injecting an oxidizing gas into an oil sands reservoir through an injection well. The oxidizing gas supports in situ combustion (ISC) in the reservoir. A generally horizontal well pair is used that is in fluid communication with the injection well to recover hydrocarbons mobilized by the ISC. The well pair includes: a generally horizontal segment of a hydrocarbon production well, and a generally horizontal segment of a combustion gas production well. The generally horizontal segment of the combustion gas production well is generally parallel to and spaced vertically above the horizontal segment of the hydrocarbon production well. The segment of the oxidizing gas injection well is spaced generally above the segment of the hydrocarbon production well and generally above the segment of the combustion gas production well. | 11-27-2014 |
20150034313 | IN SITU COMBUSTION WITH A MOBILE FLUID ZONE - A process for hydrocarbon recovery from an oil sands reservoir having a mobile fluid zone above a bitumen zone. The process includes generating, in the bitumen zone a mobilized and through a mobility enhancing process. The process also includes recovering at least some of the original oil-in-place and injecting an oxidizing gas through an oxidizing gas injection well into the reservoir to support in situ combustion in the reservoir. The process includes generating fluid communication between the mobile fluid zone and the mobilized zone and recovering hydrocarbons mobilized by the in situ combustion using a hydrocarbon production well that is in fluid communication with the mobile fluid zone and the mobilized zone. | 02-05-2015 |
20150101794 | HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION APPARATUS - An apparatus is disclosed for use in a hydrocarbon production well that includes a casing extending from a segment of the production well to a wellhead. A production conduit extends inside the casing, from a first end in the hydrocarbon production well to a second end at the wellhead. A receptacle includes a bottom spaced from the first end of the production conduit and at least one sidewall extending around a portion of the production conduit proximal the first end such that the receptacle extends around the first end of the production conduit. The receptacle includes an opening for liquid to pass into the receptacle to separate liquids from gases. A submersible pump is disposed in the production well and includes a motor outside the receptacle and coupled to a pump body inside the receptacle to pump the liquid from a pump inlet in the receptacle, through the production conduit to the second end. | 04-16-2015 |
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20120205096 | METHOD FOR DISPLACEMENT OF WATER FROM A POROUS AND PERMEABLE FORMATION - A method and system for displacing water from a porous geological formation are provided. The zone to be displaced is defined by the injection of water into one or more barrier wells around the zone. One or more gas injection wells and water production wells are located within the zone. During pressurized gas injection within the zone, the barrier wells are operated to achieve a hydraulic pressure barrier surrounding the zone that is sufficient to prevent penetration therethrough by the injected gas. The well system is operated to concurrently limit gas entry into the water production well. Accordingly, the gas displaces water downward within the zone such that water is produced at the water production wells. | 08-16-2012 |
20130032336 | ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WELL PAIRS IN OIL SANDS BY DILATION WITH STEAM OR WATER CIRCULATION AT ELEVATED PRESSURES - A method of establishing fluid communication between a well pair in an oil-sand reservoir is provided, where dilatable oil sands in the reservoir form a barrier to fluid communication between the well pair. Steam or water is circulated within at least one well to apply a steam or water pressure to a region of the oil sands adjacent to the well. The steam or water pressure is increased to a dilation pressure sufficient to dilate the oil sands in the region. While circulating steam or water within the well at a substantially steady state, the steam or water pressure is maintained at a level sufficient to enlarge the dilated region, until detection of a signal indicative of fluid communication between the well pair. The rates of steam or water injection and production may be monitored and adjusted, and the steam or water pressure may be controlled by adjusting the rate of steam or water injection or production to vary a bottom-hole pressure in the well. | 02-07-2013 |
20140216738 | BOTTOM-UP SOLVENT-AIDED PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - Solvent may be injected into a hydrocarbon reservoir at an increasingly elevated vertical level to allow vapor of the solvent to contact and mobilize viscous hydrocarbons in the reservoir, for producing mobilized hydrocarbons. Solvent may be injected into a mobile zone below a viscous hydrocarbon zone, to allow solvent vapor to ascend to mobilize viscous hydrocarbons in the viscous hydrocarbon zone. A vertical or slanted injection well may be used to inject the solvent into the reservoir, and a production well spaced horizontally apart from the injection well may be used to produce fluids from the reservoir. A bottom-up solvent-aided process may comprise injecting water and liquid solvent into the mobile zone, and then injecting heated water and solvent into the mobile zone. | 08-07-2014 |
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20120193094 | MULTIPLE INFILL WELLS WITHIN A GRAVITY-DOMINATED HYDROCARBON RECOVERY PROCESS - A method for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir by operating a substantially gravity-controlled recovery process with two adjacent well pairs. Each well pair includes an injector well and a producer well. A mobilized zone forms around each well pair through the gravity-controlled recovery process, and a bypassed region forms between the adjacent well pairs when the respective mobilized zone of each well pair merge to form a common mobilized zone. A plurality of infill producer wells are provided in the bypassed region. The plurality of infill producer wells are operated to establish fluid communication between the plurality of infill producer wells and the common mobilized zone. Once fluid communication is established, the plurality of infill producer wells and the adjacent well pairs are operated under a substantially gravity-controlled recovery process, and hydrocarbons are recovered from the plurality of infill producer wells and from the producer wells. | 08-02-2012 |
20120217005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING LINER SLOT PLUGGING TENDENCIES - A slotted liner having straight-cut liner slots with a wall roughness which does not exceed 1 μm. A slot cutting method to produce smooth slots using a specified blade configuration, rotational speed, and feed rate. | 08-30-2012 |
20120325470 | PENTANE-HEXANE SOLVENT IN SITU RECOVERY OF HEAVY OIL - An integrated thermal recovery process using a solvent of a pentane or hexane or both as an additive to, or sole component of, a gravity-dominated process for recovering bitumen or heavy oil from a reservoir. A pentane-hexane specific solvent fraction is extracted at surface from a diluent stream. That pentane-hexane solvent fraction is then injected into the reservoir as part of a gravity-dominated recovery process within the reservoir, and when that solvent fraction is subsequently produced as part of the oil or bitumen blend, it is allowed to remain within the blend to enhance the subsequent blend treating and transportation steps. Meanwhile, the remainder of the diluent from which the solvent stream had been extracted is utilized at surface as a blending stream to serve as an aid in treating of produced fluids and also to serve as a means of rendering the bitumen or heavy oil stream pipelineable. | 12-27-2012 |
20140251596 | SINGLE VERTICAL OR INCLINED WELL THERMAL RECOVERY PROCESS - The present disclosure describes a single well predominantly gravity-dominated recovery process for producing viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean oil sands formation. The process operates a single vertical or inclined well within a formation, the wellbore having an injection means and a production means, the injection means being positioned in the wellbore closer to the surface than the production means. The process provides an area of high mobility adjacent the production means. A mobilizing fluid is injected through the injection means into the formation to mobilize the viscous hydrocarbons in the formation while substantially concurrently producing hydrocarbons through the production means. The gravity dominated process may be SAGD and the present process may be a single vertical or inclined well SAGD process. | 09-11-2014 |
20140251608 | SINGLE VERTICAL OR INCLINED WELL THERMAL RECOVERY PROCESS - The present disclosure describes a single well predominantly gravity-dominated recovery process for producing viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean oil sands formation. The process operates a single vertical or inclined well within a formation, the wellbore having an injection means and a production means, the injection means being positioned in the wellbore closer to the surface than the production means. The process provides an area of high mobility adjacent the production means. A mobilizing fluid is injected through the injection means into the formation to mobilize the viscous hydrocarbons in the formation while substantially concurrently producing hydrocarbons through the production means. The gravity dominated process may be SAGD and the present process may be a single vertical or inclined well SAGD process. | 09-11-2014 |