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Brad Hook, Baraboo, WI US
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| 20110283373 | MUTANT PROTEASE BIOSENSORS WITH ENHANCED DETECTION CHARACTERISTICS - A polynucleotide encoding a biosensor polypeptide comprising a modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase and a linker linking the C-terminal portion of the thermostable luciferase to the N-terminal portion of the thermostable luciferase. The modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase is modified relative to a parental circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase. The linker contains a sensor region capable of interacting with a target molecule in a cell. The modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase has an enhanced response after interaction of the biosensor with the target molecule relative to the parental circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase in the presence of the target molecule. Alternatively, the modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase has an enhanced response after interaction of the biosensor with the target molecule relative to the modified circularly-permuted thermostable luciferase in the absence of the target molecule. | 11-17-2011 |
Christopher Derek Hook, Lake Barrington, IL US
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| 20110063113 | Calibration and Operational Assurance Method and Apparatus for RFID Object Monitoring System - A method for monitoring objects in a three dimensional target area and or business process decision making. The methods include calibration, recalibration, operation and rules compliance for a radio frequency object monitoring system. Location tags are placed throughout a three dimensional area in predetermined positions and used to determine relative position, movement and or distances of objects with and without object tags. Repeated scanning and comparison of data provides a database by which the object monitoring system responds according to predetermined rules. | 03-17-2011 |
David B. Hook, Franklin, TN US
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| 20080257899 | Splash and Spill Resistant Insulating Lid - A splash and spill resistant insulating lid for beverage containers comprising an insulated splash and spill barrier integrated into a cup lid combination. This is achieved by creating a barrier and/or labyrinth flow path, which buffers and deflects sloshing liquid. Accidental/incidental release of liquid is minimized and/or prevented while allowing the normal flow of liquid for drinking. These features of the SSRIL further create an insulating barrier to keep a cup's fluid hotter or cooler for a longer period of time, enhanced by using an appropriate insulating material combined with finite number of transfer holes that are of a specific shape and/or specific location and/or specific orientation to promote the formation of a surface tension film of fluid across the transfer holes, creating additional barriers against the escape and exchange of both fluid and vapor outside the cup. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20110000440 | TETHERING DEVICE WITH FORCE-DISPLACEMENT SYSTEM - A tether device includes a tether assembly disposed between two entities maintaining connection between the entities. A resilient element is integrated with the tether assembly. A geometry of the tether assembly and the resilient element create first and second resilient element and tether force-displacement responses when the resilient element and tether assembly are together subjected to at least first and second axial displacement forces. The second axial displacement force is greater than the first axial displacement force. The first force-displacement response, when subjected to the first axial displacement force, is greater than the second force-displacement response when subjected to the second axial displacement force. The geometry can include a tether configured in a serpentine formation in a relaxed position. The serpentine formation straightens taut when the tether is fully extended by the second axial displacement force. The geometry can also include multiple O-rings. | 01-06-2011 |
James Lester Hook, Jefferson, OR US
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| 20080311260 | FREEZE-DRYING ARTICLES - An article can be prepared for freeze-drying by creating one or more incisions in the article. In embodiments of the disclosed technologies, the one or more incisions can be made using a laser, a device which dispenses a quantity of liquid nitrogen, and/or an ultrasonic cutting device. The incisions can improve the quality of the article when, for example, it is freeze-dried or freeze-dried and rehydrated. At least some embodiments of the disclosed technologies can be used to prepare groups of one or more articles having non-uniform sizes. | 12-18-2008 |
Jaroslav Hook, Melbourne, FL US
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| 20080219522 | FINGER SENSOR USING POLARIZED LIGHT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A multi-biometric finger sensor may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate for receiving a user's finger. The multi-biometric finger sensor may also include an optical source for projecting light of a known polarization angle onto the user's finger and at least one optical sensing pixel on the IC substrate for detecting a relative depolarization angle of the light reflected from the user's finger. The multi-biometric finger sensor may also include at least one other biometric finger sensing pixel on the IC substrate for sensing at least one other biometric characteristic from the user's finger. | 09-11-2008 |
Jeffrey S. Hook, Berwyn, IL US
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| 20080199565 | Chewing Gum Containing Physiological Cooling Agents - A method for producing a chewing gum, as well as the chewing gum so produced, incorporates a physiological cooling agent, such as acyclic carboxamide, or combinations of physiological cooling agents. In another embodiment a combination of physiological cooling agents is made in a modified release structure. The modified release/cooling agents combination is preferably obtained by physically modifying the properties of the combination of cooling agents by coating and drying. When incorporated into gum, these particles are adapted to enhance the shelf stability of the flavor and/or produce a modified release when the gum is chewed. In another embodiment, the physiological cooling agent is present with menthol and menthone. | 08-21-2008 |
Jerry Hook, Bothell, WA US
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| 20090143145 | Read Redirection of Physical Media - Redirection of physical media interaction is disclosed. For instance, a read action can be redirected from an optical disc to a secure virtualization module that virtualizes optical discs. The module can take digital packages in one format and present them to optical disc drivers configured to read the content of such packages in a different format. Thus, the module allows for online media content to remain in its native format while being accessible to existing native gaming console resources configured to read content in a different format. In other aspects, the module can perform various security checks on the packages, including hashing the fragments of packages, where such fragments can contain licensing provisions that can be examined by the module. The module itself can be downloaded and installed onto a gaming system or it can be pre-in stalled. | 06-04-2009 |
Jerry P. Hook, Bothell, WA US
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| 20080243694 | Buy once play anywhere - An on-line service manages downloads of purchased digital content. Information regarding the digital content items that are purchased by each user and the terms of use of those purchased items is maintained. Information regarding the formats of digital content items that each device is adapted to receive is maintained. Upon determining that a user wishes to download a digital content item, the requested digital content is downloaded in an appropriate format for a particular digital device provided the recorded information indicates the content item has been purchased by the user and the download is within the quantity of downloads authorized by the terms of the purchase. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244033 | Managing content remotely on a device - An on-line service manages downloads of digital content in response to user requests. User requests to download digital content include parameters defining conditions for downloads. Parameters may define the device to which the requested content is to be downloaded and the time that the download is to take place. The requests and related parameters are maintained in a queue which may be centrally managed and maintained. The queue is monitored and downloads executed consistent with the user-specified parameters. Digital content is downloaded to devices other than from which the request was made and at times specified by the user. | 10-02-2008 |
Joseph A. Hook, Baden, PA US
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| 20080274723 | Cell phone remote configuration and nap time - A system for using a cell phone by a user includes a cell phone. The system includes a global network in communication with the cell phone. The system includes a configuration gateway in connection with the network which remotely configures the cell phone. The system includes a remote interface not physically connected to the cell phone in communication with the configuration gateway through the network and with which a configuration choice for the cell phone is entered by the user. A cell phone includes a housing having a speaker which plays an audible tone when the phone receives a call. The housing has a vibration motor which vibrates the housing when the phone receives a call, a memory having the tone. The housing has a CPU connected with the memory and the vibration motor which configures whether the phone will vibrate or play the tone when a call is received from a remote instruction received from a configuration gateway part of a global wireless network. A method for using a cell phone by a user includes the steps of entering by the user through a remote interface not physically connected to the cell phone a configuration choice for the cell phone. There is the step of configuring remotely the cell phone with a configuration gateway in communication with a global network in communication with the cell phone and the remote interface. A method and a cell phone having a nap time. The present invention is related to a cell phone that has a nap time during which the phone is in the vibration mode that is chosen by a user. | 11-06-2008 |
Kristopher Hook, Linden, MI US
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| 20100295707 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LANE DEPARTURE WARNING - Various methods and systems are disclosed for implementing warnings of various intensity using input from a warning system, such as a lane departure detection system, and a driver assessment system such as a driver impairment detection system. | 11-25-2010 |
Randolph Hook, Lutz, FL US
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| 20110058336 | THERMAL BRIDGE EXTENSIONS FOR A MODULE-CHASSIS INTERFACE - A module for use with an expandable wedge clamp assembly in a chassis channel is provided. The module comprises a first side, a second side, a first extension attached to the first side, and a second extension attached to the second side. The first extension and the second extension are flexible. When the wedge clamp assembly is expanded, the first extension and the second extension flex from a first position to a second position. When the wedge clamp is returned from the expanded position to a relaxed position, the first extension and the second extension return from the second position to the first position. | 03-10-2011 |
Richard R. Hook, Hudsonville, MI US
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| 20090243824 | INTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM - A mirror system of a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a reflective element and an information input display providing a display representative of a plurality of input characters. The information input display is disposed behind the reflective element and viewable through the reflective element and a transflective mirror reflector of the reflective element when the information input display is backlit by a backlighting device. A control is operable to determine a location of a touch or proximity of an object at the reflective element and correlate the determined location to an input character of the information input display. The mirror system may include a video display for displaying video images and the information input display may be disposed at a main viewing region of the reflective element so as to provide an information input display that is larger than the video display. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100195229 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY - An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror casing having a human machine interface thereat. The mirror assembly includes a display device disposed behind the transflective mirror reflector of the interior rearview mirror assembly and visible through the transflective mirror reflector to the driver when displaying information. The display device may include a video screen. The user actuatable input may be actuatable by a user to operate at least one element of circuitry disposed in the mirror casing. The human machine interface may be at least partially at a bezel portion of the casing, or may be at least partially at a rear casing portion of the mirror casing. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100246198 | Illuminated Bezel of Charge Port for Electric Vehicle - A pocket assembly is provided for mounting at a recess of a vehicle body where a charge port of the vehicle is located, the pocket assembly has a body mountable to a vehicle, wherein the body has a base portion and a bezel portion, at least one outer layer established at an outer surface of said bezel portion, wherein the at least one outer layer is viewable at the side of the vehicle when the charge port is being accessed by a user of the vehicle and an illumination source disposed at or behind said bezel portion, and an illumination source being operable to illuminate indicia established at or on the bezel portion. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110141543 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE - An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror reflective element having a glass substrate with first and second surfaces and a circumferential edge along the periphery of the glass substrate. The mirror reflective element includes a mirror reflector established at a surface of the mirror reflective element other than the first surface of the glass substrate. The mirror assembly includes a plastic molding circumferentially disposed about the circumferential edge of the glass substrate without overlapping onto the first surface of the glass substrate. The plastic molding includes a portion that (a) abuts the circumferential edge of the glass substrate and (b) has an outer curved surface that extends from generally adjacent to the first surface of the glass substrate and that lacks a sharp edge. The plane of the first surface of the glass substrate may be generally flush with the outermost part of the plastic molding. | 06-16-2011 |
Robert G. Hook, Washington, DC US
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| 20080229416 | Computer Network Virus Protection System and Method - A network is protected from viruses through the use of a sacrificial server, which may be physical or virtual. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted. | 09-18-2008 |
Robert G. Hook, Alexandria, VA US
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| 20090165138 | Computer Virus Protection - A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20110231669 | Computer Virus Protection - A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted. | 09-22-2011 |
Scott Hook, Edina, MN US
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| 20090076518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STABILIZING ADJACENT VERTEBRAE - A method of stabilizing adjacent vertebrae including the steps of forming at least one annulotomy in an annulus. At least a portion of the nucleus material is removed through the annulotomy to form a cavity in an intervertebral disc space between the adjacent vertebrae. A reservoir containing a flowable biomaterial is fluidly coupled to the intervertebral disc space. A flowable biomaterial is delivered to the cavity. The delivery of the flowable biomaterial into the intervertebral disc space is controlled in accordance with at least a first operating parameter. The biomaterial is at least partially cured to stabilize the adjacent vertebrae. | 03-19-2009 |
Terence Blackwell Hook, Jericho, VT US
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| 20090045468 | TRENCH ISOLATION AND METHOD OF FABRICATING TRENCH ISOLATION - Trench isolation structure and method of forming trench isolation structures. The structures includes a trench in a silicon region of a substrate, the trench extending from a top surface of the substrate into the silicon region; an ion implantation stopping layer over sidewalls of the trench; a dielectric fill material filling remaining space in the trench, the dielectric fill material not including any materials found in the stopping layer; an N-type dopant species in a first region of the silicon region on a first side of the trench; the N-type dopant species in a first region of the dielectric material adjacent to the first side of the trench; a P-type dopant species in a second region of the silicon region on a second side of the trench; and the P-type dopant species in a second region of the dielectric material adjacent to the second side of the trench. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20110278674 | TRENCH ISOLATION AND METHOD OF FABRICATING TRENCH ISOLATION - Trench isolation structure and method of forming trench isolation structures. The structures includes a trench in a silicon region of a substrate, the trench extending from a top surface of the substrate into the silicon region; an ion implantation stopping layer over sidewalls of the trench; a dielectric fill material filling remaining space in the trench, the dielectric fill material not including any materials found in the stopping layer; an N-type dopant species in a first region of the silicon region on a first side of the trench; the N-type dopant species in a first region of the dielectric material adjacent to the first side of the trench; a P-type dopant species in a second region of the silicon region on a second side of the trench; and the P-type dopant species in a second region of the dielectric material adjacent to the second side of the trench. | 11-17-2011 |
Terrence B. Hook, Essex Junction, VT US
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| 20110082680 | COMPACT MODEL FOR DEVICE/CIRCUIT/CHIP LEAKAGE CURRENT (IDDQ) CALCULATION INCLUDING PROCESS INDUCED UPLIFT FACTORS - A system, method and computer program product for implementing a quiescent current leakage specific model into semiconductor device design and circuit design flows. The leakage model covers all device geometries with wide temperature and voltage ranges and, without the need for stacking factor calculations nor spread sheet based IDDQ calculations. The leakage model for IDDQ calculation incorporates further parasitic and proximity effects. The leakage model implements leakage calculations at different levels of testing, e.g., from a single device to a full chip design, and are integrated within one single model. The leakage model implements leakage calculations at different levels of testing with the leverage of a single switch setting. The implementation is via a hardware definition language code or object oriented code that can be compiled and operated using a netlist of interest, e.g., for conducting a performance analysis. | 04-07-2011 |
Tyler Hook, Salt Lake City, UT US
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| 20090197053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BONDED SUBSTRATES - A method for forming bonded substrates includes providing a plurality of substrates, each of which having a top surface. A characteristic length for each of the plurality of substrates is determined by: determining a topographical profile of the top surface of the substrate from an interior portion to an edge portion along a radial direction, determining a highest point of the profile, and defining the characteristic length as a distance from the highest point to the edge portion. A first substrate and a second substrate are selected where at least one of the first or the second substrates has a characteristic length shorter than a predetermined length. The first substrate and the second substrate are brought into contact and form bonded substrates, with the top surface of the first substrate facing the top surface of the second substrate. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20110042013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BONDED SUBSTRATES - An apparatus for bonding substrates includes a base member having a top surface and a recessed region which is configured for receiving at least a first substrate. The apparatus also has a plurality of support members disposed over the top surface for supporting a second substrate peripherally over the first substrate. Each support member is configured to vary a separation between the first substrate and the second substrate. Moreover, a pressure bar is configured to cause a center portion of the second substrate to contact the first substrate while the support members maintain peripheral separation between the first substrate and the second substrate. In operation, a bonded region between the first and the second substrates is expanded radially from the center portion when the support members are positioned to reduce the separation between the first and the second substrates. | 02-24-2011 |
William A. Hook, Wheaton, MD US
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| 20100021469 | FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF ADRENOMEDULLIN (AM) AND THE GENE RELATED PRODUCT (PAMP) IN HUMAN PATHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY - The methods of the present invention demonstrate that adrenomedullin (AM) is expressed in human cancer cell lines of diverse origin and functions as a universal autocrine growth factor driving neoplastic proliferation. The present invention provides for AM peptides and AM antibodies useful in therapeutic, pharmacologic and physiologic compositions. The present invention additionally provides for methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease utilizing compositions comprising the AM peptides and antibodies of the present invention. The methods of the present invention also provide for experimental models for use in identifying the role of AM in pancreatic physiology. The methods pertaining to rat isolated islets have show that AM inhibits insulin secretion in a dose-dependent manner. The monoclonal antibody MoAb-G6, which neutralizes AM bioactivity, was show by the methods of the present invention to increase insulin release fivefold, an effect that was reversed by the addition of synthetic AM. | 01-28-2010 |
William J. Hook, Galena, OH US
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| 20100108670 | CONTAINER - A container ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110186570 | CONTAINER - A container ( | 08-04-2011 |