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Brian Howard, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20100162797 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VALVE LEAK SIMULATION - A method for simulating a compressor valve leak is described. The method includes inducing a flow of gas past a compressor valve that is coupled to a bypass block, wherein the bypass block defines a first passageway and a second passageway therein, and wherein the bypass block is also coupled to a bypass valve that is in flow communication with the second passageway. The method also includes measuring a first temperature and a second temperature. The first temperature is the temperature of the gas flowing through the first passageway of the bypass block and the second temperature is the temperature of gas flowing within the second passageway. The method also includes adjusting the bypass valve to divert a portion of the gas flowing through the second passageway to create temperature conditions substantially similar to conditions that are created due to a compressor valve leak. | 07-01-2010 |
Brian F. Howard, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20100250195 | Systems and Methods for Providing Dynamic Segmental Signal Analysis - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for providing dynamic segmental signal analysis. According to one embodiment, a method can include acquiring a first signal array and a second signal array, defining at least one event characteristic corresponding to the first signal array, and identifying at least one index in the first signal array that displays the event characteristic. The method can further include analyzing at least one segment from the second signal array corresponding to the index identified in the first signal array, and determining that at least one system condition exists based on analyzing the segment. | 09-30-2010 |
Brian Francis Howard, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20110080183 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR RIDER BAND WEAR - A method and apparatus for direct measurement of rider band wear in a valve assembly for a reciprocating compressor is provided. A distance transducer probe is inserted through a compressor valve assembly to measure a distance between a piston assembly and the transducer probe and the wear of a rider band is determined based on the distance. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC IMPULSE SIGNAL ATTENUATION SIMULATION - A method of simulating attenuation of an impulse signal of a reciprocating compressor includes providing a reciprocating compressor that includes a crank connected to a motor, a compression chamber, a reciprocating piston positioned in the compression chamber, and a connecting rod attached to the piston. The method also includes connecting the connecting rod to the crank with a first crank pin, mounting at least one transducer on the reciprocating compressor, running the compressor, measuring a first impulse signal with the at least one transducer, replacing the first crank pin with a second crank pin, the second crank pin having a diameter different than the diameter of the first crank pin, running the compressor, measuring a second impulse signal with the at least one transducer, and comparing the first impulse signal to the second impulse to determine an amount of attenuation between the first and second impulse signals. | 04-14-2011 |
Christopher J. Howard, Richland, WA US
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| 20110039686 | Fast regeneration of sulfur deactivated Ni-based hot biomass syngas cleaning catalysts - A new regeneration method has been developed which can effectively and efficiently remove sulfur from Ni-based steam reforming catalysts. In its simplest form the present invention comprises the steps of oxidizing a catalyst with a dilute O | 02-17-2011 |
Craig Howard, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100044387 | Systems and methods for constraining a can in an upright position - A system and method for constraining a can in an upright position includes a base and a plurality of legs. The base defines a support area and enlarges the footprint of a can when the can is constrained by the device. Each of the plurality of legs extends in the same direction from the base, over the support area defined by the base, and toward at least one of the other legs at an acute angle relative to the support area. Together, the legs constrain a can in an upright position when a can is inserted into the device. | 02-25-2010 |
Edward D. Howard, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090156495 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES - The present invention provides a newly identified B7 receptor, zB7R1 that functions as lymphocyte inhibitory receptor, which is a PD-1-like molecule and is expressed on T cells. The present invention also provides the discovery of zB7R1's ability to bind to CD155. Methods and compositions for modulating zB7R1-mediated negative signaling and interfering with the interaction of its counter-receptor for therapeutic, diagnostic and research purposes are also provided. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090175876 | METHODS OF USING PHHLA2 TO CO-STIMULATE T-CELLS - The invention provides pHHLA2 co-receptor polypeptides and functional fragments, antibodies to same, isolated polynucleotides encoding same, vectors containing the polynucleotides, cells containing the vectors. Methods of making and using these co-stimulatory pHHLA2 co-receptors molecules are also disclosed. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090202534 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES - Disclosed is a newly identified CD28 family member that functions as lymphocyte inhibitory receptor termed pG6b, which is expressed on T cells. Methods and compositions for modulating pG6b-mediated negative signaling and interfering with the interaction of its counter-receptor for therapeutic, diagnostic, and research purposes are also disclosed. | 08-13-2009 |
Gregory Alan Howard, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20120089644 | AUTOMATIC CONTACT LINKING FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Linking data items describing a person into a single, unified contact entry without merging the data items. The data items include, for example, contact data, social network data, and other data describing the person. The contact entry is a single representation of the person that, in some embodiments, combines a plurality of personas of the person without merging the underlying data items. Metadata representing one or more contact entries is capable of being shared across a plurality of devices and applications such that a user is presented with a consistent contact list on different devices and from within different applications. In some embodiments, the user annotates one or more of the contact entries with notes or other data that is stored with the metadata. | 04-12-2012 |
James Edward Howard, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090045155 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ANIMAL SHELF - A portable, lightweight, collapsible pet shelf for the attachment above a windowsill, to attach on a window or other smooth surface, generally comprised of a square or rectangular frame open in the middle to accept a soft fabric-like material suitable for a pet such as a domestic cat. The middle fabric is suitable for the animal to rest, view or sleep. The shelf is generally to be above ground level, often placed on or near a window for the pets viewing pleasure. The use of suction cups attached to the frame as well as on the ends of the front support cables or support arms, which attach to a surface above the shelf, to create a level shelf for the pet. | 02-19-2009 |
John Hal Howard, Sammamish, WA US
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| 20090204808 | Session Key Security Protocol - Exchanging information in a multi-site authentication system. A network server receives, from an authentication server, a request by a client computing device for a service provided by the network server along with an authentication ticket. The authentication ticket includes: a session key encrypted by a public key associated with the network server, message content encrypted by the session key, and a signature for the encrypted session key and the encrypted message content. The signature includes address information of the network server. The network server identifies its own address information in the signature to validate the signature included in the authentication ticket and verifies the authentication ticket content based on the signature included in the authentication ticket. The network server decrypts the encrypted session key via a private key associated with the second network server and decrypts the encrypted message content via the decrypted session key. | 08-13-2009 |
Joshua Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090239666 | METHOD FOR VIRAL INVITES AS GAME AND DISCOVERY MECHANIC - A method and system are disclosed for methods of providing a gaming experience including an in-game viral invite mechanic. In accordance with the present system, inviting others to join in the playing of a game is an objective of the game itself. Thus, a user is encouraged by the game to invite his or her friends, who are in turn encouraged to invite their friends, etc., so that a game may cascade pyramid-fashion to a potentially huge viral fan-out. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090265604 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK VITALITY - A method for presenting a graphical representation of the strength or vitality of a contact's social network is disclosed. When a user pulls up a graphical user interface displaying contacts in his or her social network, in addition to the traditional profile data for each contact, a virtual object may be displayed. The virtual object for a contact may be displayed in different ways, depending on the strength of the contact's social network. Thus, a user may access a contact in their social network and, by viewing the social network virtual object, quickly and easily get a sense of the strength and vitality of that contact's social network. | 10-22-2009 |
Lindsay Howard, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20100194187 | Bicycle safety apparatus - A safety apparatus for a rider motivated wheeled vehicle, the safety apparatus including a remote control module and a remotely actuable braking apparatus. The remote control module includes an electronic control signal activation module, a manual signal activator coupled for activating the electronic control signal activation module for generating a control signal, and a power supply coupled for powering the electronic control signal activation module. The remotely actuable braking apparatus includes an auxiliary brake device that is positionable for engaging at least one wheel of a rider motivated wheeled vehicle; an electronic actuator module coupled to the auxiliary brake device and being responsive to a received control signal for operating the auxiliary brake device, and a power supply coupled for powering the actuator module. | 08-05-2010 |
Lowell Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080257158 | Self-regulating bio-gas treatment system - A self-regenerating bio-gas treatment system that uses the bio-gas instead of atmospheric are as media transport between adsorber and desorber tanks. Each tank includes at least four horizontally stacked and evenly spaced apart, perforated trays each capable being filled with fluidized carbon which migrates downward in the adsorber tank to remove contaminants from the bio-gas. With the bio-gas function as its media transport, the carbon media continuously moves downward over the perforated trays and eventually collected in the bottom of the adsorber tank. The spent carbon is then delivered to the desorber tank. The desorber tank is filled with an inert gas produced by an inert gas generator which causes the carbon media to be regenerated. The inert gas strips the carbon media of contaminates and is then delivered to a ground flare. The carbon media is returned to the adsorber tank and re-used to treat bio-gas. A plurality of heat exchangers, blowers, valves and interconnecting conduits keep the bio-gas, the inert gas, and the carbon media continuously flowing through the system thereby enabling the system to be used at different sizes of landfills or treatment plants. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080289504 | Regenerable purification system for removal of siloxanes and volatile organic carbons - A process to purify biogases (i.e., landfill gas and municipal digester gas), to 5 enable such biogases to be utilized to generate electricity and heat. Biogases from these sources generally include small amounts of organosilicons (which are particularly harmful to power generation equipment, and especially harmful to micro-turbines, reciprocating internal combustion engines, and large turbines), and halogenated chemical species (which can foul expensive emission catalysts). A fluidized media bed reactor is configured to concentrate offending organics, and is coupled with another reactor vessel configured to strip the offending organics off saturated media with a hot inert gas. The removed organics are further concentrated into an inert gas stream that is conveyed to a small flare for greater than 99% destruction. The energy required to strip the organics from the spent media, and to energize the flare, is generated by the combustion of a small quantity of the purified biogas. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20110005393 | System and Method Extracting and Employing Compression Heat in Biogas Treatment Plant Equipment - The system and method for recycling and using the heat from compressed gas produced by a biogas treatment plant. The system includes a biogas cleaning stage and a plurality of compression and heat exchanger stages that allows the heat generated by compressed gases to be harvested. After the heat is harvested, it is delivered to a jacketed vessel containing media used to remove contaminants from the biogas. The media inside the jacketed vessel requires regeneration or stripping of harmful VOCs and other contaminants picked up from the biogas. The system also includes an inert gas generator that creates hot inert gas that is delivered to the jacketed vessel that heats the media located therein to remove contaminants. Because the jacket vessel and the media are simultaneously heated, the system's heat-up time is reduced The system also includes a heat exchanger that partially recovers the heat from the inert gas. | 01-13-2011 |
Lowell E. Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090000482 | System and method extracting compression heat in biogas treatment plant - The system and method for recycling the compress heat generated at a biogas treatment plant that includes the assembly of a heat exchanger at each stage of compression designed to utilizing all of the gas flow and to harvest the heat in gas delivered to the air exchangers. After the heat is harvested, it is then conveyed either as hot air, or as a hot liquid, to a jacketed vessel containing media that requires regeneration or stripping of harmful VOCs picked up during the purification of contaminated landfill or municipal digester gas. The harvesting and conveyance of the heat of compression of the gases to a jacket around the vessel interior (indirect contact) and simultaneously heating the vessel interior containing the spent media through hot gas from another source (direct contact), reduces the heat-up time. This also reduces the overall the cycle time between the contaminant pick-up step and contaminant stripping step in regenerable treatment systems. The system may employ activated carbon, silica gel, porous graphite, natural and synthetic zeolites, and molecular sieves or combinations of these is a specially designed contactor vessel to facilitate the use of the recovered heat. | 01-01-2009 |
Matthew Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080256341 | Data Processing Pipeline Selection - Strategies for automatically selecting the most appropriate processing pipeline (or runtime) for a particular data item are described. In one embodiment, a media playing application automatically selects the most appropriate media processing pipeline for a media data item from multiple available processing pipelines, or candidates. In this regard, the application makes this selection by utilizing heuristic techniques to identify which available pipeline provides the most enhanced playback experience to a user with respect to certain attributes such as supported playback features and security. These heuristic techniques can take one or more criteria into account and can be implemented in any suitable way. By way of example and not limitation, in one embodiment, a selection process is used wherein potential pipeline candidates are ordered and sequentially evaluated. | 10-16-2008 |
Matthew C. Howard, Bothell, WA US
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| 20090327344 | MEDIA FOUNDATION SOURCE READER - Techniques are provided to allow developers to use a unified application programming interface to access multimedia data from different containers and in different formats. | 12-31-2009 |
Matthew C. Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090115905 | High Definition Media Content Processing - High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory. | 05-07-2009 |
Michael Howard, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090164795 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROGRAM CREDENTIALS - A system for providing a client's credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client's credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client's credentials are stored in the database, and send the client's credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client's credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client's credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client's credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client's credentials prior to storing the client's credentials in the database and can decrypt the client's credentials prior to sending the client's credentials to the computer program. | 06-25-2009 |
Michael Quinn Howard, Bothell, WA US
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| 20090030556 | Methods for assessing reliability of a utility company's power system - Methods are provided for assessing reliability of a power system of a utility company. At least one main overview display is obtained. Violation markers are displayed on the one main overview display. A monitored elements tab is updated with a list of monitored elements. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030557 | Energy management system that provides real time situation awareness of a potential energy management failure - An energy management system has a control center at a utility company, and logic resources coupled to the power system that provide a real time notice of conditions which effect energy management of the utility company. At least one user interface is provided at the control center that is coupled to the logic resources. The user interface provides a real time situation awareness of a potential energy management failure. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030758 | Methods for assessing potentially compromising situations of a utility company - Methods are provided for assessing potentially compromising situations of a utility company. One or more source displays of a site are accessed. A fly-out or data lensing is used to bring forward a portion of the source displays. The fly-out or data lensing is used to draw attention to a potentially compromising situation and direct the operator's attention without loosing perspective of a whole power system of the utility company. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030759 | Methods for managing high or low voltage conditions from selected areas of a power system of a utility company - Methods are provided for managing high or low voltage conditions from selected areas of a power system of a utility company. Rubber-banding or lassoing is used to select geographic areas. Potential low or high voltage situations are identified in the selected geographic areas. Geographic displays are overlayed with superimposed VAR reserves to create overlayed geographic displays for the selected geographic areas. The overlayed geographic displays are used to identify potential low or high voltage instances in the selected geographic areas. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031241 | Energy management system that provides a real time assessment of a potentially compromising situation that can affect a utility company - An energy management system has a control center at a utility company and logic resources that provide a real time assessment of a potentially compromising situation that can effect the utility company. At least one situational dashboard panel is provided. The logic resources enable users to dynamically create their own dashboards from large overviews, regional schematic displays and station one-line displays that assist in assessing the potentially compromising situation of the utility company. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031249 | Methods for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company - Methods are provided for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company. The utility company has an energy management system with a control panel. The energy management system is used to access one or more source displays of a site. Rubber-banding or lassoing is used to create selected areas from at least a portion of the source displays, Lists are dynamically created. Operator defined information is displayed for each element type in a list of network elements from the selected areas that have been rubber-banded or lassoed. | 01-29-2009 |
Robert M. Howard, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090138810 | WEB PAGE EDITOR WITH ELEMENT SELECTION MECHANISM - A web page editor displays a web page including web page elements. At least some of the elements at least partially overlap other elements. The web page editor includes an element selection mechanism. The element selection mechanism allows a user to unambiguously select between the web page elements. | 05-28-2009 |