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Alan T. Ives, Marcellus, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110099856Shoe device secured to a syphon for removing condensate - A shoe device secured to a syphon is disclosed for removing condensate from an internal surface of a rotating cylinder. The shoe device includes a shoe portion which is disposed adjacent to the internal surface of the rotating cylinder. The shoe portion defines a passageway having an upstream and a downstream end. The passageway permits a flow there through of the condensate from the internal surface of the rotating cylinder, through the upstream end of the passageway to the downstream end of the passageway. The shoe portion has a first and a second side, a surface extending between the first and second sides of the shoe portion. The surface is disposed adjacent to the internal surface of the cylinder. The shoe portion also has a leading and a trailing end and a face extending between the leading and trailing ends of the shoe portion. A clamp is secured to a distal end of the syphon and is connected to the shoe portion for clamping the shoe portion to the syphon. An anchor plate is secured to the clamp and is disposed between the shoe portion and the clamp for anchoring the shoe portion. The arrangement is such that in use of the shoe device, the condensate flows through the passageway through an aperture defined by the anchor plate and through the clamp into the syphon. The shoe portion is fabricated from a material that is softer than the internal surface of the rotating cylinder for inhibiting any wear damage that could otherwise be caused by frictional contact between the shoe portion and the internal surface of the rotating cylinder.05-05-2011

Patent applications by Alan T. Ives, Marcellus, MI US

Andrew Scott Ives, Oshkosh, WI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100258569PACKAGE HAVING A RECLOSE MECHANISM - A food package for sliced food products to be maintained with a fluffed appearance, the package including a rigid base member forming a compartment for receiving the food product and a rigid lid sealed to the compartment. Advantageously, the base member includes a bottom wall and side wall portions that are configured to engage the food product to hold the slices in a fluffed arrangement thereof. Preferably, one or more tapered side wall portions hold the food product upwardly toward the lid and inwardly toward a center of the package. In preferred embodiments, the base member and lid provide a rigid-rigid construction of the food package. In preferred embodiments, the food package is also configured to stand-up in a vertical display orientation and does not require the food product be contained within a sealed pouch within the compartment.10-14-2010
20120079705Method For Forming A Reclose Mechanism On A Reclosable Package - A food package for sliced food products to be maintained with a fluffed appearance, the package including a rigid base member forming a compartment for receiving the food product and a rigid lid sealed to the compartment. Advantageously, the base member includes a bottom wall and side wall portions that are configured to engage the food product to hold the slices in a fluffed arrangement thereof. Preferably, one or more tapered side wall portions hold the food product upwardly toward the lid and inwardly toward a center of the package. In preferred embodiments, the base member and lid provide a rigid-rigid construction of the food package. In preferred embodiments, the food package is also configured to stand-up in a vertical display orientation and does not require the food product be contained within a sealed pouch within the compartment.04-05-2012

Patent applications by Andrew Scott Ives, Oshkosh, WI US

David Curtis Ives, Canton, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100058748EGR Cooler Defouling - A method to dislodge an adherent residue in an EGR cooler, the EGR cooler installed in an engine. The method comprises flowing an exhaust gas through an adherent-residue bearing surface of the EGR cooler when a temperature of the adherent-residue bearing surface is below a dewpoint temperature of the exhaust gas, enabling water vapor from the exhaust gas to condense on the adherent-residue bearing surface, heating the adherent-residue bearing surface to above the dewpoint temperature of the exhaust gas, and enabling condensed water on the adherent-residue bearing surface to evaporate. Other embodiments provide a method to recirculate an exhaust gas from an exhaust port of an engine to an intake of the engine via an EGR cooler, and a related EGR system.03-11-2010

David Curtis Ives, Ann Arbor, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110023800MIRROR-IMAGE CYLINDER HEADS - A vee-engine has left and right cylinder banks have valve configurations that are mirror images of each other. The exhaust valves and associated exhaust ports are situated more toward the rear of the engine than the intake valves in any particular cylinder. With all the exhaust valves nearer the rear of the engine, the overall exhaust manifold runner length between the ports and the turbocharger is reduced relative to an engine with offset cylinder banks where exhaust valves in one bank are located nearer the front of the engine than exhaust valves of the other bank.02-03-2011
20110023819GLOW PLUG PLACEMENT IN A DIESEL ENGINE - A four-valve per cylinder engine has two intake valves, two exhaust valves and a centrally located fuel injector. Between each adjacent pair of valves is a valve bridge with a point of minimum separation between adjacent valves. In the present disclosure, the glow plug port is defined in the cylinder top at a location outboard of the minimum separation between adjacent and at a depth which is tangent to an edge of a fuel jet emanating the injector. By placing the glow plug farther outboard than found in the prior art, the glow plug contacts the fuel as it comes out of the injector and as it rebounds off a feature of the piston bowl.02-03-2011
20110023839EGR COOLER BYPASS STRATEGY - A system and method for controlling an engine control an EGR cooler bypass valve to divert at least a portion of EGR flow around an EGR cooler when operating under cooler fouling/plugging conditions, such as during idle, off-idle, exhaust system warm up and DPF regeneration or other post injection operation with EGR gas temperature below a corresponding threshold or with EGR low-temperature coolant temperature below a corresponding threshold. The system and method reduce exhaust gases passing through the EGR cooler that contain a high concentration of unburned or partially unburned fuel when the temperature in the EGR system is lower than the fuel condensation temperature.02-03-2011
20120102944Method and System for Limiting Output of a Boosted Engine - A method for operating a turbocharged engine is disclosed. In one example, an engine operation is adjusted in response to a turbocharger expansion ratio. Degradation of the engine may be reduced under some engine operating conditions by adjusting engine operation in response to the turbocharger expansion ratio.05-03-2012

David J. Ives, Southport, CT US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090063279Contextual Advertising For Video and Audio Media - A system and method for serving contextually relevant advertisements is provided, including monitoring a media stream to indentify an audio or video asset, extracting and storing corresponding text from the asset, retrieving stored text when the asset is selected by a user, analyzing the text and identifying relevant advertisements that are then displayed to a user as a clickable text next to the playing video or audio asset. In further embodiments, the method may include the steps of retrieving a variable length portion of the text corresponding to the portion of the asset being played by the user, analyzing the portion of the text to identify advertisements relevant to the corresponding portion of the asset, displaying the advertisements during the playback of the portion of the asset, and then repeating the steps until the playback of the whole asset is completed.03-05-2009

Edward Ives, Exeter, RI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080317021METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PHYSICAL LOCATION OF EQUIPMENT - Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining certain physical characteristics of a network device. In one embodiment, a method is employed to automatically determine the physical location of a network device. This method may employ a computer based system to acquire network device information, instruct the network devices to change power consumption, detect the changes and determine the physical location of the network device based on the changes detected. In another embodiment, a method is employed to automatically determine the functional type of a network device. This method may employ a computer based system to monitor the power drawn by the network device at a power distribution device and determine the network device functional type based on the power drawn.12-25-2008
20090055897SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING NETWORK DEVICE PROVISIONING POLICY - Systems and methods are provided for enforcing a network device provisioning policy. In one embodiment, a method may employ a computer based system to restrict access to data center resources, receive provisioning requests for access to the data center resources, authorize the provisioning requests after compliance with the network provisioning policy and allow the network device to access authorized data center resources. In another embodiment, a system includes interfaces for provisioning policy, request and task status information. The information provided by these interfaces is then used to determine compliance with applicable network device provisioning policies and restrict or allow access to the data center resources according to the provisioning policy.02-26-2009
20110004504SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCORING A PLURALITY OF WEB PAGES ACCORDING TO BRAND REPUTATION - Systems and methods taught herein provide an objective scoring mechanism based at least in part on a brand reputation of an organization owning a web page. In one aspect, brand reputation information is used to assign a score to a web page indicating the page's trustworthiness. Thus, rather than determining trustworthiness only from the intrinsic content of the web page, or from extrinsic relationships between web pages, a user may be provided with an indication of trustworthiness from at least one brand reputation metric of the organization that makes the web page available.01-06-2011

Patent applications by Edward Ives, Exeter, RI US

Edward M. Ives, Exeter, RI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090187572Systems and methods for providing access to instructional content - Methods and apparatus are provided for locating trustworthy how-to content (e.g., on the Internet), and providing access to such content (e.g., via a web site). Some embodiments provide a method for making trustworthy how-to content accessible, which method includes locating an item of how-to content made available for access by a provider; creating at least one how-to entry corresponding to the item of how-to content which enables a user to access the how-to content and which includes some indication of the source (and thus also, to a user familiar with the source, an indication of the quality) of the how-to content; and providing the user with access to the how-to entry via at least one network (e.g., the Internet).07-23-2009
20110231239METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTRIBUTING AN ONLINE CONVERSION TO MULTIPLE INFLUENCERS - A method is provided for identifying and crediting interactions leading to a conversion, comprising acts of for each of at least one defined time interval, defining a recency factor used to scale a credit amount given to an influencing event occurring during the defined time interval; identifying at least one influencing event that influenced a conversion event; for each of the at least one influencing events, identifying a defined time interval in which the influencing event occurred and accessing the recency factor for that defined time interval; and apportioning the credit amount given to the conversion event among the at least one influencing event according to the recency factor for each influencing event.09-22-2011
20120066359METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING LINK-HOSTING WEBPAGES - A method for valuing a link-hosting webpage is provided. The method includes the act of receiving, on a computer system, at least one keyword. The method also includes the act of receiving, on a computer system, at least one identifier of a webpage, the webpage having been previously identified as a link-hosting webpage. The method also includes the act of accessing information about the webpage over a computer network. The method also includes the act of determining an importance of the webpage based on the at least one keyword and the information about the webpage. The method also includes the act of displaying the importance on a computer-based user interface.03-15-2012
20120078709METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ONLINE ADVERTISING OBJECTS USING TEXTUAL METADATA TAGS - A method for managing online advertising placements includes associating a plurality of textual metadata tags with at least one advertising placement, and generating a bid recommendation for the at least one advertising placement associated with the plurality of textual metadata tags.03-29-2012

Patent applications by Edward M. Ives, Exeter, RI US

Fred H. Ives, Veradale, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090295500RADIO FREQUENCY POWER SPLITTER/COMBINER, AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A radio frequency power splitter/combiner employs a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB). A first power splitter/combiner section is formed on a first layer of the multilayer PCB and has signal propagation traces coupling a first major port to a first pair of minor ports. A second power splitter/combiner section is formed on a second layer of the multilayer PCB and has signal propagation traces coupling a second major port to a second pair of minor ports. At least one signal ground is formed on one or more layers of the multilayer PCB intermediate the first layer and the second layer. The at least one signal ground isolates the first power splitter/combiner section from the second power splitter/combiner section.12-03-2009

Patent applications by Fred H. Ives, Veradale, WA US

Jason Ives, Broken Arrow, OK US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090041597Combined Seal Head and Pump Intake for Electrical Submersible Pump - An electrical submersible well pump assembly has a motor containing a dielectric lubricant. A seal section is mounted to the motor for reducing pressure differential between the lubricant in the motor and the well bore fluid. The seal section has a head on an end opposite the motor. A pump assembly is mounted to the head of the seal section. An intake is located in the head of the seal section for drawing well bore fluid into the pump assembly.02-12-2009
20090053080COLLET ADAPTER FOR A MOTOR SHROUD - An electrical submersible pump assembly (ESP) includes a pump section, a motor section, and a seal section. In one embodiment, an exterior of the pump section defines a gripping indentation above the pump intake. Alternatively, a clamp member may be provided that surrounds the pump, wherein the clamp member defines the gripping indentation. A collet adapter is affixed to an upper end of a shroud. The collet adapter has gripping members that engage the gripping indentation for attaching the shroud to the electrical submersible pump assembly. The collet adapter is provided to ease installation of the motor shroud onto the ESP as well as to ease removal of the motor shroud from the ESP. The collet adapter of the present invention eliminates precise alignment and bolt-on requirements of typical motor shroud mounting techniques.02-26-2009
20090285678SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPEN IMPELLER AND DIFFUSER ASSEMBLY FOR MULTI-STAGE SUBMERSIBLE PUMP - A multi-stage submersible pump uses impellers having only one shroud to provide stages with shorter stack lengths to allow more stages per housing and more head pressure per housing. The impellers are biased with wave springs to keep the rotating impeller vanes close to the mating diffusers. The entire stack of impellers is assembled in contact with each other using the wave springs and are always under axial load. The wave springs also take up any tolerance variations in the stack to keep the impellers in proper running position. To keep the impellers in their proper locations, thrust washers formed from hard materials are used between adjacent impellers to avoid erosion thereof.11-19-2009
20110027077SHAFTLESS CENTRIFUGAL PUMP - A centrifugal pump has impellers that are not connected by a central shaft. More specifically, each of the impellers has a separate hub segment that interlocks with an adjacent hub segment from another impeller. The hub segments are rotated in unison with each other to rotate the impellers.02-03-2011

Patent applications by Jason Ives, Broken Arrow, OK US

Jason B. Ives, Broken Arrow, OK US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120107114Reduced Profile Abrasion Resistant Pump Thrust Bearing - A centrifugal pump has a stationary diffuser with a bore. A thrust bearing is pressed into the diffuser bore and has a curved interior. A thrust runner having a curved exterior is correspondingly and closely received by the thrust bearing interior. The thrust runner is keyed to a shaft and transmits thrust from a rotating impeller to the diffuser via the thrust bearing. The curved surface of the thrust bearing allows for handling of both axial and radial thrust without the need for multiple thrust bearings. The increased surface area of the curved surface in the thrust bearing can also handle higher loads.05-03-2012

Jeffrey Ives, Arvada, CO US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120071342SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE MOLECULES IN ONE ASSAY - A rapid diagnostic system that delivers a panel of serologic assay results using a small amount of blood, serum, or plasma is described. The system includes a disposable cartridge and a reader instrument, based on planar waveguide imaging technology. The cartridge incorporates a microarray of recombinant antigens and antibody controls in a fluidic channel, providing multiple parallel fluorescence assay results for a single sample.03-22-2012
20120088230System And Method For Cell Analysis - A system for enumeration of objects such as cells in a sample is disclosed. The system uses a low-cost cartridge and a reader instrument, based on planar waveguide imaging technology. Cells of a blood sample may be stained with fluorescence-tagged antibodies and are loaded onto the cartridge where the differentially labeled cells may be distinguished and quantified.04-12-2012

Jeffrey Lee Ives, Chester, CT US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110251379COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS - As described herein, the present invention provides compounds useful for treating or lessening the severity of a neurodegenerative disorder. The present invention also provides methods of treating or lessening the severity of such disorders wherein said method comprises administering to a patient a compound of the present invention, or composition thereof. Said method is useful for treating or lessening the severity of, for example, Alzheimer's disease.10-13-2011

Jeffrey T. Ives, Arvada, CO US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090082225NUCLEIC ACID ARCHIVING - This invention is directed to a process for tightly binding nucleic acid to solid phase and corresponding processes for the utilization thereof. Nucleic acid is bound to solid phase matrices exhibiting sufficient hydrophilicity and electropositivity to tightly bind the nucleic acids from a sample. These processes include nucleic acid (double or single stranded DNA and RNA) capture from high volume and/or low concentration specimens, buffer changes, washes, and volume reductions, and enable the interface of solid phase bound nucleic acid with enzyme, hybridization or amplification strategies. The tightly bound nucleic acid may be used, for example, in repeated analyses to confirm results or test additional genes in both research and commercial applications. Further, a method is described for virus extraction, purification, and solid phase amplification from large volume plasma specimens.03-26-2009

John D. Ives, Wayne, NJ US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090103786APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION FROM A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - In an apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional representation from a two-dimensional image, a memory device stores information for processing a two-dimensional image and for generating a three-dimensional image from the two-dimensional image, a processing device processes a digital representation of an image by generating a two-dimensional image from the digital representation and by generating a three-dimensional image corresponding to the two-dimensional image, and an output device outputs a three-dimensional image and a digital signal representation of the three-dimensional image.04-23-2009
20100189342SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION FROM ONE OR MORE TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - In a system and method for generating a 3-dimensional representation of a portion of an organism, collecting training data, wherein the training data includes a first set of training data and a second set of training data. At least one statistical model having a set of parameters is built using the training data. The at least one statistical model is compared to a 2-dimensional image of the portion of the organism. At least one parameter of the set of parameters of the statistical model is modified based on the comparison of the at least one statistical model to the 2-dimensional image of the portion of the organism. The modified set of parameters representing the portion of the organism is passed through the statistical model.07-29-2010

Mark Ives, Merrimack, NH US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110118855SCALABLE MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM - A control system includes a clustered architecture having a master controller, a central control section including one or more first remote controllers under direct control of the master controller, and a distributed control section including a cluster controller controlled by the master controller. The cluster controller controls the activities of one or more second remote controllers. Each of the first and second remote controllers are utilized to drive one or more axes.05-19-2011

Neil A. Ives, Hawthorne, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080240548Isosurfacial three-dimensional imaging system and method - An isosurfacial three-dimensional imaging system and method uses scanning electron microscopy for surface imaging of an assumed opaque object providing a series of tilt images for generating a sinogram of the object and a voxel data set for generating a three-dimensional image of the object having exterior surfaces some of which may be obscured so as to provide exterior three-dimensional surface imaging of objects including hidden surfaces normally obscured from stereographic view.10-02-2008
20090238470Adaptive membrane shape deformation system - A system and method determines the shape of a surface that preferably is a deployed space-based adaptive flexible membrane antenna, using patterned projections, image capturing, and membrane shape processing for producing membrane shape data describing the contour of the surface of the membrane with the membrane shape data then preferably used as inputs for a feedback control actuation system for deforming the membrane to a desired shaped so as to maintain the three-dimensional shape of the membrane in the desired shape.09-24-2009
20110102615Refraction assisted illumination for imaging - An illumination source may be directed towards a surface of an object comprising subsurface features, wherein the illumination from the source is directed at a first angle relative to the normal of the surface. The object may have a portion between the subsurface features and the surface, the portion having an index of refraction that is greater than the index of refraction of a surrounding medium that surrounds the object. An imaging device may be placed with an objective lens. The first angle may be larger than an acceptance angle of the objective lens. In some embodiments, multiple illumination beams may be generated by one or more illumination sources. The beams may be rotated relative to one another about the normal of the surface. Also, in some embodiments, multiple images may be taken with the objective of the imaging device at different positions rotated off of the normal. The multiple images may be combined to generate a composite image.05-05-2011
20120019707REFRACTION ASSISTED ILLUMINATION FOR IMAGING - Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for imaging subsurface features of a semiconductor object comprising a first region having a first doping property and a second region having a second doping property. The semiconductor object may comprise subsurface features and material between a surface of the semiconductor object and the subsurface features. The material may have an index of refraction that is greater than an index of refraction of a surrounding medium in contact with the surface of the semiconductor object. For example, a system may comprise an imaging device comprising an objective. The imaging device may be sensitive to a first wavelength. The system may also comprise an illumination source to emit illumination substantially at the first wavelength. The illumination may be directed towards the surface of the semiconductor object at a first angle relative to a normal of the surface. The first angle is greater than an acceptance angle of the objective of the imaging device. Also, the first wavelength may have a photonic energy substantially equal to a bandgap of the first region.01-26-2012

Patent applications by Neil A. Ives, Hawthorne, CA US

Sebastien Ives, Pearland, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110272150WELL FLUID SAMPLING SYSTEM FOR USE IN HEAVY OIL ENVIRONMENTS - A technique involves sampling fluids in a well environment. An expandable packer is constructed with an outer seal layer. At least one sample drain is positioned through the outer seal layer, and a heater element is deployed in the at least one sample drain. In one embodiment, the heater element is deployed proximate a radially outlying surface of the expandable packer. Additionally, a temperature sensor may be positioned proximate the at least one sample drain to monitor temperature in the environment heated by the heater element.11-10-2011

Steven E. Ives, Durand, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100089345HIGH VACUUM CRANKCASE VENTILATION - A combustion engine is configured to substantially reduced pressure in the crankcase relative to atmospheric conditions. Under the conditions of reduced pressure, removal of contaminants present in the lubricating oil present is effected, which may provide one or more benefits including extended service intervals, reduced volumes of motor oils used, and lessened wear of internal engine components.04-15-2010

Ted Ives, Exeter, RI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090138313METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING FACILITY POWER AND COOLING - Systems and methods are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.05-28-2009

Terri Evelyn Ives, Littleton, CO US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120081666METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTIVE SECONDARY SACCADES ANALYSIS WITH VIDEO OCULOGRAPHY SYSTEM - A video oculography system for calculation and display of Corrective Secondary Saccades Analysis is disclosed. A method for Objective Diagnostics of at least one of traumatic brain injury, Internuclear Opthalmopligia, Ocular Lateral Pulsion, Progressive Supernuclear Palsy And Glissades comprises the steps of using a VOG system to calculate corrective saccades. The video oculography based system for the subject is configured to collect eye images of the patient in excess of 60 hz and configured to resolve eye movements smaller than at least 3 degrees of motion. The video oculography based system collects eye movement data wherein at least one fixation target is presented to the subject in a defined position configured to yield a voluntary saccadic eye response from at least one eye of the patient. The latency, amplitude, accuracy and velocity of each respective corrective saccade and totals latency and accuracy is calculated.04-05-2012

Thomas Wayne Ives, Boise, ID US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090110455WASTE TONER SOLIDIFICATION APPARATUS FOR A PRINTING DEVICE - A waste toner solidification apparatus for a printing device includes a nozzle configured to receive waste toner from a hopper. A heater is configured to heat the waste toner in a manner sufficient to liquefy the waste toner within the nozzle. Substantially when exiting the nozzle, the liquefied waste toner solidifies and forms a plurality of solid waste toner pellets.04-30-2009

Patent applications by Thomas Wayne Ives, Boise, ID US

William Neil Ives, Hornell, NY US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100123393HID LAMP WITH A CANTED ARC TUBE - An HID lamp with a canted arc tube including a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp with an outer envelope (05-20-2010