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| 20090021081 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THREE-PHASE INVERTER WITH REDUCED ENERGY STORAGE - Methods and apparatus for a circuit including first and second energy sources, a rectifier coupled to the first and second energy sources, first and second energy storage devices coupled end-to-end across the positive and negative rails, and a single three-level inverter coupled to the rectifier for providing three-phase sinusoidal output voltages. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090021966 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A CASCADE CONVERTER USING SERIES RESONANT CELLS WITH ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING - A method of providing power to a load is provided. A first series resonant converter is provided. A second SRC is operably coupled to the first SRC in a cascade connected arrangement. First and second zero voltage switching (ZVS)-assistance networks are operably coupled between the first SRC and the second SRC, such that the first and second ZVS-assistance networks are providing first and second ZVS-assistant currents flowing from each ZVS-assistance network to the cascade connected arrangement of SRCs. Power from a power source is received at the cascade connected arrangement of first and second SRCs, power from a power source. The cascade connected arrangement of first and second SRCs supplies an output voltage to the load in response to receiving power from the power source. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100289610 | Planar magnetic structure - An improved planar magnetic structure in which the voltage gradient between core and windings is reduced by shields disposed between the one or more legs of the core and the windings and extending through the PWB layers; vias are offset to permit them to be contained within the path of the winding; and the induced magnetic and eddy currents intrinsic to interstitial shield layers are reduced by configuring the shield conductors with pairs of courses with opposite and offsetting current propagation. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100314937 | Reconfigurable multi-cell power converter - A reconfigurable multi-cell power converter and method wherein a set of cells are connected between an input bus and a load in an input series output parallel configuration or in an input parallel output series configuration. Each cell includes a primary side reconfigurable between series and parallel operation and a secondary side also reconfigurable between series and parallel operation. Switching circuitry is configured to reconfigure the primary side of each cell between series and parallel operation and vice versa and also to reconfigure the secondary side of each cell between series and parallel operation and vice versa. A controller is configured to actuate the switching circuitry depending a voltage on the input bus and/or cell condition to reconfigure all the cell primary sides and/or secondary sides while maintaining a desired input series output parallel or input parallel output series connection for the set of cells. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110018341 | INTELLIGENT POWER SYSTEM - An intelligent power system includes one or more common power sources and one or more subsystem components interconnected with the common power sources. Each common power source includes an unregulated bus, a plurality of power source regulated buses, each regulated bus originating at a common power source and terminating at a respective one of k load subsystems, a power source, first, second, third and fourth groups of switches, a regulator having a plurality of outputs and an energy storage element. The regulator is configured to provide a time-shared mode of operation to provide power sequentially to one or more of the k load subsystems, such that the time intervals when the regulator is connected to any one of the k load subsystems do not overlap, and where the regulator is configured to switch in supplemental power from the energy storage, if necessary, to ensure that an average power delivered by the regulator does not exceed the average power consumed by all of the k load subsystems. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110050324 | INTEGRATED SMART POWER SWITCH - A device including a controllable semiconductor, sensor, and controller is provided. The controllable semiconductor is associated with a first operating parameter and a second operating parameter, wherein at least the first operating parameter is controllable. The sensor is in communication with the controllable semiconductor device and acquires data relating to the second operating parameter of the controllable semiconductor device. The controller is in communication with the controllable semiconductor device and the sensor, and the controller is configured to access device data associated with the controllable semiconductor, control the first operating parameter of the controllable semiconductor, and receive data from the first sensor relating to the second operating parameter. The controller determines a first predicted value dependent on the device data, compares the data relating to the second operating parameter with the first predicted value, and, if a first condition is detected based on this comparison, dynamically modifies the first operating parameter. | 03-03-2011 |
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| 20090219261 | Touch-Sensitive Illuminated Display Apparatus and Method of Operation Thereof - A touch-sensitive system, and apparatus, and method of operation of the apparatus, are provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a light source module configured to emit light; and a deformable waveguide coupled to the light source module and configured to transmit the light or a deflected version of the light at a situs at which pressure external to the deformable waveguide is applied. The deformable waveguide may also be illuminated by the light. The apparatus may also include one or more sensors configured to detect information indicative of the light or the deflected version of the light at the situs, and output a signal in response to the detected information. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110172127 | Methods and Devices for High Fidelity Polynucleotide Synthesis - Disclosed are methods for synthesizing and/or assembling at least one polynucleotide product having a predefined sequence from a plurality of different oligonucleotides. In exemplary embodiments, the methods involve synthesis and/or amplification of different oligonucleotides immobilized on a solid support, release of synthesized/amplified oligonucleotides in solution to form droplets, recognition and removal of error-containing oligonucleotides, moving or combining two droplets to allow hybridization and/or ligation between two different oligonucleotides, and further chain extension reaction following hybridization and/or ligation to hierarchically generate desired length of polynucleotide products. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110217738 | Methods and Devices for Nucleic Acid Synthesis - Disclosed are devices and methods to synthesize polynucleotides and libraries of polynucleotides such as libraries of oligonucleotides. In exemplary embodiments, the device includes a support having a plurality of features. Each feature contains a plurality of oligonucleotides. Within each feature, each of the plurality of oligonucleotides includes an identical predetermined subunit sequence of X nucleosides and a degenerate sequence of Y nucleosides. A predetermined combination of a subset of the features can be used to produce a polynucleotide having a predetermined sequence of Z nucleosides. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110297084 | Apparatus for Direct Fabrication of Nanostructures - An all-additive apparatus for direct fabrication of nanometer-scale planar and multilayer structures that performs “pick-and-place” retrieval and deposition of materials comprises a tip and a controller and transport mechanism configured for causing the tip to acquire a transferable material and deposit at least a portion of the acquired transferable material at a predetermined location onto a substrate, without the use of a bridging medium, in order to directly assemble a structure. The tip may be submillimeter-scale, may comprise a plurality of sub-tips disposed in a predetermined arrangement, and/or may mechanically vibrate. Mechanical vibration of the tip may be monitored. The tip may acquire the transferable material from a reservoir. The assembled structure may be cured on the substrate. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120028843 | Methods and Apparatuses for Chip-Based DNA Error Reduction - Methods and apparatus relate to reduction of sequence errors generated during synthesis of nucleic acids on a microarray chip. The error reduction can include synthesis of complementary stands (to template strands), using a short universal primer complementary to the template strands and polymerase. Heteroduplex can be formed be melting and re-annealing complementary stands and template strands. The heteroduplexes containing a mismatch can be recognized and cleaved by a mismatch endonuclease. The mismatch-containing cleaved heteroduplexes can be removed from the microarray chip using a global buffer exchange. The error free synthetic nucleic acids generated therefrom can be used for a variety of applications, including synthesis of biofuels and value-added pharmaceutical products. | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20090199175 | Dynamic Allocation of Virtual Application Server - A management system for virtual applications may deploy sets of virtual applications to many client devices, dynamically allocate virtual application servers to individual clients, manage updates to the virtual applications, and provide other high level management to deployments of virtual applications. A client device may include a virtual application management client that may communicate with a management server. The management client may add or remove virtual applications to the client device based on a policy received from the management server, and may query the management server to determine a currently available virtual application distribution server when a virtual application is requested. The management server may distribute and manage versions of applications across one or more virtual application distribution servers. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090199178 | Virtual Application Management - A management system for virtual applications may deploy sets of virtual applications to many client devices by defining and distributing policies. The polices may define which client devices and/or users may permitted to access a virtual application from a server and how the virtual application may be used. A client device may include a virtual application management client that may communicate with a management server to retrieve and implement the policies. The management client may add or remove virtual applications to the client device based on a policy received from the management server. In some embodiments, policies may also be distributed and implemented on a virtual application server. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100251236 | In-Process Intermediary To Create Virtual Processes - In one embodiment, the tools and techniques can include intercepting with an intermediary module in a running non-virtual process a request from the running non-virtual process to create a requested non-virtual process. In response to the request being intercepted, an appropriate virtual process corresponding to the requested non-virtual process can be identified. In addition, a virtual environment that is configured to host the virtual process can be prepared and the virtual process can be added to the virtual environment. Finally, the request can be fulfilled with the virtual process. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110219146 | VIRTUAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATIONS - Configuration items for a software application can be automatically and/or manually discovered, and the application can be packaged to form a virtual application package. A deployment configuration can include settings for the configuration items. The deployment configuration can be set after packaging the software application. For example, a selected configuration item in the deployment configuration may be changed in response to user input. The virtual application package can be deployed to instantiate the application one or more times, and the deployment configuration can be applied in the instantiated application. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219365 | HIGH AND LOW VALUE APPLICATION STATE - A set of high value state in application state for a software application can be distinguished from a set of low value state in the application state. For example, a set of heuristics can be run on the application state to distinguish between the set of high value state and the set of low value state. A set of designations that designate the set of high value state in the application state as high value and that designate the set of low value state in the application state as low value can be generated. When processing the application, the high value state can be processed differently than the low value state. The application may be packaged as a virtual application. | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20090007139 | Running Add-On Components in Virtual Enviroments - Systems and methods for running add-on components in virtual environments are described. An add-on component can be executed in a virtual environment by setting up a communication link between a component proxy in the host operating system and a server process running in the virtual environment. The server process executes the add-on component based on commands forwarded by the component proxy forwards the commands from the operating system. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20110191788 | EXTENSIBLE APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION SUBSYSTEMS - An extensible virtualization system provides an object model and manages a virtual application lifecycle in a way that allows new virtualization subsystems to be added to extend a virtualization product without reworking the product itself. Virtualizing an application generally involves three steps: metadata extraction, metadata storage and reconstitution, and runtime management of requests. The extensible virtualization system receives notification of an application preparation session and allows virtualization subsystems to monitor the session to collect configuration information specific to each subsystem that the application uses to run on a client. Each subsystem provides collected information to the extensible virtualization system, which stores the collected information until the application to be virtualized is deployed. When the application is deployed, the system invokes the same virtualization subsystem and provides the subsystem with the stored information. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110219385 | VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR SERVER APPLICATIONS, SUCH AS WEB APPLICATIONS - An application virtualization system enables server applications, such as web applications to be easily deployable, separates an application and its state from the system, and allows applications to be easily moved to another server. The application virtualization system provides a way to isolate conflicts and allow multiple applications that provide conflicting information to run independently and avoid conflicts. The application virtualization system receives notification of an application preparation session and monitors the session to collect configuration information that the application uses to run on a client. The application virtualization system stores the collected information until the application to be virtualized is deployed. When an administrator later deploys the application, the system retrieves the stored information and uses the information and information from the client to reconstitute the metadata and virtualize the application. | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20100170660 | HEAT EXCHANGERS AND RELATED METHODS - Heat exchangers and related methods, e.g., methods of reducing heat from a load, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a device includes a stationary element defining a cavity, a movable element, and a first heat pipe in fluid communication with the cavity defined by the stationary element. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110151507 | Solar Biofactory, Photobioreactors, Passive Thermal Regulation Systems and Methods for Producing Products - The invention described herein relates to photobioreactors, methods, assembly and use of such apparatus for culturing light-capturing organisms in a cost-effective manner. Various embodiments provide for a passive thermal regulation system employing selected microorganisms in a photobioreactor apparatus and methods for biological production of various fuel and chemical products from these organisms. Additional embodiments provide a solar biofactory system capable of culturing light capturing organisms to an areal productivity of 3.3 g/m2/hr. Further embodiments are directed to a photobioreactor capable of culturing light capturing organisms to an OD | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110217692 | Photobioreactors, Solar Energy Gathering Systems, And Thermal Control Methods - The present invention provides photobioreactors, solar energy gathering systems, and methods for thermal control of a culture medium containing a prototrophic organism in a photobioreactor, that allow temperature control in a cost effective manner, reducing the energy required for temperature control of a culture medium containing phototrophic microorganisms in a photobioreactor. | 09-08-2011 |
