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John Thompson
John Thompson, Boulder, CO US
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| 20080222949 | Devices and methods for growing plants - A gardening system includes a modular seed cartridge including a rigid, cup-shaped receptacle including an upper portion having an outer rim, a soilless growth medium located in the rigid, cup-shaped receptacle, and at least one seed in contact with the soilless growth medium. The gardening system also includes an aeroponic or hydroponic garden including a chamber including a lower portion for storing a liquid nutrient solution, a cover located above the chamber, the cover including a plant opening adapted to removably support the modular seed cartridge by the outer rim, and a pump located in the chamber and adapted to circulate the liquid nutrient solution from the lower portion of the chamber to the modular seed cartridge supported by the plant opening. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080282610 | Devices and methods for growing plants - A soilless garden includes a chamber including a sealed lower portion for storing liquid nutrient solution, and an upper portion including a support structure; soilless growth medium supported by the support structure and adapted to support at least one plant having roots; a removable germination cap located above the soilless growth medium; a conduit having a first end located substantially adjacent to the soilless growth medium, and a second end opposite to the first end; and a pump in the chamber, including an input for receiving the liquid nutrient solution from the lower portion of the chamber, and an output to deliver liquid nutrient solution through the conduit into the soilless growth medium. The support structure includes an opening directed toward the lower portion of the chamber for the liquid nutrient solution to drip from the roots of the at least one plant into the lower portion of the chamber. | 11-20-2008 |
John Thompson, Stone Mountain, GA US
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| 20110000120 | Power rail system - A power supply system for a firearm including a plurality of leads disposed in a rail for providing power to an electric firearm accessory attached thereto and an electric firearm accessory including connectors for electrically connecting to leads disposed in a rail on which the accessory is mounted. | 01-06-2011 |
John Thompson, Ridgefield, WA US
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| 20080304010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SURFACING A LENS, SUCH AS A LENS FOR USE WITH EYEGLASSES - A system and method of forming surfaces on eyeglass lenses is described. In some examples, the surface is a spherical, cylindrical or spherocylindrical surface at a center of the lens and an aspherical surface at a periphery of the lens. In some examples, forming the surface on the lens reduces the thickness of the lens at the periphery of the lens. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100321634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SURFACING A LENS, SUCH AS A LENS FOR USE WITH EYEGLASSES - A system and method of forming surfaces on eyeglass lenses is described. In some examples, the surface is a spherical, cylindrical or spherocylindrical surface at a center of the lens and an aspherical surface at a periphery of the lens. In some examples, forming the surface on the lens reduces the thickness of the lens at the periphery of the lens. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110299031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SURFACING A LENS, SUCH AS A LENS FOR USE WITH EYEGLASSES - A system and method of forming surfaces on eyeglass lenses is described. In some examples, the surface is a spherical, cylindrical or spherocylindrical surface at a center of the lens and an aspherical surface at a periphery of the lens. In some examples, forming the surface on the lens reduces the thickness of the lens at the periphery of the lens. | 12-08-2011 |
John Thompson, Phoenix, AZ US
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| 20100306435 | RECONFIGURABLE VIRTUAL BACKPLANE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Reconfigurable virtual backplane systems and methods are provided. One virtual backplane system includes a bus, and first and second line cards coupled to the bus. Each line card includes a processor including a memory storing an array of configuration tables. Each configuration table stores a listing of processes to be transmitted to or received from the communication bus, wherein a first configuration table is selected from the first line card upon the occurrence of a first event and a second configuration table is selected from the second line card upon the occurrence of a second event. One method includes connecting first and second buses in first and second systems, respectively, to form a bus for a new system. The method further includes detecting the connection of the first and second buses, and reconfiguring the first and second systems to operate as the new system in response to detecting the connection. | 12-02-2010 |
John Thompson, Chippewa Falls, WI US
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| 20100095255 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING RACE-DRIVEN REGISTERS - Embodiments include a system and method for generating RTL description of an electronic device provided for a design test and a test bench environment to drive stimulus into the electronic device, identifying at least one register to be verified during the design test, authoring a property list including a plurality of properties, wherein each property includes a cause and an effect, creating a new property instance upon receiving an enqueue cause, transitioning a property instance from a waiting state to a pending state based on a dequeue cause, advancing property instances from the pending state to an active state and then to an expired state based on a defined time window, creating a current solution space including a plurality of solutions, wherein each of the plurality of solutions includes a list of unused active effects, inserting property instances into each of the plurality of solutions when the property instance enters to active state, pruning solutions from the current solutions space which have not used a property instance entering the expired state, and computing a new solution space based on the current solution space and target transition. | 04-15-2010 |
John Thompson, Niwot, CO US
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| 20080276534 | Devices and methods for growing plants by measuring liquid consumption - This invention provides adaptive growth technology, hydroponic and aeroponic gardens with adaptive growth technology, and methods for growing a plant or germinating a seed in with adaptive growth technology. An apparatus of this invention includes a vessel, a growing surface, a light source, a liquid measurement device, a controller in communication with the measurement device and a time that calculate the rate of consumption of the liquid in the vessel by seeds or plants and that adjust the liquid delivery rate, the liquid quality, the nutrient delivery rate, the nutrient quality, the photoradiation delivery rate, and/or the photoradiation quality based on the calculated rate of liquid usage. In an embodiment, the steps are performed automatically without human intervention. | 11-13-2008 |
John Thompson, Spirit Lake, IA US
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| 20080273348 | Artificial Illuminated Plant Display - An electrically illuminated artificial plant display may include a plurality of individual plant sprays, each spray including optical fibers and branch members bearing light emitting diodes, the optical fibers and branch members terminating at a plug that includes a readily replaceable colored lens to filter light which is transmitted to the fiber optic members and electrical contacts for transmitting power to the diodes disposed on the branch members. The plug may be insertable into a base unit that includes a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle adapted to receive a single plug. The receptacles may each include both electrical contacts and a light emitting diode such that the lens in the plug is positioned between the base unit's light emitting diode and the ends of the fiber optic cables when the plug is in an installed position. | 11-06-2008 |
John Thompson, Clinton, CT US
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| 20080269852 | Methods and Apparatus for Thermal Regulation of a Body - A thermal regulation system includes a thermal exchange collar for application to a neck of a patient, a thermal regulation pad for application to a body region, such as an axilla region of the patient, and a thermal regulation cap for application to a head of the patient. | 10-30-2008 |
John Thompson, Scotch Plains, NJ US
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| 20080221978 | Microscale geospatial graphic analysis of voter characteristics for precise voter targeting - An apparatus and method are provided for selecting a portion of a group of people who live in a defined geographic area that are more likely than the average population in that geographic area to perform a particular action. The apparatus includes a database for storing data. Such data includes indicia of: a group of people who live in the defined geographic area; the geographic location of the residence of each person in the group of people; and the propensity for one or more persons in the group of people who live in a particular residence to perform the particular action. The apparatus also includes a display for showing the relative locations of the residences in the geographic area and a visually recognizable indication of the propensity for one or more persons who live in a particular residence to perform the particular action. | 09-11-2008 |
John Thompson, Lagrange, KY US
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| 20080197819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC POWER CONTROL - The method of the invention in one aspect involves electronic power control by varying the amplitude of an electrical power supply voltage, independent of frequency, whereby the output frequency will always be the same as the input frequency. An electrical circuit apparatus for accomplishing this function in a specific embodiment is also disclosed herein. The specific circuitry of this aspect of the invention uses eight solid state switches, such as IGBT's, eight diodes, an inductor, input and output filters and novel controlling circuitry. The controller apparatus and methods of the invention may be used to implement all otherwise conventional converter types, buck, boost, and inverting (and duals of these) versions to obtain different regulating characteristics, including galvanic isolation of the output from the input. Indeed, the eight-switch controller can act to either buck or boost the input voltage, and can switch between bucking and boosting during a cycle, thus providing more control of the regulated output voltage. The inventive methods and devices may be used in power factor correction, voltage and/or current harmonic filtering and neutralization, line and load conditioning, control of power transfer between two power grids, and programmable control of surges, sags, dropouts and most other voltage regulation problems. | 08-21-2008 |
John Thompson, Freiburg DE
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| 20110236347 | Monoclonal Anti-Claudin 1 Antibodies for the Inhibition of Hepatitis C Virus Infection - The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to the extracellular domain of human Claudin-1 on the cell surface, thereby inhibiting HCV entry into susceptible cells and preventing HCV infection of these cells; and hybridoma cell lines which produce such monoclonal antibodies. Also provided are reagents that comprise such antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies. Methods of treating or preventing HCV infection by administration of an inventive monoclonal antibody, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof are also described. | 09-29-2011 |
John Thompson, Derbyshire GB
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| 20110262682 | KNITTED GEOTEXTILE, AND GEOTEXTILE TUBE CONSTRUCTED THEREOF - A geotextile for sediment dewatering and containment has a pattern of oriented warp fibers positioned substantially parallel to each other, a pattern of oriented weft inserted fibers positioned substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the oriented warp fibers, a nonwoven fleece, and oriented knitting fibers that interconnect the warp fibers, the weft fibers, and the nonwoven fleece as a knitted structure. Because of the knitted configuration, the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers remain substantially straight rather than interlaced as in a woven product. Consequently, the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers take up stress immediately, thereby giving higher performance at lower strain. Because the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers are substantially straight, they also retain their permeability under loading. Since more water flows through and from the geotextile, even when fully loaded, the dewatering process is both faster and safer to complete | 10-27-2011 |
John Thompson, Edinburgh GB
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| 20120044846 | OPERATION OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of operating a mobile telecommunications system having a base station, a plurality of users and a plurality of spectral resource blocks, some of which are not allocated to users. The method includes, (a) for each user, assigning a score to each resource block based on the energy efficiency with which the user can use the resource block, and determining which of the plurality of resource blocks is favored, i.e. has a score indicating that it will be the most energy efficient for the user. For each user, either (b) if the user's favored resource block is not allocated, and is not favored by any other user, that resource block is allocated to that user; or (c) in the event that the same resource block is favored by more than one user, it is allocated to the user who will use it with the greatest energy efficiency. | 02-23-2012 |