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Andrew Lord, Redondo Beach, CA US
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| 20090195005 | Plate Holder - A plate carrier is carried on a server's forearm. The carrier comprises a wireform having a horizontal support portion for carrying the plate carrier on the forearm, a vertical loop portion looping around a server's forearm, and a plate holder portion below the server's forearm. The horizontal support is carried between the elbow and the palm. The vertical loop portion centers the plate holder portion under the server's forearm and the plate holder portion positions the plate holders centered under the forearm longitudinally closer to the elbow than the palm. The plate holders comprise a stationary lower jaw and a pivoting upper jaw allowing adjustment to hold a variety of plates. | 08-06-2009 |
Brenna Hearn Lord, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20100274349 | Stents with High Radial Strength and Methods of Manufacturing Same - Polymeric stents having fracture toughness and resistance to recoil after deployment are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such stents. Improvements to mechanical characteristics and other improvements may be achieved by having polymer chains within individual stent struts oriented in a direction that is closer to or in line with the axis of the individual stent struts. The struts are connected to each other by hinge elements that are configured to bend during crimping and deployment of the stent. The hinge elements may be tangent or non-tangent to the adjoining struts so as to form W-shaped closed cells arranged in an offset brick pattern in which the size each W-shaped closed cell can be defined in part by a curvilinear length that is approximately 4.5 mm, which allows the stent to be crimped down to an OD of about 1.3 mm and expanded to an OD of at least about 3.5 mm. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110270384 | Polymeric Stents and Method of Manufacturing Same - A pattern is used to form a stent scaffold from a polymeric precursor tube having a particular outer diameter. A new pattern can be derived from a base pattern, wherein the new pattern can be used to form a stent scaffold from a precursor tube having an outer diameter OD | 11-03-2011 |
Brenna Hearn Lord, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20120324696 | Sheaths Used With Polymer Scaffold - A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. A sheath pair is placed over the crimped scaffold after crimping to reduce recoil of the crimped polymer scaffold and maintain scaffold-balloon engagement relied on to hold the scaffold to the balloon when the scaffold is being delivered to a target in a body. The sheath pair is removed by a health professional before placing the scaffold within the body. | 12-27-2012 |
David N. Lord, Agoura Hills, CA US
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| 20080312938 | Ticket Management System - Embodiments of the invention include a system and set of processes for managing tickets. The system maintains a database of tickets belonging to a company and the allotment of the tickets to employees and clients. The system provides interfaces for requesting tickets and managing ticket requests. The system optionally provides automated request processing, ticket resale and purchase and electronic distribution. | 12-18-2008 |
James H. Lord, Los Gatos, CA US
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| 20090095673 | Systems and methods for combining and converting solid and liquid organic waste materials into useful products - Systems and methods are provided for converting organic waste materials from a municipal waste stream to useful products, such as fuels. Through the use of a biomixer and a hydropulper, as well as through sorting and screening, the organic waste materials are progressively reduced in size and cleaned of contamination. The resulting uniform biomass is suitable for anaerobic digestion to produce biogas and a residual solid that is suitable for producing a high quality compost. A quantity of liquid organic waste material can be added to the biomixer, to the hydropulper and/or to the anaerobic digester. The quantity of liquid organic waste material can be obtained by separating the liquids from any containers and can be stored in a holding tank prior to being added to the biomixer, the hydropulper and/or the anaerobic digester. | 04-16-2009 |
Jay Lord, Los Gatos, CA US
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| 20130009414 | Ladder handle and transporting device - A ladder handle and transporting device is disclosed. The device allows for ladders to be carried by a handle affixed to the side of the ladder. The device includes a handle, straps, and a rail support section. Another embodiment of the disclosure allows for a ladder handle and transporting device for extension ladders. | 01-10-2013 |
John D. Lord, San Carlos, CA US
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| 20110097412 | METHODS OF TREATMENT OF ENDOBRONCHIAL INFECTIONS - The present invention provides methods for the treatment of an endobronchial infection in a patient by administering to the endobronchial system of the patient a dry powder aerosol composition comprising from 90 to 130 mg of an aminoglycoside antibiotic one to three times a day for a first treatment period of 20 to 36 days. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20120148641 | METHODS OF TREATMENT OF ENDOBRONCHIAL INFECTIONS - The present invention provides methods for the treatment of an endobronchial infection in a patient by administering to the endobronchial system of the patient a dry powder aerosol composition comprising from 90 to 130 mg of an aminoglycoside antibiotic one to three times a day for a first treatment period of 20 to 36 days. | 06-14-2012 |
John D. Lord, Redwood City, CA US
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| 20080214481 | Methods of Treatment of Endobronchial Infections - The present invention provides methods for the treatment of an endobronchial infection in a patient by administering to the endobronchial system of the patient a dry powder aerosol composition comprising from 90 to 130 mg of an aminoglycoside antibiotic one to three times a day for a first treatment period of 20 to 36 days. | 09-04-2008 |
Martin Lord, Saratoga, CA US
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| 20090113516 | Setting Policy Based on Access Node Location - Policy setting in an access node remotely located from a controller. A remote access node connects to a controller over a digital network such as the internet. Operating policy is established based on the location of the access node. In one embodiment, the location of the access node is determined through a GPS receiver associated with the node. In a second embodiment, the location of the access node is determined through its public IP address. Location information is used to establish policy at the access node, which may include aspects such as operating parameters, access controls, and availability of services through the controller. | 04-30-2009 |
Michael John Lord, Antelope, CA US
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| 20110017583 | Method and Apparatus for Effluent Free Sea Water Desalination - A method and apparatus for eliminating brine effluent from desalination plants by distillation, is disclosed. To eliminate the brine the salt is converted into a solid and all of the water in the brine is converted to distilled water. The key to achieving this is reducing or eliminating the scale formation in the heating chamber. In one embodiment the process can be used to reduce or eliminate scale formation in a vapor compression sea water desalinization system and there-by use this system to produce drinking water. This process requires no chemical additives but relies entirely upon separation of the process of vaporization of the fluid involved, from the process of heating of the fluid. In one embodiment of this apparatus sea water can be desalinated and the resulting products can be dry salt and pure water leaving no brine return to the ocean. This embodiment also can be used to desalinate concentrated brine from any available source and make a profit on the salt sales, as the salt sells for more than it costs to produce the water and salt separation. | 01-27-2011 |
Patrick J. Lord, San Jose, CA US
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| 20100120335 | Partial Contact Wafer Retaining Ring Apparatus - The partial contact wafer retaining ring apparatus is disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a wafer retaining ring comprising a ring for retaining the wafer, the ring having an inner diameter surface configured to restrict lateral wafer motion, and at least one interface surface configured to interface with a polishing surface. The interface surface comprises a recessed section adjacent to the ring inner diameter, configured to preclude contact between the recessed section and the polishing surface. | 05-13-2010 |
Peter C. Lord, Valencia, CA US
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| 20110270233 | Implantable Infusion Device With Multiple Controllable Fluid Outlets - An implantable infusion system includes at least two controllable fluid transfer devices that may be used to transfer different fluid flows to the same or different body sites. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120130353 | Medication infusion device using negatively biased ambient pressure medication chamber - A method and apparatus for infusing medication into a patient's body using a medication chamber referenced to ambient pressure. The apparatus includes a medication chamber enclosed by a peripheral wall which includes a movable portion configured to transfer exterior ambient pressure into the chamber. Means are provided for exerting a negative bias force acting on the movable portion in a direction opposed to the ambient pressure force. Thus, the resultant pressure in the chamber will be negative with respect to ambient pressure, reducing the risk that the chamber can be overpressurized and produce an unintended medication discharge. | 05-24-2012 |
Peter C. Lord, Santa Clarita, CA US
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| 20090048562 | Ambulatory Infusion Devices And Piston Pumps For Use With Same - An ambulatory infusion device including a fluid transfer device with a piston bore and a piston. The piston bore surface and the piston surface are configured such that they will wear at a very slow rate when cycled in the absence of a lubricant other than the infusible substance. | 02-19-2009 |
Robert Lord, San Jose, CA US
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| 20080209224 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOKEN RECYCLING - Embodiments of the present invention provide for recycling a locked token in an enterprise. A secure connection can be established between a locked token and a server and a security process activated to determine an identity of an authorized user of the locked token. An unlock procedure can be activated to unlock the locked token upon receipt of an out-of-band parameter associated with a requester of the unlock procedure to produce an unlocked token. The out-of-band parameter can be provided by the requester of the unlock procedure in an independent communication to an enterprise agent associated with the security server so as to verify that the requester is the authorized user of the locked token. A password reset process associated with a new password for the unlocked token can be activated to provide an assigned password or a password entered by the requester. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209225 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSIGNING ROLES ON A TOKEN - An embodiment relates generally to a method of assigning roles to a token. The method includes determining a first role for a first participant on a token and providing exclusive access to a first section of the token for the first participant base on the first role. The method also includes determining a second role for a second participant on the token and providing exclusive access to a second section of the token for the second participant based on the second role. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209574 | Partitioning data on a smartcard dependent on entered password - In one embodiment, an apparatus and method for partitioning data on a smartcard dependent on an entered password are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes maintaining multiple containers in a smartcard, associating a different personal identification number (PIN) with each of the multiple containers, and accessing contents of a container when an associated PIN for the container is provided by a user of the smartcard. Other embodiments are also described. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090063640 | Method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages - A method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes maintaining a database to store electronic messages received from various clients. The method further includes receiving a new electronic message from a client, determining whether the new electronic message is associated with one or more messages stored in the database. If the new electronic message is not associated with any messages stored in the database, the new electronic message is sent to the recipients. If the new electronic message is associated with some messages stored in the database, the new electronic message is sent to the recipients, and in addition, the associated messages that are not stored locally at a particular recipient are sent to this recipient. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063641 | Method and system for composing electronic messages - A method and apparatus for composing electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing a first electronic message into one or more segments, uniquely identifying each of the segments of the first electronic message, and storing the first electronic message in a repository with unique identifiers of the segments. The segments can then be individually accessible by a user viewing the first electronic message. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063642 | GUI for presenting electronic messages - A method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface to present electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a user interface presenting a first electronic message to a recipient, where the first electronic message is associated with a segment of a second electronic message. The method further includes identifying the associated segment of the second electronic message to the recipient in the user interface, and allowing the recipient to view the second electronic message in an original form. | 03-05-2009 |
Robert B. Lord, Sunnyvale, CA US
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| 20100223470 | SECURE INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A secure instant messaging (IM) system integrates secure instant messaging into existing instant messaging systems. A certificate authority (CA) issues security certificates to users binding the user's IM screen name to a public key, used by sending users to encrypt messages and files for the user. The CA uses a subscriber database to keep track of valid users and associated information, e.g. user screen names, user subscription expiration dates, and enrollment agent information. A user sends his certificate to an instant messaging server which publishes the user's certificate to other users. Users encrypt instant messages and files using an encryption algorithm and the recipient's certificate. A sending user can sign instant messages using his private signing key. The security status of received messages is displayed to recipients. | 09-02-2010 |
Robert D. Lord, Santa Cruz, CA US
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| 20100185729 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING WITH PLAYBACK OF REMOTELY STORED MEDIA FILES - A software based system for facilitating streaming of media files to a device over a wide area network (WAN) includes an agent process, an authentication process, a client services process and a client process. The agent process catalogs local media files and advises the authentication process of it's availability on the WAN and the address at which it may be contacted. The client process contacts the client services process to obtain, after authenticating with it, the WAN address of the agent process and contacts the agent process to receive information or meta-data describing the media files available for streaming. The client process obtains information for forming a URI or playlist, that it then passes to a media player to request the stream over the WAN. Alternately, the client process may direct the agent process to pass the URL to another client process on, for example, the same local area network. | 07-22-2010 |
Samuel J. Lord, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20100029952 | Fluorogenic compounds converted to fluorophores by photochemical or chemical means and their use in biological systems - Fluorophores derived from photoactivatable azide-pi-acceptor fluorogens or from a thermal reaction of an azide-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an alkene or alkyne are disclosed. Fluorophores derived from a thermal reaction of an alkyne-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an azide are also disclosed. The fluorophores can readily be activated by light and can be used to label a biomolecule and imaged on a single-molecule level in living cells. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20120190098 | FLUOROGENIC COMPOUNDS CONVERTED TO FLUOROPHORES BY PHOTOCHEMICAL OR CHEMICAL MEANS AND THEIR USE IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - Fluorophores derived from photoactivatable azide-pi-acceptor fluorogens or from a thermal reaction of an azide-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an alkene or alkyne are disclosed. Fluorophores derived from a thermal reaction of an alkyne-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an azide are also disclosed. The fluorophores can readily be activated by light and can be used to label a biomolecule and imaged on a single-molecule level in living cells. | 07-26-2012 |
Stephen Michael Lord, Encinitas, CA US
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| 20080299015 | Apparatus and method for top removal of granular material from a fluidized bed deposition reactor - Removal of the product from the top of the reactor enables a decreased disengaging height and provides a passive means of controlling the bed level despite deposition increasing the weight and height of the bed. The savings from reducing the disengaging height allow use of a taller fluidized bed in a shorter overall reactor length and thus provides increased production with reduced reactor cost. The separation of the gas inlet from the product outlet allows the gas inlet area to be cooler than the product outlet. The separation of the product grinding, caused by the inlet gas, from the product outlet reduces the loss of seed in the product and produces a more uniform product. Removing the hot product and the hot gas at the same place allows energy recovery from both in a single step. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090250403 | Process for removing aluminum and other metal chlorides from chlorosilanes - A process for removing aluminum and other metal chlorides from liquid chlorosilanes with the steps of: introducing a source of seed into a source of impure liquid chlorosilanes, initiating the crystallization of aluminum and other metal chlorides on the seed from the liquid chlorosilanes in a first agitated vessel, passing the resulting mixture of liquid and solids through a cooler into a second agitated vessel for additional crystallization, transferring the resulting mixture of liquid and solids into a solids removal device, transferring the liquid with reduced solids content to a further process or vessel and transferring the liquid with high solids content into a waste concentration device, passing the resulting liquid with reduced solids content to a further process or vessel and passing the resultant liquid with very high solids content to a waste storage vessel with agitation. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100061912 | Apparatus for high temperature hydrolysis of water reactive halosilanes and halides and process for making same - A process for high temperature hydrolysis of halosilanes and halides with the steps of: providing a bed of fluidized particulate material heated to at least 300° C., injecting steam and an excess of reactants into the reactor, removing solid waste from a bottom outlet, removing the effluent gases through a solids removal device such as a cyclone, condensing and separating some of the unreacted waste from the effluent gas in a distillation column and sending the effluent gases containing hydrogen and hydrogen chloride to a compressor. In a preferred embodiment the reactants contain at least one water reactive halide, selected from the group halosilane, organohalosilane, aluminum halide, titanium halide, boron halide, manganese halide, copper halide, iron halide, chromium halide, nickel halide, indium halide, gallium halide and phosphorus halide and where the halide content is selected from chlorine, bromine and iodine. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100098850 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TOP REMOVAL OF GRANULAR MATERIAL FROM A FLUIDIZED BED DEPOSITION REACTOR - A method of operating a fluidized bed deposition reactor to provide top removal of granular material, including production product is set forth. The vertical generally cylindrical reactor has at least one gas inlet at the lower end, at least one gas and solids outlet at the upper end and a gas/granular product separator connected to the gas and solids outlet. A heated reaction zone located in the lower portion of the reactor includes a fluidized bed; the bed being fluidized to establish a bubbling fluidized bed with a defined stable height. A disengaging space is provided above the stable bed height. A reaction gas is added to the bottom of the reactor, the reaction gas depositing a reaction product coating on the granular particles, the coating being abraded off the granules. The combined flow rate of the fluidizing gas and the reaction gas is adjusted so that a majority of the granular particles are retained in the reactor while maintaining bubbling. The height of the bed is increased and the disengaging height above the bed is decreased until the bursting of bubbles near the surface of the bed throws granular particles through the gas and solids outlet to the gas/granular product separator. The flow rates of the gases are controlled to maintain a balance between particles removed by the separator and the average rate of granular particle size increase as adjusted for attrition. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100111804 | Apparatus and process for hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and silicon to the trihalosilane - A reactor for hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and metallurgical grade silicon to trihalosilane includes a bed of metallurgical silicon particles, one or more gas entry ports, one or more solids entry ports, one or more solids drains and one or more ports for removing the trihalosilane from the reactor. Fresh surfaces are generated on the bed particles by internal grinding and abrasion as a result of entraining feed silicon particles in a silicon tetrahalide/hydrogen feed stream entering the reactor and impinging that stream on the bed of silicon particles. This has the advantages of higher yield of the trihalosilane, higher burnup rate of the MGS, removal of spent MGS as a fine dust carryover in the trihalosilane effluent leaving the reactor and longer times between shutdowns for bed removal. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110150440 | Dual wall axial flow electric heater for leak sensitive applications - A dual wall axial flow electric heater for leak sensitive applications provides an improved corrosion and leak resistant assembly and includes protective tubes over electrical heater rods, double tubesheets spaced apart by a plenum and leak detectors positioned to sensor leaks through the walls of the protective tubes. The design includes the option of two or more tube bundles with each inserted into opposite ends of a shell surrounding the tube sheets and heaters. The design provides ease of maintenance since each heater rod can be replaced independently while the unit is in service. Variable heat flux is provided from standard single flux heater rods by providing protective tubes of varying diameters. A built-in thermowell is provided to allow the rod temperatures to be monitored directly. Hot spots are avoided by the use of turning baffles and vibration is avoided by use of spider baffles to support the tubes. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110222365 | Apparatus for restarting a gas-solids contactor - A gas-solids contactor modification is described which provides for starting or restarting the gas flow to the gas-solids contactor when it is filled with solid particles while preventing the solids from entering and blocking one or more gas inlets which have diameters greater than the solid particle diameters. The apparatus modification comprises a gas plenum and one or more chambers within the gas plenum located between the contactor inlet and the gas inlet. The wall of the chamber has multiple passageways therethrough that are smaller in diameter than the majority of the bed particles. Gas feed to the plenum must pass through the passageways in the chamber walls before entering the contactor. In one embodiment the total open area of the passageways is at least as large as the cross-sectional area of the gas inlet and the inlet to the contactor. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120171100 | Process for hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and silicon to trihalosilane - A process of hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and silicon to a trihalosilane comprising: providing a vessel with at least one inlet and one outlet with a plurality of silicon particles located in a bed inside the vessel and feeding a mixture of gases consisting primarily of a silicon tetrahalide and hydrogen. A calculational procedure is provided where the flow rate of the gases and the incoming size of the silicon particulates are chosen so that at least 90% of the volume of the bed is free of bubbles after allowance for decrease in particle size due to the reaction and attrition resulting in a higher yield of the trihalosilane. | 07-05-2012 |