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Nicholas K. Eib, San Jose, CA US
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20120038896 | Maskless Vortex Phase Shift Optical Direct Write Lithography - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for accomplishing optical direct write phase shift lithography. A lithography system and method are provided wherein a mirror array is configured to generate vortex phase shift optical patterns that are directed onto a photosensitive layer of a substrate. The lithography methods and systems facilitate pattern transfer using such vortex phase shift exposure patterns. | 02-16-2012 |
20130107240 | Maskless Vortex Phase Shift Optical Direct Write Lithography | 05-02-2013 |
Nicholas K. Fichtenbaum, Goleta, CA US
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20090246944 | METHOD FOR HETEROEPITAXIAL GROWTH OF HIGH-QUALITY N-FACE GaN, InN, AND AlN AND THEIR ALLOYS BY METAL ORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION - Methods for the heteroepitaxial growth of smooth, high quality films of N-face GaN film grown by MOCVD are disclosed. Use of a misoriented substrate and possibly nitridizing the substrate allow for the growth of smooth N-face GaN and other Group III nitride films as disclosed herein. The present invention also avoids the typical large (μm sized) hexagonal features which make N-face GaN material unacceptable for device applications. The present invention allows for the growth of smooth, high quality films which makes the development of N-face devices possible. | 10-01-2009 |
Nicholas K. Konovalski, Richardson, TX US
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20110248199 | ELECTRONIC WATER MAIN SHUTOFF - A water shutoff apparatus enables a user to shut off water to a home or business while indoors with an electronic switch, a wireless remote, or the like. The water shutoff apparatus may be useful to turn off water flow during, for example, an emergency situation, such as a leak, or for plumbing repairs. The water shutoff apparatus may use a normally open valve, such as a diaphragm valve, solenoid valve, electric motorized ball valve, electric motorized butterfly valve, or the like. The water shutoff apparatus provides the user with an easy, practical way to shut off water. Also, the water shutoff apparatus provides the user the option to easily shut off water at night or during the day while at work, for example, if a plumbing leak is somewhat tolerable and plumbing repair is still yet to be scheduled. In this situation, when water is needed, a simple switch may turn water back on for use. | 10-13-2011 |
Nicholas K. Lee, St. Paul, MN US
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20150251322 | MOUNTING AND POSITIONING APPARATUS FOR INCREASED USER INDEPENDENCE - An accessibility-enhancing joint module may include a housing, a powered motor disposed within the housing, a rotatable receiving member operatively connected to the powered motor, a coupling element configured to attach to the receiving member, and a control board disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the powered motor, wherein the coupling element is disposed external to the housing. An accessibility-enhancing arm assembly may include a first joint module and a second joint module and a tubular arm member attached to the proximal mounting portion of the first joint module and the proximal mounting portion of the second joint module, each joint module including a housing having a body portion and a proximal mounting portion, a powered motor disposed within the housing, and a rotatable receiving member operatively connected to the powered motor. The joint module(s) and/or the arm assembly may be operable by a variety of accessible controls. | 09-10-2015 |
20150252940 | MOUNTING AND POSITIONING APPARATUS FOR INCREASED USER INDEPENDENCE - An accessibility-enhancing joint module may include a housing, a powered motor disposed within the housing, a rotatable receiving member operatively connected to the powered motor, a coupling element configured to attach to the receiving member, and a control board disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the powered motor, wherein the coupling element is disposed external to the housing. An accessibility-enhancing arm assembly may include a first joint module and a second joint module and a tubular arm member attached to the proximal mounting portion of the first joint module and the proximal mounting portion of the second joint module, each joint module including a housing having a body portion and a proximal mounting portion, a powered motor disposed within the housing, and a rotatable receiving member operatively connected to the powered motor. | 09-10-2015 |
Nicholas K. Peddy, Redwood City, CA US
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20100138312 | NETWORK ACCESSIBLE FUNDS TRANSFER SYSTEM - A funds transfer system is disclosed that is responsive to a receipt of a payment request by performing a risk management assessment of an associated payer and payee. If the risk management assessment produces an adverse indication, the payment request is declined. Otherwise, the payment request may be processed by causing funds to be transferred between the payer and payee. The risk management assessment may be performed on the basis of credit and/or authentication information derived from customer information received with or prior to the payment request. Such customer information may, for example, include credit card account information and/or bank account information. | 06-03-2010 |
Nicholas K. Puz, San Jose, CA US
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20140101102 | BATCH PROCESSING AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION IN CLOUD-BASED SYSTEMS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for efficiently storing application data received from clients in a database stored on a server, such as a cloud-based database. The methods include receiving a batch of a plurality of web operations that specify actions to be performed on data objects that represent application data stored in a cloud database, translating the web operations to a batch of data storage operation sets, creating a temporary database having a subset of contents of the cloud database, applying the data storage operation sets to the temporary database, recording database operations generated by the temporary database based on the plurality of data storage operation sets, and applying the plurality of database operations to the cloud database in a transaction. Translating the web operations can include mapping the actions to be performed on the data objects to transactions to be performed on the cloud database. | 04-10-2014 |
Nicholas K. Puz, Campbell, CA US
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20140365429 | METHOD FOR ISSUING MULTIPART RECEIPTS IN CONNECTION TO EXTENSIVE DATABASE OPERATIONS - Disclosed herein is a technique for providing status feedback on the execution of a database request. The technique involves receiving a database request that defines an operation to be performed on at least one data record stored in a database. The data record is updated in the database in accordance with the operation, and one or more tasks that are to be performed in connection to the operation are scheduled for execution. A first version of a receipt is generated and provided to the application, and includes, for each of the one or more tasks, a status field that indicates a progress of executing the task. The method further includes the steps of, in response to a change in the execution of any of the one or more tasks, updating the status fields to produce a second version of the receipt, which is then provided to the application. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365523 | PUSH SUBSCRIPTIONS - Techniques are disclosed for delivering push subscription notifications in large scale distributed systems. Subscription notifications can be delivered to mobile devices of subscribing users by monitoring, at a server, an application database comprising a data record having one or more data values, detecting, at the server, in accordance with the monitoring, a changed data value, querying a subscription database for a subscription having at least one constant value to be compared to the changed data value in accordance with a trigger condition specified in a trigger template, determining whether the trigger condition is true using the changed data value and the constant value as the values of the first and second variables, respectively, in the at least one comparison; and pushing a notification from the server in response to the trigger condition being true. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365999 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECORD EDITING IN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT - A method of generating a schema including receiving a data record having a record type name and one or more data values is provided. The data values are associated with data value names. The method includes determining whether a set of existing schemas includes a schema associated with the record type name, determining whether the schema includes an element having the same name as a corresponding data element of the record, and validating the corresponding data element against the schema element. A new schema element is added to the schema, the new schema element having the same name and type as the corresponding data element of the record. The method can further include indexing at least one of the one or more data values, which involves querying the indexed data, forming subscription lists for the data values, and forming a derived data value associated with one or more data values. | 12-11-2014 |
Nicholas K. Routson, Phoenix, AZ US
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20130031109 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LINKING CUSTOMER INFORMATION - In a business where a database tracks customers and manages customer accounts, a method and system correctly link accounts with customers. The method entails reading customer information for a first customer and for a second customer, and then utilizing personal identification information obtained from other sources to determine if the first customer is the same as the second customer. If the first customer and the second customer are the same person, the first customer and the second customer are identified as being the same unique person. Accounts associated with the two customers are identified as belonging to the same unique person. Viewed another way, the method and system of the present invention takes an existing database of personal identification information, and cross-references that database against other sources of personal identification information to identify persons who appear to be separate persons, but who are actually one and the same individual. | 01-31-2013 |
Nicholas K. Sheridon, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20120088079 | Optical-Effect-Producing Medium, Use Thereof and Object Having an Optically Responsive Feature Produced Using Said Optical-Effect-Producing Medium - There is described an optical-effect-producing medium comprising a carrier medium ( | 04-12-2012 |
Nicholas K. Sheridon, Los Altos, CA US
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20140153080 | TWISTING BALL DISPLAYS COMPRISED OF THIXOTROPIC LIQUID AND BICHROMAL BALLS CHARGED WITH ELECTRET DIPOLES - This invention generally relates to the use of dipole charged balls having differently coloured hemispheres (bichromal balls) in twisting ball displays comprising a pair of planar addressing electrodes and the space between these electrodes that is filled with a thixotropic liquid into which has been dispersed a plurality of electrically charged and optically anisotropic rotatable elements. | 06-05-2014 |
Nicholas K. Treadgold, Maroubra AU
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20150348549 | BETTER RESOLUTION WHEN REFERENCING TO CONCEPTS - Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant programmed to refer to shared domain concepts using concept nodes are provided. In some examples, to process a textual representation of user speech using an active ontology having these concept nodes, a primary user intent can be determined from the textual representation of user speech. Concepts referred to by the primary user intent can be identified, and substrings of the textual representation of user speech corresponding to the concepts can be identified. Secondary user intents for the substrings can be determined and a task flow based on the primary user intent and the secondary user intents can be generated and performed. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348565 | DETERMINING DOMAIN SALIENCE RANKING FROM AMBIGUOUS WORDS IN NATURAL SPEECH - Systems and processes for identifying relevant domains for user inputs that include one or more ambiguous words are disclosed. The ambiguous words include words that may or may not refer to a named entity, such as a song, movie, book, etc. In one example, a textual representation of user speech can be received and processed to identify a candidate named entity. The possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity can be determined and compared to a predetermined set of parts of speech. In response to determining that the possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity do not include one or more of the predetermined set of parts of speech, a saliency score associated with the candidate named entity can be lowered. A domain for processing the textual representation of user speech can then be identified using the saliency score associated with the candidate named entity. | 12-03-2015 |
Nicholas K. Treadgold, San Jose, CA US
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20090144248 | Context-Based Suggestions Mechanism and Adaptive Push Mechanism for Natural Language Systems - Natural language interface to a back-end application, incorporating synonyms, suggestions, and proposals. Roughly described, synonyms are automatically added to user input to enhance the natural language interpretation, whereas suggestions and proposals are offered to the user in an interaction, usually after an interpretation of prior user input. Suggestions and synonyms can be learned from user input, whereas proposals are programmed by a third party. The selection of synonyms, suggestions, and proposals for use with particular user input can be context-based, and rewards-based reinforcement can be used to better focus suggestions and proposals on the characteristics of the particular user. | 06-04-2009 |
Nicholas K. Woods, Oklahoma City, OK US
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20150182053 | BEVERAGE COASTER - A beverage coaster including a housing and a volume of coolant. The housing has a base portion and a tubular portion that define a beverage container receiving space and a housing cavity in which the volume of coolant is disposed so that thermal energy of a beverage transfers from the beverage to the volume of coolant to maintain the beverage in a cool state. | 07-02-2015 |
Nicholas K. Yankopolus, Gainesville, FL US
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20110283805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY - In an embodiment, a hydraulic jack is provided having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion attached to a first section of a structure and the second portion attached to a second section of the structure. When a pressurized fluid is forced between the first portion and the second portion, a load is transferred to the first section and the second section by the pressure of the fluid on the first portion and the second portion. The first section and the second section are forced apart by the load, thus creating or enlarging at least one void in the structure. The pressurized fluid fills or partially fills one or more of the at least one void, thereby increasing the surface area effectively normal to the direction of the load in contact with the pressurized fluid. | 11-24-2011 |
20120090401 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY - In an embodiment, a hydraulic jack is provided having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion attached to a first section of a structure and the second portion attached to a second section of the structure. When a pressurized fluid is forced between the first portion and the second portion, a load is transferred to the first section and the second section by the pressure of the fluid on the first portion and the second portion. The first section and the second section are forced apart by the load, thus creating or enlarging at least one void in the structure. The pressurized fluid fills or partially fills one or more of the at least one void, thereby increasing the surface area effectively normal to the direction of the load in contact with the pressurized fluid. | 04-19-2012 |
20130247679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY - In an embodiment, a hydraulic jack is provided having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion attached to a first section of a structure and the second portion attached to a second section of the structure. When a pressurized fluid is forced between the first portion and the second portion, a load is transferred to the first section and the second section by the pressure of the fluid on the first portion and the second portion. The first section and the second section are forced apart by the load, thus creating or enlarging at least one void in the structure. The pressurized fluid fills or partially fills one or more of the at least one void, thereby increasing the surface area effectively normal to the direction of the load in contact with the pressurized fluid. | 09-26-2013 |