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Pedro J. Alvarez, Houston, TX US
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20150184232 | MONITORING OF 1,4-DIOXANE BIODEGRADATION IN VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTS - In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of monitoring dioxane biodegradation in an environment by: (1) exposing a sample from the environment to an oligonucleotide probe that targets at least one bacterial nucleotide sequence; (2) detecting the presence of the at least one bacterial nucleotide sequence in the sample from the environment; and (3) correlating the presence of the at least one bacterial nucleotide sequence to dioxane biodegradation in the environment. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure can be used to determine whether monitored natural attenuation (MNA) of dioxane will occur in the environment. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure can be used to determine whether dioxane decontamination is needed. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to oligonucleotide probes for monitoring dioxane biodegradation in an environment. | 07-02-2015 |
Pedro J. González Román, Caguas, PR US
Pedro J. Medelius, Mearritt Island, FL US
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20110152637 | PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR AND DATA COLLECTION UNIT - A physical activity data collection unit includes one or more infrared sensors configured to provide an output indicative of a pulse rate of a user of the physical activity data collection unit, at least one temperature sensor configured to provide an output indicative of at least a body temperature of the user, and at least one accelerometer configured to provide an output indicative of movements of the user. The physical activity data collection unit can also include a microcontroller configured to determine a pulse rate, a body temperature, and movement characteristics of the user of the data collection unit based on outputs from the one or more infrared sensors, the at least one temperature sensor, and the at least one accelerometer; determine a physical exertion level of the user based on one or more of the pulse rate, the body temperature, or the movement characteristics of the user; and store, in a memory, data indicative of the physical exertion level during a time period during which the physical exertion level exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 06-23-2011 |
Pedro J. Medelius, Merritt Island, FL US
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20110191158 | PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TRACKING AND REWARDS ALLOCATION SYSTEM - A physical activity tracking system includes one or more data collection portals configured to acquire data from a data collection unit, wherein the data is indicative of the physical activity level of an individual. The system also includes a processor configured to analyze the data and allocate a currency to an account associated with the individual if the data indicates the physical activity level exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 08-04-2011 |
20110210749 | In-Situ Wire Damage Detection System - An in-situ system for detecting damage in an electrically conductive wire. The system comprises a substrate at least partially covered by a layer of electrically conductive material forming a continuous on non-continuous electrically conductive layer connected to an electrical signal generator adapted to delivering electrical signals to the electrically conductive layer. Data is received and processed to identify damage to the substrate or electrically conductive layer. The electrically conductive material may include metalized carbon fibers, a thin metal coating, a conductive polymer, carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles or a combination thereof. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210750 | Method of Fault Detection and Rerouting - A system and method for detecting damage in an electrical wire, including delivering at least one test electrical signal to an outer electrically conductive material in a continuous or non-continuous layer covering an electrically insulative material layer that covers an electrically conductive wire core. Detecting the test electrical signals in the outer conductive material layer to obtain data that is processed to identify damage in the outer electrically conductive material layer. | 09-01-2011 |
20120221254 | DATA COLLECTION UNIT WITH INTEGRATED CLOSURE SYSTEM AND SENSOR HOUSING - A physical activity data collection unit includes one or more infrared sensors configured to provide an output indicative of a pulse rate of a user of the physical activity data collection unit, at least one temperature sensor configured to provide an output indicative of at least a body temperature of the user, and at least one accelerometer configured to provide an output indicative of movements of the user. The physical activity data collection unit can also include a microcontroller configured to determine a pulse rate, a body temperature, and movement characteristics of the user of the data collection unit based on outputs from the one or more infrared sensors, the at least one temperature sensor, and the at least one accelerometer; determine a physical exertion level of the user based on one or more of the pulse rate, the body temperature, or the movement characteristics of the user; and store, in a memory, data indicative of the physical exertion level during a time period during which the physical exertion level exceeds a predetermined threshold. The physical activity data collection unit can also include a closure system configured to secure the data collection unit to a wrist of the user. | 08-30-2012 |
20120318925 | Multi-Dimensional Damage Detection - Methods and systems may provide for a structure having a plurality of interconnected panels, wherein each panel has a plurality of detection layers separated from one another by one or more non-detection layers. The plurality of detection layers may form a grid of conductive traces. Additionally, a monitor may be coupled to each grid of conductive traces, wherein the monitor is configured to detect damage to the plurality of interconnected panels in response to an electrical property change with respect to one or more of the conductive traces. In one example, the structure is part of an inflatable space platform such as a spacecraft or habitat. | 12-20-2012 |
20130332286 | ACTIVITY TYPE DETECTION AND TARGETED ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A physical activity data collection system may include one or more accelerometers configured to provide an output indicative of movements of an individual. The system may also include a controller configured to analyze information relating to the movements of the individual, based on the output of the one or more accelerometers; determine a physical activity type associated with the analyzed information; and store the determined physical activity type in a memory. | 12-12-2013 |
20140018686 | DATA COLLECTION UNIT POWER AND NOISE MANAGEMENT - A physical activity data collection system includes one or more accelerometer units in communication with a data collection unit, where the data collection unit, includes one or more infrared sensors configured to provide an output indicative of a pulse rate of a user of the physical activity data collection unit. The data collection unit may also include at least one temperature sensor configured to provide an output indicative of at least a body temperature of the user; and at least one accelerometer configured to provide an output indicative of movements of the user. The system may also include a microcontroller configured to evaluate the outputs of the two or more infrared sensors at a plurality of power levels; select at least one of the two or more infrared sensors for data collection; and reduce an amount of power applied to infrared sensors other than the at least one of the two or more infrared sensors selected for data collection. | 01-16-2014 |
20150073235 | PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR AND DATA COLLECTION UNIT - A physical activity data collection unit includes one or more infrared sensors configured to provide an output indicative of a pulse rate of a user of the physical activity data collection unit, at least one temperature sensor configured to provide an output indicative of at least a body temperature of the user, and at least one accelerometer configured to provide an output indicative of movements of the user, The physical activity data collection unit can also include a microcontroller configured to determine a pulse rate, a body temperature, and movement characteristics of the user of the data collection unit based on outputs from the one or more infrared sensors, the at least one temperature sensor, and the at least one accelerometer; determine a physical exertion level of the user based on one or more of the pulse rate, the body temperature, or the movement characteristics of the user; and store, in a memory, data indicative of the physical exertion level during a time period during which the physical exertion level exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 03-12-2015 |
Pedro J. Mengibar, Jersey City, NJ US
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20140200876 | BOOTSTRAPPING NAMED ENTITY CANONICALIZERS FROM ENGLISH USING ALIGNMENT MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training recognition canonical representations corresponding to named-entity phrases in a second natural language based on translating a set of allowable expressions with canonical representations from a first natural language, which may be generated by expanding a context-free grammar for the allowable expressions for the first natural language. | 07-17-2014 |
20150379983 | UTTERANCE SELECTION FOR AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNIZER TRAINING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a set of training utterances. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining a target multi-dimensional distribution of characteristics in an initial set of candidate utterances and selecting a subset of the initial set of candidate utterances based on speech recognition confidence scores associated with the candidate utterances. Additional actions include selecting a particular candidate utterance from the subset of the initial set of utterances and determining that adding the particular candidate utterance to a set of training utterances reduces a divergence of a multi-dimensional distribution of the characteristics in the set of training utterances from the target multi-dimensional distribution. Further actions include adding the particular candidate utterance to the set of training utterances. | 12-31-2015 |
Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, New York, NY US
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20120278061 | GENERATING ACOUSTIC MODELS - This document describes methods, systems, techniques, and computer program products for generating and/or modifying acoustic models. Acoustic models and/or transformations for a target language/dialect can be generated and/or modified using acoustic models and/or transformations from a source language/dialect. | 11-01-2012 |
Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Mountain View, CA US
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20130289989 | Sampling Training Data for an Automatic Speech Recognition System Based on a Benchmark Classification Distribution - A set of benchmark text strings may be classified to provide a set of benchmark classifications. The benchmark text strings in the set may correspond to a benchmark corpus of benchmark utterances in a particular language. A benchmark classification distribution of the set of benchmark classifications may be determined. A respective classification for each text string in a corpus of text strings may also be determined. Text strings from the corpus of text strings may be sampled to form a training corpus of training text strings such that the classifications of the training text strings have a training text string classification distribution that is based on the benchmark classification distribution. The training corpus of training text strings may be used to train an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. | 10-31-2013 |
Pedro J. Resto, Madison, WI US
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20110272035 | Method For Fluid Flow Containment In An Open Liquid Environment - A method is provided for fluid flow containment in an open liquid environment at least partially defined by a surface. The method includes the step of positioning a microfluidic device over the surface. The microfluidic device defines a chamber having a height. A flow of fluid is applied in the chamber. The pressure of the flow of fluid is monitored and the height of the chamber is determined from the measured pressure of the flow of fluid. | 11-10-2011 |
Pedro J. Sanchez-Reyes, Herndon, VA US
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20130230206 | FOLIAGE PENETRATION BASED ON 4D LIDAR DATASETS - A method for detecting terrain, through foliage, includes the steps of: receiving point cloud data in a three-dimensional (3D) space from an airborne platform, in which the point cloud data includes foliage that obscures the object; reformatting the point cloud data from the 3D space into a one-dimensional (1D) space to form a 1D signal; and decomposing the 1D signal using a wavelet transform (WT) to form a decomposed WT signal. The decomposed WT signal is reconstructed to form a low-pass filtered profile. The method classifies the low-pass filtered profile as terrain. The terrain includes a natural terrain, or a ground profile. | 09-05-2013 |
Pedro J. Tarafa, Ponce, PR US
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20120035089 | REMOVAL OF BACTERIAL ENDOTOXINS - Methods of cleaning a medical device are provided via exposing the medical device to a compressed CO | 02-09-2012 |
Pedro J. Tortosa, Houlton, WI US
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20090127182 | Permeate tube and related methods - A novel positive traction permeate tube and fittings therefore are described for use in spirally wound membrane filtration elements for filtration and separation applications. Membrane filtration elements incorporate the novel permeate tube. Methods of making the novel positive traction permeate tube are also disclosed as are the preferred sanitary stainless steel materials used for the sanitary tube and fittings. The novel permeate tube involves a sanitary tubing having two open ends, each with an end fitting. The end fittings engage a positive traction drive for high tension spiral winding of a membrane element spirally around the novel permeate tube. Membrane filtration elements made with the novel permeate tube are less subject to slippage and breakage during manufacture and can withstand higher pressure drops and flow rates during use without failure of the spiral wound membrane element. The positive traction permeate tube facilitates membrane replacements. | 05-21-2009 |
20120111783 | Permeate tube and related methods - A novel positive traction permeate tube and fittings therefore are described for use in spirally wound membrane filtration elements for filtration and separation applications. Membrane filtration elements incorporate the novel permeate tube. Methods of making the novel positive traction permeate tube are also disclosed as are the preferred sanitary stainless steel materials used for the sanitary tube and fittings. The novel permeate tube involves a sanitary tubing having two open ends, each with an end fitting. The end fittings engage a positive traction drive for high tension spiral winding of a membrane element spirally around the novel permeate tube. Membrane filtration elements made with the novel permeate tube are less subject to slippage and breakage during manufacture and can withstand higher pressure drops and flow rates during use without failure of the spiral wound membrane element. The positive traction permeate tube facilitates membrane replacements. | 05-10-2012 |
Pedro J. Velis, Coquimbo CL
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20150053111 | WATERBORNE COATINGS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS THEREOF THAT PROVIDE IMPROVED CORROSION PROTECTION - The invention relates to corrosion inhibitors, and more specifically corrosion inhibitors for coating compositions. The invention provides for coating compositions that have improved corrosion properties, including reduced flash rust during the application of the coating composition to a metal surface, and even improved corrosion inhibition in the resulting dried coating. The invention also provides for methods of making and using the described the compositions and the corrosion inhibitors thereof. | 02-26-2015 |