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Brian C. Totten, Durham, NC US
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20150268310 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING POWER FAULTS - A method of determining power fault information using a voltage regulator-down (VRD) device having a fault-pin output is provided. The method may include receiving a fault indication from one of a plurality of fault detection devices, correlating the received fault indication with a timing signal having a predetermined time duration, applying a voltage change on the fault-pin output of the VRD device for the predetermined time duration corresponding to the timing signal, and applying the voltage change on the fault-pin output to a plurality of fuses. Based on the predetermined time duration associated with the applied voltage change, the plurality of fuses may be blown according to a binary pattern indicative of a fault type associated with the fault indication. | 09-24-2015 |
20150303683 | HOT PLUG DEVICE PROVIDING TURN ON FETS WITH A SOFTSTART CAPABILITY - A hot plug device includes an electronic subsystem and a plurality of main turn on FETs, wherein each main turn on FET includes a gate, a power input for coupling to a power source, and an output for controllably providing power to the electronic subsystem. An auxiliary current path is in parallel with the main turn on FETs and includes a fuse, an impedance element and an auxiliary turn on FET. A turn on controller controls the main turn on FETs and the auxiliary turn on FET. Current is initially through the high impedance auxiliary current path to apply voltage to an output power rail. Subsequently, current is allowed to pass through a plurality of main turn on FETs to the output power rail in response to the output power rail having a voltage exceeding a voltage threshold as a result of using the high impedance auxiliary current path. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303917 | CONTROLLING TURN ON FETS OF A HOT PLUG DEVICE - A method control the in rush current to the hot plug device. The method includes providing a series of turn on pulses to the gates of a plurality of turn on FETs on a hot plug device coupled to a direct current power source, wherein each pulse causes the plurality of FETs to pass current from the direct current power source to a subsystem of the hot plug device, and wherein each pulse has a duration that ends before the impedance of the turn on FETs falls below a safe operating region. The method further includes providing a steady turn on signal to the FETs in response to the output voltage from the FETs to a subsystem of the hot plug device exceeding a predetermined voltage threshold. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309559 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR STRESS REDUCING SYSTEM - According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for reducing electrical component stress from power cycling is provided. The method may include receiving an indication associated with power cycling an electronic apparatus. The method may also include identifying, based on the received indication, a first one or more groups of electrical components that will not be powered off during the power cycling of the electronic apparatus. The method may further include identifying, based on the received indication, a second one or more groups of electrical components that will be powered off during the power cycling of the electronic apparatus. The method may finally include powering off the second one or more groups of electrical components. | 10-29-2015 |
Brian Christopher Totten, Durham, NC US
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20090119523 | Managing Power Consumption Based on Historical Average - In one embodiment, an upper power limit and an average power limit are specified for each server of a computer system. Power to each server is controlled so that the instantaneous power consumption does not exceed the upper power limit and the average power consumption does not exceed the average power limit. Servers whose average power consumption is currently less than the average power limit are identified. The instantaneous power consumption of each identified server is temporarily allowed to exceed its average power limit, to maximize server throughput. In cases where the average power limit of a device is reduced, such as may occur during peak energy pricing hours, the instantaneous power consumption of the device may be throttled down below the average power limit until the average power consumption no longer exceeds the average power limit. | 05-07-2009 |
Charles Brian Totten, Knightdale, NC US
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20110290171 | ASSEMBLY FOR ATTACHING A FLAG TO AN OBJECT - The subject matter described herein includes assemblies for attaching flags to objects. One assembly includes a base for attaching to an end of a flag mast. The assembly further includes a base receiving member for attaching to an object and to the base. The base receiving member forms a slot for slidably receiving the base and for locking the base to the base receiving member. | 12-01-2011 |
David Totten, Enola, AR US
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20120177469 | Transport Device For Media Roll Used With Grand Format Printer - One transport device for media rolls used with grand format printers includes a base having opposed ends, means for coupling the base to a forklift tine, and two arms respectively adjacent the base ends. Each arm is coupled to the base for rotatable and lateral movement. A first hook extends from a first cable having an upper end coupled to one arm's distal end. The first hook has a receiving area configured to receive a shaft extending generally along the media roll's center axis, and position the shaft along a generally vertical line extending through the first cable upper end. A second hook extends from a second cable having an upper end coupled to the other arm's distal end. The second hook has a receiving area configured to receive the mounting shaft and position the mounting shaft along a generally vertical line extending through the second cable upper end. | 07-12-2012 |
Ivan Totten, La Verne, CA US
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20150038961 | CATHETER WITH IMPROVED IRRIGATED TIP ELECTRODE HAVING TWO-PIECE CONSTRUCTION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREFOR - A catheter has a two-piece tip electrode with a shell and a support structure that are secured to each other by multiple redundant mechanisms in order to reduce the risk of tip detachment during a procedure. The tip electrode includes at least two different welds attaching the shell to the support structure to provide a dual failure mode. One weld includes a seam weld and another weld includes a penetration weld. | 02-05-2015 |
Jacqueline A. Totten, Bernardsville, NJ US
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20080310408 | Internet Protocol Television - Distributing data includes establishing an asset classification for an asset or group of assets and assigning at least one of the asset classifications to a network device and another asset classification to a first set of data. The first set of data is transmitted over a network that includes the network device and is received in the network device on the condition that the asset classification assigned to the first set of data is the same as the asset classification assigned to the network device. | 12-18-2008 |
John C. Totten, Lisle, IL US
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20080313017 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO WEIGHT INCOMPLETE RESPONDENT DATA - Methods and apparatus to weight incomplete respondent data are disclosed. An example method includes assembling a set of complete data, assembling a set of incomplete data, and selecting a channel of interest. The example method also includes estimating activity within the selected channel, and calculating synthetic time indicies for the set of incomplete data. | 12-18-2008 |
Joseph William Totten, Galashiels GB
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20100015246 | COMBINATION OF A LANTHANUM COMPOUND AND BONE ENHANCING AGENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF BONE DISEASES - The invention provides a method for enhancing bone formation, inhibiting osteoclastic differentiation and/or activating osteoblastic differentiation whereby to manage, treat or achieve prophylaxis of bone disease which comprises administering to a human or animal subject suffering from, or susceptible to bone disease a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of a lanthanum compound and a bone enhancing agent, such as vitamin D. | 01-21-2010 |
Kevin Totten, South Elgin, IL US
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20110042420 | Dispensing tap for beverages - A dispensing tap for beverages that comprises an actuator and a valve housing. A conical spring washer is joined and/or sealed to an actuator base to form the actuator. The actuator is then inserted into the valve housing to form the dispensing tap for attachment to a container containing a liquid. In use, a force is exerted on the conical spring washer to actuate the actuator base within the valve housing and thereby create an opening and/or passageway in the dispensing tap. Once opened and as the force is maintained, the liquid in the container can flow through the opening or passageway for dispensing the liquid out the dispensing tap. Upon releasing the force, the conical spring washer returns back to its original position. This movement of the conical spring washer causes the actuator base to move in the reverse direction within the valve housing thereby closing the opening and/or eliminating the passageway in the dispensing tap. The resultant seal of the actuator base to the valve housing prevents any further liquid from being dispensed from the container. | 02-24-2011 |
20120111901 | DRIP RESISTANT DISPENSING VALVE FOR FLUIDS - A drip resistant dispensing valve for fluids is disclosed, which provides a dispensing outlet configured to minimize the tendency for residual fluid to collect in and drip from the dispensing outlet while maintaining a simple construction for ease of manufacture. The dispensing outlet face is situated a distance away from the valve body, which tends to prevent, or at least minimize the risk of, contact between potentially contaminating external surfaces with the surfaces of the discharge outlet. Such construction assists in minimizing the retention of fluid on the surfaces of the dispensing outlet, and migration of the fluid to surfaces outside of the dispensing outlet that could tend to promote growth of biological contaminates and/or provide additional surfaces that could pool fluid following a dispensing operation and thereafter drip from the valve. A shell is provided around the dispensing outlet to assist in avoiding contamination of the valve and of the fluid being dispensed through the valve, and to aid in positioning a receptacle for receiving fluid from the dispensing valve. | 05-10-2012 |
20140263475 | Tamper Evident Closure for Flexible Containers - A closure for flexible containers or pouches that contain food products that provides at least two visual indicators showing that the cap has been partially or totally unscrewed from the spout. The first indicator is a tab in a window section of the cap that has its mounting filaments or bridges broken when the cap is unscrewed. These filaments or bridges connect the tab to the top portion of the cap. The second indicator is a vertical break or rupture line in the tab that indicates that the tab has been bent to rupturing. | 09-18-2014 |
Michelle Leigh Totten, Fishers, IN US
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20140031306 | SINGLE DOSE ORAL FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CATS WITH ECTOPARASITICIDAL SPINOSAD - This invention provides a single-dose oral formulation of spinosad for the extended control of a | 01-30-2014 |
Nathaniel K. Totten, Lititz, PA US
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20130102370 | V-WEDGE CROP DEFLECTORS - A crop guide comprising one or more generally wedge-shaped guides configured to interact with a crop discharge stream as it is discharged from an agricultural mower having a counter-rotating disc cutterbar. The guides are positioned rearward from the cutterbar, with one guide being generally positioned on an axis centered between each pair of converging-rotation disc cutterheads where crop material flow is concentrated. Each guide is generally pyramidal in shape, having a pair of surfaces angled with respect to one another and forming a triangular pyramid form with respect to a third generally planar surface, typically the mower swathboard. The vertex of the pyramid is oriented upstream in the crop flow so that a portion of the crop flow is split by the angled surfaces and laterally dispersed. This dispersion of crop material produces a crop mat on the ground behind the mower having a more uniform thickness compared to that produced by a traditional mower using a counter-rotating rotary cutterbar. | 04-25-2013 |
Nathan J. Totten, Bellevue, WA US
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20150095813 | MULTI-ACT CREATION USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - A multi-act creation user interface element that is displayed when a user instructs a computing system to initiate creation of a resource that has multiple associated creation processing acts. For each of some or all of the creation processing acts, the multi-act creation user interface element causes a set of one or more controls to appear, which the user may then enter creation information into. The multi-step creation user interface element persists creation information so entered so that the creation information is available for further creation processing acts. | 04-02-2015 |
20150286370 | SERVICE GALLERY USER INTERFACE PRESENTATION - A gallery user interface element that includes multiple selectable service user interface elements. Each of the selectable service user interface elements, when selected, initiates a corresponding predetermined action. Thus, the gallery may be used to initiate any number of predetermined actions by selecting appropriate service user interface elements. The predetermined actions may be performed by a number of user interface elements that are collectively offered by a variety of different applications, application extensions, or the system itself. The predetermined actions may include at least one predetermined action that extends an extendible canvas with one or more additional user interface elements. The gallery may include multiple pinnable elements and have different versions depending on a context in which the gallery was opened. | 10-08-2015 |
Noel John Totten, Co Antrim North Ireland GB
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20120279081 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TOBACCO - The present invention provides a device and a method, wherein the process conditions can be kept constant in a device for processing tobacco. The device comprises a combining device for combining the tobacco to be processed and a process gas and which is connected to a discharge device for discharging a first quantity of the process gas and a supply device for supplying a second quantity of the process gas; the device having at least one control device for controlling the first quantity of the discharged process gas and/or the second quantity of the supplied process gas. | 11-08-2012 |
Sean Totten, Kirkland, WA US
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20100069931 | Transesophageal gastric reduction method and device for reducing the size of a previously formed gastric reduction pouch - A gastric reduction pouch of a stomach is formed by gathering stomach tissue circumferentially from within the stomach to form a reduced diameter stomach section. A plurality of fasteners are deployed within the gathered stomach tissue to maintain the reduced diameter stomach portion. The gathering step may include folding the stomach tissue to produce a plurality of stomach tissue folds. A device is disclosed that is particularly adapted to permit such gastric reduction of a previously formed gastric reduction pouch. | 03-18-2010 |
20100114120 | Assemblies for deploying fasteners in tissue and snares for use in such assemblies - An assembly is provided to facilitate the deployment of at least one fastener through tissue, such as stomach tissue. The assembly comprises a fastener deploying device arranged to deploy a fastener through the tissue and a snare arranged to bind the tissue and fastener deploying device together as the fastener deploying device deploys a fastener through the tissue. | 05-06-2010 |
20100217288 | Transesophageal gastric reduction method and device for practicing same - A gastric reduction pouch of a stomach is formed by gathering stomach tissue circumferentially from within the stomach to form a reduced diameter stomach section. A plurality of fasteners are deployed within the gathered stomach tissue to maintain the reduced diameter stomach portion. The gathering step may include folding the stomach tissue to produce a plurality of stomach tissue folds. | 08-26-2010 |
20140121582 | TRANSESOPHAGEAL GASTRIC REDUCTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRACTICING SAME - A system and method forms a gastric reduction pouch within a stomach associated with an esophagus. The method includes the steps of delivering, down the esophagus, a substantially planar annular member into the stomach, drawing stomach wall tissue to a juxtaposed relation with the annular member; and securing, to the annular member, the stomach wall tissue juxtaposed to the annular member. | 05-01-2014 |
20140180301 | TRANSESOPHAGEAL GASTRIC REDUCTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING THE SIZE OF A PREVIOUSLY FORMED GASTRIC REDUCTION POUCH - A gastric reduction pouch of a stomach is formed by gathering stomach tissue circumferentially from within the stomach to form a reduced diameter stomach section. A plurality of fasteners are deployed within the gathered stomach tissue to maintain the reduced diameter stomach portion. The gathering step may include folding the stomach tissue to produce a plurality of stomach tissue folds. A device is disclosed that is particularly adapted to permit such gastric reduction of a previously formed gastric reduction pouch. | 06-26-2014 |
20140194901 | ASSEMBLIES FOR DEPLOYING FASTENERS IN TISSUE AND SNARES FOR USE IN SUCH ASSEMBLIES - An assembly is provided to facilitate the deployment of at least one fastener through tissue, such as stomach tissue. The assembly comprises a fastener deploying device arranged to deploy a fastener through the tissue and a snare arranged to bind the tissue and fastener deploying device together as the fastener deploying device deploys a fastener through the tissue. | 07-10-2014 |
Thomas L. Totten, Indianapolis, IN US
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20150310554 | System And Method For A Computer Implemented Retirement Plan - A system and method for a computer implemented retirement plan directing inputs to defined benefit and defined contribution components whereby an employee or beneficiary is provided a single income stream, wherein comprising time phase shifted or stacked payout of the defined contribution balance from retirement to a predefined date, followed by payments by the defined benefit component from the predefined date until the death of the employee or beneficiary. | 10-29-2015 |
Trevor John Totten, Avon, IN US
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20140255152 | FAN TRACK LINER DESIGNED TO YIELD NEXT TO FAN CASE HOOK - A containment system for a gas turbine engine includes a fan track assembly for use with a containment case. The fan track assembly includes a body of collapsible material that is positioned within a cavity of the fan case, and voids are provided for providing space in the event of a catastrophic blade failure. Various configurations of the fan track liner assembly are provided along with various mounting methodologies for securing the track liner assembly to the fan case of a gas turbine engine. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255204 | AERODYNAMIC FAIRINGS SECONDARILY ATTACHED TO NOSECONE - An aerodynamic fan nosecone for a gas turbine engine is provided and includes a fan nosecone that may be made of composite material. To improve airflow transition to the blade members, aerodynamic fairings are provided and are secured to an exterior surface of the nosecone which enhances fuel economy. The fairings may be secured to the nosecone by various methods, including providing for the fairings to be changed out and replaced with other fairings on the same nosecone assembly. | 09-11-2014 |