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Gary Weatherspoon, Mitchelville, MD US

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20100314138Humidity modifier system - The Humidity Modifier System is water dispensing fire suppression network of aerosol spray nozzles and piping support apparatus for an in ground and structure attachment application. The system water supply can be independently stored, swimming pool or retrofitted to the property utilities. The water pumps used to pressurize the water in the line of the system are powered by an independent generator or gasoline. When the Humidity Modifier System is on and charged the nozzles' aerosol distribution produce a barrier of continuously suspended droplets. The densely concentrated mist makes the area less conducive to fires. The approach of modifying surrounding air to suppress the fire is the new direction. The Humidity Modifier System technique is adaptable to any environment, easy to install, and affordable. The Humidity Modifier can be made cookie cutter to fit any structure or area. My system is environmental safe.12-16-2010

Marcy R. Weatherspoon, Inver Grove Heights, MN US

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20110052666Compositions, Methods, and Systems for SIRNA Delivery - The instant invention provides silencer expression cassettes for delivery of RNAi therapy. The silencer cassettes of the instant invention encode an RNAi agent and lack means for replication within a host cell, inverted terminal repeats and further lacking one or more selectable markers. Optionally, the silencer cassettes lack CpG dinucleotides and/or the RNAi agent is within a scaffold of a naturally occurring miRNA. The composition comprising the silencer cassettes of the instant invention, as well as methods of use and suitable systems are also provided.03-03-2011

Michael Raymond Weatherspoon, West Melbourne, FL US

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20110103745REPEATABLE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE INTERCONNECTION INCLUDING AN INDEX MATCHING ELASTOMERIC SOLID LAYER AND RELATED METHODS - A repeatable optical waveguide interconnection may include first and second optical waveguides having respective first and second end faces. Each of the first and second optical waveguides may include a core having a core index of refraction, and a cladding surrounding the core and having a cladding index of refraction different than the core index of refraction. The repeatable optical waveguide interconnection may further include a first index matching elastomeric solid layer having a proximal face chemically bound to the first end face and a low-tack distal face opposite the proximal face to be repeatably optically coupled to the second end face. Further, the first index matching elastomeric solid layer may have an index of refraction matching at least the index of refraction of the core.05-05-2011
20110103746REPEATABLE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE INTERCONNECTION INCLUDING AN INDEX MATCHING ELASTOMERIC SOLID LAYER PROVIDING CORE AND CLADDING INDEX OF REFRACTION MATCHING AND RELATED METHODS - A repeatable optical waveguide interconnection may include first and second optical waveguides having respective first and second end faces. Each of the first and second optical waveguides may include a core having a core index of refraction, and a cladding surrounding the core and having a cladding index of refraction different than the core index of refraction. The interconnection may further include a first index matching elastomeric solid layer having a proximal face coupled to the first end face, and a distal face opposite the proximal face to be repeatably optically coupled to the second end face. The first index matching elastomeric solid layer may have an index of refraction profile matching an index of refraction of the core and the cladding.05-05-2011
20110104388METHOD FOR MAKING AN OPTICAL DEVICE INCLUDING A CURABLE INDEX MATCHING ELASTOMERIC SOLID LAYER - A method for making an optical device may include applying at least one precursor for a curable index matching elastomeric solid layer onto an end face of an optical waveguide device. The optical waveguide device may include a core having a core index of refraction, and a cladding surrounding the core and having a cladding index of refraction different than the core index of refraction. The method may further include curing the at least one precursor to form the index matching elastomeric solid layer on the end face to have an index of refraction matching the index of refraction of at least the core.05-05-2011

Sultan Weatherspoon, Vancouver, WA US

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20090196353VIDEO COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video compression system may have first and second dual-port memory devices, a third memory device, and first and second processors that may provide enhanced processing, including motion estimation. The first processor may be configured to store in the second memory device first and second video frames and to transfer sequential sets of data from the first video frame corresponding to fields of search. A second set of a plurality of adjacent macroblocks of the second video frame may be compared to macroblocks selected from the field of search. Dual-port memory devices may allow for the concurrent use of shared memory by the two processors as well as data transfer during processing.08-06-2009
20090232201VIDEO COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video compression system may have first and second dual-port memory devices, a third memory device, and first and second processors that may provide enhanced processing, including motion estimation. The first processor may be configured to store in the second memory device first and second video frames and to transfer sequential sets of data from the first video frame corresponding to fields of search. A second set of a plurality of adjacent macroblocks of the second video frame may be compared to macroblocks selected from the field of search. Dual-port memory devices may allow for the concurrent use of shared memory by the two processors as well as data transfer during processing.09-17-2009