Thurston, US
Annette Thurston, Portland, OR US
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20130239019 | INNER-CIRCLE SOCIAL SOURCING - A social networking environment supporting collaborative social interaction is disclosed. The social networking environment may be implemented by a computing system including a number of client computing devices and a server system that communicate with each other via a communications network. User profile and geographic location information associated with users of the social networking environment may be shared with each other. Users may request commentary from other users regarding a target user. Users may receive and fulfill requests for commentary to facilitate social interactions between two or more other users. Users may define an inner-circle of users from which commentary may be requested by that user. | 09-12-2013 |
20150304263 | INNER-CIRCLE SOCIAL SOURCING - A social networking environment supporting collaborative social interaction is disclosed. The social networking environment may be implemented by a computing system including a number of client computing devices and a server system that communicate with each other via a communications network. User profile and geographic location information associated with users of the social networking environment may be shared with each other. Users may request commentary from other users regarding a target user. Users may receive and fulfill requests for commentary to facilitate social interactions between two or more other users. Users may define an inner-circle of users from which commentary may be requested by that user. | 10-22-2015 |
Anthony Thurston, Macedonia, OH US
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20120326077 | Process for Synthesis of a Layered Oxide Cathode Composition - A method for preparing a layered oxide cathode using a two step calcination procedure, wherein the first step includes pre-calcination utilizing a rotary calciner. | 12-27-2012 |
Anthony Michael Thurston, Edmond, OK US
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20080233042 | PRODUCTION OF LITHIUM COMPOUNDS DIRECTLY FROM LITHIUM CONTAINING BRINES - Methods and apparatus for the production of low sodium lithium carbonate and lithium chloride from a brine concentrated to about | 09-25-2008 |
20090214414 | PRODUCTION OF LITHIUM COMPOUNDS DIRECTLY FROM LITHIUM CONTAINING BRINES - Methods and apparatus for the production of low sodium lithium carbonate and lithium chloride from a brine concentrated to about 6.0 wt % lithium are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for direct recovery of technical grade lithium chloride from the concentrated brine are also disclosed. | 08-27-2009 |
20110123427 | PRODUCTION OF LITHIUM COMPOUNDS DIRECTLY FROM LITHIUM CONTAINING BRINES - Methods and apparatus for the production of low sodium lithium carbonate and lithium chloride from a brine concentrated to about 6.0 wt % lithium are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for direct recovery of technical grade lithium chloride from the concentrated brine are also disclosed. | 05-26-2011 |
Charles G. Thurston, Solana Beach, CA US
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20090267846 | Electromagnetic Field Power Density Monitoring System and Methods - Systems and methods for monitoring electromagnetic field power density are disclosed. The system includes a broadband antenna configured to convert a plurality of electromagnetic waves at a plurality of frequencies into a broadband signal. The system also includes a power adjustment system configured to passively selectively attenuate the broadband signal to provide a filtered output signal for a predetermined range of frequencies. The system further includes an output system configured provide an indicator to an end-user of the system if the filtered output signal exceeds a predetermined threshold level that characterizes a predetermined electromagnetic power density threshold. | 10-29-2009 |
Darrin Thurston, Liberty, UT US
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20140362169 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PC-BASED VIDEO CONFERENCING AND AUDIO/VIDEO PRESENTATION - A video conferencing/presentation system includes a PC docking station and a room media unit. The dock includes speakerphone and tactile user interface. The wall-mounted RMU, including a wide field camera and speaker(s), is coupled to a monitor. The dock communicates with the RMU. A speakerphone mic captures room audio. During conferencing, room audio and camera video are sent to a docked PC; the PC communicates with remote nodes using video chat software, sending room A/V; remote A/V is received from the PC by the dock, and transmitted for RMU output. During presentation, room audio, and/or PC media software presentation, may be output through the RMU, or to the PC for remote transmission. The dock provides the PC network access. Dock/RMU may each be equipped with a bidirectional transceiver, which uses prioritized opportunistic sequencing to assemble/disassemble a combined media/control packet stream over a cable, and transfer power from dock to RMU. | 12-11-2014 |
Darrin Thurston, Splt Lake City, UT US
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20100271287 | Dual-display transportable media cart - The claimed systems relate generally to a cart having repositionable displays, and more particularly to a mobile cart having a frame on which is affixed two or more fixtures having a display mount, the fixtures providing for the movement of displays affixed thereto in a position for viewing, and another position for cart movement, such as movement between rooms through a doorway or an elevator. Also disclosed are particular articulating arms for such fixtures, mounted to one or more posts, some having one or more pivotable arms allowing for repositioning of displays relative to a cart. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims. | 10-28-2010 |
Darrin T. Thurston, Liberty, UT US
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20120293602 | EXECUTIVE TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM - An executive telepresence system for use in audio and video conferencing uses a unified communications system in an enterprise network system. The executive telepresence system includes a control system that further comprises a user interface, a mixing system, and a dialing system. In addition, the executive telepresence system includes one or more video display devices that couple to the control system where the video display devices display a video signal, and may further include one or more video cameras that couple to the control system where the video cameras capture video information and turn it into the video signal. Further, the executive telepresence system includes one or more microphones that couple to the control system where the microphones capture audio information and turn it into an audio signal, and may include one or more speakers that couple to the control system where the speakers play back the audio signal. | 11-22-2012 |
20130034241 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS OF BEAMFORMING MICROPHONE ARRAYS - Embodiments include methods and apparatuses for sensing acoustic waves for a conferencing application. A conferencing apparatus includes a plurality of directional microphones oriented to cover a corresponding plurality of direction vectors and disposed in a housing. An orientation sensor is configured to generate an orientation signal indicative of an orientation of the housing. A processor is operably coupled to the plurality of directional microphones and the orientation sensor. The processor is configured to automatically adjust a signal processing characteristic of one or more directional microphones of the plurality of directional microphones responsive to the orientation signal. | 02-07-2013 |
20130039504 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ECHO CANCELATION WITH BEAMFORMING MICROPHONE ARRAYS - Embodiments include methods and apparatuses for sensing acoustic waves for a conferencing application. A conferencing apparatus includes a plurality of microphones oriented to cover a corresponding plurality of direction vectors and to develop a corresponding plurality of microphone signals. A processor is operably coupled to the plurality of microphones. The processor is configured to perform a beamforming operation to combine the plurality of microphone signals to a plurality of combined signals that is greater in number than one and less in number than the plurality of microphone signals. The processor is also configured perform an acoustic echo cancelation operation on the plurality of combined signals to generate a plurality of combined echo-canceled signals and select one of the plurality of combined echo-canceled signals for transmission. | 02-14-2013 |
20130097333 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR UNIFIED STREAMING COMMUNICATION - Embodiments include methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for supporting unified streaming communications. A communication apparatus is configured to communicate over a network to incorporate a wide variety of protocols and peripheral devices for use in audio, video, and media communication systems. | 04-18-2013 |
Greg Thurston, Clarkston, MI US
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20090046962 | MAIN BEARING SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A main bearing cap support structure is provided including a bulkhead and a main bearing cap removably mountable thereto by at least one threaded fastener. The threaded fastener includes a highly toleranced (i.e. controlled both dimensionally and geometrically) generally annular collar sufficiently configured to be received within a highly toleranced bore portion defined by the bulkhead and the main bearing cap such that the main bearing cap may be precisely aligned with the bulkhead. | 02-19-2009 |
Helen Thurston, Columbus, OH US
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20080281208 | System, method and apparatus for the detection of patient-borne fluorescing materials - System, method and apparatus wherein a probe employing non-imagining optics is utilized in conjunction with a fluorescing (e.g., nanocrystal) tracer at the body of a patient. Excitation components within the probe working end are utilized to excite the nanocrystals to fluoresce at wavelengths in the near infrared region, such fluorescent energy is homogenized by interacting with involved tissue to provide a uniform fluorescing intensity over the surface of a photo-detector. Initialization and background determination procedures are described along with a technique for determining statistically significant levels of fluorescing activity. | 11-13-2008 |
Jason Thurston, Raleigh, NC US
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20090289668 | Output driver circuit for an integrated circuit - An integrated circuit | 11-26-2009 |
20090290272 | Electrostatic discharge event protection for an integrated circuit - An integrated circuit | 11-26-2009 |
20090290623 | Signal amplitude distortion within an integrated circuit - An integrated circuit | 11-26-2009 |
20090290624 | Programmable jitter generation circuit - The present invention provides an integrated circuit comprising a serial transmitter, a serial receiver and a serial connection providing communication between the serial transmitter and the serial receiver. The serial transmitter comprises a clock generator and a serializer for serializing data to be transmitted to the serial receiver. A clock control unit coupled to the clock generator alters the clock phase of the clock signal to stress test the serial receiver. | 11-26-2009 |
20090290626 | Programmable duty cycle distortion generation circuit - An integrated circuit is provided comprising: a serial transmitter, a serial receiver and a serial connection providing communication between the serial transmitter and the serial receiver. The integrated circuit further comprises a duty cycle distortion circuit so that the integrated circuit can be stress tested by distorting the duty cycle of a signal within the integrated circuit. | 11-26-2009 |
20090292961 | Integrated circuit communication self-testing - An integrated circuit | 11-26-2009 |
20090292962 | Integrated circuit with inter-symbol interference self-testing - An integrated circuit | 11-26-2009 |
20140006908 | INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | 01-02-2014 |
20150332735 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF SIGNALING POWER BASED ON AN ERROR RATE - Writing to and reading from dynamic random access memory (DRAM) by a system on chip (SoC) over a multiphase multilane memory bus has power consumption optimized based on bit error rate (BER) and one or more thresholds. The bit error rate (BER) may be measured and used to control parameters to achieve optimal balance between power consumption and accuracy. The bit error rate (BER) measurement, purposely adding jitter, and checking against the thresholds is performed during normal mission-mode operation with live traffic. Error detection may cover every memory data transaction that has a block of binary data. | 11-19-2015 |
Jeremy Thurston, Commerce Township, MI US
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20090091103 | TRIM PANEL BREAKAWAY FEATURE - A vehicle body structure includes a pillar, a trim panel, a handle and an airbag. The trim panel is configured to overlay a portion of the pillar and conceal the airbag. The trim panel includes a first trim portion and a second trim portion that is separable from the first trim portion along a predetermined separation line. The handle is rigidly attached to the pillar by at least one fastener that extends through the second trim portion of the trim panel. The airbag is disposed between the trim panel and the pillar such that in response to deployment of the airbag at least a portion of the first trim portion separates from the second trim portion along the predetermined separation line. | 04-09-2009 |
20100320733 | TRIM PANEL BREAKAWAY FEATURE - A trim panel overlaying a pillar includes a first trim portion and a second trim portion separable from one another. A handle attaches to the pillar at first and second points by fasteners extending through the second trim portion, the first and second points being vertically spaced apart from one another. An airbag disposed between the trim panel and the pillar deploys such that the first trim portion completely separates from the pillar and the second trim portion along a predetermined separation line. The airbag extends along the pillar alongside at least one of the first and second points and alongside an area between the first point and the second point. The first trim portion and the handle are configured such that the first trim portion is restrained to a limited distance of movement away from the pillar by the handle in response to deployment of the airbag. | 12-23-2010 |
20110221170 | VEHICLE INTERIOR TRIM PANEL - A vehicle interior trim panel is provided with a rigid trim portion and a first flexible trim portion. The rigid trim portion includes a first assist grip opening. The first flexible trim portion is attached to the rigid trim portion along an edge of the first assist grip opening with the first flexible trim portion at least partially covering the first assist grip opening of the rigid trim portion. | 09-15-2011 |
Jim Roe Frances Thurston, Woodland, CA US
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20100282805 | JT frog quick draw concealed holster - The objective of the holster is to allow Law enforcement or anyone that has a CCW weapons permit to carry their weapon completely concealed and be able to draw it, very fast when needed, and put it back easily. With past holsters it has been a problem to get the weapon out of the holster, and getting it back in. | 11-11-2010 |
John Thurston, Mesa, AZ US
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20100013226 | Tethered Autonomous Air Vehicle With Wind Turbines - A wind turbine energy conversion device that can take advantage of the higher speed and more persistent winds at higher altitudes is hereinafter disclosed. The wind turbine energy conversion device includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) connected to one end of a tether (which may include multiple shorter tethers), the other end being connected to a terrestrial anchorage point. The UAV flies at altitudes where wind speeds can reach 40 mph or higher. The UAV comprises a flying wing with one or more trailing wind power turbines and flies airborne maneuvers designed to increase relative wind speed up to about four times the true wind speed. | 01-21-2010 |
20110095530 | TETHERED AQUATIC DEVICE WITH WATER POWER TURBINE - A water power turbine energy conversion device and method of generating electric power that can take advantage of water current speeds is hereinafter disclosed. The water power turbine energy conversion device includes an unmanned tethered aquatic device (TAD) connected to one end of a tether (which may include multiple shorter tethers), the other end being connected to an anchorage point. The TAD comprises a hydrofoil wing-like structure with one or more water power turbines and performs waterborne maneuvers such as cross-current tracking to increase the relative water current speed of up to about four times the true water current speed. | 04-28-2011 |
John Thurston, Houston, TX US
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20100147507 | POLYMER COMPOSITION, SWELLABLE COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE POLYMER COMPOSITION, AND ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SWELLABLE COMPOSITION - A polymer composition includes a base polymer comprising a hydrocarbon rubber, an acrylic copolymer, and a refined oil in which the acrylic polymer is dispersed. The polymer composition is swellable when treated with an aqueous medium, non-aqueous medium, or both. A sealing element for a flow channel includes an expandable section filled with a swellable composition that swells when treated with a swelling material. The swellable composition includes the polymer composition, and the swelling material may be aqueous, non-aqueous, or both. | 06-17-2010 |
20130306306 | POLYMER COMPOSITION, SWELLABLE COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE POLYMER COMPOSITION, AND ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SWELLABLE COMPOSITION - A polymer composition includes a base polymer comprising a hydrocarbon rubber, an acrylic copolymer, and a refined oil in which the acrylic polymer is dispersed. The polymer composition is swellable when treated with an aqueous medium, non-aqueous medium, or both. A sealing element for a flow channel includes an expandable section filled with a swellable composition that swells when treated with a swelling material. The swellable composition includes the polymer composition, and the swelling material may be aqueous, non-aqueous, or both. | 11-21-2013 |
John Edward Thurston, Worland, WY US
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20090049968 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DIVIDING MEDICINAL TABLETS AND FOR PACKAGING AND DISTRIBUTING TABLET PORTIONS - Apparatus for dividing medicinal tablets is disclosed. Apparatus according to the invention may include a plurality of tablet dividing members, a tablet retention mechanism adapted to hold one or more medicinal tablets, and a controller that causes the tablet retention mechanism to move relative to the tablet dividing members to divide the medicinal tablets into respective pluralities of tablet portions. Apparatus according to the invention may include a tablet retention mechanism adapted to hold a medicinal tablet and a controller that causes the tablet retention mechanism to move relative to the tablet dividing members to divide the medicinal tablet into at least three tablet portions. A method for packaging medications according to the invention may include dividing each of a plurality of medicinal tablets into a respective plurality of tablet portions, separating the tablet portions to form a first plurality of tablet portions and a second plurality of tablet portions, and packaging the pluralities of tablet portions as separate packages. A first plurality of the tablet portions may have a first shape while a second plurality of the tablet portions has a second shape that is different from the first shape. | 02-26-2009 |
20100213229 | Apparatus and Methods for Dividing Medicinal Tablets and for Packaging and Distributing Tablet Portions - Apparatus for dividing medicinal tablets is disclosed. Apparatus according to the invention may include a plurality of tablet dividing members, a tablet retention mechanism adapted to hold one or more medicinal tablets, and a controller that causes the tablet retention mechanism to move relative to the tablet dividing members to divide the medicinal tablets into respective pluralities of tablet portions. Apparatus according to the invention may include a tablet retention mechanism adapted to hold a medicinal tablet and a controller that causes the tablet retention mechanism to move relative to the tablet dividing members to divide the medicinal tablet into at least three tablet portions. A method for packaging medications according to the invention may include dividing each of a plurality of medicinal tablets into a respective plurality of tablet portions, separating the tablet portions to form a first plurality of tablet portions and a second plurality of tablet portions, and packaging the pluralities of tablet portions as separate packages. A first plurality of the tablet portions may have a first shape while a second plurality of the tablet portions has a second shape that is different from the first shape. | 08-26-2010 |
John J. Thurston, Houston, TX US
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20090084550 | Water Swelling Rubber Compound for Use In Reactive Packers and Other Downhole Tools - Through the combination of at least two polymer families, and the optimization of other components, a rubber compound has been developed for use in downhole applications that will swell in water-based fluids. A cellulose component, such as carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC), is used together with an acrylate copolymer (AC) that can increase the swelling capacity of an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) in water to over 1000%. The amount of swelling achieved depends on physical boundaries and limitations, the salinity of the water, and the temperature. | 04-02-2009 |
20100025035 | Swelling Delay Cover for a Packer - A swelling packer is covered with a material that is preferably in a tubular form and slipped over the swelling element to be shrink fit with applied heat. The material is formulated to break down at temperatures slightly below the expected downhole temperatures so that ideally the packer has about 48 hours of swelling delay which is normally a time period long enough to allow it to be properly located without it swelling so much as to cause it to be damaged by running in. Various polymers can be used to make an imperious covering for run in that on the way starts to break down. Ideally the material for the cover disappears about the time of sealing or shortly thereafter. | 02-04-2010 |
20100025049 | SWELLING DELAY COVER FOR A PACKER - A swelling packer is covered with a material that is preferably in a tubular form and slipped over the swelling element to be shrink fit with applied heat. The material is formulated to break down at temperatures slightly below the expected downhole temperatures so that ideally the packer has about 48 hours of swelling delay which is normally a time period long enough to allow it to be properly located without it swelling so much as to cause it to be damaged by running in. Various polymers can be used to make an imperious covering for run in that on the way starts to break down. Ideally the material for the cover disappears about the time of sealing or shortly thereafter. | 02-04-2010 |
20120208934 | Water Swelling Rubber Compound for Use in Reactive Packers and Other Downhole Tools - Through the combination of at least two polymer families, and the optimization of other components, a rubber compound has been developed for use in downhole applications that will swell in water-based fluids. A cellulose component, such as carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC), is used together with an acrylate copolymer (AC) that can increase the swelling capacity of an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) in water. The amount of swelling achieved depends on physical boundaries and limitations, the salinity of the water, and the temperature. | 08-16-2012 |
Lawrence J. Thurston, Fremont, OH US
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20130312909 | ERGONOMIC HAND TOOL AND METHOD OF USE - A hand tool for press sealing roofing membranes by a roller mounted on one end of a bracket connected at a second hand to a handle. The handle and roller mounting bracket extend along first and second axes respectively, which axes form an included angle in the range of 50 degrees and 70 degrees. This angular relationship enables a user's wrist to be the natural wrist position when moving the roller along the membrane. The second axis of the roller mounting bracket preferably maintains an angle of between 20 degrees and 40 degrees with the roofing membranes as the roller is moved along the membrane. | 11-28-2013 |
Marc Thurston, Washington, MO US
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20110243124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for managing a network are disclosed. For example, the method collects a plurality of call detail records (CDRs), and organizes one or more parameters of the CDRs in accordance with a plurality of cause codes. The method displays the one or more parameters of the CDRs in a hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of screen displays. | 10-06-2011 |
Marlin O. Thurston, Columbus, OH US
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20080281172 | System, method and apparatus for the detection of patient-borne fluorescing nanocrystals - System, method and apparatus wherein a probe employing non-imagining optics is utilized in conjunction with a fluorescing nanocrystal tracer at the body of a patient. Excitation components within the probe working end are utilized to excite the nanocrystals to fluoresce at wavelengths in the near infrared region, such fluorescent energy is homogenized by interacting with involved tissue to provide a uniform fluorescing intensity over the surface of a photo-detector. Initialization and background determination procedures are described along with a technique for determining statistically significant levels of fluorescing activity. | 11-13-2008 |
20080281208 | System, method and apparatus for the detection of patient-borne fluorescing materials - System, method and apparatus wherein a probe employing non-imagining optics is utilized in conjunction with a fluorescing (e.g., nanocrystal) tracer at the body of a patient. Excitation components within the probe working end are utilized to excite the nanocrystals to fluoresce at wavelengths in the near infrared region, such fluorescent energy is homogenized by interacting with involved tissue to provide a uniform fluorescing intensity over the surface of a photo-detector. Initialization and background determination procedures are described along with a technique for determining statistically significant levels of fluorescing activity. | 11-13-2008 |
20090208417 | Detection and Localized Imaging of Cancer Using X-Ray Fluorescent Nanoparticle/Preferential Locator Conjugates - A method for detecting gold or other nanoparticles conjugated to preferential locators commences by contacting tissue suspected of being neoplastic with gold nanoparticle/preferential locator conjugates for a time adequate for the conjugates to bind with the tissue. A beam of gamma photons (such as from, | 08-20-2009 |
20100092392 | Pet Scanning Determination of Lymph Nodes Enriched in 124 I Labeled Antibodies for Cancer Patient Prognostication - A method for detecting antigen associated with adenocarcinoma commences by forming a | 04-15-2010 |
20100249583 | Universal Intraoperative Radiation Detection Probe - A radiation-detecting probe instrument has a forward working portion housing a radiation detector and a rearward user directed portion, and is in communication with a control assembly for processing and outputting signals received from the radiation detector correlative to a located radionuclide source emitting energy above about 80 KeV. The disclosed probe instrument forward portion has an annular housing having a radiation transparent tip. The radiation detector is disposed behind the radiation transparent tip. A K alpha radiation emitting wafer (e.g., Pb) wafer is disposed between the radiation transparent tip and the radiation detector. A radiation resistant (e.g., W) shield is disposed between the annular housing and the radiation detector and the Pb wafer. Radiation emitted from the radionuclide source strikes the Pb wafer causing the Pb wafer to emit K alpha radiation, which strikes the radiation detector for generating signals for communication the said control assembly. | 09-30-2010 |
20110233421 | Universal Intraoperative Radiation Detection Probe - A radiation-detecting probe instrument has a forward working portion housing a radiation detector and a rearward user directed portion, and is in communication with a control assembly for processing and outputting signals received from the radiation detector correlative to a located radionuclide source emitting energy above 88 KeV (for Pb). The disclosed probe instrument forward portion has an annular housing having a radiation transparent tip. The radiation detector is disposed behind the radiation transparent tip. A characteristic x-ray radiation emitting wafer (e.g., Pb) is disposed either between or behind the radiation transparent tip and the radiation detector. A radiation resistant (e.g., W) shield is disposed between the annular housing and the radiation detector and the characteristic x-ray emission wafer. Radiation emitted from the radionuclide source strikes the wafer causing the wafer to emit the characteristic x-ray radiation of the wafer material, which strikes the radiation detector for generating signals for communication to the said control assembly. | 09-29-2011 |
Nancy Anne Thurston, Richmond, VA US
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20090119958 | Greeting Card Display - A greeting card display includes a sleeve having transparent front and rear walls, first and second ends, a top, and a bottom. The front and rear walls are unitary at the first and second ends and at the top but are separable at the bottom to define a weatherproof receiving area accessible only adjacent the bottom. The receiving area is configured to receive a greeting card. A mounting rod includes a first portion coupled to the sleeve and a second portion configured to attach to one of a flower urn and a ground surface. The front and rear walls have first and second lateral portions that converge at a spine, the first lateral portion being angularly biased relative to the second lateral portion. The front and rear walls collectively define an access opening the first lateral portion and an access opening the second lateral portion. | 05-14-2009 |
20100040998 | Paint Memorialization Kit - A paint memorialization kit includes a plurality of elongate color identifying elements, each having generally planar front and rear sides and having opposed first and second ends. Each second end includes a tab extending upwardly therefrom for use in identifying the color identifying elements. Each front side first end includes indicia requesting color information, texture information, and brand information of paint received on a respective second end. The kit includes a case having a first area for receiving the color identifying elements and a second area for receiving paint paraphernalia, the first area including partitions for separating the color identifying elements from one another and maintaining the color identifying elements in an upright configuration. The case includes a lid movable to selectively cover and expose the first and second areas. | 02-18-2010 |
Nathaniel Thurston, Somer Ville, MA US
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20130138511 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO SCHEDULE ONLINE CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods and systems to schedule delivery of items of content selectively to online users are described. In various embodiments, a method of scheduling delivery of multiple items of content selectively to a plurality of online users is disclosed. The method includes determining expected values relating to each user being online during a given time period, and generating an ordered list of the multiple items of content to be selectively delivered to each of the plurality of online users based on the expected values. Other methods and systems are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
Nathaniel J. Thurston, Sommerville, MA US
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20140366063 | Method and System for Selective Initial Television Channel Display - A novel electronic program guide (EPG) based method and system for the distribution and display of programs enables the system service provider to determine which program a subscriber will initially see upon power-up of the subscriber's television receiver. The service provider maintains one or more Initial Program Display Tables that list information about programs to be displayed upon power-up of subscribers' receivers, from highest priority to least priority. The Initial Program Display Table or Tables are periodically transmitted to all of the subscribers and stored by the subscribers' set-top boxes. Upon power-up of a subscriber's receiver, the set-top box will attempt to cause the receiver to immediately display the highest ranked program from the Initial Program Display Table. The service provider controls which programs are displayed upon initial power-up and the ranking of programs in the case where there is difficulty displaying the highest ranked program. | 12-11-2014 |
O. Gavin Thurston, San Francisco, CA US
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20100226970 | Cationic liposome delivery of taxanes to angiogenic blood vessels - Angiogenic endothelial cells are selectively targeted with lipid/DNA complexes or cationic liposomes containing a substance which affects the targeted cells by inhibiting or promoting their growth. A site of angiogenesis can be precisely located by administering cationic liposomes containing a detectable label. The complexes may comprise nucleotide constructs which are comprised of promoters which are selectively and exclusively activated in the environment of an angiogenic endothelial cell. | 09-09-2010 |
Paulette Thurston, North Plains, OR US
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20140095414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE PLATFORM CORRECTABLE TX-RX - A programmable link training and status state machine is disclosed. The programmable finite state machine includes extra states, or shadow states, which are strategically used to debug a system design or to accommodate unexpected behavior, such as when the specifications of the design change. The programmable finite state machine is thus a mechanism to design in correctable logic, enabling the logic to be corrected in silicon and used in succeeding iterations of a product line. | 04-03-2014 |
Rachel Thurston, Columbus, OH US
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20150067940 | PBO Fibers with Improved Mechanical Properties when Exposed to High Temperatures and High Relative Humidity - A method of treating fibers to improve resistance to high temperatures and relative humidity includes providing poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers, exposing the PBO fibers to an atmosphere of supercritical CO | 03-12-2015 |
Rachel M. Thurston, Columbus, OH US
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20130085012 | GOLF CLUB HEAD OR OTHER BALL STRIKING DEVICE WITH THERMOREACTIVE FACE - A ball striking device, such as a golf club, includes a head that includes a face having a ball striking surface configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face. The face has an area of highest response located proximate a center of the ball striking surface. The face is formed of a first material and a second material that forms at least a portion of the area of highest response. The second material has a thermal modulus response that is different from a thermal modulus response of the first material. | 04-04-2013 |
20150148147 | GOLF CLUB HEAD OR OTHER BALL STRIKING DEVICE WITH THERMOREACTIVE FACE - A ball striking device, such as a golf club, includes a head that includes a face having a ball striking surface configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face. The face has an area of highest response located proximate a center of the ball striking surface. The face is formed of a first material and a second material that forms at least a portion of the area of highest response. The second material has a thermal modulus response that is different from a thermal modulus response of the first material. | 05-28-2015 |
Richard B. Thurston US
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20100249583 | Universal Intraoperative Radiation Detection Probe - A radiation-detecting probe instrument has a forward working portion housing a radiation detector and a rearward user directed portion, and is in communication with a control assembly for processing and outputting signals received from the radiation detector correlative to a located radionuclide source emitting energy above about 80 KeV. The disclosed probe instrument forward portion has an annular housing having a radiation transparent tip. The radiation detector is disposed behind the radiation transparent tip. A K alpha radiation emitting wafer (e.g., Pb) wafer is disposed between the radiation transparent tip and the radiation detector. A radiation resistant (e.g., W) shield is disposed between the annular housing and the radiation detector and the Pb wafer. Radiation emitted from the radionuclide source strikes the Pb wafer causing the Pb wafer to emit K alpha radiation, which strikes the radiation detector for generating signals for communication the said control assembly. | 09-30-2010 |
20110233421 | Universal Intraoperative Radiation Detection Probe - A radiation-detecting probe instrument has a forward working portion housing a radiation detector and a rearward user directed portion, and is in communication with a control assembly for processing and outputting signals received from the radiation detector correlative to a located radionuclide source emitting energy above 88 KeV (for Pb). The disclosed probe instrument forward portion has an annular housing having a radiation transparent tip. The radiation detector is disposed behind the radiation transparent tip. A characteristic x-ray radiation emitting wafer (e.g., Pb) is disposed either between or behind the radiation transparent tip and the radiation detector. A radiation resistant (e.g., W) shield is disposed between the annular housing and the radiation detector and the characteristic x-ray emission wafer. Radiation emitted from the radionuclide source strikes the wafer causing the wafer to emit the characteristic x-ray radiation of the wafer material, which strikes the radiation detector for generating signals for communication to the said control assembly. | 09-29-2011 |
Robin Thurston, Austin, TX US
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20140122494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONAL AND PEER PERFORMANCE RANKING OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES - The invention provides a large technological infrastructure to provide a unique comparison of athletic performance using a system. The system can include a unique point system and can compare aggregate athletic performances of different users across different geographical tracks or sections (i.e., Courses). Advantageously, people who cannot do the same course(s) can compete with one another; aggregate performances can be accumulated to give an overall performance metric; and people with differing abilities can compete with one another. | 05-01-2014 |
20140156215 | GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for gait analysis may include a mobile data recording device configured to record accelerations associated with user motion and a data processing device in communication with the mobile data recording device. The data processing device can be configured to receive acceleration data from the mobile data recording device and process the acceleration data to extract stride data sequences from the acceleration data through use of bounding boxes on one or more points of the acceleration data. Each of the stride data sequences comprising data for a corresponding stride. The bounding boxes may define time and acceleration bounds. The data processing system may further determine one or more stride metrics. According to one embodiment, the data recording device may be a smartphone or other device having an accelerometer with a limited range that is inadequate to capture the full range of accelerations experienced by a runner. | 06-05-2014 |
Robin J. Thurston, Austin, TX US
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20140031959 | Determining authenticity of reported fitness-related activities - An activity tracking system is configured to receive an activity report identifying a fitness-related action that is reported to have been completed by a participant. Upon receipt of the activity report, the activity reporting system verifies the workout, e.g., by obtaining data that can be used by the activity reporting system to determine whether the activity report represents actual activity as reported by the participant or, in the alternative, suspect activity. Based on the data obtained from the one or more data sources and the information in the activity report, the activity tracking system determines a probability that the activity report represents legitimate fitness activity. This probability determination may then be output or reported to other systems (e.g., fitness history databases, websites, and the like, third party systems (e.g., incentive systems, reward systems, and the like). | 01-30-2014 |
Shellene K. Thurston, Saginaw, MI US
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20090075205 | Aqueous developable benzocyclobutene-based polymer composition and method of use of such compositions - The invention is a composition comprising a curable arylcyclobutene based oligomer or polymer and a dissolution inhibitor which comprises a compound comprising at least two diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) moieties each of which is pendant from different phenyl groups. | 03-19-2009 |
20090275673 | Benzocyclobutene based polymer formulations and methods for processing such formulations in oxidative environments - The use of hindered phenol containing anti-oxidants enable arylcyclobutene-based formulations to be cured in oxygen containing environments such as air without unacceptable degradation in key properties of dielectric constant, water uptake, or transmittance. | 11-05-2009 |
20130256741 | Siloxane Compositions Suitable For Forming Encapsulants - A composition of the present invention includes an organopolysiloxane component (A) comprising at least one of a disiloxane, a trisiloxane, and a tetrasiloxane, and has at least one of an alkyl group and an aryl group and has an average of at least two alkenyl groups per molecule. Component (A) has a number average molecular weight less than or equal to 1500 (g/mole). The composition further includes an organohydrogensiloxane component (B) having at least one of an alkyl group and an aryl group and having an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule. Component (B) has a number average molecular weight less than or equal to 1500 (g/mole). The composition yet further includes a catalytic amount of a hydrosilylation catalyst component (C). A product of the present invention is the reaction product of the composition, which may be used to make a light emitting diode. | 10-03-2013 |
20130256742 | Siloxane-Compositions Including Metal-Oxide Nanoparticles Suitable For Forming Encapsulants - A composition includes an organopolysiloxane component (A) having at least one aryl group and having an average of at least two alkenyl groups per molecule. The composition further includes an organohydrogensiloxane component (B) having at least one of an alkyl group and an aryl group and an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule. Components (A) and (B) each independently have a number average molecular weight less than or equal to 1500 (g/mole). The composition yet further includes a catalytic amount of a hydrosilylation catalyst component (C), and metal-oxide nanoparticles (D) other than titanium dioxide (TiO | 10-03-2013 |
20140008697 | Siloxane Compositions Including Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Suitable For Forming Encapsulants - A composition includes an organopolysiloxane component (A) comprising at least one of a disiloxane, a trisiloxane, and a tetrasiloxane, and has an average of at least two alkenyl groups per molecule. The composition further includes an organohydrogensiloxane component (B) having an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule. Components (A) and (B) each independently have at least one of an alkyl group and an aryl group and each independently have a number average molecular weight less than or equal to 1500 (g/mole). The composition yet further includes a catalytic amount of a hydrosilylation catalyst component (C), and titanium dioxide (TiO | 01-09-2014 |
Tara Thurston, Farmington Hills, MI US
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20160023806 | MANUAL VALVE, TANK WALL, AND DRAIN DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A manual valve includes a knob and a stem projected from the knob. The stem has a pin and a recess. The pin is configured to be projected from the stem radially outward and to be retracted into the recess radially inward. The pin has a end surface configured to latch onto a pin seat when projected. The knob has a plug radially offset from a center axis of the stem. | 01-28-2016 |
William Thurston, Kansas City, MO US
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20090289647 | INTERCONNECT SYSTEM - A test contact may include a first portion having an open-ended rounded shape. The first portion may define an opening therethrough. The test contact may include a second portion having a curved structure. The first portion and the second portion may be formed integrally, and the second portion may be configured to contact a portion of a device lead. | 11-26-2009 |
20110312229 | Interconnect System - A test contact may include a first portion having an open-ended rounded shape. The first portion may define an opening therethrough. The test contact may include a second portion having a curved structure. The first portion and the second portion may be formed integrally, and the second portion may be configured to contact a portion of a device lead. | 12-22-2011 |
William C. Thurston, Pittsburgh, PA US
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20080268244 | Impact copolymers having improved properties - Improvements in the aesthetic appearance and performance properties of heterophasic polymers is obtained through the breaking up and dispersion of large gels. According to the current invention, a novel process is provided for filtration of heterophasic polymers using a fiber metal felt (FMF) media. Molded articles made from impact copolymers prepared according to the present invention have improved appearance and fracture mechanics relative to impact copolymers produced according to prior art methods. | 10-30-2008 |
20120157599 | PROPYLENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS OF ENHANCED APPEARANCE AND EXCELLENT MOLD FLOWABILITY - The present invention relates to a class of impact copolymer polypropylene (ICP) compositions exhibiting the advantageous combination of excellent tiger (flow) marking performance in large/long molded parts, very low gels count and exceptional mold flowability (high MFR) despite the high viscosity ratio (e.g., >4) between rubber and propylene based matrix phases. The inventive compositions exhibit significantly reduced the levels of volatiles, and excellent stiffness-impact balance used as standalone materials or in filled compounds. The significantly reduced number of large gels leads to excellent surface appearance and paintability of the molded parts. The composition of the present invention is made with a bulk/gas reactor process (i.e., non-slurry/non-solvent process) that has the advantage of process simplicity, process efficiency and simplicity of compositional structure relative to the complexity in structure and process of making of compositions in the prior art. | 06-21-2012 |
Wyatt Thurston, Jackson, WY US
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20150101200 | BEVERAGE-OPENING TOOL AND METHOD - A beverage-opening tool is provided. The tool may have a puncturing edge that can be positioned in contact with a beverage can and may penetrate the beverage can. In this manner, the beverage can may be opened. The tool may also have a tooth portion that can be positioned in contact with a bottle cap of a beverage bottle and can be used to remove the beverage cap. In this manner, the beverage bottle may be opened. | 04-16-2015 |