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Brenda L. Garcia, West Columbia, SC US
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20090065738 | Electrocatalyst Support and Catalyst Supported Thereon - In one embodiment of the present disclosure an electrocatalyst support for a fuel cell is provided which includes a doped titania metal oxide. The dopant includes a valve metal. The doped titania metal oxide has a BET surface area of greater than 20 m | 03-12-2009 |
Brenda L. Garcia-Diaz, Aiken, SC US
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20130068994 | NANOPARTICLE ENHANCED IONIC LIQUID HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS - A heat transfer fluid created from nanoparticles that are dispersed into an ionic liquid is provided. Small volumes of nanoparticles are created from e.g., metals or metal oxides and/or alloys of such materials are dispersed into ionic liquids to create a heat transfer fluid. The nanoparticles can be dispersed directly into the ionic liquid during nanoparticle formation or the nanoparticles can be formed and then, in a subsequent step, dispersed into the ionic liquid using e.g., agitation. | 03-21-2013 |
20140374272 | Electrochemical Fluorination for Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel - A galvanic cell and methods of using the galvanic cell is described for the recovery of uranium from used nuclear fuel according to an electrofluorination process. The galvanic cell requires no input energy and can utilize relatively benign gaseous fluorinating agents. Uranium can be recovered from used nuclear fuel in the form of gaseous uranium compound such as uranium hexafluoride, which can then be converted to metallic uranium or UO | 12-25-2014 |
Brenda L. Joostberns, Nashville, MI US
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20110139834 | DEVICE TO ASSIST PUTTING CLOTHES ON - A device or apparatus for assisting a user in putting on an outer coat or other garment comprises a sleeve-like member that is made of a thin flexible material, with an enlarged opening at a first end, and at least two openings at a second end. In use, a user slides the apparatus over a sleeve of an inner garment, and positions one or more fingers in the openings at the second end of the device. The user then inserts his/her hand and arm into the sleeve of an outer garment, and the apparatus is then pulled off the user's hand and arm. The apparatus ensures that the sleeve of the inner garment remains in its proper position on the user's arm as the user's hand and arm are inserted into the sleeve of the outer garment. | 06-16-2011 |
Brenda L. Meding, Millsboro, DE US
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20110165673 | METHODS OF CULTURING BACTERIAL SPECIES OF THE ANAPLASMATACEAE FAMILY - The present invention relates to a method of culturing bacterial organisms belonging to the family Anaplasmataceae in mammalian embryonic or fetal cells. In particular, the present invention is directed to growth of bacterial organisms belonging to the family Anaplasmataceae including organisms belonging to the | 07-07-2011 |
Brenda L. Tjelta, St.paul, MN US
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20090018046 | TREATED OXIDIZING AGENT, DETERGENT COMPOSITION CONTAINING A TREATING OXIDIZING AGENT, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING - A treated oxidizing agent is provided according to the invention. The treated oxidizing agent includes an oxidizing agent that is solid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, and a chemical barrier composition provided on the oxidizing agent. The chemical barrier composition includes a hydrocarbon component having about 10 to about 85 carbon atoms, and wherein the chemical barrier composition is provided as a liquid at 25° C. A solid detergent composition is provided including the treated oxidizing agent. Methods for manufacturing are provided. | 01-15-2009 |
Brenda L. Tjelta, Bulimba AU
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20120329700 | SOLIDIFICATION MATRICES USING PHOSPHONOCARBOXYLIC ACID COPOLYMERS AND PHOSPHONOPOLYACRYLIC ACID HOMOPOLYMERS - Stability enhancement agents for use in a solidification matrices and solid detergent compositions are described. Stability enhancement is provided by a hydratable salt, water and phosphonocarboxylic acid copolymers or phosphonopolyacrylic acid homopolymers binding agents forming a dimensionally stable composition. Preferred phosphonocarboxylic acid copolymers or phosphonopolyacrylic acid homopolymers have phosphono end groups and a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 30,000 grams/mole. The stability enhancement composition for use in a solid detergent and solid detergent compositions are preferably biodegradable and substantially free of phosphorus and NTA-free. | 12-27-2012 |
20130068254 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS OR INTERMITTENT REMOVAL OF SOIL FROM RECIRCULATED WASHING SOLUTION - A method of removing food soils from a recirculated washing solution includes adding a flocculating agent to the recirculated washing solution and separating the particulates from the recirculated washing solution using a hydrocyclone. The flocculating agent causes a portion of the food soils to combine into particulates having a higher density. | 03-21-2013 |
20130130964 | SOLIDIFICATION MATRIX USING A CARBOXYMETHYL CARBOHYDRATE POLYMER BINDING AGENT - A cleaning composition includes a carboxymethyl carbohydrate polymer, sodium carbonate, and water. The carboxymethyl carbohydrate polymer, sodium carbonate, and water interact to form a hydrate solid. The solid cleaning composition exhibits little or no swelling even when heated to temperatures up to 120° C. | 05-23-2013 |
Brenda L. Vanmil, Missoula, MT US
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20110045281 | REDUCTION OF BASAL PLANE DISLOCATIONS IN EPITAXIAL SIC - A method for reducing/eliminating basal plane dislocations from SiC epilayers is disclosed. An article having: an off-axis SiC substrate having an off-axis angle of no more than 6°; and a SiC epitaxial layer grown on the substrate. The epitaxial layer has no more than 2 basal plane dislocations per cm | 02-24-2011 |
Brenda L. Vanmil, Alexandria, VA US
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20090114148 | METHOD OF PRODUCING EPITAXIAL LAYERS WITH LOW BASAL PLANE DISLOCATION CONCENTRATIONS - A method of: flowing a silicon source gas, a carbon source gas, and a carrier gas into a growth chamber under growth conditions to epitaxial grow silicon carbide on a wafer in the growth chamber; stopping or reducing the flow of the silicon source gas to interrupt the silicon carbide growth and maintaining the flow of the carrier gas while maintaining an elevated temperature in the growth chamber for a period of time; and resuming the flow of the silicon source gas to reinitiate silicon carbide growth. The wafer remains in the growth chamber throughout the method. | 05-07-2009 |
20100024719 | TRACKING CARBON TO SILICON RATIO IN SITU DURING SILICON CARBIDE GROWTH - A method of: supplying sources of carbon and silicon into a chemical vapor deposition chamber; collecting exhaust gases from the chamber; performing mass spectrometry on the exhaust gases; and correlating a partial pressure of a carbon species in the exhaust gases to a carbon:silicon ratio in the chamber. | 02-04-2010 |
Brenda L. Van Veldhuisen, Portland, OR US
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20130064308 | CODING AND DECODING SYNCHRONIZED COMPRESSED VIDEO BITSTREAMS - Coding may include receiving a source video bitstream including source frames and determining information from the source frames. The determined information may include timing information and grouping information and may be utilized in encoding synchronizing processed frames for a synchronized compressed video bitstream. Decoding may include receiving a synchronized compressed video bitstream including the encoding synchronizing processed frames. The decoding may include preparing video chunk files having boundaries defined by the encoding synchronizing processed frames and decoding the prepared video chunk files. | 03-14-2013 |
20130156098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DUAL PASS RATE CONTROL VIDEO ENCODING - A method of dual-pass rate control video encoding and an encoder are disclosed. Uncompressed input video is received with a video encoder. First pass encoding is performed, and a second pass encoding is performed with the video encoder at a delay relative to the first pass. The first pass encoding detects scene changes within the input video, assigns macroblocks to a pre-determined number of activity classes, and determines a complexity of each picture within the sequence of pictures. Information from the first pass encoding concerning the scene changes, the activity classes, and the complexity are used for rate control determined in second pass encoding for producing and outputting a bit stream of compressed video. During at least one of the first pass and second pass encoding, boundaries of at least some of the GOPs are adjusted to be aligned with the scene changes. | 06-20-2013 |
20140112384 | ALGORITHMS FOR DETERMINING BITRATE FOR A STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM USING SCENE CHANGE - An improved statistical multiplexer (statmux) system for coding and multiplexing multiple channels of standard definition (SD) digital television data, or multiple panels of high definition (HD) digital television data is provided, the system considering when a scene change occurs. A need parameter (NP) is determined for each of the multiple encoders considering scene change that occur, and the NP is provided to a statmux controller to enable a bit rate to be determined for the encoder. The system considers the new scene data after a scene change as well as current scene data being evaluated to determine data complexity for the NP value. This ensures significantly different complexity data after the scene change does not cause an inadequate bit rate determination. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112385 | ALGORITHMS FOR DETERMINING BITRATE FOR A STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM TO ENSURE STREAM ALIGNMENT FROM ENCODERS TO THE MULTIPLEXER - A statistical multiplexer (statmux) system for encoding and multiplexing multiple channels of digital television data is provided that limits dropped bits due to misalignment of bit rate allocations to the encoders. Without such a system, if for example an encoder is allotted 0 bits during a first time period and 20 kilobits during a second time period, if the encoder jumps ahead from the first period to the second time period allocation, the 20 kilobits could be output during the 0 bit output allocation time period. This can cause buffer overflow downstream if other encoders are outputting at their maximum rate. To limit such misalignment, a maximum percentage increase of an encoder's bitrate allocation is set from time period to time period based on a formula to prevent bits from being dropped when misalignment occurs. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112386 | ALGORITHMS FOR DETERMINING BITRATE FOR A STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM TO ACCOUNT FOR SIGNAL COMPLEXITY INCLUDING FILM MODE AND GOP STRUCTURAL CHANGES - A statistical multiplexer (statmux) system for encoding multiple channels of digital television data is provided with improved algorithms for determining bitrate for encoding and decoding to account for signal complexity, including accounting for film mode and GOP structural changes. In film mode when the lower frame per second rate for film mode is identified, rather than faster rate SD or HD modes, instead of determining bit rate from viewing the next picture in the look ahead buffer (LAB), the system looks at a start time stamp for specific data in the LAB. Accounting for GOP structural changes includes identifying the number of pictures (N) between I type pictures in data provided to an encoder and the number of pictures (M) between P type pictures, rather than using a fixed number for N and M. | 04-24-2014 |