Burge, US
Allen Burge, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20100179308 | Method and Device for Sample Preparation - The invention provides extraction columns for the purification of an analyte (e.g., a biological macromolecule, such as a peptide, protein or nucleic acid) from a sample solution, as well as methods for making and using such columns. The columns typically include a bed of extraction media positioned in the column, often between two frits. In some embodiments, the extraction columns employ modified pipette tips as column bodies. In some embodiments, the extraction columns are comprised of frits having a low pore. In some embodiments, the frits of the extraction columns have a pore volume of less than one microliter or less than 10% of the interstitial volume of the bed of extraction media. | 07-15-2010 |
20110038769 | Method and Device for Sample Preparation - The invention provides extraction columns for the purification of an analyte (e.g., a biological macromolecule, such as a peptide, protein or nucleic acid) from a sample solution, as well as methods for making and using such columns. The columns typically include a bed of extraction media positioned in the column, often between two frits. In some embodiments, the extraction columns employ modified pipette tips as column bodies. In some embodiments, the extraction columns are comprised of frits having a low pore. In some embodiments, the frits of the extraction columns have a pore volume of less than one microliter or less than 10% of the interstitial volume of the bed of extraction media. | 02-17-2011 |
20110192797 | Method and Device for Extracting an Analyte - The invention provides extraction columns for the purification of an analyte (e.g., a biological macromolecule, such as a peptide, protein or nucleic acid) from a sample solution, as well as methods for making and using such columns. The columns typically include a bed of extraction media positioned in the column between two frits. In some embodiments, the extraction columns employ modified pipette tips as column bodies. In some embodiments, the method involves adjusting the head pressure of the column during the process, or otherwise controlling or regulating the head pressure. | 08-11-2011 |
20120164750 | Method and Device for Sample Preparation - The invention provides extraction columns for the purification of an analyte (e.g., a biological macromolecule, such as a peptide, protein or nucleic acid) from a sample solution, as well as methods for making and using such columns. The columns typically include a bed of extraction media positioned in the column, often between two frits. In some embodiments, the extraction columns employ modified pipette tips as column bodies. In some embodiments, the extraction columns are comprised of frits having a low pore volume. In some embodiments, the frits of the extraction columns have a pore volume of less than one microliter or less than 10% of the interstitial volume of the bed of extraction media. | 06-28-2012 |
Benjamin Douglas Burge, Shaker Heights, OH US
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20120162541 | AUDIO/VISUAL DEVICE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A user interface for an audio/visual device incorporates one or both of a touch sensor having a touch surface on which is defined a racetrack surface having a ring shape and a display element on which is displayed a racetrack menu also having a ring shape, and where the user interface incorporates both, the ring shapes of the racetrack surface and the racetrack menu are structured to generally correspond such that the position of a marker on the racetrack menu is caused to correspond to the position at which a digit of a user's hand touches the racetrack surface. | 06-28-2012 |
Benjamin Douglass Burge, Shaker Heights, OH US
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20090230263 | Multimedia Device Bracket - An apparatus and method for mounting various audio devices to a flat panel display employing mounting holes disposed on a rearward face of the panel of the flat panel display that are otherwise normally employed to couple a support of the flat panel display to the panel of the flat panel display, wherein a hub supporting rods that in turn support the audio devices is coupled to the rearward face of the panel with the aid of those holes, and wherein the hub and rods together convey electrical signals between at least one of the audio devices and at least one cable. | 09-17-2009 |
20100246845 | Personal Acoustic Device Position Determination - A apparatus and method for determining an operating state of an earpiece of a personal acoustic device and/or the entirety of the personal acoustic device by analyzing signals output by at least an inner microphone disposed within a cavity of a casing of the earpiece and an outer microphone disposed on the personal acoustic device in a manner acoustically coupling it to the environment outside the casing of the earpiece. | 09-30-2010 |
20110113368 | Audio/Visual Device Graphical User Interface - A user interface for an audio/visual device incorporates one or both of a touch sensor having a touch surface on which is defined a racetrack surface having a ring shape and a display element on which is displayed a racetrack menu also having a ring shape, and where the user interface incorporates both, the ring shapes of the racetrack surface and the racetrack menu are structured to generally correspond such that the position of a marker on the racetrack menu is caused to correspond to the position at which a digit of a user's hand touches the racetrack surface. | 05-12-2011 |
20120200775 | AUDIO/VISUAL DEVICE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A user interface for an audio/visual device incorporates one or both of a touch sensor having a touch surface on which is defined a racetrack surface having a ring shape and a display element on which is displayed a racetrack menu also having a ring shape, and where the user interface incorporates both, the ring shapes of the racetrack surface and the racetrack menu are structured to generally correspond such that the position of a marker on the racetrack menu is caused to correspond to the position at which a digit of a user's hand touches the racetrack surface. | 08-09-2012 |
Christine J. Burge, Fort Collins, CO US
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20090249687 | Methods and Systems of Porous Receptacles - Drainage systems for plant gardening in flowerpots, specifically a shaped porous rock or perhaps even an enclosed pouch having soil preservation capability and filling inside the enclosed pouch. Embodiments may include a pot hole locator which may place an enclosed pouch in a bottom of a pot prior to adding soil and planting a plant in a flowerpot. Other embodiments may include the addition of soil amendments, water retention elements, drying elements and the like. Filling may include plastic, various rocks, various stones, pebbles, synthetic materials and the like. | 10-08-2009 |
Christopher B. Burge, Belmont, MA US
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20100029003 | System and methods for identifying miRNA targets and for altering miRNA and target expression - The present invention generally relates to microRNAs such as vertebrate microRNA (miRNA), for example, mammalian miRNA. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, production, or expression of miRNA. In one aspect, the invention provides systems and methods for identifying targets of miRNA sequences. For instance, in one embodiment, gene sequences comprising UTRs are compared with miRNA sequences to determine the degree of interaction, for example, by determining a free energy measurement between the miRNA sequence and the UTR, and/or by determining complementarity between at least a portion of the miRNA sequence and the UTR. In another aspect, the invention is directed to the regulation of gene expression using miRNA. For example, gene expression within a cell may be altered by exposing the cell to an oligonucleotide comprising a sequence that is substantially antisense to at least a portion of an miRNA region of the gene, for example, antisense to a 6-mer or 7-mer portion of the miRNA. In still another aspect, the invention is directed to the treatment of cancer. For instance, in one set of embodiments, an isolated oligonucleotide comprising a sequence that is substantially antisense to an miRNA, or a portion of an miRNA, is administered to a subject having or being at risk of cancer. Yet other aspects of the invention are directed to compositions or kits including oligonucleotides comprising a sequence that is substantially antisense to an miRNA (or a portion of an miRNA), methods of promoting any of the above aspects, or the like. | 02-04-2010 |
Christopher Boyce Burge, Belmont, MA US
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20140066319 | ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED mRNA ISOFORMS AS PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS FOR METASTATIC CANCER - The present invention provides a method for identifying a tumor as likely to metastasize, or likely to have metastasized, comprising obtaining a sample of the tumor and quantitating alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms of a cell motility gene, a cell adhesion gene and/or an actin cytoskeletal remodeling gene in the sample, or any specified genes or the level of RNA binding proteins compared to a predetermined non-metastasizing control. | 03-06-2014 |
Daniel Burge, Wylie, TX US
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20110072038 | WEB SITE WITH CONTENT BASED ON REFERRING LINK INFORMATION - Custom content for a website is communicated to a user computer responsive to receiving a request at a hosting computer from the user computer to access the website. If the request contains keywords from a previous search request initiated at the user computer, it is determined whether the keywords set forth in the request match an entry in a database associating certain sets of keywords to specific content for display on a user computer. If so, the specific content is communicated to the user computer responsive to the match. | 03-24-2011 |
Daniel J. Burge, Sammamish, WA US
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20080213273 | Single dose use of CD20-specific binding molecules - The present invention provides materials and methods for treatment of diseases involving aberrant B-cell activity using a single dose of CD20-specific binding molecule. | 09-04-2008 |
Eric A. Burge, Collinsville, IL US
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20140271849 | Abuse Deterrent Solid Dosage Form for Immediate Release with Functional Score - The present disclosure provides an immediate release, abuse deterrent pharmaceutical solid dosage form comprising at least one functional score. In particular, the immediate release, abuse deterrent solid dosage form comprises at least one low molecular weight hydrophilic polymer, at least one high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer, and an effervescent system. | 09-18-2014 |
Gary D. Burge, Fort Collins, CO US
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20090249687 | Methods and Systems of Porous Receptacles - Drainage systems for plant gardening in flowerpots, specifically a shaped porous rock or perhaps even an enclosed pouch having soil preservation capability and filling inside the enclosed pouch. Embodiments may include a pot hole locator which may place an enclosed pouch in a bottom of a pot prior to adding soil and planting a plant in a flowerpot. Other embodiments may include the addition of soil amendments, water retention elements, drying elements and the like. Filling may include plastic, various rocks, various stones, pebbles, synthetic materials and the like. | 10-08-2009 |
George Robert Burge, Fullerton, CA US
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20130174619 | LOCK ASSEMBLY WITH AN INTERCHANGEABLE LOCK CORE - An interchangeable core assembly for a lock core assembly capable of being flush mounted in a door including a housing, a lock insert mounted in the housing, a lock core mounted in the housing adjacent to and cooperative with the lock insert, a thumb-turn assembly mounted in the non-cylindrical housing coaxial with the lock core, a first offset cam mounted on the thumb-turn assembly for rotation therewith, and a second offset cam mounted on the lock core for rotation therewith. The barrel of the lock core assembly is unobstructed by locking train components such that the lock core assembly extends completely through the latch assembly when installed therein. The lock core assembly is secured to the latch assembly without threads and a means to remove/replace the thumb-turn component is provided. | 07-11-2013 |
Harriet A. Burge, Novato, CA US
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20150310088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR, COLLECTING AND GENERATING MOLD SPORE DATA FOR MOLD REPORTS USING CLIMATE CODES - A system is disclosed for obtaining historical mold spore data. The system may have a computer with a processor. At least one database may be used which contains information correlating subregion codes of a geographic area with ones of predetermined climate classification codes associated with each of the subregion codes. The database further may have available historical mold spore data for the subregion codes and be configured to receive an input indicating a target subregion code that identifies an area falling within the geographic area; to identify a specific one of the codes that is associated with the target subregion code; and to obtain portions of the stored historical mold spore data which is associated with ones of the subregion codes falling within the geographic area that have the specific one of the codes associated therewith. | 10-29-2015 |
James H. Burge, Tucson, AZ US
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20120040590 | NON-NEWTONIAN LAP - In a non-conventional lap tool, i.e., not a stiff tool nor a conformable tool, and related method for grinding/polishing a substrate surface, includes a rigid base plate and attached work surface to define a cavity containing a non-Newtonian fluid. The non-Newtonian fluid behaves as a solid when the work surface is subjected to high shear stress, i.e., rapid tool stroke, yet behaves like a liquid when the tool is moved around the substrate surface when the shear stress of the work surface is low. A diaphragm can be used to further define the cavity and to seal within the non-Newtonian fluid therein. | 02-16-2012 |
20120293808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT METROLOGY OF SURFACES - A non-contact metrology system utilizes a display that can be programmed with a plurality of targets. The display targets shine on a specular surface and the reflected targets are detected by an imaging device. Based on the display pattern and the expected location of the reflected pattern, it is possible to characterize the reflective surface. The displayed pattern can be a regular array of targets and the reflected pattern detected by the imaging device is an irregular display of targets whose locations are based on the particular display pattern, the location of the display system and imaging device and the nature of the surface. Deviations of the actual location of targets from the expected location of targets is indicative of unexpected variations in the surface. Alternatively, the display has an irregular pattern of targets such that the reflected signals result in a regularly spaced array detected by the imaging device. | 11-22-2012 |
Jen Burge, San Francisco, CA US
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20120041907 | Suggesting Connections to a User Based on an Expected Value of the Suggestion to the Social Networking System - To suggest new connections to a user of a social networking system, the system generates a set of candidate users to whom the user has not already formed a connection. The system determines the likelihood that the user will connect to each candidate user if suggested to do so, and it also computes the value to the social networking system if the user does connect to the candidate user. Then, the system computes an expected value score for each candidate user based on the corresponding likelihood and the value. The candidate users are ranked and the suggestions are provided to the user based on the candidate users' expected value scores. The social networking system can suggest other actions to a user in addition to forming a new connection with other users. | 02-16-2012 |
Jennifer Burge, San Francisco, CA US
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20110246907 | PROMOTING PARTICIPATION OF LOW-ACTIVITY USERS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Method or system for allowing a social networking system to retain users of a social networking system by identifying low-activity users who are likely to become inactive/dormant users and prompting users to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. The low-activity users are identified by monitoring activities and interactions of the users via the social networking system. If the pattern of activities and interactions satisfy one or more criteria, a computer device for providing the social networking system initiates an intervention scheme where users are induced to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. In response to the interactions, the low-activity users are likely to resume interactions via the social networking system. | 10-06-2011 |
20130103758 | FILTERING AND RANKING RECOMMENDED USERS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system may recommend a set of users to a viewing user for establishing new connections on the social networking system. Through a user interface, the viewing user may select filters based on characteristics and dimensions of user profile information. The recommended set of users may be ranked according to the selected filters by the number of mutual connections. Pre-populated filters may be selected and suggested based on information about the viewing user. Multiple filters may be selected by the viewing user, and filters may be based on any identifiable object in the social networking system, in one embodiment. The candidate recommended users may also be ranked based on predictions that the viewing user will initiate a request to connect with the candidate recommended users. | 04-25-2013 |
20130179802 | Chaining Connection Requests - In one embodiment, a social networking system, in response to receiving an action request from a user, expands the portion of a social networking web site with which the user interacted to initiate the action request, and populates the expanded portion with object suggestions of the same type as the target object of the action request. In particular embodiments, the object suggestions are based at least in part on the characteristics of the target object of the action request. Such embodiments capitalize on the transitory mood of the user and facilitate and promote the chaining of subsequent action requests. | 07-11-2013 |
20130311568 | SUGGESTING CONNECTIONS TO A USER BASED ON AN EXPECTED VALUE OF THE SUGGESTION TO THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To suggest new connections to a user of a social networking system, the system generates a set of candidate users to whom the user has not already formed a connection. The system determines the likelihood that the user will connect to each candidate user if suggested to do so, and it also computes the value to the social networking system if the user does connect to the candidate user. Then, the system computes an expected value score for each candidate user based on the corresponding likelihood and the value. The candidate users are ranked and the suggestions are provided to the user based on the candidate users' expected value scores. The social networking system can suggest other actions to a user in addition to forming a new connection with other users. | 11-21-2013 |
20140012769 | Promoting Participation of Low-Activity Users in Social Networking System - Method or system for allowing a social networking system to retain users of a social networking system by identifying low-activity users who are likely to become inactive/dormant users and prompting users to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. The low-activity users are identified by monitoring activities and interactions of the users via the social networking system. If the pattern of activities and interactions satisfy one or more criteria, a computer device for providing the social networking system initiates an intervention scheme where users are induced to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. In response to the interactions, the low-activity users are likely to resume interactions via the social networking system. | 01-09-2014 |
20140289237 | SUGGESTING CONNECTIONS TO USERS WITH LOW ACTIVITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To suggest new connections to a user of a social networking system, the system generates a set of candidate users to whom the user has not already formed a connection. The system determines the likelihood that the user will connect to each candidate user if suggested to do so, and it also computes the value to the social networking system if the user does connect to the candidate user. Then, the system computes an expected value score for each candidate user based on the corresponding likelihood and the value. The candidate users are ranked and the suggestions are provided to the user based on the candidate users' expected value scores. The social networking system can suggest other actions to a user in addition to forming a new connection with other users. | 09-25-2014 |
Johannes Burge, Austin, TX US
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20130329122 | FOCUS ERROR ESTIMATION IN IMAGES - Estimating focus error in an image involves a training phase and an application phase. In the training phase, an optical system is represented by a point-spread function. An image sensor array is represented by one or more wavelength sensitivity functions, one or more noise functions, and one or more spatial sampling functions. The point-spread function is applied to image patches for each of multiple defocus levels within a specified range to produce training data. Each of the images for each defocus level (i.e. focus error) is sampled using the wavelength sensitivity and spatial sampling functions. Noise is added using the noise functions. The responses from the sensor array to the training data are used to generate defocus filters for estimating focus error within the specified range. The defocus filters are then applied to the image patches of the training data and joint probability distributions of filter responses to each defocus level are characterized. In the application phase, the filter responses to arbitrary image patches are obtained and combined to derive continuous, signed estimates of the focus error of each arbitrary image patch. | 12-12-2013 |
John Burge, Santa Clara, CA US
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20110040768 | CONTEXT BASED RESOURCE RELEVANCE - A resource context system (“context system”) computes a contextual profile for a resource based on selection data for the resource and contextual profiles of other resources that are identified as relevant to the resource. The contextual profile includes values that specify measures of relevance of the resource to each of a plurality of corresponding topics. The contextual profile is provided to a processing system, such as an advertisement management system or a search system that can identify topics for which the resource is relevant based on the contextual profile. | 02-17-2011 |
John Richard Burge, Hermosa Beach, CA US
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20140129639 | COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Systems, configurations, and methods of managing collaboration of content are disclosed. A content collaboration system can be configured to manage collaborating subject matter within one or more activity streams. A user can create a new collaboration object associated with particular content using the content collaboration system. The content collaboration system is configured to format data related to the collaboration object according to the different activity stream formats and to insert the formatted data into the one or more activity streams. Other users are allowed to collaborate around the particular content on the different activity streams. The content collaboration system is configured to update the collaboration object according to the collaboration on the different activity streams. | 05-08-2014 |
20140172808 | Multi-Layered Metadata Management System - A metadata layer management system is presented. Layers of metadata objects can be constructed where each metadata layer object comprises a rights policy. As entities interaction with the metadata layer objects, possibly by navigating links among the objects, each entity's access rights to the objects are governed by the rights policy. Further, the disclosed techniques provide for resolving rights conflicts among the rights policies of the metadata layer objects. | 06-19-2014 |
John Richard Burge, Manhattan Beach, CA US
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20140207766 | Assertion Quality Assessment and Management System - An assertion assessment system is presented. An assertion object that represents a relationship between an assertion and an information source can be bound to a quality measure as an indication of the quality of the assertion object. The assertion assessment system enables different recipients of assertion objects that are linked to information sources to assess assertion quality of the assertion objects. The assertion assessment system manages and tracks these assessments of the assertion objects and provides useful indications to the recipients. Thus, workers who come upon an assertion can make a judgment on the quality of the assertion based on assessment made by other workers, without going through the information source that supports the assertion. | 07-24-2014 |
20140255898 | Assessing Reading Comprehension And Critical Thinking Using Annotation Objects - A competency assessment system enables reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of a knowledge worker to be assessed. The competency assessment system enables a knowledge worker to create an assertion map based on one or more source literals. The assertion map comprises several assertion objects that link to different portions of the source literals or other assertion objects. The competency assessment system compares the assertion map created by the knowledge worker with another assertion map to assess the worker's reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. | 09-11-2014 |
20140281877 | Website Excerpt Validation and Management System - The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which a user could mark one or more sections of one or more documents to create an annotation in a manner to easily enable verification of the annotation. An annotation comprises user-defined data associated with the one or more sections, such as, for example, a summary, a common conclusion, a common quote, a common comment, or a common attribute. For example, a user could select a plurality of sections in one or more documents that all support a common conclusion, and could create an annotation comprising the common conclusion linked to each of the sections. Upon request by a user to verify the annotation, the system can present the relevant sections of the document from which the annotation is derived. | 09-18-2014 |
20150120646 | Knowledge Object And Collaboration Management System - The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which a point management system packages worker thought-processes and supporting reference materials with the point or conclusion being made, enabling rapid review and verification by a decision-maker. The point management system includes a literal object database, snip object database and point object database, wherein each snip object is derived from a literal object and linked to the location from which it was derived. The system further includes a point authoring module that enables users to link snip objects within the point object, and a snip verification engine that enables a reviewer of the point object to verify the supporting snip objects and literal objects, their relationships to each other and to the points being made in the point object, and the team collaboration that has transpired at both the snip object level and point object level. | 04-30-2015 |
Joseph C. Burge, Jupiter, FL US
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20080219832 | SMALL RADIAL PROFILE SHROUD FOR VARIABLE VANE STRUCTURE IN A GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A shroud for supporting a variable vane in a compressor section for a gas turbine engine includes a pair of components which are secured together by a threaded fastener extending into a blind hole in one of the two components. Additional material forms on the component which includes the blind hole extends beyond a pivot axis for the vane such that there is an increased length of engagement between the threaded fastener and the blind hole. The blind hole eliminates the need for multiple nuts and reduces the radial height of the shroud to save additional weight. | 09-11-2008 |
Joseph Clayton Burge, Jupiter, FL US
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20090142181 | Gas Turbine Engine Systems Involving Mechanically Alterable Vane Throat Areas - Gas turbine engine systems involving mechanically alterable vane throat areas are provided. In this regard, a representative vane for a gas turbine engine includes: a leading edge; a trailing edge; a suction side surface extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge; a cavity having an aperture located in the suction side surface; and a barrel located within the cavity and being moveable therein such that movement of the barrel alters an extent to which the barrel protrudes through the aperture. | 06-04-2009 |
Karl R. Burge, Euless, TX US
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20140305135 | FUEL DRAIN VALVE FOR A TURBINE ENGINE - A valve assembly for an engine, the valve assembly can include a housing; an in-flow port configured for connection with a drain line; a first out-flow port configured for connection with a fuel line; a second out-flow port configured for connection with a disposal line; and a passageway that is rotatable with a handle, the passageway being operable to redirect a flow of a fluid between the fuel line and the disposal line. The handle is configured to impede an attachment of the fluid source to a water wash connection when the passageway is in a position to direct the flow of the fluid from the drain line to the fuel line. | 10-16-2014 |
Kevin P. Burge, North St. Paul, MN US
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20150259578 | HOT MELT ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS THAT INCLUDE PROPYLENE POLYMER AND ETHYLENE COPOLYMER - Disclosed is a hot melt adhesive composition that includes a polymer component that includes a propylene polymer that includes greater than 50 mole % propylene and exhibiting a melt index greater than 150 grams per ten minutes at 190° C., and an ethylene copolymer exhibiting a melt index of at least 200 grams per ten minutes at 190° C. and an acid number of no greater than 2 mg KOH/g, and derived from ethylene and a co-monomer selected from the group consisting of vinyl acetate, alkyl acrylate, alkyl methacrylate, and combinations thereof, from 0% by weight to no greater than 8% by weight amorphous polyalphaolefin, and from 0% by weight to no greater than 25% by weight oil. | 09-17-2015 |
Mark J. Burge, Merrifield, VA US
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20090279790 | Multispectral iris fusion for enhancement and interoperability - A multispectral iris recognition system includes a multispectral camera adapted to acquire spatially registered iris images simultaneously in at least three wavelengths and a database adapted to store the acquired iris images. A texture analysis section identifies an area within each acquired iris image having a maximum texture at each of the wavelengths. The identified areas are combined to generate an enhanced iris image. Additionally, a visible light iris image is acquired and stored along with a set of transformation mappings in a database. The acquired visible light iris image is modeled in a texture model, which clusters textures from the acquired visible light iris image. A mapping is selected from the database for each of the clusters. The selected mappings are applied to the acquired visible light iris image to generate a Near-Infrared equivalent. | 11-12-2009 |
Matthew S. Burge, West Lafayette, IN US
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20160032076 | SALTS OF PYROPHOSPHONIC ACID AS FLAME RETARDANTS - Flame retardant polymer compositions comprising certain thermally stable salts of pyrophosphonic acid as flame retardant materials, which flame retardant materials comprise one or more than one metals, are prepared and have excellent flame retardant activity. | 02-04-2016 |
Richard Burge, Atlanta, GA US
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20100193474 | LIMITED FLASH-OVER ELECTRIC POWER SWITCH - A limited flash-over electric power switch uses a dielectric gas regulator and a flash-over arrestor to greatly diminish the occurrences of high voltage flash-over during operation of a circuit interrupter. The dielectric gas regulator prevents the flow of the dielectric gas into the arc gap during an initial portion of the opening stroke of the interrupter contacts. Once the arc gap is sufficiently wide to greatly diminish the likelihood of a high voltage flash-over, the dielectric gas regulator allows the dielectric gas to flow into the arc gap to extinguish the arc. The flash-over arrestor snubs out incipient flash-over that may occur as the arc attempts to reform across the arc gap. The flash-over arrestor may be a conductive ring located on the interior surface of the nozzle in the region of the orifice. | 08-05-2010 |
Robert M. Burge, Plaistow, NH US
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20150294828 | ARC SUPPRESSOR FOR FUSIBLE ELEMENTS - An arc suppressor fixable to a fusible element to suppress electrical arcs and prevent the spread of electric arc “burn-back.” The arc suppressor includes first and second inner members comprised of pre-cured silicone rubber, and first and second outer members comprised of an arc suppressing material (e.g., melamine). The inner and outer members form a sandwich around a portion of the fusible element, wherein the first inner member is located adjacent to a first surface of the fusible element and the second inner member is located adjacent to an opposing second surface of the fusible element. The first outer member is located adjacent to the first inner member and the second outer member is located adjacent to the second inner member. Mechanical fasteners tightly engage together the first and second inner members, the fusible element, and the first and second outer members. | 10-15-2015 |
R. Shane Burge, Fort Wayne, IN US
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20160045777 | Weight Training Apparatus and Method of Using - A weightlifting weight support assembly, said assembly comprising: a weight rack, said rack comprising a pair of vertical upright beams, each of said beams comprising a plurality bores disposed vertically along the front of said beams; an elongated cross member, said cross member comprising a pair of opposing ends; a lever arm selectively rotatably attached to at least one of said ends; a pair of vertical weight supports fixedly attached to said cross member, each of said weight supports comprising a longitudinal axis and a plurality of bores disposed vertically along said longitudinal axis; at least one weight bar receiver, each of said weight bar receivers comprising at least one protrusion for selectively engaging said bores of said vertical weight supports; and a first and a second cross member support subassembly, each of said cross member supports selectively attached to the front of said beams, each of said supports comprising a proximal end, said proximal end of said cross member supports comprising a bar receiving portion having an opening, a slot, and a trough, where said cross member is slidingly engaged with said bar receiving portion; and a distal end, said distal end of each of said cross member supports comprising a vertical plate, a pin extending perpendicularly from said plate, and at least one horizontal hook extending from said plate, said distal end of each said cross member removably connectable to said rack via an engagement of said pin in said bore and said horizontal hook around said vertical beam of said rack. | 02-18-2016 |
Scott Russell Burge, Tempe, AZ US
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20150233884 | Sampling and Analytical Platform for the Remote Deployment of Sensors - An automated microprocessor-controlled monitoring system for the sampling and analysis of environmental contamination has independent multiple sample chambers | 08-20-2015 |
Stephany Burge, Moscow, ID US
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20120102189 | DYNAMIC HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGEMENT TOOL - Method and apparatus for managing a network includes assigning a plurality of processors to a plurality of network connected computing groups, wherein each processor in an assigned computing group receives task types over the network that are different from task types received over the network by processors assigned to any other computing group. A network monitor detects a workload of each of the computing groups and sets an upper threshold and a lower threshold for each of the plurality of computing groups. If it detects that a workload of a computing group is equal to or higher than its set upper threshold and that a workload of another computing groups is equal to or lower than its set lower threshold, it will initiate a reassignment procedure for reassigning a processor from the lower workload computing group to the higher workload computing group. | 04-26-2012 |