Fennell, US
Bedford W. Fennell, Holcomb, MS US
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20080202750 | PROPPANT MATERIALS AND METHODS - The present invention provides thermoplastic coated proppants and methods for preparing the thermoplastic coated proppants. Methods for using these proppants in subterranean well formations and hydraulic fracturing operations, for example, are also disclosed. | 08-28-2008 |
20080277115 | INCREASING BUOYANCY OF WELL TREATING MATERIALS - A composite proppant having an increased buoyancy comprising a proppant substrate such as a porous ceramic or a silica sand coated with a material of a lesser actual density than the apparent density of the proppant substrate to increase the buoyancy of the composite proppant. | 11-13-2008 |
Brandon Fennell, Palo Alto, CA US
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20160004990 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACES FOR LEARNING, TALENT DISCOVERY, RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT, AND CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT - The present disclosure provides computer systems and user interfaces for learning and/or talent discovery. A computer system can include a user interface that includes a search field and a facet field for refining a search directed to a query inputted in the search field. The query can be directed to learning or talent discovery. The facet field can display one or more descriptors that are indicative of a characteristic of one or more users or courses that are returned from a search directed to the query. The facet field can display a number of users or courses associated with each of the one or more descriptors. | 01-07-2016 |
Casey Fennell, Shullsburg, WI US
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20150240934 | CARTRIDGE DRIVE - A drive system includes a drive housing and one or more drivetrain cartridges. The one or more drivetrain cartridges enables better manufacturability by allowing drivetrain components to be installed together outside the housing and then installed as a unit together into the housing. Serviceability is improved by allowing one or more of the drivetrain cartridges to be removed individually from the housing for maintenance or repair. The housing may include mounting surfaces to securely engage the one or more drivetrain cartridges to the housing to prevent play. The housing may include a bottom or side panel with installation mounts to fasten the drivetrain cartridge or cartridges securely to the bottom or side panel of the housing. | 08-27-2015 |
Dessie Merilyn Fennell, Anderson, SC US
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20090000458 | COMBINATION CHIMES AND FAITH BUILDING MESSAGE SYSTEM - The present invention combines a classic chimes system with message bars having a faith building message imprinted on the message bars in keeping with the multi-tone chimes. In the preferred system the chimes and message bars hang vertically from a main support member. The message bars are spaced between the chimes so that a striker is free to contact each chime. The striker may have a wind or clapper vane hanging from the striker to move the striker in contact with the chimes. In one embodiment the message bars provide the clapper vane. Inspirational words and biblical phrases are also imprinted on the main support member and the wind vane. A faith bar, having a faith for healing and love message imprinted thereon, may also be added above the main support member bar to convey an overall faith building message for the system. | 01-01-2009 |
Eric G. Fennell, Lansdale, PA US
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20140351205 | Cloud Based Master Data Management System and Method Therefor - A source record from an enterprise is received at a registry at a master data management system at a host enterprise. The enterprise is located remotely from the host enterprise. The source record has a source identifier. A data record is generated based on the source record and the data record has a first registry identifier. The data record is stored at a data store. The registry maintains a link identifying a relationship between the registry identifier and the source identifier. A reference engine determines a value of an attribute of a field of the source record identifies a second source record, and determines whether the registry includes a second registry identifier associated with a second data record generated based on the second source record. The reference engine sets an indicator identifying the data record if the registry does not include the second registry identifier, and clears the indicator if the registry does include the second registry identifier. | 11-27-2014 |
Gregory E. Fennell, Bedford, MA US
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20110215650 | OFFSHORE ENERGY HARVESTING, STORAGE, AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A system for harvesting, storing, and generating energy, that includes floating structure supporting machinery to extract energy from wind, waves, surface generators, or currents. At least one energy storage and power generating unit is anchored to the seafloor and adapted to tether the floating structure to the unit. The unit includes an internal chamber into which water flows through a hydroelectric turbine to generate electrical energy. A pump is provided, powered by energy from the floating structure machinery, to evacuate water from the unit and a control system directs power from the machinery to pump water out of the unit during periods of excess energy extraction by the machinery and to allow water to flow into the chamber through the hydroelectric turbine to generate electrical energy during periods of lower energy extraction by the machinery. The same internal chamber design can be utilized to store hydrocarbons in the vicinity of undersea wellheads during “shut-in” procedures when the wellhead would otherwise be secured. | 09-08-2011 |
Harry C. Fennell, North Thetford, VT US
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20080245005 | Reusable Modular Block Wall Assembly System - A reusable modular block system includes a lightweight structural block having a top, a bottom, a first block end, a second block end, an insulating core, an inside facing and an outside facing wherein the structural block is configured to create internal vertical and horizontal raceways between adjacent blocks, a gasketing system connected to the structural block along a portion of the periphery of the structural block, and a fastening system within and that extends horizontally and vertically through the insulating core where the structural block, the gasketing system and the fastening system form a single, integral block component. | 10-09-2008 |
James R. Fennell, Colorado Springs, CO US
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20090205266 | Modularized Self-sustaining Building System - A self-sustaining modularized building system comprised of prefabricated components. The self-sustaining utilities are fully integrated into the modules, allowing service and protection agencies to operate in remote areas in an eco-friendly manner. | 08-20-2009 |
Jared Wade Fennell, New Ross, IN US
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20100137602 | PROCESS AND INTERMEDIATES FOR PREPARING ARZOXIFENE - The present invention provides for novel compounds of formula I wherein X is S or S(O); R | 06-03-2010 |
Jeffrey Charles Fennell, Southwest Ranches, FL US
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20140265428 | GOLF CART RETRACTABLE ENCLOSURE - A retractable enclosure for open sided golf carts and/or recreational vehicles. Golf cart retractable enclosures have roll-back doors which coil into housings and onto a tube within each housing for storage. The roll-back door panels are made up of sheets of flexible transparent plastic and or flexible opaque fabric material. Each roll-back door panel has an upper side edge which is received in a horizontal upper track extending from the front vertical post to the roll-back panel housing. The tubes are rotated by either electric motors and or springs in one direction to open and store the roll-back doors and rotated in an opposite direction to close the roll back doors. | 09-18-2014 |
Jim Fennell, Las Vegas, NV US
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20150020984 | ADJUSTABLE WINDOW BLIND SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A system for securing a head rail of a window blind to a window frame has a first end cap configured to be inserted into the head rail. A threaded channel is formed through the first end cap. A second end cap is configured to be inserted into the head rail. Securing devices are formed on a rear surface of the second end cap. An adjustable head member is rotatably attached to the first end cap. A retaining pin extends from the adjustable head member. | 01-22-2015 |
Joseph F. Fennell, Torrance, CA US
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20140118008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN DETERMINING HAZARDOUS CHARGING CONDITIONS - A charge detection device includes a dielectric member, a base plate coupled to the dielectric member, and a processing unit coupled to the plate. The dielectric member is representative of at least one material on a location of a vessel and the dielectric member induces an electrostatic potential energy when charged. The plate channels the induced energy through at least a portion of the device. The plate further receives at least one signal that is representative of an electrostatic discharge from a different location of the vessel. The processing unit generates at least one first output of a measurement for the induced energy. The processing unit further generates at least one second output of the presence of the electrostatic discharge to facilitate a correlation between the first and second outputs such that a user is enabled to determine the presence of at least one hazardous charging condition on the vessel. | 05-01-2014 |
Leonard E. Fennell, San Jose, CA US
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20140355376 | Display With Backside Ultrasonic Sensor Array - A display device has a visual display capable of providing an image and an ultrasonic sensor array attached to a backside component of the visual display. The ultrasonic sensor array may be an ultrasonic area array sensor. For example, the backside component may be a backlight, an optical waveguide, or a display TFT. | 12-04-2014 |
Leonard Eugene Fennell, Foster City, CA US
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20120105385 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ROUGH SURFACES - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for producing roughness in an electromechanical device by nucleation under plasma CVD conditions. In one aspect, a substrate and at least a first layer are provided. The disclosure further provides gas phase nucleating particles under plasma CVD conditions and depositing a first layer, where the particles are incorporated into the first layer to create roughness in the first layer. The roughness may be transferred to a second layer by conformal deposition of the second layer over the first layer. The roughness of the second layer corresponds to the roughness of the first layer, where the first layer has a roughness greater than or equal to about 20 Å root mean square (RMS). | 05-03-2012 |
20130049844 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSOR HAVING LIGHT SHIELDING STRUCTURES - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to a capacitive touch sensor with light shielding structures. In one aspect, a device includes an array formed by a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of non-transparent column electrodes, wherein at least a first portion of the row electrodes is non-transparent and coplanar with the column electrodes and at least a second portion of the row electrodes is non-coplanar with the column electrodes. The device further includes light shielding structures that are non-transparent and coplanar with the column electrodes, wherein the light shielding structures substantially overlap the second portion. | 02-28-2013 |
20130129922 | BATCH PROCESSING FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SAME - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for processing multiple substrates in a batch cluster tool. A batch cluster tool can include a transfer chamber, an etch process chamber, and one or both of an ALD process chamber and an SAM process chamber. Multiple substrates are transferred from a transfer chamber into an etch chamber. The substrates are exposed to a vapor phase etchant. The substrates can then transferred to an atomic layer deposition (ALD) chamber and exposed to vapor phase reactants to form a thin film on the substrates by ALD. The substrates can be transferred either from the etch process chamber or the ALD chamber to a third chamber and exposed to vapor phase reactants to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the substrates. | 05-23-2013 |
20140029078 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE ARRAYS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for protecting electromechanical systems (EMS) devices from mechanical interference. In one aspect, an array of EMS devices may include one or more regions in which an EMS device is replaced with a spacer structure, such that the overall height of the spacer structure is greater than the height of the surrounding EMS devices. In another aspect, resilient spacer structures can be formed overlying stable portions of an EMS device array. These resilient spacer structures may be formed from a cross-linked organic material. | 01-30-2014 |
Leonard Eugene Fennell, San Jose, CA US
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20140352440 | ULTRASONIC SENSOR WITH BONDED PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to an ultrasonic sensor for detecting ultrasonic energy. In some implementations, the ultrasonic sensor includes a piezoelectric receiver layer bonded with an adhesive to an array of pixel circuits disposed on a substrate, each pixel circuit in the array including at least one thin film transistor (TFT) element and having a pixel input electrode electrically coupled to the pixel circuit. Methods of forming ultrasonic sensors include bonding piezoelectric receiver layers to TFT arrays. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354596 | DISPLAY WITH PERIPHERALLY CONFIGURED ULTRASONIC BIOMETRIC SENSOR - Various techniques and apparatuses are disclosed that provide for pixelated display modules that integrate an ultrasonic fingerprint or biometric sensing capability. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and the display components of the display module may share a common backplane. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may share a flex cable with other components in the display module. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may leverage conductive traces on a cover glass used to provide for touch input to the display module. | 12-04-2014 |
20150241393 | Ultrasonic Authenticating Button - Embodiments of an ultrasonic button and methods for using the ultrasonic button are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic button may include an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave, a piezoelectric receiver layer configured to receive a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a platen layer configured to protect the ultrasonic transmitter and the piezoelectric receiver layer, a first matching layer configured to match an acoustic impedance of the platen layer with an acoustic impedance of ridges of a finger, and an ultrasonic sensor array configured to detect the finger using the reflected wave. | 08-27-2015 |
Martin Fennell, Concord, CA US
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20160140306 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR REVISING OR SUPPLEMENTING ROM-BASED RF COMMANDS - Systems, devices, and methods are provided that enable the revision of RF command handling software stored in ROM, and that enable to supplementation of RF command handling software stored in ROM. Examples of the systems, devices, and methods make use of a lookup data structure stored within writable non-volatile memory. | 05-19-2016 |
Michael D. Fennell, San Diego, CA US
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20100168947 | Apparatus and method for detection, location, and identification of gamma sources - An apparatus for detecting and determining a source azimuth for gamma radiation includes at least two scintillation crystals at angular offsets and directed toward a common plane of detection, photodetectors adjacent to each of the scintillation crystals for converting the light response of the scintillation crystals into distinct electrical signals, and a digital processing system configured to analyze spectral data from each electrical signal produced for each crystal. The digital processing system monitors a finite number of spectral windows corresponding to a selected set of radioisotopes, and uses one or more of the electrical signals to determine a signal intensity and a likely source azimuth for a detected radioisotope in the plane of detection. Another scintillation crystal directed outside of the common plane of detection may be used for three-dimensional detection. Related methods for detection and location of gamma ray sources are discussed. | 07-01-2010 |
Michael P. Fennell, Woodacre, CA US
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20100325847 | FIXTURING APPARATUS - A fixturing apparatus | 12-30-2010 |
Michael P. Fennell, San Anselmo, CA US
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20120159747 | Fixturing apparatus - A fixturing apparatus | 06-28-2012 |
Paul Fennell, Scottsdale, AZ US
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20120203712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING MUNICIPAL BONDS REDEEMABLE FOR FUTURE PAYMENTS OF TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS TO ISSUING MUNICIPALITY - A system and method of issuing municipal bonds (tax coupon bond, zero coupon bonds, etc.) includes issuing, from a bond agent computer, a bond offering for prospective bond holders, and purchasing, by at least one of the prospective bond holders using a prospective bond holders/investor device, at least one of the offered bonds, wherein the at least one purchased bond is redeemable to offset a bond owner's tax liability to a municipality authorizing the issuance of the bond at a future date. | 08-09-2012 |
Robert Fennell, Huntingdon, PA US
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20140002575 | Parolee Communication and Control System and Method | 01-02-2014 |
Shawn Fennell, Freeland, MD US
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20120222376 | PLUG AND PLATE FOR WATERPROOFING AND METHOD FOR USING SAME - An open vent plug minimizes blockage within a second hole drilled in a basement wall to minimize back pressure within the wall and insure ventilation through cells within the wall to drive water into a bleeder hole. The open vent port has a hole therethrough that forms an opening joining the cells and atmosphere. The vent port preferably has a screened opening at one or both ends to prevent debris from blocking the second hole, and sidewalls of the open vent port prevent the wall from crumbling into the hole and blocking airflow therethrough. | 09-06-2012 |
Thomas Fennell, Kasson, MN US
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20080238037 | Retracting tow system - A retracting tow system is disclosed which provides a spring loaded tow rope which automatically winds the tow rope around an included spool when not in use. The tow rope is affixed to a supplied shaft in a manner which prevents damage to the retracting mechanism while in use. An offset fairlead is also supplied which reduces the force on the shaft during a tow. | 10-02-2008 |
Thomas Fennell, Omaha, NE US
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20150134321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING TEXT - The present invention discloses a system and method for assisting the translation of texts through forming, displaying and interacting with translation units. According to a preferred embodiment, a system is provided in which a text presentation and input structure is provided which includes a multi-dimensional matrix. In one embodiment, it allows different levels of chunking to be displayed using a drill-down/zoom-type function. The plurality of chunks is separated vertically with sub-chunks divided in the horizontal and with a depth dimension. | 05-14-2015 |
Tim J. Fennell, Cambridge, MA US
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20090254337 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A SEARCH OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for conducting a search of electronically stored information. The method includes: (a) providing a user with an interactive targeting rule editor to enable the user to formulate a targeting rule to identify desired search results, the targeting rule comprising a natural language text string, the interactive targeting rule editor allowing the user to change one or more designated editable portions of the natural language text string to one of a set of specified alternate portions, delete one or more designated removable portions of the natural language text string, or add one or more of a set of specified insertable portions to form a syntactically valid targeting rule in accordance with a targeting rule grammar; (b) receiving the text string or a representation thereof from the user; (c) translating the text string or a representation thereof into an executable query; and (d) executing the executable query against the electronically stored information to generate search results. | 10-08-2009 |
Tim M. Fennell, Midlothian, TX US
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20150277078 | HOUSING FOR OPTICAL COMPONENTS - An apparatus comprising a tubular housing having an axial length L and a circumferential length C. A first canopy secured to the tubular housing around a perimeter of the first canopy, the first canopy extends for an axial length L1 that is less than L and for a circumferential length C1 that is less than C/2. The first canopy has a front sloping section and a rear sloping section that extend from the perimeter to a semicircular outer perimeter. A second canopy disposed circumferentially opposite the first canopy and secured to the tubular housing around a perimeter of the second canopy. The second canopy extends an axial length L2 that is less than L and a circumferential length C2 that is less than C/2. The second canopy has a front sloping section and a rear sloping section that extend from the perimeter to a semicircular outer perimeter. | 10-01-2015 |
20160054541 | HOUSING FOR OPTICAL COMPONENTS - An apparatus comprising a tubular housing having an axial length L and a circumferential length C. A first canopy secured to the tubular housing around a perimeter of the first canopy, the first canopy extends for an axial length L | 02-25-2016 |
Timothy Raymond Fennell, Raleigh, NC US
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20140308688 | HUMAN EMULATED RESPONSE WITH MICROFLUIDIC ENHANCED SYSTEMS - A multiple flow-based microfluidic cell culture system that emulates mammalian physiology is provided. Tissue-mimicking cell cultures are connected by flow within a physiologically meaningful arrangement so that the pharmacokinetics of various agents to be tested in the system emulate in vivo conditions. The system includes at least two organ tissue modules, each organ tissue module including a first chamber containing an organ tissue cell, the first chamber including an inlet and an outlet for flow of an organ tissue cell-specific culture medium; a second chamber including an inlet and an outlet for flow of a blood material; and a semi-permeable membrane separating the first and second chambers. The flow of blood material through each organ tissue module is interconnected and the flow of tissue-cell specific culture medium is directed to a single organ tissue module. | 10-16-2014 |
W. Frank Fennell, Atlanta, GA US
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20130046597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PURCHASE REWARDS - A system and method for providing purchase rewards to customers is disclosed. The system provides an online shopping interface through which users may purchase products from a plurality of online merchants. The user is awarded points based on the amount of money spent using the online shopping interface. The user is then able to redeem the points for use toward additional product purchases at a physical retailer location. | 02-21-2013 |