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Gerald F. Briggeman, Laconia, NH US
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20120292275 | SHAKE AND SHINGLE SHELF - A temporary shelf system for supporting a load along a wall having overlapping horizontal rows of siding members. The shelf system comprises a pair of shelf jigs, and each shelf jig comprises a planar main body which has at least an upper portion and front and rear faces, a planar support plate fixedly supported by the main body and extending approximately normal to the front face of the main body, and a retention spring extending from the main body substantially parallel to the support plate. A portion of the retention spring is spaced from the support plate so as to apply a clamping force to a shelf board when the shelf board is located between the retention spring and the top surface of the support plate and facilitate retention of the to the shelf board. | 11-22-2012 |
20130047550 | STARTER JIG - A method and system for installing a first course of shakes or shingles on either a wall or a roof of a structure. The shake starter jig comprises an anchor leg with a first end and a second end, a suspension mechanism located adjacent the first end of the anchor leg to facilitate securing the shake starter jig to a desired surface, a ledger shelf supported adjacent the second end of the anchor leg, a ledger support rigidly affixed to a remote end of the ledger shelf, the second end of the anchor leg, the ledger shelf and the ledger support are all sized so as to facilitate receiving and accommodating a ledger board therebetween. The suspension mechanism is located a predefined distance away from the ledger shelf so as to facilitate spacing the ledger shelf a desired distance from a level line. | 02-28-2013 |
Gerald F. Briggeman, Iii, Laconia, NH US
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20100018070 | SHAKE JIG FOR INSTALLING SHAKE SIDING - A method and system for installing shakes on a building comprising a ledger board and a shake jig for assisting with installation of shakes. The shake jig comprising a base member supporting an adjustable member with a releasably fastener facilitating releaseable retention of the adjustable member in a desired relative position with respect to the base member. The base member has a shake shelf for abutting against a surface of a shake to prevent further insertion of the base member, between an installed topmost shake and an at least partially overlapped shake, and facilitate desired alignment of the shake jig with respect to the installed topmost shake. The adjustable member has a ledger shelf for engaging with the ledger board and retaining the ledger board in a desired horizontal orientation with respect to the shake shelf and assisting with installation of shakes. | 01-28-2010 |
20100229499 | SHAKE JIG FOR INSTALLING SHAKE SIDING - A method and system for installing shakes on a building comprising a ledger board and a shake jig for assisting with installation of shakes. The shake jig comprising a base member supporting an adjustable member with a releasably fastener facilitating releaseable retention of the adjustable member in a desired relative position with respect to the base member. The base member has a shake shelf for abutting against a surface of a shake to prevent further insertion of the base member, between an installed topmost shake and an at least partially overlapped shake, and facilitate desired alignment of the shake jig with respect to the installed topmost shake. The adjustable member has a ledger shelf for engaging with the ledger board and retaining the ledger board in a desired horizontal orientation with respect to the shake shelf and assisting with installation of shakes. | 09-16-2010 |
20130031867 | SHAKE JIG FOR INSTALLING SHAKE SIDING - A shake jig which comprises a base member which supports an adjustable member and a releasable fastener which facilitates releaseable retention of the adjustable member in a desired relative position with respect to the base member. The base member is substantially planar and has a shake shelf for abutting against a surface of a shake to prevent further insertion thereof, between an installed topmost shake and an at least partially overlapped shake, and facilitate desired alignment of the shake jig with respect to the installed topmost shake. At least one projection is formed on a surface of the base member, adjacent a leading end thereof, to facilitate retention of the shake jig following insertion of the base member. The adjustable member has a ledger shelf for engaging with a ledger board to retain the ledger board in a desired horizontal orientation with respect to the shake shelf and to assist with installation of shakes. | 02-07-2013 |
Gerald F. Chalko, Jr., Highland, IN US
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20120204490 | Door Management System For Field Service and Delivery Personnel - A system for use with a emergency exit door, comprising: a door opener including a stationary actuator with a movable distal arm for pushing the door open; a door strike mountable to a door frame having an opening to receive a latch of the emergency exit door, the electric door strike including a gate having a locked condition and a release condition; a controller connected to the door opener and the door strike; a remote activator having a triggered condition, which provides a signal to the controller when the remote activator is triggered, to unlock the gate and then the door opener, to open the emergency exit door. | 08-16-2012 |
Gerald F. Daloia, Webster, NY US
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20080307638 | DICOROTRON WIRE ASSEMBLY REMOVAL AND STORAGE TOOL - A system and apparatus that removes and collects non-functional wire assemblies from dicorotron units is described. It has a removal tool with flexible levers mounted on the top of a storage box. The removal tool has an open top and bottom, the open bottom is aligned with an opening in the top of the box to permit a dislodged anchor and wire assembly to fall therethrough. | 12-18-2008 |
20100061765 | XEROGRAPHIC CHARGING DEVICE HAVING PLANAR TWO PIN ARRAYS - In a xerographic printing apparatus, including a charge receptor, the charge receptor being movable in a process direction; and a charge device for applying a charge to a surface of the charge receptor, the charge device having a corona member including a pin array being oriented and extending substantially non perpendicular to the surface of the charge receptor in the process direction. | 03-11-2010 |
20120213561 | LIMITED OZONE GENERATOR TRANSFER DEVICE - A limited ozone generator transfer device includes a ceramic substrate having conducting lines, a dielectric layer, and a top conducting layer with slots therein that align with the underlying conducting lines. Corona is generated in the slots by applying an AC voltage of about 2.5 kVp-p across the electrodes. This device is “green” in that it generates significantly less ozone than conventional transfer devices, thus reducing requirements on an ozone collection system. | 08-23-2012 |
20120321340 | METHOD FOR EXTERNALLY HEATING A PHOTORECEPTOR - A thick film charging device is used to simultaneously heat a photoreceptor as it is being charged in order to mitigate image quality defects associated with the photoreceptor in high humidity conditions. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321347 | PHOTORECEPTOR CHARGING AND ERASING SYSTEM - Two thick film charging devices or a common thick film charge device with two separated obverse conductors, sharing a common power supply are used for photoreceptor charge and erase. The thick film charging devices use a set of AC biased electrodes supported on a dielectric material which also support a counter electrode on an opposite side of the dielectric. A DC offset applied to the counter electrodes is used to set photoreceptor charge level. One DC voltage is used for photoreceptor charge and a zero or near zero DC voltage is used to erase residual charge for the photoreceptor. | 12-20-2012 |
20130058677 | ACTIVE OZONE SCRUBBER - An Active Ozone Scrubber includes a low profile thick film device. The low profile thick film device is composed of films layered upon each other and built on a ceramic substrate. Each layer is screened upon the next with the active elements strategically placed in order to develop corona when energized. When activated, the corona developed within the channels of the upper layer creates heat and accelerates the chemical reaction with the ozone, thereby reducing the amount of Ozone ozone generated by a conventional charge/discharge system before it is exhausted by a machine into the environment. | 03-07-2013 |
Gerald F. Davina, Parsipanny, NJ US
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20130145819 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING GASEOUS HYDROGEN CONCENTRATIONS IN A MECHANICAL VACUUM PUMP GAS STREAM OF A BWR - An apparatus adapted to measure gaseous hydrogen concentrations in a mechanical vacuum pump (MVP) gas stream includes connection ports adapted to allow the apparatus to be connected to an MVP system and allow a gas stream sample to be taken from the MVP gas stream. The apparatus further includes a hydrogen concentration analyzer to measure H | 06-13-2013 |
Gerald F. Johnson, Farmington Hills, MI US
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20140048033 | CYLINDER HEAD AND METHOD - A cylinder head is formed by positioning a clad preform including a first and second layer in a casting die cavity with the second layer in communication with the die cavity and the first layer facing outwardly to define a combustion surface. Molten material provided to the die cavity is solidified to form a cast portion metallurgically bonded to the second layer. An aperture of the preform forms a port in fluid communication with a passage of the cast portion. A plurality of dome-shaped preforms may define the combustion chambers of a cylinder head formed by the method. The preform may define a cylinder head face. The first layer may be a steel-based layer, and the second layer and cast portion may be aluminum-based, such that the first layer and combustion surface has higher thermal fatigue strength relative to the cast portion. | 02-20-2014 |
Gerald F. Laszakovits, San Antonio, TX US
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20100158431 | Optical Fiber Surveillance Topology - In accordance with an aspect of the disclosed technology, a fiber surveillance system includes a single optical fiber, used, for example, in the detection of acoustic signals associated with vibrations or other activity. In one embodiment of the disclosed technology, the fiber is arranged in a two dimensional topology to improve the spatial resolution of the system. With such a topology the spatial monitoring resolution of the surveillance system is significantly improved over systems in which the fiber is deployed in an essentially straight line topology. In a further embodiment of the disclosed technology, two or more such oriented fibers are juxtaposed or overlapped to yield even greater resolution. | 06-24-2010 |
Gerald F. Mannion, Jr., Lisle, IL US
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20130040548 | Fan flow synchronizer - The fan synchronizer is a small flow tube | 02-14-2013 |
Gerald F. Mcbreartry, Austin, TX US
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20140267337 | Pre-Defined Streaming Media Buffer Points - An approach is provided in which a source entity generates scene fill metadata corresponding to scene transition points included in media content. The scene fill metadata includes a “required buffer amount,” which indicates an amount of the media content for which a destination entity should buffer prior to displaying one or more upcoming scenes. In turn, the source entity provides the scene fill metadata to a destination entity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282690 | Pre-Defined Streaming Media Buffer Points - An approach is provided in which a source entity generates scene fill metadata corresponding to scene transition points included in media content. The scene fill metadata includes a “required buffer amount,” which indicates an amount of the media content for which a destination entity should buffer prior to displaying one or more upcoming scenes. In turn, the source entity provides the scene fill metadata to a destination entity. | 09-18-2014 |
Gerald F. Parise, Moorestown, NJ US
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20120239375 | Standardized Modeling Suite - An enhanced modeling tool associated with an entity may facilitate end-to-end modeling of problems in any application space. The enhanced modeling tool may collect modeling data from a variety of sources, check the collected data, find the best predictor variables for a given target variable, estimate the model, implement the model, and validate the model. The output of each of these steps may be in a standardized format to allow other steps to directly incorporate the output. An additional feature of the system may include a reporting capability that generates supporting documents related to model governance and risk compliance. | 09-20-2012 |
Gerald F. Parise, Cherry Hill, NJ US
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20110246385 | AUTOMATICALLY RECALIBRATING RISK MODELS - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for automatically recalibrating risk models are presented. An identifier of a modeling function may be received. The modeling function may have at least one input variable and a first set of one or more coefficients. Updated performance data that includes at least one input value corresponding to the at least one input variable may be received from a data source. Then, a second set of one or more coefficients may be calculated for the modeling function based on the updated performance data. If it is subsequently determined that the modeling function more accurately models the updated performance data when the second set of one or more coefficients is used in computing a result of the modeling function, then the first set of one or more coefficients may be replaced with the second set of one or more coefficients to recalibrate the modeling function. | 10-06-2011 |
Gerald F. Swiss, Rancho Santa Fe, CA US
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20130029349 | ASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF MICROBES - Methods, devices, and kits are provided herein for the accurate and rapid detection of disease causing microbes in a sample by the detection of microbial components of which correlate to the presence of the microbe. Kits include a first binding agent operatively coupled to an immobilized support; and a second binding agent operatively coupled to one or more pH indicating moieties wherein the first and second binding agents bind with sufficient specificity to the microbial component to permit detection of that component which correlates to the presence of the microbe in the sample. | 01-31-2013 |
20130064772 | INFECTION ACTIVATED WOUND CARING COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES - Provided are wound caring compositions and devices containing a pH-sensitive, preferably acid degradable, components contained in a water-permeable and hydronium ion permeable material. The pH-sensitive component encloses an antibiotic which is released to the wound upon infection by a microorganism at the wound site, and/or encloses a pH indicator. The antibiotic release is triggered by the microorganism's production of CO | 03-14-2013 |
20130197262 | TRISUBSTITUTED METHYL ALCOHOLS AND THEIR POLYMERIZABLE DERIVATIVES - Provided herein are trisubstituted methyl alcohols, preferably pH indicators that are substituted with optionally substituted aryl and or optionally substituted heteroaryl groups, and optionally include one or more polymerizable substituents. | 08-01-2013 |
Gerald F. Swiss, Rancho Sante Fe, CA US
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20130184660 | SELF-SEALING CATHETERS - Provided are catheters useful for penetrating the vascular wall and delivering medicament as necessary to tissue proximate the vasculature. Such catheters are particularly useful in delivering site specific medicaments to the tissue which can be damaged by hemorrhagic stroke, ischemia, and the like. Methods of using such catheters are also disclosed. | 07-18-2013 |
20150037258 | INFECTION INDICATING MEDICAL DEVICES - Provided herein is an implantable medical device capable of self-reporting microbial growth adjacent the site of the implanted device. | 02-05-2015 |
Gerald F. Topitzer, New York, NY US
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20140067718 | Trading Exposure Management System and Method - Aspects of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented trading exposure management method and system for centrally managing trading exposures within an industry. The method may include receiving a client request for additional exposure capacity above a predetermined client exposure limit with respect to a particular counterparty and selecting a third party with available exposure capacity with respect to the particular counterparty. The method may additionally include transferring at least a portion of the selected third party's available exposure capacity with respect to the particular counterparty to the client. | 03-06-2014 |
20140156498 | System and Method for Hedging Risks in Commercial Leases - A system and method for hedging risks in commercial leases is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, a method for hedging risks in a commercial lease may comprise: receiving information related to a lease agreement between a lessor and a lessee, the lease agreement calling for the lessor to lease an asset to the lessee for a period of time in return for lease payments; estimating potential losses that the lessor will suffer if at least one credit event causes the lessee to default on the lease agreement; and providing the lessor a put option, whereby, upon the at least one credit event, the lessor can choose to sell a claim against the defaulting lessee at a strike price, the strike price being an amount that varies based at least in part on the estimated potential losses and the time at which the lessee defaults. | 06-05-2014 |