Norman, NC
Alan B. Norman, Clemmons, NC US
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| 20100108084 | FILTERED CIGARETTE WITH DIFFUSE TIPPING MATERIAL - A filtered cigarette includes a smokable rod and a filter element. The smokable rod is secured to the filter element using tipping material. The tipping material includes at least one flavorant providing a sensory characteristic. The cigarette may include more than one layer of tipping material. An outer layer of tipping material can overlie at least a portion of an underlying inner layer of tipping material, and during use by the smoker, the outer layer can be removed from the cigarette. Thus, it is possible for a cigarette manufacturer to provide a cigarette that can be used as such by the smoker, or that can be adapted by the smoker to provide a different sensory experience (e.g., the visual, organoleptic, trigeminal, aromatic, and tactile characteristics of the cigarette can be altered by removal of the outer tipping material, and or by provision of a tipping material layer that is treated with a flavorant and/or provides a desirable diffusivity). The use of the outer layer of tipping material can be used to improve the physical integrity of the cigarette. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20120000479 | BIODEGRADABLE CIGARETTE FILTER - A biodegradable fiber (including fiber tow) may be coated with cellulose acetate for use in a filter material configured for application in a filter of a smoking article. A filter made in accordance with this design may also include non-biodegradable fiber, but will generally be subject to improved degradation time in a variety of disposal environments. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000480 | BIODEGRADABLE CIGARETTE FILTER - A biodegradable fiber (including fiber tow) and/or biodegradable paper substrate may be coated with cellulose acetate and/or plasticized cellulose acetate for use in a filter material configured for application in a filter of a smoking article. A filter made in accordance with this design may also include non-biodegradable material. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120017925 | DEGRADABLE CIGARETTE FILTER - A biodegradable fiber (including fiber tow) and/or biodegradable paper substrate may be coated with cellulose acetate, plasticized cellulose acetate and/or ethylene vinyl acetate for use in a filter material configured for application in a filter of a smoking article. A filter made in accordance with this design may also include non-biodegradable material. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120227754 | SMOKING ARTICLES AND WRAPPING MATERIALS THEREFOR - A smoking article includes a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as coating formulation (e.g., an aqueous coating formulation) incorporating a film-forming agent such as alginate, starch, or another polymer. The wrapping material includes at least one coated region with a porosity of less than about 20 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity no greater than about 0.2 cm/sec, where the coated region is on a base sheet with a porosity of greater than about 120 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity of at least 1.7 cm/sec. | 09-13-2012 |
Alan Benson Norman, Clemmons, NC US
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| 20110030709 | Materials, Equipment, and Methods for Manufacturing Cigarettes - Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having wrapping paper having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can include a starch and/or a polymer, are applied to a continuous paper web either online or offline the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing a series of rollers. In particular, a wrapping paper for a smokable rod can include a pattern of bands having a water-insoluble material comprising a starch ester, a starch-coated inorganic filler, and/or a thermoplastic polymer in an amount such that the material is sufficiently deformable so as to (a) reduce an amount of pressure to apply the bands, (b) decrease paper diffusivity, and (c) maintain paper opacity at a level acceptable for commercial production of the smokable rods. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110108044 | FILTER ELEMENT COMPRISING SMOKE-ALTERING MATERIAL - The invention provides a filter element of a smoking article having a longitudinal axis and adapted for filtration of mainstream smoke generated by the smoking article, the filter element including a first region extending along the longitudinal axis of the filter element and exhibiting a first pressure drop and a second region extending along the longitudinal axis of the filter element and exhibiting a second pressure drop lower than said first pressure drop, wherein the first and second regions are arranged in a side-by-side configuration such that both regions are visible in a cross-section of the filter element perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein mainstream smoke can move from the second region into the first region, and further comprising a smoke-altering material, such as an oxidation catalyst, positioned in the first region. | 05-12-2011 |
David William Norman, Cary, NC US
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| 20150025272 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING MODIFIED V-TI-P CATALYSTS FOR SYNTHESIS OF 2,3-UNSATURATED CARBOXYLIC ACIDS - The invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a mixed oxide of vanadium, titanium, and phosphorus modified with alkali metal. The titanium component is derived from a water-soluble, redox-active organo-titanium compound. The catalyst composition is highly effective at facilitating the vapor-phase condensation of formaldehyde with acetic acid to generate acrylic acid, particularly using an industrially relevant aqueous liquid feed. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150080628 | CATALYST AND PROCESS FOR THE CO-DIMERIZATION OF ETHYLENE AND PROPYLENE - Disclosed are novel catalyst solutions comprising an organic complex of nickel, an alkyl aluminum compound, a solvent, and a phosphine compound, that are useful for the preparation of butenes, pentenes and hexenes by the co-dimerization or cross-dimerization of ethylene and propylene. Also disclosed are processes for the dimerization of ethylene and propylene that utilize these catalyst solutions. The catalyst systems described herein demonstrate that, depending on the choice of phosphine compound used with the catalytically active nickel, it is indeed possible to lower the concentration of hexene olefins relative to butenes and pentenes, even in the presence of excess propylene. The selectivity to the linear or branched pentene product can also be controlled by the selection of the phosphine compound. The catalyst solutions may be used with mixtures of olefins. | 03-19-2015 |
Jay Thomas Norman, Durham, NC US
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| 20100314633 | FRONT END SCRIBING OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) WAFERS AND RESULTING DEVICES - A wafer of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is laser scribed to produce a laser scribing cut. Then, the wafer is cleaned, for example by wet etching, to reduce scribe damage. Then, electrical contact layers for the LEDs are formed on the wafer that has been cleaned. Alternatively, the scribing cut may be produced by multiple etches before contact formation. Related LEDs are also described. | 12-16-2010 |
Logan Norman, Arden, NC US
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| 20150147465 | Non-Tracking Tack Coat - Provided herein is a tack coat for use with paving applications and a method of making the same. The tack coat is substantially non-tracking, and includes asphalt, a pH adjustor, an emulsifier, acrylic, and water. In certain embodiments, the tack coat may also include a stabilizer to prevent settling of the emulsion during storage. The method of producing the tack coat involves heating the asphalt in one tank, and heating the water and emulsifier in a second, separate tank. This mixture of the water and emulsifier is referred to as soap, and is then mixed with asphalt, and the acrylic may be added to the mixture immediately thereafter, with a stabilizer, or later, just prior to shipment of the product, in which case a stabilizer may not be required. The tack coat exhibits moderate softness, with a penetration value above 40 dmm. | 05-28-2015 |
Nell Norman, Horse Shoe, NC US
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| 20100243589 | RAIL FOR COVERINGS FOR ARCHITECTURAL OPENINGS - A rail for use in a covering for an architectural opening to secure one edge of a retractable shade material includes a recess opening toward the top or bottom of the rail with the recess being adapted to secure an associated edge of the shade material so that the shade material covers a front of the rail to conceal it from view. The edge of the shade material can be releasably retained within the recess by being connected to a removable insert that can be slidably or otherwise retained within the recess. The recess opens upwardly when the rail is used as a headrail or downwardly when the rail is used as a bottom rail. | 09-30-2010 |
Richard Norman, Wilmington, NC US
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| 20120158450 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MARKET GROWTH STRATEGY - A computer program product and business method is described for generating a market growth strategy. The computer program product in a computer-readable medium having instructions for directing a computer to focus on the core job that needs to be performed. A specific sequence is executed in several phases: market selection, target generation, business generation and portfolio generation strategies. Inputs are tailored to the outcomes that are desired for each phase and cover customer(s), company(-ies) and society. Three aspects (job, job executor and platform) are transformed by the instructions to generate six potential growth paths A market growth strategy is built around these potential growth paths. The business method and program product receives, stores, and manipulates this data using storage for input, desired outcomes and output data. | 06-21-2012 |
Timothy Norman, Oak Ridge, NC US
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| 20140298243 | ADJUSTABLE GUI FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION FROM A DATABASE - The system includes a memory and a processing system. The memory stores a GUI template, the GUI template including information identifying data fields and indicating locations for the data fields on a screen. The processing system is able to display the data fields identified by the GUI template on the screen at the locations indicated by the GUI template, to retrieve a record from a database, and to populate the data fields on the screen with data from the record. The processing system is further able to move a data field to a new location on the screen based on input from a user while the data field is populated with data from the record, and to update a location for the data field indicated by the GUI template to specify the new location. | 10-02-2014 |
Timothy Darren Norman, Elk Park, NC US
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| 20140046787 | Systems and Methods for Recording Transaction and Product Customization Information - Methods, devices, systems and computer readable media can be configured to facilitate receipt of a unique product identifier. The unique product identifier can correspond to a customized product. In one embodiment, an account identifier is received. The account identifier may correspond to an online account of a consumer purchasing the customized product. In an embodiment, an object associated with the online account is determined. The object may represent a portion of a building. In an embodiment, the object is associated with the customized product. | 02-13-2014 |
Vernon R. Norman, Cary, NC US
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| 20080240224 | STRUCTURE FOR ONE-SAMPLE-PER-BIT DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER (DFE) CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY - A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) Clock-And-Data Recovery (CDR) architecture that utilizes/produces one sample-per-bit in the receiver and reduces bit-error-rate (BER) is provided. The design generally includes a receiver circuit. The receiver circuit generally includes a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) that produces one sample per bit, and means for automatically self-adjusting the DFE to enable an eye centering process by which peak energy is maintained within the receiver circuit when phase error is a minimum. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090116593 | CIRCUIT FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION TO FREQUENCY OFFSETS IN HIGH SPEED SERIAL LINKS - Aspects of providing automatic adaptation to frequency offsets in high speed serial links are described. First signals for phase adjusts in a receiver link are adjusted by detecting trends in the first signals to generate second signals, the second signals improving a rate of compensation for the frequency offsets by the phase adjusts. An up/down counter is included for counting signals for phase adjustments by a clock-data-recovery loop of a serial receiver. An adder is coupled to the up/down counter and outputs accumulated data indicative of a trend in the phase adjustments. Combinatorial logic coupled to the adder adapts the signals based on the accumulated data. | 05-07-2009 |
Vernon Roberts Norman, Cary, NC US
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| 20080232530 | ALTERING POWER CONSUMPTION IN COMMUNICATION LINKS BASED ON MEASURED NOISE - A method, circuit and system for altering the power consumption in communication links. A type of noise and an amount of jitter in a signal transmitted across a communication link is measured. Upon determining the contribution of the measured noise to the measured jitter in the signal, the measured noise is classified based on such contribution and the intensity of the measured jitter. The power consumption in a component(s) of the communication link may be adjusted based on the classification of the measured noise. For example, if the measured noise is classified as being a low amount of noise, then the power consumption of the component(s) may be reduced such as by lowering the voltage of the power supply and/or reducing the complexity of the circuitry. By reducing the power consumption when the communication link is not subject to the worst-case condition, a savings in power consumption may be made. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080285695 | Method and Arrangements for Link Power Reduction - Methods and arrangements to determine phase adjustments for a sampling clock of a clock and data recovery (CDR) loop based upon subsets of data samples, or values, derived from an incoming data signal are disclosed. In particular, embodiments extend the CDR loop by slowing the clock rate with respect to the sampling clock. For instance, the slower clock rate may be implemented by dividing the frequency of the sampling clock by a number such as 128, slowing a sampling clock frequency designed to handle multiple gigabits per second (Gbps) to a frequency of less than one kilohertz (Khz). In addition to the reduced power consumption realized by operating at a lower frequency, the slower clock rate allows components of the CDR loop circuitry to operate a lower operating voltage reducing power consumption by the CDR loop even more. | 11-20-2008 |