Schmitz, CA
Brian Schmitz, San Francisco, CA US
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20100005024 | System and Method for Enrolling Individuals in an Automated Payment Plan - A system and method for enrolling check-writing customers in an automated payment program for paying recurring bills from a merchant with a financial presentation device (FPD) such as a debit or credit card instead of a check. An enrollment module receives a list of target customers that pay recurring bills by paper checks. An enrollment form is then sent out to the targeted customers. The enrollment form preferably requires minimal effort by the customer, for instance, requiring only a signature. Responsive to the enrollment forms that have been returned by the targeted customers which signify their desire to enroll in the automated payment program, the enrollment module receives a list of such customers. Based on the received list of customers, the enrollment module generates enrollment information which is sufficient to enable the merchant to enroll the customers in the automated payment program. | 01-07-2010 |
Claus Schmitz, San Diego, CA US
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20160106133 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGING MEAT - A method and apparatus are provided for aging meat implemented in a form available to the general consumer market. A cooling device comprising a refrigerated chamber is instrumented to provide a controlled atmosphere. This means provides for the aging of meat. Sensors are provided to monitor controlled atmosphere parameters. These parameters may be commanded by a remote control unit via a local control unit or via a communications link. Commands to a control circuit can be provided from a smart phone loaded with an aging app. Through the app, the user may vary operational parameters. The user may vary the aging process, accelerate it, or stop it. The user can monitor the aging process, react to alarm conditions, derive new relationships between data and results, and develop new aging routines. | 04-21-2016 |
David H. Schmitz, Encinitas, CA US
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20150200449 | Mobile Terminal Antenna Alignment Using Arbitrary Orientation Attitude - Systems and methods for aligning a satellite antenna mounted on a mobile platform to the platform. At each of several arbitrary orientations, a first directional vector is determined from the antenna to a satellite. For each orientation, an alias transformation is performed to transform the first vector having coordinates defined with respect to a first reference frame to a second vector having coordinates defined with respect to a second reference frame. A third vector is determined based on the orientation of the antenna after peaking the antenna. A rotation matrix is derived from the collection of second and third vectors. An estimate of the rotational offset of the satellite antenna with respect to the platform is determined based on the rotation matrix. The rotational offset is applied to the attitude of the platform to accurately point the antenna to the satellite. | 07-16-2015 |
Fredric H. Schmitz, Palo Alto, CA US
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20160091362 | AIRCRAFT FLIGHT CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT - A method and device of measuring external flight characteristics of aircraft, including fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, utilizes one or more floating platforms, each supporting one or more measuring instruments. The floating platform may be a hot air balloon, dirigible or other quasi-neutrally-buoyant airship, untethered to avoid interference between the aircraft being measured and any tether. Measurement of rotorcraft acoustic characteristics is particularly enhanced by permitting measurements that account for directionality of noise sources and are not affected by wind or reflected noise. | 03-31-2016 |
Giselle Schmitz, Redwood City, CA US
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20140156417 | Generating a Description of User Interaction With a Brand Based on Social Networking System Data for the User - A social networking system user interacts with a terminal associated with a brand, such as kiosk included in a retail location associated with the brand. The terminal provides authorization information to a user device that identifies the terminal and the brand associated with the terminal. Information identifying the user and the authorization information is communicated to the social networking system, which retrieves interactions between the user and objects associated with the brand in the social networking system. The retrieved interactions are communicated to the terminal, which generates content describing the user's interactions with the objects and presents the generated content to the user. A description of the user interaction and/or of the generated content may be communicated to the social networking system for distribution to additional users. | 06-05-2014 |
Greg Schmitz, Los Gatos, CA US
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20090105543 | Endoscope Lens Cleaner - A device for cleaning a lens of an endoscope inside a patient during a surgical procedure may include a cannula having a proximal end, a distal end and an opening, and an expandable member coupled with the cannula such that when fluid is introduced into the expandable member, it expands out of the opening in the cannula. A method for cleaning a lens of an endoscope inside a patient during a surgical procedure may involve: advancing a cannula into the patient; passing fluid into an expandable member coupled with the cannula to expand the expandable member, wherein some of the fluid passes through the expandable member to an outer surface of the expandable member; and contacting the endoscope lens with the outer surface of the expandable member, located inside the patient, to clean the lens. | 04-23-2009 |
Gregory Schmitz, Los Gatos, CA US
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20110046613 | TISSUE ACCESS GUIDEWIRE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for guiding at least a portion of a surgical device to a desired position between two tissues in a patient's body involves coupling a guidewire to the device and pulling the distal end of the guidewire to guide at least a portion of the surgical device to a desired position between the two tissues. The surgical device generally includes one or more guidewire coupling members and may comprise a tissue access device. A system may include a guidewire and a surgical device. In some embodiments, a guidewire, a tissue access device, and one or more additional devices to use with the access device may be provided. Methods, devices and systems may be used in open, less-invasive or percutaneous surgical procedures, in various embodiments. | 02-24-2011 |
Gregory P. Schmitz, Mountain View, CA US
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20090018507 | SPINAL ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Described herein are devices and systems for accessing a spine and particularly the epidural region of the spine and methods of using these systems and devices to access the spine or regions of the spine. In particular, cannulas that may be anchored to the ligamentum flavum or the periosteum are described. Ligamentum flavum access tools are also described. These tools may be used with (or without) an anchoring cannula to penetrate the ligamentum flavum and provide access to the epidural space without risk of injury to other structures within the epidural space. The devices, methods and systems described herein are particularly useful in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) uses. The devices, methods and systems described herein may be used for performing spinal decompressions and other spinal procedures. | 01-15-2009 |
Gregory P. Schmitz, Van Nuys, CA US
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20130331878 | MEMS MICRO DEBRIDER DEVICES AND METHODS OF TISSUE REMOVAL - Medical devices for shearing tissue into small pieces are provided. One exemplary device includes oppositely rotating first and second rotatable members, each located at least partially within a distal housing. The device also includes first and second circular axle portions, and first and second blades that are directly adjacent to one another and positioned to partially overlap such that tissue may be sheared between the first and second blades, between the first blade and the second axle portion and between the second blade and the first axle portion. The rotatable members are configured to engage tissue from a target tissue site with teeth of the first and second blades, rotate towards one another and inwardly to direct tissue from the target tissue site through a tissue engaging opening and into an interior portion of the distal housing. Methods of fabricating and using the above device are also disclosed. | 12-12-2013 |
Jochen Schmitz, San Francisco, CA US
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20090041718 | Methods of Modulating Cytokine Activity; Related Reagents - Provided are methods of modulating cytokine activity, e.g., for the purpose of treating immune and inflammatory disorders, including tumors and cancer. Also provided are methods of administering agonists or antagonists of IL-33 and IL-33 receptor. | 02-12-2009 |
20110046126 | Use of 2,4-Pyrimidinediamines For the Treatment of Atherosclerosis - Novel methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of all forms of atherosclerosis with 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds are described. Also disclosed is the coating of prosthetic devices, such as stents, with the compounds of the invention for the prevention and/or treatment of restenosis. | 02-24-2011 |
20140140954 | METHODS OF MODULATING CYTOKINE ACTIVITY; RELATED REAGENTS - Provided are methods of modulating cytokine activity, e.g., for the purpose of treating immune and inflammatory disorders, including tumors and cancer. Also provided are methods of administering agonists or antagonists of IL-33 and IL-33 receptor. | 05-22-2014 |
Michael B. Schmitz, Oakland, CA US
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20100318700 | Systems and methods for scalable distributed storage processing - A system including a storage processing device with an input/output module. The input/output module has port processors to receive and transmit network traffic. The input/output module also has a switch connecting the port processors. Each port processor categorizes the network traffic as fast path network traffic or control path network traffic. The switch routes fast path network traffic from an ingress port processor to a specified egress port processor. The storage processing device also includes a control module to process the control path network traffic received from the ingress port processor. The control module routes processed control path network traffic to the switch for routing to a defined egress port processor. The control module is connected to the input/output module. The input/output module and the control module are configured to interactively support data virtualization, data migration, data journaling, and snapshotting. The distributed control and fast path processors achieve scaling of storage network software. The storage processors provide line-speed processing of storage data using a rich set of storage-optimized hardware acceleration engines. The multi-protocol switching fabric provides a low-latency, protocol-neutral interconnect that integrally links all components with any-to-any non-blocking throughput. | 12-16-2010 |
Patrick Schmitz, San Francisco, CA US
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20080313227 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDIA-BASED EVENT GENERATION - Systems and methods are described allowing dynamic selection of media items (e.g., advertisements) for presentation within a media stream based on dynamically-generated information that describes the content of the media stream or the stream's consumer. Systems may include meta data servers and media servers that work together to dynamically select media items and dynamically build a media stream containing the selected media items to the consumer. The media items are selected based on dynamically-generated meta data. Such meta data may be generated by previous consumers of the media stream and provide an accurate and dynamic description of the contents of the media stream. Because the media items are dynamically selected based on dynamically-generated meta data, even though the same media stream may be requested by different media consumers, each media stream is individually generated and may be a unique stream that reflects the impressions of previous consumers of the stream. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313541 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED SEGMENTATION AND INDEXING OF MEDIA - This disclosure describes systems, methods and user interfaces that allow a user to identify, annotate and share a portion of a media item with another user. Through the user interface, the user may render a media item and identify a segment of the media item. Based on the media item, previously defined and shared segments may be suggested to the user allowing the user to quickly select and identify popular segments for sharing. In addition, previously used annotations of previously defined and shared segments may be suggested to the user allowing users to quickly select annotations. The sharing user may then issue a command that causes a link or other means for accessing the segment to be transmitted to a recipient. Accessing this link or other means, causes the segment defined by the sharing user to be rendered on the recipient's device. | 12-18-2008 |
Patrick Lee Schmitz, San Francisco, CA US
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20080235589 | IDENTIFYING POPULAR SEGMENTS OF MEDIA OBJECTS - Against this backdrop systems and methods have been developed for identifying popular segments of media objects. A remix system is provided to users allowing the easy remixing of a library of media objects. The remixes created by the users are recorded. From this information, the relative popularity of the segments and media objects in the library are identified based on how often they appear in the user-generated remixes. Actions may then be automatically taken related to the popularity of segments and media objects such as changing payment terms, alerting users of the popular content, and notifying interested parties of the popular or unpopular content. | 09-25-2008 |