U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Sept. 28)
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Chevron Phillips Chemical Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of removing a metal protective layer from a surface of a reactor component comprising treating the metal protective layer with one or more chemical removal agents to remove at least a portion of the metal protective layer from the reactor component. A method of removing a metal protective layer from a surface of a reactor component comprising treating the metal protective layer to remove the metal protective layer from the reactor component, and determining a thickness of the reactor component following treatment."
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Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer card comprising a first connector to enable the computer card to communicatively couple to an electronic device when the computer card is inserted into an externally accessible slot of the electronic device. The computer card further comprising an expansion slot configured to receive an expansion card therein. The computer card further comprising a second connector to facilitate coupling of a peripheral device to the computer card."
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Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Apparatus, and Associated Method, for Planning and Displaying a Route Path
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic map device apparatus, and an associated method, creates a route between a route source and a route destination for display at the electronic map device. Locations, area, and features that a user does not desire to encounter during travel along the route are identified and form exclusion information. The exclusion information is entered by way of a user interface. The exclusion information is utilized in the formation of the selected route. A mapping that identifies the selected route is displayed at a display device of the user interface."
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Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary system includes at least one computing device located within a local media content network and configured to 1) generate a media index of local media content stored by one or more media content access devices located within the local media content network and cloud media content stored by one or more cloud computing devices located within a cloud media content service network and 2) manage the local media content and the cloud media content based on the media index and on a predefined media management heuristic. Corresponding methods, systems, and apparatus are also disclosed."
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Chevron Phillips Chemical Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to polyolefin production and to reducing volatile organic content (VOC) associated with the polyolefin. Techniques include the construction and implementation of a purge column model to calculate or estimate the VOC content in the polyolefin exiting the purge column. The techniques facilitate the design and operation of the polyolefin manufacturing process."
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Precision Energy Services Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A refractive index sensor having one or more sources, an adaptive optical element or scanner, imaging optics, a sensing optic, and one or more detectors. The scanner impinges a signal from the source into the sensing optic and onto a sensor-sample interface at sequential angles of incidence. The detector response increases dramatically to signals reflected from the interface at corresponding sequential angles of reflection equal to or greater than a critical angle. The refractive index sensor also uses an input lens between the scanner and the sensing optic and uses an output lens between the sensing optic and the detector. A processor controls the sensor and can determine index of refraction of the fluid sample based on the detector response and scan rate. The sensor can be used in several operational environments from a laboratory to a downhole tool, such as a formation tester to determine properties in a borehole environment."
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Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An ethylenic polymer comprising amyl groups from about 0.1 to about 2.0 units per 1000 carbon atoms as determined by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and both a peak melting temperature, T.sub.m, in .degree. C., and a heat of fusion, H.sub.f, in J/g, as determined by DSC Crystallinity, where the numerical values of T.sub.m and H.sub.f correspond to the relationship T.sub.m.gtoreq.(0.2143*H.sub.f)+79.643. An ethylenic polymer comprising at least one preparative TREF fraction that elutes at 95.degree. C. or greater using a Preparative Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation method, where at least one preparative TREF fraction that elutes at 95.degree. C. or greater has a gpcBR value greater than 0.05 and less than 5 as determined by gpcBR Branching Index by 3D-GPC, and where at least 5% of the ethylenic polymer elutes at a temperature of 95.degree. C. or greater based upon the total weight of the ethylenic polymer."
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Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent for Two/Three Component Compatible Polyolefin Compounds
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A polyolefin compound including: A) at least one thermoplastic olefin copolymer including the reaction product of olefin 1 and olefin 2, wherein: olefin 1 is a C.sub.2 based olefin and olefin 2 is a C.sub.3 to C.sub.8 .alpha.-olefin or olefin 1 is a C.sub.3 based olefin and olefin 2 is a C.sub.4 to C.sub.8 .alpha.-olefin; B) at least one functional polymer, the functional polymer content in the polyolefin compound being between 1 and 75 weight percent of the combined components A and B; wherein the thermoplastic olefin copolymer and the functional polymer form a co-continuous phase; wherein: a) an 12 melt index of the polyolefin compound is from about 1 to about 15 as measured using ASTM D 1238; b) a Shore A hardness of the polyolefin compound is from about 55 to about 100 as measured using ASTM D2240; c) a flexural modulus of the polyolefin compound is from about 0.8 to about 30 kpsi as measured using ASTM D790."
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Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process and apparatus for producing chlorohydrin comprising reacting a multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon-containing stream with a stream of a first effluent exiting from a hydrochlorination reactor in at least one vessel wherein the vessel exhibits a plug flow residence time characteristic, under conditions such that at least a portion of any unreacted HCl component present in the first effluent is reacted with the multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon present in the multihydroxylated aliphatic hydrogen-containing stream to from an amount of monochlorohydrin in a stream of a second effluent exiting from the plug flow vessel; recovering said second effluent; and then optionally using the second effluent from the plug flow reactor in a subsequent processing operation."
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Chevron
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are processes in which precipitation permits removal of metal halides (e.g. AlCl.sub.3) from ionic liquids. After precipitation, the precipitated metal halides can be physically separated from the bulk ionic liquid. More effective precipitation can be achieved through cooling or the combination of cooling and the provision of metal halide seed crystals. The ionic liquids can be regenerated ionic liquid catalysts, which contain excess metal halides after regeneration. Upon removal of the excess metal halides, they can be reused in processes using ionic liquid catalysts, such as alkylation processes."
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Celanese International Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention is to a process for producing a anhydrous ethanol composition comprising hydrogenating acetic acid in the presence of a catalyst to form a crude ethanol product; separating in a first column at least a portion of the crude ethanol product into a first distillate comprising ethanol, water and ethyl acetate, and a first residue comprising acetic acid; separating in a second column at least a portion of the first distillate into a second distillate comprising ethyl acetate and a second residue comprising ethanol and water; separating in a third column at least a portion of the second residue into a third distillate comprising ethanol and residual water and a third residue comprising separated water; and dehydrating at least a portion of the third distillate to form the anhydrous ethanol composition. The anhydrous ethanol composition, as formed, comprises less than 1 wt. % water, based on the total weight of the anhydrous ethanol composition."
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Texas Instruments Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for generating multiprimary signals with optimization for bit depth for use in display devices. A preferred embodiment comprises converting an input color signal into an output color signal, wherein the number of colors in the output color signal is less than a number of colors used in a display system, when a weighting of the input color signal is less than a specified threshold, and converting the input color signal into an output color signal, wherein the number of colors in the output color signal is equal to the number of colors used in the display system, when the weighting of the input color signal is greater than the specified threshold. The use of fewer colors eliminates low bit depth colors, allowing increased dither quality in dimmer images."
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transforming project table, white erase board, and office partition all-in-one powered by a drive system is disclosed herein."
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Nvidia Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for compiling a vertex shader program into two portions, a culling portion and a shading portion. The culling portion of the compiled vertex shader program specifies vertex attributes and instructions of the vertex shader program needed to determine whether early vertex culling operations should be performed on a batch of vertices associated with one or more primitives of a graphics scene. The shading portion of the compiled vertex shader program specifies the remaining vertex attributes and instructions of the vertex shader program for performing vertex lighting and performing other operations on the vertices in the batch of vertices. When the compiled vertex shader program is executed by graphics processing hardware, the shading portion of the compiled vertex shader is executed only when early vertex culling operations are not performed on the batch of vertices."
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Metropcs Wireless Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A base station for use in a wireless communications system is disclosed, including transceiver circuitry for transmitting and receiving with at least one mobile device over at least one communications channel. Polarization control logic is included for controlling a polarization of signals transmitted over the at least one communications channel. The polarization control logic adjusts a polarization of the signal transmitted on the at least one communications channel responsive to at least one parameter received from the mobile device relating to a quality of signal received on the at least one communications channel."
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Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An analog to digital converter converts an input analog signal to a digital representation using successive approximation logic to generate a plurality of digital values approximating the analog signal. Evaluation logic evaluates each of the digital values by converting each of the digital values in a digital to analog converter (DAC) to a DAC analog signal and comparing the DAC analog signal to the input analog signal to determine a comparison result used by the successive approximation logic to generate a next one of the digital values. An evaluation time period for one or more bits of the digital representation is longer than for one or more other bits in the digital representation. The DAC includes a resistor ladder. Reference voltages of the DAC are increased for evaluation of the least significant bit (LSB) to obtain more accurate results without increasing a number of resistors."
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Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device may include an oscillator to generate a clock signal based on first and second control signals. The oscillator may include a first buffer stage a second buffer stage. The first buffer stage may output a first signal that is based on an output of the second buffer stage and the first control signal. The second buffer stage may output the clock signal. The clock signal may be based on the first signal and the second control signal."
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Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A dual edge triggered flip flop circuit uses clock signals that are delayed from a first clock signal and from one another by respective intervals. A first set of the plurality of clock signals are used to operate a first latch circuit to allow first data to be conducted to a storage element for a period of time after a rising edge of a first clock signal. The clock signals are further used to operate a second latch circuit to allow second data to be conducted to the storage element for a period of time after a falling edge of the first clock signal."
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United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent
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Clearwater International Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method for dewatering, pressure testing, hydrotreating, suppressing methane hydrate formation and suppressing solution freezing point in pipeline operations have been disclosed, where the solution used in the operations includes an effective amount of a metal formate salt. The metal formate salt solutions have a low viscosity, have a high density, have a low metals corrosivity, are non-volatile, have a low solubility in hydrocarbons, are readily biodegradable, have a low toxicity, are non-hazardous, have a low environmental impact, have a freezing point depression property forming water/formate eutectic point mixtures, and have a water-structuring and water activity modification property."
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Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Antireflective Coating
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Device and method for an antireflective coating to improve image quality in an image display system. A preferred embodiment comprises a first high refractive index layer overlying a reflective surface of an integrated circuit, a first low refractive index layer overlying the first high refractive index layer, a second high refractive index layer overlying the first low refractive index layer, and a second low refractive index layer overlying the second high refractive index layer. The alternating layers of high refractive index material and low refractive index material form an optical trap, allowing light to readily pass through in one direction, but not so easily in a reverse direction. The dual alternating layer topology improves the antireflective properties of the antireflective layer and permits a wide range of adjustments for manipulating reflectivity and color point."
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Dell Products Assigned Patent
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Axiom Technologies Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An acoustic detector assembly for detecting a leak of a pressurized mixture of liquids and gases in a pipeline or pressurized vessel that includes an ultrasonic acoustic transducer generating an output in response to receiving an acoustical signal associated with the leaking mixture of liquids and gases, a detector connected with the acoustic transducer. The detector may include a band pass filter reducing the non-ultrasonic component of the acoustic transducer output to produce a filtered output, a loudness level detector receiving the filtered output and transmitting a "start" signal if the filtered acoustic signal reaches a specified loudness level, a time bridging module receiving the "start" signal, the time bridging module transmitting a continuous "count" signal while the "start" signal is received and for a predetermined time after the "start" signal is no longer received, and a time delay module transmitting an alarm signal if the time bridging module transmits the "count" signal for a predetermined duration."
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Hydril
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and drill string valve for closing a conduit through which a high pressure fluid flows. The drill string valve includes an elongated housing having an inside cavity, a seal element attached to a first end of the elongated housing, the seal element being disposed within the inside cavity such that a flow of liquid through the inside cavity from the first end to a second end of the elongated housing is allowed, a sliding valve disposed within the inside cavity and configured to slide to and from the seal element along the axis such that when the sliding valve contacts the seal element the flow of liquid is suppressed, a biasing cartridge disposed within the inside cavity, between the seal element and the second end of the elongated housing, and configured to apply a first force on the sliding valve such that the sliding valve is contacting the seal element, and a loading mechanism disposed within the inside cavity, between the biasing cartridge and the second end of the elongated housing, and configured to apply a second force on the biasing cartridge."
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Robots, and atomic force microscopes including robots, that utilize in-plane actuators to provide large out-of-plane working volumes and forces."
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ViaSat Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary embodiment, a dual-band four-port orthomode transducer (OMT) is molded or cast. The OMT may be external to a transceiver housing or included as an integrated portion of the transceiver housing or a drop-in module. In an exemplary embodiment, a four-port OMT is formed from two pieces, the two pieces having a joint adjacent to or aligned to the axis of the common port. In an exemplary embodiment, the OMT is substantially planar and formed of a split-block embodiment. The two OMT pieces are joined and held together with a plurality of discrete fasteners. Furthermore, the OMT is configured to switch polarizations. The polarization switching is initiated using a remote signal and can facilitate load balancing."
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American Airlines Assigned Patent
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process for producing a PX-rich product, the process comprising: (a) providing a PX-depleted stream; (b) isomerizing at least a portion of the PX-depleted stream to produce an isomerized stream having a PX concentration greater than the PX-depleted stream and a benzene concentration of less than 1,000 ppm and a C.sub.9+ hydrocarbons concentration of less than 5,000 ppm; and (c) separating the isomerized stream by selective adsorption."
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Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Treating a Subterranean Formation Using Diversion
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and method comprising a plurality of particles which are magnetically attracted to one another in response to exposure to a magnetic field, and which maintain attraction to one another after removal of the magnetic field, the attraction being disabled when the particles are demagnetized, whereby the particles operate to alter the rheological properties of a fluid in which the particles are mixed when the attraction is enabled or disabled is disclosed."
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Oracle International Assigned Patent
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system is provided for use in business intelligence and reporting. The method and system are able to implement one or more definable actions when presented with data. The data may be produced by a business intelligence application. The actions may relate to activities performed by a user or an agent. The system comprises an action manager, a repository, a data association manager and an implementation engine. In one embodiment a data mining engine is provided. The system enables the availability of an action in response to the execution of analytic queries to be determined based on a relationship defined by the data association manager. If an action is available, an action definition is used to invoke a target in response to selection of the action by an entity, the invocation of the target including propagating data produced by an analytic engine into the target based on metadata to perform the action."
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention relates to Group 4 catalyst compounds containing di-anionic tridentate nitrogen/oxygen based ligands. The catalyst compounds are useful, with or without activators, to polymerize olefins, particularly .alpha.-olefins, or other unsaturated monomers. Systems and processes to oligomerize and/or polymerize one or more unsaturated monomers using the catalyst compound, as well as the oligomers and/or polymers produced therefrom are also provided."
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Group 4 catalyst compounds containing di-anionic tridentate nitrogen/oxygen based ligands are provided. The catalyst compounds are useful, with or without activators, to polymerize olefins, particularly .alpha.-olefins, or other unsaturated monomers. Systems and processes to oligomerize and/or polymerize one or more unsaturated monomers using the catalyst compound, as well as the oligomers and/or polymers produced therefrom are also provided."
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Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent for Heat Exchanger
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A heat exchanger and a method for fabricating the heat exchanger are disclosed. The heat exchanger comprises a heat exchanger core that is formed from a plurality of stacked aluminum panels that are joined together via friction stir welding. Each panel in the core is formed from at least two aluminum extrusions that are joined to one another via friction stir welding."
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William Marsh
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to some embodiments, the present invention provides a method for attaining short carbon nanotubes utilizing electron beam irradiation, for example, of a carbon nanotube sample. The sample may be pretreated, for example by oxonation. The pretreatment may introduce defects to the sidewalls of the nanotubes. The method is shown to produces nanotubes with a distribution of lengths, with the majority of lengths shorter than 100 tun. Further, the median length of the nanotubes is between about 20 nm and about 100 nm."
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