Three-dimensional apertured film for transmitting dynamically-deposited and statically retained fluids
Patent 8,415,524
A three-dimensional film for use as an acquisition distribution layer in an absorbent article comprising a first surface with drains extending downward from the first surface, the drains being capable of transmitting fluid by gravity; and protrusions extending upward from the first surface to an upper surface with at least one capillary extending downward from the upper surface, the capillaries being capable of transmitting fluid in contact with the upper surface by capillary action. The drains rapidly transmit fluid through the film, particularly fluid that is dynamically-deposited. The capillaries transmit statically-retained fluid that is in contact with the upper surface of the protrusions.
Inventors: Rickey J. Seyler (Chesterfield)
Assignee: Tredegar Film Products Corporation (Richmond)
April 9, 2013
Olefin copolymer VI improvers and lubricant compositions and uses thereof
Patent 8,415,284
A lubricating oil composition and methods of operating an internal combustion engine to provide improved engine operation. The lubricating composition includes a major amount of oil of lubricating viscosity and a minor amount of at least one olefin copolymer having a number average molecular weight greater than about 10,000 up to about 300,000. The olefin copolymer is grafted with (A) a vinyl-substituted aromatic compound, and (B) a compound selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.5-C.sub.30 olefin, a polyalkylene compound, and mixtures thereof. A mole ratio of A/B in the reaction mixture ranges from about 0.25:1 to about 5:1. The lubricating composition optionally includes a minor amount of at least one non-grafted olefin copolymer, styrene-isoprene copolymer, methacrylate copolymer, or styrene butadiene copolymer have number average molecular weight greater than about 50,000 up to about 300,000.
Inventors: Akhilesh Duggal (Midlothian)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond)
April 9, 2013
Multi-vehicle automatic transmission fluid
Patent 8,410,032
A lubricant composition, a multi-vehicle transmission fluid, and a method for making a transmission fluid. The lubricant composition includes a) a base oil; b) 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (DMTD), a derivative of DMTD, or mixtures thereof; and c) a friction modifier. The friction modifier is made by reacting an olefin containing at least 40% by weight C.sub.10-C.sub.36 vinylidene olefin with maleic acid, anhydride, or ester to provide a first reaction product, and aminating the first reaction product with an effective amount of a compound containing basic nitrogen to provide the friction modifier. The C.sub.10-C.sub.36 vinylidene olefin is represented by the following formula: ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.c and R.sub.d are independently a (C.sub.3-C.sub.15) alkyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl.
Inventors: Joseph B. Carroll (Glen Allen); Christopher S. Cleveland (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
System and process for providing multiple income start dates for annuities
Patent 8,412,545
The present invention provides a method for providing an annuity structure and a system for processing an annuity structure. The annuity structure may include a base portion segment, where the base portion segment is a functional annuity having a first annuity schedule; and a secondary portion segment, where the secondary portion segment is a functional annuity having a second annuity schedule. In the invention, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment each operate as its own annuity. Also, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment are each included in a single contract, i.e., under the umbrella of one contract.
Inventors: Geoffrey S. Stiff (Richmond); Holly R. Snyder (Westerville, Ohio); Joel A. Prough (Harvard, Mass.); Brian E. Springer (Zionsville, Ind.)
Assignee: Genworth Financial, Inc. (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
Flavor carrier for use in smoking articles
Patent 8,408,216
Flavor carriers, smoking articles, method of making flavor carriers, methods of making smoking articles, methods of flavoring gas streams such as mainstream tobacco smoke and methods of smoking are provided. The flavor carriers and smoking articles comprise a mesoporous molecular sieve and a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
Inventors: Zhaohua Luan (Midlothian); Diane L. Gee (Richmond); Jay A. Fournier (Richmond); Kent B. Koller (Chesterfield); Jose G. Nepomuceno (Beaverdam, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
Extensible agent system and method
Patent 8,417,704
A method for providing an extensible agent comprises receiving a request from a client. One or more environment characteristics is then determined. At least a portion of a plurality of agent components are dynamically selected based on the client request and the environment characteristics. The client request is processed using the selected agent components.
Inventors: Robert J. Rappold III (Richmond)
Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston)
April 9, 2013
Providing a seamless conversation service between interacting environments
Patent 8,417,649
An approach that provides a seamless conversation service between interacting environments is described. In one embodiment, there is a seamless conversation service tool that includes a conversation commencement component configured to facilitate commencement of a conversation between two or more parties occurring over a communication path in one of two or more interacting environments. A user context monitoring component is configured to monitor a user context associated with the conversation. A user context change identification component is configured to identify a change in the user context of the conversation. A conversation transfer component is configured to transfer the conversation between the two or more interacting environments in response to the identified change in the user context, while maintaining a transparency of functionality of the communication path.
Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II (Richmond); Neal M. Keller (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.); Clifford A. Pickover (Yorktown Heights); Josef Reisinger (Bonn Beuel, Germany)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, N.Y.)
April 9, 2013
Porous fibrous sheets of nanofibers
Patent 8,415,262
Porous fibrous sheets are provided that are useful in end uses requiring microbial barrier properties such as medical packaging and medical gowns and drapes. The porous fibrous sheets may contain nanofibers and wood pulp.
Inventors: Ioannis V. Bletsos (Midlothian); Joseph Robert Guckert (Chester); Mikhail R. Levit (Richmond); David Carl Roberts (Colonial Heights)
Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Del.)
April 9, 2013
Method for integrating SONOS non-volatile memory into a sub-90 nm standard CMOS foundry process flow
Patent 8,409,950
An embodiment of a method is disclosed to integrate silicon oxide nitride oxide silicon (SONOS) non-volatile memory (NVM) into a standard sub-90 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) semiconductor foundry process flow. An embodiment of the method adds a few additional steps to a standard CMOS foundry process flow and makes minor changes to the rest of the baseline CMOS foundry process flow to form a new process module that includes both CMOS devices and an embedded SONOS NVM. An embodiment of the method utilizes new material sets (which are not utilized at larger nodes) that enhance NVM performance by improving charge tunneling behavior and reducing leakage currents. Furthermore, an embodiment of the method integrates CMOS with SONOS NVM at ever-shrinking dimensions while enhancing the NVM performance, without performing extra, costly processing steps.
Inventors: Patrick Bruckner Shea (Washington, D.C.); Dennis Adams (Gambrills, Md.); Michael Rennie (Mechanicsville); Joseph Terence Smith (Columbia, Md.)
Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Va.)
April 2, 2013
Heat resistant phosphate cement
Patent 8,409,711
An article of manufacture including reinforcement material embedded in a phosphate cement composition is provided. The phosphate cement composition includes about 10 to 40 percent by weight calcium or magnesium oxide, about 10 to 40 percent by weight acid phosphate, and about 10 to 50 percent by weight vermiculite or perlite or mixture thereof.
Inventors: Jeffrey L. Selph (Cary, N.C.); James W. Paul, Jr. (Mechanicsville)
Assignee: Grancrete, Inc. (Cary, N.C.)
April 2, 2013
Waste storage vessels and compositions therefor
Patent 8,409,346
Waste storage vessels formed from a composition including calcium silicate, magnesium or calcium oxides and an acid phosphate are provided. The composition may also include fly ash or kaolin with or without the calcium silicate.
Inventors: Jeffrey L. Selph (Cary, N.C.); James W. Paul, Jr. (Mechanicsville)
Assignee: Grancrete, Inc. (Cary, N.C.)
April 2, 2013
Sill and door jamb assembly for electric arc furnace
Patent 8,411,724
A sill and door jamb assembly providing an opening in an electric arc furnace, the sill and door jamb assembly having a sill block assembly and two jamb block assemblies. The sill block assembly having side-by-side sill blocks, each of the sill blocks being positioned side-by-side to form the sill block assembly and having an upper end and a lower end. The lower end of the sill block assembly is confined within a plurality of courses of the refractory bricks. Each jamb block assembly having a plurality of jamb blocks positioned side-by-side. Each of the jamb block assemblies having a lower end and an inner surface abutting the distal ends of the sill block assembly. The inner surfaces of the jamb block assemblies and the upper surface of the sill block assembly form the slag opening in the furnace.
Inventors: Lee A. Nosbisch (Chester)
Assignee: North American Refractories Company (Moon Township, Pa.)
April 2, 2013
Three-dimensional apertured film for transmitting dynamically-deposited and statically retained fluids
Patent 8,415,524
A three-dimensional film for use as an acquisition distribution layer in an absorbent article comprising a first surface with drains extending downward from the first surface, the drains being capable of transmitting fluid by gravity; and protrusions extending upward from the first surface to an upper surface with at least one capillary extending downward from the upper surface, the capillaries being capable of transmitting fluid in contact with the upper surface by capillary action. The drains rapidly transmit fluid through the film, particularly fluid that is dynamically-deposited. The capillaries transmit statically-retained fluid that is in contact with the upper surface of the protrusions.
Inventors: Rickey J. Seyler (Chesterfield)
Assignee: Tredegar Film Products Corporation (Richmond)
April 9, 2013
Olefin copolymer VI improvers and lubricant compositions and uses thereof
Patent 8,415,284
A lubricating oil composition and methods of operating an internal combustion engine to provide improved engine operation. The lubricating composition includes a major amount of oil of lubricating viscosity and a minor amount of at least one olefin copolymer having a number average molecular weight greater than about 10,000 up to about 300,000. The olefin copolymer is grafted with (A) a vinyl-substituted aromatic compound, and (B) a compound selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.5-C.sub.30 olefin, a polyalkylene compound, and mixtures thereof. A mole ratio of A/B in the reaction mixture ranges from about 0.25:1 to about 5:1. The lubricating composition optionally includes a minor amount of at least one non-grafted olefin copolymer, styrene-isoprene copolymer, methacrylate copolymer, or styrene butadiene copolymer have number average molecular weight greater than about 50,000 up to about 300,000.
Inventors: Akhilesh Duggal (Midlothian)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond)
April 9, 2013
Multi-vehicle automatic transmission fluid
Patent 8,410,032
A lubricant composition, a multi-vehicle transmission fluid, and a method for making a transmission fluid. The lubricant composition includes a) a base oil; b) 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (DMTD), a derivative of DMTD, or mixtures thereof; and c) a friction modifier. The friction modifier is made by reacting an olefin containing at least 40% by weight C.sub.10-C.sub.36 vinylidene olefin with maleic acid, anhydride, or ester to provide a first reaction product, and aminating the first reaction product with an effective amount of a compound containing basic nitrogen to provide the friction modifier. The C.sub.10-C.sub.36 vinylidene olefin is represented by the following formula: ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.c and R.sub.d are independently a (C.sub.3-C.sub.15) alkyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl.
Inventors: Joseph B. Carroll (Glen Allen); Christopher S. Cleveland (Richmond)
Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
System and process for providing multiple income start dates for annuities
Patent 8,412,545
The present invention provides a method for providing an annuity structure and a system for processing an annuity structure. The annuity structure may include a base portion segment, where the base portion segment is a functional annuity having a first annuity schedule; and a secondary portion segment, where the secondary portion segment is a functional annuity having a second annuity schedule. In the invention, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment each operate as its own annuity. Also, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment are each included in a single contract, i.e., under the umbrella of one contract.
Inventors: Geoffrey S. Stiff (Richmond); Holly R. Snyder (Westerville, Ohio); Joel A. Prough (Harvard, Mass.); Brian E. Springer (Zionsville, Ind.)
Assignee: Genworth Financial, Inc. (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
Flavor carrier for use in smoking articles
Patent 8,408,216
Flavor carriers, smoking articles, method of making flavor carriers, methods of making smoking articles, methods of flavoring gas streams such as mainstream tobacco smoke and methods of smoking are provided. The flavor carriers and smoking articles comprise a mesoporous molecular sieve and a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
Inventors: Zhaohua Luan (Midlothian); Diane L. Gee (Richmond); Jay A. Fournier (Richmond); Kent B. Koller (Chesterfield); Jose G. Nepomuceno (Beaverdam, Va.)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
April 2, 2013
Extensible agent system and method
Patent 8,417,704
A method for providing an extensible agent comprises receiving a request from a client. One or more environment characteristics is then determined. At least a portion of a plurality of agent components are dynamically selected based on the client request and the environment characteristics. The client request is processed using the selected agent components.
Inventors: Robert J. Rappold III (Richmond)
Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston)
April 9, 2013
Providing a seamless conversation service between interacting environments
Patent 8,417,649
An approach that provides a seamless conversation service between interacting environments is described. In one embodiment, there is a seamless conversation service tool that includes a conversation commencement component configured to facilitate commencement of a conversation between two or more parties occurring over a communication path in one of two or more interacting environments. A user context monitoring component is configured to monitor a user context associated with the conversation. A user context change identification component is configured to identify a change in the user context of the conversation. A conversation transfer component is configured to transfer the conversation between the two or more interacting environments in response to the identified change in the user context, while maintaining a transparency of functionality of the communication path.
Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II (Richmond); Neal M. Keller (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.); Clifford A. Pickover (Yorktown Heights); Josef Reisinger (Bonn Beuel, Germany)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, N.Y.)
April 9, 2013
Porous fibrous sheets of nanofibers
Patent 8,415,262
Porous fibrous sheets are provided that are useful in end uses requiring microbial barrier properties such as medical packaging and medical gowns and drapes. The porous fibrous sheets may contain nanofibers and wood pulp.
Inventors: Ioannis V. Bletsos (Midlothian); Joseph Robert Guckert (Chester); Mikhail R. Levit (Richmond); David Carl Roberts (Colonial Heights)
Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Del.)
April 9, 2013
Method for integrating SONOS non-volatile memory into a sub-90 nm standard CMOS foundry process flow
Patent 8,409,950
An embodiment of a method is disclosed to integrate silicon oxide nitride oxide silicon (SONOS) non-volatile memory (NVM) into a standard sub-90 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) semiconductor foundry process flow. An embodiment of the method adds a few additional steps to a standard CMOS foundry process flow and makes minor changes to the rest of the baseline CMOS foundry process flow to form a new process module that includes both CMOS devices and an embedded SONOS NVM. An embodiment of the method utilizes new material sets (which are not utilized at larger nodes) that enhance NVM performance by improving charge tunneling behavior and reducing leakage currents. Furthermore, an embodiment of the method integrates CMOS with SONOS NVM at ever-shrinking dimensions while enhancing the NVM performance, without performing extra, costly processing steps.
Inventors: Patrick Bruckner Shea (Washington, D.C.); Dennis Adams (Gambrills, Md.); Michael Rennie (Mechanicsville); Joseph Terence Smith (Columbia, Md.)
Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Va.)
April 2, 2013
Heat resistant phosphate cement
Patent 8,409,711
An article of manufacture including reinforcement material embedded in a phosphate cement composition is provided. The phosphate cement composition includes about 10 to 40 percent by weight calcium or magnesium oxide, about 10 to 40 percent by weight acid phosphate, and about 10 to 50 percent by weight vermiculite or perlite or mixture thereof.
Inventors: Jeffrey L. Selph (Cary, N.C.); James W. Paul, Jr. (Mechanicsville)
Assignee: Grancrete, Inc. (Cary, N.C.)
April 2, 2013
Waste storage vessels and compositions therefor
Patent 8,409,346
Waste storage vessels formed from a composition including calcium silicate, magnesium or calcium oxides and an acid phosphate are provided. The composition may also include fly ash or kaolin with or without the calcium silicate.
Inventors: Jeffrey L. Selph (Cary, N.C.); James W. Paul, Jr. (Mechanicsville)
Assignee: Grancrete, Inc. (Cary, N.C.)
April 2, 2013
Sill and door jamb assembly for electric arc furnace
Patent 8,411,724
A sill and door jamb assembly providing an opening in an electric arc furnace, the sill and door jamb assembly having a sill block assembly and two jamb block assemblies. The sill block assembly having side-by-side sill blocks, each of the sill blocks being positioned side-by-side to form the sill block assembly and having an upper end and a lower end. The lower end of the sill block assembly is confined within a plurality of courses of the refractory bricks. Each jamb block assembly having a plurality of jamb blocks positioned side-by-side. Each of the jamb block assemblies having a lower end and an inner surface abutting the distal ends of the sill block assembly. The inner surfaces of the jamb block assemblies and the upper surface of the sill block assembly form the slag opening in the furnace.
Inventors: Lee A. Nosbisch (Chester)
Assignee: North American Refractories Company (Moon Township, Pa.)
April 2, 2013