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Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Dennis E Smith

John Leonard Muehlbauer

Yongcai Wang

Jeanne Ellen Kaeding

Gregory E Missell

Alfred B Fant

Richard J Kapusniak

Melvin M Kestner

James R Bennett

Kurt Michael Schroeder

Sharon M Melpolder

Alan R Pitt

Jeffrey W Leon

Trevor J Wear

Peter John Ghyzel

Gary W Visconte

Charles Chester Anderson

Paul B Merkel

Thomas Henry Whitesides

James Lee Bello

David A Czekai

David W Gruszczynski

Matthew C Ezenyilimba

Melvin D Sterman

Patrick M Jeffries

Todd C Zion

Hichang Yoon

Paul Mitacek

Christopher J Puccini

Douglas E Bugner

Christine Joanne Landry-Coltrain

Teh-Ming Kung

Charles E Romano, Jr

Thomas M Laney

Michael T Regan

Louis J Sorriero

Suryadevara Vijayakumar Babu

Robert A Guistina

John F Bishop

William J Gamble

Roland J Koestner

Martin G Selbrede

David E Decker

Richard C VanHanehem

Paul E Woodgate

Peter David Rollinson

Larry P Seaman

Christopher E Wheeler

Linda S Flosenzier

Allan R Amering

John M Spence

Jeanne E Keading

Anne M Fischer

Rudolf D Steinmetz

Patrick M Lynch

Eric J Adsit

Pedro R Quinones

A method for allocating articulated tasks to determinate resources such that enterprise efficiency is maximized. The method uses geographic parameters to perform a set of incrementally rotated reassessments using subtended angular offsets to optimally allocate tasks to resources, thereby rapidly approximating the results that would be obtained from a full permutation suite, but without the massive computational overhead associated with comprehensive permutation weighting. The method provides for proper handling of post-posited task insertions at optimal points within the parameter space, providing final determination authority to the system user. The parameter space can include temporal banding for resource-to-task association. The utility of the method for handling the core calculations of routing and dispatching software, such as is used in the many service industries, is transparent.

Method and system for efficiently dispatching service vehicles

The present invention discloses a water dispersible polymer particle stabilized by a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant. The present invention also discloses a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic phase comprising at least one monomer dispersed in a continuous water phase and a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide, and polymerizing said organic phase to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide. Also disclosed in the present invention is a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic dispersed in a continuous water phase, polymerizing said organic phase, and adding bydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide.

Polymer particle stabilized by dispersant and method of preparation

The present invention discloses an ink printing method including the steps of:

Ink printing method utilizing stabilized polymeric particles

This invention relates generally to compositions and methods for removing adherent materials and polishing surfaces. In one embodiment, the method employs an improved media comprising core-shell particles. The media can be applied to microelectronic objects of manufacture.

Polishing compositions comprising polymeric cores having inorganic surface particles and method of use

A water dispersible polymer particle stabilized by a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant or a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic phase comprising at least one monomer dispersed in a continuous water phase and a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide, and polymerizing the organic phase to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide. Also, a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic dispersed in a continuous water phase, polymerizing the organic phase, and adding hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide.

Disclosed is an integral film comprising a transparent polymeric substrate having a surface bearing polymeric beads, wherein the swell ratio, the size, and the laydown of the beads are selected so as to provide both a one sided static friction coefficient of not more than 0.68 and an internal haze value of not more than 0.1. The film provides an improved combination of slip and optical properties.

Cellulose film with anti-blocking properties

Disclosed is a thermal dye-transfer receiving element comprising a dye-image receiving layer on its top surface and, beneath the dye-image receiving layer, a microvoided layer containing a continuous phase polymer matrix having dispersed therein crosslinked organic microbeads, wherein the microbeads exhibit a glass transition temperature Tg that is below 80&deg; C. Also disclosed is a method for making such thermal dye-transfer receiving elements.

Thermal dye-transfer receiving element with microvoided substrate and method of making the same

This invention relates generally to methods for removing adherent materials, for example, paint, flashes, burrs, photoresists, contaminants, and other materials from various external surfaces. In particular, the method employs an improved media comprising core/shell particles. The media can be propelled against or along the surface by a gaseous or liquid carrier medium or a mixture of gas and liquid to remove the unwanted surface material. In one embodiment, suitable blasting equipment propels the media, via a pressurized air stream, against a surface of an object, for example an airplane skin, to dislodge the material to be removed.

Method of removing material from an external surface using core/shell particles

An ink jet printing method having the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with an ink jet recording element having a support having thereon an image-receiving layer of porous polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, the porous polymeric particles being prepared in the presence of an anionic or ationic dispersant, and the image-receiving layer containing a surfactant having a charge opposite to that of the dispersant used to make the porous polymeric particles, the surfactant being present in an amount from about 0.04 parts to about 0.30 parts by weight of the dispersant; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition; and D) printing on the ink jet recording element using the ink jet ink composition in response to the digital data signals.

Ink jet printing method

This invention relates generally to methods for removing adherent materials, for example, residues, scale, contaminants, fouling, precipitates, and the like objectional materials from various internal surfaces of fluid transport or delivery systems and parts thereof. In particular, the method employs an improved media comprising core/shell particles. The media can be propelled against or along the surface by a fluid carrier to remove the unwanted surface material. In one embodiment, the media may be propelled by a liquid along a surface, such as the interior walls of a pipe, to remove undesirable adherent materials.

Method of removing material from an interior surface using core/shell particles

Core/shell particles having a core of a porous polymer and a shell of an inorganic colloid, the inorganic colloid having a median diameter of less than about 0.07 &mgr;m, and the core/shell particles having a median diameter of less than about 50 &mgr;m.

Porous polymer particles and method for preparation thereof

An ink jet recording element having a support having thereon an image-receiving layer of porous polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, the porous polymeric particles being prepared in the presence of an anionic or cationic dispersant, and the image-receiving layer containing a surfactant having a charge opposite to that of the dispersant used to make the porous polymeric particles, the surfactant being present in an amount from about 0.04 parts to about 0.30 parts by weight of the dispersant.

Ink jet recording element

Photographic silver halide material with matte support

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Dennis E Smith