Jennifer S Ward

US Patent:

20080237914, Oct 2, 2008

Filed:

Mar 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/079340

Inventors:

Arnold Lustiger - Edison NJ, US
Jennifer Harting Ward - Houston TX, US
Patrick Bormann - Caudebec, FR
David Jon Starz - Baytown TX, US
Alan J. Oshinski - League City TX, US

International Classification:

B29B 9/06
B29C 47/60

US Classification:

264143

Abstract:

The present disclosure is directed generally to methods for making fiber reinforced polypropylene composite pellets using pre-cut fiber fed to a compounding extruder by improved fiber feeder systems. One form of the method includes feeding into a compounding extruder at least 25 wt % polypropylene based polymer, from 5 to 60 wt % pre-cut organic fiber, and from 0 to 60 wt % inorganic filler; and extruding, cooling and pelletizing the resultant mixture of components to form fiber reinforced polypropylene composite pellets; wherein the pre-cut organic fiber is fed from a feeder including a feeder hopper, one or more conditioning augers/agitators, one or more metering augers below the feeder hopper, and a means for controlling the speed of the conditioning augers/agitators and metering augers; and wherein an article molded from the pellets has a flexural modulus of at least 2.07 GPa and exhibits ductility during instrumented impact testing. In another form, the feeder includes a feeder hopper, two or more counter-rotating metering rollers, one or more separating rollers below the metering rollers, and a means for controlling the speed of the metering rollers and separating rollers. In yet another form, a circle feeder may be used to feed the pre-cut fiber.

US Patent:

20170323061, Nov 9, 2017

Filed:

Dec 7, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/372338

Inventors:

- Burlington MA, US
Debjani Sarkar - Herndon VA, US
Regina Marie Spitznagel - Naples FL, US
Laxmi Gottumukkala - Reston VA, US
Diana DeMarco Brown - Acton MA, US
Jennifer Marie Ward - Beaverton OR, US
Sean Nicholas Stefanik - Pittsburgh PA, US
Joanne K. Murphy - Chicago IL, US

International Classification:

G06F 19/00
G06F 3/0482
G06F 17/27
G06F 19/00

Abstract:

In a system with a display and an input device, a graphical user interface (GUI) may be presented via the display. A natural language understanding engine may be applied to a free-form text documenting a clinical patient encounter, to automatically derive one or more engine-suggested medical billing codes, which may be presented in the GUI. User input may be accepted to approve at least one of the engine-suggested codes and/or to enter one or more user-added codes in the GUI, resulting in a set of user-approved codes. The set of user-approved codes may be automatically correlated to a diagnosis related group (DRG) for the patient encounter, which may be displayed. In response to user input changing the set of user-approved codes by approving or removing approval of an engine-suggested code in the GUI, the DRG may be automatically updated, and the updated DRG for the patient encounter may be displayed.