JOHN P MILLER, M.D.
Osteopathic Medicine at Saint Johns Blvd, Saint Paul, MN

6687818, Feb 3, 2004

Jul 28, 1999

09/362388

Penny L. Svenkeson - Forest Lake MN
Philip J. Erickson - Shoreview MN
Peter C. Wilson - Shoreview MN
John A. Miller - Shoreview MN
Doug E. Morrissey - Allentown PA

Unisys Corporation - Blue Bell PA

G06F 15177

713 2

A method and apparatus is disclosed for initiating execution of selected application processors in a clustered multiprocessor system without disrupting the addressing mode of the processors. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by initializing the processors in a conventional way, setting the addressing mode, and then leaving each of the processors in an active mode spinning on a designated Startup Address Location. To start an application processor, the OS simply write a target processor ID and a desired start-up address into the Startup Address Location. The application processor with the matching processor ID reads the Startup Address Location, jumps to the address specified in the Start-Up Address code section, and begins execution at that location. In another embodiment, a processor is provided that does not switch addressing modes when switched from a halt state.

5680537, Oct 21, 1997

Mar 1, 1995

8/396678

Larry L. Byers - Apple Valley MN
Gary R. Robeck - Albertville MN
Terry J. Brunmeier - Shoreview MN
John A. Miller - Shoreview MN

Unisys Corporation - Blue Bell PA

G06F 1300

39518203

A method and apparatus for isolating an error in a system having a controller or the like which access a user via an interface device. The controller or the like may be coupled to the interface device via a first bus and the interface device may be coupled to the user via a second bus. The controller or the like may detect an error in a data transfer from the user to the controller via the interface device, and may isolate the error to the second bus/interface device or the first bus/controller. This up-front error isolation may reduce the amount of analysis required by a service technician after a corresponding PC board or the like is removed from the system, thereby reducing the cost thereof.

4973326, Nov 27, 1990

Nov 30, 1987

7/126746

Leigh E. Wood - Woodbury MN
John A. Miller - Woodbury MN
Alan J. Sipinen - Maplewood MN
Susan K. Nestegard - Woodbury MN

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - Saint Paul MN

A61F 1316

604391

A disposable garment or diaper having a fastener including fastener portions adapted for releasably mechanically engaging each other; and a bonding layer of room-temperature non-tacky thermoplastic material adhering one of the fastener portions to a thin polyolefin layer of the garment and being bonded to that polyolefin layer under heat and pressure that leaves the polyolefin layer substantially undeformed. The bonding layer holds the fastener portion to the polyolefin film with greater force than that which is required to separate the engaged fastener so that the fastener may be repetitively closed and opened.

4652917, Mar 24, 1987

Aug 10, 1984

6/639610

John W. Miller - Saint Paul MN

Honeywell Inc. - Minneapolis MN

H04N 718

358107

A system for monitoring the attitude of an object with respect to a fixed based without any material connection to the object, comprising imaging apparatus mounted on the base so that a surface of the object is in the field of view, targets on the surface of such spaced sites, remote from the imaging apparatus that the apparatus images the targets in relative positions determined by the locations of the sites, and computing apparatus determining from changes in the relative positions of the images the causative changes in the attitude of the object with respect to the base.

5985482, Nov 16, 1999

Apr 28, 1998

9/067833

Anthony Horton - Minneapolis MN
John Miller - Mendota Heights MN
William H. Kump - West St. Paul MN
Steven Peterson - Minneapolis MN

GNB Technologies, Inc. - Mendota Heights MN

H01M 210

429 97

A unitarily molded, snap-on heat shield for a standard automotive battery container having handle brackets extending from opposing side walls of the container, the heat shield having wedge-shaped coupling protrusions extending inwardly from cantilevered flaps in the heat shield side walls, the wedge-shaped protrusions riding along the handle brackets to cantilever the flaps away for the container side wall as the shield in moved downward over the container, the flaps snapping back inward toward the battery container as the protrusions pass the handle bracket to couple the heat shield to the battery container.

5019071, May 28, 1991

Dec 12, 1989

7/449592

Stephen W. Bany - St. Paul MN
John A. Miller - Woodbury MN
Brad W. Eaton - St. Paul MN

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

A61F 1315, C08J 5300, C08K 5300, C08L 5300

604389

A diaper, adhesive fastening tab which exhibits good peel, quick-stick, shear strength and aging when used with a diaper outer film, either with or without a low adhesion backside. The adhesive used with the fastening tab is based on a composition comprising a slightly aromatic containing aliphatic oil, a styrene/isoprene block copolymer and a solid C. sub. 5 tackifying resin.