William Braden Young
Physician at Pennsylvania, Denver, CO

4823051, Apr 18, 1989

May 21, 1987

7/052763

William A. Young - Aurora CO

Pittway Corporation - Northbrook IL

G01J 508, G08B 1318

315155

A switch assembly actuated by passive infrared radiation for operating a ceiling light in a room, the switch assembly including first and second optical independent systems which senses infrared radiation over a 360. degree. range in horizontal plane including two separate vertical fields of view, a shallow cone-shaped "look-out" and a more vertical cone-shaped "look-down" sensing field of view for directing to a common sensing element passive infrared radiation produced by a person moving within the sensing field of the switch assembly, the sensing element connected to a control circuit which responsively turns on the light, maintains the light on while the person remains in the room, and turns the light off automatically when the person leaves the room. The switch assembly includes a one-piece optical shell enclosed within a housing which is adapted for installation in a conventional light bulb socket and including a socket for receiving the light bulb to be controlled.

4873469, Oct 10, 1989

Oct 14, 1987

7/107002

William A. Young - Aurora CO
Wai-Shing Ko - Aurora IL
Curtis R. Davidson - Oswego IL
Thomas Whitehurst - Bensenville IL

Pittway Corporation - Northbrook IL

G01J 508, G08B 1318

315155

A switch assembly actuated by passive infrared radiation for operating a light in a space, the switch assembly including an optical system which senses infrared radiation over a 180. degree. range in horizontal plane including two separate vertical fields of view, a generally horizontal "look-out" field and a vertical semi cone-shaped "look-down" sensing field for directing to a common sensing element passive infrared radiation produced by a person moving within the sensing field of the switch assembly, the sensing element connected to a control circuit which responsively turns on the light, maintains the light on while the person remains in the space, and turns the light off automatically when the person leaves the space. The switch assembly includes a one-piece optical shell enclosed within a housing which is adapted for installation in a conventional light switch box in room. Another embodiment of the switch assembly is adapted for mounting on the exterior wall of a building for controlling the energization of an exterior light, turning the light on automatically whenever a person approaches the building.

6873980, Mar 29, 2005

Dec 15, 2000

09/740212

William J. Young - Golden CO, US
Tricia M. Roush - Aurora CO, US
Bruce R. Geerdes - Westminster CO, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F017/30

707 1, 7071041, 705 26

A system for querying a database. Query strings comprising queries from application program are loaded from a text file into a query lookups table. The application then utilizes a database interface query function to access the queries in the lookups table. The query function uses the query name provided by the application to locate the corresponding query string in the lookups table. The query function then performs parameter substitution on the query string and sends the query to the database. The query results are then retrieved, formatted, and sent to the querying application. The present invention allows an application program to access data stored on databases organized by various database management systems which employ different query formats. Although the databases organize the data differently, the same content may be extracted by the present system. Changes to the database queries take place outside the application code in a simple text file that is loaded by the querying application.

5730660, Mar 24, 1998

Dec 23, 1996

8/779978

William Andrew Young - Evergreen CO

A63B 6936

473262

A sand trap practice device includes a one piece, integral trough including a substantially rectangular base and a pair of side rails extending upwardly from the base and extending along opposed longitudinal sides of the base. A flexible tee is attached to the base along the center line of the base extending upwardly from the base substantially the same as the height as the side rails. Visual indicia is positioned on top surfaces of the side rails behind the tee indicative of proper club positioning. Additionally, sand is supported on the base between the rails extending to the top surface of the tee and the side rails. In operation, a golf ball is placed on the flexible tee, a golfer addresses the ball and swings away making sure the club does not hit the ball but instead enters the sand indicated by the visual indicia. The base will not permit the club to dig into the sand to excessive amounts such that the ball will come out of the bunker each time.

2011004, Feb 24, 2011

Aug 2, 2010

12/848958

Michelle Melinda Crames - Los Angeles CA, US
Tim Millen - Walnut Creek CA, US
Diane Reichenberger - Los Angeles CA, US
Michael Slaby - Evanston IL, US
William Dustin Young - Denver CO, US

G06Q 30/00, G06Q 20/00

705 18, 705 272

A first person can give a gift by using a mobile phone or other communications device to access a central computing system to which a gift and a second person (the intended recipient of the gift) can be identified by the first person. Thereafter, the central computing system transmits a unique code to the mobile phone or other communications device of the second person. The code can then be given by the second person, verbally or by transmission or display by his/her mobile phone, to a retailer of the gift. Upon validation by the retailer, such as by communication between the retailer's point-of-sale system and the central computing system, the retailer provides the gift identified by the first person.

2011005, Mar 10, 2011

Sep 4, 2009

12/554443

Karl Denzer - Denver CO, US
William D. Young - Denver CO, US

PAYCODE SYSTEMS, INC. - Denver CO

G06F 17/00

235375, 235379

There is disclosed a method, computer program and system that support purchase transactions at merchants via a Payment ID generated on-demand and funded with a specific consumer-requested amount. The Payment ID, which could include but is not limited to a gift card ID, is then leveraged to complete a transaction at a merchant's point of sale (POS) system via the existing methods and processes inherent in the POS system. Also disclosed are related mechanisms to manage a secure database of Payment IDs and dynamically adjust the value tied to Payment IDs to account for any value due the customer from the merchant or other involved party.

6898599, May 24, 2005

Oct 26, 2001

10/039362

William J. Young - Golden CO, US
Janice L. Platt - Littleton CO, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F017/30

707 10

The present invention provides a method and system for viewing reports on a network. One embodiment of the present invention employs a temporary database for holding data to be used in the reports, where the data extracted from a source database. A format module formats the reports using the data in the temporary database, and an access module allows users to access the reports created by the format module.

2003002, Feb 6, 2003

Jul 31, 2001

09/922032

William Young - Golden CO, US
Janice Platt - Littleton CO, US

G06F012/00

707/204000

The present invention provides a method for database migration. It migrates a database in one single bulk migration without the loss of any data. It can accomplish bulk migration because it uses a wrapper script, which is a single instruction given at the command line, that automates, in succession, all the scripts required for the migration. Because the present invention migrates the entire database in one bulk, it uses very little system downtime. This is unlike prior art database migration schemes which may use not only a lot of system downtime, but requires the presence of a user during the entire migration. Because the present invention can be customized to work on various database models including production database models, it is an ideal database migration process, which various DBAs can use without the need to either alter their database, or change the procedure for the migration.