Kenneth MooreManassas, VA

6357374, Mar 19, 2002

Jul 21, 2000

09/621611

Kenneth J. Moore - Great Falls VA
Thomas D. Ryan - McLean VA
Vladimir A. Gorban - Kiev, UA
Victor V. Babenko - Kiev, UA

Cortana Corporation - Falls Church VA

B63B 138

114 67A, 244130

In an apparatus and method for ejecting an additive for significantly reducing the drag of a first fluid moving relative to a wall, a drag-reducing substance is conditioned by causing a second fluid, which includes the drag-reducing substance as a dispersed solid, liquid or gas, to flow through a nozzle. The second fluid is then passed by a vortex chamber prior to ejection of the second fluid into the first fluid via an aperture that includes a Coanda surface on a portion thereof. Additional techniques are also disclosed which increase the effectiveness and efficiency of ejecting a drag-reducing substance into a fluid that is moving relative to a wall, and which thus enable multiple layers to be established without the undesirable disruption of the boundary layer and without the rapid diffusion of the additives across the boundary layer that occur in prior art ejection techniques.

8039055, Oct 18, 2011

Jan 2, 2008

11/968573

Kenneth J. Moore - Great Falls VA, US
Thomas D. Ryan - Jenson Beach FL, US
Christopher M. Moore - Arlington VA, US
Timothy A. Boyce - Centreville VA, US

Cortana Corporation - Falls Church VA

B05D 5/00
B63B 1/34

427256, 114 67 A, 114 67 R

A method for increasing the efficiency of additive drag reduction by establishing a drag-reducing viscoelastic coating on a surface. The method includes mixing a polymer into a concentrated solution that has approximately the same density as a fluid flowing over the surface, ejecting the mixture/solution into the flowing fluid in a manner such that a coating of polymer, which initially grows thicker with time, is adsorbed onto the surface, and reducing the ejection rate of the first fluid such that the coating of polymer then grows thinner with time. These steps may be repeated so that a desired minimum coating thickness is maintained over an extended period of time. The method reduces the polymer expenditure rate for a given drag reduction. Moreover, the produced viscoelastic coating impedes the attachment and growth of drag-producing natural organisms and may be applied without “down-time” (e. g. , while underway).

2010013, Jun 3, 2010

Dec 3, 2008

12/314027

Kevin Harkins - McLean VA, US
Kenneth Kyle Moore - Plainfield CT, US

G06F 15/16

709203

The present invention provides a computer-aided method and system for creating an integrated interactive competencies-based personnel information system for personnel managers to use in recruitment and hiring, professional development and training and employee evaluation. The system generates a toolbox which consists of a job advertisement tool, a screening tool, an interview guide tool, a professional development tool, and an evaluation tool. All of these tools use information on the competencies required by position in a particular business establishment. The system also produces a hiring guide that takes users step-by-step through the recruitment and hiring process, including easy-to-follow directions and sample forms.

4399507, Aug 16, 1983

Jun 30, 1981

6/280417

Michael R. Cosgrove - late of Haymarket VA
Alexander H. Frey - Cabin John MD
Kenneth A. Moore - Manassas VA
Abraham Peled - San Jose CA
Frederic N. Ris - Mohegan Lake NY
William W. Sproul - Reston VA

IBM Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 928

364200

An instruction pipeline for a data processor is disclosed, in which instruction execution is carried out in a sequence of phases which include fetching the instruction from an instruction storage, computing a data storage address from the fetched instruction, accessing the data storage at the computed address to obtain a datum operand, and then carrying out the logical or arithmetic operation on the accessed datum in accordance with the fetched instruction. Branch and stack instructions and return instructions are accommodated by providing a return address stack in the data storage, which stores the next instruction store address to be returned to after a return operation has been completed. Since the instruction address stack in the data storage cannot be directly accessed by the instruction fetching stage of the pipeline until several instruction execution phases have transpired, without degrading the performance of the pipeline, a stack register is provided in the instruction fetch stage of the pipeline which contains a duplicate of the instruction store address presently residing at the top of the instruction address stack. Then when a return instruction is encountered in the instruction fetch stage, the address of the next instruction to be returned to in the instruction storage is immediately available without interrupting the flow in the pipeline.