Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Clarke A. Wixon
  • Liquid end assembly for a handheld multichannel pipette with adjustable nozzle spacing
    Patent number: 7947234
    Abstract: A handheld multichannel pipette includes multiple fluid-handling nozzles and a rotary adjustment mechanism for adjusting the width of a pattern of nozzles while maintaining equal spacing between pairs of nozzles. Embodiments of the adjustable-spacing multichannel pipette include an adjustable stop mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. O'Connell, Nicholas R. Vitale
  • Temple-bar-less eyeglasses
    Patent number: 7832855
    Abstract: Temple-bar-less eyeglasses eliminate the temple bars, ear pieces, and hinges of traditional eyeglasses in favor of a flexible tether system attaching to the lenses of the eyeglasses, which sits atop the wearer's ears and connects behind the wearer's head. The temple-bar-less eyeglasses are comfortable, light in weight, resistant to damage and breakage, and customizable as desired by the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Inventor: Robert Stovall
  • Hybrid manual-electronic pipette
    Patent number: 7819030
    Abstract: A hybrid manual-electronic pipette combines a manually driven piston with real-time electronic measurement of liquid volume and piston displacement while compensating for both pipette-specific and pipette model-specific variations. The hybrid nature of the pipette facilitates increased accuracy and improved ease of use, and enables additional functionalities not practicable with traditional manual pipettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Haakon T. Magnussen, James S. Petrek, William D. Homberg
  • Hybrid manual-electronic pipette
    Patent number: 7788986
    Abstract: A hybrid manual-electronic pipette combines a manually driven piston with real-time electronic measurement of liquid volume and piston displacement while compensating for both pipette-specific and pipette model-specific variations. The hybrid nature of the pipette facilitates increased accuracy and improved ease of use, and enables additional functionalities not practicable with traditional manual pipettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Haakon T. Magnussen, James S. Petrek, William D. Homberg, Christian K. Apple
  • Hybrid manual-electronic pipette
    Patent number: 7770475
    Abstract: A hybrid manual-electronic pipette combines a manually driven piston with real-time electronic measurement of liquid volume and piston displacement while compensating for both pipette-specific and pipette model-specific variations. The hybrid nature of the pipette facilitates increased accuracy and improved ease of use, and enables additional functionalities not practicable with traditional manual pipettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Haakon T. Magnussen, James S. Petrek, William D. Homberg, Andrew Vainshtein, Christian K. Apple
  • Hybrid manual-electronic pipette
    Patent number: 7726212
    Abstract: A hybrid manual-electronic pipette combines a manually driven piston with real-time electronic measurement of liquid volume and piston displacement while compensating for both pipette-specific and pipette model-specific variations. The hybrid nature of the pipette facilitates increased accuracy and improved ease of use, and enables additional functionalities not practicable with traditional manual pipettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Haakon T. Magnussen, Andrew Vainshtein, James S. Petrek, William D. Homberg
  • System and method for extracting data from audio messages
    Patent number: 6249765
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting key information from digitized audio messages, including telephone voice messages. Information, such as a telephone number and the name of the caller, is derived and extracted from a voice message and used to establish links to the information within the message. The telephone number and name of the caller can then be replayed without the need to replay the entire voice message. The telephone number and name of the caller can also be used as indices into an information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Annette M. Adler, Kenneth P. Fishkin, Catherine C. Marshall, Alexander E. Silverman, Todd A. Cass
  • Handheld pipette
    Patent number: D672469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth V. Christensen, Joshua Todd Druker, Tark Abed, Martin Aaron Leugers