Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fish & Neave
  • Self-venting valve
    Patent number: 7219819
    Abstract: A valve assembly has a valve housing and a valve core body movable therewithin for providing a smooth and continuous outflow of liquid from a container, which may be unvented and rigid, through a liquid-out passageway, and provides an air-back passageway for drawing external air into the container. In a preferred embodiment, the core is rotatable within the housing by one-handed actuation. The air-back passageway is preferably a channel provided on the surface of the core body, and the liquid-out passageway is preferably provided between openings in the core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J Wayne Halfacre, John S Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J Matice, Stephen P DeHoff
  • Perimeter stiffening system for a foam mattress
    Patent number: 7219381
    Abstract: A stiffening system for the perimeter edges of a foam core mattress comprising a coil spring (or other spring-based) structure disposed along one or more perimeter edges (e.g., one or both side edges, the foot, the head, or a combinations thereof including the foot and both side edges) of a mattress having a foam sleeping area. The perimeter spring structure is rectangular or square in cross-section and provides sufficient stiffness for comfortable seating on the edges of the mattress and is joined to the foam core by planar fabric elements that span the joint between them and are attached to both. The sleep area provides the softness and other salutary effects of a foam sleeping surface while the stiffer spring perimeter element provides the rigidity need for comfortable seating and wear resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Dreamwell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Damewood, Richard F. Gladney
  • Software-to-hardware compiler
    Patent number: 7219342
    Abstract: A software-to-hardware compiler is provided that generates hardware constructs in programmable logic based on pure software constructs. More particularly, a high-level program language may be used to create a program using only software constructs that is compiled into hardware constructs. Optimizations may be made in the later stages of compilation to retime the circuit, allowing for maximum data flow. The hardware may make run-time decisions with respect to executing programmable logic blocks in parallel. The decisions may be at least partially based on a control flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Metzgen
  • Pancake spectrometer
    Patent number: 7217920
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for identification of chemical compounds in a sample based on differences in ion mobility, wherein the filter and detector electrodes are formed radially spaced on facing substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Mark C. Terrell
  • Personal area network with automatic attachment and detachment
    Patent number: 7218633
    Abstract: A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The unattached peripheral device (120) transmits an attach request to the hub device (110) with a selected address, receives a new address from the hub device to identify the unattached peripheral device (120), and communicates with the hub device (110) using the new address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: BBN Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Donaghey
  • Programmable logic device including multipliers and configurations thereof to reduce resource utilization
    Patent number: 7216139
    Abstract: In a programmable logic device having dedicated multiplier circuitry, some of the scan chain registers normally used for testing the device are located adjacent input registers of the multipliers. Those scan chain registers are ANDed with the input registers, and can be loaded with templates of ones and zeroes. This allows, e.g., subset multiplication if the least significant bits are loaded with zeroes and the remaining bits are loaded with ones. The multipliers preferably are arranged in blocks with other components, such as adders, that allow them to be configured as finite impulse response (FIR) filters. In such configurations, the scan chain registers can be used to load filter coefficients, avoiding the use of scarce logic and routing resources of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Chiao Kai Hwang, Gregory Starr
  • Seat
    Patent number: D542558
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro, Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542561
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D542564
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Seat
    Patent number: D543044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543047
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro, Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci
  • Sofa
    Patent number: D543380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: DeCoro Limited
    Inventor: Luca Ricci