Patents Represented by Attorney Law Offices of Brain S. Steinberger, P.A.
  • Patent number: 7897047
    Abstract: Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the stored stormwater into the in-situ treatment unit to sorb nitrogen from the stored stormwater. A second embodiment provides uses a riprap apron, a perforated riser located at the bottom of the riprap apron and a goetextile media encased in a sorption media jacket around the perforated riser. A third embodiment provides a green roof stormwater treatment system that includes protection for waterproofing and insulating the roof, a pollution control media layer for filtration and sorption of solids and dissolved materials found in stormwater, a growing media for growing vegetation, and a cistern to store the runoff stormwater between irrigation events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin P. Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang
  • Patent number: 7611823
    Abstract: Image formation via photoinduced fluorescence changes in a polymeric medium with two-photon fluorescence readout of a multi-layer structure. Fluorophore-containing polymers, possessing one or more basic functional groups, underwent protonation in the presence of a photoinduced acid generator upon exposure to a broad-band UV light source or fast-pulsed red to near-IR laser irradiation. Solution studies demonstrated formation of monoprotonated and diprotonated species upon irradiation, each resulting in distinctly different absorption and fluorescence properties. The fluorescence of the original, neutral, fluorophore was reduced upon monoprotonation leading to a concomitant increase in fluorescence at longer wavelengths due to the monoprotonated form, the basis for multichannel data readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin D. Belfield
  • Patent number: D580624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: EuroAsia Products, Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Bowers