Patents Represented by Attorney Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

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  • Pico cell system access using cellular communications network
    Patent number: 8059582
    Abstract: A network device sends information on at least one cell of second cell layer of a second technology access network, the at least one cell of second cell layer being located in an area of a cell of first cell layer of a first technology access network, wherein the information comprises location information of the at least one cell of second cell layer. A mobile device receives this information and performs calculations based on this information serving to aid in a process of entering into a wanted cell of the second cell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: NOKIA Corporation
    Inventor: Leif Friman
  • Configuring method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8060125
    Abstract: An apparatus, including a determining unit for determining one or more applicable radio selections including one or more radio interfaces for use by one or more communication applications, a ranking unit for ranking the applicable radio selections to an order of superiority according to a predefined ranking criterion, and a selecting unit for selecting a radio selection, of the one or more applicable radio selections, for use by the one or more communication applications on the basis of the order of superiority of the radio selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Seppo Granlund, Arto Karppanen, Eero Sillasto, Enrico Rantala
  • Connector and interposer using the same
    Patent number: 8057241
    Abstract: A connector includes a movable conductive element and an elastic body. The connector electrically conducts between opposed external electrodes disposed vertically. The movable conductive element has a pair of rigid contact. And the elastic body deforms elastically to receive the load caused by the movement of the movable conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Akira Tamura
  • Stent having circumferentially deformable struts
    Patent number: 8057531
    Abstract: A method of treating a bodily lumen with a stent including disposing a stent within a bodily lumen in which the stent has a plurality of deformable struts that are substantially circumferentially aligned is described. The deformable struts are configured to selectively deform in a circumferential direction in localized regions in the struts upon application of an outward radial force. The stent is expanded by applying the outward radial force which causes selective deformation of the deformable struts in a localized region in the struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Huang, David C. Gale
  • Tripod constant-velocity joint
    Patent number: 8057312
    Abstract: A needle bearing functioning as a rolling element comprises a uniform-diameter body part and bottom surfaces shaped in flat surfaces. A tapered reduced-diameter part and a chamfered part are interposed between the body part and the bottom surface. A gentle reduction in diameter is first made by the tapered reduced-diameter part, and then a relatively sharp reduction in diameter is made by the chamfered part. Consequently, in the needle bearings adjacent to each other, their tapered reduced-diameter parts are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunta Osako
  • Methods for coating implantable medical devices
    Patent number: 8057844
    Abstract: Methods for coating an implantable medical device, such as a stent, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yung-Ming Chen, Henjen Ho
  • Method for planarization of wafer and method for formation of isolation structure in top metal layer
    Patent number: 8058175
    Abstract: The invention discloses a planarization method for a wafer having a surface layer with a recess, comprises: forming an etching-resist layer on the surface layer to fill the entire recess; etching the etching-resist layer and the surface layer, till the surface layer outside the recess is flush to or lower than the bottom of the recess, the etching speed of the surface layer being higher than that of the etching-resist layer; removing the etching-resist layer; and etching the surface layer to a predetermined depth. The method can avoid concentric ring recesses on the surface of the wafer resulted from a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in the prior art, and can be used to obtain a wafer surface suitable for optical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Xianyong Pu, Yi'nan Han, Yiqun Chen
  • Compositions and methods of administering paclitaxel with other drugs using medical devices
    Patent number: 8057816
    Abstract: Systems and compositions comprising paclitaxel and a second drug, such as rapamycin, analogs, derivatives, salts and esters thereof are disclosed, as well as methods of delivery wherein the drugs have effects that complement each other. Medical devices comprising supporting structures capable of including or supporting a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient, which carrier or excipient can contain one or more therapeutic agents or substances, with the carrier preferably including a coating on the surface thereof, and the coating including the therapeutic substances, such as, for example, drugs. Supporting structures for the medical devices that are suitable for use in this invention include coronary stents, peripheral stents, catheters, arterio-venous grafts, by-pass grafts, and drug delivery balloons used in the vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: John L. Toner, Sandra E. Burke, Keith R. Cromack, Matthew Mack
  • Drug delivery from stents
    Patent number: 8057814
    Abstract: An intravascular stent has a coat comprising a crosslinked amphiphilic polymer and a sparingly water soluble matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor (MMPI). Preferably the polymer is formed from 2-methacryloyloxy-2?-ethyltrimethylammonium phosphate inner salt, C4-18 alkyl methacrylate and reactive and/or crosslinking monomer and the MMPI is a hydroxamic acid, more preferably batimastat. Preclinical and clinical results are reported, showing good luminal areas and reduced intimal thickening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Andrew L. Lewis, Peter W. Stratford, Michael J. Driver
  • Compositions for achieving a therapeutic effect in an anatomical structure and methods of using the same
    Patent number: 8057824
    Abstract: Compositions and methods of using the compositions to achieve a therapeutic effect are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Wouter E. Roorda, Stephen D. Pacetti
  • Bioabsorbable stent with layers having different degradation rates
    Patent number: 8057876
    Abstract: A bioabsorbable stent including a stent scaffolding formed from polymer layers with different degradation rates is disclosed. The polymer layers include an abluminal layer, a luminal layer, and optionally one or more middle layers. A degradation rate of the layers increases from the luminal layer to the abluminal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Yunbing Wang
  • Image reading device
    Patent number: 8054511
    Abstract: An image reading device to read an image carried on a document, including: an image reading section to read an image carried on a document; a polygonal member, mounted to face the image reading section, and spaced from the image reading section at a predetermined distance, the polygonal member includes a document feeding flat surface which faces the image reading section when the document is fed thereon, a white flat surface, and a black flat surface; a light source to emit light rays onto the image carried on the document, and onto the polygonal member when the document is not fed; and a control section to control an amount of the light rays emitted from the light source; wherein the control section corrects an amount of light rays concerning the white color and the black color, based on the amount of the light rays read by the image reading section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Aoki, Hideyuki Umeno
  • Thermal treatment of a drug eluting implantable medical device
    Patent number: 8053019
    Abstract: A coating and a method of coating an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is disclosed. The method includes subjecting the coating to a thermal condition such as a temperature above the glass transition temperature of a polymer included in the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed F. A. Hossainy, Fuh-Wei Tang, Stephen D. Pacetti, Jeff Royal, Dorie M. Happ, Kurt Scheinpflug, Ty Hu
  • Vehicle lighting device
    Patent number: 8052312
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device is provided to maintain a viewability of light even when seen from a diagonal direction having a predetermined angle to an irradiation direction of the lighting device. The vehicle lighting device includes a board, which includes an array of a plurality of light sources. The vehicle lighting device also includes wall portions that bulge in an irradiation direction of the light sources from edge surfaces of the board. The wall portions also form a polygon surrounding the board. At least one of the wall portions includes a reflective surface on a side facing the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Koji Komiya, Mutsumi Katayama
  • Aggregated harq report
    Patent number: 8054789
    Abstract: A system and method include a base station configured to provide centralized data transmission scheduling for at least one relay operatively connected to the base station configured to provide centralized data transmission scheduling for at least one relay operatively connected to the base station in a point-to-point connection and configured to provide centralized data transmission scheduling for at least one mobile station operatively connected to the relay in a point-to-multipoint connection. The method efficiently reports ACKs/NAKs for a centralized scheduler wireless system that uses tunneling for data transmission and, in order to reduce a usage of bandwidth for reporting. The system and method also perform an aggregation via coding of ACK/NAK channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Adrian Boariu, Shashikant Maheshwari, Yousuf Saifullah
  • Configurable feed-forward circuit for a power supply
    Patent number: 8054060
    Abstract: A switched mode power supply unit realized by an integrated circuit comprising a control circuit controlling the operation of the switched mode power supply unit, wherein the control circuit is configured to provide a plurality of different circuit configurations for different operating environments. The circuit configuration for the control circuit is defined by a control signal received by the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Coporation
    Inventors: Martti Ojanen, Hannu Virta
  • Xenon CT apparatus, method of determining arterial blood rate constant, and method for calculating blood flow
    Patent number: 8054936
    Abstract: In a blood flow measuring apparatus, a data processor in a computer determines three parameters from a (?CT value of CT image data corresponding to) time-course change, consisting of a test region rate constant K, an arterial blood rate constant Ka, and a xenon partition coefficient ?. A blood flow f is determined using the determined rate constant K, and the xenon partition coefficient ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Anzai Medical Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeru Sase
  • Mounting assembly for a stent and a method of using the same to coat a stent
    Patent number: 8051798
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a stent and a method of coating a stent using the assembly are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed F. A. Hossainy, Charles Snyder, Anh Tran, Arthur J. Wen
  • Temperature controlled crimping
    Patent number: 8052912
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a method for crimping a polymeric stent onto a catheter for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or other intraluminal interventions. The method comprises crimping the stent onto a catheter when the polymer is at a target temperature other than ambient temperature. The polymer can optionally comprise drug(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Gale, Bin Huang, Anthony Abbate, Stephen D. Pacetti
  • Flexible order structure
    Patent number: 8055550
    Abstract: An order processing system includes an order structure in which an order includes multiple objects representing items being purchased, shipping methods, payment parameters, and other parts of an order. The order can include one or more of each of the types of objects. Items in the order can be divided among shipping methods and payment mechanisms using a relationship model to describe the relationships between the different types of objects. Shipping methods and payment mechanisms also can be related. The order may be represented as an order object, which represents the order and can be related to particular shipping methods and payment mechanisms. Relationship objects describe the relationships between objects. Relationship objects can use different relationship types to characterize the extent of the specified relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Art Technology Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Parasirakis, Tareef S. Kawaf