Patents Represented by Attorney Venable LLP
  • Patent number: 8275571
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment, the present invention sets forth a method for correlating at least one weapon firing event to at least one scoring event. The method comprising: receiving information relating to a first scoring event; receiving information relating to a first weapon firing event; calculating an angle between a reference line, extending from location of the first weapon event to the location of the first scoring event, and the reference direction at the first computing device; comparing the time of the first scoring event to the time of the weapon firing event at the first computing device; comparing the angle of incidence for the projectile to the calculated angle at the first computing device; and identifying whether the weapon firing event and the scoring event are an unambiguous, one-to-one pairings at the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: AAI Corporation
    Inventor: Niall B. McNelis
  • Patent number: 8274088
    Abstract: A fabrication method of a surface-emitting laser element includes a step of preparing a conductive GaN multiple-region substrate including a high dislocation density high conductance region, a low dislocation density high conductance region and a low dislocation density low conductance region, as a conductive GaN substrate; a semiconductor layer stack formation step of forming a group III-V compound semiconductor layer stack including an emission layer on the substrate; and an electrode formation step of forming a semiconductor layer side electrode and a substrate side electrode. The semiconductor layer and electrodes are formed such that an emission region into which carriers flow in the emission layer is located above and within the span of the low dislocation density high conductance region. Thus, a surface-emitting laser element having uniform light emission at the emission region can be obtained with favorable yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsubara, Hirohisa Saito, Fumitake Nakanishi, Shinji Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 8273610
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including, providing a first monocrystalline layer including semiconductor regions, overlaying the first monocrystalline layer with an isolation layer, transferring a second monocrystalline layer comprising semiconductor regions to overlay the isolation layer, wherein the first monocrystalline layer and the second monocrystalline layer are formed from substantially different crystal materials; and subsequently etching the second monocrystalline layer as part of forming at least one transistor in the second monocrystalline layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: MonolithIC 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist, Israel Beinglass, Ze'ev Wurman, Paul Lim
  • Patent number: 8267450
    Abstract: An elevator for gripping and lifting a riser joint or several interconnected riser joints of a completion and work over riser. A body includes a through bore for receiving a production pipe of a riser joint. The through bore is accessible via a longitudinal opening in the body. The body includes at least one locking device including a hydraulic cylinder. A piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder is moveable to and fro between an unlocking position, in which the piston rod allows a production pipe of a riser joint to pass into or out of the through bore via the longitudinal opening, and a locking position, in which the piston rod prevents a production pipe received in the through bore from passing out of the through bore via the longitudinal opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS
    Inventors: Jon Olav Aarhus, Oystein Windsland
  • Patent number: 8269215
    Abstract: n-type organic semiconductors have a pyromellitic diimide structure and electronic or electro-optic devices include pyromellitic diimide compounds as organic semiconductors. Specific semiconductors include pyromellitic diimide compounds have sidechains comprising fluorine substituted aliphatic or aromatic moieties linked to the pyromellitic diimide structure by an alkylene or heteroalkylene linking group. An electronic or electro-optic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode space apart from the first electrode, and an organic semiconductor layer arranged between the first and second electrodes. The organic semiconductor layer comprises a pyromellitic diimide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Howard Edan Katz, Qingdong Zheng, Byung Jun Jung
  • Patent number: 8267902
    Abstract: A syringe including a front end and a rear end. A front portion of the syringe having an axially extending hollow needle that projects from the front end. The rear end of the needle is in fluid communication with a space that extends substantially to the rear end of the syringe. A plunger extends axially and is movable to and fro in the space and is designed such that, when drawn out, it sucks liquid through the needle and, when pressed in, discharges liquid through the needle. A radially projecting flange element in the front portion of the syringe is designed in such a way that it can be gripped between the thumb and middle finger of a user's hand. The syringe is dimensioned so as to permit injection using the index finger of the same hand. A capsule device for at least partially accommodating a syringe. A syringe device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Insulution Svenska AB
    Inventor: Patrick Martinsson
  • Patent number: 8270232
    Abstract: A reference voltage selecting unit selectively outputs a first external reference voltage and a second external reference voltage as a selection reference voltage in accordance with whether to perform a wafer test. An address buffer generates an internal address by buffering an external address in accordance with the selection reference voltage. A command buffer generates an internal command by buffering an external command in accordance with the selection reference voltage. A data buffer generates internal data by buffering to an external data in accordance with the second external reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Khil-Ohk Kang
  • Patent number: 8268864
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising an anticholinergic and at least one leukotriene inhibitor for treatment of respiratory diseases, including allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, COPD and common cold, and methods of treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Meda Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Beatrix Fyrnys, Torsten Hoffmann, Mario Weingart, Istvan Szelenyi, Peter Jurgen Cnota, Ullrich Munzel, Ursula Petzold, Joachim Maus
  • Patent number: 8267690
    Abstract: A device for simulating fire effects in military or civilian combat training. The device includes a light source configured to produce light beams and a light source control adapted to control a light lobe formed by the light beams from the light source. The light source control includes a two-dimensional array of elements electronically controllable to assume a selected state among at least a first state of letting through light incident thereupon in a main direction of the light lobe or a second state of not letting through the light incident thereupon in the main direction, and a unit adapted to control the elements for designing the spatial propagation of the light lobe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Saab AB
    Inventors: Håkan Stennert, Ingemar Emricson, Mats Forselius
  • Patent number: 8267166
    Abstract: An arrangement for heat transport used for thermally insulating, or cooling, one or several elements. A casing is arranged to enclose a medium having heat-storing or cooling capacity. The casing has an internal space for receiving the element or elements and the medium with the medium surrounding the element or elements. The arrangement includes guides arranged in the internal space of the casing so as to guide the medium in the internal space such that a circulation and mixing of the fluid will be generated essentially throughout the internal space under the action of occurring temperature differences in the medium, whereby the natural tendency for temperature stratification of the medium is counteracted or eliminated. A corresponding method, the use of an arrangement for protecting a subsea installation or a part thereof from cooling, and use of an arrangement for efficient cooling an electrical appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS
    Inventors: Per Damsleth, Rune Killie, Per Kristian Grønlund
  • Patent number: 8268151
    Abstract: Methods and relative devices are illustrated for generating time-variable electric fields suitable for determining the creation of closed dielectrophoretic cages able to trap inside even single particles without the cages being necessarily positioned at relative minimum points of the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Biosystems S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Medoro, Nicolo Manaresi
  • Patent number: 8262194
    Abstract: An inkjet printer (10) comprising: an inkjet printing head (32); a service station (101) provided for the maintenance of the printing head (32) and having a protective cap (102), in turn adapted to be coupled in contact with a front surface (32b, 32c) of the printing head (32) to protect it; and a cleaning device (110), associated with the service station, wherein the cleaning device (110) comprises a receptacle (104) adapted to be moved between a first operative position (P5), in which the receptacle (104) is arranged between the protective cap (102) and the front surface of the printing head (32) to receive a determined amount of ink ejected, in the form of drops, by the printing head (32) during programmed cleaning cycles, and a second operative position (P6), in which the receptacle (104) is laterally displaced with respect to the protective cap (102), to allow the contact coupling between the printing head (32) and the protective cap (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mario Manzone, Fabio Dondi
  • Patent number: 8263293
    Abstract: In a monolithic ink jet printhead, a structural layer is made comprising cavities, obtained from the polymerization of a solution of a monomer, or an oligomer, and a photointiator; during the polymerization by radiation, acid species are unduly generated in zones protected by a mask, due to reflection of the radiation on reflecting surfaces of the support of the sructural layer; these acid species cause undue polymerization of the solution on the inside of the cavities to oppose the formation of these acid species, a polymerzation inhibitor basic compound is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fulvio Cominetti, Luigina Gino
  • Patent number: 8264876
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory cell is formed in a semiconductor. The semiconductor memory cell includes: a floating body region defining at least a portion of a surface of the semiconductor memory cell, the floating body region having a first conductivity type; and a buried region located within the semiconductor memory cell and located adjacent to the floating body region, wherein the buried region has a second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Zeno Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuniarto Widjaja, Zvi Or-Bach
  • Patent number: 8264875
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory cell is formed in a semiconductor. The semiconductor memory cell includes: a floating body region defining at least a portion of a surface of the semiconductor memory cell, the floating body region having a first conductivity type; and a buried region located within the semiconductor memory cell and located adjacent to the floating body region, wherein the buried region has a second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Zeno Semiconducor, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuniarto Widjaja, Zvi Or-Bach
  • Patent number: 8264765
    Abstract: A light source including a light emitting unit, a nonlinear medium, and a resonant grating. The light emitting unit is arranged to emit a first light into the nonlinear medium. The nonlinear medium is arranged to generate a second light such that an optical frequency of the second light is higher than an optical frequency of the first light. The resonant grating is arranged to stabilize an optical frequency of the first light by providing optical feedback to the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: EpiCrystals Oy
    Inventors: Tuomas Vallius, Pietari Tuomisto, Janne Konttinen
  • Patent number: 8265113
    Abstract: In a III-nitride semiconductor laser device, a laser structure includes a support base comprised of a hexagonal III-nitride semiconductor and having a semipolar primary surface, and a semiconductor region provided on the semipolar primary surface of the support base. An electrode is provided on the semiconductor region of the laser structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshizumi, Shimpei Takagi, Takatoshi Ikegami, Masaki Ueno, Koji Katayama
  • Patent number: 8263409
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating or supervising one or more internal mechanical properties of a metal alloy object with a known chemical composition based on the resistivity of the metal alloy object. The apparatus includes a device for measuring the resistivity of the metal alloy object, and a computation unit adapted to calculate the content of dissolved alloying elements in the metal alloy object based on the measured resistivity and the known chemical composition of the metal alloy, and based thereon to calculate at least one internal mechanical property of the metal alloy object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Sten Linder, Lennart Thegel
  • Patent number: D666815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: JenUSA Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Janus
  • Patent number: D667168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Headblade, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Greene