Patents Examined by John K Fristone, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8613290
    Abstract: An anti-inundation and drainage structure for an anti-freeze faucet contains a tube body, a controlling valve, and a control assembly. The tube body includes a chamber, an inlet, an outlet, and a coupling hole. The controlling valve is fixed in the chamber and includes a housing, an axial bolt, a first check device, a connector, a second check device, a ceramic shifting piece, a ceramic fixing piece, and a positioning member. The control assembly is coupled with the coupling hole and includes a rotating member connecting with a rod in the chamber of the tube body, the rod has a hollow passage defined therein and an air port formed on one end thereof so as to couple with the rotating member, another end of the rod relative to the air port is inserted into the second segment of the slot of the connector of the controlling valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventor: Cheng-Hsuan Wu
  • Patent number: 6641571
    Abstract: Patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery are treated perioperatively with methylol transfer agents, such as Taurolidine. Patients undergoing crystalloid cardioplegia who are treated with taurolidine show reduced levels of IL-6 and increased levels of IL-10 when compared to crystalloid cardioplegia patients administered a placebo. Crystalloid cardioplegia patients administered Taurolidine also show reduced levels of IL-6 and increased levels of IL-10 when compared to blood cardioplegia patients who were administered Taurolidine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Ed. Geistlich Soehne AG fuer Chemische Industrie
    Inventors: H. Paul Redmond, Rolf W. Pfirrmann