Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the cellular transmitter is made. The location data is then communicated to a tracking service system, which tracking service system includes a database representative of geographic locations associated with a plurality of cellular receivers. The database is then queried with received location data so as to generate geographic tracking data associated with a location of the cellular receiver, the geographic tracking data including display data adapted to generate a map image including a representative of a location of the selected asset.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. The method includes the step of linking at least one portable transmitter system with a selected asset. A cellular communication is then initiated from the at least one portable transmission system to an associated device controller. Primary location information representing the cellular area from which the cellular communication is made is then communicated to the device controller. A secondary location system is then initiated in accordance with the location information. The secondary location information, from the portable transmission system, is then broadcast and received into a tracking system. The method of asset location includes the steps of simultaneously monitoring a plurality of portable transmission system communications, and generating fee data representing each of a plurality of monitored portable data transmissions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for locating and tracking a portable transmitter that may be deposited with currency or other items desired to be tracked, comprising a doppler antenna array, analog antenna switching, radio frequency and intermediate frequency circuitry and a digital signal processor, exhibiting increasing sensitivity, accuracy, and range.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a vacuum bell assembly for assisting an obstetrician in controlling and accurately attaching the cranial traction cup to a predetermined attachment point on the infant's head during childbirth. The handle is typically designed to offer a measure of flexibility when pulling traction is applied during use so that even if the obstetrician is not pulling exactly on a straight axis, the cup will not be disengaged from it's attachment to the fetal scalp thereby interrupting the delivery process. The vacuum bell assembly has a cranial extraction cup fabricated from a soft, readily expandable material. This reduces the chances of injury to the fetal scalp and to the tender tissue of the vaginal walls in the birth canal. The cranial traction cup defines an internal attachment chamber having an outer opening for attaching the cup to a portion of an infant's head located within the internal attachment chamber.

Abstract: A filter for obstetrical fluids and particulate matter having an enclosure containing a first chamber and a second chamber is disclosed. The first chamber has a solid partition forming first and second cavities in the first chamber. The first cavity has an inlet and the second cavity has an outlet. The second chamber contains a filter and the edge of the partition is pressed against the surface of the filter.

Abstract: Contact lens disinfecting apparatus is provided having first and second lens-holding chambers, an electrically conductive heat sink thermally coupled to said chambers, electrically energizable heater thermally and electrically coupled to the heat sink, a thermostat, a second heat sink coupled to the thermostat and a thermally and electrically conductive heat transfer member connected between the heater and the second heat sink.

Abstract: A packing media for column chromatography having multiple separation characteristics comprises adsorbent carbon powder particles adhered to the surfaces of individual particles of a molecular size exclusion gel polymer.

Abstract: The specification discloses an improved internal surgical stapler in which staples are pushed by a comb-like ram out of a magazine of a frame and are clinched by an anvil hinged to the frame and releasably latched to the frame by a latch. The latch includes a latch rod having a thumb grip and also provided with a leaf spring catch. The rod normally is in a retracted position in which its forward end is in the magazine. Then, when the user grips the thumb grip and the anvil and squeezes, the anvil is swung toward the magazine to clamp layers to be stapled and the rod is pushed out of the magazine and into a leaf spring latch in the anvil and latches. The rod is splined to the magazine until the end of this latching movement. To release the latch, the thumb grip is turned to turn the rod to move barbs on the rod out of latching holes in arms of the leaf spring catch.

Abstract: An electronic control actuating system having signal transmitting or injector means and signal receiving means. The signal transmitting means includes a plurality of self-contained oscillator circuits, each oscillator circuit capable of producing an independent radio frequency output signal and wherein the oscillating circuits are adapted to be selectively positioned relative to an actuator means capable of sequentially supplying energy to each of the oscillator circuits for effecting an output of a plurality of sequentially transmitted coded signals.