Patents by Inventor Stefania Spada

Stefania Spada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD FOR DESIGNING A PROTECTIVE GLOVE TO BE USED IN PERFORMING A CYCLE OF MANUAL OPERATIONS IN AN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LINE, AND GLOVE DESIGNED BY THIS METHOD
    Publication number: 20130055482
    Abstract: There is described a method for designing and manufacturing a protective glove, to be used for imparting slight knocks in performing a cycle of manual operations in an industrial production line and for absorbing the counter-knock received when using a tool or equipment gripped by the operator during said operating cycle. There are provided means for sensing the forces the various areas of the hand are subjected to during said operating cycle, and signals of said sensor means are processed so as to obtain a classification of the areas of the hand according to the value of the forces to which they are subjected. The glove is designed having areas that provide differentiated protections, having pads of different thickness calculated as a function of the aforementioned classification of the various areas of the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: FIAT GROUP AUTOMOBILES S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paola D'Aprile, Sebastiano Lamacchia, Davide Lionello, Stefania Spada, Paolo Marchetti
  • Polypeptide factor from a thermophilic eubacterial species and use thereof in the production of functional, heterologous proteins in an expression host
    Patent number: 7723072
    Abstract: A polypeptide factor derived from the thermophilic eubacterial species Thermus thermophilus has universal protein expression-assisting activity. The polypeptide factor has been named the CzrB protein active in full length or truncated form has the potential to act as a universal protein expression-assisting molecule which can increase the yields of all heterologous proteins produced in E. coli by a mechanism that is independent of the protein being expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: University of Limerick
    Inventors: Joseph Tony Pembroke, Stefania Spada, John Gerard Wall
  • Polypeptide factor from a thermophilic eubacterial species and use thereof in the production of functional, heterologous proteins in an expression host
    Publication number: 20060216783
    Abstract: A polypeptide factor derived from the thermophilic eubacterial species Thermus thermophilus has universal protein expression-assisting activity. The polypeptide factor has been named the CzrB protein active in full length or truncated form has the potential to act as a universal protein expression-assisting molecule which can increase the yields of all heterologous proteins produced in E. coli by a mechanism that is independent of the protein being expressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Joseph Pembroke, Stefania Spada, John Wall
  • Polypeptide factor from a thermophilic eubacterial species and use thereof in the production of functional, heterologous proteins in an expression host
    Publication number: 20040253592
    Abstract: A polypeptide factor derived from the thermophilic eubacterial species Thermus thermophilus has universal protein expression-assisting activity. The polypeptide factor has been named the CzrB protein active in full length or truncated form has the potential to act as a universal protein expression-assisting molecule which can increase the yields of all heterologous proteins produced in E. coli by a mechanism that is independent of the protein being expressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Joseph Tony Pembroke, Stefania Spada, John Gerard Wall