Patents Issued in June 25, 2013
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Patent number: D685143Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: John P. Hess
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Patent number: D685144Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Lee Bert Etheredge
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Patent number: D685145Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Worldwise, Inc.Inventor: Betty Lee
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Patent number: D685146Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Hueter Toledo, Inc.Inventor: Carey B. Stiles
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Patent number: D685147Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Bette A. Muir
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Patent number: D685148Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Kevin Khalili
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Patent number: D685150Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: BISSELL Homecare, Inc.Inventors: Meghan M. Raven, James Dangora, Adam Luedke
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Patent number: D685151Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David William Schuller, Richard Christopher Hagee, Ryan Robert Berger, Diana Woehnl Juratovac, Ranier Bernhard Teufel
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Patent number: D685152Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Chad Smith
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Patent number: D685153Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventors: Darren Brian Trowsdale, Michael Paul Howard
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Patent number: D685155Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.Inventors: William Budde, Giancarlo Miranda, Joseph Bradley Nolan, Katherine Dill, Alison Maiorano, William Koehler, Anthony Meredith, Jonathan Rowell, Howard Nuk, David Scott, Tanya Khakbaz, Charles Ambler, Hanna Wickholm
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Patent number: PP23683Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel lavender flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits vigorous growth and an upright to bushy habit with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KGInventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
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Patent number: PP23684Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Vaccinium hybrid plant named ‘C95-12’, characterized by its combination of upright to bushy plant shape and strong plant growth vigor, evergreen foliage with medium to late timing of vegetative bud burst, lateness of flowering and fruiting, large berry size with oblate shape, medium to firm fruit suited to handling, attractive dark blue fruit color and small picking scar, strong berry sweetness with medium acidity. This combination results in higher quality fruit with a later availability than other varieties.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignees: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., Costaexchange Ltd.Inventors: Gary Wright, Paul Lyrene
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Patent number: PP23685Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, medium vigorous, hardy, and very productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early September, with first picking on Sep. 8, 2011. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, full red in skin color, semi-clingstone in type, globose in shape, yellowish white in flesh color, firm in texture, and mildly sweet with a hint of coconut in flavor.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Lowell Glen Bradford
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Patent number: PP23686Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The present variety's abundance of blossoms and moderate pollen production entices strong bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during late July, with first picking on Jul. 25, 2011, and will hang on the tree for at least fifteen more days. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, red over a green background in skin color, clingstone in type, globose in shape, full red in flesh color, very firm and crisp in texture, and excellent in flavor.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Lowell Glen Bradford
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Patent number: PP23687Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The present variety's abundance of blossoms and pollen entices strong bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during mid September, with first picking on Sep. 18, 2011, and will hang on the tree for about fifteen more days. The fruit is uniformly large in size, red mottled over a yellow background in skin color, clingstone in type, globose in shape, yellowish orange to red in flesh color, firm and crisp in texture, and very good in flavor.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Lowell Glen Bradford
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Patent number: PP23688Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid to late season. The present variety produces a heavy bloom with an abundant amount of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the last half of July, with first picking on Jul. 23, 2011, and can hang on the tree for up to thirty days. The fruit is uniformly large in size, dark red in skin color, clingstone in type, globose in shape, dark red in flesh color, firm in texture, and excellent flavor.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Lowell Glen Bradford
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Patent number: PP23689Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree (Prunus persica), which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachtwentyeight’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 16 to May 24 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: The Burchell Nursery, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Gerdts, John K. Slaughter
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Patent number: PP23690Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy Hibiscus plant named ‘Kui Nuku’ is the result of a unique hybridization. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized primarily as to its novelty by its extreme cold hardiness to Zone 4, large thick-textured, magenta-pink flowers and its “Maple-shaped” leaves with a purple coloration, compactness of about 3 feet, its vigorous and uniform growth habit and its floriferous nature from midsummer until frost.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Gretchen Zwetzig
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Patent number: PP23691Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Echinacea, ‘Burgundy Fireworks’, characterized by its inflorescences with ray florets that are fused their entire length into tubes or “Quills” with the trait being consistently stable throughout the inflorescence, its ray florets that are deep purplish red in color and held upwards at a 15 to 30° angle to the horizontal plane of the inflorescence, its stems that are dark purplish red in color throughout the growing season, its long bloom period, and its uniform height of about 45 cm.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Chicagoland GrowsInventor: James Robert Ault
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Patent number: RE44308Abstract: A method for manufacturing a seamless pipe, capable of preventing the carburization phenomenon that occurs in a manufacturing process of pipe and simplifying an elongation rolling process, is provided. In this method, after piercing in the piercing rolling process, rolling is performed without using an inside regulating tool in the elongation rolling process, or without performing the elongation rolling followed by reducing rolling in a reducing rolling process, and thickening reducing the wall thickness is then performed by use of a cold mill or cold draw bench in a cold rolling process. According to this method, the trap of graphite fine particles in the inner and outer surfaces of the pipe that took place in the conventional elongation rolling process can be minimized to prevent the carburization of the pipe. The method of the present invention is effective, particularly as a measure for preventing the carburization of an ultra-low carbon stainless steel or high alloy steel.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventor: Chihiro Hayashi
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Patent number: RE44309Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of displaying directories differently based on attributes of files included therein. The present method examines a directory structure and the attributes of data files recorded on a recording medium, generates a mark for visually differentiating directories including at least one file of a pre-specified attribute, based on the examined attribute information, and displays a generated mark with the examined directory structure information. Owing to the present invention, a user can recognize directories including at least one file having a desired attribute at a glance, therefore, reproduction, selection, or copy for a file having a desirable attribute can be conducted very quickly.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Hwan Kim
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Patent number: RE44310Abstract: A container insert having at least two primary pieces, wherein one of the pieces includes keying features that may be replaceable with other pieces having different keying features. A related single piece container insert includes multiple keying features formed on the interior and exterior surfaces of the container insert. A related coupling assembly includes a venting system that vents a fluid into the container after a valve in the coupling assembly, which is positioned in the container contents flow path, has been opened.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Colder Products CompanyInventors: Richard Chadbourne, Thomas Anthony Braun, Charles Peter deCler, Brian J. Blenkush
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Patent number: RE44311Abstract: A control system is provided for use in a power tool. The control system includes: a rotational rate sensor having a resonating mass and a controller electrically connected to the rotational rate sensor. The rotational rate sensor detects lateral displacement of the resonating mass and generates a signal indicative of the detected lateral displacement, such that the lateral displacement is directly proportional to a rotational speed at which the power tool rotates about an axis of the rotary shaft. Based on the generated signal, the controller initiates a protective operation to avoid further undesirable rotation of the power tool. The controller may opt to reduce the torque applied to shaft to a non-zero value that enables the operator to regain control of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Uday Deshpande, John Charles Vanko, Jason Leh, Craig Schell, Thomas Jay Bodine, Joao Norona, David Beers
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Patent number: RE44312Abstract: An evaporation device is disclosed for evaporating volatile substances such as insecticides and aromatics of a type having a housing containing a heating block with a heating element, a container for a volatile substance to be evaporated, a wick having a wick end protruding out of the container into a wick opening in the heating block, a switching device for the activation and deactivation of the heating device, and an adjusting device for the adjustment of the degree of evaporation. Preferably, two heating elements with different heating capacity are carried by the heating block. The heating elements are operatively connected to the switching device to adjust the heat output of the heating device and the degree of evaporation of the volatile substance.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Pedro Queiroz Vieira
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Patent number: RE44313Abstract: Slotted cruise airfoil technology allows production of a substantially unswept wing that achieves the same cruise speed as today's conventional jet airplanes with higher sweep. This technology allows the wing boundary layer to negotiate a strong recovery gradient closer to the wing trailing edge. The result is about a cruise speed of Mach=0.78, but with a straight wing. It also means that for the same lift, the super velocities over the top of the wing can be lower. With very low sweep and this type of cruise pressure distribution, natural laminar flow will be obtained. In addition, heat is transferred from the leading edge of the wing and of the main flap to increase the extent of the natural laminar flow. The slotted cruise wing airfoil allows modularization of the wing and the body for a family of airplanes. The unsweeping of the wing significantly changes the manufacturing processes, reduces manufacturing costs and flow time from detail part fabrication to airplane delivery.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Robert H. Kelley-Wickemeyer, Peter Z. Anast, James Douglas McLean, Hilda Seidel
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Patent number: RE44314Abstract: In spite of an increase in the size of a liquid crystal display panel, it is possible to prevent the defective connection of a flexible wiring board to a transparent substrate of the liquid crystal display panel. A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of transparent substrates arranged to oppose each other across a liquid crystal, for which they are utilized to form a chamber, a plurality of pixels formed along a spreading direction of the liquid crystal, driving circuits for supplying video signals to the pixels, and a flexible wiring board for supplying signals to the input sides of the driving circuits from a substrate on which a control circuit is mounted, the flexible wiring board being divided into a plurality of portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Mishima, Shunsuke Morishita
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Patent number: RE44315Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing film or a polarizer that has an elastic modulus of at most about 3500 N/mm2 and suppresses occurrence of warping, the polarizing film is obtained by adsorbing a dichroic material in a polyvinyl alcohol-based film 20 ?m in thickness and stretching the film. The polarizing film has a transmittance of at least 43% and a polarization degree of at least 98%. A transparent protective layer is laminated on at least one surface of the polarizing film to form a polarizing plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Youichirou Sugino, Hisashi Mihara, Kazuhiro Higashio, Seiichi Kusumoto
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Patent number: RE44316Abstract: When uplink signalling radio bearers steal capacity from a user bearer, at least the amount of data waiting for transmission on a TBF established for the user bearer should be informed to the network. This can be done by using separate countdown values for each radio bearer, using a first countdown value for the bearer the TBF was established for and a second countdown value which indicates the total amount of data on stealing bearers, or by calculating a common countdown value indicating the total amount of data on all bearers using the TBF.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLCInventors: Janne Parantainen, Guillaume Sebire
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Patent number: RE44317Abstract: In a mobile communication system using both a discontinuous transmission scheme and a compressed mode transmission scheme, if a preamble and/or a postamble of a channel including control information for transmitting a specific channel overlaps a compressed mode (CM) gap, an overall transmission unit is not transmitted or remaining signals of the transmission unit excluding the preamble and/or the postamble overlapping the CM gap are transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dong Wook Roh, Bong Hoe Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Suk Hyon Yoon
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Patent number: RE44318Abstract: Methods of transmitting a control signal using efficient multiplexing are disclosed. One of the method includes the steps of multiplexing a plurality of 1-bit control signals within a prescribed time-frequency domain by code division multiple access (CDMA) and transmitting the multiplexed control signals, wherein a plurality of the 1-bit control signals include a plurality of the 1-bit control signals for a specific transmitting side. Accordingly, reliability on 1-bit control signal transmission can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Sung Duk Choi, Ki Jun Kim, Suk Hyon Yoon, Joon Kui Ahn, Bong Hoe Kim, Dong Youn Seo, Young Woo Yun, Jung Hoon Lee, Seong Hoon Jeong
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Patent number: RE44319Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for processing of data related to video wherein reduced bit depth intermediate calculations are enabled.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
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Patent number: RE44320Abstract: In order to transmit a large amount of data in series at a time with a MIMO communication scheme while avoiding deterioration of decoding characteristics due to change over time by a channel matrix, a wireless communication system uses an open-loop type and a closed-loop type of MIMO communication modes in combination and switches to the open-loop MIMO communication mode in response to the information that the amount of data to be transmitted at a time has exceeded a predetermined amount of bits or a predetermined transmission time during data transmission under the closed-loop MIMO communication mode. By discontinuing useless closed-loop MIMO communication and switching to the open-loop MIMO communication mode that is better than Zero-forcing, the decoding characteristics are prevented from simply becoming deteriorated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: RE44321Abstract: A portable data storage device receives data from a digital broadcast signal receiver that is adapted to separate the data from a digital broadcast signal. The portable data storage device includes a first transceiver that communicates with a second transceiver associated with the digital broadcast signal receiver and further includes a memory for storing the received data. A processor disposed within the portable data storage device controls the storage of the data and further causes a data request signal to be generated and transmitted to the digital broadcast signal receiver. A controller disposed within the digital broadcast signal receiver responds to the data request signal by causing the data separated from the digital broadcast signal to be transmitted via the second transceiver to the portable data storage device. The portable data storage device further includes a data communication port for transferring the data to a personal computer.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Tom L. Sorensen
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Patent number: RE44322Abstract: A mobile radio communication system of the cellular system wherein a base station and a mobile station are connected to each other. Particularly, a mobile radio communication system wherein transmission power control is performed by a base station constructed such that, at least with regard to a control signal, soft hand-off control wherein a mobile station and base stations are connected simultaneously to each other is performed, but with regard to any other signal other than the control signal, hard hand-off control is performed. By the construction, the communication capacity of the entire system can be increased and the stability can be maintained.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoya Yamaura, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Mitsuhiro Suzuki
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Patent number: RE44323Abstract: The present invention is a game playing method and apparatus for automating games such as blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, baccarat and pai gow, wherein players may play continuously and asynchronously, and information related to advertised items can be exchanged between players and advertisers. In one embodiment, each instance of a game is likely unique from all other current game instances. The games do not require a manual dealer and in one embodiment, played in a gaming establishment using low cost gaming stations. The present invention may also be used to play such games on the Internet or an interactive cable television network wherein a game controller communicates with players at network nodes in their homes and at their leisure since there is no game tempo requirement. During a game, advertising is selectively provided by comparing player personal information with a desired demographic profile. Player responses to advertising are used for evaluating advertising effectiveness.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Beneficial Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Sheldon F. Goldberg, John Van Antwerp
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Method and apparatus for selectively sharing and passively tracking communication device experiences
Patent number: RE44324Abstract: The present invention includes methods and devices for passively tracking and selectively sharing user experiences with communication devices, including computers, web-enabled telephones, and PDAs. User rating or comments on their experiences can be captured. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Tena Technology, LLCInventors: Darren P. Briggs, Brady O. Bruce, Michael W. Mitchell, Emile L. Reed, IV -
Patent number: RE44325Abstract: A method for sending a remote power feed to a terminal in a local area network. A repeater of the local area network produces a detection test signal in a line to which a remote terminal is connected, and the signal has an energy level that will not damage the terminal. The presence of a remote terminal adapted to receive a remote power feed via the repeater is detected by detecting the presence of a predetermined impedance in the terminal, and power is supplied to the terminal via the repeater in response to detection of the presence of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Gerard Vergnaud, Luc Attimont, Jannick Bodin, Raymond Gass, Jean-Claude Laville
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Patent number: RE44326Abstract: A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Promptu Systems CorporationInventors: Theodore Calderone, Paul M. Cook, Mark J. Foster
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Patent number: RE44327Abstract: An external object model is built into a comprehensive, drag-and-drop, dynamic, distributed object model, to offer its users lower total cost of ownership than do conventional user interface applications and application builders. A Windows® workstation user computer is provided with a quick, simple, easily-managed path to combinations of available applications on a network of systems, in such a way that the user can establish and exploit complex data relationships and software capabilities on the workstation without application installation, significant access effort, or specialized knowledge. Runtime binding prepares and links user forms and reports to application programs as desired, without preparatory steps. The definition and use of query objects to view concurrently multiple database tables offers the unique ability to combine fields from dissimilar database engines into a single view.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Amstr. Investments 9 K.G., LLCInventor: Alan A Katz
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Patent number: 8468612Abstract: The present invention is a “Scarfie” or scarf with sleeves, which allows a person to wear it in place of a jacket, and would not have to take it off and carry it around when the environment turns warm. The present scarf has sleeves at the ends of the scarf for inserting arms and hugging themselves to keep warm when the weather turns cooler.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Marie A. Galloway
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Patent number: 8468613Abstract: The invention further provides a device to protect the neck and the base of the skull of a person, the device comprises an impact-resistant substrate and a helmet. The impact-resistant pliable substrate is adapted to encircle an extended portion of the person's neck and lower cranium. The helmet is configured to cover the skull of the person, except for the occipital region of the skull. The helmet is adapted to receive the first impact-resistant pliable substrate such that the substrate substantially covers the occipital region of the skull and cervical vertebra of wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Robert D. Harty
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Patent number: 8468614Abstract: A fluid container carrying device including a back piece and a front piece forming a pocket having an opening for receiving and holding a fluid container, wherein the fluid container carrying device further including a first strap provided with a first fastener for fastening to a first side portion of a neck protection device, a second strap provided with a second fastener for fastening to a second side portion of the neck protection device, and a fastening means arranged on the back piece of the pocket for fastening to a rear lower member of the neck protection device. The present invention also relates to a neck protection device provided with such a fluid container carrying device.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: USWE Sports ABInventor: Karl-Johan Engdahl
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Patent number: 8468615Abstract: The mounting device has a mounting frame (2) that includes means for securing the sanitary body. A covering (14, 15, 26) is positioned on the mounting frame (2), said covering concealing the mounting frame at least at the front. The covering (14, 15, 26) has at least one first decorative element (15) that conceals the mounting frame (2) at the front and is secured to the mounting frame (2) and at least one second decorative element (26) that conceals the mounting frame (2) at the top. The second decorative element (26) forms a removable cover for a cistern (5) mounted in the mounting frame (2). The covering (14, 15, 26) preferably has at least two further decorative elements (14) that conceal the mounting frame (2) at the sides.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Geberit International AGInventor: Reto Tremp
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Patent number: 8468616Abstract: A vacuum-aided toilet comprises a toilet bowl, a deodorization pipeline, a flushing pipeline, a sensing switch (4) and a control device. A flushing port of the toilet bowl is communicated with the deodorization pipeline. The deodorization pipeline is communicated to a vacuum device. Inside the toilet bowl are provided a trap I (1.1), a trap II (1.2) and a draining port (1.3). The flushing pipeline being connected to the flushing port of the toilet bowl and the trap II (1.2), respectively. The sensing switch (4) is connected to a control device, which controls the deodorization pipeline and the flushing pipeline. An ejector (2.4) mounted on an air discharge pipeline (2.5) is directly driven by gas from an air outlet of a ventilating fan (2.2), so that vacuum is produced in a draining pipe. Thus the vacuum-aided toilet can save water and get rid of the odor.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Shandong Huateng Environmental Protection Automation Co., LtdInventors: Bin Song, Jing Tang, Dan Liu, Chaomin Bai
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Patent number: 8468617Abstract: A spa cover includes first and second portions that are rotatable along a pivot axis. The first portion has a first length traverse to the pivot axis, and the second portion has a second length extending in the same direction as the first length. The first length is longer than the second length. When the cover is moved from a closed configuration into an open configuration, lower surfaces of the first and second portions, which face the spa tub water when in the closed configuration and can become unsightly, are moved into a position in which they face each other, whereas the upper surface of the second portion faces the users in the tub. A lifter is provided for moving the spa cover between the closed and an open configurations.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Hottubproducts.com, LLCInventors: W. John Gardenier, Andrew Tournas
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Patent number: 8468618Abstract: A device that can be inserted into a sink to collect water for reuse, the device comprising a water tight body portion adapted to hold water, a drain opening to enable water to be drained from the device, closure means to enable the drain to be closed when not required, and means to hold the device generally within the sink.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Ian Maxwell Alexander
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Patent number: 8468619Abstract: A open/close device of washing tank drain comprises an open/close controller having a sliding shaft and a fixed sleeve, a drain plug mechanism with an open/close function mechanism, and a connecting cable between the open/close controller and the open/close function mechanism. The open/close controller has a retaining hook to be connected with the sliding shaft. A first stop position and a second stop position, which are moveably connected with the retaining hook, are set on the surface of the sliding shaft, at different height, and the first one being closer to the head of the sliding shaft than the second one. The sliding shaft is provided with a first one-way slideway and a second one-way slideway. The open/close controller also has a spring for applying a force to the sliding shaft along the direction from the head to the tail of the sliding shaft. One end of the connecting cable is connected with the sliding shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Ningbo Bosheng Plumbing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Difeng Cen
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Patent number: 8468620Abstract: A faucet structure includes a faucet main body, a limit disc and a plurality of guide pipes. The faucet main body includes a plurality of inlet passages and a plurality of inlets at lower ends of the inlet passages to connect upper ends of the guide pipes. At least one side of each inlet has an engaging recess for engagement of a limit protrusion of the corresponding guide pipe. The faucet main body has a threaded hole at a bottom thereof. Each guide pipe includes a stop ring and a neck part fitted on the upper end thereof. The neck part has the limit protrusion at one side thereof. The limit disc has a plurality of through holes and a hole corresponding in position to the inlets and the threaded hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Shao-Hwa Tarng
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Patent number: 8468621Abstract: A furniture product includes a folding mechanism that folds into a seat frame. The folding mechanism includes a rear section, a middle section, and a front section, with the rear and middle sections being received in a cavity in the back of the seat frame when the product is in a stowed, seating position. Upon receiving a user input, a position motor deploys the folding mechanism into a sleeping position. Upon achieving the sleeping position, an inflation switch is engaged. An air pump disposed in or near the furniture product is activated in response to engagement of the inflation switch. To return the product to a stowed, seating position, a user input causes the air pump to deflate the mattress and the position motor to fold the folding mechanism into the seat frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: L & P Property Management CompanyInventors: Charles Steers, Niels Mossbeck, Justin Brunnert