Traversing Seat With Rotary Follower Section Patents (Class 5/23)
  • Patent number: 8365245
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for previous password based authentication. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises obtaining a combination of an identifier and a password and determining whether the password is current and correct. The computer implemented method responsive to determining the password is other than current and correct, prompting for an old password and determining whether the old password matches a previous password. Responsive to the old password matching a previous password, thereby creating a password match, permitting access to a resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Itzhack Goldberg, David Bruce Kumhyr, Moriel Lechtman
  • Patent number: 6712780
    Abstract: A knee immobilizer for being custom-formed to the shape of a knee while flexible and upon hardening providing a rigid, knee-supporting custom fit. The knee immobilizer includes an elongate splint with a substrate impregnated or coated with a reactive system. The system hardens upon exposure to moisture to form a rigid, self-supporting structure. A flexible cover overlies the substrate for forming an integrated splint structure for being molded while flexible to an aspect of the knee. A bandage extends around the knee for holding the splint in a supporting position on the knee. A splint support cooperates with the splint and the bandage for maintaining the splint on the bandage in a conforming shape against the knee and substantially immobilizing the knee in a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: BSN Medical Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Darcey
  • Patent number: 4292697
    Abstract: Furniture for sitting and reclining with which on a carriage which is movable from the frame, in the seat position two cushions are laid down one above the other and in the reclining position they are placed one behind the other. A back cushion preferably is fixedly connected with the frame. A wedge cushion is displaceably and swingably guided on the frame from a maintaining position in the seating position behind the back cushion into a use position in the reclining position in connection with the two cushions which are laid one behind the other on the carriage. By a suspension the upper edge of the wedge cushion preferably is connected swingably with the back cushion and the lower edge is swingably connected with an inner part of the carriage, the inner part being formed as a bedding box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Inventor: Alfred Alembik