Patents Represented by Attorney 24IP Law Group
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Patent number: 8348693Abstract: An interface having a receiver and a test adapter. The receiver has a body and a latch post connected to the body. The latch post has a body, a neck, and a tip with the tip being larger than the neck. The test adapter has a frame and an engagement assembly. The engagement assembly has a drive shaft having first and second ends, a drive knob connected to the first end of the drive shaft, a drive nut connected to the drift shaft near the second end of the drive shaft. The drive nut has a threaded interior portion. The drive assembly further has a drive screw and a drive screw housing. The drive screw has a threaded exterior portion such that the threaded exterior portion of the drive screw engages with the threaded interior portions of the drive nut. A spring extends from the drive screw longitudinally away from the threaded portion of the drive screw. The spring has an enlarged portion at its distal end for gripping the neck of the latch post.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Virginia Panel CorporationInventors: Jeffery P. Stowers, Randall C. Garman, Randall L. Herron, Darryl M. Ashby
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Patent number: 8351218Abstract: An interface receiver having multiple tiers such that a first tier in the receiver houses a module having its longest dimension in a first direction and a second tier houses a module having its longest dimension in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The receiver has three or more cams on each of two parallel sides. The receiver is capable of being mated with “legacy” test adapters having two pairs of parallel sides with each side in one of the pairs having two locator elements for engaging with the cams of the receiver and new test adapters of the present invention having an odd number of locator elements on each side.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Virginia Panel CorporationInventors: Jeffery P. Stowers, Randall C Garman, David Rocker
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Patent number: 8317634Abstract: To provide a golf club grip in which torsional deformation is suppressed without impairing a grip feeling. A grip 10 has en inner layer portion 23, an intermediate layer portion 24, and an outer layer portion 25. Resin films 26 and 27 are disposed between the respective layer portions. The outer layer portion 25 is formed of sort rubber and the intermediate layer portion 24 and the inner layer portion 23 are formed of hard rubber. The resin sheets 26 end 27 are constituted as a nonwoven fabric formed of aramid fibers. The Young's modulus Es of the resin sheets 26 and 27 is adjusted to be larger than the Young's modulus (Ei, Ec, Eo) of the inner layer portion 23, the intermediate layer portion 24, and the outer layer portion 25, and a relationship of Eo<Ec ?Ei<Es is established.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Iomic, Inc.Inventor: Toshihiko Hachiro
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Patent number: 8292117Abstract: A water holding tank with an approximately rectangular bottom wall and four side walls that are connected respectively to the sides of the bottom wall, each side wall has number of upper support platforms that are arranged periodically along one side of the bottom wall, a number of lower support platforms that are arranged alternately relative to the upper support platforms at a distance from the bottom wall, and a number of connecting walls, whereby each connecting wall connects an upper support platform to a lower support platform while leaving open a passage for water, in which the upper support platforms of a side wall are arranged in mirror positions of the lower support platforms of the opposite side wall relative to a 180° rotation and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Aliaxis ParticipationsInventors: Philippe Guibert, Fabien Yvai, Stephane Kugener, Tony Calton
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Patent number: 8292251Abstract: A folding display easel having left, right and center panels, the right and left panels being foldable toward the center panel. The center panel has a plurality of engagement elements for engaging with rings in a binder for easy storage and removal of easel from the binder.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sampco Companies, Inc.Inventor: Mark Badorini
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Patent number: 8238024Abstract: An arrangement for the display of images with selectable three-dimensionally visible or two-dimensional modes, including an illuminating device a filter array to impart a structure to the light a diffusing layer, and a transmissive image display device, with a variable distance a between the filter array and the diffusing layer, so that in a first position, the structure imparted by the filter array is essentially cancelled due to the light diffusion effect of the diffusing layer, and a two-dimensional image is shown, and the structure imparted by the filter array is essentially not cancelled, so that the image display device shows a three-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Tzschoppe, Thomas Brueggert, Markus Klippstein, Ingo Relke, Uwe Hofmann
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Patent number: 8231158Abstract: A multi-fingered underactuated mechanical grasping system driven by a single actuator, yet can grasp objects spanning a wide range of size, shape, and mass. A member for moving a link relative to a base acts in parallel to a direction of compliance of a joint between the link and the base. The joint has a plurality of degrees of freedom. The number of members for moving links in the grasping system is less than the number of degrees of freedom in the grasping system.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Aaron Dollar, Robert Howe
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Patent number: 8223330Abstract: A method for producing planar extended electrodes with nanoscale spacings that exhibit very large SERS signals, with each nanoscale gap having one well-defined hot spot. The resulting highly sensitive substrate has extended metal electrodes separated by a nanoscale gap. The electrodes act as optical antennas to enhance dramatically the local electromagnetic field for purposes of spectroscopy or nonlinear optics. SERS response is consistent with a very small number of molecules in the hotspot, showing blinking and wandering of Raman lines. Sensitivity is sufficiently high that SERS from physisorbed atmospheric contaminants may be detected after minutes of exposure to ambient conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Douglas Natelson, Daniel Robert Ward, Zachary Kyle Keane
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Patent number: 8199244Abstract: A new digital image/video camera that directly acquires random projections of the incident light field without first collecting the pixels/voxels. In one preferred embodiment, the camera employs a digital micromirror array to perform optical calculations of linear projections of an image onto pseudorandom binary patterns. Its hallmarks include the ability to obtain an image with only a single detection element while measuring the image/video fewer times than the number of pixels or voxels—this can significantly reduce the computation required for image/video acquisition/encoding. Since the system features a single photon detector, it can also be adapted to image at wavelengths that are currently impossible with conventional CCD and CMOS imagers.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Richard G. Baraniuk, Dror Z. Baron, Marco F. Duarte, Kevin F. Kelly, Courtney C. Lane, Jason N. Laska, Dharmpal Takhar, Michael B. Wakin
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Patent number: 8193343Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a photosensitizing nanomaterial (40) and the products thereof are disclosed. The method for the treatment of a biological target (50) is disclosed. The photosensitizing nanomaterial (40) comprises a metal complex tetrapyrrole derivative (10). The metal complex tetrapyrrole derivative (10) is attached by an axial covalent bond (60) to the surface (25) of a solid nanomaterial (20). The solid nanomaterial (20) has at least one dimension in the nanometer and/or the micrometer range.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat MunsterInventors: Cristian Alejandro Strassert, Rodrigo Queiroz De Albuquerque, Yolanda Vida, Luisa De Cola
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Patent number: 8169381Abstract: The invention relates to arrangements for spatial display, and in particular to such arrangements that, by means of wavelength or gray level filter arrays, present an image visible in three dimensions to one or several observers without the use of auxiliary aids such as glasses. In such arrangements, an increased brightness of the 3D display is achieved by means of the arrangement of transparent filters on the filter array according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Tzschoppe, Thomas Brüggert, Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein
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Patent number: 8166430Abstract: A method is specified for determining the quality of a quantity of properties describing a machine, including a step for determining the existence of at least one sub-quantity of interrelated properties (P0, P1, . . . Pn) of the form Pi=(forall t. Ai(t)=>Zi(t)), wherein Ai(t) present an initial state and Zi(t) a target state for a corresponding property and at least one initial state Ai is dependant on internal signals and including a step for checking whether at least one aspect of the input/output behavior of the machine described by the properties, which cannot be derived from an individual property Pi, is described to such an accurate extent that one property Q exists, which represents this aspect without being dependant on the internal signals. The procedure is capable of providing a measurement and can particularly be used in the verification and specification of circuits.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Onespin Solutions GmbHInventors: Jörg Bormann, Holger Busch
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Patent number: 8159492Abstract: The invention relates to a simulation method, especially to a method for simulating spatial impressions which are produced by means of an image generator and one or several filter arrays. The method according to the invention essentially comprises the following steps: a) Specification of the geometry of the image generator, b) specification of the geometry of the filter array, c) specification of a spatial arrangement geometry in relation to the image generator and the filter array in a three-dimensional coordinate system (X,Y,Z), d) specification of two monocular positions of observation in front of the said arrangement geometry, e) specification of a combined image containing bits of partial information from several views Ak (k=1 . . .Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.Inventor: Wolfgang Tzschoppe
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Patent number: 8155935Abstract: The system and method of the present invention provides comprehensive design and installation management for agricultural water management systems. Maps and grade profiles are created from data collected by Global Positioning devices in the field. Latitude, longitude, and elevation are triangulated from GPS data to develop contour, grade, and profile maps, used to design drainage systems in real time. Customer billing information and vendor pricing information are produced from map and grade profile data. Interfacing and machine control for machines used to install drainage and/or irrigation systems are generated from contour, grade and profile data. Data is exported and imported in common file formats for efficient data exchange.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Inventors: Robert E. Meiners, Chad R. Meiners
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Patent number: 8142333Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a ropeless jump rope having a pair of handles wherein each handle comprises a housing having a removable rotatable tip at one end to which a flexible elongated member such as a rope, or string is secure to the tip such that an end portion of the flexible elongated member is attached to the tip in a manner substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tip. Each handle further comprises a flexible support member positioned on the tip and the end portion of the flexible elongated member thereby preventing damage to the flexible elongated member during use of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Inventor: Brad LaTour
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Patent number: 8142020Abstract: The invention relates to an autostereoscopic projection arrangement, comprising at least one projector (4) and at least one filter array (F1, F2), which has a multitude of filter elements arranged in columns and rows, in which arrangement bits of partial information from views of a scene or object are projected by the projector/the projectors (4) onto a projection screen (3), where these bits of partial information are rendered on image rendering elements and, having passed one or several of the filter arrays (F1, F2), are made visible to at least one observer (5), and in which, as regards the propagation direction of the bits of partial information, the image rendering elements correspond with correlated filter elements in such a way that an observer (5) will see predominantly bits of partial information from a first selection of views with one eye and predominantly bits of partial information from a second selection of views with the other eye, and thus will have a spatial impression.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.Inventors: Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein, Thomas Bruggert, Bernd Riemann
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Patent number: D658327Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Inventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler
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Patent number: D664279Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: AML Licht + Design GmbHInventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler
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Patent number: D664657Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: U.S. Patent Innovations, LLCInventors: Edson Vieira, Nicholas Vieira, Jerome Canady
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Patent number: D664698Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: AML Licht + Design GmbHInventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler