Patents Represented by Attorney 24IP Law Group
  • Patent number: 8348693
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Virginia Panel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery P. Stowers, Randall C. Garman, Randall L. Herron, Darryl M. Ashby
  • Patent number: 8351218
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Virginia Panel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery P. Stowers, Randall C Garman, David Rocker
  • Patent number: 8317634
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Iomic, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Hachiro
  • Patent number: 8292117
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Aliaxis Participations
    Inventors: Philippe Guibert, Fabien Yvai, Stephane Kugener, Tony Calton
  • Patent number: 8292251
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sampco Companies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Badorini
  • Patent number: 8238024
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Tzschoppe, Thomas Brueggert, Markus Klippstein, Ingo Relke, Uwe Hofmann
  • Patent number: 8231158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Aaron Dollar, Robert Howe
  • Patent number: 8223330
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Douglas Natelson, Daniel Robert Ward, Zachary Kyle Keane
  • Patent number: 8199244
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Richard G. Baraniuk, Dror Z. Baron, Marco F. Duarte, Kevin F. Kelly, Courtney C. Lane, Jason N. Laska, Dharmpal Takhar, Michael B. Wakin
  • Patent number: 8193343
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster
    Inventors: Cristian Alejandro Strassert, Rodrigo Queiroz De Albuquerque, Yolanda Vida, Luisa De Cola
  • Patent number: 8169381
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Tzschoppe, Thomas Brüggert, Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein
  • Patent number: 8166430
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Onespin Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Bormann, Holger Busch
  • Patent number: 8159492
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Tzschoppe
  • Patent number: 8155935
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventors: Robert E. Meiners, Chad R. Meiners
  • Patent number: 8142333
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: Brad LaTour
  • Patent number: 8142020
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein, Thomas Bruggert, Bernd Riemann
  • Patent number: D658327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler
  • Patent number: D664279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: AML Licht + Design GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler
  • Patent number: D664657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Patent Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Edson Vieira, Nicholas Vieira, Jerome Canady
  • Patent number: D664698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: AML Licht + Design GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Meise, Christoph Kuegler