Patents Represented by Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Burch, LLP
  • Patent number: 5933894
    Abstract: A combination tool includes many useful features for a carpenter. A nail-starting head of the tool includes differently sized nail starting, through holes. In operation, a nail is inserted into one of the through holes and frictional engaged thereby. The carpenter starts the nail into a piece of building material, and then pulls on a handle of the tool to free the tool from the nail. The nail is then driven into the building material. The tool also includes a graduated straight edge along the handle and a T-square formed between the handle and the head. The handle is approximately sixteen inches long and the graduation markings assist the carpenter in finding a next adjacent wallboard stud, once a first wallboard stud is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Bates
  • Patent number: 5639623
    Abstract: A method of measuring and assessing T and B cell immunokinetics in human, particularly cancer immunokinetics by applying the multiple regression analysis, one of multivariate data analyses, to the counts in blood samples of CD3, CD4, CD8 and OKIa1 positive lymphocytes, helper, suppression inducer, cytotoxic and suppressor T lymphocytes, activated suppression inducer/helper and activated suppressor/cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cell, monocyte, basophil, eosinophil and neutrophil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Inventor: Tamio Yamauchi