Patents Represented by Attorney Cantor Colburn
  • Patent number: 8283311
    Abstract: A safe and widely-applicable food intake regulator can be provided by using at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of a fish or mammalian melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and enzymatic digests thereof, which have the activity to suppress food intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Maruha Nichiro Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Enari, Motohiko Tada, Yoshinori Takahashi, Masataka Kawarasaki
  • Patent number: 8284912
    Abstract: A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or cannot be provided. In one disclosed embodiment, the Caller ID information must include a valid number of digits and a valid area code. If the Caller ID information is not valid, a calling party is prompted by an announcement to provide the audible caller identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, James Daniel Kovarik, Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye
  • Patent number: 8285647
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for maintaining privacy for transactions performable by a user device having a security module with a privacy certification authority and a verifier. The system comprises an issuer providing an issuer public key PKI; a user device having a security module for generating a first set of attestation-signature values DAA1; a privacy certification authority computer for providing an authority public key PKPCA and issuing second attestation values AV2; and a verification computer for checking the validity of the first set of attestation signature values DAA1 with the issuer public key PKI and the validity of a second set of attestation-signature values DAA2 with the authority public key PKPCA, the second set of attestation-signature values DAA2 being derivable by the user device 20 from the second attestation values AV2, wherein it is verifiable that the two sets of attestation-signature values DAA1, DAA2 relate to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jan Camenisch
  • Patent number: 8282153
    Abstract: A device for concealing a seam between a first and second surface includes a seam concealment body having a body surface, the body overlaying and attached to a first surface and a second surface, the body surface being substantially co-planar with a portion of the first and second surfaces, the seam concealment body configured to transition between a first shape and a second shape, wherein the transition permits movement of one or both of the first surface and the second surface such that the seam concealment body forms a hinge. The device also includes an active material in operative communication with the seam concealment body, wherein the active material is configured to undergo a change in at least one property upon receipt of an activation signal, wherein the change in at least one property is effective to transition the seam body from the first shape to the second shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alan L. Browne, Ukpai I. Ukpai, Mark A. Kramarczyk, Nancy L. Johnson, Gary L. Jones, John C. Ulicny
  • Patent number: 8286061
    Abstract: Error detection using parity compensation in binary coded decimal (BCD) and densely packed decimal (DPD) conversions, including a computer program product having a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes receiving formatted decimal data in a first format, the formatted decimal data consisting of a DPD format data or a BCD format data. One or more first parity bits are generated by converting the received data into a second format of the formatted decimal data, and by determining the parity of the data in the second format. One or more second parity bits are generated directly from the received data. An error flag is set to indicate an error in the data in the second format in response to the first parity bits not being equal to the second parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Carlough, Mark A. Erle, Michael R. Kelly
  • Patent number: 8281547
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of making a selected structure using composite materials is disclosed, which method in form includes providing a plurality of members each comprising a composite material, wherein each member is configured to be coupled to at least one other member in the plurality of members along a longitudinal side; coupling onsite the plurality of members along their longitudinal sides to form a base enclosed structure; and reinforcing onsite the base enclosed structure to form the selected structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ershigs, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven A. Hettick
  • Patent number: 8282971
    Abstract: The present invention provides gum base compositions and chewing gum compositions having non stick or reduced-stick properties and/or increased degradability. Methods of preparing the gum base and chewing gum compositions, as well as methods of use, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventors: Paul D. Soper, Vesselin Danailov Miladinov, Jose A. Amarista, Ian Smith, Carole Elleman, Mark Taylor, Nigel Kenneth Harry Slater, Mark Edward Eccleston
  • Patent number: 8285676
    Abstract: A technique for annotating and synchronizing on a device is provided. A client root model of fragments is marked with annotations in response to triggers received by an application of the device. Marking the client root model of the fragments with annotations includes at least: in response to the any of the fragments being extracted out and flagged, marking the client root model with annotations; in response to binding any of the fragments to a source, marking the client root model of the fragments with annotations and marking the client root model as flagged; and in response to sharing in any the of fragments, marking the client root model with annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rohit Bahl, Alan Yeung
  • Patent number: 8281596
    Abstract: A combustor assembly for a turbomachine includes combustor housing and a flow sleeve arranged between the combustor housing and a combustor liner. The flow sleeve defines a first annular fluid passage, and a second annular fluid passage. A quaternary cap is mounted to the combustor housing. The quaternary cap includes a first fluid plenum fluidly connected to the first annular fluid passage, a second fluid plenum fluidly connected to the second annular fluid passage, and a plurality of vanes fluidly connected to each of the first and second fluid plenums. Each of the plurality of vanes includes a body portion having a first fluid channel coupled to the first fluid plenum, and a second fluid channel coupled to the second fluid plenum. The first fluid channel extends completely through the body portion and the second fluid channel extends partially into the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Erich Daniel Charters, Abdul Rafey Khan, Patrick Benedict Melton, John Drake Vanselow
  • Patent number: 8282852
    Abstract: A magnetorheological (MR) fluid is described herein. The MR fluid includes a plurality of magnetizable particles having a particle density. The fluid also includes a carrier fluid having a fluid density, and the plurality of magnetizable particles is dispersed within the carrier fluid. A portion of the plurality of magnetizable particles has a particle density that is substantially the same as the fluid density. The MR fluid may include a plurality of magnetizable particles having an outer shell of a magnetizable material and a hollow core. The MR fluid may also include a plurality of magnetizable particles having an outer shell of a magnetizable material and a solid core. The MR fluid may include a plurality of magnetizable particles having a matrix and a plurality of sub-particles embedded therein. The core or matrix of these particles may include a ceramic, glass or polymer, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Prabhakar Marur
  • Patent number: 8282432
    Abstract: A terminal and electrical contact for a pair of leads of an electrical component is provided, the terminal having a pair of terminals each comprising a planar member comprising a conductive material that surrounds an opening in the planar member; and wherein one of the pair of leads is welded to one of the pair of terminals such that the lead traverses the opening and is welded to the terminal at a portion of the terminal adjacent to the opening and the other one of the pair of leads is welded to the other one of the pair of terminals such that the lead traverses the opening and is welded to the terminal at a portion of the other one of the pair of terminals adjacent to the opening, wherein the opening and the planar member are configured such that a high resistance zone is created at the portion of the terminal adjacent to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Inteva Products LLC
    Inventors: Mark L. VanSlembrouck, Donald M. Perkins, David A. Vandeberghe
  • Patent number: 8284003
    Abstract: A control element for a motor vehicle including a control button, a bearing location for the control button located in a housing of the control element, an extension firmly connected with the control button, a first permanent magnet attached to the extension, and a second permanent magnet attached in the housing, where the permanent magnets form a permanent magnet pair, and unlike poles of the magnets face each other at a distance in a mid-position of the control button, wherein a magnetically conductive material is attached at least in some areas and circumferentially to the permanent magnet pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Preh GmbH
    Inventors: Artur Klossek, Thilo Schultheis
  • Patent number: 8285946
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a method for reducing access contention in a flash-based memory system, the method including selecting a chip stripe in a free state, from a memory device having a plurality of channels and a plurality of memory blocks, wherein the chip stripe includes a plurality of pages, setting the ship stripe to a write state, setting a write queue head in each of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of channels in the flash stripe, setting a write queue head to a first free page in a chip belonging to the channel from the chip stripe, allocating write requests according to a write allocation scheduler among the channels, generating a page write and in response to the page write, incrementing the write queue head, and setting the chip stripe into an on-line state when it is full.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Robert Haas, Peter Mueller, Roman A. Pletka
  • Patent number: 8285863
    Abstract: An access control device which controls access to a server from a plurality of terminal devices includes a receiving section which receives requests from the terminal devices to access the server, a lottery section which conducts a lottery for the terminal devices making the access requests from among the access requests received by the receiving section, and a lottery result transmitting section which transmits connection destination information which is used to access the server to the terminal devices which were successful in the lottery conducted by the lottery section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Akihiko Koizuka, Ryuichiro Ban
  • Patent number: 8283390
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a foam that includes a polysiloxane block copolymer; the polysiloxane block copolymer including a first block that comprises a polysiloxane block and a second block that includes an organic polymer; the second block not containing a polysiloxane; the polysiloxane block being about 5 to about 45 repeat units; the foam having average pore sizes of less than or equal to about 100 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Chinniah Thiagarajan, Bernd Jansen, Santhosh Kumar Rajendran, Vauhini RM, Safwat E. Tadros
  • Patent number: 8283885
    Abstract: A drive control signal is effectively obtained. An offset control circuit (32) adds an offset to a rotational state signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Tsutomu Murata
  • Patent number: 8285941
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for enhancing timeliness of cache memory prefetching in a processing system are provided. The system includes a stride pattern detector to detect a stride pattern for a stride size in an amount of bytes as a difference between successive cache accesses. The system also includes a confidence counter. The system further includes eager prefetching control logic for performing a method when the stride size is less than a cache line size. The method includes adjusting the confidence counter in response to the stride pattern detector detecting the stride pattern, comparing the confidence counter to a confidence threshold, and requesting a cache prefetch in response to the confidence counter reaching the confidence threshold. The system may also include selection logic to select between the eager prefetching control logic and standard stride prefetching control logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kattamuri Ekanadham, Jennifer A. Navarro, Il Park, Chung-Lung Kevin Shum
  • Patent number: 8282138
    Abstract: An annular shaped crimp ring construction which incorporates two separate and distinct sections formed adjacent each other on the same annular member. In accordance with the present invention, the first section of the crimp ring comprises an axial length which is substantially greater than the axial length of the second section, with the first section also comprising a thickness which is substantially greater than the thickness of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Rostra Tool Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Steiner
  • Patent number: 8285574
    Abstract: Implementation of resource management services is provided. A method includes setting a price, per unit of a resource, for a defined time period and based upon a collective projected resource demand corresponding to resource consumption entities (RCEs). For the duration of the time period, the method includes iteratively performing: monitoring actual usage of the resource for each of the RCEs. If, in response to the monitoring, it is determined that a projected shortage exists for an RCE and a projected surplus exists for another RCE, the method includes re-allocating a number of projected surplus units of the resource from the RCE having the projected surplus to the other RCE having the projected shortage. If, in response to the monitoring, it is determined that a projected shortage exists for an RCE and no projected surplus exists for any of the other RCEs, the method includes acquiring additional units of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Julianne F. Haugh, Brian M. O'Connell, Anne R. Sand
  • Patent number: 8283202
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a phase change memory element within a semiconductor structure includes etching an opening to an upper surface of a bottom electrode, the opening being formed of a height equal to a height of a metal region at a same layer within the semiconductor structure, depositing phase change material within the opening, recessing the phase change material within the opening, and forming a top electrode on the recessed phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew J. Breitwisch, Chandrasekharan Kothandaraman, Chung H. Lam