Patents Represented by Attorney Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott
  • Patent number: 8311629
    Abstract: A method of modifying the force of contraction of at least a portion of a heart chamber, including providing a subject having a heart, comprising at least a portion having an activation, and applying a non-excitatory electric field having a given duration, at a delay after the activation, to the portion, which causes the force of contraction to be increased by a least 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Impulse Dynamics, N.V.
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Nissim Darvish, Maier Fenster, Mike Yuval
  • Patent number: 8306616
    Abstract: A method of modifying the force of contraction of at least a portion of a heart chamber, including providing a subject having a heart, comprising at least a portion having an activation, and applying a non-excitatory electric field having a given duration, at a delay after the activation, to the portion, which causes the force of contraction to be increased by a least 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Impulse Dynamics, N.V.
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Nissim Darvish, Maier Fenster, Mike Yuval
  • Patent number: 8306617
    Abstract: A method of modifying the force of contraction of at least a portion of a heart chamber, including providing a subject having a heart, comprising at least a portion having an activation, and applying a non-excitatory electric field having a given duration, at a delay after the activation, to the portion, which causes the force of contraction to be increased by a least 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Impulse Dynamics N.V.
    Inventors: Shiomo Ben-Haim, Nissim Darvish, Maier Fenster, Mike Yuval
  • Patent number: 8297885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of creating a building structure to be installed on a basin floor wherein the base for erecting the structure would be an element of such a block and this block would be placed on the basin floor in such a way, and would be fixed in position relative to it in such a manner, that this base could be used as a foundation for stationary, large-sized heavy structures and also to ensure the possibility of using the block elements as members of the structure being erected and thus to increase the economic efficiency of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Grinberg, Ilya Davidovich, Samuil Yakhins, Konstantin Kovler
  • Patent number: 8297187
    Abstract: A marking projectile comprises separate compartments that break during launch due to rotation of the projectile as it leaves the barrel of a weapon. Metal pellets contained within the compartments are pressed outward and pierce the compartment walls. This allows for mixing of chemical materials contained within the compartments, so that the materials substantially react by the time the projectile strikes a target. The chemical materials may be a pair of chemi-luminescent components, or components that create heat for thermal marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventor: Kevin Michael Sullivan
  • Patent number: 8297075
    Abstract: A gemstone cut into a round stone and method of cutting a gemstone are disclosed herein. A crown having a table may be surrounded by eight star sets. The eight star sets may be surrounded by eight bezel facets. The eight bezel facets may be surrounded by eight pairs of upper girdle facet sets. Each upper girdle facet set may have one primary upper girdle facet and two secondary upper girdle facets. Each star set may have one primary star facet and four secondary star facets. A bottom having a culet may be surrounded by 8 pavilions the eight pavilions may be surrounded by 8 lower girdle facet sets. Each lower girdle facet set may have one primary lower girdle facet and two secondary lower girdle facets. Both the crown and bottom may be surrounded by 16 girdle facets or by perfectly circular girdle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Zev W. Weitman
  • Patent number: 8301247
    Abstract: A method of modifying the force of contraction of at least a portion of a heart chamber, including providing a subject having a heart, comprising at least a portion having an activation, and applying a non-excitatory electric field having a given duration, at a delay after the activation, to the portion, which causes the force of contraction to be increased by a least 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Impulse Dynamics, N.V.
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Nissim Darvish, Maier Fenster, Mika Yuval
  • Patent number: 8300529
    Abstract: Service-centric communication network monitoring apparatus and methods are provided. Service traffic, associated with a third-party service provided by an external service provider that is controlled independently of a communication network, is identified in communication traffic that is being transferred through that communication network. The identified service traffic is monitored, for example, to compile service usage statistics, to police usage of the service, to generate billing records for usage of the service, and/or to mirror the identified service traffic. A registry in which the service is registered may interact with a monitoring system of the communication network so as to establish monitoring for the service traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Lyle Strub, Brian McBride, Laura Mihaela Serghi
  • Patent number: 8301509
    Abstract: A computer system and method carried out by the system for assisting parties in negotiation the sale price of real estate or personal property is disclosed wherein a web server receives a property listing from a seller at an asking price, receives a bid from a buyer at an offer price, compares the asking price to the offer price and determines whether the difference between the offer price and asking price is within a first, second, or third predetermined % value and notifies the parties whether they are cold, warm, hot, or matched. If there is a match, an agreement of sale may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: eGoC8.com LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Paone, Thomas LoBue
  • Patent number: 8296065
    Abstract: A system vitally determines a position of a train. The system includes a plurality of diverse sensors, such as tachometers and accelerometers, structured to repetitively sense at least change in position and acceleration of the train, a global positioning system sensor, which is diverse from each of the diverse sensors, structured to repetitively sense position of the train, and a track map including a plurality of track segments which may be occupied by the train. A processor cooperates with the diverse sensors, the global positioning system sensor and the track map. The processor includes a routine structured to provide measurement uncertainty for each of the diverse sensors and the global positioning system sensor. The routine cross-checks measurements for the diverse sensors, and cross-checks the global positioning system sensor against the track map. The routine provides the vitally determined position of the train and the uncertainty of the vitally determined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Ansaldo STS USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael B. Haynie, William R. Laurune
  • Patent number: 8292266
    Abstract: A hand tool includes an elongated plunger assembly and a locking assembly. The locking assembly has a catch assembly with a release actuator. The release actuator is movable in a direction generally not aligned with the tool head plane of motion. The locking assembly catch member is structured to engage the plunger assembly body and maintain the plunger assembly body in a selected position. Further, the plunger assembly is disposed in a socket within the tool head and biased toward an extended position by a spring. The release actuator is, preferably, disposed on the neck of the hand tool just above the user's thumb. When the plunger assembly body is disposed within the tool head and a user desires to extend the plunger assembly, the user actuates the release actuator thereby removing the engagement of the catch member and allowing the socket spring to move the plunger assembly body to the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Penn United Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark P. Noah, Glenn R. Snyder, Charles M. Phillips, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8295932
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating a subject. The method includes administering to the subject an ingestible capsule containing one or more flexible support elements adapted to expand while in a stomach of the subject, thereby bringing a plurality of electrodes into contact with a wall of the stomach. The method also includes driving the electrodes to apply an electrical signal to the stomach wall at first and second times, the second time at last 24 hours after the first time. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Metacure Limited
    Inventors: Ophir Bitton, Shai Policker, Benny Rousso
  • Patent number: 8295016
    Abstract: A circuit interrupter includes first, second and third electrical conductors, a planar conductive member having first, second and third contacts, and an operating mechanism structured to move the planar conductive member toward the electrical conductors to electrically connect the first, second and third electrical conductors to the respective first, second and third contacts, and to move the planar conductive member away from the electrical conductors to electrically disconnect the electrical conductors from the contacts upon the occurrence of a predetermined condition, such that the electrical conductors are electrically isolated from each other. When one of the electrical conductors is welded to one of the contacts, the operating mechanism and the planar conductive member cooperate to electrically disconnect the other two of the electrical conductors from the other two of the contacts upon the occurrence of the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Robert T. Elms
  • Patent number: 8291681
    Abstract: A mechanism for tightening a partially threaded cap on a container passing along a production line. The mechanism includes a first member having a first end and a second end. The first end being structured to be coupled at or near the production line and the second end being rotatable with respect to the first end. The mechanism further including a second member coupled to the second end of the first member and rotatable therewith. The second member having a plurality of cap engaging portions, each of the cap engaging portions being structured to engage the partially threaded cap on a container passing along the production line in a manner that tightens the partially threaded cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: International Plastics and Equipment Corp.
    Inventors: Mike Palmer, Nick Kulka
  • Patent number: 8289172
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for assessing the capability of a first person to operate a machine, such as an aircraft or other transport vehicle. The method includes the steps of: (a) Sensing the value of at least one, and preferably two or more information parameters for assessing the fitness of the person operating the machine. The parameters include one or a combination of electroencephalogram information, electrocardiogram information, heart rate information, respiratory rate information, eye motion information, eyelid position information, eyelid motion information, expired gas mixture information, blood oxygen content information, blood oxygen saturation information and blood pressure information for the person operating the machine, and/or information about operation of the machine as well as information about actions taken by the person operating the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Matos
  • Patent number: 8289734
    Abstract: An output apparatus includes a first source of a first signal having a first state or a different second state; a second source of a second signal having a first state or a different second state; and a circuit structured to output a vital output including a first state when the first state of the first signal corresponds to the first state of the second signal and, otherwise, including a different second state. At least one of the first signal and the second signal is a static signal. The other one of the first signal having the first state and the second signal having the first state is a dynamic signal. When at least one of the first signal has the different second state of the first signal and the second signal has the different second state of the second signal, the vital output includes the different second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Ansaldo STS USA, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Brown, John E. Lemonovich, James C. Werner, William J. Moltz, Lawrence A. Weber, William A. Sharp
  • Patent number: 8286720
    Abstract: A spark arrestor for processing metal workpieces includes an annular body having an upper end wall provided with a first opening and a lower end wall provided with a second opening. The annular body has a pair of generally aligned, circumferentially offset, downwardly open first recesses, each structured to be received over at least a portion of the metal workpiece. Each recess may have having a plurality of downwardly extending first shield elements. Lateral surfaces of the annular body disposed between the downwardly open first recesses have a pair of lateral second recesses which have a plurality of second shield elements extending downwardly therefrom. A torch receiving opening is provided in the annular body to facilitate insertion of the torch. The upper end wall first opening preferably has a grid structure to resist outward migration of sparks and flames from the interior of the spark arrestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Dennis Moyer
  • Patent number: 8281869
    Abstract: A spark arrestor for processing railroad rails includes an annular body having an upper end wall provided with a first opening and a lower end wall provided with a second opening. The annular body has a pair of generally aligned, circumferentially offset, downwardly open recesses, each structured to be received over a portion of the railroad rail and each having a first plurality of downwardly extending shield elements, extending downwardly beyond the upper surface of the rail. Lateral surfaces of the annular body disposed between the downwardly open recesses have a plurality of second shield elements extending downwardly therefrom. A cutting torch or heating torch or welding torch receiving opening is provided in the annular body to facilitate insertion of the torch. The upper and lower end wall opening, each preferably having a grid structure to resist outward migration of sparks and flames from the interior of the spark arrestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventor: Dennis Moyer
  • Patent number: D668908
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: De'Longhi Appliances S.R.L. Con Unico Socio
    Inventor: Giuseppe De' Longhi
  • Patent number: D670156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: DNP IMS America Corporation
    Inventors: Richard C. Crooks, Garrett S. Lyons, Michael McGrath