Patents Represented by Attorney Fenster & Company
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Patent number: 6995657Abstract: A method for communication over a network of power lines (34), including establishing a communication link within a selected frequency band over the network between a first transceiver (32B) coupled to the network and a second transceiver (32C) coupled to the network. The method further includes transmitting a first signal over the link from the first transceiver to the second transceiver at a transmission power level that is sufficiently strong that the signal can be decoded by the second transceiver, but is attenuated sufficiently when it reaches a third transceiver (32E) coupled to the network so that the third transceiver can receive a second signal over the network in the selected frequency band substantially without interference by the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2001Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Main.Net Communications Ltd.Inventors: Yeshayahu Zalitzky, Jacob Keret, Ofir Efrati
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Patent number: 6993383Abstract: A method of analyzing the type of tissue of a body portion of a subject. The method includes applying an excitation signal to the subject, sensing electrical signals from the subject responsive to the excitation signal, determining a stationary impedance map of the body portion responsive to the sensed signals, determining a change waveform of at least a part of the stationary impedance map, and providing an indication on a tissue type of at least part of the body portion, responsive to the change waveform.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Mirabel Medical Systems Ltd.Inventor: Michel Assenheimer
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Patent number: 6979936Abstract: A piezoelectric motor comprising: a layer of piezoelectric material having narrow edge surfaces and first and second large face surfaces, formed with at least three arms, each extending radially outward from a common central region and terminating in an end; and at least one electrode on the first face surface and at least one electrode on the second face surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Nanomotion Ltd.Inventors: Ze'ev Ganor, Lior Shiv, Nir Karasikov, Alon Avital
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Patent number: 6979338Abstract: An anastomosis connector comprises a plurality of ring segments (106), together defining a radially expandable ring-like shape (106) having a lumen; at least one pivot bar (114) coupled to at least one of said ring segments (106); at least one spike (109) mounted on said pivot bar (114) and rotatable around said pivot bar (114), wherein radial deformation of said ring-like shape (106) does not substantially directly affect said spike (109) rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2000Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: By-Pass Inc.Inventors: Amir Loshakove, Ido Kilemnik, Dvir Keren, Nachman Zimet
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Patent number: 6976365Abstract: Apparatus for conditioning air comprising: a quantity of liquid desiccant (28); a dehumidifier section (12) in which air to be conditioned is brought into contact with a first portion of the liquid desiccant; a regenerator section (32) in which outside air is brought into contact with a second portion of the liquid desiccant; and a refrigeration system (45) having a first heat exchanger (46) associated with the first portion of liquid desiccant and a second heat exchanger (36) associated with the second portion of liquid desiccant and a third heat exchanger (136) that does not contact the liquid desiccant.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2001Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Drykor Ltd.Inventors: Mordechai Forkosh, Dan Forkosh, Tomy Forkosh
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Patent number: 6953476Abstract: A narrowing intraluminal stent is disclosed and comprises a hollow body and a flow passage therethrough, the hollow body designed for intraluminal placement and having at least one portion of an inner cross sectional dimension smaller than the cross sectional dimension of the lumen, so as to artificially narrow a passage through the body lumen. A method of artificially narrowing a passage through a body lumen using the stent is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Neovasc Medical Ltd.Inventor: Ilan Shalev
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Patent number: 6940272Abstract: An apparatus that controls the supply of electrical power including one or more monitors adapted to sense a state of current flow supplied to a device, one or more controlled sockets, a power input; and a logic circuit. The logic circuit controls the supply of electrical power to at least one of the controlled sockets responsive to the sensed state of current flow supply to the sensed device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Green Socket Ltd.Inventor: Nehemia Niv
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Patent number: 6937750Abstract: A method of registering a plurality of functional images includes providing a plurality of functional images, providing a plurality of structural images, each one of which having a known positional relationship to at least one of said plurality of functional images, and finding a first mapping transformation between pairs of functional images based on the first mapping transformation and the positional transformation.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel Ltd.Inventors: Alex Natanzon, Gideon Berlad
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Patent number: 6928315Abstract: Multi-element impedance probe apparatus (40), adapted to produce an image of a body tissue, having a structure, comprising: a raster of sensors (43), comprised of a substantially radiolucent, conductive material; substantially radiolucent conductive wiring (44), forming conductive connections with the sensors; and a substantially radiolucent substrate (46), on which the sensors are mounted.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Mirabel Medical Systems Ltd.Inventor: Ehud Nachaliel
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Patent number: 6927672Abstract: A method of transmitting data over lines of power line network comprising: inductively generating opposite polarity currents representing the data on first and second lines of a pair of lines of the network at a first location along the lines that propagate along the lines; and sensing the propagated currents at a second location along the lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Main.net Communications Ltd.Inventors: Yeshayahu Zalitzky, Jacob Keret
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Patent number: 6912952Abstract: Apparatus for duplex printing comprising: a first impression roller (24) on which a first side of a sheet (22) having a leading edge and a trailing edge is printed referenced to the leading edge; a second impression roller (26) on which a second side of the sheet is printed; and a transport system (20) that removes a printed sheet from the first impression roller (24) and transports it to the second impression roller (26), the transport system comprising a perfector (32) that receives the sheet and grips it along both the leading and trailing edges of the sheet, which perfector turns the sheet over and transfers the sheet trailing edge first towards the second impression roller.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2000Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.Inventors: Benzion Landa, Yosef Rosen, Aron Shmaiser, Lior Lewintz, Yevgeny Korol, Alex Feygelman, Alon Gazit
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Patent number: 6906330Abstract: A hand gamma camera system for generating an image of a gamma radiation source, said camera comprising a housing designed to be hand held, a gamma radiation image detector mounted on or in said housing that generates detection data responsive to radiation data from a gamma source incident on said radiation detector, a controller connected to said radiation detector that receives said detection data and generates image data and a display mounted on or in said housing that receives said image data from said controller and generates an image.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Ira Blevis, Leonid Tsukerman, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 6899022Abstract: A juicer for extracting juice from a fruit comprising a juicing element having an axis and a pivot operatively associated with and radially spaced from the juicing element axis, such that the juicing element axis is rotatable about the pivot.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Inventors: Ilan Greenberg, Zion Azar, Pinchas Shalev
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Patent number: 6894827Abstract: An optical signal processor for transforming a first vector into a second vector comprising: a plurality of linear light sources each of which provides light having an intensity responsive to a different component of the first vector, a spatial light modulator comprising a plurality of modulation zones each of which zones receives light from substantially only one of the light sources and transmits light in proportion to a transmittance that characterizes the modulation zone; and at least one light detector for each component of the second vector that receives light transmitted from a plurality of modulation zones, each of which is illuminated by light from a different light source, and generates a signal responsive to the received light that represents a component of the second vector.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Lenslet Ltd.Inventors: David Mendlovic, Shay Levavi, Naim Konforti, Aviram Sariel, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 6879427Abstract: A shearing generator comprising: an input light source; an image generator that generates two images of the input light source at an output plane, the image generator comprising a beam splitter that splits light from the input source into at least one pair of interfering light waves at an output thereof, and defines different optical paths for the light propagation of the light waves, said optical paths including at least one phase shifting element that provides for a different phase shift for the two paths.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2001Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Lenslet Ltd.Inventors: David Mendlovic, Boris Glushko, Efraim Goldenberg, Gal Shabtay, Javier Garcia, Leonard Bergstein, Shlomo Eisenbach, Yehuda Miron, Aviram Sariel
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Patent number: 6879085Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrator comprising: a thin rectangular piezoelectric plate formed of a material having a Young's modulus having to short edges surfaces and two long edge surfaces and two long planar face surfaces which plate has transverse resonant vibration modes parallel to its short edges and longitudinal resonant vibration parallel to its long edges and is formed with at least one cavity; and least one electrode on each of the planar surfaces that is electrifiabie to excite at least one vibration mode of the plate, wherein the at least one cavity is not filled with a material having a Young's modulus substantially equal to the Young's modulus of the material from which the place is formed, such that the presence of the at least one cavity shifts a resonant frequency of at least one vibration mode of the plate with respect to the resonant frequency that characterizes the at least one vibration mode in the absence of the at least one cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Nanomotion Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shiv, Izhok Rafaeli, Zo'ev Ganor, Nir Kabasikov, Hanna Dodiuk-Kenig
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Patent number: 6878941Abstract: Apparatus for producing attenuation corrected nuclear medicine images of patients, comprising: at least one gamma camera head that acquires nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image at a first controllable rotation rate about an axis; at least one X-ray CT imager that acquires X-ray data suitable to produce an attenuation image for correction of the nuclear tomographic image at a second controllable rotation rate about the axis; and a controller that controls the data acquisition and first and second rotation rates to selectively provide at least one of the following modes of operation: (i) a movement gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view of the X-ray acquisition is associated with one of a plurality of respiration gated time periods; (ii) a cardiac gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each viewType: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 6861193Abstract: Charged toner particles for use in electrostatic imaging, comprising: a toner polymer; and at least one particulate fluorescent material, wherein the toner particles are formed with fibrous extensions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2000Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.Inventor: Galia Golodetz
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Patent number: 6856421Abstract: A page composition method for composing a page from elements in pixelized form for bit-mapping or half-toning prior to printing including; (a) determining the positions of the elements on a printed page; (b) dividing the page into bands; (c) serially transferring pixel data values for sections of bands corresponding to the portions of respective elements in a band, seriatim to a buffer memory, wherein the data from the portion of one element in a band is completely read prior to reading data corresponding to the portion of a second element in the band; (d) writing the data to a buffer memory as it is read; and (e) transferring the data from the buffer memory when all the data corresponding to all portions of all elements in the band is written in the buffer memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.Inventors: Gideon Amir, Noam Shaham, Yoram Arnon, Lenny Ridel
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Patent number: 6851672Abstract: A sheet transport system (20) comprising at least one sheet transporter (30,36) that receives and hands off a sheet being transported by the system so as to transport the sheet from a first position to a second position, wherein the at least one transporter (30,36) comprises at least one orifice (44) through which air is aspirated to create a vacuum that grips a sheet when it is received by the transporter (30,36); a vacuum system coupled to the at least one orifice (44) controllable to aspirate air through the at least one orifice (44) to grip the sheet; at least one vacuum sensor (60) that generates signals responsive to magnitude of vacuum of the at least one orifice (44); and a controller (49) that receives the signals generated by the at least one vacuum sensor (60) and provides a signal indicative of a location of the sheet in the transport system (20) from the signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.Inventors: Aron Shmaiser, Yaron Zarfaty