Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fish and Richardson
  • Small internally segmented interfering RNA
    Patent number: 8329888
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical and therapeutic compositions which comprise RNA complexes comprising an antisense strand and a discontinued passenger strand capable of regulating gene expression. The use of a discontinued passenger strand reduces off target effects of the RNA complexes and also has other advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Wengel, Jorgen Kjems
  • System for anchoring medical devices
    Patent number: 8328764
    Abstract: Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that receives a catheter (or other medical instrument) and secures the catheter in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some embodiments, the anchor device can secure the catheter in an operative position relative to the skin without the use of sutures or skin tapes. In particular embodiments, the anchor device can be adjusted to a folded condition so that subcutaneous anchors are partially rotated prior to removal from the skin penetration point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: INTERRAD Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Rosenberg, Mark R. Christianson, Kyle P. Taylor, Andrew T. Forsberg
  • Just in time workflow construction
    Patent number: 8332253
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for handling a workflow within an electronic document. Participants are chosen for the workflow and the activities are assigned to the workflow participants. Workflow information is obtained from an electronic document, where the workflow information pertains to activities assigned to a user. The user can consult on or delegate the assigned activities, in which case the electronic document is sent to the consultant or delegate. Alternatively the user can reassign future activities. If it is detected that the workflow has been completed, the user can indicate the continuing of the workflow by identifying additional workflow participants, and the electronic document is sent to one of the additional workflow participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: John L. Farmer, Joseph Ternasky, Matthew A. Wormley, Vijay Sadanand Ghaskadvi
  • Determining spam in information collected by a source
    Patent number: 8332415
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for determining spam in information collected by a source are described. A frequency of occurrence of a phrase included in text items received from a source is determined. The text items are associated with business entities and do not include any spam. Another frequency of occurrence of a phrase included in text items received from another source is determined. The text items received from the other source may or may not include spam. From the frequencies, likelihoods that a phrase is spam are determined. From the likelihoods, another likelihood that a different text item includes spam is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Adarsh, Piyush Janawadkar
  • Allergen dosage form
    Patent number: 8329196
    Abstract: The invention provides allergen containing pharmaceutical products and in particular fast-dispersing solid allergen dosage forms. In particular, fast-dispersing, non-compressed solid dosage forms suitable for oromucosal administration comprising a matrix and at least one allergen are provided. Suitable matrices are gelatine, starch and mannitol. Methods for the dosage forms are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: ALK-Abello A/S, R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Henrik Hugo Jacobi, Annette R. Lundegaard, Christian Gauguin Houghton, Stig Aasmul-Olsen, Lise Lund Maerkedahl, Jan Sondergaard Andersen, Kerry Mallindine, Owen James Murray, Susan Gerrard Banbury, Desmond Yik Teng Wong, Lisa Marie Garrett, Michael Hall
  • Activity sensing techniques for an infusion pump system
    Patent number: 8328754
    Abstract: Some embodiments of a wearable infusion pump system can include a pump device having a drive system to dispense a medicine to a user, an activity sensor that detects a possible change in an activity level of the user, and a controller to activate the drive system to dispense the medicine to the user. The controller device can query the user to indicate whether a detected activity level of the user represents an actual change in the activity level of the user. The controller device can alter the medicine dispensing schedule based on the user indicated changes in activity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Asante Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Estes, Deb Ruppert
  • Liquid crystal display device and electronic device
    Patent number: 8330492
    Abstract: To provide a circuit used for a shift register or the like. The basic configuration includes first to fourth transistors and four wirings. The power supply potential VDD is supplied to the first wiring and the power supply potential VSS is supplied to the second wiring. A binary digital signal is supplied to each of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. An H level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VDD, and an L level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VSS. There are four combinations of the potentials of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. Each of the first transistor to the fourth transistor can be turned off by any combination of the potentials. That is, since there is no transistor that is constantly on, deterioration of the characteristics of the transistors can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Spectral imaging system with dynamic optical correction
    Patent number: 8330087
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are multispectral detection methods and systems that can be used with image-forming optics configured to form an image of a sample. The systems include: (a) an imaging detector; (b) relay optics that include multiple optical elements, the relay optics positioned to relay the image formed by the image-forming optics to the imaging detector; (c) an actuator coupled to one of the optical elements in the relay optics and configured to adjust a position of the coupled optical element; and (d) control electronics configured to cause the actuator to adjust the position of the coupled optical element in the relay optics in response to a wavelength band selection by a wavelength selection element positioned to select one wavelength band for the image from among two or more wavelength bands within an overall wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter L. Domenicali
  • Vehicle lamp lighting control device
    Patent number: 8330375
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp lighting control device includes: a current control unit which is of a non-insulation type and supplies a supply current to a semiconductor light source; an abnormality detecting unit which detects abnormality of a positive-electrode-side output based on at least one of a power supply voltage or a supply voltage supplied to the semiconductor light source, and outputs signal indicating the abnormality; and a bypass unit which bypasses the supply current supplied from the current control unit in accordance with the signal indicating the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Matsui, Takao Sugiyama
  • Automated load model
    Patent number: 8332820
    Abstract: A method and system for testing a computer system is provided. In one implementation the method and system may include receiving a script footprint that includes dimension-effect values corresponding to the number of times a computer system dimension is affected by the script. Target information may also be received. The target information includes target dimension values corresponding to a desired number of times per time period each dimension should be affected. The method and system may determining the number of times to execute the scripts within the time period so as to minimize the difference between the actual number of times dimensions are affected and the target-dimension value per time period. The method and system may also execute the script on the computer system the determined number of times within the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: David M. Hummel, Jr.
  • Media content including introduced code
    Patent number: 8332529
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining and performing programs in conjunction with media content rendering. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining media data and associated data, including time codes corresponding to both the media data and the associated data, the media data including at least one of video data and audio data; introducing a program in the associated data, the program having an associated time code from the time codes; and providing the media data and the associated data, with the program introduced therein, to one or more media player programs for rendering of the media data to an output device in accordance with the time codes relative to a start time and for performing one or more instructions defined by the program in coordination with the rendering based on the associated time code for the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Pritham Shetty
  • Exposure apparatus and measuring device for a projection lens
    Patent number: 8330935
    Abstract: A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus includes a projection lens that is configured for immersion operation. For this purpose an immersion liquid is introduced into an immersion space that is located between a last lens of the projection lens on the image side and a photosensitive layer to be exposed. To reduce fluctuations of refractive index resulting from temperature gradients occurring within the immersion liquid, the projection exposure apparatus includes heat transfer elements that heat or cool partial volumes of the immersion liquid so as to achieve an at least substantially homogenous or at least substantially rotationally symmetric temperature distribution within the immersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Ehrmann, Ulrich Wegmann, Rainer Hoch, Joerg Mallmann, Karl-Heinz Schuster, Ulrich Loering, Toralf Gruner, Bernhard Kneer, Bernhard Geuppert, Franz Sorg, Jens Kugler, Norbert Wabra
  • Multiple client/user and capital market funded participating interest in qualifying trust
    Patent number: 8332308
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multiple client/user and capital market funded participating interest in qualifying trust. Methods include establishing a legal trust that holds assets and issues obligations that grant participation rights in its assets. The legal trust can be a legal qualifying trust. The legal qualifying trust can grant participation rights to multiple beneficiaries or participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: The RISConsulting Group LLC
    Inventor: Derrell J. Hendrix
  • Modifying glyph outlines
    Patent number: 8330760
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying glyphs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a glyph outline for a glyph to be rendered, the glyph to be rendered being associated with a character of a particular font and at a specified scaled size, the glyph to be rendered having one or more horizontal stems; identifying a darkening amount to be applied to the one or more horizontal stems of the glyph; modifying hints of the one or more horizontal stems of the glyph outline using the identified darkening amount to modify the glyph outline; and rasterizing the glyph using the modified glyph outline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: R. David Arnold, Terence S. Dowling
  • Optoelectronic device and method for producing an optoelectronic device
    Patent number: 8330053
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes an optoelectronic component, the optoelectronic component having an active region and at least one first conductive path on a first substrate, wherein the first conductive path is electrically connected to the active region. Further, the optoelectronic device comprises a second substrate with at least one second conductive path, wherein the first conductive path and the second conductive path are electrically connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Silvio Grespan
  • Remote rendering of webpages on television
    Patent number: 8332897
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, at a user device, a resource referenced by a resource address, wherein the resource defines a resource page; determining, at the user device, that a television device can display transcoded video content; in response to determining that the television device can display transcoded video content: rendering, by the user device, the resource page according to the dimensions of the television device, transcoding, by the user device, the rendered resource page into transcoded video content for which the television has the processing capability to display, and providing, by the user device, the transcoded video content to the television device for display on the television device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Simon M. Rowe
  • Automatic needle device
    Patent number: 8328765
    Abstract: An automatic needle device including a housing element, at least one resilient element arranged to be located within the housing element, at least one needle bearing element adapted, when actuated, to be displaced by the at least one resilient element with respect to the housing element from a non-penetration position to a penetration position and a needle guard adapted for positioning with respect to the housing element and wherein displacement of the needle guard is operative to actuate displacement of the at least one needle bearing element from the non-penetration position to the penetration position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Dali Medical Devices Ltd.
    Inventors: David Daily, Lior Raday
  • Computer application pre-permissioning
    Patent number: 8332936
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of pre-permissioning a computer application is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user to install a software application, identifying one or more computing services required for operation of the software application, presenting the one or more computing services to the user for review, determining whether the user approves installation of the computer application, and installing the application on a computing device assigned to the user if the user approves installation of the computer application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dianne K. Hackborn, David P. Bort, Joseph M. Onorato, Dan Bornstein, Andrew T. McFadden, Brian J. Swetland, Richard G. Cannings
  • Non-proteolytic method for the determination of analytes in keratinized structures
    Patent number: 8329417
    Abstract: Methods that permit the rapid release of one or more analytes from head or body hair or other keratinized structures of an individual (who may previously have ingested one or more of the analytes) are provided. The methods can include contacting the keratinized structure with a reducing agent but not with a proteolytic agent. The methods can further include identification and quantification of the one or more analytes by known analytical techniques such as immunoassays. The described methods do not damage the analyte and do not cause harmful effects on a subsequently-used analyte detection probe (e.g., an antibody).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Psychemedics Corporation
    Inventors: Virginia Hill, Mohammad Atefi, Michael I. Schaffer
  • Development of training and educational experiences
    Patent number: 8328559
    Abstract: A method for creating an educational product, or training experience, is herein described. The training experience includes a learning experience to impart knowledge on training experience participants, a networking experience to allow training experience participants to interact with a relevant peer group during training, a guest experience providing a defined level of interest and focus by participants during the training experience, and an enculturation experience to integrate training experience participants into the culture of the sponsoring organization. The training experience may be created through an assessment phase, a planning phase, a design phase, and an implementation stage, with subsequent product evaluation and revisions. Various milestones and checkpoints may be used to ensure that a level of phenomenality is achieved by the final training experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Heber D. Sambucetti, Don B. Vanthournout, Kurt J. Olson, Bradley D. Kolar, John A. Ceisel, Robert S. Gerard