Patents Represented by Attorney Furr Law Firm
  • Patent number: 8234165
    Abstract: The current invention allows the distribution of content material to and from digital tuner. The advertising medium also provides royalty to the content material owners for the users “use” of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Funn Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Robert C O'Kane
  • Patent number: 8127779
    Abstract: The utility model of a dental floss holder concerns a device to handle dental floss to clean the spaces between the teeth consisting of two interconnected but easily separable holder portions: Portion 1—U shape supporter is provided with a U supporter (1) with two folding legs, connecting part (2) with longitudinal groove (6) and external thread (7), a hole (3) in the rear leg, a groove (4) that goes externally from the end of the front leg to the fixed end of U supporter (1) to hold the dental floss in position during cleaning operation. Portion 2—Hollow grip provided with a fixed side with a longitudinal inner blade (8) and the rotating side with a rotary end (9) and an internal thread (10). These two portions constitute a mechanism that limits the maximum floss tension adjusted by the rotary end (9). The device can operate with a piece of floss or from a floss supplier (12) connected to the rotary end (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventor: Nelson Shinzato
  • Patent number: 8123145
    Abstract: The invention is tie plates that are used to secure railway rails to the cross ties. The plate is cast with vertical abutment walls each of which has a slot along the inner wall originating from the lower outside edge and rising towards the top and center of each vertical abutment member. Between each pair of abutment members on either side of the rail seat is an upwardly facing ramp to facilitate insertion of the clip. Each ramp surface has a half cylindrical button cast on top of it. The button is used to retain the clip prior to shipment. The bottom of the plate has wedge shaped projections that tapper laterally solely in the same direction as the rail seat. The plate also has a portion laterally outward of each abutment member formed with a pit in its upper side for locating the outer end of the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Jude Odihachukwunma Igwenezie
  • Patent number: 8088108
    Abstract: This is a Local Anesthesia Injection Cone. It is made of a very simple cone shaped piece of clear plastic with a flange on the tip of the cone where a Luer lock syringe can attach. There are a multiple tiny hypodermic needles protruding from the base of the cone. The number of needles would be directly proportional to the diameter of the device. It would be available in many sizes identified by the diameter of the base of the cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph Wayne Kraft
  • Patent number: 7918330
    Abstract: This report for Utility Model refers to an improvement introduced in the configuration of drag plates sets installed in a conveyor of the redler type, in a closed circuit circular duct, used for transportation of bulk products, more specifically, for handling vegetable grains and agriculture seeds, such as soy, corn, wheat, rice, oats, barley, coffee and other products. Its major application is for drying and warehousing facilities for grains, which use vertical circular silos, bulk warehouses and also other handling processes employed by agricultural properties, cooperatives, agro-industries and similar industrial facilities. It comprises an innovative replacement of plates of the “U” type currently used, which do not allow the reversing of the change of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Inventor: Dionisio Bertolini
  • Patent number: 7865597
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a novel method to implement a Smart Device Network Application Infrastructure (SDNA) that supports and facilitates the development, deployment and management of device networks and device network applications. The Smart Device Network Application infrastructure (SDNA) refers to an integrated processing platform that supports and facilitates the development, deployment and management of distributed applications based on device networks. It involves the concurrent execution of several processes that interact to provide support and resources for said applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Smartmatics International, Corp.
    Inventors: Lino Igelsias, Roger Pinate, Antonio Mugica, Paul Babic, Jeffrey Naveda, Dany Farina, Rodrigo Meneses, Salvador Ponticelli, Gisela Goncalves, Yrem Caruso
  • Patent number: 7785515
    Abstract: This invention is a method to attach beads to garments. The process is as follows: draw the art work, digitize the drawing and write it in a Laser cutting machine language, using a high heat resistance material, cut the material to the same shape as artwork, glue fabric on the back of screen to prevent beads from falling through, dip the screen in a container of beads in which the beads would fill up the holes and stay only where the cut holes are and where the beads extend beyond material. Laying the fabric on top of the pattern that have the beads and apply top heat with a lot of pressure, so the plastic bead portion that is sticking out of the screen melts into the fabric and bonds to it in seconds creating a beautiful beaded design that would have taken hours and days to make using the traditional sewn-on beading methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Zaher Faraj
  • Patent number: 7735746
    Abstract: The present invention is directed at an improved device for joining together abutting railway rails between two railway ties. The rails to be joined together have a head portion, a web portion and a toe portion. The saddle is split at the bottom and joined with the two bottom (lower) bolts. The saddle hugs the base of the rail at the joint preventing differential vertical (shearing) displacement of the two rail ends. This can be used in insulated and non-insulated joints. The bolts are isolated from the bars and saddle and directly contact the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventor: Jude Odihachukwunma Igwenezie
  • Patent number: 7735745
    Abstract: The present invention is directed at an improved device for joining together abutting railway rails between two railway ties. The rails to be joined together have a head portion, a web portion and a toe portion. The joining device includes first and second elongated metal joint bars for holding the abutting ends of the rails together. The joint bars span the ends of the rails and hold the rails together by mounting to the rails. The joint bars are mounted to each rail on opposite sides of the web portions of each rail. The joint bars are configured to mount to the web portions of the rail between the head and toe portion of each rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventor: Jude Odihachukwunma Igwenezie
  • Patent number: 7701878
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a method for collision avoidance in local Ethernet networks, such as a home automation network, having a personal computer and a plurality of control devices attached. In such a network, when a management message is broadcast from the host personal computer to all connected control devices, each one of such devices must reply with a response to the host computer. There is, however, a probability that responses might collide, leading to data loss. The present invention discloses a method to generate delayed responses to the sender from each control device, where an individual device's delay is computed in accordance to a unique value contained in its MAC address. The method will guarantee different delay times for all attached control devices, and hence a collision-free operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Smart Matics International Corp.
    Inventor: Oscar Mora
  • Patent number: D621975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Licai Wang
  • Patent number: D631544
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Joseph Wayne Kraft
  • Patent number: D632711
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventor: Zaher Faraj
  • Patent number: D658725
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Inventor: Craig Clark
  • Patent number: D659769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Craig Clark
  • Patent number: D659770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Craig Clark
  • Patent number: D663116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventors: Cynthia Marie Veleno, Christopher John Veleno
  • Patent number: D669429
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Lothar Budike
  • Patent number: D669430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Lothar Budike
  • Patent number: D670483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Leslie Ann Campbell