Patents Represented by Attorney Gauthier & Connors LLP
  • Patent number: 7801918
    Abstract: A file access control device included in a file management system having a storage unit has an access control management unit that controls access to the storage unit or to a file for which an access is requested while checking a file access right referring to access right information which is set for the storage unit and for each file stored in the storage unit, an access right setting processor that sets, when a file is read from the storage unit and transmitted in response to a file acquisition request when access is permitted by the access control management unit, to a file to be transmitted, an access right based on an access right which is set for the storage unit and an access right which is set for the file and adds, to the file, access right information, and a transmission processor that transmits the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Iwase
  • Patent number: 7800761
    Abstract: An interferometric-spatial-phase imaging (ISPI) system includes a substrate wafer. An alignment configuration is permanently embedded in the substrate wafer. The alignment configuration uses a global coordinate reference system by providing a plurality of global reference marks that encompass up to the entire substrate wafer. A plurality of alignment markings is provided on a surface in close proximity to the alignment configuration for obtaining continuous six-axis control of a scanning probe tip with respect to the global coordinate reference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Euclid E. Moon
  • Patent number: 7801406
    Abstract: A method of forming a low loss crystal quality waveguide is provided. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a dielectric layer on the substrate. A channel is formed by etching a portion of the dielectric layer. A selective growth of a Si Ge, or SiGe layer is performed in the area that defines the channel. Furthermore, the method includes thermally annealing the waveguide at a defined temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Dong Pan, Jifeng Liu, Jurgen Michel, John Yasaitis, Lionel C. Kimerling
  • Patent number: 7797277
    Abstract: A document management system acquires a document which is associated to a document ID specified by an access request; generates a new document ID which is associated with the acquired document; and outputs the acquired document and the new document ID to a request origin. The document management system registers associative information on the request origin, the new document ID, and the document ID specified by the access request; generates a new document ID which is associated with a document corresponding to a transferred document ID; replaces the transferred document ID with the new document ID, to cause the new document ID to be transferred to a transfer destination; and registers associative information on a transfer source, the new document ID after replacement, the document ID before replacement, and the transfer destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7796295
    Abstract: There is provided an image reader system including an attribute acquisition unit that acquires an attribute of an original that has been detected by an image reader unit that optically reads an image of the original, and an image output unit that outputs the attribute that has been acquired by the image reader unit and image data that are acquired by the reading of the image reader unit with the attribute and the image data being associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoko Kudo, Hiroyuki Asada
  • Patent number: 7793809
    Abstract: A backpack frame has a front side and a back side and comprises generally parallel base and top sections that extend transversely across and are spaces one from the other along a center line of the frame. Side rails connect the base section to the top section. The side rails are arranged on opposite sides of the frame center line, and a stabilizing rib interconnects the side rails and extends transversely across the center line at an intermediate location between the base and top sections. The side rails converge inwardly from the base section towards the frame center line to the stabilizing rib, and diverge outwardly from the stabilizing rib and away from the center line to the top section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Inventor: Frank A. Howell
  • Patent number: 7792603
    Abstract: An approximate curve generation method according to the present invention generates an approximate curve as smooth as an original curve from point group data obtained by approximating a curve shape, and includes: an approximate polygon shape range determining step of sectioning point group data for each line segment of an approximate polygon shape which is generated when the point group data approximating the curve shape are obtained, and sorting the point group data close to a section boundary as valid point group data, and the point group data inside the valid point group data as invalid point group data; and an approximate curve generating step of regarding only the valid point group data, and generating an approximate curve passing through or close to the regarded valid point group data as an approximate curve to be finally obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuya Hioki
  • Patent number: 7787176
    Abstract: An on-chip amplifier includes first element that curtails the velocity of an incoming light to the amplifier. A second element is doped so as to make the frequency of the incoming light equal to the electron frequency in order to allow for electron-photon wave interaction, so that when current flows through the amplifier, electron power is transferred to the incoming light, resulting in amplification of the incoming light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lionel C. Kimerling, Kazumi Wada, Daniel K. Sparacin, Desmond R. Lim
  • Patent number: 7787642
    Abstract: A low power high dynamic range microphone amplification system is disclosed. The system includes a current sensing amplifier for receiving an input current signal representative of auditory information and for providing an amplifier output signal. The current sensing amplifier includes a DC bias network that includes a cascode filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michael W. Baker, Micah O'Halloran, Rahul Sarpeshkar
  • Patent number: 7785589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies raised against fragments of apolipoprotein B, in particular defined peptides thereof, for immunization or therapeutic treatment of mammals, including humans, against ischemic cardiovascular diseases, using one or more of such antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignees: Forskarpatent I SYD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Inventors: Jan Nilsson, Prediman K. Shah
  • Patent number: 7787640
    Abstract: A spectral enhancement system is disclosed that includes an input node for receiving an input signal, at least one broad band pass filter coupled to the input node and having a first band pass range, at least one non-linear circuit coupled to the filter for non-linearly mapping a broad band pass filtered signal by a first non-linear factor n, at least one narrow band pass filter coupled to the non-linear circuit and having a second band pass range that is narrower than the first band pass range, and an output node coupled to the narrow band pass filter for providing an output signal that is spectrally enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lorenzo Turicchia, Rahul Sarpeshkar
  • Patent number: 7780048
    Abstract: A pocket comprises an inner cup cooperating in a nested relationship with an outer cup to define a chamber having a closed bottom end and an open upper end sized to receive an article. A hinge interconnects the inner and outer cups at the closed bottom end of the chamber. The hinge is configured to accommodate swinging movement of the outer cup relative to the inner cup between a closed position at which the sides of the article received in the chamber are tightly confined between opposite interior surfaces of the inner and outer cups, and a release position deflected outwardly from the closed position to accommodate removal of the article from the chamber via its open upper end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventor: Frank A. Howell
  • Patent number: 7782264
    Abstract: A distributed load monopole antenna system is disclosed that includes a monopole antenna including a radiation resistance unit, a current enhancing unit, and a conductive mid-section. The radiation resistance unit is coupled to a transmitter base and the radiation resistance unit includes a radiation resistance unit base that is coupled to ground. The radiation resistance unit also includes a plurality of windings of an electrically conductive material wherein each winding includes an elongated portion that is substantially parallel with an elongated central axis of the monopole antenna. The elongated portions are positioned at a plurality of angularly disposed locations around the elongated central axis of the monopole antenna. The current enhancing unit is for enhancing current through the radiation resistance unit, and the conductive mid-section is intermediate the radiation resistance unit and the current enhancing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
    Inventor: Robert J. Vincent
  • Patent number: 7770803
    Abstract: A code pattern image generation apparatus for generating a code pattern image, which includes position-dependent information differing at every position and position-independent information in common at various positions, the code pattern image generation apparatus includes; an image generator that generates a code pattern image by disposing a plurality of position-dependent code images, which include position-dependent information, at a mutually predetermined spacing along at least one side and repeatedly disposing a position-independent code image, which includes position-independent information, in the spacing between the disposed position-dependent code images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Onishi
  • Patent number: 7767283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a package of a polyolefin polymer, wherein it comprises an addition of a pro-oxidant in the form of at least one salt of a metal of the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Cu, Co, and Ni, whereby the polyolefin is provided with a filler in the form of a mineral, such as calcium carbonate, such as talc, crushed marble, chalk, including nano particles thereof, calcite, silica, and nano particle clays, a filler in the form of natural fiber such as cellulose fiber, wood fiber, powderous wood or china grass, rice spelt, and starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Add-X Biotech AB
    Inventors: Gunnar Forsberg, Eugen Karl Mossner, Graham M. Chapman
  • Patent number: 7768694
    Abstract: A doubly-resonant cavity structure includes at least one cavity structures so as to allow total frequency conversion for second or third-harmonic generation using ?(2) and ?(3) nonlinearities between the at least one cavity structures. The total frequency conversion is efficiently optimized by determining a critical power allowing for such total frequency conversion to occur depending on the cavity parameters of the at least one cavity structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Alejandro Rodriguez, John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, Marin Soljacic
  • Patent number: 7764873
    Abstract: A radiant electric heating element for use in a toast making appliance comprises a base plate (2) of stainless steel to one or each face of which there is printed a first ceramic track (3) with an electrically conductive track (5) printed on the face thereof remote from the base plate (2), and a second ceramic track (4) is printed upon and surrounds the heating track (5) thus hermetically sealing with the heating track between the two ceramic tracks. Such an element provides adequate radiant heat for efficiently toasting bread while the bread may be in direct contact with the element but is electrically insulated therefrom by the second ceramic track (4). By providing a further ceramic coating (6) on the opposed face of the base plate (2), mechanical integrity is maintained to prevent warping of the element and thus uneven toasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Stylianos Panaghe
  • Patent number: 7763639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which have therapeutic effects against disorders in the central nervous system, and in particular new 4-(ortho, meta-disubstituted phenyl)-1-alkypiperidines and piperazines. wherein R1, R2, R3 and X are as defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: NSAB, Filial AF Neurosearch Sweden AB, Sverige
    Inventors: Clas Sonesson, Lars Swanson, Nicholas Ross Waters
  • Patent number: 7761733
    Abstract: An image-processing system having an image processor which performs image input or output processing, and a management communication apparatus connected to the image processor and connected via a communication line to a management center, the image processing system having: a retaining unit, provided in a nontarget apparatus which is not subjected to firmware rewriting, that retains firmware-identifying information for identifying a firmware program used before rewriting in a target apparatus which is subjected to firmware rewriting; and a controller that, in the event of failure of the firmware rewriting in the target apparatus, obtains from the management center the firmware program identified by the firmware-identifying information retained in the retaining unit and performs firmware rewriting in the target apparatus using the obtained firmware program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rie Shishido, Ryu Inada
  • Patent number: 7761510
    Abstract: A conference system includes a terminal that displays a document presented by a presenter in a conference and that is capable of receiving writing inputs from a participant for enabling exchange of opinions, and a document storage unit that stores the document used in the conference and the written information. The document storage unit stores image data of respective pages of the document, shared overwrite data for each page including shared written information written by the presenter or participants, and personal overwrite data for each participant provided for each page and including personal memo information written by the participant. The terminal includes a read unit that selectively reads out from the document storage unit, concerning each page, the image data of the presented document, the shared overwrite data, and a participant's personal overwrite data, and a display controller that overlaps the read-out data and displays the overlapped data on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Watanabe, Kazunori Horikiri, Katsuya Mitsutake, Yoshihiro Masuda, Masatomi Inagaki