Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gottlieb, Rackman and Reisman, P.C.
  • Scraper with sliding safety guard
    Patent number: 7930830
    Abstract: An improved scraping tool with a retractable safety guard, for removing debris and dirt from glass, tile and the like. The scraping tool comprises a housing formed of two separable housing portions and a guard member, and is adapted to securely retain a single- or double-edged blade between the housing portions. The separable housing portions are removably secured and held in sealed alignment by a plurality of securing elements, including a releasable housing lock mechanism. Within the housing, a scraping blade is held in a rigid, stationary position by a plurality of posts. A guard member, the ends of which form a pair of upper and lower blade shields, is positioned and secured in sliding engagement within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Allway Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Gringer, Yuan Fang Cheng
  • Method and system for facilitating communications
    Patent number: 7924820
    Abstract: An Internet-based system provides substantially instantaneous communication between two devices for exchanging voice and multimedia signals. The system includes ISP gateways with unique IDs that service a plurality of devices with unique telephone numbers. The system further includes a directory which correlates the devices with ISP gateways. More specifically, the directory includes a RELATIVE records/words/cells in a RANDOM ACCESS TABLE (RRAT) with each entry being identified by a record number, which in this case corresponds to the telephone numbers (as they are or in reverse). The entry relates directly or indirectly the telephone number with the respective ISP gateway. Communication is established by having the ISP gateway of the calling device looking up the ISP gateway of the called device in the directory using the telephone number of the called device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Marron Interconnect LLC
    Inventor: Mario Aluf-Medina
  • Method of manufacturing a composite disc structure and apparatus for performing the method
    Patent number: 7918957
    Abstract: A method of making composite discs continuously, including forming for each disc a first, a second layer, and a third support layer, each support layer being disc shaped and having a first surface with information indicia. An information layer is added to each support layers respectively. The said first and third support layers are positioned in a facing relationship, with the first and third information layers being adjacent. The third support layer is then separated from the third information layer, which thus remains attached to the first support layer. The first and second support layers are then joined. These steps are performed on a manufacturing line with conveyor belts transferring the support layers from station to station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Wea Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Ellis E. Kern, William R. Mueller
  • Video game controller
    Patent number: 7914379
    Abstract: A video game includes a controller, a processor and display. The controller includes a special quick look button 28 that, when activated, allows a player to causes a looking movement of a character that simulates the lateral rotation of the head or upper body of a person looking sideways while walking forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Brain Box Concepts, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. DiDato
  • Ultrasonic scanning device with a hybrid controller
    Patent number: 7913564
    Abstract: An ultrasonic scanner includes an assembly mounted within a housing and pivoting between two positions. The assembly includes an ultrasonic module that generates an ultrasonic beam directed at a target, such a tissue and detecting the corresponding return beam. A worm screw with a block contacting the assembly is used to selectively pivot the assembly to a desired position. The worm screw is driven by a DC motor and the position of the assembly is monitored using a proximity sensor, such as a Hall Effect Device. A hybrid controller receives analog signals from the Hall Effect Device converts them into corresponding sensor digital signals, and uses them as a feedback signal to an analog OP AMP driving the DC motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Risk Management Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Gertsen
  • Use of extracts of in the prevention and/or treatment of senile cataracts
    Patent number: 7906157
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing the recurrence of a senile cataract, and/or for inhibiting the development of a senile cataract and/or an incipient senile cataract, in a human or animal subject. The invention further provides nutraceutical compositions suited for the same, derived from an extract of the plant Capraria biflora. The compositions comprise the extract in a therapeutically sufficient amount for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of a senile cataract in a human and/or animal subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Burrows Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Adria Burrows
  • System and method for searching strings of records
    Patent number: 7904429
    Abstract: System and method for detecting the inclusion of strings of words (records) in an input string of words. In a preparation phase, the records are pre-processed. Each record is represented by a string of chunks, each chunk composed of a pre-defined number of words. Each chunk found in at least one record is assigned a number of attributes, such as a “Begin of Record” attribute and an “End of Record” attribute. In the searching phase the input string is also divided in chunks, and for each input chunk, an Incremental Hash Function (IHF) is calculated for comparing with a prerecorded value ?I. If the two values IHF and ?I coincide for matching chunks with certain predefined attributes, a “probable match” is set, indicating a very high probability that a chunk was found in the records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Robogroup T.E.K. Ltd
    Inventors: Yves Villaret, Shaul Ben Haim
  • System and method for recommending programming to television viewing communities
    Patent number: 7895625
    Abstract: Digital technology based consumer media devices have many desirable features, including the ability to easily find and watch television shows, and/or automatically record programs of interest. Disclosed is a system and method for allowing a group of television viewers to share program viewing information. This information, exchanged through various on-line community modalities (including Internet chat rooms, email, Internet Web Logs, and the like), can be used within a consumer media device, such as a Digital video Recorder to influence the decision process concerning which programs to record, buffer or view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Time Warner, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Bryan, Gilles Boccon-Gibod
  • Lighting device
    Patent number: D633232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Acolyte Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Marvin Feigenbaum
  • Scalpel
    Patent number: D633616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Brolex, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lafauci, Scott Berlin
  • Dickey
    Patent number: D633693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Paul Boccardi
  • Picture capture apparatus
    Patent number: D633933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Mark Van Schalkwyk
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D634118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D634119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Caulk tool
    Patent number: D634600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Allway Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Gringer, Howard Soled, Yuan Fang Cheng
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D634928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D635356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D635357
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Handbag
    Patent number: D635358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: S.A.S. Jean Cassegrain
    Inventors: Isabelle Guyon, Sophie Delafontaine, Philippe Cassegrain
  • Ring
    Patent number: D635480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Firestone, Inc.
    Inventor: Nirav Modi