Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm H. Michael Brucker
  • Method and packaging system for packaging a sterilized item
    Patent number: 6715263
    Abstract: A method, packaging system and packaging element for packaging a sterilizable item for aseptic presentation onto a sterile field wherein the vertical orientation of the sterilizable item does not need to be reversed during packaging, sterilization, unpackaging or presentation and instructions for handling are printed on the packaging element so that they are exposed when the packaging element is folded according to the packaging system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Percival C. Banks
  • Method and packaging system for packaging a sterilized item
    Patent number: 6672036
    Abstract: A method, packaging system and packaging element for packaging a sterilizable item for aseptic presentation onto a sterile field wherein the vertical orientation of the sterilizable item does not need to be reversed during packaging, sterilization, unpackaging or presentation and instructions for handling are printed on the packaging element so that they are exposed when the packaging element is folded according to the packaging system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Percival C. Banks
  • Variable-size sector-shaped aperture mask and method of using same to create focal plane-specific images
    Patent number: 6657796
    Abstract: A variable size sector-shaped aperture mask used in an optical imaging system, such as a microscope, increases contrast and depth of field without loss of resolution and permits different angled views of an object to be captured and compared to create focal plane-specific images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Inventor: Gary Greenberg
  • Interactive dynamic imaging
    Patent number: 6646819
    Abstract: A manually controlled, variable-size, variable angular position, sector-shaped optical mask for use at an objective aperture of an optical imaging system to permit an object to be viewed from selected angles and directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventor: Gary Greenberg
  • Method of making a commercial packaged watermelon juice drink
    Patent number: 6589581
    Abstract: A process for making a commercial packaged watermelon fruit juice drink in which juice extracted from the whole watermelon, except the seeds, is adjusted by adding water, Carrageenan, malic acid, sweetener and natural flavors and then rapidly heated and cooled before being bottled and drinks made from such processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Watermelon Works LLC
    Inventors: Stella Marks, Maris Lunt, Peter Mattson
  • Method and packaging system for packaging a sterilized item
    Patent number: 6578348
    Abstract: A method, packaging system and packaging element for packaging a sterilizable item for aseptic presentation onto a sterile field wherein the vertical orientation of the sterilizable item does not need to be reversed during packaging, sterilization, unpackaging or presentation and instructions for handling are printed on the packaging element so that they are exposed when the packaging element is folded according to the packaging system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Inventor: Percival C. Banks
  • Parcel restraint for automobile seat
    Patent number: 6533350
    Abstract: A device for restraining parcels and other objects that are typically transported in an automobile on a passenger seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: The Travel Play Company LLC
    Inventor: Gali Rotstein
  • Method and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning
    Patent number: 6442567
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning where subject data, activity data and topic data are created and functionally linked through interfaces and processing modules to organize information in a useful way that permits the negotiation of responsibility for the completion of human-assisted activities and the recordation of such negotiations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Appintec Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Retallick, Susana Sanchez
  • Microscope illumination and stereo viewing including camera ports
    Patent number: 6320696
    Abstract: A light microscope with lenses projecting the rear aperture of an objective lens at a location remote from the objective lens enhancing high power stereoscopic viewing and photographing with a binocular (two eyepiece) viewing system and when combined with an iris in close proximity to the projected image of the rear aperture of the objective lens, controls flare.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventors: Gary Greenberg, Robert Ginsberg
  • Sterilization container
    Patent number: 6319481
    Abstract: A sterilization container having off-set vents in the lid and floor where the floor vents are disposed in slopping areas of the floor that are above a fluid collection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Percival C. Banks
  • Method and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning
    Patent number: 6311191
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning where subject data, activity data and topic data are created and functionally linked through interfaces and processing modules to organize information in a useful way that permits system users to have access to the information they need to conduct business in an efficient and productive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Appintec Corporation
    Inventor: Robin M. Retallick
  • Alternative medicine elements package
    Patent number: 6193577
    Abstract: An alternative medicine elements package in which a soft sculpture doll having a body portion and at least two arm-like appendages attached to the body portion includes a magnet in each of the arm-like appendages and a copper strip that extends through the body portion and into each of the arm-like appendages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Mira S. Kaplan
  • Child's collapsible travel tray
    Patent number: 6116166
    Abstract: A fully collapsible child's travel tray that fits closely to the child to prevent playthings or food from falling into the child's lap or to the floor of a vehicle in which the child is riding and restrained. The tray includes a bottom member and upstanding side walls, all of which include a rigid member encapsulated by a waterproof membrane. Hinges are formed in the bottom member and the upstanding walls to allow the tray to be collapsed and folded to a relatively small configuration for convenient storage. The tray includes a strap extending from the upstanding walls and sized to extend about the waist of a child and including a fastener to fasten the open ends of the strap about the child's waist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Inventor: Gali Rotstein
  • Stepped tuning pin for pianos and like instruments
    Patent number: 6114615
    Abstract: A tuning pin for pianos and other string instruments being of one diameter size for approximately one-third of its length and of another diameter for the remainder of its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Inventor: Paul S. Larudee
  • 3-D photo attachment for a 2-D light microscope
    Patent number: 6020993
    Abstract: A 3-D photo attachment for the phototube of a light microscope which enables a 2-D camera port to be enhanced to take 3-D stereo pair photography both sequentially and simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Edge Scientific Instrument Company LLC
    Inventor: Gary Greenberg
  • Reflectors
    Patent number: 6005715
    Abstract: A reflector formed on a polished aluminum base which is lightly anodized (0.2-0.5 microns thick) as a protective coating over which is vacuum deposited a thick (0.05 to 2.0 microns) layer of non-porus oxide underlying an aluminum reflectance layer which supports a pair of quarter wave length reflectance-enhancing layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Dielectric Coating Industries
    Inventors: Carmen B. Bischer, Jr., Edward A. Small, Jr.
  • Method and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning
    Patent number: 6006215
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning where subject data, activity data and topic data are created and functionally linked through interfaces and processing modules to organize information in a useful way that permits system users to have access to the information they need to conduct business in an efficient and productive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Appintec Corporation
    Inventor: Robin Retallick
  • Method and apparatus for treating a surface with a scanning laser beam having an improved intensity cross-section
    Patent number: 5995265
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for laser treatment of surfaces, such as tissue. In a preferred embodiment, the invention employs a unique reflective optical delivery system which produces an improved beam intensity cross-section which reduces thermal injury, increases the precision of the tissue interaction and allows the creation of craters with decreased sizes. Reflective optics provide precise, single-layer vaporization at low power levels without thermal injury to the underlying papillary dermis. Movable optical elements focus and direct the laser beam in a scanning pattern to treat a large area of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventors: Michael Black, Vladimir Lemberg
  • Housing for a fluid treatment device
    Patent number: D486552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Inventor: Floyd E. Porteous
  • Candle holder w/changeable translucent glass plates
    Patent number: D421656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Lindsay/Barnett, Inc.
    Inventor: Christie Batterman-Jordan