Patents Represented by Attorney Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

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  • Carpal tunnel release tool
    Patent number: 8273098
    Abstract: A carpal tunnel release tool and methods for using the same are disclosed. Embodiments of the carpal tunnel release tool include a guide with an angled track and a knife that fits into and follows the angled track. In one embodiment, the knife is retracted into the guide as it is advanced along the track to cut the ligament. In an alternate embodiment the blade is extended outwardly from the surface of the guide as the blade is advanced along the track. Other embodiments include a projection at the terminal end of the track that maintains the position of the ligament over the guide, serves as a type of cutting block to ensure complete bisecting of the ligament, and can aid the surgeon in placement of the guide beneath the ligament. Further embodiments include an inserter that inhibits tissue entering the track as the guide is advanced beneath the ligament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Del Palma Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventor: James W. Strickland
  • Circuit structures and methods with BEOL layers configured to block electromagnetic edge interference
    Patent number: 8273648
    Abstract: Back-end-of-line (BEOL) circuit structures and methods are provided for blocking externally-originating or internally-originating electromagnetic edge interference. One such BEOL circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate supporting one or more integrated circuits, and multiple BEOL layers disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The multiple BEOL layers extend to an edge of the circuit structure and include at least one vertically-extending conductive pattern disposed adjacent to the edge of the circuit structure. The vertically-extending conductive pattern is defined, at least partially, by a plurality of elements disposed in the multiple BEOL layers. The plurality of elements are uniformly arrayed at the edge of the circuit structure in a first direction or a second direction throughout at least a portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Choongyeun Cho, Daeik Kim, Jonghae Kim, Moon Ju Kim, James R. Moulic
  • Selection of transaction managers based on transaction metadata
    Patent number: 8276141
    Abstract: One or more transaction managers are automatically selected from a plurality of transaction managers for use in processing a transaction. The selection is based on types of resources used by the transaction and supported resource types of the transaction managers. The selection of the one or more transaction managers enables less than all of the transaction managers of an application server to be used in transaction commit processing, thereby improving performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Kaczynski, Matthew J. Sykes, Edward E. Mezarina
  • Clip
    Patent number: 8272612
    Abstract: A clip for holding an object on a supporting member comprises a holding clamp and an attaching clamp. The holding clamp has a pair of clamping members with oppositely bowed gripping portions and inwardly arched handles. The oppositely bowed gripping portions form together, when engaged, jaws for holding an object such as a cigar. The jaws are connected together for pivotal movement to cooperate with each other for clamping action upon actuation of their handles. At the juncture point of the jaws with the handles, the clamping members are provided with aligned, apertured supports for receipt of an axial binding post or rivet that extends through the apertures and for holding the clamping members together and in axial alignment. A spring, normally biasing the clamping members towards a closed position is looped around the post with its ends locked against the handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventor: Edward Brian Thorpe
  • Drugs for the treatment of sarcoglycanopathies
    Patent number: 8273763
    Abstract: Inhibitors of the endoplasmic reticulum associated degradation (ERAD) pathway, particularly inhibitors of mannosidase I, are used to treat sarcoglycanopathies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Genethon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventor: Isabelle Richard
  • Automatically reconfigurable liquid-cooling apparatus for an electronics rack
    Patent number: 8274790
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for cooling an electronics rack, which includes an electronic subsystem across which air passing through the rack flows. A cooling unit provides, via system coolant supply and return manifolds, system coolant in parallel to the electronic subsystem and an air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed to cool, in normal-mode, air passing through the rack. A controller monitors coolant associated with the cooling unit and automatically transitions the cooling apparatus from normal-mode to failure-mode responsive to detecting a failure of the coolant. In transitioning to failure-mode, multiple isolation valves are employed in switching to a serial flow of system coolant from the electronic subsystem to the heat exchanger for rejecting, via the system coolant, heat from the electronic subsystem to air passing across the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Randall G. Kemink, Robert E. Simons
  • Device for articulating an orthodontic system capable of causing the movement of a mandible in relation to a maxilla
    Patent number: 8267093
    Abstract: An orthodontic assembly articulation device for causing a mandible to move relative to a maxilla includes a lower splint fitted with a lower reinforcement and an upper splint fitted with an upper reinforcement. The reinforcements are connected by a system of rods mounted with sliding capability. A ball joint couples each system of rods with a part of the reinforcements. The ball joint is interdependent with an extension oriented perpendicularly and screwed into a support element interdependent with a corresponding part of the reinforcements. The ball joint engages with the hemispherical cage of an end piece secured to each system of rods. The cage is in communication with an opening of the end piece to allow articulation of the system of rods of about 90° in a vertical plane and about 360° in a horizontal plane, while preventing any swinging of the end piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Orthogem
    Inventor: Franck Marie-Catherine
  • Using metadata tags in video recordings produced by portable encoded information reading terminals
    Patent number: 8270303
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the video information search and users' navigation through multiple video image or video stream files, as well as reducing the amount of data transferred between a video content management server and a video playback client, by employing metadata tags inserted into the video recordings automatically or by an operator of an encoded information reading terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: James T. Sauerwein, Jr., Aldo Mario Caballero, Vincent Scott Garmon, Scott W. Reynolds, Paul Weslake
  • L-malate salts of 6-(5-chloro-2-Pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)carbonyloxy]-7-Oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrazine
    Patent number: 8269005
    Abstract: L-malate salts of (6-(5-chloro-2-pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)carbonyloxy]-7-oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrazine) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: H. Scott Wilkinson, Richard Hsia, Tushar Misra, Kostas Saranteas
  • Emulated Z-series queued direct I/O
    Patent number: 8271258
    Abstract: The emulation of an adapter for I/O to link a host data processing system to a local area network provides advantages of memory to memory transfer which results in higher data transfer rates while at the same time providing a mechanism for working with two data transfer vectors in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ping T. Chan, Paul M. Gioquindo, Gary R. Morrill, Bruce H. Ratcliff, Stephen R. Valley
  • Method and system for start and operation of an electrically driven load
    Patent number: 8269449
    Abstract: A method and system for starting and operating an electrically driven load, e.g. a compressor or pump, by power supply from a mechanical driver, e.g. a turbine or combustion engine, whereby the load is mechanically connected to a first electrical machine, and the mechanical driver is mechanically connected to a second electrical machine. The first electrical machine is electrically interconnected to the second electrical machine at a standstill or when the first and or second machine have low speed. In an acceleration phase, the first electrical machine is accelerated by accelerating the second electrical machine with the mechanical driver. When the first electrical machine has reached a predefined rotational speed, the first machine is synchronized with a local electrical power network and connected it to that network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Acker Engineering & Technology AS
    Inventors: Ole-Johan Bjerknes, Trygve Lund
  • Maleate salts of 6-(5-chloro-2-Pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)carbonyloxy]-7-oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrazine
    Patent number: 8268832
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of maleate salts of (6-(5-chloro-2-pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)carbonyloxy]-7-oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo [3,4-b]pyrazine) are provided. The maleate salts are sleep agents useful in oral dosage forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: H. Scott Wilkinson, Richard Hsia, Tushar Misra, Kostas Saranteas, Patrick Mousaw
  • Methods of identifying agents that selectively activate p38 and/or NKkB signaling
    Patent number: 8268635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selectively modulating a signalling pathway of interest controlled by a cell receptor involved in signalling through multiple pathways. The method includes exposing the receptor to an agent that modulates signalling by the receptor through the signalling pathway of interest and does not substantially modulate signalling through one or more other signalling pathways controlled by the receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventors: Antonio Ferrante, Charles S. T. Hii
  • Device for producing above ground open or closed structures
    Patent number: 8266845
    Abstract: Flat panels formed by an assembly of wooden plates include arrangements for integrating rigidity inserts for the assembly thereof. Vertical edges of the panels receive profiles for connecting to adjacent panels in a linear and/or angular alignment manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventors: Pierre-Louis Desjoyaux, Dung Hoan Tuan, Jean-Paul Saccucci
  • Method and apparatus to provide active cancellation of the effects of the parasitic elements in capacitors
    Patent number: 8264270
    Abstract: Reducing, suppressing or canceling series parasitic inductance and/or resistive effects that affect the frequency response of components, elements and/or circuits in an electronic circuit or system that exhibit capacitance is disclosed. Noise generated by series parasitic inductance and/or parasitic resistance of the components, the physical orientation of the components, and/or the layout of components, devices and/or conductive tracks (board traces) on printed circuit boards within an electronic circuit or system is reduced, suppressed or canceled. The reduction, suppression or cancellation is achieved by adding a voltage source in series with a part or component of the electronic circuit or system that exhibits capacitance, the current source being adapted to deliver a compensating voltage of roughly equal magnitude and roughly opposite phase to parasitic voltage associated with the part or component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shu Hung Henry Chung, Wai To Yan
  • Dispenser of washing agents for a household washing machine, in particular a dishwasher
    Patent number: 8261581
    Abstract: A device for dispensing washing agents has a body defined in which is a reservoir for a liquid substance that can be dispensed. The reservoir has a charging passage that can be engaged by a plug. Operatively set between the body of the dispenser and the plug is an articulated connection, provided for keeping the plug mechanically connected to the dispenser even following upon removal of the plug from the charging passage. Preferably the articulated connection is of a “hide-away” type and comprises a movable member to which the plug is constrained so as to present a number of degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ELTEK S.p.A.
    Inventors: Daniele Cerruti, Marco Moro
  • Table base
    Patent number: D666849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Elite Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Carl A. Muller
  • Table base
    Patent number: D666850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Elite Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Carl A. Muller
  • Vibrator
    Patent number: D667132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Rocks Off Limited
    Inventor: Ian Peter Marshall
  • Handle for vibrator
    Patent number: D667133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Rocks Off Limited
    Inventor: Ian Peter Marshall