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  • Reduction of incorrectly identified document scanning defects
    Patent number: 8107713
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of reducing the possibility of an image evaluation device incorrectly identifying defects in images of documents. Some defects may be apparent in the images of both sides of a document. For instance, a tear in a document could be apparent in an image of a front side and an image of a rear side of the document. However, the image evaluation device could erroneously identify such a tear in an image of one side of the document. In this case, the tear would not be apparent in the image of the other side of the document. To reduce the possibility that the image evaluation device erroneously identifies such a defect, the image evaluation device may determine whether defects identified in the image of the front side of the document correspond to defects identified in the image of the rear side of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Bickell, Robert J. D'Aoust, James J. Young
  • Motorized document scanner
    Patent number: 8107135
    Abstract: A document scanner, such as a check scanner, is disclosed. The document scanner includes a document bed having a document positioning surface, the document positioning surface arranged to receive a document placed thereon. The document scanner further includes a scanning module slidably movable across the document positioning surface, the scanning module including one or more data capture devices arranged to contact a document during a scanning process. The document scanner also includes a motor operatively connected to the scanning module, the motor configured to move the scanning module across the document positioning surface during the scanning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Moore, John Gudenburr, Sammy C. Hutson
  • Escalator
    Patent number: 8104600
    Abstract: Escalator with a series of steps connected to at least one drive chain, driven by a motor mechanism, travelling via an advanced track and a return track placed alongside, there being transition zones between two levels, the tracks respectively comprising a main set of guides and at least one set of additional guides for moving a movable step, via the bearing thereof, parallel to a non-movable step, so that they are positioned at the same height, creating a widened continuous platform which can accommodate a person with reduced mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Inventor: Jesus Sanchez Pineiro
  • Pyridopyrimidinone inhibitors of PI3K? and mTOR
    Patent number: 8101622
    Abstract: The invention is directed to Compounds of Formula I: optionally as a single stereoisomer or mixture of stereoisomers thereof, and additionally optionally as a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; as well as methods of making and using the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Exelixis, Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Gon Baik, Sunghoon Ma, Chris A. Buhr, John M. Nuss
  • Methods and compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders
    Patent number: 8101579
    Abstract: Compositions and related methods for treating IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders and conditions (e.g., gastrointestinal motility disorders, functional gastrointestinal disorders, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), duodenogastric reflux, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, functional heartburn, dyspepsia (including functional dyspepsia or nonulcer dyspepsia), gastroparesis, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (or colonic pseudoobstruction), and disorders and conditions associated with constipation, e.g., constipation associated with use of opiate pain killers, post-surgical constipation, and constipation associated with neuropathic disorders as well as other conditions and disorders are described. The compositions feature peptides that activate the guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark G. Currie, Shalina Mahajan-Miklos, Li Jing Sun
  • Modulators of ATP-binding cassette transporters
    Patent number: 8101767
    Abstract: The present invention relates to modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, compositions thereof, and methods therewith. The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using such modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Sara Hadida Ruah, Anna Hazlewood, Peter D. J. Grootenhuis, Fredrick Van Goor, Ashvani Singh, Jinglan Zhou, Jason McCartney
  • Document processing system having improved operational sequencing
    Patent number: 8098391
    Abstract: An automated document processing system is disclosed. The system includes a magnetic character reader located along a path of travel of a document. The system also includes a first image scanner located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, the first image scanner configured to capture an image of a first side of the document. The system further includes an endorser located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, where the endorser is configured to print an endorsement on at least one side of the document. The system also includes a second image scanner located after the endorser along the path of travel, the second image scanner configured to capture an image of the at least one side of the document endorsed by the endorser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Kiplinger, David Brian Tratar, Michael A. Saunders, Michael James Spall, Johan P. Bakker, Paul John McCarthy, Gary Benton Copenhaver
  • Fluid filter element
    Patent number: 8092690
    Abstract: A filter element is removably positionable within a filter housing defining a filter chamber for said filter element. The filter housing comprises a standpipe extending within the filter chamber. The filter element includes a tubular filter media circumscribing the standpipe, a first end cap supporting the filter media at one end thereof, a second end cap longitudinally spaced from the first end cap and supporting the filter media at the opposite end thereof, and a center tube extending between the first and second end caps. The center tube has at least one inlet opening therethrough at a first end thereof adjacent to the first end cap and a standpipe opening therethrough at a second end thereof adjacent to the second end cap. The second end cap has at least one intake opening therethrough radially spaced from the standpipe opening in the center tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Wix Filtration Corp LLC
    Inventors: Willie L. Stamey, Jr., Mark A. Roll
  • Method for processing an interior trim component
    Patent number: 8088318
    Abstract: A method for processing an interior trim component includes the steps of injecting a substrate into a cavity that is defined by a cavity surface; injecting a coating onto the substrate within the cavity; flash-heating the cavity surface; and curing the coating on the substrate. A system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Magna International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. West, Ryan R. Case, Steven D. McClintock
  • Single motor document jogger/feeder
    Patent number: 8087660
    Abstract: A compact, desktop document processor for use on a counter-top is provided. A low-profile document feeding machine includes a feeder, a hopper, at least one processing device, and an output pocket. The apparatus further includes a reversible motor including a shaft, a first one-way clutch, a second one-way clutch, a nudger device, and a jogging device. The nudger device is drivingly connected to the motor through the first one-way clutch such that driving the motor in a forward direction drives the nudger device to urge a document from a document stack in the hopper into the feeder. The jogging device is drivingly connected to the motor through the second one-way clutch such that driving the motor in a reverse direction drives the jogging device to align the documents in the document stack prior to feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Spall, Johan P. Bakker
  • Mobile self-erecting directional drilling rig apparatus
    Patent number: 8087473
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for horizontal drilling are provided. The apparatus has: (A) a thrust frame; (B) a carriage on the thrust frame; (C) a wheel truck, wherein a rearward portion of the thrust frame can be supported in a lowered position on the wheel truck; (D) a king pin for operatively connecting a forward portion of the thrust frame to a tractor; (E) a trailer-leg assembly that can be connected operatively between: (i) the forward portion of the thrust frame; and (ii) the ground; and wherein the trailer-leg assembly is capable of assisting in supporting the forward portion of the thrust frame: (a) in a raised position so a tractor can be connected for towing; and (b) in a lowered position where the forward portion of the thrust frame is in a lowered position adjacent the ground to assist in positioning the thrust frame in a position for drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Southeast Directional Drilling, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Osadchuk, John Heieie
  • Semi-automatic inertial wheel device in a hand-operated document reader/imager
    Patent number: 8083143
    Abstract: A hand-operated document processor includes a base for receiving a document containing magnetic ink character data to be read and recognized. A manually operated moving magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) subsystem includes a MICR read head and is attached to the base such that movement of the subsystem causes the MICR read head to pass over the magnetic ink character data on the document. MICR reading and recognition logic receives the signal from the MICR read head. An inertial wheel arrangement includes a clutch and an inertia wheel. The inertia wheel connects through the clutch to drive the moving MICR subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sammy C. Hutson, Michael J. Moore, John C Gudenburr
  • Plug for a perforated liner and method of using same
    Patent number: 8079416
    Abstract: A plug for insertion into a perforation in a liner or tubular. The plug comprises a base portion and one or more extendible portions. The base portion is securable to and receivable within the perforation. The base portion and the one or more extendible portions seal the perforation in the liner. The one or more extendible portions have a retracted position and an extended position such that when in their extended position the one or more extendible portions extend outwardly from the base portion and outwardly from the exterior surface of the liner. The plug including one or more shear pins retaining such extendible portions in said retracted position until sufficient force is applied to shear said shear pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Reservoir Management Inc.
    Inventor: Perry Parker
  • Functional fluid and a process for the preparation of the functional fluid
    Patent number: 8080225
    Abstract: A functional fluid for the removal of contaminates such as but not limited to, acid causing components in gas, sulfur components and carbon oxides from fluid streams, and removal and treatment of NOX & SOX from post combustion emissions. Also described is the manufacturing process to produce the functional fluid both in a batch atmospheric process system as well as a closed system capable of operating at above or below atmospheric conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Specialist Process Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Theodore E. Dickinson, David J. Parkinson, Kevin E. Collier
  • Methods and compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders
    Patent number: 8080526
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and related methods for treating IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders and conditions (e.g., gastrointestinal motility disorders, functional gastrointestinal disorders, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, functional heartburn, dyspepsia (including functional dyspepsia or nonulcer dyspepsia), gastroparesis, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (or colonic pseudo-obstruction), and disorders and conditions associated with constipation, e.g., constipation associated with use of opiate pain killers, post-surgical constipation, and constipation associated with neuropathic disorders as well as other conditions and disorders using peptides and other agents that activate the guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Currie, Shalina Mahajan-Miklos, G. Todd Milne, Thea Norman
  • Document processing assembly
    Patent number: 8079584
    Abstract: An improved document feeder flag assembly is disclosed. The improved document feeder flag assembly allows single handed, on the fly loading of a document sorter. A method for loading a document sorting machine with a single hand, while the method of operating the machine is also disclosed. The document feeder flag assembly includes a baseplate and a pivot post attached to the baseplate. Further, the assembly includes a flag arm having a first side and a second side, the first side of the flag arm is attached to the pivot post. There is also a feeder flag having a first side and a second side, the first side of the feeder flag being attached to a second side of the flag arm. The document feeder flag assembly also includes a resistance device attached between the feeder flag and the flag arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Tratar
  • EPreceptor agonists
    Patent number: 8080567
    Abstract: A compound of formula (III): or a salt, solvate and chemically protected form thereof, wherein: R5 is an optionally substituted C5-20 aryl or C4-20alkyl group; L? is a single bond, —O— or —C(?O)—; A is selected from the group consisting of: formula (i) (ii) (iii) wherein X and Y are selected from the group consisting of: O and CR3; S and CR3; NH and CR3; NH and N; O and N; S and N; N and S; and N and O, and where the dotted lines indicate a double bond in the appropriate location, and where Q is either N or CH; D is selected from: formula (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vii) (viii) (ix) B is selected from the group consisting of: formula (A) (B) where RP6 is selected from fluoro and chloro; and R2 is either: (i) —CO2H; (ii) —CONH2; (iii) —CH2—OH; or (iv) tetrazol-5-yl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Asterand UK Limited
    Inventors: Alexander William Oxford, Richard Jon Davis, Robert Alexander Coleman, Kenneth Lyle Clark, David Edward Clark, Shirley Ann Brunton, Neil Victor Harris, Garry Fenton, George Hynd, Keith Alfred James Stuttle, Jonathan Mark Sutton, Mark Richard Ashton, Edward Andrew Boyd
  • Compositions of n-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide
    Patent number: 8076357
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions including N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide (Compound 1) and methods of using such compositions are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher R. Young, Charles William Rowe
  • Articles of footwear
    Patent number: D651787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Saucony, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Mahoney
  • Combination print and cut apparatus
    Patent number: D652445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Burton, James T. Davis, II, Jeremy Burton Crystal