Patents Represented by Attorney Howard C. Miskin
  • Patent number: 8302238
    Abstract: A toothbrush tip for a motorized toothbrush with a first brush head and a second brush head. The second brush head encircles the first brush head. The first and second brush heads has different axes of rotation. The first and second brush heads are driven by an elongated shaft. The shaft engages the second brush head. Interactive gear teeth associated with each first and second brush heads allows the first and second brush heads to rotate at opposite direction, upon being driven by the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: East Coast Medical & Dental Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Ladislau Biro, Howard Cohen
  • Patent number: 8302932
    Abstract: A sprinkler valve test and control device that is used to test and control a sprinkler valve having a solenoid plunger without the need for electricity. The sprinkler valve test and control device includes a cup shaped yoke body having a cavity and an opening, a magnet positioned in the cavity, and the magnetic having a magnetic field directed towards the opening of the cavity, and an epoxy fill sealing and securing the magnet in the cavity. When the device is placed over a solenoid plunger, the magnetic field actuates the solenoid plunger of the sprinkler valve to turn the sprinkler valve on. The device allows efficient and effective determination of the reasons for the malfunctioning of sprinkler valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: John Sam Bakke, David Bakke
  • Patent number: 7991660
    Abstract: A multi-user information processing method for managing and determining tax provision information that includes a source database storing data for determining tax provision information; a calculation engine for performing information processing operations on the data stored in the source database for determining tax provision information; a transformed database for storing tax provision information determined by the calculation engine; and a reporting engine for producing reports using information from the transformed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters (Tax & Accounting) Services Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin P. Brady, Shane T. Naughton
  • Patent number: 7632289
    Abstract: A device for removing and harvesting veins that minimizes the invasive nature of the procedure by providing an internal cutting device with an inner blade to sever the vein at the desired location from below the skin surface, after separation of the vein from the surrounding tissue. The device also includes a serrated cutting tip, a cutting system having a looped wire or two or more wires connected at the distal end of the device, which can be tightened to sever the vein in lieu of the use of the inner blade, or heated by a power source to cauterize the vein. An injection port and cannula may also be contained in the device for delivery of local anesthesia around the vein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventor: Heshmat Majlessi
  • Patent number: 7004813
    Abstract: A toy gun that shoots glowing projectiles and the method of providing glowing projectiles to a toy gun. The toy gun having a body, at least one black light responsive projectile, a cartridge for supplying the projectiles to the body, at least one black light source within the body for exposing the projectile to black light, a triggering mechanism for engaging the exposed projectile and a launching mechanism for expelling the exposed projectile from the toy gun, such that the projectiles expelled from the toy gun has a glowing effect as if internally lit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: CYI, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Zuloff
  • Patent number: 6983742
    Abstract: A collapsible toy air gun with at least two tapered tubular sections adapted to be cooperatively joined coaxially, at least one supporting plate, a diaphragm and a resilient string. The tapered tubular sections are correspondingly sized concentrically to form a tubular body having a larger and an opposite smaller opening end in the extended operational position. At least one supporting plate is mounted on the circumferential surface of the tubular body to maintain the tubular sections in the extended position. The diaphragm is mounted transversely across the larger opening end of the tubular body with a pull knob and back support secured to the diaphragm. The resilient string is mounted across the smaller opening end of the tubular body through the back support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: CYI, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Jordan, Steven Zuloff
  • Patent number: D511546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Punch Products USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Edgar F. Trombly
  • Patent number: D617648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Ben S. Loeb, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Puglisi
  • Patent number: D617649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Ben S. Loeb, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Puglisi
  • Patent number: D631388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Israel Itzkowitz
  • Patent number: D641280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Quadamas, Inc.
    Inventor: Israel Itzkowitz
  • Patent number: D641281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Quadamas, Inc.
    Inventor: Israel Itkowitz
  • Patent number: D641282
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Quadamas, Inc.
    Inventor: Israel Itkowitz
  • Patent number: D641283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Quadamas, Inc.
    Inventor: Israel Itkowitz
  • Patent number: D641284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Quadamas, Inc.
    Inventor: Israel Itkowitz
  • Patent number: D658122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Eastern Frontier Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun Chun Tsoi
  • Patent number: D659177
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventor: Man Kit Chan
  • Patent number: D661019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Carly Harris
  • Patent number: D666871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Inventor: Man Ying Eddie Chan
  • Patent number: D670979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Man Ying Eddie Chan