Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Howson and Howson
  • Patent number: 6949879
    Abstract: An optoelectronic display comprises a substrate 32 of semiconducting material and an array of organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixels arranged on the substrate, which comprises an active circuit for controlling the light emitted from each pixel. Each pixel comprises at least one layer of organic light emitting material 46, and an (at least semi-) transparent electrode 48 in contact with the organic layer on a side thereof remote from the substrate, the electrode comprising an electrically conducting polymer 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Microemissive Displays Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey Peter Wright, Ian Underwood
  • Patent number: 6946454
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of co-administering compounds of formula 1 which are agonists of the progesterone receptor which have the general structure: wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Q1 are as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with estrogen, an estrogen, or an estrogen receptor agonist for contraception, hormone replacement therapy, or treating progesterone-related carcinomas and adenocarcinomas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignees: Wyeth, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Fensome, Puwen Zhang, Marci C. Koko, Lin Zhi, Todd K. Jones, Jay E. Wrobel, Christopher M. Tegley, James P. Edwards, Edward G. Melenski
  • Patent number: 6943019
    Abstract: Methods for efficient production of recombinant AAV employ a host cell containing a first nucleic acid molecule comprising from 5? to 3?, a parvovirus P5 promoter, a spacer, an AAV rep sequence and an AAV cap gene sequence, wherein said spacer is of sufficient size to reduce expression of the rep78 and rep68 gene products; a second nucleic acid molecule comprising a minigene comprising a transgene flanked by AAV inverse terminal repeats (ITRs) and under the control of regulatory sequences directing expression thereof in a host cell; and helper functions essential to the replication and packaging of rAAV, which functions are not provided by the first or second nucleic acid molecules. Host cells and molecule constructs are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: James M. Wilson, Weidong Xiao
  • Patent number: 6942336
    Abstract: Opaque films adhering electrostatically to lenses of eyewear, are used to train baseball fielders and golfers. For baseball, films placed on the lower parts of the lenses encourage the player to follow a ball visually throughout its entire path of travel toward the player's glove. For golf an opaque film covers one lens, and an opaque film having a lenticular transparent opening in its upper part is placed on the other lens. The films encourage the golfer to keep the head down and behind the ball during the downswing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignees: Penllyn Limited Partnership, St. Moritz Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David S. Foulke, Vincent J. Russomagno
  • Patent number: 6941005
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for sorting particles in a stream of a sample in a flow cytometer by producing from a stable sort having desirable sort characteristics multiple images of a portion of the stream; generating from the multiple images an averaged numerical reference standard representative of the stable sort; continuously collecting during the sorting multiple running images of the portion of the stream; generating from the multiple running images at least one numerical sample average representative of the sample sort of each collection of the multiple running images; and comparing each numerical sample average to the numerical reference standard and determining whether a sample average exhibits a deviation from the reference standard that requires an adjustment of the sort. The sort may then be adjusted to eliminate or reduce the deviation and maintain the stable sort of the reference histogram. A novel imaging apparatus may be employed in a flow cytometer performing this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Coulter International Corp.
    Inventors: Todd P. Lary, Christopher W. Snow, John S. Riley, Robert C. Burr
  • Patent number: 6935588
    Abstract: A transportable shredder comprises a comminutor, a horizontal intake conveyor on one side of the comminutor, and a discharge conveyor movable from a stowed position, where it is partly underneath the intake conveyor, to an operating position where it extends obliquely upward on the discharge side of the comminutor. The discharge conveyor has journals which are releasably held in bearings formed by latches and cooperating notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Concept Products Corporation
    Inventors: Leonard G. Blair, Steven J. DiMascio
  • Patent number: 6936139
    Abstract: In a shoe press apparatus of a papermaking machine, a press part comprises a roll which serves as a pressing member and a shoe. A belt is sandwiched between the roll and the shoe. A lubricant feeder supplies a lubricant from the outside of the shoe at the upstream side of the shoe. A lubricant holding section, comprising a plurality of grooves is provided on the upstream end of the shoe. Lubricant supplied from the lubricant feeder is held in the lubricant holding section of the shoe, and is more reliably supplied to the press part as the belt runs through the press part. The Structure of the lubricant holding section is comparatively simple, and the lubricant holding section decreases friction, thereby saving energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6929772
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of ITO powder with tin dissolved in indium oxide, wherein the ITO powder is obtained by performing spray pyrolysis to a mixed solution or slurry of indium nitrate and tin chloride in which the concentration of indium and tin is 3.0 mol/L or more, thereby providing at low costs ITO powder superior in component dispersibility by dissolving tin in indium oxide as well as a precise target superior in uniformity. It is thereby possible to restrain the deterioration of quality or abnormal protrusions such as nodules in cases where the ITO sputtering target deposition is not uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Nikko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Yanai, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6929138
    Abstract: A plastic blow molded bottle or wide mouth jar useful in containing hot-filled beverages or food products. The container has a multi-sided sidewall which is capable of accommodating vacuum associated with hot filling, capping and cooling of the container, which is reinforced to resist unwanted deformation, and which enables a label to be aesthetically displayed on the container sidewall. To this end, the sidewall comprises a plurality of panels which include outwardly bowed arcuate sections, as-formed, which flatten to accommodate induced vacuum. Thus, a label can be supported on the sidewall with very few voids, or like sunken areas, behind the label to ensure that the label is prominently displayed on the aesthetically appealing novel container configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David M. Melrose, Paul Kelley, Scott Moersdorf
  • Patent number: 6929718
    Abstract: In a shoe press belt of a papermaking machine, the part of the paper web-facing layer in which water-holding grooves are formed is composed of a surface sublayer, having a relatively low hardness, and an underlying layer having a relatively high hardness. The higher hardness of the underlying layer prevents cracks from forming where the cross-sectional shape of the grooves tends to change as the belt is compressed. The lower hardness of the surface sublayer prevents the formation of cracks as a result of forces acting on the belt in the direction opposite to the machine direction at the nip location in a papermaking machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 6929423
    Abstract: Gas is recovered from a landfill by introducing water into the landfill to promote digestion of organic matter in the landfill, and removing from the landfill gas produced by digestion. The improvement comprises the introduction of water as part of an aqueous foam, whereby the water is distributed more uniformly throughout the landfill. Iron salts may be included in the foam to eliminate hydrogen sulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Inventor: Paul A. Kittle
  • Patent number: 6924281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new 2-Phenyl-1-[4-(2-Aminoethoxy)-Benzyl]-Indole compounds having the general structures below: which are useful in treating male pattern baldness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Chris P. Miller, Michael D. Collini, Bach D. Tran, Arthur A. Santilli
  • Patent number: 6921808
    Abstract: A purification process for large-scale production of Gc-globulin is described. The source of Gc-globulin is preferably a crude plasma fraction but can be any solution, suspension or supernatant containing Gc-globulin, e.g., a milk product, colostrum or a fermentation broth. The Gc-globulin can be plasma-derived or produced by a genetic modified organism. The process includes two key elements: purification by series of ion exchange chromatography steps, and performing at least two virus-reduction steps. A diagnostic method to measure the free Gc-globulin in a patient blood sample, a use of Gc-globulin in medicine and the preparation of a Gc-globulin medicinal product is also provided. The product can be used in therapy for patients with circulatory disorders and complications, i.e., where it is contemplated that patients would benefit from the administration of Gc-globulin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Statens Serum Institut
    Inventors: Charlotte Svaerke Joergensen, Inga Laursen, Gunnar Houen
  • Patent number: 6916264
    Abstract: In a tensioner for a timing belt or chain in an engine, a plunger, which is spring-biased in a protruding direction, is temporarily held in a retracted condition by a pivoted U-shaped or L-shaped wire spring. The spring has a locking portion engageable with a pin or groove on the plunger, and two arms having ends remote from the locking portion. The ends are pivoted to the housing on laterally displaced pivot axes. The lateral displacement of the pivot axes causes the wire spring to be under stress when its locking portion is engaged with the plunger, and the stress urges the locking portion toward a disengaged position. Thus, the plunger is held in its retracted condition during assembly by the locking portion of the wire spring, but is automatically released by disengagement of the locking portion from the plunger when the plunger is moved farther in the retracting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Atsushi Kumakura
  • Patent number: 6913932
    Abstract: A stabilization reagent composition, particularly desirable for stabilizing blood samples containing platelets, contains reactants that generate multiple species of formaldehyde-ammonium complexes; at least one inhibitor of phosphatase enzymatic activity; and at least one inhibitor of protease enzymatic activity. Blood samples and other tissues are stabilized by this composition. Such stabilized samples are produced by methods for stabilizing the tissue by contacting the sample with the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Maples, Lori A. Charie, Daniel James Flagler, Rhonda Ann Mills, Richard Timmons
  • Patent number: 6910993
    Abstract: A device for use by an adult to support an infant at a comfortable walking position for both while teaching the infant how to walk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Inventor: Anna Baran
  • Patent number: 6910434
    Abstract: A control device for a steering kite on a boat. The steering kite can be steered by a steering device and at least two or three, preferably at least four or five, suspension lines. The control device comprises at least one force introduction rail that extends horizontally over the water line and on which a deviation device for the suspension lines is positioned in such a way that it can move back and forth. The rail is fixed to the boat between the steering kite and the steering device in such a way that the traction force of the steering kite produces torque about the longitudinal axis and/or the transverse axis of the boat in the water, by means of which the leeward side of the boat is lifted upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Inventor: Edwin Lundgren
  • Patent number: 6908407
    Abstract: A silent chain transmission mechanism includes a sprocket and a silent chain having link interleaved link rows each composed of plural randomly selected link plates and connected together by connecting pins. The outside dimensions of the link plate are smaller than the outside dimensions of a link, but the outside dimensions of the link match the design reference dimensions of a link plate capable of proper meshing with the sprocket. The requirement for manufacturing accuracy and the effort required for assembly of the silent chain are reduced. However, the silent chain travels on the sprocket on the chain traveling line so that improved noise, vibration and friction properties, and traveling stability are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventor: Toyonaga Saitoh
  • Patent number: 6905597
    Abstract: A device for recovering oil from an oil-slick on a stretch of water is supported on the water by at least one first floating body and is provided with an inlet that is open facing the oil-slick and that flows into a channel with side walls. The channel is provided with at least one separating body that extends between the side walls in such a manner that an upper drain zone is formed above the separating body and a separate lower drain zone is formed below the separating body. The front edge of the separating body facing the oil-slick is substantially disposed on the level of the water/oil interface and the oil can be discharged from the upper drain zone. The device makes use of the natural interface between the oil-slick and the subjacent water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Inventors: Helga Garbaty, Stefan Garbaty, Thomas Garbaty, Harriet Garbaty, Rudolf Franz Garbaty
  • Patent number: 6898572
    Abstract: An intermediary system between advertisers and producers of articles of commerce facilitates the use of the articles or their containers or wrappers to carry advertising matter so that the producers of the articles become advertising space providers. Terminals of numerous advertisers and terminals of advertising space providers are able to connect to a host computer at a management center through a global communications network. Advertisers and advertising space providers enter and store their respective advertising conditions and advertising space information in a database in the host computer, which then provides access enabling the advertisers to search for suitable advertising space and enabling space providers to search for suitable candidates for the use of their advertising space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Inventor: Yoshio Ohyama