Patents Represented by Attorney Kolisch Hartwell
  • Patent number: 8350747
    Abstract: A surveillance system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the surveillance system may include at least one controller adapted to control operation of first and second screening apparatus and to produce image data and screening data, to relate the image data to the screening data, and to produce relational information data from the related image data and screening data. In some embodiments, the system may include a first screening apparatus adapted to screen a subject in a subject position, a second screening apparatus adapted to screen the subject in the subject position, and a controller adapted to produce first and second screening data from the first and second screening apparatus, respectively, relate the first and second screening data, and to produce relational information data from the related first and second screening data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul DeLia, Scott T. Trosper, Thomas E. Breen, John J. Reilly, Paul J. Hurd, Michael J. Lanzaro, Maya M. Radzinski, Thomas W. Grudkowski, Edward E. Bromberg, Joseph Carter
  • Patent number: 8345918
    Abstract: A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body may include or an imaging system may provide interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation, and generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body. In some examples, a first portion of the body may be identified, and a first feature of the image may be determined based at least partially on the identified portion of the body. In some examples, the orientation of the person's body may be determined from one or more features of one or more image portions. In some examples, a portion of the image of the person's body may be replaced with a substitute image portion that may be a modified portion of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Fleisher
  • Patent number: 8342903
    Abstract: Intersection apparatus for use with tracks for toy vehicles define a first toy vehicle pathway from a ramp portion and across the gap to a corresponding receiving portion, and a second toy vehicle pathway that crosses the first. The ramp portion is translatable in a direction transverse to the pathways between a bypass position in which the trajectory of a toy vehicle traversing the first pathway passes and does not intersect that of a toy vehicle traversing the second, and an intersect position in which the trajectories intersect. The ramp portion may further be translatable to a second bypass position defining a trajectory passing on the opposite side of the second vehicle's trajectory relative to the trajectory defined when the ramp portion is in the first bypass position. When the ramp is in the intersect position, toy vehicles traversing the pathways at substantially the same time will collide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Stacy O'Connor, Michael Nuttall, Paul W. Schmid
  • Patent number: 8342904
    Abstract: A toy vehicle configured to move across a support surface is disclosed. In some embodiments, the toy vehicle may include a body having a top portion and a bottom portion; a plurality of wheels rotatably mounted to the body and configured to rotatably support the body on the support surface in a plurality of positions including an upright position, and an inverted position, wherein less than all of the plurality of wheels rotatably support the body on the support surface when the body is in the inverted position; and a stabilizing mechanism mounted to the body, the stabilizing mechanism being configured, when the body is in the inverted position, to move a portion of the body away from the support surface such that one or more of the plurality of wheels may be driven to return the body in the upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Torres
  • Patent number: 8336277
    Abstract: Photovoltaic modules including a solar panel integrated with a supporting frame, and which are configured to be installed on a building rooftop. Modules according to the present teachings may be at least partially pre-assembled, with a solar panel oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the rooftop mounting surface of the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: SOLON Corporation
    Inventors: David Rego, Daniel S. Alcombright, Jerrod Quinton Rodowca, Ben Michael Striner, John W. Rethans
  • Patent number: 8333311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flush bar roof rack comprising a pair of legs, each of which includes a housing for holding and supporting a crossbar. The roof rack also includes a crossbar, held and supported at each end by the crossbar housing of each leg, and further includes an extension means for adjusting the length of the roof rack between the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hubco Automotive Limited
    Inventor: Peter Douglas Hubbard
  • Patent number: 8332521
    Abstract: An Internet-Pad is disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad is a mobile digital Pad with access to Internet. The product specification of the Internet-Pad may include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface over the touch sensitive screen, an e-mail application, an editing application, an Internet browsing application, an Internet-Pad operating system, and a wireless communication unit for accessing a wireless network. The e-mail application including a GUI with icons over the touch sensitive screen for selection. The Internet-Pad operating system may provide an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate one or more applications to run at the Internet-Pad. The Internet-Pad may include applications for managing digital documents, audio digital content, or video digital content for rendering or playing. The digital content may be encoded, encrypted, or compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Ho Chang, Christina Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 8332544
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for assisting play are disclosed. In some examples, the system may include a portable computer including a user interface configured to receive input from a user, and a computer communication mechanism configured to transmit computer data based, at least in part, on the received user input; and a plurality of portable devices each including an enclosure, a device communication mechanism within the enclosure and configured to receive the computer data, a proximity sensor mechanism configured to detect proximity of one or more other portable devices of the plurality of portable devices, and an audiovisual output mechanism configured to generate at least one of an audio output and a visual output based on at least one of (1) the received computer data and (2) the detected proximity of the one or more other portable devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaun J. Ralls, Andrew Cheeseman, Michael Young, Paul King, Peter Marx
  • Patent number: 8326263
    Abstract: A method for selecting a policy and charging rules function. When a UE accesses a 3GPP system through a roaming architecture, upon receiving a session establishment request message sent by a PCC client located in the visited network, the DRA in the visited network forwards the message to a selected PCRF of the visited network according to the records stored locally or instructs the PCC client to transmit the session establishment request message to the selected PCRF of the visited network; and the PCRF of the visited network forwards the session establishment request message to a DRA of a home network, then the DRA of the home network forwards the message to the selected PCRF of the home network according to the records stored locally or instructs the PCRF of the visited network to transmit the session establishment request message to the selected PCRF of the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoyun Zhou, Zaifeng Zong, Tong Rui, Jinguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 8323485
    Abstract: A filter system for a storm drain having an inlet is disclosed. The filter system may be configured to receive storm water having debris and to separate at least a portion of the debris from the storm water to produce filtered storm water. The filter system may include a pervious paver having a feed side and a permeate side, the pervious paver being configured to receive storm water on the feed side and to retain at least a portion of the debris on the feed side. The filtered storm water may be formed from the storm water that passes from the feed side to the permeate side. The filter system may additionally include a frame assembly configured to support the pervious paver adjacent to the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xeripave
    Inventors: Peter Blundell, Thomas C. Twitchell
  • Patent number: 8324373
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel and highly stereoselective process for preparing gemcitabine, which is suitable for industrial production, wherein, it includes the following reactions. Additionally, the invention discloses the key intermediates. The definition for the groups of G1, G2, G3, G4, and G5 are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nanjing Cavendish Bio-Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxiang Xu, Hao Yang, Wen Hou
  • Patent number: 8316618
    Abstract: Photovoltaic modules including a solar panel integrated with a supporting frame, and which are configured to be installed on a building rooftop. Modules according to the present teachings may be at least partially pre-assembled, with a solar panel oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the rooftop mounting surface of the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: SOLON Corporation
    Inventors: Jerrod Quinton Rodowca, Ronald L. Starjnski, David Rego, Ben Michael Striner, Benjamin William Schams, John W. Rethans, William Richardson
  • Patent number: 8316619
    Abstract: Photovoltaic modules including a solar panel integrated with a supporting frame, and which are configured to be installed on a building rooftop. Modules according to the present teachings may be at least partially pre-assembled, with a solar panel oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the rooftop mounting surface of the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: SOLON Corporation
    Inventors: David Rego, Jerrod Quinton Rodowca, John W. Rethans
  • Patent number: 8313070
    Abstract: A base-clamp assembly for supporting an instrument relative to a patient position adjacent to an instrument-support rail. The base-clamp assembly may comprise a base, a rail clamp, and an actuator assembly. The rail clamp may attach the base to the rail. A shank clamp may attach a shank to the base. The actuator assembly may be operable for opening and/or closing the rail clamp. A drive assembly may provide for moving a force-applying element relative to the base and a movable rail jaw for closing the rail clamp. The drive assembly may also be operable for opening and closing the shank clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventors: Richard F. Kronner, David D. Kronner
  • Patent number: 8307606
    Abstract: Photovoltaic modules including a solar panel integrated with a supporting frame, and which are configured to be installed on a building rooftop. Modules according to the present teachings may be at least partially pre-assembled, with a solar panel oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the rooftop mounting surface of the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Solon Corporation
    Inventors: David Rego, Jerrod Quinton Rodowca, Ben Michael Striner, John W. Rethans
  • Patent number: 8308524
    Abstract: A torso assembly that enables forward and backward shoulder movement for a toy action figure is disclosed. The torso assembly includes a central section and shoulder sections disposed at either side. The central section includes front and back shells. Each shoulder section includes a side shell that partially overlaps the front and back shell portions, and a hinge assembly. Hinge assemblies couple the first and second shoulder sections to each other within the central section, and allow each shoulder section to pivot forward and backward relative to the central section. In some embodiments, the torso assembly may be incorporated into an action figure or doll by movable joints that connect the torso assembly to a lower abdomen and/or pelvis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam R. deFelice, Terence Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8304202
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and cells for drug screening based on interaction between a Bim polypeptide and a TRIM2 polypeptide. Methods and compositions for treating cancer based on tested levels of Bim and TRIM2 proteins are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center
    Inventor: Robert Meller
  • Patent number: 8292689
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for electronic playsets and components thereof. An electronic playset of the present disclosure may include a see-through monitor having a transparent screen configured to display an animated image superimposed over one or more regions. The see-through monitor may be moveable by rotation or translation between one or more positions, the one or more positions being adjacent to the one or more regions. Some embodiments including a see-through monitor with a light source configured to illuminate the one or more regions. Another aspect of the present disclosure provides for a removable toy having an identifiable accessory that may be provided to an electronic playset. The playset may be configured to identify the toy and display an animated character based on the identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hardin, Andy Chan, Eric Skifstrom, Jack Millerick
  • Patent number: D672934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: ECH Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Mindy K. Salomon, Sharilyn Howard
  • Patent number: D673227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Slotter, LLC
    Inventors: Canyon Robins, Duncan Robins