Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Larson & Taylor PLC
  • Coated sodium percarbonate particles, process for their preparation, their use in detergent compositions and detergent compositions containing them
    Patent number: 6521583
    Abstract: Coated sodium percarbonate particles are provided which contain a sodium percarbonate core, and a coating layer substantially free from sulate, borate and magnesium compounds, having at least 30 and at most 75% w/w of an alkali metal carbonate and at least 25 and at most 70% w/w of an alkali metal silicate. The alkali metal carbonate and silicate being uniformly dispersed in the coating layer. Also provided is a process for the preparation of the coated sodium percarbonate particles and their use in detergent compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Solvay (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Alun P. James, Graham R. Horne, Tom Candy, Richard Rösler, Manfred Mathes
  • Movement history based selective distribution of generally broadcast information
    Patent number: 6522250
    Abstract: A message filtering system is provided for filtering generally broadcast messages received by a movable unit. The generally broadcast message includes an information segment including location, time and/or velocity information relating to an event of potential interest to the unit which has occurred in the past and which has continuing consequences for the unit. The movement history of the unit is stored along with data selection information and a determination is made as to whether the information contained in the broadcast information segment is of interest based on this stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: The Mitre Corporation
    Inventors: Darrell E. Ernst, James W. Marshall
  • Imaging apparatus with offset compensation
    Patent number: 6522788
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus comprises a detector constituted by a two-dimensional matrix of opto-electronic sensors and by correction means for correcting the output signals in order to compensate for the differences between the response characteristics of the various sensors by applying respective offset values and stored gains thereto. An optical plate is temporarily interposed on the inlet beam, which plate is sufficiently diffusing to make the illumination received from the observed scene uniform over all of the sensors. The offset value for each sensor is calculated from the output signals of the sensors while they receive the uniform illumination, taking the stored gains into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Sagem SA
    Inventors: Renaud d'Hautefeuille, Vincent Fraysse
  • Device for providing protection against hypoxia, usable in a hostile environment
    Patent number: 6520177
    Abstract: The device has a face cover, a mouth-and-nose mask, and fasteners for holding the face cover on the face. The face cover is provided with a flexible gasket surrounding the eyes, a sea means at its periphery, and a closable coupling to a filtered gas feed. The mouth-and-nose mask, placed inside the face cover, is fitted with a demand regulator and with a direct exhaust to atmosphere. The breathe-in and breathe-out paths are separated by cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Intertechnique
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Bonhomme, Jean-Claude Urgel
  • Reducing water flow
    Patent number: 6516885
    Abstract: A water shut-off is provided in a hydrocarbon well by injecting a first chemical composition, effective as a relative permeability modifier polymer, into the hydrocarbon and a water zone of the well followed immediately by the injection of a second chemical composition, which forms a flow blocking polymer composition, into the zones and, after a shut-in period for reaction of the relative permeability modifier polymer, back producing the polymer compositions from they hydrocarbon zones to provide a path for the hydrocarbons from the zones while allowing the flow blocking polymer compositions to form the water shut-off in the water zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Lattice Intellectual Property LTD
    Inventor: Keith Munday
  • Display container for individual food servings
    Patent number: 6516951
    Abstract: A display container formed from a one-piece blank and having a base panel and four side panels, wherein a portion of the base panel is folded up to form an internal compartment. A triangular segment of the front panel is folded against the side of the internal compartment to stabilize same. Individual food servings are held by the main part of the container while appropriate utensils are held in the internal compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Sears, Paul T. Collier
  • Method of producing moulded pulp articles with a high content of dry matter
    Patent number: 6517684
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing articles from an aqueous fibre suspension, by deposition of fibres on a suction mould (2), comprising the steps of: applying suction to the suction mould, supplying a fibre suspension to the mould by immersing the suction mould in a vat (5) containing the fibre suspension, raising the suction mould from the fibre suspension, flowing ambient air by said suction through an article formed by a layer of fibre material deposed on the suction mould, characterised by the steps of: providing a substantially hermetically sealed space over the article or articles on the suction mould, supplying a de-watering fluid to the sealed space, and flowing substantially exclusively the de-watering fluid through the article or articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Brodrene Hartmann A/S
    Inventor: Niels Juul
  • Viral nucleotide sequences
    Patent number: 6514754
    Abstract: Various genes of herpes virus of turkeys (HVT), Marek's disease virus (MDV) and infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) have been identified as non-essential regions (and candidates for insertion sites for foreign genes) and/or as antigen-encoding regions. The former include the HVT homologue of the HSV (herpes simplex virus) gC gene, the TE (thymidine kinase) region of MDV or ILTV, ORF3 of ILTV (as defined herein), the ribonucleotide reductase (large subunit) gene of ILTV, MDV or HVT and the ribonucleotide reductase (small subunit) gene of MDV. The antigen-encoding regions include the HVT homologues of the HSV gB, gC and gH genes, the ILTV homologue of HSV gB, ORF2 of ILTV, and the HVT homologue of the HSV-1 immediate early genes IE-175 and IE-68. Manipulation of these genes allows vaccines to be prepared comprising attenuated virus or virus carrying heterologous antigen-encoding sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Merial
    Inventors: Annette Mary Griffin, Louis Joseph Norman Ross, Simon David Scott, Matthew McKinley Binns
  • Coupling arrangement between a trailer and a pulling vehicle
    Patent number: 6513825
    Abstract: A coupling arrangement between a trailer and a pulling vehicle wherein the pulling vehicle includes a first coupling plate on which the corresponding second coupling plate of the trailer is placed for obtaining locked coupling. The plates have low friction surfaces allowing the second plate to rotate on the first plate. The plates are locked to each other by a vertical pin fixed to the second coupling plate. The first coupling plate includes an open groove for the pin to get into the locking position in the end of the groove. The coupling arrangement further includes a movable locking part fixed to the second plate and being able by means of a spring to move into the groove of the first coupling plate when the plates are rotating in relation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Patria Vammas Oy
    Inventor: Mauno Ruuska
  • Sensitive and selective chemical sensor with nanostructured surfaces
    Patent number: 6515749
    Abstract: A chemical sensor is provided which includes an optical resonator including a nanostructured surface comprising a plurality of nanoparticles bound to one or more surfaces of the resonator. The nanoparticles provide optical absorption and the sensor further comprises a detector for detecting the optical absorption of the nanoparticles or their environment. In particular, a selective chemical interaction is provided which modifies the optical absorption of the nanoparticles or their environment, and an analyte is detected based on the modified optical absorption. A light pulse is generated which enters the resonator to interrogate the modified optical absorption and the exiting light pulse is detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce
    Inventor: Andrew C. R. Pipino
  • Use of HIV protease inhibiting compounds
    Patent number: 6506555
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one compound that inhibits HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) protease, selected from ritonavir, saquinavir or one of the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle for the production of a medicament to modulate proteasome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignees: Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm), Biomerieux
    Inventors: Patrice Andre, Vincent Lotteau, Paul Klenerman, Rolf Zinkernagel, Marcus Groettrup
  • Splice variants for human 5-HT4 serotonin receptor and their applications, in particular for screening
    Patent number: 6506580
    Abstract: The invention concerns an isolated polypeptide constitutive of splice variants for human serotonin receptor whereof the amino acid sequence is selected among the sequence SEQ ID No. 2 of the 5-HT4(c) polypeptide variant or the sequence SEQ ID No. 4 of the 5-HT4(d) polypeptide variant, or any polypeptide fragment or biologically active derivative thereof. The invention also concerns the inverse agonist effect of ML 10375 on 5-HT4(c) and 5-HT4(d) receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
    Inventors: Rodolphe Fischmeister, Michel Langlois, Yamina Dahmoune, Monique Gastineau, Olivier Blondel, Johan Hoebeke
  • Method and apparatus for casting metal articles with counter-gravity supply of metal to moulds
    Patent number: 6505677
    Abstract: When casting metal articles in a mould by forcing molten metal upwardly through a filling tube by gas pressure in a closed chamber, the datum level just below that of a connector connecting the filling tube to the mould is registered by a level sensor in a sensing tube while the latter's upper end is connected to atmosphere through a vent tube. At the same moment, the pressure is measured by a pressure sensor and recorded by a control unit and maintained constant by the latter after the emptying of the sensing tube, by connecting its upper end to the chamber through an equalizing tube, until the pressure is increased to fill the mould according to a predetermined function of time programmed into the control unit. The starting point for the filling of all moulds in succession is the same, regardless of the amount of metal in the supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Georg Fischer Disa A/S
    Inventors: Peter M¥ller Iversen, Uffe Andersen
  • Method of controlling the movements of the squeeze plates of a string moulding apparatus and string moulding apparatus
    Patent number: 6502620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling the movements of the squeeze plates of a string moulding apparatus, and to an apparatus for carrying out the method. Such an apparatus generally comprises a moulding chamber defined between two squeeze plates. One of the squeeze plates can be pivoted to open the moulding chamber. The production cycle of an apparatus of said kind comprises apart from the charging of the chamber with mould material several movements of the squeeze plates. A movement of one plate commences before the preceding movement of the other plate has finished. The hydraulic system of the apparatus comprises two pumps, one pump for each actuator associated to one of the squeeze plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Disa Industries A/S
    Inventors: Ole Anders Jacobsen, Kaj Jørgen Jensen, Jan Bechmann Johansen, Vagn Mogensen
  • Vine post cap
    Patent number: D468843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Vale Statutory & Mining Services Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael J. Nesbitt
  • Bag
    Patent number: D470044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Pige SA (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Pige
  • Stand up food package
    Patent number: D470406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Karina Espinel, Alberto Francisco Del Castillo
  • Stand up food package
    Patent number: D470407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Karina Espinel, Alberto Francisco Del Castillo
  • Stand up food package
    Patent number: D470755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Karina Espinel, Alberto Francisco Del Castillo
  • Stand-up food package
    Patent number: D470756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Karina Espinel, Alberto Francisco Del Castillo