Patents Represented by Attorney Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
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Patent number: 7975173Abstract: Fault tolerant operation is disclosed for a primary instance, such as a process, thread, application, processor, etc., using an active copy-cat instance, a.k.a. backup instance, that mirrors operations in the primary instance, but only after those operations have successfully completed in the primary instance. Fault tolerant logic monitors inputs and outputs of the primary instance and gates those inputs to the backup instance once a given input has been processed. The outputs of the backup instance are then compared with the outputs of the primary instance to ensure correct operation. The disclosed embodiments further relate to fault tolerant failover mechanism allowing the backup instance to take over for the primary instance in a fault situation wherein the primary and backup instances are loosely coupled, i.e. they need not be aware that they are operating in a fault tolerant environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Inventors: Paul J. Callaway, Robert C. Hagemann, III, Zuber Shethwala, Troy Reece, Paul Andrew Bauerschmidt, Enrico Ferrari
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Patent number: 7971897Abstract: A stroller is provided having a stroller frame supported by front and rear wheels. The frame includes a latch assembly that is movable between a locked and an unlocked position. When in the locked position, the latch assembly prevents the frame from being folded. When in the unlocked position, the latch assembly allows the frame to be folded. The frame is connected to an ergonomically friendly handlebar having discrete outer ends. The handlebar includes a latch release handle that is operably connected to the latch assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Graco Children's Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Pike, Michael A. Dotsey, Roy L. Dean, Andrew Serbinski
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Patent number: 7973665Abstract: A child monitor system includes a child unit having a sensor to capture content, and a parent unit having a processor and a user interface communicatively coupled with the processor to reproduce the content captured by the sensor. The child unit and the parent unit are configured to communicate via a wireless communication link carrying content data representative of the captured content. The system further includes a memory communicatively coupled with the child unit or the parent unit and configured for non-volatile storage of the content data. The processor of the parent unit is configured to issue an instruction to effectuate the non-volatile storage of the content data in the memory in response to a content storage request received via the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Graco Children's Products Inc.Inventor: Craig Desrosiers
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Patent number: 7972061Abstract: An x-ray device is provided. The x-ray device includes a C-arm, on which a radiographic source and a heat pump are arranged. At least sections of the C-arm are hollow, such that at least sections of the radiographic source and the heat pump are arranged inside the C-arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Groβ, Dieter Heinl, Frank Rosinus
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Patent number: 7974958Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating technical data sets that perform maintenance processes in technical systems is provided. The technical systems include a plurality of components that can each be configured dynamically. After a change in configuration of a component is detected, a report is sent by a configuration database to a central management system. The current management system provides the current version of the technical data sets to a document server.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rüdiger Ebert
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Patent number: 7971295Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a lifting unit for a patient support. The lifting unit includes a base plate, a motor drive, a lifting drive driven by the motor drive and received in the base plate. The lifting drive is adapted to carry out a lifting movement and a movement in the opposite direction. A triggering element is activated when the pressure exerted by the lifting drive on the base plate falls below a defined minimum value. The movement of the lifting drive is stopped in response to the activation of the triggering element. If the patient support collides with an obstacle during lifting, the pressure exerted by the lifting drive on the base plate is reduced. The reduced pressure is detected by the triggering element and the movement of the patient support is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Dippl, Klaus Hruschka, Mario Ring, Josef Rupprecht
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Patent number: 7968847Abstract: The invention relates to the identification of a component of a medical device. The medical device is realized for the alternative attachment of a plurality of components. By means of infrared reflection sensors an emitted signal that is reflected by an attached component is detected. The reflected signal has a shape that is characteristic of the component. The component is identified through determination by the infrared reflection sensors that detect a reflected signal. The invention allows for alternative components that can be attached to be identified efficiently and with little outlay.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Oelschlegel, Robert Standar
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Patent number: 7961477Abstract: A housing comprising a liquid-tight electric bushing is provided. The housing comprises an opening and a printed circuit board comprising at least first and second layers. The first layer is a top side of the printed circuit board and spans the opening. A first contact element is disposed on the top side and in a blind bore through the first layer that extends to the second layer. The second layer is a conductor track in the interior of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Josef Deuringer, Richard Eichhorn, Lars Lauer, Gerd Mörsberger, Paul Ponnath, Roland Rabe
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Patent number: 7962517Abstract: The present invention is defined by the following claims, and nothing in this section should be taken as a limitation on those claims. By way of introduction, the preferred embodiments describe below include a method of simultaneously presenting user specific real-time financial information includes authenticating a user, for example by using a user-id and password. Then receiving an input from the user indicating the shareholder of interest. The user is then presented with a list of the shareholder's account information. The shareholder account information can be retrieved from several different record keeping systems. The record keeping systems can be maintained by different entities and can store the respective account information in different formats. The shareholder account information can be retrieved by broadcasting an account inquiry to the record keeping systems or by using a cross-reference table that indicates which record keeping systems the shareholder has accounts with.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: DST Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert L. Tritt, Kyle M. Mallot, Todd P. Glasgow, Bradley C. Glascock, Scott A. Hawkins
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Patent number: 7954830Abstract: An ice transport system includes a cart and a plurality of ice totes. The cart includes a bed and a plurality of retention structures mounted on the bed. The plurality of ice totes are arranged on a platform of the bed and contained on the platform by the plurality of retention structures. The plurality of retention structures are configured and positioned relative to the platform to contain the plurality of ice totes on the platform while leaving an access side of a plurality of sides of the platform open for loading and unloading the plurality of ice totes. In some cases, each ice tote may include a hang hook removably disposed within a recess in the exterior surface of the tote and configured to extend outward from the exterior surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Rubbermaid IncorporatedInventors: Jason Ernest Begin, Roddy Burgess, Jacob Connelly, Ian Westad Cunningham, Joseph M. Sexton, Michael P. Dawson
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Patent number: 7956664Abstract: Disclosed herein is a digital system that includes a distribution network having a path to carry a reference clock and an adjustable delay element disposed along the path, and first and second clock domains coupled to the distribution network to receive the reference clock and configured to be driven by respective clock waveforms, each of which has a frequency in common with the reference clock. The digital system further includes a phase detector coupled to the first and second clock domains to generate a phase difference signal based on the clock waveforms, and a control circuit coupled to the phase detector and configured to adjust the adjustable delay element based on the phase difference signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: Juang-Ying Chueh, Jerry Kao, Visvesh Sathe, Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Conrad Ziesler
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Patent number: 7956726Abstract: A radio operating system, in particular for a medical device, comprises: a radio base station, provided for control of a device, an operating unit, for establishment of a radio connection with the radio base station, whereby the operating unit comprises a controller with a first threshold value (S1) relating to a reception parameter (K), depending on which a switching between various operational modes (B0, B1) for the operating unit is provided. On dropping below the threshold value (S1), a safety-oriented operating mode (B0) and, on exceeding the threshold value (S1), a standard operating mode for the operating element (3), are provided. A first non-safety-critical command set (BS1) may be activated by the operating unit and equally used in the various operating modes (B0, B1), a second safety-critical command set (BS2), activated by means of the operating unit, may be used in the safety-oriented operating mode (B0) in a limited manner in comparison to the standard operating mode (B1).Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Kagermeier, Donal Medlar, Dietmar Sierk
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Patent number: 7956701Abstract: A method for the contactless transmission of at least one differential signal between a transmitter and a receiver given the existence of at least one common-mode noise signal, which has a low frequency in comparison with at least one signal to be transmitted, is provided. The suppression of at least one common-mode noise signal within the receiver a ground reference potential assigned to the receiver is separated into two ground reference potentials decoupled from one another. At least one common-mode noise signal may be suppressed by a filter unit at the input of a receive amplifier of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Hemmerlein, Helmut Repp
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Patent number: 7956297Abstract: A water resistant scale damper has a damper sleeve with an interior passage, an open top, and an open bottom. A piston is received in and axially slidable along the interior passage and has a top surface, an underside, and a piston rod extending from the underside toward the open bottom. A top cap is fitted over the open top of the sleeve and an air chamber is created between the top cap and the top surface of the piston. An air passage is formed through the top cap to permit air to enter and exit the air chamber. A portion of the top cap can create an elongate, non-linear air channel between the air passage and a port remote from the air passage and formed through the top cap. A bottom cap can also be fitted over the open bottom of the sleeve. The bottom cap has an annular flange that extends radially inward from a skirt of the bottom cap. The flange is funnel-shaped so as to direct liquid from beneath the underside of the piston toward a central opening in the flange.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Rubbermaid IncorporatedInventors: Michael P. Dawson, Mark A. Stultz, Joseph Ramos
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Patent number: 7945589Abstract: A business intelligence system includes a business intelligence server configured to support generation of a report user interface for presentation of enterprise data to end users of the business intelligence system and an authoring user interface for development of a report definition of the report user interface. The business intelligence system further includes a metadata repository in which metadata indicative of the report definition is stored, a client having a browser for communication with the business intelligence server and for rendering of the authoring user interface, and a change management server configured for communication with the business intelligence server to manage the development of the report definition via the authoring user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: BSP Software LLCInventors: Andrew D. Weiss, Andrew G. Rachmiel
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Patent number: 7938579Abstract: An x-ray device is provided. The x-ray device includes a C-arm that may be rotatably mounted on a robotic arm. A radiation source and a radiation detector may be arranged on the C-arm. The interior of the C-arm, which is hollow at least in sections, is accessible from at least one access side to allow at least a part of the electronic components used to operate the radiation source and the radiation detector to be integrated in the interior of the arm.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Groβ, Dieter Heinl
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Patent number: 7938433Abstract: Disclosed herein are soft goods attachment designs and techniques for a stroller. The stroller includes a frame having a section, and further includes a soft goods component with an edge having a loop that forms a tunnel running along the edge. The soft goods component is attached to the section of the frame at the edge. A support strip is inserted in the tunnel and shaped to extend along the edge of the soft goods component and follow the section of the frame to facilitate attachment of the soft goods component to the frame. In some cases, a set of fasteners extends through the support strip to secure the soft goods component to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Graco Children's Products Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Pike, Sharon L. Griffiths
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Patent number: 7938578Abstract: An x-ray apparatus is provided. The x-ray apparatus includes a patient support supported on a support unit in such a manner that it can be repositioned by way of a support arm and an x-ray detector likewise supported on the support arm, embodied in particular as a solid-state detector. The x-ray detector can be moved perpendicular to the patient support by way of a retaining column of a repositioning mechanism and can be rotated relative to the patient support about a first longitudinal axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the patient support. To increase the flexibility of the x-ray apparatus, the x-ray detector is supported in such a manner that it can be rotated relative to the patient support about a transverse axis extending in a transverse direction of the patient support.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Beimler, Joachim Trummer, Dieter Wöhrl
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Patent number: D637490Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Rubbermaid IncorporatedInventors: Larry T. McKinney, Brian D. Furlong
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Patent number: D640495Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Calphalon CorporationInventor: Lars Blacken