Patents Represented by Attorney Marshall, Gerstein and Borun LLP
  • Patent number: 8312591
    Abstract: A new wall-mountable vacuum cleaner and bracket combination provides easy locking. Both the vacuum cleaner and the bracket have mounting rims. When the vacuum cleaner is on the bracket, a support surface on a proximal end of one of the two mounting rims engages a terminal edge of the other of the two mounting rims. The vacuum cleaner can be secured in place by moving a movable arm from an extended position to a retracted position in which the vacuum cleaner is locked in place. To accommodate the required movement of the movable arm, the bracket has a deflectable locking edge that moves between a rest position and a deflected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Shop Vac Corporation
    Inventors: Melvin E. Wolfe, Jr., Kevin D. Fry, Jason Gottschall, John Griffin
  • Patent number: 8314756
    Abstract: This invention relates to pixel driver circuits for active matrix optoelectronic devices, in particular OLED (organic light emitting diodes) displays. We describe an active matrix optoelectronic device having a plurality of active matrix pixels each said pixel including a pixel circuit comprising a thin film transistor (TFT) for driving the pixel and a pixel capacitor for storing a pixel value, wherein said TFT comprises a TFT with a floating gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Aleksandra Rankov, Euan C. Smith
  • Patent number: 8316432
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide method for implementing security-related processing on packet and a network security device. Through establishing a relationship between stream attribute information of an initial packet of a stream and security-related processing information implemented on the initial packet, when a succeeding packet of the stream is received, the previously stored relationship is acquired according to stream attribute information of the succeeding packet, the security-related processing is implemented on the succeeding packet according to the security-related processing information in the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Wang, Mingyu Li, Xudong Zou, Xiangqing Chang, Zhongwei Fang, Xiao Li
  • Patent number: 8314381
    Abstract: A reflector for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for reflecting ionized atoms and/or molecules, with an entry opening and with an arrangement of successively arranged ring electrodes extending away from the entry opening along a longitudinal axis of the reflector is illustrated and described, as is a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The object of providing a reflector for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer or providing such a mass spectrometer, with improved mass resolution at a high detection probability, is achieved by virtue of the fact that the ring electrode closest to the entry opening serves as a correction electrode and is at an opposite electric potential compared to the other ring electrodes, that a screening electrode is provided on the side of the entry opening facing away from the ring electrodes and that the screening electrode lies at a potential that differs from that of the ring electrodes, more preferably at earth potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Material-und Küstenforschung GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Bisling
  • Patent number: 8316313
    Abstract: A selector shape may serve as the background to a configurable composite shape and may include one or more expressions that are evaluated to select between several composite shape definitions via links to the definition. Each selector shape includes an animation expression and a lookup table converter to select an identifier of the composite definition to be loaded and displayed. When the value of the animation expression changes, the value may be matched to the name of a new composite definition using the lookup table, and the new definition may be displayed. The previously-used composite definition may then be marked for removal by a caching system, and removed. These selector shapes also enable the same graphic element to be used in displays designed for different types of display devices, such as display devices having large display screens, standard computer screens and very small display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Hubert Campney, Stephen Gerard Hammack, Ken J. Beoughter
  • Patent number: 8315887
    Abstract: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Walgreen Co.
    Inventors: Alan J. Berkelhamer, Gowri Selka
  • Patent number: 8312892
    Abstract: A control valve assembly is capable of diagnosing malfunctions in the control valve assembly and discerning a location of a control fluid leak in the control valve assembly. The control valve assembly includes a control valve, an actuator and a positioner. The actuator includes an actuator vent in an actuator housing, the actuator vent being connected to a flow switch. By determining a flow condition through the actuator vent, the positioner determines whether a control fluid leak is located in a control line or in a diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International LLC
    Inventor: Galen Dale Wilke
  • Patent number: 8313231
    Abstract: A droplet mixing apparatus can be applied for use with a variety of liquids, can provide a mixing speed of hundreds of nl/s by adjusting an opening/closing time of a solenoid valve, can effectively mix droplets, and can reduce a reaction time when applied to clinical appliances that utilize expensive liquids. The droplet mixing apparatus includes a plurality of pressure containers storing liquids that are to be dispensed, a plurality of solenoid valves that are respectively connected to the pressure containers to dispense the liquids fed from the pressure containers into a mixing container, and a control unit that controls the solenoid valves such that the solenoid valves are either simultaneously opened or alternately opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Sung-Jae Park
  • Patent number: 8313217
    Abstract: A device for releasably positioning a cable on a support surface comprises a first housing component and a second housing component. The first housing component is releasably engaged with the second housing component. At least one channel is defined between the first and second housing components for releasably receiving and positioning a cable, wherein the at least one channel has an inlet and an outlet, and the outlet has a dimension that is smaller than a dimension of the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Steven E. Kwak
  • Patent number: 8316078
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for performing inter-domain communication in a web browser includes receiving first data from a first domain at a router associated with one or more domains other than the first domain, identifying at the router the one or more domains for receiving data associated with the received data, and transmitting second data associated with the received data to the one or more domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Charles Appleton, Steffen Meschkat, Thai Tran, Adam Sah, Zheng Wang, Adam Paul Schuck, James Robert Macgill
  • Patent number: 8312901
    Abstract: An open-jet filling system, a method of filling containers by means of such an open-jet filling system used for contactless filling a container, and a corresponding filling machine, with the open-jet filling system provided with a filling level probe. For always obtaining the same filling height in the containers and for simultaneously realizing hygienic filling, a centering unit is arranged below the open-jet filling element in a vertically movable manner such that it can be moved onto a container mouth, the filling level probe being arranged on the centering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventor: Christian Goldbrunner
  • Patent number: 8314682
    Abstract: The invention concerns a biometric system provided with a set of reference biometric data (B?i) resulting from the application of a disjunction between a first set of biometric data (Bi) and a first encoded key (Ki), and from an information concerning the first key. A second set of biometric data (B2) is obtained. A second encoded key is determined by using a disjunction between the set of reference biometric data and the second set of biometric data. The second key is decoded by iterative decoding. Then, it is determined whether the first and second sets of biometric data mutually correspond by comparing the information concerning the first key with the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Morpho
    Inventors: Julien Bringer, Herve Chabanne, Martin Cottard
  • Patent number: 8314173
    Abstract: Water-absorbing polymeric particles are produced by polymerizing a monomer solution or suspension comprising at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid and at least one hydroquinone monoether, and coating the polymeric particles with at least one salt of a tervalent metal cation of a carboxylic acid and/or at least one basic salt of a tervalent metal cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Riegel, Thomas Daniel, Uwe Stueven, Mark Elliott, Volker Braig, Michael de Marco
  • Patent number: 8315885
    Abstract: A method of providing therapy management development includes providing a therapy management development platform having a plurality of levels of functionality, the platform including a medical device capable of providing therapy management, setting the platform to a first level of access to the functionality relative to the medical device, and modifying the operation of the medical device using the platform. The method also includes receiving an indication of approval to change the level of access to the functionality of the platform to a second level of access, and setting the platform to the second level of access to the functionality of the platform in response to receipt of the indication of approval. The platform is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventors: Ross G. Krogh, James P. Martucci
  • Patent number: 8314549
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hat emitting device which comprises at least one layer that contains an organometallic dendrimer having a core comprising a metal cation. The invention also relates to organometallic dendrimers and methods for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Isis Innovation Limited, The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: Paul Leslie Burn, Shih-Chun Lo, John Lupton, Victor Christou, Jonathan N. G. Pillow, Ifor David William Samuel
  • Patent number: 8314207
    Abstract: A method of purifying a thermoplastic polymer having at least one dispersed filler, including preparing a polymer melt of the thermoplastic polymer, and filtering the polymer melt, where the dispersed filler is at least partially transformed to a coagulated and filterable form before the filtering step. Also, a device for purifying the thermoplastic polymer, including means for preparing a polymer melt from the thermoplastic polymer, and filter means, and means for generating sound waves, preferably ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventor: Thomas Friedlaender
  • Patent number: 8309620
    Abstract: Described herein, in the preferred embodiment, is a leonardite-based polyurethane resin binder that may be used, among other applications, as a binder in combination with foundry aggregate, e.g., sand, for molding or casting metal parts. The binders described herein comprise a humic substance, preferably leonardite, combined with a polymerizable isocyanate, a polymerizable polyol, and a polymerization catalyst to make a polyurethane resin binder in situ in a foundry aggregate, such as sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph M. Fuqua
  • Patent number: 8308452
    Abstract: A valveless MEMS micropump capable of improved efficiency and performance is disclosed. The micropump includes two adjoining chambers separated by a piezoelectric actuated pump membrane. The micropump moves fluid through the chambers through diffuser elements characterized by differential directional resistance to fluid flow by piezoelectric actuation of the pump membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Farid Amirouche, Enrico Zordan
  • Patent number: 8307688
    Abstract: A process for producing seamless pipes which comprises conducting a piercing rolling step, a elongating rolling step using a mandrel bar, and a sizing rolling step and subsequently conducting a product heat treatment. In the process, when the carbon-equivalent weight, namely the sum of the weight of graphite in the lubricant and the carbon content in the organic binder, per unit area of the lubricant adhering to the mandrel bar surface in the above-mentioned step of elongating rolling is expressed by C (g/m2) or the maximum extent of carburization in the inner surface of the pipe to be heat-treated but prior to the heat treatment is expressed by ?C (% by mass), the heating temperature for the pipe to be heat-treated is expressed by T (° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Toshihide Ono, Satoshi Matsumoto, Kouji Nakaike, Sumio Iida
  • Patent number: D671169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Parker Pen Products
    Inventors: Philippe Kermoal, Romuald Zayana