Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8306898
    Abstract: A method of comparing financing options to facilitate the purchase and finance of products offered for sale. The method may include receiving information regarding the product being offered for sale, along with personal or credit information relating to the potential buyer, to identify a plurality of financing options that may be used to finance the purchase of the product. These financing options may then be delivered for display to the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: James D. Bennett, Christopher C. Winslade
  • Patent number: 8303116
    Abstract: An ophthalmic is injection molded and/or, compression molded to provide a single use lens. The ophthalmic lens has a larger clear aperture than known lenses of the same type to improve the optical quality of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Gregory Lee Heacock
  • Patent number: 8297475
    Abstract: A pump for dispensing foam that includes a pump head having a mixing chamber and a porous member. The pump head includes a tube and diaphragm. The pump includes a cap having a body defining a cavity that receives the tube. The cap is connected to the diaphragm to define an air chamber communicating with the mixing chamber. The pump includes a spring system received in the tube and cavity. The tube, cavity, and spring system define a liquid chamber that communicates with the mixing chamber. The spring system includes a spring positioned to be compressed such that liquid is urged from the liquid chamber to the mixing chamber and the diaphragm is configured to be compressed such that air is drawn from the air chamber to the mixing chamber. The liquid and air commingle into a mixture that is pushed through the porous member to form a foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Pibed Limited
    Inventors: Dean Philip Limbert, Shaun Kerry Matthews
  • Patent number: 8298073
    Abstract: A gaming machine 10 has a display 14 and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display 14. The game controller is arranged to play a game wherein at least one random event is caused to be displayed on the display means and, if a predefined winning event occurs, the machine awards a prize. The display 14 displays a plurality of spinning reels 18, each reel 18 carrying symbols from a set of symbols. One of the symbols of the set is a scatter symbol and, in respect of at least one of the reels, the set comprises more than one occurrence of the scatter symbol. The scatter symbols on the at least one reel are arranged on the reel so that more than one scatter symbol is able to be displayed simultaneously when the reels are in a rest condition. When more than a minimum number of scatter symbols are displayed at any one time, all the displayed scatter symbols contribute to a single paying combination of the scatter symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 8298544
    Abstract: Prophylactic and/or therapeutic antipathogen agents are provided that disrupt or prevent the formation of at least one homotypic and/or heterotypic protein-protein interaction that has at least one CEA-family protein and that is involved in the establishment and colonization of a pathogen in a suitable host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Gal Markel
  • Patent number: 8298085
    Abstract: A method of dynamically linking abstracted hardware devices, which are used in association with gaining machines, to gaming software is disclosed. The game machine has a central processing unit (“CPU”), a resource manager, driver pools, and a communication link that connect a plurality of intelligent Input/Output controller boards (“IOCB”) to hardware devices interfaced to the game. The resource manager's functional blocks are: a resource manager control task, a plurality of Input/Output (“I/O”) communication drivers to connect to the IOCBs, a low level and high level driver manager, a low level and high level driver pool, and a plurality of resource repositories that interface to the gaming software. The resource manager starts an I/O communication driver to scan for the primary IOCB on the I/O memory bus, Universal Serial Bus, or Firewire. Once the primary IOCB is found, the resource control task will load more I/O communication drivers for any secondary IOCBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Wayne Bond
  • Patent number: 8301504
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing a user to schedule pickup of an ordered item provides a user interface having user interface elements for allowing a user to specify a frequency with which an order is it to be picked up, for informing a user as to availability of the item for pickup, and/or for allowing a user to request that an item be held in reserve for pickup within a given period of time, such as 24 hours. Frequency options provided to the user for selection when scheduling an order for pickup may include a one-time frequency, a daily frequency, a weekly frequency, a monthly frequency, and user specified dates. The information as to availability of the item for pickup is determined considering a time of order and real-time stocking information for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventors: Sanjana Swamy, Karen S. Holtman, Arnold S. Eroles, James Yu, Robert Mills, Daniel Levine, Jim Huppert, Daniel S. Grimm, Shailesh Prakash
  • Patent number: 8301538
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and weighting securities for an actively managed exchange-traded fund. An initial selection of stocks includes domestic or international stocks, which are selected based at least in part on market capitalization. Each stock is scored using a plurality of growth and value factors to generate one or more growth scores and one or more value scores. A selection score is determined for each stock, and the stocks are ranked according to selection scores. A predetermined amount of stocks are eliminated from the stock portfolio based on selection score ranking, and the remaining stocks are split into a plurality of sub-groups. A stock portfolio is generated by weighting the remaining stocks according to the sub-groups they are in, with each stock being equally weighted within its sub-group. An exchange-traded fund is offered to consumers based on the stock portfolio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: First Trust Portfolios L.P.
    Inventors: David McGarel, Robert Hensley, Chris Peterson, Dan Waldron
  • Patent number: 8299610
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing has a substrate having a plurality of metal layers. At least one metal layer is exposed on at least one side surface of the semiconductor device. A die is coupled to the substrate. A mold compound encapsulates the die and a top surface of the substrate. A conductive coating is applied to the mold compound and to at least one metal layer exposed on at least one side surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Amkor Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Berry, Christopher M. Scanlan
  • Patent number: 8298064
    Abstract: A gaming machine has a display and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display. The game controller is arranged to play a spinning reel game wherein one or more random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event occurs, the machine awards a prize. When at least one special symbol appears on the display, the special symbol is held in a superimposed representation in that position for at least one further game while at least that reel carrying the special symbol is re-spun for the at least one further game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Nicholas Luke Bennett, Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 8300905
    Abstract: The presently described technology provides a method for adaptive image processing. The image processing method includes determining an entrance exposure of an object, determining an exit exposure of the object, and determining one or more image processing parameters based at least in part on the entrance and exit exposures. The presently described technology also provides a method for adaptive image display. The image display method includes determining an entrance exposure of an object, determining an exit exposure of the object, and displaying an attenuation map based at least in part on the entrance and exit exposures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kadri N. Jabri
  • Patent number: 8298068
    Abstract: A method of gaming comprises providing a jackpot game in addition to a main game, the jackpot game being displayed independently of the main game. Play of the jackpot game affects at least one of the awarding of a jackpot prize and value of a jackpot prize pool from which the jackpot prize is awarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Simon Patrick Ashley, George Roukis, Antoon Christiaan Visser
  • Patent number: 8294269
    Abstract: An electronic structure may include a conductive pad on a substrate, and an insulating layer on the substrate and on the conductive pad. The insulating layer may have a via therein so that a portion of the conductive pad opposite the substrate is free of the insulating layer. A conductive layer comprising copper may be on the portion of the conductive pad free of the insulating layer, on sidewalls of the via, and on surface portions of the insulating layer surrounding the via opposite the substrate and the conductive pad, and the conductive layer comprising copper may have a thickness of at least approximately 1.0 ?m. A conductive barrier layer may be on the conductive layer comprising copper, and the conductive barrier layer may include at least one of nickel, platinum, palladium, and/or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Unitive International
    Inventors: Krishna K. Nair, Glenn A. Rinne, William E. Batchelor
  • Patent number: 8291572
    Abstract: An implant composed substantially of cortical bone is provided for use in cervical Smith-Robinson vertebral fusion procedures. The implant is derived from allograft or autograft cortical bone sources, is machined to form a symmetrically or asymmetrically shaped (e.g. a substantially “D”-shaped) implant having a canal running therethrough according to methods of this invention, and inserted into the space between adjacent cervical vertebrae to provide support and induce fusion of the adjacent vertebrae. Osteogenic, osteoinductive or osteoconductive materials may be packed into the canal of the implant to expedite vertebral fusion and to allow autologous bony ingrowth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: RTI Biologics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie M. Grooms, Kevin C. Carter, Diane Carter, legal representative, Tom Sander, David H. Dulebohn
  • Patent number: 8294265
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die having a first surface and a second surface wherein at least one bond pad is formed on the first surface. A passivation layer is formed on the first surface of the semiconductor device, wherein a central area of the at least one bond is exposed. A seed layer is formed on exposed portions of the bond pad and the passivation layer. A conductive pillar is formed on the seed layer. The conductive pillar has a base portion wherein the base portion has a diameter smaller than the seed layer and a stress relief portion extending from a lateral surface of a lower section of the base portion toward distal ends of the seed layer. A solder layer is formed on the conductive pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Amkor Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwang Sun Oh, Dong Hee Lee, Dong In Kim, Bae Yong Kim, Jin Woo Park
  • Patent number: 8287355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming system and a method of gaming that includes a wheel game. A displayed representation of the wheel game is a wheel having a number of segments. Each segment is associated with a particular game outcome and an indicator indicates the segment with the selected game outcome for a particular game. At least one of the segments is associated with a game outcome which requires a further play of the wheel game. Outcomes of the wheel game are adjusted before play of the further game, which is then played including the adjusted available game outcomes. In an embodiment, the game outcomes are adjusted by multiplication factor, which is determined by a further selector, in an embodiment represented as a die at the centre of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Nicholas Luke Bennett
  • Patent number: 8287375
    Abstract: The present invention relates to gaming apparatus (100) and methods (300) applicable to gaming apparatuses and systems. In particular a password entry method (300) and system (600) for authenticating a player's identity is disclosed in which a user's password can be defined using a set of elements (402) including a plurality of images (404) such as symbols or pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Stephen Byng
  • Patent number: 8287366
    Abstract: A gaming machine 10 has a display 14 and a game controller arranged to control images of symbols displayed on the display 14. The game controller is arranged to play a game 16 in which at least one random event is caused to be displayed on the display 14. If a predefined winning event occurs, the machine 10 awards a prize to a player. When a trigger condition occurs in a base game of the game 16, a bonus game feature is awarded comprising a series of bonus games. If a particular special symbol outcome occurs during any of the bonus games, the particular special symbol outcome is collected towards a jackpot prize awarding event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Scott Olive
  • Patent number: D670182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sears Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ross Carl
  • Patent number: RE43786
    Abstract: A digital observation system and method for processing and transmitting video data between a video camera, or video cameras, and a base unit. The video data is transmitted, for example, by a communication protocol that is compliant with Ethernet physical drivers for transmitting and receiving data at around 100 Mbps. Video is captured at a sensor in the video camera, digitally processed and transmitted, thus overcoming limitations associated with analog processing and allowing unique features to be added. Images and other data may be transmitted efficiently in their native format, with reduced overhead, and in a non-compressed format due to the data transmission rate at or below 100 Mbps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Immersive Media of Texas, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Neal Cooper, Christopher Michael Fritz, James Walter Exner