Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
  • Patent number: 8328890
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing gaseous products, and in particular, methane via the catalytic gasification of carbonaceous feedstocks in the presence of steam and an oxygen-rich gas stream. The processes comprise using at least one catalytic methanator to convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the gaseous products to methane and do not recycle carbon monoxide or hydrogen to the catalytic gasifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: GreatPoint Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent G. Reiling, Earl T. Robinson, Nicholas Charles Nahas, Jeffery Smith, Charles Mims
  • Patent number: 8332309
    Abstract: Implied prices and their quantities are computed. Markets are characterized by exhaustively computing one or more combinations of other related markets. Each combination when summed in a particular way results in the market under consideration. In a described embodiment, the number of market combinations found is an exhaustive list of market combinations such that the market under consideration can be fully and completely characterized, such that each combination provides implied market information about the market under consideration. Implied market information can include implied prices and their quantities, which are computed for each combination and used accordingly in displays or used by automated or semi-automated trading tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International Inc.
    Inventor: Assaf Pazner
  • Patent number: 8327842
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inhaler for powdered, particularly medical substances, including a suction air duct that extends to a mouthpiece, a reservoir for the substance, and an at least linearly movable dosing chamber for separating a specific amount of the substance from the reservoir and placing the amount into a transfer position in order for the same to be transferred to the suction air flow. In order to further develop a generic inhaler in an advantageous manner, especially so as to charge the dosing chamber by separating a specific amount of substance from the reservoir, the dosing chamber can be rotationally moved in a superimposed fashion while being arranged eccentric to a corresponding axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sanofi SA
    Inventor: Alfred von Schuckmann
  • Patent number: 8332958
    Abstract: A Multi-Function peripheral (MFP), a server apparatus, and a client apparatus for generating image output data from document data and transmitting the image output data to the server apparatus are each connected to a network. In the server apparatus, an output data management unit stores the received image output data in an output data storage unit. Upon receiving user authentication information that is input with a user operation on the MFP, the server apparatus determines whether the user authentication information is valid. When the user authentication information is determined to be valid, the server apparatus transmits to the MFP one or more among the stored image output data associated with the user authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Toshitsugu Nishimi, Yasushi Tsukamoto, Akira Fujikura, Daisuke Yoshida, Yasuhiko Kida, Yusuke Nakagoshi, Yumi Kitamura, Toshinobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8326741
    Abstract: A trading system is described herein for hosting a collection of one or more electronic exchanges. The collection of electronic exchanges may be made up of separately designated exchanges under one or more authorizing and regulating bodies. The trading system receives from traders bids to purchase and offers to sell a tradeable object listed at one of the electronic exchanges. Then, the trading system directs the bids and offers to the appropriate exchange where the bids and offers may be automatically matched in the corresponding market. The trading system may also be used to take actions in one or more markets that are internal and external to the trading system on behalf of a trader using preprogrammed trading instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Burns, Fred Monroe
  • Patent number: 8326305
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for selectively pre-registering a data path for a mobile station. In an embodiment, a serving base station receives a mobile-originated handoff-request message from a mobile station, wherein the mobile-originated handoff-request message identifies one or more target base stations. The serving base station then responsively determines whether to instruct each respective target base station to pre-register a data path for the mobile station. The serving base station then sends a respective serving-to-target handoff-request message to each identified target base station, indicating whether the serving base station is instructing that target base station to pre-register a data path for the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Clearwire IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Len I. Mosley, Ojas T. Choski, Chunmei Liu
  • Patent number: 8324204
    Abstract: A series of 5,6-dihydro-1-benzothiophen-7(4H)-one derivatives, and analogues thereof, which are substituted in the 2-position by an optionally substituted morpholin-4-yl moiety, being selective inhibitors of PI3 kinase enzymes, are accordingly of benefit in medicine, for example in the treatment of inflammatory, autoimmune, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, metabolic, oncological, nociceptive or ophthalmic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: UCB Pharma SA
    Inventors: Rikki Peter Alexander, Stuart Bailey, Stephen Brand, Daniel Christopher Brookings, Julien Alistair Brown, Alan Findlay Haughan, Natasha Kinsella, Christopher Lowe, Stephen Robert Mack, William Ross Pitt, Marianna Dilani Richard, Andrew Sharpe, Laura Jane Tait
  • Patent number: 8322284
    Abstract: A composite material case (19) and liner (21) is described for use in a perforator (17) for completing wells such as oil, gas and water wells (1). The materials selected are intended to exhibit stability during prolonged periods at the raised temperatures and pressures present in a well (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Qinetiq Limited
    Inventors: Russell Vaughan Meddes, Michael John Hinton
  • Patent number: 8326721
    Abstract: A system and method are provided that, among other things, can reduce the burden on receiving computers, increase data throughput, reduce system failure, and provide components of a scalable and flexible network architecture. Specifically, the system and method provide a multichannel-multicast network environment for use in dynamically assigning data to channels. This configuration is particularly useful in a trading network environment, as it effectively performs channel reassignments in a way not to disturb the receipt of the underlying data. While the example embodiments described herein pertain to electronic trading, the principles of the present invention may be equally applied in other environments where the advantages presented herein are beneficial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Sagy P. Mintz, Alexander D. Deitz
  • Patent number: 8322650
    Abstract: An aircraft, particularly a solar powered, high altitude, long endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle, is equipped with a combination of canted down, raked back wing tips and trailing “tip tails” carried on booms from the tip regions of the mainplane. Each tip tail is positioned to be subject to the upwash field of the respective wing tip vortex, at least in the cruise condition of the aircraft. The wing tip form can achieve a reduction in induced drag and help to relieve wing root bending moment while the tip tails can act through their connections to the mainplane to provide torsional relief to the latter, particularly under lower incidence/higher speed conditions. In the higher incidence/lower speed cruise condition, however, the presence of the tip tails in the upwash fields of the wing tip vortices means that they can generate lift with a component in the forward direction of flight and hence contribute to the thrust requirements of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Qinetiq Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Charles Kelleher
  • Patent number: 8324418
    Abstract: Organic dithiopyrophosphates of formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently are hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, chloromethyl or bromomethyl, are prepared in a two-step process from the corresponding 1,3-diols and thiophosphoryl chloride, using 3-methylpyridine both as solvent and as base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd.
    Inventors: Gesa Paradies, Thomas Riedel, Christian Schnider
  • Patent number: 8324231
    Abstract: A compound having Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein X, R, R and R are as defined in the specification; pharmaceutical compositions thereof; and methods of use thereof. The compounds of Formula I are inhibitors of Casein kinase II (CK2) pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Exelixis, Inc.
    Inventors: Elena S. Koltun, Patrick Kearney, Naing Aay, Arlyn Arcalas, Wai Ki Vicky Chan, Jeffry Kimo Curtis, Hongwang Du, Ping Huang, Brian Kane, Moon Hwan Kim, Michael Pack, Amy L. Tsuhako, Wei Xu, Cristiana A. Zaharia, Peiwen Zhou
  • Patent number: 8325010
    Abstract: A multidimensional addressing network for a power system comprising a number of substantially identical modules monitoring a plurality of surge suppressors. Each module may be uniquely selected or identified based at least in part on its physical relationship with the base plates and other modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Glenn Wilson
  • Patent number: 8326890
    Abstract: A search tool for an electronic information resource, which is typically a database of products and services, is provided. The search tool can be used to assist a user to search, evaluate and select anything capable of being chosen. The search tool includes a user interface which includes a scale, a user input element and a potential attributes area. The user input element includes one or more indicators enabling a user to associate a point along the scale with the user's preference for each potential attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Choicebot, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick Desbarats
  • Patent number: 8323764
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing flexible, stretchable, and/or elastic products comprised principally of material such as natural elastomers and other synthetic polymers. The method for producing stretchable products by spraying product material over a workpiece former, and method for creating perforated products by spraying product material over fibers in an upright position. The invention provides methods for making double sided fiber coating of the product and, or to at least coating the product surface on the side facing the wall without the need for removing the product from the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Tamicare Ltd.
    Inventor: Ehud Giloh
  • Patent number: 8322546
    Abstract: A teat unit for sucking a liquid from a liquid container includes a teat and a flow restrictor with a through-opening. The teat comprises a mouthpiece, with a suction opening, and a main body which is formed integrally on the mouthpiece and widens relative to the mouthpiece. The flow restrictor defines a maximum flow of the liquid passing through the suction opening from the liquid container. According to the invention, the flow restrictor is arranged outside the mouthpiece, and the suction opening has a greater cross-sectional surface area than the through-opening of the flow restrictor. The teat unit permits a feeding action that is as true to nature as possible, since the mouthpiece can be deformed very considerably, without substantially impairing the flow restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Medela Holding AG
    Inventors: Erich Pfenniger, Peter Vischer, Mario Rigert, Leon Mitoulas
  • Patent number: 8321364
    Abstract: Examples disclose a method and system for including robots into social networks. The method may be executable to receiving information associated with a first party, wherein the first party is connected to a second party by a social-network. Based on the received information, the method may be executable to query a behavioral database to obtain a behavioral expectation associated with the first party and to compare the behavioral expectation associated with the first party to a stored behavioral expectation associated with the second party. Based on the comparing, the method may be executable to modify the stored behavioral expectation associated with the second party based on the behavioral expectation associated with the first party and provide instructions, which are executable to perform an action associated with the modified behavioral expectation, to a device associated with the second party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chaitanya Gharpure, Ryan Hickman
  • Patent number: 8320584
    Abstract: A method and system for performing audio signal processing is provided. A phase of a signal may be shifted between 0° and 360° for all frequencies of the signal, without any significant delay distortion. The phase shift can be accomplished through the use of two signal outputs (which are each shifted in phase by 90° relative to the other), inverters and an analog summing circuit. Selective use of the inverter on one or both of the 90° phase shifted outputs, and their linear combinations, allows the phase of the audio signal outputs to be shifted between about 0° and about 360° by a recording engineer, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventor: Laurence L. Sheets
  • Patent number: D671617
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventor: George Martin
  • Patent number: D672286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hendrickson USA, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Shawn D. Noble, Michael P. Robinson