Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Merchant & Gould P.C.
  • Patent number: 8325889
    Abstract: A method and system for authenticating a user for conduct of a transaction initiated by the user via a data-enabled telephone is presented. Efficient use is made of keystrokes on the data-enabled telephone. The data-enabled telephone is capable of initiating telephone calls over a telephone network and of engaging in two-way data communication with a data server in a network and the server enables conduct of the transaction. Caller identification information is received at the server. The information is associated with a telephone call request initiated by the user via the data-enabled telephone to a service number. The caller identification provides basis for authentication of the user and the caller identification information received at the service number is used to address a message to the user. Included in such a message is a logon key for use by the user in accomplishing the transaction. Thus the user can use the logon key to enter into data communication with the server for conduct of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: mobileAxept AS
    Inventors: Lars Sigve Bilstad, Ole Vidar Hestås, Atle Hedløy
  • Patent number: 8324161
    Abstract: Leukotriene B4 binding polypeptide is obtained from Ixodes ricinus. Leukotriene B4 polypeptide, the polynucleotide encoding Leukotriene B4 polypeptide, and Leukotriene B4 polypeptide related polypeptides may be used as research reagents and for treatments and diagnostics specific to animal and human diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignees: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux
    Inventors: Edmond Godfroid, Jérôme Beaufays, Luc Vanhamme, Benoît Adam, Laurence Lins, Sébastien Santini, Robert Brasseur
  • Patent number: 8323043
    Abstract: An electrical connector, comprising a connector body having an opening for receiving an electrical cable, a connector element disposed at least partly within the connector body and electrically coupleable to the electrical cable, an insulating shield operably associated with the connector body and movable between a first position, in which an electrical contact portion of the connector element is exposed for direct contact, and a second position, in which the insulating shield covers the electrical contact portion to limit direct contact with the electrical contact portion, and a catch mechanism for retaining the insulating shield in the second position, the catch mechanism having an actuable portion for releasing the insulating shield for movement to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: ADC GmbH
    Inventors: Wayne William Dennes, Scott David Lee
  • Patent number: 8326761
    Abstract: A system and method for MICR-based duplicate detection and management identifies duplicate presented items on day one across a plurality of payment channels, prior to posting, preventing them from impacting financial institution customers by rerouting to an adjustments team. Inquiry files containing MICR data for a plurality of presented items are evaluated by a duplicate detection module. Each item presented is evaluated against all previous items based on its MICR line. Unique items are processed in the usual manner. Duplicate suspects undergo further processing. Suspects having identical MICR data, but that are not duplicates, such as NSF (non-sufficient funds) checks being re-deposited, are identified and posted. The remaining suspects go in the suspect queue of a universal workstation. After being researched, suspects found not to be duplicates are posted. The remaining suspects are flagged as duplicates and routed to an adjustor for further action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Rick Rotella, Brent Mangum, Kathy Smalley, Jack Tobey, Kathy Tyo
  • Patent number: 8324537
    Abstract: An article of composite material includes a plurality of plies of material consolidated through the application of pressure and heating, in which each material ply is made by a resin matrix reinforced with fiber material. The article includes heating electrical resistance and temperature sensing devices embedded in the composite material, which are respectively placed in at least one interface zone between the material plies and are suitable to allow a temperature control of the article in service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alfonso Apicella, Michele Iannone, Generoso Iannuzzo, Giovanni Sagnella
  • Patent number: 8323446
    Abstract: In order to manufacture beams of composite material with a J-shaped cross-section, a curing apparatus includes a bar supported parallel to a table by two end supports. A J-shaped beam of uncured composite material is prepared and arranged on the apparatus, positioning the bottom flange of the beam so that it faces the table and resting the web and the upper flange against two respective sides of the bar. The beam is covered with a vacuum bag and pressure and heat are applied inside an autoclave in order to cure the resin in the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventors: Sabato Inserra Imparato, Giovanni Lanfranco
  • Patent number: 8327263
    Abstract: A method and system for retrieving and maintaining presentation data in a presentation cache is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a presentation cache object provides a presentation cache with multiple cache entries. Each entry contains an indication of the format of the presentation data and the presentation data stored in that particular format. In addition, other information, such as the advisees of advisory connections for notification of cache updates, can be maintained. The presentation cache object responds to requests for retrieving source object data by returning presentation data cached within the presentation cache when it is available. In addition, the presentation cache object determines when it should delegate requests to the source object and when it can satisfy them on its own. The presentation cache object can return presentation data to a requesting client program even if the server program implementing the source object is unavailable or not running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Atkinson, Antony S. Williams, Craig H. Wittenberg, Srinivasa R. Koppolu, C. Douglas Hodges
  • Patent number: 8323491
    Abstract: A desalination plant, includes a sea water intake, a desalination unit having a reverse osmosis or a thermal desalination unit, a fresh water outlet and a brine outlet. The plant also includes a salinity gradient power unit having a brine inlet, a seawater inlet and a mixed water outlet. The brine outlet is connected to the brine inlet and the salinity gradient power unit is arranged to generate an electrical current. A solar power heater is between the brine outlet and the brine inlet. A method for reducing the power consumption of a desalination plant providing fresh water and brine from sea water, includes a first step of providing a salinity gradient power unit, a next step of feeding the salinity gradient power unit with brine from the desalination plant as high salinity feed and sea water as low salinity feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO)
    Inventor: Etienne Brauns
  • Patent number: 8318873
    Abstract: Catalyst compositions comprising a first metallocene compound, a second metallocene compound, an activator-support, and an organoaluminum compound are provided. An improved method for preparing cyclopentadienyl complexes used to produce polyolefins is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Kumudini C. Jayaratne, Michael D. Jensen, Qing Yang
  • Patent number: 8320992
    Abstract: A system for video based registration between images during a skeletal medical procedure includes a stereoscopic camera, a two dimensional image detector and a registration processor. The camera is associated with a stereoscopic coordinate system, the camera acquires a stereoscopic image pair of fiducial marks fixed onto a skeletal structure. Fiducial representations of the fiducial marks appear on the stereoscopic image pair, and a skeletal representation of the skeletal structure appears on two different 2D images. The registration processor registers a stereoscopic coordinate system with a 3D coordinate system associated with a volumetric image detector, and superimposes 3D information on at least one volumetric image. The registration processor registers the stereoscopic coordinate system with the 3D coordinate system by registering the stereoscopic coordinate system with the 2D coordinate system and by registering the 2D coordinate system with the 3D coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Visionsense Ltd.
    Inventors: Tami Frenkel, Avi Yaron
  • Patent number: 8321416
    Abstract: Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a recurrent time property. The description of a “meeting,” for example, may be stored once. Each occurrence of that object over time may be stored in a “timeslot” (object <foo> occurs at time ‘t’ on day ‘d’). If it is a recurring property, recurrence information may be stored independently. “Exception” information may be stored independently as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Simison, Remi Alain Lemarchand, Robert C. Combs
  • Patent number: 8317162
    Abstract: A road rail comprises tubular posts (1; 20) to be anchored in the ground and a rail profile (2; 21) to be attached to the posts. The rail profile has a substantially closed cross-section but is open downwards for lowering onto the posts. The rail profile is supported on each post by a support member (5; 24) carried by lower edges of opposed cutouts (4; 23) in the post. At least one locking member (7; 26) inside the rail profile provides locking between the post and the rail profile by engagement on one hand with the rail profile and on the other hand with an upper edge of each post cutout (4; 23) by a locking tongue (10; 27) of the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: AB Varmforzinkning
    Inventor: Anders Welandson
  • Patent number: 8321484
    Abstract: Instead of sending each item separately to a service for processing, items are communicated to the service as one or more groups. Common portions of a file path for files within the group are transmitted once to the service. For example, a root portion of the file paths for the files within the group may be common to each of the files. The unique portions of the file path for each file are transmitted to the service without including the common portions. The size of the groups may be configured differently depending on needs of the specific instance of the protocol (i.e. smaller sized groups for more bandwidth-constrained situations). The size for the group may be determined in many different ways. For example, the size of the groups may be automatically determined based on a configuration and/or a user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tristan A. Davis, Andrew Kenneth Bishop, Clifford Jeffrey Cruzan
  • Patent number: 8319797
    Abstract: A first digital image is acquired of a framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a first lighting condition. A second digital image is then acquired of the same framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a second lighting condition. Preferably, the first lighting condition illuminates the background without illuminating the foreground object so that a silhouette of the foreground object is acquired in the first image. The second lighting condition illuminates the foreground object (e.g., with frontal lights). Due to the difference in the illumination between the background and silhouette in the first image, an alpha mask can be created from the first acquired image. Using the mask, the background from the second image can be removed and replaced by virtually any other desired background image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lee Swanson, Earl John Adolphi, Michael John Surma, John Robert Reinert Nash
  • Patent number: 8319607
    Abstract: An inventory monitoring system including a data collection and transmission module and a data evaluation module. The data collection and transmission module receives data from an RFID tag and transmits the data to the data evaluation module to thereby enable the presence of a product to which the RFID tag is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seeonic, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Grimlund, Harley Feldman, Ken Drewlo, Nicholas Singh
  • Patent number: 8321506
    Abstract: An architecture for an extensible real-time collaboration system is provided. The architecture presents a unified application program interface for writing application programs that use communications protocols. The architecture has activity objects, endpoint objects, and multiple media stacks. These objects may use various communications protocols, such as Session Initiation Protocol or Real-Time Transport Protocol to send and receive messages. The activity objects, endpoint objects, and multiple media stacks may each have one or more APIs that an application developer can use to access or provide collaboration-related functionality. These objects map the API to the underlying implementation provided by other objects. Using the activity objects enables a developer to provide less application logic than would otherwise be necessary to provide complex collaboration services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mu Han, Krishnamurthy Ganesan, Adrian Potra, Nikhil Bobde
  • Patent number: 8317117
    Abstract: The chipper drum of the present disclosure is configured to maximize its cutting width while decreasing its overall size. In particular, the chipper drum of the present disclosure includes air deflectors recessed on the ends of the drum that are configured to generate the air flow necessary to blow chips out of the chipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Edwin N. Galloway, James L. O'Halloran, Jeffrey D. Bradley, John T. Bouwers, Larry Schut
  • Patent number: 8321781
    Abstract: Configuration of an interactive chart is performed by user interactions with a user interface in a satellite pane, which is distinct from a chart pane used to display the data fields present on an interactive chart. Upon entry of a configuration selection, a query is executed to retrieve data to be displayed by the interactive chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Kirstin M. Tolle
  • Patent number: 8318768
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds having the general formula (I), and which compounds are useful to manufacture a medicament to treat a disorder or disease characterized by bronchoconstriction, e.g. COPD and asthma, and vasoconstriction, e.g. hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Respiratorius AB
    Inventors: Maria Dalence, Martin Johansson, Viveca Thornqvist Oltner, Jörgen Toftered, David Wensbo
  • Patent number: RE43844
    Abstract: A process for making optically pure (R) and (S) salbutamol comprises obtaining the (R) or (S) isomer of either salbutamol or a salbutamol precursor in substantially optically pure form by resolving a racemic or optically impure mixture of enantiomers of salbutamol or of said precursor with either (L) or (D) tartaric acid, and where necessary converting said isomer of said precursor into either (R or (S) salbutamol respectively; then optionally converting said optically pure (R) and/or (S) salbutamol into a pharmaceutically acceptable salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Cipla Limited
    Inventors: Yusuf Khwaja Hamied, Rajendra Narayanrao Kankan, Dharmaraj Ramachandra Rao