Patents Represented by Attorney Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
  • Patent number: 8341721
    Abstract: Provided are a web-based traceback system and method using reverse caching proxy, which can effectively protect a web server against various attacks launched by illegitimate user by acquiring network information and location information of users who attempt to access the web server through an anonymous server, without a requirement of installing any agent program in the users' clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Kim, Geon Lyang Kim, Jong Ho Ryu, Chi Yoon Jeong, Seon Gyoung Sohn, Beom Hwan Chang, Jung-Chan Na, Hyun Sook Cho
  • Patent number: 8338376
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of treating disease with soluble inhibitors of the lymphotoxin pathway having improved properties. This invention also relates to improved LTBR-Ig fusion proteins, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Biogen Idec MA Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Beckman, Graham K. Farrington, Werner Meier, Jeffrey L. Browning
  • Patent number: 8337683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microfluidic sensor complex structure comprising a lower plate, a middle plate and an upper plate. A reference electrode, a working electrode and an electrode connection are formed on the lower plate. The middle plate comprises a microfluidic channel passage therein. The upper plate is overlaid on the middle plate so as to induce a capillary phenomenon on the microfluidic channel passage formed on in the middle plate. The microfluidic sensor complex structure allows the motion of a sample to be driven only by a capillary phenomenon, without additional operation, and allows an immune response, washing, and electrochemical analysis in one round once a sample is introduced thereinto. Hence, it requires only a short time period for measurement, is convenient to handle, and shows sensitivity and selectivity. Also, it can be produced on a mass scale because it can be formed of typical organic polymers using a simple method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: i-Sens, Inc., Nano-Ditech Corporation
    Inventors: Moon Hee Choi, Seung Hyeun Jung, Young Hoon Kim, Joo-Heon Park, Hakhyun Nam, Geun Sig Cha
  • Patent number: 8336258
    Abstract: A combined sealing system for connecting a first panel having a sash to a frame includes first, second, and third sealing systems. The first panel is within and movable relative to the frame, comprising: The first sealing system is configured to engage a first portion of the sash with a first portion of the frame. The second sealing system is configured to engage a second portion of the sash with a second portion of the frame. The third sealing system is configured to engage a meeting rail of the first panel with a meeting rail of a second panel within the frame. The first panel is movable between at least an open position and a completely closed position. Prior to the first panel being in the completely closed position, engagement of the first sealing system begins and drives engagement of at least one of the second and third sealing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Secura-Seal Technologies LLC
    Inventors: William Kip Speyer, Jonathan D. Thielmann, Bryan D. Dervarics, Don S. Solerno, Robby A. Marsh
  • Patent number: 8337678
    Abstract: A hydrogen electrolysis apparatus includes a stack of unit cells each having a membrane electrode assembly sandwiched between an anode separator and a cathode separator. The anode separator has a first flow field which is supplied with water, and the cathode separator has a second flow field which produces high-pressure hydrogen through an electrolysis of the water. The cathode separator also has a first seal groove defined therein which extends around the second flow field and a first seal member inserted in the first seal groove. The first seal groove and the second flow field are held in fluid communication with each other through passageways. The passageways keep the first seal groove and the second flow field in direct fluid communication with each other in bypassing relation to the boundary between the cathode separator and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Masanori Okabe, Koji Nakazawa, Eiji Haryu
  • Patent number: 8338183
    Abstract: Disclosed relates to an electrochemical determination system of glycated proteins, the system comprising: a filtering means for filtering labeled compounds bound to glycated proteins and non-glycated proteins after adding labeling compounds, capable of selectively binding to the glycated proteins to a solution, in which glycated/non-glycated proteins coexist, to be bound all to the glycated proteins; and a quantifying means for quantifying the filtered labeling compounds, not bound to the glycated proteins. The system of the present invention filters the residual labeled compounds left after binding to glycated proteins to quantify, instead of directly quantifying glycated proteins via the known glycated protein determination methods, thus simplifying the configuration of the system that can provide exact determinations with a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: i-SENS, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakhyun Nam, Fenghua Zhang, Soon Hye Yang, Bo Kyeong Kang, Gang Cui, Moon Hee Choi, Joung Su Lee, Geun Sig Cha
  • Patent number: 8340943
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus of separating a musical sound source, which may re-construct mixed signals into target sound sources and other sound sources directly using sound source information performed using a predetermined musical instrument when the sound source information is present, thereby more effectively separating sound sources included in the mixed signal. The apparatus may include a Nonnegative Matrix Partial Co-Factorization (NMPCF) analysis unit to perform an NMPCF analysis on a mixed signal and a predetermined sound source signal using a sound source separation model, and to obtain a plurality of entity matrices based on the analysis result, and a target instrument signal separating unit to separate, from the mixed signal, a target instrument signal corresponding to the predetermined sound source signal by calculating an inner product between the plurality of entity matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Postech Acadeny-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Min Je Kim, Seungjin Choi, Jiho Yoo, Kyeongok Kang, Inseon Jang, Jin-Woo Hong
  • Patent number: 8338046
    Abstract: The fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack which is supplied with reaction gas, and performs electricity generation; a reaction gas supplier which supplies the reaction gas to the fuel cell stack; a ground fault detector which detects a ground fault from the fuel cell stack; and a reaction gas increasing member which increases an amount of a reaction gas supply to the fuel cell stack, when the ground fault is detected by the ground fault detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Miyajima, Takatsugu Koyama, Kuniaki Ojima
  • Patent number: 8337920
    Abstract: Systems and methods for thermal preservation (sterilization) of heterogeneous and multiphase foods and biomaterials in order to achieve their shelf stability at ambient level temperatures. Flowing heterogeneous, multiphase foods and biomaterials are exposed to single or multiple stages of electromagnetic energy under continuous flow conditions within conduits passing through the electromagnetic energy exposure chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Aseptia, Inc.
    Inventors: Josip Simunovic, James Michael Drozd
  • Patent number: 8341594
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling versions of models in modeling environments are disclosed. The versions of models and component interfaces are stored in a repository and checked in and out of the repository. The version designation of a model is changed when the model is checked in the repository. A selected version of the model is checked out of the repository and loaded directly in a memory so that users may load the selected version of the model without error. The loaded model is displayed with information on the version of the model. The version information may include the version number and author of the version. The version information may also include information on whether the model is locked with a version or in a read only mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo Monteiro, Mojdeh Shakeri, Robert O. Aberg, Michael David Tocci, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 8340219
    Abstract: Provided are a receiver and a receiving method for a scalable bandwidth in a mobile station of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The receiving method includes the steps of: (a) filtering a received RF signal; (b) oscillating a frequency according to a center frequency control signal to output a local oscillation frequency; (c) down-converting the filtered RF signal by using the local oscillation frequency; (d) scalable-filtering the down-converted signal while adjusting a bandwidth according to a bandwidth control signal; (e) controlling gain of the scalable-filtered signal; (f) converting the gain-controlled analog signal into a digital signal by using a sampling frequency matching with a corresponding bandwidth according to an ADC control signal; and (g) demodulating the converted digital signal, outputting the center frequency control signal, the bandwidth control signal, and the ADC control signal according to control information received from an upper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon-Sik Lee, Nam-Il Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Il-Gyu Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8329681
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of carrying out the safe and reliable preparation of lipids comprising quaternary amines. Such lipids are especially suited for introducing therapeutic agents into cells or organisms. In particular, the lipids of the invention are suitable for the efficient transfer of gene therapy agents into mammalian cells or organisms in a cell type specific or tissue specific manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventor: Tariq M. Rana
  • Patent number: 8329354
    Abstract: An ejector and a fuel cell system using the ejector which can improve a control of an ejection pressure of a fluid. The ejector 50 includes a body 60, a nozzle 80, a needle 70, a diffuser 90 which sucks a second fluid by a negative pressure generated by a first fluid ejected from the nozzle 80, and a first, a second and a third diaphragms 100, 110, 120 which are movable in the axial direction against the needle 70. The first diaphragm 100 and the second diaphragm 110 have the same effective area, and an effective area of the third diaphragm 120 is different from those of the first diaphragm 100 and the second diaphragm 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Fukuma, Satoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8327747
    Abstract: A projectile propulsion system includes a launch tube, multiphase material, and a pressure barrier member. The launch tube has an interior cavity, the multiphase material disposed therein. The launch tube also has an opening to receive the multiphase material. The pressure barrier member seals the opening while the multiphase material is disposed in the interior cavity of the launch tube so as to allow the launch tube to be pressurized. When the pressure barrier member is broken, a shock wave allows the contents of the interior cavity, such as a projectile, to be expelled from the tube with a high velocity and force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Causwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Riggs, Vladislav Oleynik, Valery Borovikov, Gennadiy Albul
  • Patent number: 8328205
    Abstract: A chuck including a body with a nose section defining an axial bore formed therein, a plurality of jaws movably disposed with respect to the body, and a sleeve rotatably mounted about the body so that rotation of the sleeve moves the jaws relative to the axial bore. A bearing has a first race, a second race, and at least one bearing element disposed therebetween, one of the first race and the second race defining a ratchet and the other defining a pawl biased toward the ratchet. A biasing element is disposed between the pawl and the sleeve. The biasing element exerts a biasing force on the pawl toward the ratchet and the ratchet and the pawl prevent the second race from rotating in the opening direction with respect to the first race when engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Eugen A. Bordeianu, Michael C. Goodson, Allan R. Grovo, Thomas E. Warner
  • Patent number: 8331564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by a short sequence group-a wireless communication system uses a plurality of short sequences and the plurality of short sequences are grouped into a plurality of short sequence group-to which the first short sequence is assigned; scrambling the first short sequence with the first scrambling sequence and scrambling the second short sequence with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the scrambled first short sequence and the scrambled second short sequence to a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kap Seok Chang, Il Gyu Kim, Hyeong Geun Park, Young Jo Ko, Hyo Seok Yi, Chan Bok Jeong, Young Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8331569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence determined by a first synchronization signal; generating a second scrambling sequence determined by a group to which the first short sequence belongs, the wireless communication system using a plurality of short sequences and the plurality of short sequence being divided into a plurality of groups; scrambling the first short sequence with the first scrambling sequence; scrambling the second short sequence with at least the second scrambling sequence; and mapping a second synchronization signal including the scrambled first short sequence and the scrambled second short sequence in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kap Seok Chang, Il Gyu Kim, Hyeong Geun Park, Young Jo Ko, Hyo Seok Yi, Moon Sik Lee, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8329020
    Abstract: A water electrolysis system includes a water electrolysis apparatus for electrolyzing pure water supplied from a pure water supply apparatus to produce high-pressure hydrogen. A pressure releasing device is connected between a pipe of the water electrolysis apparatus and a check valve connected to the inlet port of a gas-liquid separator, for releasing the pressure of the high-pressure hydrogen from the water electrolysis apparatus independently from the gas-liquid separator. The pressure releasing device has a bleeder passage including a pressure reducing valve and a solenoid-operated valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Takeuchi, Masanori Okabe, Koji Nakazawa, Kenji Taruya
  • Patent number: D672624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Husqvarna AB
    Inventor: Marcus Nääs
  • Patent number: D673284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: ARK Therapeutic Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Evan D. Lowsky