Patents Represented by Attorney Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8240982
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure (7) for a lip (4a) of an air inlet (4) of a turbojet pod (1) including an outer skin (12), designed to be oriented towards the outside of the lip, and an inner skin (13), designed to be oriented towards the inside of the lip, characterized in that it includes at least one electric heating element (14) situated between the inner skin and the outer skin and capable of being connected to an electric supply (15, 16), and the at least one electric heating element extending at least partly through an acoustic attenuation zone having perforations (11) passing through the structure and associated with an acoustic attenuation structure (30) fitted to the inner skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventor: Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 8232419
    Abstract: The process utilizes the adsorbent column system as a treatment after chemical refining or before physical refining rather than water or filtration, respectively, to remove soaps and other impurities entrained in a crude triacylglycerol. The CDTAG or ORTAG is contacted with an adsorbent packed into a column, or multiple columns in series, for a sufficient amount of time to remove impurities such as, but not limited to, soaps, metals, chlorophyll, and many of the other compounds that reduce the stability of the TAG. The resulting TAG exiting the column(s) is ready for the deodorization process. Once the adsorbent no longer removes the desired amount of impurities, it is regenerated for reuse. Such a continuous regenerable adsorbent refining process substantially reduces the amount of fresh water required and the amount of waste water generated to purify TAG and reduces the amount of solid waste produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Dallas Group of America
    Inventors: James R. Munson, Brian S. Cooke, Bryan L. Bertram
  • Patent number: 8231332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nacelle for a turbojet, comprising an air inlet structure capable of channelling a flow of air to a turbojet fan and a middle structure (5) comprising a casing (9) designed to encircle said fan, with the air inlet structure attached to it, said structure having a peripheral inside surface at least partly equipped with a sound-attenuating structure (13) extending without geometrical interruption around at least part of the casing, said structure being characterized in that a gap (14) is provided between the sound-attenuating structure and the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Christophe Thorel
  • Patent number: 8229275
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a video camera recorder or the like, capable of flexibly meeting user demands for image quality, recording time, etc. When recording information on a rewritable optical recording medium, the recording mode for the optical recording medium is selected at least from between write-once and rewritable based on a set recording rate. Before recording, the recording status of the optical recording medium is also determined at least between an unrecorded area and a recorded area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Coropration
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 8213283
    Abstract: A recording method suitable for high-density recording is provided to increase the reproduction quality. An optical information recording method is for recording information on an optical recording medium by irradiation of a write pulse of a laser beam to perform reproduction in a production system using a PRML detection scheme. The method includes recording a recording mark by a single write pulse, when the total length of the recording mark to be recorded and a space adjacent to the recording mark is less than a diameter of an effective reproduction spot, being 0.82×(?/NA), where ? is a wavelength of a reproduction laser beam and NA is a numerical aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Aoyama, Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 8213279
    Abstract: An optical recording medium including recording and reading layers and a servo layer increases the recording capacity thereof. In the optical recording medium including the plurality of recording and reading layers and the servo layer, the servo layer has a groove and a land that can be used to perform tracking control with a long-wavelength servo beam. Information is recorded on the recording and reading layers with a recording and reading beam having a wavelength shorter than the wavelength of the servo beam. Recording marks are formed on the recording and reading layers while both the groove and land are tracked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuko Kosuda, Motohiro Inoue, Takashi Kikukawa, Hideki Hirata
  • Patent number: 8209772
    Abstract: The teacher's strategies tool apron of the present invention provides easy access and organization to the tools needed to enhance any instructional segment and promote student retention in PreK to 8th grade. The “tools of the trade” are located in the appropriately matched pockets of the apron, paired with researched best practices education strategies. Together they maximize the attention and involvement of the learning audience while simultaneously giving easy access and organization to the tools themselves to the presenter. The pockets have a signifying visual cue logo identifying the purpose of the tool that goes into that pocket and create a memory map for the presenter. When worn by the presenter the aprons bring the focus of the presentation's participants to its wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Inventor: Mildred L. Curry
  • Patent number: 8207141
    Abstract: DNA plasmids containing sequences coding for different fragments of 185neu oncoprotein which are able to induce an immune response against p185neu-overexpressing tumors, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventors: Augusto Amici, Cristina Marchini, Elena Quaglino, Federica Cavallo, Guido Forni
  • Patent number: 8203110
    Abstract: Solar tracker with a principal substructure comprising a series of posts between which sections of beams are arranged, joined by intermediate axles and which can turn in respect of a longitudinal axle; it is also provided with secondary substructures comprising a frame for attachment of the solar panels which rotate in respect of an axle transversal to the longitudinal and with connection parts between the frames and the beams, and in respect of which they are articulated, with the frames being activated by connecting rods joined to a common slide. The centre of gravity of the structure overall is arranged such that it is very close to the longitudinal axle, which facilitates its actuation, reduces wind sensitivity and facilitates erection in addition to being provided with a certain degree of longitudinal tolerance, which enables better use to be made of land, as it is possible to achieve greater power per square meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Dionisio Silvestre Mata
  • Patent number: 8197302
    Abstract: An abrasive has a plate shape with a flat surface, in which a maximum diameter of the flat surface thereof is in the range of 0.05 mm to 10 mm, and 1.5 to 100 times as the maximum diameter as thick of the abrasive, and the blast processing method is one in which this abrasive is ejected by being inclined at an incident angle with respect to a surface of a product to be treated. The ejected plate-shaped abrasive slides along the surface of the product to be treated while having the flat surface in slidable contact with the surface of the product to be treated which is an object surface to be treated, so that the surface of the product to be treated is flattened by removing the peaks only, without increasing the depth of the valleys of the roughness curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Mase
  • Patent number: 8187879
    Abstract: Methods for the isolation, expansion and storage of a population of stem cells belonging to human dental follicles, called FENC (Follicle-derived Embryonic Neural Crest stem cells,) including: a) Collection of the follicular sack in sterile conditions, digestion and primary culture growth and expansion; b) Optional amplification; c) FACsorting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Teslab S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gregorio Laino, Gianpaolo Papaccio, Alfredo De Rosa, Riccardo D'Aquino, Antonio Graziano
  • Patent number: 8189443
    Abstract: A signal quality evaluation method is provided that can objectively evaluate signal quality regardless of a PRML detection method used. The signal quality evaluation method is used when recording and reading is performed by irradiating a medium with a laser beam having a wavelength of ? through an objective lens having a numerical aperture of NA. In the signal quality evaluation method, information of the difference between an ideal signal recoded in the medium and a real signal obtained by irradiating the medium with the laser beam is statistically analyzed for each signal level of the ideal signal. The evaluation of the quality of the real signal is made using the statistics obtained by the statistical analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kikukawa, Hidetake Itoh
  • Patent number: 8182746
    Abstract: An electrophoresis apparatus is generally disclosed for sequentially analyzing a single sample or multiple samples having one or more analytes in high or low concentrations. The apparatus comprises a relatively large-bore transport capillary which intersects with a plurality of small-bore separation capillaries and includes a valve system. Analyte concentrators, having antibody-specific (or related affinity) chemistries, are stationed at the respective intersections of the transport capillary and separation capillaries to bind one or more analytes of interest. The apparatus allows the performance of two or more dimensions for the optimal separation of analytes. The apparatus may also include a plurality of valves surrounding each of the analyte concentrators to localize each of the concentrators to improve the binding of one or more analytes of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Princeton Biochemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Norberto A. Guzman
  • Patent number: 8173619
    Abstract: The compounds are phosphoramidate derivatives of nucleoside compounds such as cladribine, isocladribine, fludarabine and clofarabine useful in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventors: Christopher McGuigan, Kenneth Mills, Costantino Congiatu
  • Patent number: 8161910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated RFID card holder, cage, lid or rack and system for collecting census, inventorying, and tracking of animal cages, lids, card holders, racks, and other related equipment. Preferably, the card holder is comprised of an RF transparent material such as plastic. During operation, a RFID reader reads each integrated RFID card holder attached to an animal cage for virtually linking the cage to an animal rack in effect assigning a parking spot to each animal cage within an animal cage rack system. The integrated RFID card holder can be determined to be in a room when the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is the highest comparing multiple reads from one or many antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Allentown Caging & Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Coiro, Sr., Steven J. Miller, Tom Schupsky
  • Patent number: 8164989
    Abstract: A recording method for irradiating a multi-layered optical recording medium with a laser beam to record information thereon. The optical recording medium can form a first information recording layer that is the farthest from a light incident surface, a second information recording layer that is the second farthest from the light incident surface, and at least one third information recording layer that is located closer to the light incident surface than the second information recording layer is. The method is to record information on the second information recording layer when all the information recording layers other than the second information recording layer are either blank or have been completely recorded. This allows for realizing high-quality information recording in consideration of adherence of foreign matters or occurrence of scratches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kikukawa, Koji Mishima
  • Patent number: 8137665
    Abstract: Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Nottingham
    Inventor: Edward Charles Daniel Cocking
  • Patent number: 8106231
    Abstract: A process for the enantioselective preparation of (2R,3S)-3-phenylisoserine methyl ester acetate salt of formula (I) which is an useful building block for the synthesis of taxane derivatives. The process involves the resolution of racemic threo-phenylisoserine amide and its conversion into (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Indena S.p.A.
    Inventors: Daniele Ciceri, Bruno Gabetta, Nicola Vignola, Frieder Mitzel, Beat T. Weber
  • Patent number: D663530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Duwa
  • Patent number: D664274
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Lemnis Lighting Patent Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Alexander Paul Johannes de Visser, Ramon Philippe van der Hilst