Patents Represented by Law Firm Quarles and Brady
  • MRI compatible implanted electronic medical device with power and data communication capability
    Patent number: 8233985
    Abstract: An antenna module, that is compatible with a magnetic resonance imaging scanner for the purpose of diagnostic quality imaging, is adapted to be implanted inside an animal. The antenna module comprises an electrically non-conducting, biocompatible, and electromagnetically transparent enclosure with inductive antenna wires looping around an inside surface. An electronic module is enclosed in an electromagnetic shield inside the enclosure to minimize the electromagnetic interference from the magnetic resonance imaging scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kenergy, Inc.
    Inventors: Cherik Bulkes, Stephen Denker
  • Grilling device for properly and uniformly cooking foodstuffs
    Patent number: 8232510
    Abstract: A cooking device comprises a base and a heating element supported by the base. A cooking plate is heated by the heating element and includes at least a first cavity for receiving an item being cooked. At least a first temperature probe is disposed in the first cavity for piercing the item being cooked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Johnsonville Sausage, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Addesso, Hong Ji, Shelly Ann Stayer
  • Colchicine neoglycosides and methods for their synthesis and use
    Patent number: 8232254
    Abstract: Colchicine neoglycosides, method for their synthesis and methods for their use are disclosed. The invention provides analogs of colchicine glycosylated to include a sugar moiety on a colchicine scaffold that is generally unglycosylated in nature. The colchicine neoglycosides disclosed herein are shown to have cytotoxic effects equivalent to at least the known cytotoxins paclitaxel and doxorubicin. Further, the neoglycosides disclosed according to the invention have physiologic effects not previously recognized in the alkaloid family that includes colchicine but recognized in other cytotoxic drug families such as the taxanes which act by stabilizing tubulin formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jon S. Thorson, Ahmed Aqeel
  • Pallet truck with calculated fork carriage height
    Patent number: 8230976
    Abstract: A pallet truck including a controller that calculates the height of the fork carriage without the use of mechanical devices such as switches or sensors. A calculated carriage height is derived by adding the amount of time that a carriage is commanded to be raised and offsetting that by the amount of time that the carriage lower button is depressed. The calculated carriage height is essentially an accumulated lift time where the time that the carriage is lifting is a positive value and the time that the carriage is lowering is a negative value. When these values are combined, the result is the present calculated carriage height. The controller further monitors the calculated carriage height such that if the carriage is too close to the ground, the maximum speed of the pallet truck is limited to prevent damage to the forks or ground due to striking or scraping between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Raymond Corporation
    Inventor: Augustus R. Baldini
  • Catalysts and methods for reforming oxygenated compounds
    Patent number: 8231857
    Abstract: Disclosed are catalysts and methods that can reform aqueous solutions of oxygenated compounds such as ethylene glycol, glycerol, sugar alcohols, and sugars to generate products such as hydrogen and alkanes. In some embodiments, aqueous solutions containing at least 20 wt % of the oxygenated compounds can be reformed over a catalyst comprising a Group VIII transition metal and a Group VIIB transition metal, preferably supported on an activated carbon-supported catalyst. In other embodiments, catalysts are provided for the production of hydrogen or alkanes at reaction temperatures less than 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Virent, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy D. Cortright, Nicholas W. Vollendorf, Charles C. Hornemann, Shawn P. McMahon
  • Apparatus and method to select a deduplication protocol for a data storage library
    Patent number: 8234444
    Abstract: A method to select a deduplication protocol for a data storage library comprising a plurality of data storage devices configured as a RAID array, by establishing a normal deduplication protocol, a RAID failure deduplication protocol, and a multiple storage device failure deduplication protocol. The method receives host data comprising a plurality of interleaved data blocks. If the system is operating without any storage device failures, then the method processes the host data using the normal deduplication protocol. If the system is operating with a storage device failure, then the method processes the host data using the RAID failure deduplication protocol. If the system is operating with multiple storage device failures, then the method processes the host data using the multiple storage device failure deduplication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nils Haustein, Craig Anthony Klein, Ulf Troppens, Daniel James Winarski
  • Method for image reconstruction using sparsity-constrained correction
    Patent number: 8229199
    Abstract: An image reconstruction method applicable to a number of different imaging modalities including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is disclosed. A sparsifying image is reconstructed from a series of acquired undersampled data to provide a priori knowledge of a subject being imaged. An iterative reconstruction process is further employed to iteratively determine a correction image for a given image frame that, when subtracted from the sparsifying image, produces a quality image for the image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Guang-Hong Chen, Shuai Leng
  • Variable guide vane actuator with thermal management
    Patent number: 8226359
    Abstract: A variable guide vane actuator for positioning the guide vanes of a turbine engine in a hypersonic missile uses compressor exhaust to drive a linked, floating piston assembly that is coupled to the guide vanes. The relatively low pressure compressor exhaust is metered by a valve to drive the piston arrangement to accurately position the guide vanes in proportion to the input control signal. Reliability and accuracy gains are achieved by inhibiting the effects of vibration and thermal distortion through the elimination of piston/bore contact, the use of a rigid, cantilevered mounting arrangement and cooling with the pre-combusted liquid fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Harvey B. Jansen, David K. Shields
  • Apparatus and method to debug a software program
    Patent number: 8230396
    Abstract: A method is disclosed to debug a computer program. The method provides a computer program comprising source code, and a listing of that source code. The method further provides a computing device comprising a data storage medium, and stores the computer program in that data storage medium. The method then runs the computer program, and subsequently detects an error condition. The method creates and saves to the data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas. Using information abstracted from the dump file and the source code listing, the method reproduces the source code execution at the time the error condition was detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Charles Reed, Max Douglas Smith
  • Method of synthesizing acetonide-protected catechol-containing compounds and intermediates produced therein
    Patent number: 8227628
    Abstract: The inventors disclose here a novel, facile approach to the synthesis of acetonide-protected catechol-containing compounds having at least one amine group. In specific embodiments, the invention provides novel methods of synthesizing 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (H-DOPA(acetonide)-OH (6)), Fmoc-protected H-DOPA(acetonide)-OH (Fmoc-DOPA(acetonide)-OH (7)), Fmoc-protected dopamine (Fmoc-dopamine(acetonide) (10)), TFA-protected dopamine (TFA-dopamine(acetonide) (13)) and acetonide-protected 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol (acetonide-protected dopamine (14)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Phillip B. Messersmith, Bi-huang Hu, Zhongqiang Liu
  • Method of making a heater structure and a heater structure
    Patent number: 8227036
    Abstract: A method of making a heater structure and a corresponding heater structure are disclosed. The method comprises providing a porous reinforcement material such as glass cloth, applying a metal to the porous reinforcement material such as by spraying and applying resin to the porous reinforcement material with metal already applied thereto to make the structure substantially rigid. Applying the metal to the porous reinforcement material before applying the resin provides a number of advantages such as enhanced shear strength between the porous reinforcement material and the applied metal layer and the ability to manipulate the porous reinforcement material with metal applied thereto prior to applying the resin. The heater structure may be used in many applications, some of which arc described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: GKN Aerospace Services Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Bardwell
  • Hydraulic pressurizing containment vessel and method of use thereof
    Patent number: 8225951
    Abstract: A pressurizable chamber device or containment vessel and method of use thereof. The device or vessel includes two chamber portions, a lid portion and a base portion, drawn to one another via a nut portion. The lid and base portions each include concave surfaces that matingly fit together, such that an internal chamber is formed when these portions are fit together. The lid and base portions each include a flange having a groove therein, such that a flexible seal element is fittable into the groove. The lid and base portions include features to matingly engage the nut portion, such that engagement thereamong draws the lid portion and the base portion toward one another, tightly sealing the formed internal chamber. A pressure, such as a resin pressure that may be precisely regulated, may then be applied, for example, to a mold contained within the formed and tightly sealed chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: GKN Aerospace Services Structures Corp.
    Inventor: Anthony Cacace
  • Hydraulic valve arrangement with an annular check valve element
    Patent number: 8225818
    Abstract: A valve arrangement includes a valve body with a bore within which a spool slides to control fluid flow between first and second ports. The bore has an annular recess into which the first port opens and in which is located a check valve band formed by a strip with overlapping ends. Pressure in the first port causes the check valve band to contract and expand circumferentially to open and close the first port. A stop is located near one end of the strip and is engaged by the other end to limit the amount of contraction of the check valve band. Thus the diameter of the check valve band cannot contract smaller than the diameter of the bore, thereby retaining the check valve ring in the annular recess. The check valve band optionally has a plurality of tabs projecting from each edge and engaging side walls of the annular recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Incova Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirt Nathaniel Stephens, Kathryn Irene Bacon
  • Method of generating myelinating oligodendrocytes
    Patent number: 8227247
    Abstract: A method of differentiating embryonic stem cells into oligodendroglial precursor cells and oligodendroglial cells by culturing a population of cells comprising a majority of cells that are characterized by a neural tube-like rosette morphology and are Pax6+/Sox1+ into a population of cells that are PDGFR?+.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Su-Chun Zhang, Baoyang Hu, Zhong-Wei Du
  • Naturally processed measles virus peptides from class II HLA molecules
    Patent number: 8221762
    Abstract: A preparation of peptides eluted from class II HLA molecules is disclosed. Methods of decreasing measles infections comprising inoculating human patients with a vaccine comprising one or more of the peptides and methods of diagnosing measles infections or immunity comprising analyzing human patients for the presence of one or more of the peptides or antibodies to the peptide(s) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Gregory A. Poland, Inna G. Ovsyannikova, David C. Muddiman, Kenneth L. Johnson
  • Suction retraction instrument for surgery
    Patent number: 8221316
    Abstract: A combination suction retraction instrument for surgery is disclosed. The suction retraction instrument includes a retractor including a body, a suction nozzle secured to a distal end of the body, and means for retaining a suction tube adjacent the retractor. The suction tube is connected to a vacuum source for removing fluids and debris from a surgical site. The means for retaining the suction tube is secured to the body. The means for retaining the suction tube is structured to allow the suction tube to slide within the means for retaining the suction tube upon manual pulling of the suction tube by a surgeon. A proximal end of the suction nozzle is dimensioned to engage a distal end of the suction tube in a sealing relationship thereby providing a suction flow path from an opening of the suction nozzle into the suction tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Inventor: Michael D. DeGould
  • Lockout device
    Patent number: D663604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Rohde, Katherine T. Milbeck, Thomas J. Edwards
  • Lockout device
    Patent number: D663605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Rohde, Brent A. Bandholz, Richard L. Carriere, Thaddeus C. Stankowski
  • Pump head
    Patent number: D663802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Actuant Corporation
    Inventors: Jason W. Anderson, Nils G. Johannessen, Kay Lap Gilbert Chan
  • Pipette body
    Patent number: D664263
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gilson SAS
    Inventor: Sanjay Ramsamy