Patents Represented by Attorney Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C.

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  • Attachment of absorbable tissue scaffolds to fixation devices
    Patent number: 8187326
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tissue scaffold implant devices useful in the repair and/or regeneration of diseased and/or damaged musculoskeletal tissue and that include a tissue scaffold component fixedly attached to a scaffold fixation component via a polymeric adhesive layer, and to methods of making such tissue scaffold implant devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Hammer, Joseph H. Contiliano, Murty N. Vyakarnam, Kelly R. Brown
  • Fixture to constrain laminate and method of assembly
    Patent number: 8188597
    Abstract: A fixture assembly and method of forming a chip assembly is provided. The fixture assembly includes a first plate having an opening sized to accommodate a chip mounted on a laminate. The fixture assembly further includes a second plate mated to the first plate by at least one mechanical fastening mechanism. The fixture assembly further includes a space defined by facing surfaces of the first plate and the second plate and confined by a raised stepped portion of at least one of the first plate and the second plate. The space is coincident with the opening. The space is sized and shaped such that the laminate is confined within the space and directly abuts the stepped portion and the facing surfaces of the first plate and the second plate to be confined in X, Y and Z directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Lombardi, Donald Merte, Gregg B. Monjeau, David L. Questad, Son K. Tran
  • Vehicle brake apparatus
    Patent number: 8186772
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve unit is configured to regulate the output hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic pressure generating source through electrical control for application to a boosted hydraulic pressure chamber, and a release valve is interposed between the boosted hydraulic pressure chamber and a reservoir which is adapted to the hydraulic pressure in the boosted hydraulic pressure chamber to the reservoir side when the pressure regulating valve unit fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Suzuki, Koji Sakai, Kazuhiro Tagata
  • Hardware device for processing the tasks of an algorithm in parallel
    Patent number: 8190862
    Abstract: A hardware device for processing the tasks of an algorithm of the type having a number of processes the execution of some of which depend on binary decisions has a plurality of task units (10, 12, 14), each of which are associated with a task defined as being either one process or one decision or one process together with a following decision. A task interconnection logic block (16) is connected to each task unit for communicating actions from a source task unit to a destination task unit. Each task unit includes a processor (18) for processing the steps of the associated task when a received action requests such a processing. A status manager (20) handles actions coming from other task units and builds actions to be sent to other task units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Benayoun, Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Patrick Michel, Claude Pin
  • Compact on-chip branchline coupler using slow wave transmission line
    Patent number: 8188808
    Abstract: Branchline coupler structure using slow wave transmission line effect having both large inductance and large capacitance per unit length. The branchline coupler structure includes a plurality of quarter-wavelength transmission lines, at least one of which includes a high impedance arm and a low impedance arm. The high and low impedances are relative to each other. The high impedance arm includes a plurality of narrow cells and having an inductance of nL and a capacitance of C/n, and the low impedance arm includes a plurality of wide cells and having an inductance of L/n and capacitance of nC. The wide and narrow cells are relative to each other, and the wide and narrow cells are adjacent each other to form a signal layer having step discontinuous alternative widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hanyi Ding, Essam Mina, Guoan Wang, Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
  • Structure and layout of a FET prime cell
    Patent number: 8187930
    Abstract: Method of making a semiconductor device that includes forming a source and a drain in a substrate, forming a gate on the substrate between the source and drain, forming a substrate contact in electrical contact with the source, and forming an electrical contact to the source, drain and gate, and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Basanth Jagannathan, John J. Pekarik, Christopher M. Schnabel
  • Immunoassay device with improved sample closure
    Patent number: 8182770
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for sealing a fluid sample collection device, comprising: loading a fluid sample collection device with a fluid sample, said device comprising a housing having at least one substantially planar surface that includes an orifice in fluid communication with an internal fluid sample holding chamber which terminates at an internal capillary stop; and slidably moving a sealing element over at least a portion of said substantially planar surface in a way that displaces any excess fluid sample away from the orifice, seals the fluid sample within said holding chamber, and inhibits the fluid sample from prematurely breaking through the internal capillary stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Point of Care Inc.
    Inventors: Cary James Miller, Andy Maczuszenko
  • System and method to improve chip yield, reliability and performance
    Patent number: 8185859
    Abstract: Improving semiconductor chip yield and reliability by connecting adjacent metal traces that are on a same network with metal shorts. This reduces and/or eliminates the need for redundant vias formerly employed in semiconductor chip design. Additionally, the metal shorts are placed in conformance with one or more pre-determined design rules. Once placed, the metal shorts are checked to ensure that each metal short connects groundrule clean, thereby ensuring the placement is correct-by-construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Henry A. Bonges, III
  • Vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus
    Patent number: 8182049
    Abstract: A controller includes an initial current value calculation unit calculating an initial current value to open a normally open linear solenoid valve when a hydraulic pressure is shifted from a pressure reducing state or a pressure holding state to a pressure increasing state, a valve opening amount increasing unit reducing the energization amount from the initial current value so that a valve opening amount of the normally open linear solenoid valve increases, an offsetting necessity determination unit determining based on a predetermined condition whether or not the energization amount needs to be offset to an increase side when the valve opening amount increasing unit reduces the energization amount, and an energization amount offsetting unit offsetting at least once the energization amount to an increase side only for a predetermined time period when it is determined that such offsetting is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kurosaki, Yoshiyuki Takamatsu, Keiichi Takaku
  • Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) sensor
    Patent number: 8182663
    Abstract: A BUN (blood urea nitrogen) sensor containing immobilized carbonic anhydrase and immobilized urease for the in vitro detection of urea nitrogen in blood and biological samples with improved performance and precision characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Point of Care Inc.
    Inventors: G. Bruce Collier, Eric Brouwer, Anjulia Wong
  • Split-gate DRAM with lateral control-gate MuGFET
    Patent number: 8184472
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure of an array of dynamic random access memory cells. The structure includes: a first fin of a first split-gate fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET) device on a substrate; a second fin of a second split-gate fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET) device on the substrate; and a back-gate associated with the first fin and the second fin. The back-gate influences a threshold voltage of the first fin and a threshold voltage of the second fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak
  • Panel
    Patent number: 8176698
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a panel, in particular floor panel, having a core made of a woodbased material and having a decoration applied to a visible side, the visible side being provided, on at least one side edge (I, II), with a chamfer running at an angle thereto, and the chamfer likewise being provided with a decoration, characterized in that a relief is stamped into the surface of the chamfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Kronotec AG
    Inventor: Matthias Lewark
  • Boiler for combustion of solid fuel
    Patent number: 8176882
    Abstract: A boiler for combustion of solid fuel, especially biomass, a first combustion stage with a primary air supply, an igniter, a fuel supply, a second combustion stage a burn-up and calcination space, a combustion chamber which is upwardly open and with a flue, the burn-up and calcination space being located underneath the combustion site such that fuel can be moved from the combustion site of the first combustion stage into the burn-up and calcination space. The primary air supply is located within the combustion chamber above the combustion site such that air can be blown into the first combustion stage, flue gases which form in the burn-up and calcination space are routed essentially passed the primary air supply means and the combustion site so that the flue gases of the second combustion stage do not adversely affect the combustion of the fuel at the combustion site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: IHT Project GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Boos
  • Aquaponic method and apparatus for use in arid environments
    Patent number: 8176875
    Abstract: An aquaponic method and apparatus used to raise fish in fish rearing tanks is combined with hydroponic channels for growing crops, in which fertilizer nutrients from the aquaculture effluent are utilized as fertilizer. The aquaponic method and apparatus produce a first water circulation system during the day in which water is repeatedly cycled from a sump, bypassing fish rearing tanks, to a clarifier for removing solids, a degasifier for removing volatile compound, then to the hydroponic channels, and then, back from the hydroponic channels to the sump. The aquaponic method and apparatus also produce a second circulation system during the night in which water is repeatedly cycled from the sump to the fish rearing tanks, from the fish rearing tanks to the clarifier, then from the clarifier to the hydroponic channels and then back from the hydroponic channels to the sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
    Inventor: Saad F. Alshammary
  • Method for identifying and implementing flexible logic block logic for easy engineering changes
    Patent number: 8181148
    Abstract: A chip design methodology. The methodology includes identifying engineering changeable logic, and replacing the identified engineering changeable logic with flexible logic blocks (FLB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert D. Herzl, Robert S. Horton, Kenneth A. Lauricella, David W. Milton, Clarence R. Ogilvie, Paul M. Schanely, Nitin Sharma, Tad J. Wilder, Charles B. Winn
  • Overvoltage protection element
    Patent number: 8179652
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection element, with a housing, at least one overvoltage-limiting component in the housing, two connecting elements for electrical connection of the overvoltage protection element to the path to be protected, and an electrically conducting disconnection element in electrically conductive contact with the first connecting element at one end and with a solder connection to the overvoltage-limiting component at another end, the solder connection separating when a temperature threshold of the overvoltage-limiting component is exceeded so that a resulting disconnection point, formed electrically isolates it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Depping, Rainer Durth
  • System and methods for geoboundary based traffic monitoring using quick tear down boundaries
    Patent number: 8180559
    Abstract: A location based service and method configured to provide a mechanism for delivering traffic information to a subscribing user. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure and includes setting up geo-boundaries at one or more predefined intervals. The method further includes receiving a signal from an active mobile device as it passes at least two of the geo-boundaries at the one or more predefined intervals, and determining a traffic incident from the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Jaffe, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Push-type telecommunications accompanied by a telephone call
    Patent number: 8179822
    Abstract: Subject: Since today's conventional Web browsing employs Pull-Type Telecommunications, presently, it is necessary to employ keyboard operation in order to request information. Furthermore, the portability of today's devices is still substandard, and offering information based on another's situation is presently unavailable. Method for Solution: When each telephone caller uses a telephone (including a cellular telephone), the computer connects the public Internet network and the Telecommunications with the exclusive software carried at each device, and the server performs Push-Type Telecommunications on the network, with which any information that is selected and transmitted by one side at any time is displayed or played automatically on the other side's monitor during conversation, the method by which audiovisual information is offered during the course of conversation is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Kunihiro Shiina
  • System and method for dynamically managing blowers and vents
    Patent number: 8180494
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to perform a thermal analysis of a data center and overlay the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis. Additionally, the computer executable code is operable to dynamically control at least one blower and at least one vent in the data center based on the overlaid thermal analysis to direct cool air to a section of the data center in need of cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Vincenzo V. Diluoffo, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Michael D. Kendzierski
  • Panel
    Patent number: D660463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Falquon GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Kalwa