Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens
  • Sleep aid system and method
    Patent number: 8213670
    Abstract: A sleep aid system, including a band adapted for surrounding a person's head, the band including an inside fabric layer and an outside fabric layer, two speakers between the fabric layers, the speakers positioned substantially opposite to one another, and an audio input for receiving audio from an audio player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: AcousticSheep, LLC
    Inventor: Wei-Shin Lai
  • Voting device including dynamic keypad and gesture voting
    Patent number: 8210431
    Abstract: A voting device and system for voting is described having a touch sensitive membrane input surface including at least one of an arc input and a slider input, at least one sensor for detecting movement and orientation of the voting device, and at least one transmitter. The voting device receives a voting response inputted by a user from at least one of the arc input, the slider input and the sensor, and then sends the user inputted response upon at least one of a pressure and a release of pressure on the touch sensitive membrane input surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Albert Hall Meetings, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Earl
  • Outside Opanka shoe construction
    Patent number: 8209884
    Abstract: A shoe construction and a method for making a shoe wherein an outsole is provided with a raised lip extending around a periphery of the outsole, and an upper is secured to the outsole by a stitch along the lip such that an inside surface of the upper is facing the outside surface of the lip. The shoe construction further includes an inner sole and a vamp lining secured together by a stitch and placed on the inside surface of the upper such as to protect a wearer's foot from the stitch securing the outsole with the upper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventor: Thomas E. McClaskie
  • System and method for ultrasonic assisted EDM machining
    Patent number: 8212171
    Abstract: A system for ultrasonic assisted electrical discharge machining of a component part having a longitudinal axis, a half wavelength resonant frequency along the longitudinal axis and an attachment portion, is provided. The system includes an ultrasonic horn having a longitudinal axis, a half wavelength resonant frequency along the longitudinal axis and an attachment portion. The half wavelength resonant frequency of the ultrasonic horn is the same as the half wavelength resonant frequency of the component part. Additionally, one of the attachment portion of the component part and the attachment portion of the ultrasonic horn is a male part and the other one of the attachment portion of the component part and the attachment portion of the ultrasonic horn is a female part sized and shaped to mate and engage one another when the component part and the ultrasonic horn are at generally the same temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sonics & Materials Inc.
    Inventor: Robert S. Soloff
  • Link assembly with defined boundaries for a snake like robot arm
    Patent number: 8205522
    Abstract: In a “tip following” robotic arm, the apertures through which control cables pass are arranged to ensure that the cables are maintained in contact with at least a part of the aperture, leading to a more stable and controllable arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
    Inventors: Robert Oliver Buckingham, Andrew Crispin Graham
  • Closure device and method for operating the closure device
    Patent number: 8205513
    Abstract: A closure device including a fill chamber housing, which forms an edge for a hollow cross-section of a fill chamber, and at least one shut-off valve having a through-passage, the valve being displaceable between an open position and a closed position by a guide gap transversely to a filler chamber longitudinal direction. In the open position, the shut-off valve with the through-passage thereof forms a passage of a fill chamber cross-section, and in the closed position the shut-off valve closes the fill chamber cross-section. A cleaning chamber is formed, the chamber height of which is greater than the gap height of the guide gap, and the position of the chamber is associated with the shut-off valve such that the edge of the through-passage is located in the cleaning chamber in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventor: Manfred Pottmann
  • Apparatus and method for provisioning wireless data communication devices
    Patent number: 8209428
    Abstract: A system for provisioning wireless data communication devices for a plurality of users is provided in which the system includes a configuration server having an authorization program and a configuration program, and a database. The configuration server is connectable to a network for providing a network portal for the plurality of users to 10 allow each of them to have a wireless data communication device provisioned. The authorization program validates which one of a plurality of wireless host servers a user is authorized to use. The configuration program is configured to provision the wireless data communication device to communicate with the one of a plurality of wireless host servers to obtain email from one of a plurality of messaging servers. The database is in communication with the configuration server for storing configurations for each of the wireless host servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Tangoe, Inc.
    Inventor: Erwin Crampton
  • Apparatus and method for simulating arterial blood flow under various pressure conditions
    Patent number: 8206303
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for simulating human ophthalmic artery for testing of ultrasound devices is disclosed, whereby two chambers are provided and are capable of being independently pressurized, one representing the intra-cranial space and the other representing extra-cranial space, and whereby a tube running through both chambers is provided, simulating the course of the ophthalmic artery and capable of being pressurized to stimulate arterial pressure. The apparatus is operated by pressuring both chambers, and pumping a blood-imitating fluid through the vessel in a pulsatile manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: UAB Vittamed
    Inventors: Arminas Ragauskas, Gediminas Daubaris, Rolandas Zakelis, Eugene A. Saxon, Arne H. Voie, Mailee Hess, Marc McDaniel, Timothy Myers
  • Arrangement for exchanging power
    Patent number: 8207712
    Abstract: An arrangement for exchanging power with a three-phase electric power network includes a Voltage Source Converter having three phase legs with each a series connection of switching cells. The three phase legs are interconnected in a neutral point by forming a wye-connection. The arrangement also includes a device connected to the neutral point of the converter and configured to provide a current path for a zero-sequence current. A control unit is configured to calculate a value for amplitude and phase position for a zero-sequence current for which, when added to said three phase legs upon generation of a negative-sequence current, the resulting energy stored in energy storing capacitors in each phase leg will be constant and to control semiconductor devices of said switching cells to add such a zero-sequence current to the currents of each phase leg of the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Hasler
  • Brake monitoring system
    Patent number: 8204668
    Abstract: An air brake monitoring system for monitoring a pressure of the system and providing various alarms and/or warnings to a user. The air brake monitoring system configurable to function with the existing wiring of the vehicle and including an air brake monitoring device to be positioned in the vicinity of a brake valve. The air brake monitoring system is further provided to monitor the electrical stoplight power transmitted to the ABS brakes as well as the vehicle static/dynamic condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Haldex Brake Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Greene, David G. Engelbert, Jerry J. Donovan, Thomas D. Mullikin
  • Grill brush
    Patent number: 8202016
    Abstract: A grill brush having a brush handle with a handle end and a brush end, the brush head having a fluid reservoir, a brush handle conduit and a valve located therein; a reservoir cap removeably attached to the handle end of the brush handle; the valve being in fluid communication with the reservoir; the brush handle conduit being in fluid communication with the valve; a brush head; a bristle holding member; a brush bristle surface located on the bristle holding member; a brush head conduit located in the brush head, and in fluid communication with the brush handle conduit; a plurality of groups of bristles emanating from the brush bristle surface; a plurality of orifices located on the brush bristle surface, and in communication with the brush head conduit; and a scraper is provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Wales
  • Wafer through silicon via forming method and equipment therefor
    Patent number: 8202744
    Abstract: Provided are a wafer through silicon via (TSV) forming method and equipment therefor. The wafer TSV forming method includes the operations of arranging a wafer having a front surface having a circuit area patterned thereon; recognizing locations of bond pads in the circuit area of the front surface of the wafer by using an image recognition camera, and converting the recognition of the locations into bond pad location information with respect to a back surface of the wafer; flipping the wafer; forming etching holes with middle depth in the back surface of the wafer by using a laser in a manner to match the locations of the bond pads by using the bond pad location information from the image recognition camera; and performing a plasma isotropic etching on the back surface having formed therein the etching holes with middle depth, thereby forming TSVs penetrating the bond pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: STS Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hwan Chun, Gyu Han Kim
  • Chiral stationary phases for chromatography based on aromatic allyl amines
    Patent number: 8202417
    Abstract: New chiral stationary phases (CSPs) based on chiral selectors covalently bound on a solid support were prepared. Chiral selectors were obtained from enantiomerically pure aromatic amines and 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid and then linked to the support surface through the allylic double bond. Such obtained materials allow enantioseparation of racemates or enantiomerically enriched compounds. These chiral stationary phases can be used as fillings in chromatographic columns for enantiomer separation of naproxen type drugs and other similar non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) by means of high performance liquid chromatography on both the analytical and preparative scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Rudjer Boskovic Institute
    Inventors: Vladimir Vinkovic, Darko Kontrec, Goran Landek
  • Sphere-producing/comminution machine
    Patent number: 8201762
    Abstract: A machine for noduling of metal scrap that can upon conversion be used for comminuting such scrap. Frequently machines for comminuting are constructed by a bipartite frame solely for cleaning purpose. One part is solidly fixed to a foundation while the other one is fixed to the first one by hinges and a locking device, so that it can be turned away from the first part of the frame. To further develop such machines that an exchange of worn components is possible and that simply by conversion and by saving of time, one sort of usage can easily be transferred to another one, the complete rotor-block is mounted together with its bearings on a swivelling arm that can be turned away from the frame of the machine in order to enable free access to the interior of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Alexander Koslow
  • Testing linearity of methods of chemical analysis with various statistical tests
    Patent number: 8200449
    Abstract: A method for testing the linearity or non-linearity of an actual analyte concentration and a test result, where the actual concentration of the analyte and a test result are determined so that a computation based upon an algorithm may be performed, which allows computation of various variables so that regression may be performed and the linear significance may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Howard L. Mark
  • Video imaging system with a camera control unit
    Patent number: 8199188
    Abstract: A video imaging system that allows a user to save select image data to a detachable storage device, the image data presented on a display for the user, where the user is provided with various control interfaces for saving and appending information to the saved image data. The detachable storage device also including user settings data that is used to adjust the settings of the camera control unit according to the user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc R. Amling, Daniel Lietz, Marios Kyperountas
  • Handle
    Patent number: D661799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Regis Besse, Yann Thouement
  • Target device
    Patent number: D662204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Francesco Franceschi, Michael Sauer, Martin Oberlaender, Bodo Kreidler, Juergen Bogenschuetz
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D662294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventor: Thomas E. McClaskie
  • Hand tool for installing pipe and hose clamps
    Patent number: D662384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: SMCP ApS
    Inventors: Tom Ossian Jonsson, Brian Rise Hamann Jensen