Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
  • Patent number: 8288134
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for growing eukaryotic microorganisms which are capable of producing lipids, in particular lipids containing polyenoic fatty acids. The present invention also provides a process for producing eukaryotic microbial lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Richard B. Bailey, Don DiMasi, John M. Hansen, Peter J. Mirrasoul, Craig M. Ruecker, George T. Veeder, III, Tatsuo Kaneko, William R. Barclay
  • Patent number: 8291364
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automated digital circuit design tool that reduces or eliminates adverse timing constraints due to an inherent clock signal skew, and applications thereof In an embodiment, an automated design tool according to the invention generates a clocking system that includes a clock signal generator, control logic, enable logic, and at least one clock gater. The clock signal generator generates a clock signal that is distributed to various logic blocks of the digital circuit using a buffered clock tree. The enable logic receives input values from the control logic and provides a control signal to the clock gater. When enabled, the clock gater allows a clock signal to pass through to multiple registers. An early clock signal is provided to register(s) in the control logic, which allows for an increased clock frequency while still meeting timing constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: MIPS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Avishek Panigrahi, Soumya Banerjee, Thomas Stephen Chanak, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8288109
    Abstract: The present invention provides a structural characterization platform that can be used to assess the stability of a polyclonal cell line during production, as well as batch-to-batch consistency of the final polyclonal products. The structural characterization platform is based on genetic analyses as well as protein characterization techniques that alone or in combination provide the necessary information to characterize the polyclonal cell line and final products. The collection of different homologous proteins to be analyzed with the platform techniques if for example a recombinant polyclonal antibody or a mixture of monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Symphogen A/S
    Inventors: Lone Kjaer Rasmussen, Torben Frandsen, Soren Kofoed Rasmussen, Peter Sejer Andersen
  • Patent number: 8288135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for growing the microflora Thraustochytrium, Schizochytrium, and mixtures thereof, which includes the growing of the microflora in fermentation medium containing non-chloride containing sodium salts, in particular sodium sulfate. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the process produces microflora having a cell aggregate size useful for the production of food products for use in aquaculture. Further disclosed is a food product which includes Thraustochytrium, Schizochytrium, and mixtures thereof, and a component selected from flaxseed, rapeseed, soybean and avocado meal. Such a food product includes a balance of long chain and short chain omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventor: William R. Barclay
  • Patent number: 8288356
    Abstract: The present invention relates to very short heavily modified oligonucleotides which target and inhibit microRNAs in vivo, and their use in medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Susanna Obad, Sakari Kauppinen, Joacim Elmen, Morten Lindow, Markus Heidenblad
  • Patent number: 8290450
    Abstract: Methods and systems for calibrating a transmitter with I/Q imbalance and local oscillator feed-through include generating a test tone, frequency up-converting the test tone, monitoring one or more features of the up-converted test tone, and adjusting one or more features of the transmitter in response to the monitoring. The monitoring optionally includes monitoring a beating of the envelope of the up-converted test tone. In an embodiment, a first harmonic of the up-converted test tone is monitored for local oscillator feed-through (LOFT). Alternatively, baseband data inputs to the transmitter are disabled, and LOFT is measured by measuring power at the transmitter output. A second harmonic of the up-converted test tone is monitored for gain and phase imbalances. The adjusting optionally includes adjusting a gain imbalance, adjusting a phase imbalance, and/or adjusting a DC offset. The adjusting optionally includes an iterative refinement process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Joachim Hammerschmidt, Rajendra Moorti
  • Patent number: 8290933
    Abstract: A method and system for accurately estimating a result size of a Group-By operation in a relational database. The estimate utilizes the probability of union of the columns involved in the operation, as well as the relative cardinality of each column with respect to the other columns in the operation. In addition, the estimate incorporates the use of table filters when indicated such that table filters are applied prior to determining the size of the tables in the operation, as well as including equivalent columns into the list of columns that are a part of the Group-By operation. Accordingly, the estimate of the result size of the operation includes influencing factors that provide an accurate estimation of system memory requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Bingjie Miao, Srinivasan R. Mottupalli
  • Patent number: 8290268
    Abstract: Methods and systems for segmenting printed media pages into individual articles quickly and efficiently. A printed media based image that may include a variety of columns, headlines, images, and text is input into the system which comprises a block segmenter and a article segmenter system. The block segmenter identifies and produces blocks of textual content from a printed media image while the article segmenter system determines which blocks of textual content belong to one or more articles in the printed media image based on a classifier algorithm. A method for segmenting printed media pages into individual articles is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Jain, Vivek Sahasranaman, Shobhit Saxena, Krishnendu Chaudhury
  • Patent number: 8290027
    Abstract: Typical transceivers have multiple near-end and multiple far-end crosstalk cancellation filters. Crosstalk cancellation is one of the largest contributors to power dissipation in the DSP portion of high speed Ethernet transceivers. By detecting the cable type, a transceiver could automatically turn off its crosstalk cancellation filters when driving shielded twisted pair (STP) cables and substantially reduce the overall power dissipation in this configuration. Adaptive digital crosstalk cancellers automatically adjust the coefficients of a digital filter to match the coupling function between two channels. The impulse response of an optimal crosstalk cancellation filter can be used to determine a metric indicating the amount of coupling between the two channels. STP cables will have a much lower amount of coupling between wire-pairs than unshielded twisted pair cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Powell
  • Patent number: 8288133
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for growing eukaryotic microorganisms which are capable of producing lipids, in particular lipids containing polyenoic fatty acids. The present invention also provides a process for producing eukaryotic microbial lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Richard B. Bailey, Don DiMasi, John M. Hansen, Peter J. Mirrasoul, Craig M. Ruecker, George T. Veeder, III, Tatsuo Kaneko, William R. Barclay
  • Patent number: 8290508
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of estimating a location of a subscriber are disclosed. One method includes receiving a request for the location of the subscriber. The subscriber's serving base station, and a plurality of neighboring base stations sensed by the subscriber, are identified. The subscriber obtains a time delay from the serving base. The subscriber estimates a distance between the subscriber and the serving base station. The subscriber receives frames and estimates a delta time for each of the selected neighboring base stations for the subscriber to synchronize to each of the selected neighboring base stations. The subscriber estimates distances between the subscriber and each of the selected neighboring base. The subscriber location is estimated by trilateration of the distance between the subscriber and the serving base station, and the distances between the subscriber and each of the selected neighboring base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Kameswara Medapalli, Robert G. Lorenz, Bertrand Hochwald, Arogyaswami Paulraj
  • Patent number: 8289499
    Abstract: Spectral purity of a radiation beam of a first wavelength may be improved by providing an optical element that includes a structure having at least first layer including a first material, which structure is configured to be substantially reflective for a radiation of the first wavelength and substantially transparent or absorptive for a radiation of a second wavelength, a second layer including a second material, the second layer being configured to be substantially reflective, absorptive or scattering for the radiation of the second wavelength, and vacuum between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the first layer is located upstream in the optical path of incoming radiation with respect to the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Wouter Anthon Soer, Maarten Marinus Johannes Wilhelmus Van Herpen
  • Patent number: 8291078
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-process browser architecture are described herein. In an embodiment, a system for providing multi-process browser architecture includes at least one rendering process for each browser instance that renders a content area; and at least one browser process that communicates with one or a plurality of rendering engine processes. In another embodiment, a method for providing a multi-process browser architecture includes instantiating a unique rendering process for each content area instance and instantiating a unique browser process. In this way browsers may avoid the effects of faulty processes affecting other browser processes. This may improve user efficiency while enhancing user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darin Fisher, Brett Wilson, Ben Goodger, Arnaud Weber
  • Patent number: 8288365
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted phenazopyridines represented by Formula I. The present invention also relates to the discovery that compounds of Formula I have increased bioavailability as compared to unconjugated phenazopyridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney Hecht, Nour Eddine Fahmi, Samir D. Roy, George Bonneville
  • Patent number: D669035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: D-Line (Europe) Limited
    Inventor: Paul Ruddick
  • Patent number: D669069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer
  • Patent number: D669091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill
  • Patent number: D669254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Reebok International Limited
    Inventors: Ricardo Vestuti, Brian Christensen
  • Patent number: D669423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D669468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer