Patents Represented by Attorney T
  • Patent number: 8142467
    Abstract: A tamponade trocar includes an elongate balloon having a closed distal end and is adapted to expand from a small diameter to a large diameter. A cannula is positioned at a proximal portion within the balloon lumen. A rigid stylet is removably positioned within the balloon and cannula lumens. A distal end of the stylet supported balloon is inserted into a perforation in a body wall and advanced into a body cavity while the balloon is unexpanded. The balloon is expanded and the cannula is advanced to a distal portion of the balloon lumen and across the body wall. At this stage, the perforation is dilated and in compressive tamponade. The proximal portion of the balloon may be removed and a seal housing may be coupled to the proximal end of the cannula. The distal end of the balloon may be punctured and opened, making the trocar ready for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Charles C. Hart, John R. Brustad
  • Patent number: 8144531
    Abstract: A latency control circuit includes a path calculator configured to calculate a delay value of a path that an input signal is to go through inside a chip and output the delay value as path information, a delay value calculator configured to output delay information representing a delay value for delaying the input signal based on a latency value of the input signal and the path information, and a delayer configured to delay the input signal by a delay corresponding to the delay information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Rang Choi, Yong-Ju Kim, Sung-Woo Han, Hee-Woong Song, Ic-Su Oh, Hyung-Soo Kim, Tae-Jin Hwang, Ji-Wang Lee, Jae-Min Jang, Chang-Kun Park
  • Patent number: 8144825
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting a clock period within an integrated circuit can include determining configuration information for the integrated circuit (1430, 1435, 1445) and determining at least one measure of directional shift for an edge of a pulse of a reference clock signal of the integrated circuit with reference to at least one other clock signal of the integrated circuit (1440, 1450, 1460). The measure of directional shift for the edge of the pulse of the reference clock signal can be output (1475).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony T. Duong
  • Patent number: 8143937
    Abstract: An internal negative voltage generation device includes a first internal negative voltage generation block configured to generate a first internal negative voltage which is lower than a ground voltage; a second internal negative voltage generation block configured to generate a second internal negative voltage according to the first internal negative voltage, the second internal negative voltage being higher than the first internal negative voltage and lower than the ground voltage; and an initial driving block configured to additionally drive a second internal negative voltage terminal to the first internal negative voltage during an initial set time interval of an active operation time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Chang-Ho Do
  • Patent number: 8143987
    Abstract: The dual inductor structure can include a first inductor including a first plurality of coils. Each coil of the first plurality of coils can be disposed within a different one of a plurality of conductive layers. The coils of the first plurality of coils can be vertically stacked and concentric to a vertical axis. The dual inductor structure further can include a second inductor including a second plurality of coils. Each of the second plurality of coils can be disposed within a different one of the plurality of conductive layers. The coils of the second plurality of coils can be vertically stacked and concentric to the vertical axis. Within each conductive layer, a coil of the second plurality of coils can be disposed within an inner perimeter of a coil of the first plurality of coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Vassili Kireev
  • Patent number: 8144542
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a clock input unit configured to receive a system clock and a data clock, a data clock phase regulation unit configured to regulate a frequency of the data clock, and delay the data clock by a delay varied in accordance with a training information signal, and a clock phase comparison unit configured to compare a phase of an output clock of the data clock phase regulation unit with a phase of the system clock, and generate the training information signal according to a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Kwang-Jin Na
  • Patent number: 8142542
    Abstract: Offgas containing carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide that is produced in the reduction of ores and other metal oxides in a reactor is treated to reduce its carbon dioxide content and is then contacted with metal oxide to reduce the oxidation state of the metal and oxidize carbon monoxide therein to carbon dioxide, following which the reduced metal is oxidized with steam to produce hydrogen that can be fed to the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Francis Drnevich, Joseph Michael Schwartz, Minish Mahendra Shah, Dante Patrick Bonaquist
  • Patent number: 8143209
    Abstract: Laundry detergent and cleaning compositions comprising amphiphilic graft polymers based on water-soluble polyalkylene oxides (A) as a graft base and side chains formed by polymerization of a vinyl ester component (B), said polymers having an average of ?1 graft site per 50 alkylene oxide units and mean molar masses Mw of from 3000 to 100,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dieter Boeckh, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Asimina Kavarnou-Seiler, Gerd Konrad, Birgit Reinhard, Arturo Luis Casado-Dominguuez, Frank Hulskotter, James Lee Danziger
  • Patent number: 8145908
    Abstract: A method and mechanism for protecting a website against defacement are provided. A content owner may associate content with a digital signature. The digital signature allows a recipient of the content to verify that the content originated from the content owner, and that the content has not been defaced. The digital signature may be comprised within the content, or stored external to the content, e.g., in a repository accessible to a Web cache server serving the content. To construct the digital signature, initially, the content owner creates a content validity value for a portion of content, the content validity value is encrypted to create the digital signature. The Web cache server may use the digital signature to determine whether the content has been defaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zaide “Edward” Liu, Maurice Johnny Cinquini
  • Patent number: 8143208
    Abstract: Process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters. More specifically, a process of making alkyl-capped alkoxylated esters that are comprised substantially of triethylene alkoxy ester and substantially free from ethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester and diethylene glycol monoalkoxy monoester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lon Montgomery Gray, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Christopher James Binski
  • Patent number: 8145765
    Abstract: A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is selected for hosting the program. The system monitors the status and performance of each distributed computing server. The system provisions additional servers when traffic levels exceed a predetermined level for a customer's application program and, as traffic demand decreases to a predetermined level, servers can be un-provisioned and returned back to a server pool for later provisioning. The system tries to fill up one server at a time with customer application programs before dispatching new requests to another server. The customer is charged a fee based on the usage of the distributed computing servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Richard David Day, Vikas Garg, Zaide Liu
  • Patent number: 8142316
    Abstract: A belt has a compression section, a tension section, and a load carrying section disposed between the compression section and the tension section. The belt has an elastomeric/thermoplastic material, the elastomeric/thermoplastic material has 50 to 90 parts per hundred of an elastomer and 10 to 50 parts per hundred thermoplastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Veyance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Dean Goettsch, Jeffrey Dwight Lofgren
  • Patent number: 8143925
    Abstract: A delay locked loop includes a replica delay oscillator unit, a division unit, a pulse generation unit, a code value output unit, and a delay line. The replica delay oscillator unit generates a replica oscillation signal having a period corresponding to a replica delay. The division unit receives the replica oscillation signal and a clock signal and divides the replica oscillation signal and the clock signal at a first or second ratio in response to a delay locking detection signal. The pulse generation unit generates a delay pulse having a pulse width corresponding to a delay amount for causing a delay locking. The code value output unit adjusts a code value corresponding to the pulse width of the delay pulse in response to the delay locking detection signal. The delay line delays the clock signal in response to the code value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Seung-Joon Ahn, Jong-Chern Lee
  • Patent number: 8144521
    Abstract: A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device comprising cell strings each comprising memory cells coupled in series between a drain select transistor and a source select transistor, including precharging a sense node to thereby precharge a bit line coupled to the cell string for a program or data read operation; and simultaneously resetting a cell channel in a state in which the drain select transistor is turned off, the source select transistor is turned on, and the memory cells are turned on by applying a first voltage to a number of word lines coupled to the memory cells during a first time period, wherein the first time period is less than a bit line precharge time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Young Soo Park
  • Patent number: 8146041
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of implementing a circuit design within a programmable logic device can include selecting at least one circuit element of the circuit design. The selected circuit element can be converted to a latch. A timing analysis can be performed upon the circuit design after conversion of the selected circuit element to a latch. A determination can be made by a computer as to whether the timing of the circuit design improves and the conversion of the selected circuit element to a latch can be accepted when the timing of the circuit design improves. The circuit design can be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Sankaranarayanan Srinivasan, Sridhar Krishnamurthy, Brian D. Philofsky, Kamal Chaudhary, Anirban Rahut
  • Patent number: 8141253
    Abstract: A personal care apparatus includes a handle housing a rechargeable battery and a plurality of operating heads such as a vibrating safety razor head and a hair trimming device exchangeably mountable on the handle for assembling different hand-held appliances for performing respective body treatments. A base is included for storing the components of the apparatus when not in use and forms a battery charging device with a socket into which the handle plugs for recharging the battery. The operating heads include electrical devices, in particular electric motors, powered by the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Terence Gordon Royle
  • Patent number: 8142385
    Abstract: A pyloric valve is provided for inhibiting the flow of chyme through the pyloric region of the gastrointestinal tract. The pyloric valve includes a blocking portion having a disc-shaped inlet and a helical flange. The helical flange may be disposed in a contracted position defining a contracted length and a contracted diameter and an extended position defining an extended length and an extended diameter, wherein the extended length is longer than the contracted length and the extended diameter is smaller than the contracted diameter. The pyloric valve may further include a sleeve that may have a beveled distal end. The pyloric valve may be constructed of silicon. Also provided are methods of inserting and removing the pyloric valve, which each include a step of manipulating the support between its contracted and extended positions. Insertion and removal systems are also provided for use with the pyloric valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: E2 LLC
    Inventors: Buket Grau, David Robert Gale, Sam Anne Musgrave, George McGee Perkins, Mark Jeffrey Edhouse, Marc Graham, Christopher Kadamus
  • Patent number: D656351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Vanessa Christie
  • Patent number: D656400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joseph Bohache, Andrea Subler, Aaron Burghard
  • Patent number: D656406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: PUR Water Purification Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Clancy Gerald Boyer, Frank Delmar Macaulay