Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeau
  • Football
    Patent number: 6306054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ball, in particular a football and a new method of producing a ball with a verre églomiséprint. The ball according to the invention has, in its outer skin (11), a syntactic material (50) which consists of a matrix material (52) into which essentially dimensionally stable, elastic blow-moulded parts (54) are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: adidas International B.V.
    Inventor: Otto Dobrounig
  • Language translation using a constrained grammar in the form of structured sentences formed according to pre-defined grammar templates
    Patent number: 6301554
    Abstract: Natural-language sentences are represented in accordance with a con-strained grammar and vocabulary structured to permit direct substitution of linguistic units in one language for corresponding linguistic units in another language. The vocabulary may be represented in a series of physically or logically distinct databases, each containing entries representing a form class as defined in the grammar. Translation involves direct lookup between the entries of a reference sentence and the corresponding entries in one or more target languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: WordStream, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel T. Christy