Patents Represented by Attorney Thorpe North & Western

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  • Infant crawler
    Patent number: 8038158
    Abstract: An infant crawler includes a cover which can take many shapes, such as an animal shape or vehicle shape, secured to a wheeled crawler frame. The crawler frame can be moved around by an infant positioned in the crawler frame and the cover at least partially covers the infant positioned in the frame. The cover can include various pieces secured to various parts of the frame or can be or include a single piece removably secured to the frame. The crawler frame can be collapsible for easy transport and storage and can have a body supporting surface adjustable in height above the floor so can be adjusted for the particular user and for a particular user as the user grows to support the user at a proper height above the floor for the desired crawling action. In addition, the crawler frame can be length adjustable for adjustment as the user grows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Inventor: Cynthia M. White
  • Folding mesh chair with nesting hoops
    Patent number: 8038221
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides. The hoop includes inner and outer plastic mating hoops with the mesh extending over an outer perimeter of the inner hoop and into an interface between the inner and outer hoops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • High rate, high diversity transmission on multiple transmit antennas
    Patent number: 8040968
    Abstract: High data rate, high diversity transmission is provided in a dual transmit antenna system over multiple sample times through the use of coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sumeet Sandhu
  • Bathtub cushion with elastomeric gel and method of using same
    Patent number: 8037555
    Abstract: A bathtub cushion has a mat sized and shaped to fit on a bottom of a bathtub. A cushion is coupled to and constrained by the mat. The cushion further comprises a plurality of separate and distinct cushions. The mat circumscribes the plurality of separate and distinct cushions. At least one attachment device is coupled to the mat to retain the mat on the bottom of the bathtub. The mat and the cushion include at least one aperture extending therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Inventor: Doug Fowkes
  • System for manufacture and delivery of an emulsion explosive
    Patent number: 8038812
    Abstract: A method for manufacture and delivery of an emulsion explosive having a discontinuous oxidizer solution phase, a continuous fuel phase, and an emulsifier, the method comprising: (a) providing an emulsion manufacturing system; (b) conveying an oxidizer solution phase to the emulsion manufacturing system at a pre-determined pressure; (c) conveying a fuel phase to the emulsion manufacturing system at a pre-determined pressure; (d) forming an emulsion from the oxidizer solution and the fuel phases using only a portion of the pre-determined pressures so as to provide a usable residual pressure after the formation of the emulsion; and (e) utilizing the residual pressure to non-mechanically deliver the emulsion to a pre-determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Dyno Nobel, Inc.
    Inventors: John B Halander, Casey L. Nelson, Clark D. Bonner
  • Massage and resistance training method
    Patent number: 8038587
    Abstract: A resistance training and massage method simultaneously provides resistance training and massage. A vibrating strap is formed into a loop to extend around a body portion of a user. The strap is displaceable as the user exerts a pulling force on the strap. A motor is coupled to the strap and displaceable along with the strap as the user exerts a pulling force on the strap. The motor imparts vibration to the strap. Resistance means is coupled to the motor for elastically resisting displacement of the motor and the strap, and providing a resistance force to the pulling force exerted by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Walter Heck
  • Pneumatic tire
    Patent number: 8037910
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided including a multiplicity of land portions 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E formed by main grooves 2 extending linearly in the tire width direction partitioning the tread surface 1, and having a designated mounting direction on a vehicle. Among the multiplicity of land portions 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E, lug grooves are not provided in a ground contact region R of the land portions 3A and 3E positioned on both shoulder sides. Lug grooves 4 inclining in the tire circumferential direction that have terminating parts in the land portions and opening to the main groove 2 on the vehicle inner side are formed at specified intervals in the tire circumferential direction in the land portions 3B and 3D inwardly adjacent to the land portions on both shoulder sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Watanabe
  • Comfortable mesh folding chair
    Patent number: 8033612
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth, Spencer Posey
  • Mesh folding chair
    Patent number: 8033598
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Obesity gene and use thereof
    Patent number: 8034564
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of human genetics. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods and materials used to isolate and detect a human obesity and diabetes predisposing gene, specifically the TBC1D1 gene, some mutant alleles of which cause susceptibility to obesity and/or diabetes. More specifically, the invention relates to germline mutations in the TBC1D1 gene and their use in the diagnosis of predisposition to obesity and diabetes. Finally, the invention relates to the screening of the TBC1D1 gene for mutations/alterations, which are useful for diagnosing the predisposition to obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Donna M. Shattuck, Steven Stone, Deanna L. Russell, Victor Abkevich, Steven Hunt
  • Wearable instrument supporting means
    Patent number: 8035019
    Abstract: A wearable instrument supporting means comprising: an instrument mountable support (10) having a surface (11); and a wearable support (1) having at least one region (4) that has a non-slip relationship with said surface (11) of the instrument mountable support (10); and wherein said at least one region (4) is positioned to contactably align with the surface (11) of the instrument mountable support (10) when the instrument (15) is in normal use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: John J. P. Cadd
  • Method and apparatus for concurrent WiMAX and GSM operation
    Patent number: 8036670
    Abstract: Concurrent WIMAX and GSM operation is facilitated in a user device by coordinating for WiMAX absence periods during WiMAX frames that may conflict with corresponding GSM frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Giora Rayzman, Miri Ratner
  • Prosthetic foot with two leaf-springs joined at heel and toe
    Patent number: 8034121
    Abstract: A prosthetic foot includes a pair of elongated forefoot leaf springs with proximal ends coupled to an attachment member and extending in an arc to distal ends with the forefoot leaf springs being oriented with one over another. The pair of forefoot leaf springs has different lengths and is coupled to one another at the proximal and distal ends defining an open, uninterrupted gap between the forefoot leaf springs. A pair of hinge connections can be disposed each at a different one of the proximal and distal ends of the pair of elongated forefoot leaf springs. The pair of forefoot leaf springs together has a non-linear force deflection under loading during gait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Freedom Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Roland J. Christensen
  • Removal of contaminants from by-product acids
    Patent number: 8029763
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a method for removing colloidal titanium dioxide and titanium oxychloride from by-product hydrochloric acid. The method includes adding phosphate ion source and quaternary amine to the by-product acid to cause the titanium dioxide and the titanium oxychloride to form a precipitate. The precipitate can then be separated from the acid, thus producing a decontaminated hydrochloric acid product with reduced levels of titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Haydock Consulting Services, LC
    Inventor: Frederick Haydock
  • Seismic location and communication system
    Patent number: 8031555
    Abstract: A method and system for determining the location of miners trapped in an underground mine that includes recording a reference seismic signature for each of a plurality of underground base stations in the mine in advance of an emergency. The reference seismic signatures are created by generating first a seismic signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio at each base station, monitoring the signal with a permanent array of surface seismic sensors, and recording each unique signature on a central computer. In the event of an emergency, trapped miners can generate a second seismic signal at any of the underground base stations which can be easily identified with the central computer by using the pre-recorded reference seismic signature to overcome a weak signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventor: Gerard Schuster
  • Beamforming by antenna puncturing
    Patent number: 8031805
    Abstract: Beamforming is provided for a wireless MIMO device by using antenna puncturing to reduce the number of transmit antennas that are used to transmit data for certain subcarriers. In a conventional approach, if N spatial streams are being used to provide spatial multiplexing, then N transmit antennas would be used to transmit for each subcarrier. In at least one embodiment of the invention, enhancements in channel capacity are achieved by using less than N transmit antennas for one or more subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Ilan Sutskover
  • Folding and stacking mesh chair system
    Patent number: 8029059
    Abstract: A folding and stacking chair system includes a plurality of folding and stacking chairs having an unfolded seating position in which the chairs are configured for sitting upon, and a folded and stacked position in which the chairs are folded and stacked together. Each chair has a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides each with a backrest support, a front leg and a rear leg. The seat and the backrest each have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held between the backrest supports of the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Electrical microfilament to circuit interface
    Patent number: 8026447
    Abstract: Devices and methods for electrical interconnection for microelectronic circuits are disclosed. One method of electrical interconnection includes forming a bundle of microfilaments, wherein at least two of the microfilaments include electrically conductive portions extending along their lengths. The method can also include bonding the microfilaments to corresponding bond pads of a microelectronic circuit substrate to form electrical connections between the electrically conductive portions and the corresponding bond pads. A microelectronic circuit can include a bundle of microfilaments bonded to corresponding bond pads to make electrical connection between corresponding bonds pads and electrically-conductive portions of the microfilaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Raytheon Sarcos, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen C. Jacobsen, David P. Marceau, Shayne M. Zurn, David T. Markus
  • Beverage bottle
    Patent number: D646177
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Plastiformance, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph H. Jeffs
  • Visual signature reducer
    Patent number: D646345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: OS Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Oliver