Patents Represented by Law Firm Townsend & Townsend Khourie & Crew
  • Patent number: 5456912
    Abstract: Autoimmune diseases are controlled by the administration of non-methylene interrupted fatty acids of the formula ##STR1## in which R is alkyl or alkenyl. A preferred compound within the scope of this formula is 5,11,14-eicosatrienoic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: J. Bruce German, M. Eric Gershwin, Alvin Berger
  • Patent number: 5455294
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a new, unconventional, mold-binding, water solidified polyurethane cast to be used in orthopedic departments for the correction of deformities, fixation of fractured limbs and joints, and mollification of affected parts, as well as the method of its preparation. The chief constituent, a polyurethane prepolymer, contains a stabilizer that can prolong appreciably the storage period of the cast material, maleic anhydride, and a mixed catalyst for control of hardening time, bis(2-morpholinoethoxy)ethane and anhydrous potassium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignees: Wang Jian Zhang, Li Hai Sheng
    Inventor: Li H. Sheng
  • Patent number: 5455528
    Abstract: A first transistor is connected to a second transistor so that the first and second transistors may be initially biased in a non-conducting state when a first node is at a first voltage potential and a second node is at a second voltage potential. A potential altering circuit selectively alters the voltage potential at the first and second nodes, causes the first and second transistors to be in a conducting state for accelerating a voltage transistion at the first and second nodes toward final values, and maintains the first and second nodes at their final voltage potentials for implementing a desired Boolean function. The biasing circuit is connected to facilitate turning off the first and second transistors when the circuit is being reset for subsequent Boolean evaluations. More specifically, the biasing circuit inhibits current flow through the first and second transistors during a precharge operation to prevent excessive power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Partovi, Donald A. Draper
  • Patent number: 5454779
    Abstract: A method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation employs an applicator device having a body with an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface includes provisions for detachably securing to the patient's chest, such as a vacuum cup or an adhesive layer. For manual resuscitation, the upper surface will include a strap or other means for securing a performer's hand thereto. For automatic applications, a mechanical drive member will be secured to the upper surface. By alternately pressing and lifting on the applicator device, the patient's chest can be compressed and expanded to improve induced ventilation and circulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Keith G. Lurie, Todd J. Cohen
  • Patent number: 5455920
    Abstract: A multiprocessor system includes the first microcomputer (1) having the first memory (4); the second microcomputer (9) having the second memory (12), the dual port third memory (14), and an offset register (22); buses (18-20) for connecting the first and second microcomputers; an address setting unit (21) provided in the second microcomputer for composing an address value supplied by the first microcomputer and a value set in the offset register to feed address data to the third memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kikuo Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 5453696
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an embedded test circuit in an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a plurality of conducting line segments and fuse elements therebetween with each fuse element selectively connectable in series through the crossing line segments and programming circuits between a pair of programming terminals. Each fuse element is also associated with a pair of test lines with each test line connected to one of the line segments having the fuse element between the test lines. Each test line pair is selectively connectable to a pair of test terminals. The resistance of a selected fuse element is measured by selectively passing a current between the first and second programming terminals through the selected fuse element and selectively measuring a voltage drop across the selected fuse element through the pair of test terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Crosspoint Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Becker, Michael G. Ahrens
  • Patent number: 5452866
    Abstract: A transpiration cooling system for avoiding overheating of an airfoil is provided. The airfoil is provided with a plurality of apertures and a source of pressurized fluid for providing a flow of fluid through the apertures to establish an aerodynamic radius. The aerodynamic radius of curvature of leading edge is sufficiently greater than the mechanical radius of curvature of the leading edge that peak heat flux is independent of the mechanical radius of curvature. The mechanical radius of curvature is preferably less than 50% of the aerodynamic radius of curvature during hypersonic operation. Preferably the mechanical radius of curvature is the smallest allowed by the fabrication method (i.e., a knife edge), such as being less than about 0.02 inches, preferably less than about 0.01 inches. The transpiration blowing rate can be adjusted so that the blowing rate and aerodynamic radius of curvature are relatively low except during periods of maximum heat flux, such as the shock-on-lip point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Aerojet General Corporation
    Inventor: Melvin J. Bulman
  • Patent number: 5453382
    Abstract: Solutions of analytes in concentrations too low for certain analytical techniques such as various capillary electrophoresis techniques are concentrated in a solid-phase adsorption medium by a technique which involves a pressure-gradient-driven adsorption of the analyte followed by a desorption of the analyte and its removal using electroosmotic bulk flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Indiana University Foundation
    Inventors: Milos V. Novotny, Takao Tsuda, Helena A. Soini
  • Patent number: 5452747
    Abstract: A device for distributing pressurized water to a plurality of sprinkler lines is provided. The valve and valve control portions are centralized, and thus no electrical connection to remote locations is required. The valve system is modular so as to permit addition or deletion of modules for adding or removing control of sprinkler lines. A stepper motor and cam shaft system permits expenditure of energy only during change-of-state events, so that no electrical energy need be consumed to maintain a watering state. A generator which produces electrical energy from the pressure head of a pressurized water source provides electrical energy for operating a motor and a motor controller, such as a device including a microprocessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Inventor: Heiko De Man
  • Patent number: 5452733
    Abstract: A method for performing coronary artery bypass relies on viewing the cardiac region through a thoracoscope or other viewing scope and endovascularaly partitioning the patient's arterial system at a location within the ascending aorta. The coronary artery bypass procedures are formed under cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegia, where an arterial blood source is created using least invasive surgical techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Stanford Surgical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley D. Sterman, Lawrence C. Siegel, Patricia E. Curtis, John H. Stevens, Timothy R. Machold
  • Patent number: 5453951
    Abstract: A method and a circuit for fast equilibration of complementary data lines in memory circuit following a write cycle. The circuit of the present invention separately controls the on/off timing of pull-up and pull-down transistors coupled to the data lines to obtain faster equilibration. In one embodiment incorporating an equilibration transistor between the data lines, the pull-up transistor coupled to the high data line is momentarily turned off after a write cycle, to allow the voltage on the high data line to drop all the way down to the voltage on the recovering low data line to reduce equilibration delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Townsend and Townsend Khourie and Crew
    Inventor: Robert J. Proebsting
  • Patent number: 5452050
    Abstract: An image printer includes a developing unit for developing an exposed photosensitive material, a plurality of transport members for transporting a photosensitive material to the developing unit through exposing positions provided respectively in a plurality of photosensitive-material transport passages arranged in parallel to each other, and a plurality of projection exposure units for exposing a film image on to the photosensitive material. The projection units are provided respectively for the exposing positions of the transport members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masazumi Ishikawa, Toru Tanibata
  • Patent number: 5450880
    Abstract: In the combination of a carriage for the preparation and storage of fabric to be changed on a loom, a loom for receiving the fabric to be changed, and an insertion vehicle for changing the fabric at the loom, improvements in the method of fabric change as well as the associated carriage and insertion vehicle are set forth. The method allows the carriage for the preparation and storage of fabric to be changed to have the working distance between the warp stop motion and the loom to be adjusted dependent upon shed size, density of fabric and warp material. The carriage for the preparation and storage of fabric includes a warp clamp and adjustment for spacing the warp stop motion with respect to the loom harness and heald frames. The insertion vehicle includes a centering mechanism for placing the loom harness and heald frames to the loom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Sulzer Ruti AG
    Inventor: Emil Briner
  • Patent number: 5452206
    Abstract: Documentation is automatically generated having a specified format for a computer program having a source code consisting of a stream of characters. The ordering of the stream of characters follows a set of syntax rules. The set of syntax rules includes a set of reserved words. The specified format of the documentation and the set of syntax rules define a set of selection rules for selecting a set of selected character strings. The set of selected character strings includes at least one selected reserved word and at least one word affiliated with the selected reserved word. The stream of characters is read and the selected character strings are searched. Each time one of the selected character strings is found, at least one related character string affiliated with the found selected character string is stored in memory. After all the characters in the source code are read, the related character strings are retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Pacific Bell
    Inventors: T. Orlando Turrietta, Bruce W. Hamilton, Peter N. Pesic
  • Patent number: 5451277
    Abstract: Solid energetic compositions are prepared from powdered solid components such as metallic aluminum fuel and liquid oxidizers by forming a coating of polyvinyl alcohol over the powdered solid by precipitation from a solution of polyvinyl acetate, and combining the coated particles with liquid oxidizer which will permeate and swell the particle coating, causing the particles to agglomerate into a solid rubbery mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Aerojet-General Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Katzakian, Charles Grix, George M. Clark
  • Patent number: 5452432
    Abstract: A direct memory access (DMA) controller (4) utilizes a segmented counter (220). A first, byte counter portion (330) of the counter is initialized with a preselected value and decremented for each byte transfer. After the byte portion of the counter reaches the preselected value it decrements a second, block portion (332) of the counter which is initialized based upon the amount of data to be transferred. When both the byte counter and the block counter reach zero the data transfer is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Chips and Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edgar R. Macachor
  • Patent number: 5451207
    Abstract: Catheter-based coronary surgery is performed in a system which includes a combination of bypass of the heart, perfusion of the heart and the use of a therapeutic catheter to loosen plaque deposited in a coronary artery. Bypass is done with a bypass circuit circulating blood from the right atrium through an extracorporeal bypass unit and back through a femoral artery. Perfusion is done by passing a perfusate into the heart for retrograde flow, then drawing the perfusate out of the heart through a catheter which also serves as a guide for the therapeutic catheter. The open distal end of the guide is placed sufficiently close to the functional element at the end of the therapeutic catheter that plaque which has been loosened by the action of the therapeutic catheter is carried into the guide along with the perfusate, and hence out of the patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Paul G. Yock
  • Patent number: 5449461
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new method of pH-zone-refining countercurrent chromatography that can be operated in a manner analogous to displacement chromatography. The method uses a retainer base (acid) in the stationary phase to retain analytes in the column and a displacer acid (base) to elute the analytes in the decreasing (or increasing) order of pK.sub.a and hydrophobicity. The elution produces a train of highly concentrated rectangular solute peaks with minimum overlap. To use pH-zone refining CCC in a displacement mode, the mobile and stationary phases are switched. Thus, the original eluent becomes a retainer to retain analytes in the stationary phase, and the original retainer acid becomes a displacer to displace the analytes from the stationary phase to the mobile phase at the back of the solute bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Yoichiro Ito
  • Patent number: 5449235
    Abstract: A self-aligning rotor-hydrostatic bearing system and method of bearing operation are provided. A rotor includes a surface defining a portion of a sphere. A bearing having a concave spherical surface adjacent the rotor spherical surface is movable with respect to the rotor. Movement, in one embodiment, is controlled by a piston which also provides pressurized lubrication fluid to a recess formed in the bearing spherical surface. Centrifugal deformation of the rotor is accommodated by axial movement of the bearing and/or contouring of a portion of the rotor. A pivoting bearing pad can be provided to accommodate centrifugal, thermal or other deformation. The rotor surface and the pivoting pad surface can be spherical or conical. A slotted bearing ring permits pivoting while maintaining a continuous seal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Aerojet General Corporation
    Inventor: Paul S. Buckmann
  • Patent number: PP9310
    Abstract: `Puget Reliance` is large fruited, high yielding, medium red strawberry suited to processing that is very virus tolerant and moderately cold hardy, producing fruit at the same time as `Totem`.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Washington State University Research Foundation
    Inventor: Patrick P. Moore