Patents Represented by Attorney Winston & Strawn LLP
  • Patent number: 7794518
    Abstract: A filter system for an air cleaner is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The filter system includes one or more filter elements and a filter tray adapted to be received in a filter tray receptacle of the air cleaner. The filter tray includes a bottom surface and one or more bottom airflow apertures formed in the bottom surface. The filter tray receives the one or more filter elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Oreck Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Paterson, Charles W. Reynolds, Dennis T. Lamb
  • Patent number: 7794767
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula wherein R1 is a C2-7 linear alkyl group. This compound can be used as flavoring ingredient, for instance to impart flavor notes of the green tea and creamy/fatty type as well as to impart a desirable mouthfeel effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Regula Naef, Alain Jaquier
  • Patent number: 7788834
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wearable article such as clothing, backpacks, hats, and the like that include a backlit lenticular lens display that emits light to allow animation and special effects. The array of interlaced images can be printed directly onto the electroluminescent panel, onto a removable support sheet, or onto the back surface of the lenticular. The electroluminescent panel is laminated to form a flange portion that is radio frequency welded to bond the lenticular display device to an article that is impregnated with a bonding material. A backing material having a fabric layer and a water impenetrable layer can be affixed to the assembly such that the fabric layer contacts the skin. Alternatively, the article may have a surface a display compartment or envelope with a transparent outer surface for enclosing the electroluminescent layer, a removable image sheet, and a lenticular lens layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen R. Welch
  • Patent number: 7790048
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a plurality of electrically conductive islands in a working layer of a multilayer structure made from semiconductor materials, with the structure including an electrically insulating layer located beneath the working layer. This method includes the steps of selectively masking certain regions of the working layer in order to define several islands therein, with each region masked from the working layer corresponding to a respective island, and then wet chemical etching of the masked working layer to form a plurality of working layer islands each surrounded by the electrically insulating layer. The invention also proposes the application of such a method to the characterization of the electrical properties of a structure, and an associated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies
    Inventors: Frédéric Allibert, François Brunier
  • Patent number: 7790426
    Abstract: The invention relates to sesquiterpene synthases and methods of their production and use. In one embodiment, the invention provides nucleic acids comprising a nucleotide sequence as described herein that encodes for at least one sesquiterpene synthases. In a further embodiment, the invention also provides for sesquiterpene synthases and methods of making and using these enzymes. For example, sesquiterpene synthases of the invention may be used to convert farnesyl-pyrophosphate to various oxygenated and aliphatic sesquiterpenes including valencene, bicyclo-germacrene, cubebol and delta-cadinene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Michel Schalk, Anthony Clark
  • Patent number: 7790413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to terpene synthases that are capable of synthesizing mono-, bi- and/or tri-cyclic sesquiterpenes having a C2-C7 or a C3-C7 bond, starting from an acyclic pyrophosphate terpene precursor, farnesyl- pyrophosphate. Accordingly, for the first time, sesquiterpene synthases catalyzing the cyclization to the santalene and bergamotene carbon skeleton are disclosed. The present invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding the sesquiterpene synthases and to methods for making terpenoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventor: Michel Schalk
  • Patent number: 7783023
    Abstract: A communication system provides integrated email, telephone and instant messenger communication including a common address book, a common log of communication history and shared presence information. A user can respond to a communication according to any format, email, telephone or instant messenger, with a response using the same format or any other format. The response may be initiated by a single command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Unison Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Balk, David Michael Choupak
  • Patent number: 7776099
    Abstract: A bone implant having a core section to which a prosthesis is eventually secured, and rib-like projections or anchoring prongs enhancing the hold of the implant in the bone. The invention is particularly, but not exclusively, intended as a dental implant. The socket for the implant is drilled in a bone using a suitable template which is subsequently inserted in an original pre-drilled bore and which serves as a guide for subsequent drilling of bores for the anchoring prongs or rib-like projections. Several different types of the templates are disclosed together with a number of compatible implants. A specific tool is also disclosed which reduces the damage to the bone by reducing the volume of the initial portion of the socket adapted to receive the associated template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Lococo
  • Patent number: 7776716
    Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor on insulator wafers by providing a semiconductor substrate or a substrate that includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer as a source substrate, attaching the source substrate to a handle substrate to form a source handle assembly and detaching the source substrate at a predetermined splitting area provided inside the source substrate and being essentially parallel to its main surface, to remove a layer from the source handle assembly to thereby create the semiconductor on insulator wafer. A diffusion barrier layer, in particular, an oxygen diffusion barrier layer can be provided on the source substrate. In addition the invention relates to the corresponding semiconductor on insulator wafers that are produced by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignees: S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
    Inventors: Chrystel Deguet, Takeshi Akatsu, Hubert Moriceau, Thomas Signamarcheix, Loic Sanchez
  • Patent number: 7775337
    Abstract: A magnetic clutch is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The magnetic clutch includes a shaft including a flange, a magnetic clutch hub installed on the shaft, with the magnetic clutch hub being magnetically responsive, and an actuator member that magnetically operates on the magnetic clutch hub and causes the magnetic clutch hub to frictionally contact the flange of the shaft. The contact transfers rotational power between the magnetic clutch hub and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Oreck Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Moshenrose, Bruce Kiern
  • Patent number: 7776294
    Abstract: An improved method of controlling air pollution, a combustion gas is passed through a solution of an alkaline-earth metal sulfide and a redox buffer (e.g., a mono alkaline-earth metal phosphate salt), preferably but not essentially in combination with an alkaline-earth metal carbonate FGD system. The reagents are provided in a fully soluble form enabling low cost application and retrofitting of existing facilities whilst also including alkaline-earth bases salts, which advantageously afford stability to the process product. The reagents co-precipitate when the solution achieves a pH of 4.5 to 6.5 such as is encountered in the acidic environment in conduits that carry combustion flue gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Cylenchar Limited
    Inventor: Peter J. Hurley
  • Patent number: 7772127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a semiconductor heterostructure by providing a substrate with a first in-plane lattice parameter a1, providing a buffer layer with a second in-plane lattice parameter a2 and providing a top layer over the buffer layer. In order to improve the surface roughness of the semiconductor heterostructure, an additional layer is provided in between the buffer layer and the top layer, wherein the additional layer has a third in-plane lattice parameter a3 which is in between the first and second lattice parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies
    Inventors: Christophe Figuet, Mark Kennard
  • Patent number: 7771148
    Abstract: An expandable sealant is provided for a fastener including a threaded defining surface. The fastener includes the expandable sealant as a coating adhered to at least a portion of the thread-defining surface to lock the fastener in place and to expand to fill space between the thread-defining surface of the fastener and an aperture through which the fastener is passed to seal the aperture to prevent fluid and gases from passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: ND Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Phillips
  • Patent number: 7772316
    Abstract: A high temperature polyamide coating and a fastener coated with a composition that includes from about 60 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of an aliphatic polyamide having a repeating unit. The composition also includes from about 3 wt. % to about 9 wt. % of an epoxy based resin having a molecular weight in the range from about 525 to about 585, from about 4 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of a ceramic microsphere material and from about 2 wt. % to about 5 wt. % of a thermoplastic methacrylate binder, from about 4 wt. % to about 12 wt. % of crushed glass, from about 0.1 wt. % to about 1 wt. % of a polyamide with a secondary amino group as a curing agent, and the balance of an epoxy based curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: ND Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Barr
  • Patent number: 7767545
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a substrate having a top layer of a first material and an underlying layer of a second material whose lattice parameter is different from that of the first material. The process includes the steps of conducting an amorphization of the top layer to create an amorphous region in the top layer lying between an exposed surface and an amorphization interface, with that portion of the top layer below the interface being shielded from the amorphization and remaining as a crystalline structure; recrystallizing the amorphous region while also creating a network of defects at the interface, wherein the network forms a boundary for dislocations from the crystalline structure of the top layer, and containing the dislocations in the portion of the top layer that is located below the interface. Also, the substrates obtained by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies
    Inventors: Konstantin Bourdelle, Carlos Mazure
  • Patent number: 7767799
    Abstract: The present invention provides IFN?2 mutants and active fragments, analogs, derivatives, and variants thereof that have improved specific agonist or antagonist activity as compared to wild-type IFN?2. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising IFN?2 mutants useful for treating or preventing cancer, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases or disorders associated with increased expression of IFN?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. at the Weizmann Institute of Science
    Inventors: Gideon E Schreiber, Laila C. Roisman, Diego Jaitin, Eyal Kalie
  • Patent number: 7765640
    Abstract: A cord management system operable to reduce or eliminate various forces exerted on a vacuum cleaner power cord. The system includes a swiveling strain relief incorporated into the vacuum handle and collars, used to connect sections of a dirty air conduit, having exterior portions that enable the power cord to be retained in a secure manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Oreck Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Jeff Morgan, Christopher M. Paterson, Steven Philip Irby, Paul A. Moshenrose
  • Patent number: 7767639
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula wherein the wavy line indicates that the double bond in position 3 is in a configuration E or Z or a mixture thereof, and R is a C2-C6 alkyl or alkenyl group, which is a useful perfuming ingredient capable of imparting odor notes of the violet leaves type as well as a green/fruity aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Gaudin
  • Patent number: 7763758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of catalytic hydrogenation and, more particularly, to the use of Ru complexes with bidentate ligands, having one amino or imino coordinating group and one phosphino coordinating group, in hydrogenation processes for the reduction of esters or lactones into the corresponding alcohol or diol respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Lionel Saudan, Philippe Dupau, Jean-Jacques Riedhauser, Patrick Wyss
  • Patent number: D623167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Psyko Audio Labs Inc.
    Inventors: James Hildebrandt, Michael Kurtz, Scott Wilson