Patents Represented by Attorney Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty and McNett & Henry LLP

Find this attorney in the Justia Lawyer Directory

  • Arcuate saddle with partial ribs and methods of manufacture
    Patent number: 8038105
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to arcuate saddles with partial ribs typically used to anchor and suspend insulated or non-insulated pipes. Partial ribs on the lower face of the saddle inhibit the saddle from sliding relative to the hanger when engaged and provide strengthening force to the saddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Buckaroos, Inc.
    Inventor: Mack Deichman
  • Bowstring vibration dampener and mounting
    Patent number: 8033277
    Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips, a bowstring extending between the limb tips along a bowstring axis, and an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. The archery bow further comprises a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end of the elongate member between the proximal end and the bowstring. The elongate member extends from the bow body along a first axis non-perpendicular to the bowstring axis. Additionally, the elongate member may be curved along at least a portion of its length. In certain embodiments, the archery bow body defines a nested mounting area configured as an open channel to receive a distal end of the elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Bear Archery, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Gordon, Ben Blosser
  • Locking mechanism for a convertible game table
    Patent number: 8033923
    Abstract: A game table assembly comprises a game table having opposing first and second game playing surfaces, with the game table being rotatable to orient a desired one of the game playing surfaces facing upward. The game table assembly includes opposing and non-rotatable end sections positioned adjacent the width ends of the game table and a cross member engaged with and extending between the end sections, with the game table being rotatable about the cross member. The game table assembly further includes at least one corner bracket pivotally mounted to either the corresponding end section or the game table such that the corner bracket may be horizontally pivoted into and out of selective locking engagement to prevent rotation of the game table and thereby selectively lock the game table in the desired orientation with the desired one of the game playing surfaces facing upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Indian Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Safari Chung
  • Production of wear-resistant layers on barrier-layer-forming metals or their alloys by means of laser treatment
    Patent number: 8029907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing wear-resistant layers on materials of barrier-layer-forming metals, such as aluminum, magnesium and titanium and their alloys and mixtures, preferably aluminum or its alloys, by means of laser treatment, the material surface being exposed to a laser irradiation in the presence of an atmosphere containing oxygen in such a way that the upper or outer layer of the material surface reacts with the oxygen to form an oxide of the metal constituting the material, preferably aluminum oxide, and the layer of the material lying under that is remelted without reacting with the atmosphere containing oxygen. This results in a multilayer structure with excellent wear-resistant properties, including excellent corrosion resistance, excellent abrasion resistance and extreme hardness that does not exhibit any brittleness as a result of the hardness gradient within the layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AHC Oberflachentechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kurze, Hermann H. Urlberger, Jürgen Koch
  • Method for estimating tissue velocity vectors and tissue deformation from ultrasonic diagnostic imaging data
    Patent number: 8029444
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for estimating tissue velocity vectors and oriented strain from ultrasonic diagnostic imaging data. Reference points are defined from evaluation of image data derived from reflected ultrasonic beams in order to determine the direction of motion and the velocity vector of the reference points. The velocity of motion for corresponding reference points between two successive image frames is determined by applying a particle image velocimetry technique. Components of the tissue strain is then obtained from time integration of the strain-rate that is determined from the gradient of velocity estimated from the velocity data in two or more reference points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Esoate S.p.A., Amid Srl
    Inventors: Gianni Pedrizzetti, Giovanni Tonti
  • Foldable truss
    Patent number: 8028488
    Abstract: A foldable truss having a pair of side frames hinged together by a foldable arm allowing the truss to be collapsed to a smaller width while maintaining the truss length as a constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Tyler Truss Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark C. Dodd
  • Enhanced remodelable materials for occluding bodily vessels
    Patent number: 8029560
    Abstract: Described are methods, devices, and systems for occluding or ablating vascular vessels. Noninvasive procedures can be used to occlude and obliterate the greater saphenous vein, for example in the treatment of varicose vein condition caused by venous valve insufficiency. Further described is the cooperative use of an angiogenic remodelable material with one or more sclerosing agents to cause closure of a targeted bodily vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Brian L. Bates, Ram H. Paul, Jacob A. Flagle
  • Separator assembly
    Patent number: 8029605
    Abstract: An apparatus for effecting separation of particles from a mixture of particles and gas, the apparatus comprises: a housing that defines therethrough a channel; an inlet in said housing to admit the mixture of particles and gas into the channel; a deflector in the channel; and a gas outlet port substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the channel and downstream of the deflector; wherein the deflector is shaped to direct the particles past the gas outlet port. A method of separation is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Brandt Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Cameron Bodie, Donald Grant Vass, Jonathan Robert Carteri
  • Integrated lancing test strip with retractable lancet
    Patent number: 8025628
    Abstract: An integrated lancing test strip device includes a lancet configured to form an incision in tissue and a test strip coupled to the lancet for analyzing body fluid. A retention mechanism acts as a detent to hold the lancet in a static position relative to the test strip before forming the incision. The retention mechanism is configured to release the lancet for retracting the lancet relative to the test strip to reduce smearing of body fluid by the lancet during collection of the fluid with the test strip. In one form, the retention mechanism includes breakable tabs that are broken to release the lancet, and the lancet is retracted via translational movement. The retention mechanism in another form includes one or more dimples that release the lancet when the lancet is retracted via rotational motion. In a further form, the entire integrated device is rotated to collect fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wong, Frank Chan
  • Body fluid testing device
    Patent number: 8021631
    Abstract: Body fluid testing device for analyzing a body fluid comprises a test media tape adapted to collect the body fluid. The test media tape comprises a tape and test media portions. A free tape portion without test medium is located between successive test media portions. The testing device further comprises a supply portion. The supply portion comprises a housing in which uncontaminated test media tape is contained. The housing further has an opening for withdrawing test media tape from the housing. The testing device further has a sealing means for closing the opening against the surrounding. A free tape portion of the test media tape is located between a wall of the housing and the sealing means when the sealing means closes the opening. Further aspects concern a test media cassette with sealing means and a method for providing test media while holding them sealed against humidity during onboard storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Werner Ruhl, Hugo Schrem, Volker Zimmer
  • Graft materials containing bioactive substances, and methods for their manufacture
    Patent number: 8021692
    Abstract: Described are packaged, sterile medical graft products containing controlled levels of a growth factor such as Fibrob-last Growth Factor-2 (FGF-2). Also described are methods of manufacturing medical graft products wherein processing, including sterilization, is controlled and monitored to provide medical graft products having modulated, known levels of a extracellular matrix factor, such as a growth factor, e.g. FGF-2. Preferred graft materials are extracellular matrix materials isolated from human or animal donors, particularly submucosa containing extracellular matrix materials. Further described are ECM compositions that are or are useful for preparing gels, and related methods for preparation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Cook Biotech Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael C. Hiles, Jason P. Hodde, David M. J. Ernst, Lal Ninan
  • Packaging system
    Patent number: 8020703
    Abstract: A system comprising disposable medical devices and a packaging strip comprising a plurality of chambers containing the disposable medical devices. The strip is folded along breadthwise running fold lines to form a series of loops, each loop comprising opposing sections. The opposing sections of at least some of these loops are sealed to each other thus forming chambers between said sections. A cartridge contains such a packaging strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans List, Uwe Kraemer, Volker Zimmer, Steven N. Roe
  • Dual blade lancing test strip
    Patent number: 8016775
    Abstract: An integrated lancing test strip includes a pair of blade members that each have a lancing tip that are configured to lance skin. A pair of spacer members connect the blade members together such that the blade members define an internal capillary. A test strip is positioned along the internal capillary, and the test strip is configured to test analyte levels in the bodily fluid. During use, the lancing tips form one or more incisions in the skin. The fluid from the incisions is drawn via capillary action through the internal capillary and onto the test strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven N. Roe, Jeffrey N. Roe
  • Plasma-treated textile surfaces for adsorption filter materials
    Patent number: 8016926
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorption filter material (1) that provides protection against chemical toxins, chemical weapons and pollutants, with a preferably multi-layer composite construction (2). The layer construction (2) includes at least one planar support layer (3) with two opposing sides (3?, 3?) and an adsorption layer (4), provided on the support layer (3) made from a material which adsorbs chemical toxins, the surface of at least one of the both sides (3? and/or 3?) of the support layer (3) being modified by plasma treatment. The surface properties, in particular the surface finish and the surface reactivity can be adjusted and optimised to match the application by means of the plasma treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Blucher Gmbh
    Inventors: Bertram Bohringer, Thomas Stoll, Peter Heinrich, Michael Moskopp
  • Calibration of transmission system using tonal visualization components
    Patent number: 8018459
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to broadcast signal calibration devices and methods. A system is provided that permits calibration or tuning of broadcast signal transmission and reception equipment through the use of visual representation of test signals. The generated visualizations, incorporating color and shape, are examined to determine whether any adjustments to the broadcast equipment are needed to compensate for equipment age, deterioration, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Master Key, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Lemons
  • Method and system for fetal weight estimation
    Patent number: 8012091
    Abstract: A method for fetal weight estimation wherein fetal biometric parameters are ultrasonically measured and further physiological and phenomenological pregnancy parameters are determined for a plurality of sample cases. The fetal weight for each of the sample cases is then determined by precision weighing at birth. A database is then created based on the known sample cases and mathematical prediction models are generated from the database. For the case under examination for which fetal weight is to be predicted, the fetal biometric parameters are ultrasonically measured and further physiological and phenomenological pregnancy parameters are determined. The fetal weight of the case under examination is predicted by using a mathematical prediction model and a multinormal probabilistic model is used as a mathematical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Esoate S.p.A.
    Inventors: Felice Petraglia, Paolo Barbini, Gabriele Cevenini, Filiberto Maria Severi
  • Bowstring dampener
    Patent number: 8011356
    Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips and a bowstring extending between the limb tips. The archery bow includes an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. Additionally, the archery bow includes a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end between the proximal end and the bowstring, the dampening element having a contact face adapted to contact the bowstring. In certain embodiments, the dampening element includes a laterally protruding rib extending outward from the contact face along at least a portion thereof to engage the bowstring when the bowstring is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Bear Archery, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Gordon, Ben Blosser
  • Freeze-dried collagenous biomaterial medical sponge device
    Patent number: 8007542
    Abstract: The invention involves a submucosa tissue that has the capability of being shape formed or shape configured. The submucosa involves a purified form of submucosa tissue. Optionally, the submucosa can be packaged in such a manner to permit sterility or maintain sterility of the submucosa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Cook Biotech Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael C. Hiles, Umesh H. Patel
  • Control device for electronic games
    Patent number: D644695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Bigben Interactive S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Yannick Allaert, Mark Liddle
  • Laboratory apparatus
    Patent number: D645976
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Don Whitley Scientific Limited
    Inventors: Fergus Francis Murray, Evan Jonathan Kitsell, Christopher Charles Roper, David Boast