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

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  • Precision depth control lancing tip
    Patent number: 7976477
    Abstract: A bodily fluid sampling device is operable to lance with a precise depth and express fluid from both fingertip and alternate sites. In one form, the device is operable to adjust the penetration depth of the lancet into the skin. The bodily fluid sampling device includes a lancet adapted to form an incision in skin. A skin contacting member has an orifice through which the lancet extends when lancing the skin. The orifice has a first opening size that is sized to flatten the skin around the lancet during lancing. The orifice has a second opening size that is larger than the first opening size after the incision is formed to express fluid from the incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven N. Roe, Chris Wiegel
  • System and method for determining an abused sensor during analyte measurement
    Patent number: 7977112
    Abstract: A method of measuring an analyte in a biological fluid comprises applying an excitation signal having a DC component and an AC component. The AC and DC responses are measured; a corrected DC response is determined using the AC response; and a concentration of the analyte is determined based upon the corrected DC response. Other methods and devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignees: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Roche Operations Ltd.
    Inventors: David W. Burke, Lance S. Kuhn, James Maxwell
  • Determining track origin
    Patent number: 7973943
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for determining the track of origin of a cigarette manufactured in a cigarette making machine having a plurality of tracks. The cigarette making machine (60) is arranged such that the circumferential position of the tipping paper seam and the circumferential position of the tobacco wrapping paper seam are different for different tracks. The apparatus comprises a detector (20, 22; 36; 50) arranged to detect radiation from the cigarette (18) and to produce a signal representative of the detected radiation, and a processor (30; 54) arranged to process the signal produced by the detecting means to identify a shadow cast by a tipping paper seam and a shadow cast by a wrapping paper seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Molins PLC
    Inventors: Honey Jose, Ian Tindall, John Sanders
  • Bunk bed with reversible staircase and drawer unit
    Patent number: 7971290
    Abstract: A bunk bed having a staircase and chest unit that can be mounted to either end of the bunk bed frame. The staircase opens to the front side of the bunk bed whereas drawers pull outwardly in a direction from the end of the bunk bed. The drawers may be mounted to either end of the bed frame with the drawers being reversible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Woodcrest Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark L. Woodhams
  • Intake limiting device for document shredder
    Patent number: 7963472
    Abstract: A shredder intake limiting device having a pair of parallel bars, wherein the ends of the bars are supported by a pair of side supports. Each side support comprises a floor surface flanked by two upwardly-diverging sidewall surfaces. The angle of the sidewall surfaces is such that the bars will be prevented from separating beyond a desired limit when sheet material is being inserted downward into the shredder. When sheet material is being pulled upward during removal after a jam, the diverging angles of the sidewall surfaces will allow the bars to travel upward and the horizontal separation distance to increase, thereby allowing the jammed material to be easily removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Martin Yale Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shanon T. Odman, Bradley L. Bozarth
  • Retainer for overmolded electrical circuit
    Patent number: 7963006
    Abstract: A device configured to maintain an electric circuit in a fixed position during an overmolding process comprises a wire retainer configured to hold the electric circuit taut and in a fixed position while being molded within a molded item. The retainer has a first end and an opposite second end, and includes a first bushing defining a mounting hole for the molded item extending along a width axis. The built-in bushing includes front and back surfaces configured to be aligned and substantially co-planar with the front and back surfaces of the molded item. The device also includes a first securing member configured to secure a portion of the electric circuit to the retainer within the molded item, to hold the electric circuit in a fixed position within the molded item during the overmolding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Grote Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren L. Harmon, Thomas J. Schulz, William E. Marvell
  • Test magazine and method for processing the same
    Patent number: 7959581
    Abstract: A test magazine with two film strips (12, 14), which are joined to one another in a sandwich-like manner, can be wound up, and between which holding cells (16) for test elements are kept free. The test magazine also comprises a multitude of test elements (18, 20) each having a puncturing unit (18) for inserting into body tissue and a test unit (20) for being subjected to body fluid. To this end, the puncturing units (18) and test units (20) are placed in separate holding cells (16) whereby separating them from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Irio G. Calasso, Martin Kopp, Charles Raney, Steven N. Roe
  • Archiving of environmental sounds using visualization components
    Patent number: 7960637
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to sound recognition devices and methods. A system is provided that utilizes a system of tonal and rhythmic visualization methods to recognize different environmental sounds so as to accurately identify certain species of wildlife and other elements of nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Master Key, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Lemons, Tevlin Schuetz
  • Needle-guide device, particularly for ultrasound probes
    Patent number: 7959573
    Abstract: A needle-guide device, particularly for ultrasound probes, or the like, comprising a base body constructed and arranged for connection to the probe and at least one elongated guide hole for receiving a needle-like surgical tool, characterized in that said needle-guide device is made of at least two removably connectable parts, which are shaped in such a manner that each of them forms complementary parts of the peripheral delimiting wall of the elongated guide hole for the surgical tool, which peripheral wall parts complete each other when said two parts of the needle-guide device are connected, thereby forming an elongated guide hole for guiding the needle with a 360° covering delimiting wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: ESAOTE, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Roberto Furia
  • Method for neutralizing explosives and electronics
    Patent number: 7958809
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for neutralizing explosives and electronics utilizing a high voltage electrical discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Xtreme ADS Limited
    Inventors: Peter Victor Bitar, Ricky Lee Busby, Leroy Ernest Lakey, Varce Eron Howe
  • Medical graft products with differing regions and methods and systems for producing the same
    Patent number: 7959554
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems for drying remodelable materials, such that selective regions of the remodelable materials have differing properties. Also described are medical graft products having selective regions of differing material properties. Advantageous remodelable materials include collagenous extracellular matrix material, such as small intestine submucosa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Cook Biotech Incorporated
    Inventors: Chad S. McAlexander, Clay Fette, Jason P. Hodde, Matthew R. Graham
  • Tape transport lance sampler
    Patent number: 7955271
    Abstract: A lancet-sampler system is configured to automatically remove a protective cover from a lancet and automatically unpack a test pad just prior to use. This minimizes the risk of injury and reduces the chance of cross-contamination between the lancet and the test pad. The lancet defines a capillary groove for drawing body fluid from the incision via capillary action and a sample transfer opening for collecting the fluid from the groove. A carrier tape is coupled to the lancet. The carrier tape includes a test pad for analyzing the fluid. The tape is folded around the test pad to form an airtight package. The test pad is located at a position to align with the sample transfer opening when the tape is unfolded. The protective cover covers a portion of the lancet, and when the tape is pulled, the protective cover is automatically pulled from the lancet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven N. Roe, Terry Beaty, Uwe Kraemer, Volker Zimmer
  • Thermal storage unit for air conditioning applications
    Patent number: 7954336
    Abstract: Disclosed is a demand shifting thermal storage system employing a heat transfer/thermal energy storage vessel to produce and hold a phase change fluid using an air cooled/water cooled/ground coupled or evaporative condensing unit to generate the cold fluid with a separate and dependent circuit coupled to the indoor cooling load to remove heat from the HVAC or process cooling load using one or multiple indoor coils to absorb heat returning the heat to the thermal energy storage vessel to reject the space heat, cool the space and continue the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Inventor: Robert W. Jacobi
  • Apparatus and method for visualizing music and other sounds
    Patent number: 7956273
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for visualization of music and other sounds. In one embodiment, the twelve notes of an octave are labeled. When notes are played, the intervals between the notes are visualized by displaying a line between the labels corresponding to the note labels. In some embodiments, the lines representing the intervals are color coded with a different color for each of the six intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Master Key, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Lemons
  • Compositions and methods for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of steroid hormone responsive cancers
    Patent number: 7947463
    Abstract: Compositions and methods that use the body's natural secretory immune system in a new way against steroid hormone responsive tumors of the breast and prostate, as well as other glandular/mucus epithelial tissues such as colon, ovary, endometrium, kidney, bladder, stomach, pancreas and secretory pituitary gland are provided. Also provided are new ways of identifying carcinogenic, or potentially carcinogenic, bacteria in a tissue or body fluid to provide better anti-cancer therapies and preventatives than have been available previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Signe Biopharma, Inc.
    Inventor: David A. Sirbasku
  • Point of service third party financial management vehicle for the healthcare industry
    Patent number: 7949580
    Abstract: A point of service adjudicated payment system and method which provides for creation of an adjudicated settlement transaction at a point of service which designates the portion to be paid by a third party payor and the portion to be paid by a customer. A point of service terminal accepts a payment system access card, such as a credit card, for payment of a service and/or product by a customer, where at least part of the purchase is reimbursable by a third party payor. The point of service terminal creates a purchase transaction which is adjudicated by an adjudication engine substantially in real-time to determine a covered amount payable by the third party payor and any non-covered amount which is to be paid by the customer. An adjudicated settlement transaction is returned to the point of service terminal and the payment system transfers funds according to the adjudicated settlement transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: RealMed Corporation
    Inventors: Dean F. Boyer, W. Edward Hammersla, III
  • Beverage container with threaded plastic drinking sleeve
    Patent number: 7946436
    Abstract: A molded plastic drinking sleeve for push-on assembly to a neck portion of a container according to a typical embodiment includes an annular body formed by an annular sidewall having a uniform taper from a first open end to an opposite second open end, the annular sidewall defining an open interior. The annular sidewall further includes a series of external threads and a roller abutment at the base of the threads for stopping the roller equipment used to help fabricate a metal closing cap that is designed to thread onto the plastic drinking sleeve. The cooperating metal container that receives the drinking sleeve includes a portion that is curled over the upper edge of the drinking sleeve. A free edge of the curled portion is embedded into the plastic of the drinking sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Rieke Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Laveault, Stephen E. Stalions, Brian R. Law
  • Throwable ball
    Patent number: D639360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Indian Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan E Lederman, Nathan John Erickson, Richard Scott Walters
  • Rocker propelled scooter
    Patent number: D640754
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: M.Y. Products, LLC
    Inventors: Long Yu, Richard Miller
  • Golf accessory
    Patent number: D640763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Aim-Mate SARL
    Inventors: Derek Jones, Mark Trickett, David Carey Young