Patents Represented by Attorney Workman Nydegger

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  • Waste liquid collector
    Patent number: 8313184
    Abstract: A waste liquid collector is detachably mounted on a device including a discharge unit discharging a waste liquid and stores the waste liquid discharged from the discharge unit when the waste liquid collector is mounted on the device. The waste liquid collector includes: an opening through which the discharge unit is inserted or extracted at the time of mounting or detaching the waste liquid collector on or from the device; a collector-side connection terminal which comes in contact with a device-side connection terminal included in the device when the discharge unit of the device is inserted into the opening; and a positioning unit which positions the collector-side connection terminal to come in contact with the device-side connection terminal when the waste liquid collector is mounted on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shuhei Harada
  • Vascular suturing device
    Patent number: 8313498
    Abstract: A surgical device for suturing vascular vessels is described, as well as methods for suturing tissue employing the surgical device. The device includes a distal member for insertion into a vascular vessel puncture wound. The distal member contains a suture and needle engaging fitting. At least one needle is advanced through tissue adjacent the puncture wound and into the needle engaging fitting to draw lengths of suture material which can then be used to close the puncture wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Anthony J. Pantages, Brian A. Ellingwood, Erik K. Walberg
  • Method for maintaining databases information about multiple instances of an activity generating, updating virtual OLAP cube based on modified star-schema
    Patent number: 8315972
    Abstract: Challenges associated with maintaining information about multiple instances of an activity are addressed. Separate database tables are maintained for data corresponding to active instances of an organization's activities and for data corresponding to inactive instances of an organization's activities. Multiple database tables can be maintained for data corresponding to inactive instances of an activity. In another aspect, data from the active instances table and one or more inactive instances tables are processed to generate combined analysis data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gueorgui Bonov Chkodrov, Richard Zachary Jason, Eric Anthony Reel
  • Liquid ejecting apparatus
    Patent number: 8313160
    Abstract: The driving signal generation unit generates a leading driving pulse that is ahead in a unit cycle and a following driving pulse that follows the leading driving pulse; the leading driving pulse is set so that, in the case where liquid droplets are ejected simultaneously from multiple adjacent nozzles, the flight speed of the ejected liquid droplets located toward the central area in a nozzle row direction is higher than the flight speed of the ejected liquid droplets located toward the end areas in the nozzle row direction; and the following driving pulse is set so that, of the liquid droplets simultaneously ejected from the multiple adjacent nozzles, the flight speed of the ejected liquid droplets located toward the end areas is higher than the flight speed of the liquid droplets located toward the central area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Matsuo
  • Liquid ejecting head
    Patent number: 8313175
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head that can be of reduced size while maintaining reliability of the terminal connection is provided. According to the liquid ejecting head of the invention, individual element electrode terminals and first side individual electrode wiring terminals of a flexible cable, which are connected to the individual element electrode terminals are arrayed in a direction of a row of pressure chambers, and at least one of a side individual element electrode terminals located in a side portion in a terminal row direction X and a first side individual electrode wiring terminals connected to the side individual element electrode terminals are arranged inclined with respect to a center individual element electrode terminals located in the center portion in the terminal row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinao Miyata, Yue Gao, Yuma Fukuzawa
  • Type descriptor management for frozen objects
    Patent number: 8316357
    Abstract: The efficient use of type descriptors with frozen objects. A frozen object might actually include several type descriptors, a primary type descriptor that is canonical according to a set of canonicalization rules, and an auxiliary type descriptor that is not identical to the primary type descriptor. The auxiliary type descriptor may be used to access the canonical type descriptor. When performing an operation, if the auxiliary type descriptor can be used to perform the operation, then that auxiliary type descriptor may be used. If the canonical type descriptor is to be used to perform the operation, the auxiliary type descriptor is used to gain access to the canonical primary type descriptor. The primary type descriptor is then used to perform the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Scott D. Mosier, Peter F. Sollich, Frank V. Peschel-Gallee, Patrick H. Dussud, Simon J. Hall, Rudi Martin, Michael M. Magruder, Andrew Pardoe, Madhusudhan Talluri
  • Transfer member and image forming apparatus including a transfer roller with a gripping member
    Patent number: 8315546
    Abstract: A transfer device includes an image carrier that carries an image and a transfer roller having a recessed section, a transfer medium gripping member that is disposed in the recessed section and grips a transfer medium, and an elastic member that forms a transfer nip by abutting upon the image carrier, the transfer roller transferring the image carried by the image carrier to the transfer medium by abutting upon the image carrier. The transfer medium gripping member grips the transfer medium when the recessed section moves to a position of the transfer nip and the image carrier and the transfer roller do not contact to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kamijo, Satoshi Chiba, Shinichi Tanaka
  • Water management barrier and system
    Patent number: 8313265
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to barriers for managing and/or controlling water. In an embodiment, a barrier may include a hollow body at least partially defined by a front wall, a back wall, a top portion and a bottom portion. An elongated connection member may be connected to the first end. The connection member may have a tapered free end portion substantially adjacent said top portion and a lower free end portion substantially adjacent said bottom portion of said hollow body such that the connection member virtually extends the entire length of the first end. A connection recess may be formed in the second end. The connection recess may be sized and configured to generally correspond to at least a portion of the connection member. The barrier may further include a foot member attached to the bottom portion, and a fill port and a drain port in fluid communication with the hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Muscle Wall, LLC
    Inventor: Jaren Taylor
  • Visual state manager for control skinning
    Patent number: 8314801
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to automatically generating an animation for a transition between a current state and a new state. In one embodiment, a computer system accesses state properties of a visual element corresponding to a current state the visual element is in and a new state the visual element is to be transitioned to. The state properties include visual properties and transition description information. The computer system determines the differences between the visual properties of the current state and the new state and automatically generates an animation based on the determined differences between the visual properties for the current state and the new state, such that the animation is playable to transition the visual element from the current state to new state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Young, Steven Charles White, Christian B. Schormann
  • Thermally-stable polycrystalline diamond compact and applications therefor such as drill bits
    Patent number: 8312943
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to thermally-stable polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) elements, polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”), and methods of fabricating such PCD elements and PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a PCD body including bonded diamond grains defining a plurality of interstitial regions. The PCD body includes a first volume having a first portion of the interstitial regions and a second volume having a second portion of the interstitial regions. The second volume is bonded to the substrate. At least one interstitial material is disposed in the first portion of the interstitial regions and a metallic infiltrant is disposed in the second portion of the interstitial regions. The at least one interstitial material exhibits a negative coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: US Synthetic Corporation
    Inventors: David P. Miess, Craig H. Cooley
  • Generators using bio-kinetic energy
    Patent number: 8314503
    Abstract: Devices for converting bio-kinetic energy into electrical energy. Devices may include a fluid conduit configured to contain a liquid conductive material, a transducer coupled to the fluid conduit and configured to drive flow of the liquid conductive material through the fluid conduit, and a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power generation unit operatively coupled to the fluid conduit, wherein the MHD power generation unit is configured to convert liquid conductive material flow through the fluid conduit into electrical power. Devices may be incorporated into a number of wearable articles and building articles for conversion of bio-kinetic energy into electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Yueguang Deng
  • Liquid ejection head wiring member and liquid ejection head
    Patent number: 8313172
    Abstract: The first and second cables overlap with each other while at an attitude where the wiring terminal formation surfaces face the same side, and the one-end-side common wiring terminal is located on the outside of the arrangement direction of the wiring terminals of the group of the one-end-side individual electrode wirings. The one end portions of the first and second cables are bent in the same direction so that the wiring terminals respectively face element terminals of piezoelectric elements, and the wiring terminals are respectively bonded to the corresponding element terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinao Miyata
  • Breadcrumb navigation through heirarchical structures
    Patent number: 8316323
    Abstract: A viewer may be used to navigate through diagrammatic views of hierarchically structured documents. Expansion and collapse controls may be used to show or hide details regarding a particular node in the hierarchy. Furthermore breadcrumb navigation may be employed to show and hide details regarding the ancestral chain for a particular node in the hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Puravkumar B. Saraiya, Catherine Elizabeth Dumas, Stephen M. Danton, Balasubramanian Shyamsundar, Pravin R. Indurkar
  • Clip applier and methods of use
    Patent number: 8313497
    Abstract: An apparatus for placement into an opening formed in a wall of a body lumen to deploy a closure element. The apparatus comprising a housing having a handle portion formed at a distal end, the handle portion configured to be engaged by a user when advancing the housing to deploy the closure element. A locator assembly and a carrier assembly are at least partially received in the housing. The locator assembly can have one or more expansion members that can selectably contact the wall of the body lumen and a proximal end configured to cooperate with a portion of a locator control system operable to expand the one or more expansion members. A triggering system cooperates with the locator assembly and is moveable toward the one or more expansion members of the locator assembly upon the locator control system being operated to expand the one or more expansion members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Erik K. Walberg, Timothy C. Reynolds, Brian A. Ellingwood, Kai Y. Jair, Anthony Pantages
  • Dataflow component scheduling using reader/writer semantics
    Patent number: 8316369
    Abstract: The scheduling of dataflow components in a dataflow network. A number, if not all, of the dataflow components are created using a domain/agent model. A scheduler identifies, for a number of the components, a creation source for the given component. The scheduler also identifies an appropriate domain-level access permission (and potentially also an appropriate agent-level access permission) for the given component based on the creation source of the given component. Tokens may be used at the domain or agent level to control access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Artur Laksberg, Joshua D. Phillips, Niklas Gustafsson
  • Secure seed media
    Patent number: 8316455
    Abstract: Accessing a data set with secret and non-secret data. A method includes accessing a data set image. The data set image comprises secret data. The data set image is derived from an authorized data set associated with a master key that authorizes access to the secret data. The master key is not provided with the data set image. The method further comprises restoring the data set image to a computing system to create a degraded data set. Data in the degraded data set other than the secret data is accessed without restoring the master key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Collin H. Brace, Nathan D. Muggli, William B. Lees, William J. Whalen
  • Micropositioning recording head for a magnetic storage device
    Patent number: 8307542
    Abstract: A method of assembling a recording head includes attaching a first segment having a plurality of toroidal coils to a second segment having a plurality of flexure beams to form a wafer assembly. The method also includes attaching the wafer assembly to a slider body such that a cavity portion of the second segment cooperates with a cavity portion in the slider body to form a transducer cavity. The method also includes vacuum attaching the slider body to a reference flat surface. The method also includes positioning a transducer body having a transducer in the transducer cavity using a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Dallas W. Meyer
  • Personal communications server
    Patent number: 8311517
    Abstract: An improved system and method for a personal communications server is provided. The system and method may provide seamless multi-functional wireless communications for different integrated applications desired by a user. To this end, a computing device with a telecommunications interface is provided for coupling to a mobile phone network. The computing device may be without an attached audio input and output device, but may include a network interface for coupling with an external audio input and output device to receive audio from the mobile phone network and/or to send audio to the mobile network. A computer with a network interface may also be coupled with the computing device to receive data from a mobile phone network and/or to send data to the mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard I. Brass, David B. Wecker
  • Systems and methods for automatically inserting a needle into a living subject
    Patent number: 8308741
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for automatically inserting a needle into an insertion-target region of a living subject in response to a machine-vision system locating the insertion-target region. In an embodiment, a needle insertion system includes a moveable needle configured to be inserted into a living subject, a machine-vision system configured to locate an insertion-target region of the living subject, control electrical circuitry, and an actuator coupled to the control electrical circuitry. The control electrical circuitry may be coupled to the machine-vision system to receive location information therefrom about the insertion-target region, and configured to output needle targeting instructions. The actuator may be coupled to the control electrical circuitry to receive the needle targeting instructions therefrom and coupled to the moveable needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Michael A. Smith, Leif T. Stordal, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
  • Liquid dispenser
    Patent number: D671002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Origin Pet Products Limited
    Inventors: James Sutherland Cameron, David Finlay, Terri Tong