Patents Assigned to E
  • Advertisement using internet browser with book-like interface
    Patent number: 6701301
    Abstract: An electronic advertisement method and system for an Internet browser with a book-like page-based flipping interface. Full pages of electronic advertisements presented on the computer screen are possible without obstructing the viewing and reading of other contents. This benefits both the viewer as well as the advertiser. An advertisement matching/delivery system provides a novel method of inserting advertisements into content as well as a novel method for revenue sharing among the parties involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E-Book Systems Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Chern Hway Seet, Chee Kwan Chow, Eugene Eng Khian Tan, Hong Khoon Wan, Seng Beng Ho
  • Copolymerization of ethylene and dienes
    Patent number: 6699955
    Abstract: Ethylene, dienes and optionally &agr;-olefins are copolym-erized by selected iron complexes of 2,6-pyridinecarbox-aldehydebis(imines) and 2,6-diacylpyridinebis(imines). The resulting copolymers contain residual olefinic unsaturation from the diene monomers, and some of these copolymers contain cyclic units in the main chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Elizabeth Forrester McCord
  • Spectral color reproduction with six color output
    Patent number: 6698860
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method to fully utilize the spectral gamut of a six-color printer to minimize metameric matches while maintaining high colorimetric accuracy in the reproduction by such six-color printer of a target image from a target color device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Roy S. Berns, Lawrence A. Taplin, Tony Z. Liang
  • Modified starch and process therefor
    Patent number: 6699363
    Abstract: A process that can be used for producing a starch product is provided. The process comprises heating a composition, which comprises or consists essentially of a starch, a polyacrylamide, and a multivalent cation. The weight ratio of starch to polyacrylamide is greater than about 2 to 1. The process can also comprise heating a composition, which comprises or consists essentially of a starch and a polyacrylamide to produce a heated composition followed by contacting the heated composition with a multivalent cation. The heating can be carried out at a pH above 7.0 if the polyacrylamide is a cationic polyacrylamide or nonionic polyacrylamide and, if the starch is a cationic starch and the polyacrylamide is an amphoteric polyacrylamide or anionic polyacrylamide, the heating neutralizes less than 75% of the cationic starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Robert Harvey Moffett
  • Process for extracting oleanolic acid from plant material
    Patent number: 6700014
    Abstract: A process for extracting oleanolic acid from plant material is disclosed. Dried plant material is provided and an extraction process is carried out with a non-halogenated polar to medium polar solvent. The resulting solution that contains oleanolic acid is separated from the plant material and the solvent is removed using cooling, vacuum-evaporation or other techniques. A precipitate is formed that contains mostly oleanolic acid. Subsequent purification steps to provide highly purified oleanolic acid include washing techniques, re-crystallization techniques or the use of chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. & J. Gallo Winery
    Inventor: Gerold Jerz
  • High yield cyclohexyl hydroperoxide decompostition process
    Patent number: 6700022
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for cyclohexyl hydroperoxide (CHHP) decomposition using in aqueous alkaline solution in presence of cobalt catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ludovic Fodor
  • Low temperature initiators for fluoroolefin polymerization
    Patent number: 6700023
    Abstract: A new class of low temperature initiators has been found, enabling fluoroolefin polymerizations at relatively low temperatures. These initiators are diacyl peroxides which allow improved productivity and product properties, as well as more favorable reaction conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Robert Clayton Wheland, Ming-Hong Hung
  • Process for blending fluids of widely differing viscosities
    Patent number: 6698917
    Abstract: A process is provided for blending two fluids having widely differing viscosities, such that the ratio of the two viscosities is at least 10,000:1. The low viscosity fluid is injected into the high viscosity fluid as it flows through a conduit, such that the low viscosity fluid is at least 30% by weight of the total weight of the low viscosity fluid and the high viscosity fluid. The two fluids are then forwarded to a second conduit containing a first set of static mixing elements providing a fluid shear rate in excess of 0.57 sec−1. The two fluids are then further forwarded to a third conduit containing a second set of static mixing elements of a larger diameter than the first set, providing a fluid shear rate in excess of 0.20 sec−1. Within the third conduit the two fluids form a homogeneous blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Arthur William Etchells, III, Charles Linfred Henderson, Felix Alfred Streiff, Andreas Walder
  • Method for increasing solid state polymerization rate of polyester polymers
    Patent number: 6699545
    Abstract: This invention concerns a method for increasing the polymerization rate of polyester polymers in the solid state by adding a catalytic amount of zinc p-toluenesulfonate to a polyester polymer melt that is essentially free of antimony and germanium, before solid state polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Anju Parthasarathy
  • Butterfly sponge mop with angle-adjustable handle
    Patent number: 6698056
    Abstract: A butterfly sponge mop (1) which has a mop handle (2) which can be set at a desired angle with respect to the wings (12,14) of the mop. The handle is attached to a swivel housing (34) which is provided between the wings, by a swivel connector (32) provided with a swivel pin (38). The axis of the swivel pin is at an angle to the axis of the handle so that rotation of the handle and swivel connector sets the angle of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. D. Oates Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: John Ernest Oretti, Jan-Anders Schjottelvig
  • Bearing system with flexible bearing bracket
    Patent number: 6700255
    Abstract: A bearing system that includes a bearing 50 supported in a flexible bearing bracket, for example for use in fractional horsepower shaded pole type electric motors. The bearing system is self aligning, the bracket being able to deflect to compensate for deviations in the radial alignment of the rotor shaft. A rotation lock restrains the bearing against rotation within the bracket. In the preferred embodiment the bracket is composed of an elastomer and the bearing is composed of a high performance plastic polymer, so that the bearing system is non-lubricating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Christopher Scott Stenta
  • Method and apparatus for coupling an implantable stimulator/sensor to a prosthetic device
    Patent number: 6695885
    Abstract: A system of implantable sensor/stimulation devices that is configured to communicate with a prosthetic device, e.g., an artificial limb, via a wireless communication link, preferably bidirectionally. By communicating between the implantable devices coupled to neural pathways within a man and motor/sensor interfaces in the prosthetic device, a machine, a man/machine interface is established to replace an absent limb. Systems of the present invention may extend to prosthetic devices, e.g., cranes or the like, that further extend the man/machine interface to allow a man to control a “large” remote piece of machinery directly via neural control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
    Inventors: Joseph H. Schulman, Yitzhak Zilberman, Lee J. Mandell
  • Cut resistant yarns and process for making the same, fabric and glove
    Patent number: 6694719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cut resistant yarns. More particularly, it relates to a cut resistant yarn comprising a plurality of cut resistant filaments and at least one elastomeric filament, as well as fabrics and articles such as gloves, comprising such cut resistant yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Reiyao Zhu
  • Low Tg ethylene-based polymer, cycloolefin polymer blends
    Patent number: 6696524
    Abstract: Blends comprising an ethylene based polymer having a glass transition temperature lower than or equal to 20° C. and cycloolefin polymer are prepared. The ethylene based polymer preferably comprises at least 60 weight % of ethylene, relative to the weight of the polymer and polar monomers selected from the group of carboxylic acids, alkyl acrylates and vinyl acetates. It is preferably 0.01 to about 99.5% neutralized with metal ions selected from sodium, potassium, zinc, calcium, magnesium, lithium, aluminum, nickel, and chromium. The cycloolefin polymer is preferably an ethylene-norbornene copolymer. The invention also relates to the applications of such blends to improved impact resistant molded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Karlheinz Hausmann
  • Gel catalysts and process for preparing thereof
    Patent number: 6696388
    Abstract: A gel composition substantially contained within the pores of a solid material for use as a catalyst or as a catalyst support in dehydrogenation and dehydrocyclization processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Kostantinos Kourtakis, Leo E. Manzer
  • Toilet brush
    Patent number: 6694559
    Abstract: A toilet brush having a frame member (1), a handle portion (3) and a brush portion (5). The brush portion includes front bristles (13) for cleaning a toilet bowl and rearwardly extending bristles (15) for cleaning the lip of a toilet. The bristles and a soft covering (19) of the handle have been moulded onto the frame member using a soft rubbery plastics composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. D. Oates Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Alina Kaye Sloan, Barry William Crone, Dean Lynton Holmes, Jan-Anders Schjottelvig
  • Disk with holographic security label applied thereto and method of applying label
    Patent number: 6697178
    Abstract: An optical disk has a holographic security label applied in a recessed portion of the disk. An associated method of applying a holographic label to a recessed portion of an optical disk is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Michael Jay Anderson
  • Cable, in particular for transport or distribution of electrical energy and insulating composition
    Patent number: 6696154
    Abstract: Electrical cable having at least one conducting element, at least one polyolefin-based insulating covering layer, in which said insulating covering layer has at least one voltage stabilizer, said voltage stabilizer being a benzophenone substituted with at least one group selected from alkyl, arylalkyl and alkylaryl wherein said group: a) is linked to a phenyl ring of the benzophenone directly or via an oxygen bridge (-O-); b) contains, optionally, one or more oxygen bridges (-O-); and c) is optionally linked to a phenyl ring of at least one or other benzophenone group, provided that when said at least one group is an alkyl, optionally substituted, the carbon atom of said alkyl which is directly linked to a phenyl ring of said benzophenone is tertiary. A polyolefin-based insulating composition having at least one voltage stabilizer as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi E Sistemi S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luca Martinotto, Franco Peruzzotti, Marcello Del Brenna
  • Genes encoding sulfate assimilation proteins
    Patent number: 6696292
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a sulfate assimilation protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the sulfate assimilation protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the sulfate assimilation protein in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Saverio Carl Falco, Catherine J. Thorpe
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: D487062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: M. E. Heuck Co.
    Inventor: Gary D. Foster