Patents Assigned to kinetic
  • Patent number: 8459620
    Abstract: There is described a shock absorber strut for a bicycle, comprising a piston (12), a cylinder (13) and a resilient element (20) positioned within the cylinder. The piston extends out of one end of the cylinder, and the other end of the cylinder is closed by a casing made up of two housing halves. Mounting bushings are integrally formed in the housing halves and on the piston end, respectively, for fixing the shock absorber to a bicycle frame. The piston (12) can be withdrawn from the cylinder (13) by a simple tension, without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Karbon Kinetics Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Thorpe
  • Patent number: 8461701
    Abstract: A vehicle energy harvester including a subunit having an upper surface forming a roadway surface; a vehicle activated treadle on the subunit, the vehicle activated treadle moveable between a first position in which an upper surface of the treadle is at an angle with respect to the upper surface of the roadway surface and a second position in which the upper surface of the treadle is flush with the upper surface of the roadway surface; a generator that generates power in response to movement of the vehicle activated treadle; and a treadle locking device that selectively locks the vehicle activated treadle in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Kinetic Energy Corporation
    Inventor: Eugene J. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 8426572
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for recombinant protein production and, more particularly, fusion polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding fusion polypeptides, expression vectors, kits, and related methods for recombinant protein production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Molecular Kinetics Incorporated
    Inventors: Aaron A. Santner, Carrie Hughes Croy, Farha Huseini Vasanwala, Vladimir N. Uversky, A. Keith Dunker
  • Patent number: 8419803
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for producing flowable compositions, e.g. pastes, that set into calcium phosphate products are provided. In the subject methods, dry reactants that include a calcium source and a phosphate source are combined with a setting fluid to produce the flowable composition. A feature of the subject methods is that the dry reactants include a particulate calcium and/or phosphate reactant having a mean particle size of less than about 8 ?m and narrow size distribution. Also provided are the compositions themselves as well as kits for use in practicing the subject methods. The subject methods and compositions produced thereby find use in a variety of applications, including the repair of hard tissue defects, e.g., bone defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Skeletal Kinetics LLC
    Inventors: Brent R. Constantz, David Delaney, Duran Yetkinler
  • Patent number: 8410079
    Abstract: The present invention discloses certain chirally correct polyene cyclodextrin acetals and hemiacetals (formula I) that are effective in providing skin clarification, which is useful for the treatment of acne, and skin disfigurements and skin darkening resulting from acne; skin darkening from cancer, diabetes, radiation treatments, chemotherapy, and sun-burn; mitochondrial and DNA dysfunction; age spots; loss of cellular antioxidants; skin changes associated with aging including collagen loss, loss of skin pliability, loss of skin suppleness, skin wrinkles and fine lines, oxidation, damage from radiation, damage from free radicals, and damage from UV; dry skin; xerosis; ichthyosis; dandruff; brownish spots; keratoses; melasma; lentigines; liver spots; skin pigmentation including pigmented spots, dark circles under the eyes, darkened skin, and blemishes; oily skin; warts; eczema; pruritic skin; psoriasis; inflammatory dermatoses; topical inflammation; disturbed keratinization; scalp dryness, and combinations th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Island Kinetics
    Inventors: David Wayne Peter, John Dillon Stanek, Cheria L. Orozco, Shyam K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 8409538
    Abstract: Methods for preparing a tricalcium phosphate coarse particle composition are provided. Aspects of the methods include converting an initial tricalcium phosphate particulate composition to hydroxyapatite, sintering the resultant hydroxyapatite to produce a second tricalcium phosphate composition and then mechanically manipulating the second tricalcium phosphate composition to produce a tricalcium phosphate coarse particle composition. The subject methods and compositions produced thereby find use in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Skeletal Kinetics LLC
    Inventors: Sahil Jalota, David C. Delaney, Duran N. Yetkinler
  • Patent number: 8403987
    Abstract: This description deals with a medical device, specifically a prosthetic intervertebral disc having a compressible core bounded by a fiber-containing or fiber-reinforced membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Kinetics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Reo, Elizabeth V. Wistrom, Frank Fellenz, Thomas A. Afzal
  • Patent number: 8398404
    Abstract: The system and method to advance human performance in sighting, tracking, recognizing, and reacting to (collectively “engaging”) moving and stationary objects, for example, advancing skill in engaging targets with a firearm. System components include software and hardware that provide target and non-target image stimuli that can be manually or automatically generated as stationary or moving stimuli in a blank or a rendered scene environment. The methods including increase stimuli movement speeds and/or reducing the interval between or the time for which stimuli are displayed until the trainee fails to properly engage the stimuli, then reduce the movement speeds and/or increase the interval time to levels at which the trainee properly engages the stimuli. By repeating training methods with increasing speed, the trainee will be conditioned to achieve proper stimuli engagement with increasingly elevated speed and accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Conflict Kinetics LLC
    Inventor: Brian Stanley
  • Patent number: 8394938
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for recombinant protein production and, more particularly, fusion polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding fusion polypeptides, expression vectors, kits, and related methods for recombinant protein production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Molecular Kinetics Incorporated
    Inventors: Aaron A. Santner, Carrie Hughes Croy, Farha Huseini Vasanwala, Vladimir N. Uversky, A. Keith Dunker
  • Patent number: 8395249
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally include methods of sealing a cavity in a device structure. The cavity may be opened by etching away sacrificial material that may define the cavity volume. Material from below the cavity may be sputter etched and redeposited over and in passageways leading to the cavity to thereby seal the cavity. Material may be sputter etched from above the cavity and redeposited in the passageways leading to the cavity as well. The sputter etching may occur in a substantially inert atmosphere. As the sputter etching is a physical process, little or no sputter etched material will redeposit within the cavity itself. The inert gases may sweep out any residual gases that may be present in the cavity after the cavity has been opened. Thus, after the sputter etching, the cavity may be substantially filled with inert gases that do not negatively impact the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Cavendish Kinetics, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mickael Renault
  • Patent number: 8395763
    Abstract: A passive optical element defining an optical propagation path is tested by coupling a buffer fiber between an input of the propagation path and an optical time domain reflectometer. The OTDR launches optical radiation into the buffer fiber via one end thereof, measures power level of return light received at the OTDR via the buffer fiber, and creates an OTDR signature representing power level of return light as a function of distance from the end of the buffer fiber. The OTDR selects a first marker point by applying data reduction to a portion of a segment of the OTDR signature corresponding to the buffer fiber, selects a second marker point downstream of the input of the optical propagation path, and calculates a first power difference value as difference between a power level at the first marker point and a power level at the second marker point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Photon Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl W. Clawson, Barry S. Gill, Warren R. Hill
  • Patent number: 8394851
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method to inhibit a free radical, including a mitochondrial free radical, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a composition comprising a compound of formula (I: a, b), an isomer, or a salt thereof:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Island Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shyam K Gupta, Linda Walker
  • Patent number: 8377138
    Abstract: Prosthetic intervertebral discs, systems including such prosthetic intervertebral discs, and methods for using the same are described. The subject prosthetic discs include upper and lower endplates separated by a compressible core member. The subject prosthetic discs exhibit stiffness in the vertical direction, torsional stiffness, bending stiffness in the saggital plane, and bending stiffness in the front plane, where the degree of these features can be controlled independently by adjusting the components, construction, and other features of the discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Kinetics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Reo, Darin C. Gittings
  • Patent number: 8377145
    Abstract: An adjustable pylon to be used with a prosthetic limb. The adjustable pylon including a fixed tube having an attachment end to attach to the prosthetic limb, a receiving end, and a retainer bulkhead with a hole. The adjustable pylon including an adjustable tube having an attachment end to attach to the prosthetic limb, an insert end sized to fit inside the fixed tube, a threaded bulkhead with a threaded hole inside the adjustable tube. The adjustable pylon including a length adjustment screw including a threaded body and a centering post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Kinetic Revolutions, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Geiger, Jeremy Frank, Jeff Quelet, Jeffery M Brandt
  • Publication number: 20130033677
    Abstract: A high speed pupil dilation tracking can be incorporated into a light-weight VOG system which includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection. An EOG system may be incorporated directly into a VOG system base. The digital camera may digitally center the pupil in both the X and Y directions. A calibration mechanism may be incorporated onto the VOG system base. The VOG system may track and record head position and VOG system base slippage. An animated eye display may provide data in a more meaningful fashion. The VOG system may be a modular design whereby the same goggle frame or base is used to build a variety of digital camera VOG systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Neuro Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamish G. MacDougall, Alexander D. Kiderman, John Howison Schroeder, Thomas C. Joos, Floris L. Wuyts, Steven T. Moore
  • Patent number: 8361154
    Abstract: The described devices are bound spinal implants that may be surgically implanted into the spine to replace damaged or diseased discs using a posterior approach. The discs are prosthetic devices that approach or mimic the physiological motion and reaction of the natural disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Kinetics Inc.
    Inventor: Michael L. Reo
  • Patent number: 8347585
    Abstract: A method of installing distribution systems such as needed piping, ductwork, electrical wiring, and other systems in a new construction having a structural ceiling and floor, comprises the steps of: providing a frame module of main and cross frame members; assembling the modules on site directly below the final placement position; installing ductwork, piping, electrical wiring, and other distribution systems in the modules; fabricating and attaching upper wall portions to the modules; lifting modules with attached upper wall portions towards the structural ceiling; attaching support columns to the structural ceiling and floor; and mounting the modules onto the support columns, such that the support columns support the modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kinetics Noise Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Meisel, Richard Sherren, Gregory Hively, Angela Waters
  • Patent number: 8338581
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for recombinant protein production and, more particularly, fusion polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding fusion polypeptides, expression vectors, kits, and related methods for recombinant protein production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Molecular Kinetics Incorporated
    Inventors: Aaron A. Santner, Carrie Hughes Croy, Farha Huseini Vasanwala, Vladimir N. Uversky, A. Keith Dunker
  • Patent number: D676966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kinetic Spine Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: R. John Hurlbert, Stephan J. Duplessis, Lali Sekhon
  • Patent number: RE44246
    Abstract: A method of enclosing a micromechanical element formed between a base layer and one or more metallization layers includes forming one or more encapsulating layers over the micromechanical element and providing an encapsulating wall surrounding the element extending between the base layer and the one or more encapsulating layers. An electrical connection is provided between the base layers and the one or more metallization layers formed above the micromechanical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Cavendish Kinetics Limited
    Inventor: Willem Matthijs Heuvelman