Patents Assigned to M
  • Publication number: 20180287768
    Abstract: A femtocell telecommunication system equipment comprising: a base apparatus structured to provide a first information signal and control signals; an electrical conductor based transmission line connected to the base apparatus; and a bidirectional conversion apparatus adapted to receive/transmit from/on the transmission line the first signal, and receive on the transmission line the control signals. The bidirectional apparatus comprising: a processing module structured to process the first signal to generate a second information signal and vice-versa; the second signal being adapted to be transmitted/received by an antenna device connectable to the bidirectional apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Umberto Spagnolini, Jonathan Gambini, Mauro Arigossi
  • Patent number: 10087355
    Abstract: An oil-based drilling fluid and method of preparing an oil-based drilling fluid are disclosed. The oil-based drilling fluid comprising a base oil continuous phase, an aqueous discontinuous phase, and at least one rheology modifier. The at least one rheology modifier including an alkaline-earth diamondoid compound. The method of preparing the oil-based drilling fluid including mixing a base oil, at least one emulsifier, and at least one wetting agent to form a first mixture, adding and mixing at least one rheology modifier into the first mixture to form a second mixture, adding and mixing at least one fluid-loss control additive into the second mixture to form a third mixture, adding and mixing a brine solution into the third mixture to form a fourth mixture, and adding and mixing a weighting additive into the fourth mixture to form the oil-based drilling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Durham University, M-I Drilling Fluids U.K. Limited
    Inventors: Musarrat H. Mohammed, Hugh Christopher Greenwell, Manohara Gudiyor Veerabhadrappa, John Adrian Hall, Gasan Selman Alabedi, Andrew Whiting, Michael Hayward Hodder
  • Patent number: 10086409
    Abstract: A system and a method tension a screen having a generally rectangular shape defined by a length and a width. The screen has a profile with a shape extending the length of the screen. A rod has a channel configured to receive the shape of the profile of the screen therein. The rod has a plurality of segmented portions such that a first segmented portion of the plurality of segmented portions is separable from a second segmented portion of the plurality of segmented portions. The screen is positioned on a frame. The rod is positioned parallel to the length of the frame on two sides. A clamping mechanism tensions the screen with respect to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventor: Mark Heitfeld
  • Patent number: 10086526
    Abstract: A puffer pan comprises a plurality of pan segments and one or more air chambers that include a plurality of groups of nozzles. Each panel segment is associated with a group of nozzles configured to blow scrap across the panel segment to at least a next location. For a subset of panel segments, the next location is an adjacent panel segment. For an end panel segment, the next location is off the puffer pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GEO. M. MARTIN COMPANY
    Inventor: Daniel J. Talken
  • Patent number: 10087382
    Abstract: A number of variations may include a product including a fluid additive including at least one asphaltene dispersant/inhibitor including a branched dendritic core and at least one carboxylic acid moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Schlumberger Norge AS, M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Tore Nordvik, Anders Grinrod, Rachael Anne Cole, Astrid Lone, Chandrashekhar Yeshwant Khandekar
  • Patent number: 10087066
    Abstract: Liquid collection and transport device includes a liquid collection tank having an inlet on an upper portion and an outlet on a lower portion. There is a detachable cap on the inlet for retaining a liquid in the tank during transport. A drain is provided on the outlet, and the drain has a valve for controlling the collection and removal of liquid from the tank. A cart includes a frame which releasably secures the tank on the cart, and the tank is slidable relative to the frame, so that the location of the drain relative to the cart can be varied. The liquid collection and transport device may have a handle provided on the valve to open and close the valve, the handle being provided adjacent the upper portion of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: M & E Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald M. Hall
  • Patent number: 10085816
    Abstract: A collector includes a container body defining an interior containment space and having an open end for access, and a cap in covering relation to the open end and having an opening for receiving therein a distal end of a kerrison-type rongeur. An improvement includes the cap including a first plurality of scrapers in the form of fingers for engaging and dislodging cut bone from the cutting area of the distal end of the rongeur and a second plurality of scrapers in the form of wipers for engaging and dislodging cut bone from the cutting area of the distal end of the rongeur when the distal end of the rongeur is withdrawn through the opening from the collector, the second plurality being arranged so as to permit insertion of the distal end of the rongeur through the opening into the collector without engaging the distal end of the rongeur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: H & M INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Morgan Starkey
  • Patent number: 10087213
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods, compositions, uses, and kits for purifying a protein of interest (POI) comprising contacting a first fusion protein comprising the POI fused to the C-terminus of an intein C-fragment with a second fusion protein comprising an intein N-fragment and a purification tag to form a complex between the first fusion protein and the second fusion protein, cleaving the POI from the intein C-fragment, wherein the protein is released from the complex; and isolating the POI; the present invention also includes fusion proteins and vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    Inventors: Zhilei Chen, Miguel A. Ramirez, Dongli Guan
  • Patent number: 10086408
    Abstract: A vibratory separator includes a screen frame having an upper screen surface and a plurality of openings and a first screen insert disposed in a first opening of the plurality of openings of the screen frame, the screen insert having a screen surface positioned at a first height above the supper screen surface. The vibratory separator also includes a second screen insert disposed in a second opening of the plurality of openings of the second screen frame, wherein a screen surface of the second screen insert is positioned at a second height. The second height may be different from the first height. A method of processing fluid includes providing a flow of fluid to a vibratory separator, and flowing the fluid over a screen having a first screen insert positioned at a first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: M-I L.L.C., UNITED WIRE, LTD.
    Inventors: Eric Cady, Graham Alexander Robertson, Claire Rosaleen Galloway McLean, LaTosha Moore, Andrew Ralph
  • Patent number: 10090983
    Abstract: A method for configuring communication in a wireless communication system includes obtaining, at a first network node, information indicating a plurality of candidate subframes for downlink transmissions to a wireless communication device in a first cell served by the first network node. Each candidate subframe satisfies a candidate condition that relates to transmissions in a second cell during that subframe. The method also includes determining, based on the obtained information, a number of copies of an uplink transmission a wireless communication device should transmit in consecutive uplink subframes so that a downlink transmission related to the uplink transmission will occur during one of the candidate subframes. Additionally, the method includes configuring the wireless communication device to transmit the determined number of copies of the uplink transmission in consecutive subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Shaohua Li, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 10091763
    Abstract: A method for supporting paging of user terminals by a base station that supports first and second paging modes, the second paging mode providing extended coverage relative to the first paging mode and using more resources than the first paging mode is provided. The method includes determining that the second paging mode is needed for a user terminal, and then initiating paging of the user terminal according to the second paging mode, in response to the determining. In some embodiments, the node is a mobility management node, and initiating paging of the user terminal includes sending, to the base station, a message ordering the base station to page the user terminal according to the second paging mode. In other embodiments, the node is the base station, and initiating paging includes transmitting one or more paging messages using a message format corresponding to the second paging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Johan Bergman, Konstantinos Dimou, Erik Eriksson, Anders Wallén
  • Publication number: 20180271178
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to a baby sleeping garment. The baby sleeping garment comprises a wrap portion configured to receive the body of the baby or infant and at least partially wrap around the body of the baby or infant; and at least one arm portion attached to the wrap portion around at least part of the arm pocket's perimeter to define at least one arm pocket sized to receive at least one arm of the baby or infant. The arm pocket has an opening configured to allow the at least one arm of the baby or infant to be inserted into the arm pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: S & M TRADING PTY LTD
    Inventor: Lourdes Villarreal
  • Patent number: 10084561
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a network node determines configuration information associated with a wireless device. The configuration information is indicative of interference mitigation capabilities of the wireless device. The network determines, based on the configuration information, whether assistance information may improve an ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference. In response to determining that the assistance information may improve the ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference, the network node sends the assistance information. The assistance information includes information used by the wireless device to mitigate interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Shaohua Li, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 10085156
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively enabling Robust Header Compression (RoHC) for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a data radio bearer for a VoIP call is established between a base station and a mobile terminal. During the VoIP call, a radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer is monitored. When the radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer satisfies a predefined coverage-based condition, the base station enables RoHC for the VoIP call. In one preferred embodiment, the radio frequency parameter is a Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) for the data radio bearer for the VoIP call, and the predefined coverage-based condition is a predefined SINR threshold below which the base station enables RoHC. By enabling RoHC in this manner, RoHC resources are selectively made available for those VoIP calls that will benefit most from increased cell coverage provided by RoHC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jayson Chan, Alexander Langereis, Eva Englund
  • Patent number: 10081842
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides gene expression profiles that are associated with prostate cancer. The gene expression profiles can be used to detect prostate cancer cells in a sample and to distinguish between well differentiated (WD) prostate cancer and poorly differentiated (PD) prostate cancer. Also provided is an array comprising oligonucleotide probes for detecting the unique gene signature associated with WD and/or PD prostate cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiv K. Srivastava, Gyorgy Petrovics
  • Patent number: 10081156
    Abstract: A floor mat made of a rubber sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface with spaced-apart lugs extending therefrom, each lug having a pair of opposing nibs spaced-apart to define a passage therebetween with a longitudinal axis in a selected direction and the selected direction different from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the passage in an adjacent lug, which lugs cooperatively resist movement of the mat in response to loading by foot and wheeled cart traffic across the floor mat disposed on a floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: M+A MATTING, LLC
    Inventor: William Leon Tillery
  • Patent number: 10081658
    Abstract: The instant application provides methods and related compositions pertaining to novel HIV envelope proteins. In some embodiments, the invention relates to methods and compositions for the preparation, production, and administration of isolated novel HIV envelope nucleic acid and protein sequences suitable, for example, as vaccines against HIV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicines, Inc.
    Inventors: Vaniambadi Kalyanaraman, Stephen Whitney, Thomas C. VanCott, Victoria Polonis, Carl Alving, Gary R. Matyas, Mangala Rao, Mary Marovich, Francine McCutchan, Sodsai Tovanabutra, Eric Sanders-Buell
  • Patent number: 10080734
    Abstract: A method for treating autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders including the step of administering an effective amount of an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to a human, wherein the isothiocyanate functional surfactant comprises at least one isothiocyanate functional group associated with an aliphatic and/or aromatic carbon atom of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant. The administration of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant may be augmented with a NMDA-receptor antagonist and/or a TNF-? inhibiting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: The William M. Yarbrough foundation
    Inventor: Michael E. Silver
  • Patent number: 10085019
    Abstract: Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: M&K HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
  • Patent number: 10081755
    Abstract: Cement compositions containing a cement component and an oil-immiscible solvent and methods for using same are provided. In another aspect, methods for sealing subterranean zones are provided that include emplacing a cement composition into a wellbore containing a cement component and an oil-immiscible solvent, contacting the cement composition with a water source, and reacting the cement composition with the water source to form a hardened cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: M-I Drilling Fluids UK Ltd
    Inventor: David Ballard