Patents Assigned to Metrics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20160174924
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for determining spinal instability, more particularly, a method for quantifying the type and extent of spinal instability in a standardized way. The disclosure also describes a method comprising measurement of the intervertebral rotation and intervertebral translation between a vertebrae pair using simple images, and from these measurements, determining if one or more vertebrae pair of the spine is unstable. Finally, the disclosure describes software that may be used to quantify the type and extent of spinal instability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Medical Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. HIPP, Nicholas WHARTON
  • Patent number: 9326099
    Abstract: A concert profiling server (CPS) obtains and analyzes information about a venue hosting a music concert and mobile phone location information related to the audience members attending the concert. Based on this information, the CPS determines the size of the audience in attendance. The CPS also obtains and analyzes sentiment information related to audience members at the concert with which the CPS determines the audience's sentiment toward the concert as favorable or unfavorable. The CPS further obtains and analyzes other information with which it makes a profile of the demographics of the audience and the audience members' levels of engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Popular Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Duncan Freeman, John Elmore
  • Patent number: 9323836
    Abstract: A set of data pertaining to artists and other content creators is retrieved periodically from various Internet-connected sources, the data being characterized as both quantitative and qualitative data. The data is analyzed through various means, including sentiment analysis, to produce quantitative information, including a score or set of scores, that is descriptive of an artist's popularity as well as the ranking of an artist among other artists within a category or set of categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Popular Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Duncan Freeman, John Edward Elmore
  • Patent number: 9314056
    Abstract: A foldable breathing mask formed with a deep-drawn mask body and sufficiently rigid so as to retain its shape and including at least one fold line for a storage folding of the mask body is a predefined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Skov, Torben Skov, Heinz Wandel, Frank Kern
  • Patent number: 9282390
    Abstract: A multi-piece dual mode headphone, including: a molded elongated member, a rear molded insert member and an intermediate member all together forming a headphone with a channel extending through the interior of the headphone. A small speaker for transmitting sound energy is positioned in the headphone to direct the sound energy through the channel to the eardrum. The molded rear insert member includes a cap member and with positioning of the cap member providing for the headphone being in a first mode of operation where the channel extending through the interior of the headphone is open and a second mode of operation where the channel extending through the interior of the headphone is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventor: Crest Turdjian
  • Patent number: 9265463
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for determining spinal instability, more particularly, a method for quantifying the type and extent of spinal instability in a standardized way. The disclosure also describes a method comprising measurement of the intervertebral rotation and intervertebral translation between a vertebrae pair using simple images, and from these measurements, determining if one or more vertebrae pair of the spine is unstable. Finally, the disclosure describes software that may be used to quantify the type and extent of spinal instability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Medical Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Hipp, Nicholas Wharton
  • Patent number: 9122749
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to the field of applications for Internet based websites. Moreover, it pertains specifically to a system and method for wagering on an artist. In the preferred embodiment, system participants use an electronic exchange to place wagers related to the popularity profile of an artist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Popular Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Elmore, Duncan Freeman
  • Patent number: 9089722
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter cartridge for an air filtering device, in particular for a filtering face mask and a method for manufacturing a filter cartridge, comprising a stiff cup-shaped casing having a bottom and a circumferential sidewall extending at least section-wise parallel to one axis, a stiff discoidal lid and a filter bed of loose filter material compressed between the lid and the casing, the lid and the bottom containing each at least one through-hole so that air to be filtered passes through the filter bed, and at least one of the lid and the bottom being curved to at least one direction, whereby the lid is at least essentially arranged within the casing, the outermost contour of the lid close-fitting to the inner contour of the sidewall, and fixed thereto by a direct connection, particularly by a non-detachable connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Torben Skov, Roman Skov, Frank Kern
  • Publication number: 20150148071
    Abstract: A concert profiling server (CPS) obtains and analyzes information about a venue hosting a music concert and mobile phone location information related to the audience members attending the concert. Based on this information, the CPS determines the size of the audience in attendance. The CPS also obtains and analyzes sentiment information related to audience members at the concert with which the CPS determines the audience's sentiment toward the concert as favorable or unfavorable. The CPS further obtains and analyzes other information with which it makes a profile of the demographics of the audience and the audience members' levels of engagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Popular Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Elmore, Duncan Freeman
  • Patent number: 9022337
    Abstract: Apparatus for securing products are provided. Each of a pair of elongate retaining members is pivotally secured at a first end of a base. Each of a pair of carriages is movable along a corresponding one of the retaining members and fixable to the corresponding one of the retaining members at a plurality of locations. Each carriage has a clip for capturing a projecting portion of the product. A stop member engages a portion of the product spaced apart from the projecting portions captured by the clips. The stop member is movable toward the clips in a single degree of freedom and is fixable to the base at a plurality of locations along the degree of freedom. Methods of securing a product using the apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Halo Metrics Inc.
    Inventor: John Michael Petruskavich
  • Publication number: 20150084235
    Abstract: A respirator mask and a method of making the respirator mask that includes a lens member and a plurality of buckle members spaced around the lens member. A flange member is overmolded to the lens member and to the spaced buckle members at the same time by the following method. A mold member is provided to have individual mold supports to individually receive and support the lens member and to individually receive and support the buckle members at the spaced positions around the lens member. The mold member forms a flange cavity around the lens member and extending to the buckle members. The lens member is positioned within its individual mold support and the buckle members are positioned within their individual mold supports at the spaced positions around the lens member. The molding material is then injected into the flange cavity to form a flange that overmolds to the lens member while at the same time overmolds to the buckle members to form the respirator mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventor: Eric P. Rose
  • Patent number: 8910663
    Abstract: A uni-directional valve for an air path of a ventilation device. A flexible valve element is held biased in a housing of the uni-directional valve to close at least one air passage located in a sealing section and with a sealing portion to at least partially open the air passage if the valve element is impinged by a sufficient air pressure against the bias. The valve element is designed as cylinder and the sealing portion is located on the lateral surface of the cylinder. The sealing portion is located opposite to a support portion located on the lateral surface of the cylinder. The support portion interacts with a support section of the housing. The distance between the support section and the sealing section of the housing is smaller than the distance between the support portion and the sealing portion in the unbiased state of the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Kern, Torben Skov
  • Publication number: 20140345607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a breathing mask, in particular for human beings, comprising a flexible mask body designed to fit over a mouth and nose on a user's face, at least one sealing lip for a gas-proof fit on the user's face, comprising at least one inhalation valve penetrating the mask body, a filter material assigned to the inhalation valve and an exhalation valve penetrating the mask body. It is intended that a manually actuable test valve is arranged downstream of the exhalation valve and designed to provide a gas passage from the exhalation valve to the surroundings in its normal state and to close said passage in its actuated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventor: ROMAN SKOV
  • Patent number: 8858993
    Abstract: Tablets for the controlled release of an active ingredient in a zero-order or near zero-order fashion are provided. The tablet includes a core and a coating. The core includes at least one active pharmaceutical agent and a polyethylene oxide with a molecular weight of between about 1,000,000 and 10,000,000, preferably between about 4,000,000 and 8,000,000. The core material is optionally, but preferably, coated with a cellulosic material. The active pharmaceutical agent can be hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or amphiphilic. When the active pharmaceutical agent is a hydrophilic agent, it is preferred that the coating is a relatively hydrophobic cellulose, such as ethylcellulose or propylcellulose. However, if the tablet is uncoated, it can provide a near-zero-order release rate rather than a zero-order release rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Gold, Patrick Brian Woodall
  • Publication number: 20140290662
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter material for respirator masks. The filter material comprises a filter material layer that is pleated so as to form a plurality of folds, said filter material layer comprising a filter layer and a first netting layer. The invention is characterized in that the filter material layer comprises a second netting layer disposed on the filter layer on the side opposite to said first netting layer. The invention additionally relates to a respirator mask comprising such a filter material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventor: Frank Kern
  • Patent number: 8843754
    Abstract: This invention discloses a system for determining whether a purported or alleged authorized user is in fact the authorized user, by comparing new data on a real-time basis against probability distribution representations including an authorized user probability distribution representation and a global or wide population probability distribution representation, to provide a probability as to whether the purported authorized user is the authorized user. This invention may utilize keyboard dynamics or data, or X-Y device data, or other data from similar measurable characteristics, to determine the probability that the new data from the purported authorized user indicates or identifies that user as the authorized user. This invention identifies the user continuously as the user interacts with the system and to identify a change in situation in the environment of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Identity Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert Lewis Alward, Timothy Erickson Meehan, James Joseph Straub, III, Robert Michael Hust, Erik Watson Hutchinson, Michael Patrick Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140246029
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of making a corded earplug, including a flexible cord material having a particular cross-section. An earplug having a nose portion for insertion into the ear and a handle portion extending from the nose portion and lying outside of the ear when the nose portion is inserted into the ear. The handle portion including at least two openings physically displaced from each other. At least one of the openings extends within the handle portion and with at least one of the openings having a cross-section different than the cross-section of the cord material. An end portion of the flexible cord material is inserted into the at least one opening extending within the handle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Magidson, Crest Turdjian, Fred Ryan
  • Patent number: D721960
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry L Grimsley
  • Patent number: D735419
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Rose, Timothy Milberger, Raffaele Mazzei, Doug Cooke, Kit Ho
  • Patent number: D744171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Rose, Andreas Mutze, Raffaele Mazzei