Patents Assigned to Rational
  • Patent number: 10822138
    Abstract: A packaging assembly, including corrugated corner elements, each corrugated corner element having a first corner post element leg, extending from a vertex of the corrugated corner element and having one or more alternating ridges and grooves, and a second corner post element leg, extending from the vertex, away from the first corner post element leg, and having one or more alternating ridges and grooves; and at least two endcap elements, each comprising at least one tray layer attached or coupled to at least one support layer, wherein the tray layer extends to four corners and the support layer includes a corner recess formed proximate each corner of the tray layer, wherein each corner recess is formed so as to mateingly engage at least a portion of the first end portion or the second end portion of one of the corrugated corner elements at least partially therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Rational Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Samuel C. Voorhees
  • Patent number: 10535231
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
  • Patent number: 10431051
    Abstract: A system for computer gaming includes a processor configured to provide a first table of a first group of players grouped together to play a first hand and provide to each of the first group of players one or more cards for the first hand. The system includes an interface couple to the processor and configured to receive from a first player of the first group of players a request to fold the one or more cards of the first player. The processor is also configured to automatically move the first player to a second table of a second group of players grouped together to play a second hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Rational FT Enterprises Limited
    Inventors: Robert S. Burnside, Jerry W. Biesel
  • Patent number: 10410742
    Abstract: A method for documenting informed consent includes obtaining a video recording of a patient indicative of informed consent, communicating the video recording across a network for data storage, and storing the video recording in a computer readable data storage medium. The video may include additional portions of a patient encounter. A software application for executing on a computing device may provide a user interface for displaying an educational video to the individual using the software application executing on the computing device, the educational video containing educational content about the procedure for which the informed consent is desired, obtaining video evidencing informed consent for the procedure, administering a quiz to the individual, presenting a document for signature to the individual, receiving a signature for the document from the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Rational Surgical Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Fialkov
  • Patent number: 10366463
    Abstract: A method for documenting informed consent includes obtaining a video recording of a patient indicative of informed consent, communicating the video recording across a network for data storage, and storing the video recording in a computer readable data storage medium. The video may include additional portions of a patient encounter. A software application for executing on a computing device may provide a user interface for obtaining video evidencing informed consent for the procedure, administering a quiz to the individual, presenting a document for signature to the individual, receiving a signature for the document from the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Rational Surgical Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Fialkov
  • Patent number: 9848730
    Abstract: A food carrier for use in a cooking space of a cooking appliance has a first cooking area and a second cooking area on which a food to be cooked can be placed. The cooking areas can in particular be grilling areas. The first and the second cooking areas are arranged on opposite sides of the food carrier, and each of the first and second cooking areas has a structuring. The structuring of the first cooking area is different from the structuring of the second cooking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Rational Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Wolfgang Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 9750089
    Abstract: A cooking device has at least one pre-set parameter for at least one predetermined program, such as a cooking program, and/or cleaning program, and/or for at least one predetermined mode of operation, such as a cooking mode of operation or a cleaning mode of operation. The preset parameter can be modified by means of at least one modification function element of a control element of the cooking device. During a particular time period, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored by means of at least one confirmation and/or storage function element of the control element of the cooking device, and after a particular time period has elapsed, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored automatically by the cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Peter Wiedemann, Andrea Jürgens, Cornelia Dietmayer, Michael Greiner, Erwin Schuller, Gerd Funk, Thomas Treu
  • Patent number: 9557066
    Abstract: A cooking appliance including an interior, a fan mechanism having at least one fan wheel in the interior, at least one first flow directing member for subdividing the interior into a pressure chamber that houses the fan wheel and a cooking chamber, in which the first flow directing member includes at least one suction port for sucking atmosphere from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber when the fan wheel is in operation and at least one blow-off port for blowing atmosphere from the pressure chamber into the cooking chamber when the fan wheel is in operation; and at least one second flow directing member that is included with the fan mechanism in the area of the suction port of the first flow directing member in order to improve the flow from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber by forcing an axial main flow H in the suction zone of the fan mechanism, where the second flow directing member performs a nozzle function, extends from the fan mechanism into the cooking chamber, and overlaps the e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Ernst Claussen, Joachim J. Hylla, Oliver Witt, Yingan Xia, Michael Herner, Thomas Schreiner, Robert Kurth, Leonhard Ring, Aldo Paintner
  • Patent number: 9483898
    Abstract: A method of assigning a player-entry to a table so that said player-entry can participate in a hand of a particular card game at said table, wherein there is a plurality of players each having one or more respective player-entries for participating in a respective hand of said card game, wherein a player-entry that is actively participating in a hand of said card game may fold out of turn from said hand so as to no longer be actively participating in said hand, the method comprising: for a first player-entry of a first player, identifying an assignable table for said first player-entry from a plurality of tables for said card game, wherein a table is an assignable table for a particular player-entry if the assignment of said particular player-entry to said table cannot itself provide any player with further information about a hand in which an already assigned player-entry of said player is actively participating in addition to information about said hand that is available to said player only by virtue of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Rational FT Enterprises Limited
    Inventors: John Aaron Davidson, Darse Raymond Billings
  • Publication number: 20150176846
    Abstract: A method of displaying parameters of a cooking process involves a step in which an information window is provided within an indicating window. Further, a cooking intelligence applied is temporarily displayed in the information window. A cooking appliance display device can be used for displaying various parameters and steps of a cooking process and for making these available to an operator for interaction, with an information window being provided in which a currently applied cooking intelligence is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Rational Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Wiedemann, Jana Kirchgaessner, Sascha Barby, Gerd Funk, Torsten Brinkmann, Bruno Maas, Frank Marek, Anton Meindl, Wilhelm Maerz, Sonja Reich, Leonora Minisini, Wolfgang Schmidberger, Meike Stelljes
  • Patent number: 8992327
    Abstract: A method of controlling a game program adapted to operate a game in a device is disclosed. The method comprises accessing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event. The occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device is detected, and the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event is performed in response to detection of the defined state or event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Peter Olof Karsten
  • Patent number: 8986250
    Abstract: A drug delivery platform is provided for delivering a controlled infusion of a drug to an individual. The drug delivery platform includes a reservoir for receiving the drug therein and a pressure source engageable with the reservoir. The pressure source is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration wherein the pressure source exerts a pressure on the reservoir to urge the drug therefrom. An output conduit is provided for transmitting the drug into the individual. An actuation mechanism is operatively connected to the pressure source and the output conduit. The actuation mechanism is movable between a non-actuated position and an actuated position wherein pressure source moves from the first configuration to the second configuration and wherein the input of the output conduit communicates with the drug and the output end of the output conduit is receivable in the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Ration, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Beebe, Benjamin J. Moga, Tony Escarcega, Kent Chase
  • Patent number: 8891904
    Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Sergey Ignatchenko, Victor Gavrysh, Dmitri Ligoum
  • Patent number: 8864588
    Abstract: A method of controlling a game program adapted to operate a game in a device is disclosed. The method comprises accessing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event. The occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device is detected, and the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event is performed in response to detection of the defined state or event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Peter Olof Karsten
  • Patent number: 8734877
    Abstract: A method relates to adjusting a parameter of a process to be executed in a cooking appliance. The parameter has a range of values. The method includes displaying a set of pictorial depictions on a display. Each pictorial depiction represents one of the values in the range. A manual selection from among the pictorial depictions is input. The process is executed in accordance with the value represented by the manually selected pictorial depiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Regina Hömme, Michael Greiner, Judith Kling
  • Patent number: 8727850
    Abstract: A system for computer gaming includes a processor configured to provide a first table of a first group of players grouped together to play a first hand and provide to each of the first group of players one or more cards for the first hand. The system includes an interface couple to the processor and configured to receive from a first player of the first group of players a request to fold the one or more cards of the first player. The processor is also configured to automatically move the first player to a second table of a second group of players grouped together to play a second hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Rational FT Enterprises Limited
    Inventors: Robert S. Burnside, Jerry W. Biesel
  • Patent number: D729829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Rational Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Manish J. Amin, Charles A. Bammel, Antonio Cantu, Michael L. Higuera, Viren H. Kapadia, Patrick O. Reed, Ian C. Wells
  • Patent number: D908004
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rational Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Samuel C. Voorhees
  • Patent number: D908005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rational Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Samuel C. Voorhees
  • Patent number: D908007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rational Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Samuel C. Voorhees