Patents Examined by E. To
  • Patent number: 10434423
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for preventing a patron from starting an inactive player in a fantasy sports system. An application program is executed on one or more computing devices. The application obtains information from a fantasy sports system about a patron's current roster and monitors sports players on the patron's roster to determine if any become inactive. The patron is notified if a player becomes inactive and can choose to substitute an alternative sports player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Pete Sirianni
  • Patent number: 10435476
    Abstract: There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-JAG1 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind JAG1, JAG1-binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and JAG1-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating or diagnosing subjects having JAG1 related disorders or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Barbara A. Swanson, Allyson Terry, Edwige Gros, Heyue Zhou
  • Patent number: 10438272
    Abstract: A method for managing an electronic commerce (e-commerce) shopping cart may include, in a computing device comprising a touch screen, memory, and at least one processor, receiving a selection of one of a plurality of web pages associated with an e-commerce web site. The selected one of the plurality of web pages and an indication of the e-commerce shopping cart may be displayed on the touch screen. The indication of the e-commerce shopping cart may be integrated for display into each of the plurality of web pages. While displaying the selected one of the plurality of web pages and the indication of the e-commerce shopping cart, at least one gesture event associated with the e-commerce shopping cart may be detected. Access to the e-commerce shopping cart may be enabled upon detecting the at least one gesture event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Sutton, Robert Hudson
  • Patent number: 10436458
    Abstract: Air heat exchangers are composed of a first air heat exchanger through a fourth air heat exchanger, which are formed in a L shape, which include long side portions and short side portions in a state where one end portion sides in an extension direction of tubes, in which a coolant is flowed, are bent; and each of the short side portions is disposed at a short hand side of a rectangular shape, in such a way that an arrangement shape of the first air heat exchanger through the fourth air heat exchanger is formed as a frame shape having a rectangular shape viewed from a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nishimoto, Yasushi Okoshi, Takuya Ito, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10436275
    Abstract: A gas strut includes a housing, a piston assembly, a dye, and a dye containment seal. The housing includes an inner surface defining a chamber extending along a centerline. The chamber includes a working portion and a dye storage portion disposed axially adjacent to the working portion. The piston assembly is constructed and arranged to reciprocate within the working portion, and the dye is located in the dye storage portion. The dye containment seal is disposed in the dye storage portion, and is constructed and arranged to transfigure from a normal state to a dye release state thereby releasing the dye upon the piston assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Himanshu H. Mehta, Jacob Duvall
  • Patent number: 10433528
    Abstract: Mice that comprise a replacement of endogenous mouse IL-6 and/or IL-6 receptor genes are described, and methods for making and using the mice. Mice comprising a replacement at an endogenous IL-6R? locus of mouse ectodomain-encoding sequence with human ectodomain-encoding sequence is provided. Mice comprising a human IL-6 gene under control of mouse IL-6 regulatory elements is also provided, including mice that have a replacement of mouse IL-6-encoding sequence with human IL-6-encoding sequence at an endogenous mouse IL-6 locus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Li-Hsien Wang, Anthony T. Dore, Jr., Sean Stevens, Andrew J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 10435965
    Abstract: An improved multi-bolt and nut torque wrench for installing and removing bolts or nuts from flanged joints or the like which includes a plurality of torque stations having a plurality of high torque wrenches for engaging the heads of the bolts or nuts during a high torque phase of removal or installation; a plurality of low-torque motors operatively engaged with the wrenches for rotating the bolts or nuts during the low torque phase of removal or installation; a source of hydraulic fluid for driving the low-torque motors during the low-torque phase, and driving the high-torque wrenches during the high torque phase; and a mechanism for switching between the two phases depending on the torque needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Dale Francis, Nicholas Francis, William P. Bernard, Oswald J. Bernard, Lan Hiscox, Brian Compton, Arthur Jones
  • Patent number: 10433486
    Abstract: A combine draper header and method of floating a wing of the same from a center section of the draper header. The wing is movably supported with respect to the center section to enable movement of the wing between a first position and a second position. The wing is supported with respect to the center section with a resilient float element. Increasing amounts of energy are stored in the resilient float element through movement of the wing from the first position to the second position. The resilient float element is re-oriented with a float linkage to reduce the mechanical advantage of the resilient float element for supporting the wing through movement of the wing from the first position to the second position, thus buffering the wing from a force increase from the resilient float element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael L. Vandeven, Joshua R. Pierson, Alex Brimeyer, Peter T. Swanson
  • Patent number: 10439291
    Abstract: A radio frequency surface wave attenuator structure is provided. The structure may be configured to be operably coupled with a plurality of other radio frequency surface wave attenuator structures to form a metamaterial. The radio frequency surface wave attenuator structure may include a patch disposed in a first plane and defining a patch area and a backplane disposed in a second plane and extending along the second plane to be shared with the other surface wave attenuator structures. The structure may further include a via spring having a number of turns and being comprised of a conductive material. The via spring may electrically couple the patch to the backplane. The structure may further include a dielectric disposed between the patch and the backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Grossman, Joseph A. Miragliotta, Adam J. Maisano, Douglas B. Trigg
  • Patent number: 10435277
    Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining a wind turbine generator includes at least, but is not limited to, a wind turbine connected to a wind turbine generator, the wind turbine generator is supported by a generator platform, a gearbox disposed between the wind turbine and said wind turbine generator, and a break assembly disposed between the gearbox and the wind turbine generator. The generator platform provides at least one maintenance stud adjacent the wind turbine generator, which is used to secure a portable crane to the generator platform. The portable crane includes at least, but is not limited to, a support member secured to a mounting plate, the support member extends from the mounting plate in an upward direction and at an angle that is less than a ninety degree angle relative to said mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: J & M Turbine Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald F. Stubbs
  • Patent number: 10437441
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a housing and a display exposed through one surface of the housing. The display is configured to detect a touch or gesture input and has a first radius. The electronic apparatus also has a processor and a memory which stores instructions executed to allow the processor to display a first region and a second region on the display, in which the first and the second regions are distinguished by a first curve having a second radius. Further, the processor may display first information on at least one part of the first region on the display, display second information on at least one part of the second region on the display, and change at least one part of the displayed first information in response to an input of selecting the at least one part of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ah-Reum Youn, Geon-Soo Kim, Han-Jib Kim
  • Patent number: 10436701
    Abstract: The present invention is a corrosion environment diagnosis system including: an environment measuring device that includes a temperature sensor that measures temperature in an electronic part serving as a diagnosis target or an indoor space in which an electronic device including the electronic part is installed, a humidity sensor that measures relative humidity in the indoor space or the electronic device, a corrosion sensor that measures a corrosion thickness of the diagnosis target, and a database in which indoor environment data including the temperature and the relative humidity measured by the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor and corrosion thickness data including the corrosion thickness measured by the corrosion sensor are accumulated; an outside air environment database in which outside air environment data including previous temperature and humidity of outside air is recorded; and a diagnostic processing device capable of receiving data of the outside air environment database and the enviro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Rintarou Minamitani
  • Patent number: 10435883
    Abstract: A flexible seal system for provision of a substantially watertight seal between adjacent concrete panels; said system comprising a first flexible seal member proximate a first end of one said concrete panel; said first flexible seal member including a surface component extending over a portion of an outer surface of said concrete panel; said surface component extending from at least one anchor component projecting from said surface component and embedded within said concrete panel; said first flexible seal member further including an overlap component extending from said surface component beyond said first end of said concrete panel; and a second flexible seal member proximate a second opposite end of an abutting said concrete panel; said second flexible seal member including a surface component extending over a portion of a surface of said abutting concrete panel; said surface component of said second flexible seal member extending from at least one anchor component projecting from said surface component an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Robert Edmund Curtis
  • Patent number: 10433485
    Abstract: A triplex greensmower open foot platform provides an opening in front of an operator seat providing visibility from the operator seat to a center reel cutting unit. The opening has sufficient dimensions for removal or installation of the center reel cutting unit or a grass catcher therethrough. A pair of platform sections provides a perimeter at least partially around the opening. Each of the platform sections including a footrest and a rearwardly extending coupling that is manually removable from the triplex greensmower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Chris Guillory, Brent G. Rinholm, Jeffrey D. Witwer, Jason M. Honeycutt
  • Patent number: 10434715
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a stress analysis engine efficiently computes stresses for an arbitrarily shaped three-dimension (3D) model. In operation, the stress analysis engine slices the 3D model into layers of cross-sections. The stress analysis engine then groups the cross-sections into virtual cross-sections. For each virtual cross-section, the stress analysis engine applies bending moment equilibrium-based equations to determine a corresponding structural stress for the 3D model. The efficiency of this stress analysis process enables real-time feedback of stresses to an interactive design tool that facilitates a trial-and-error design process. Using this trial-and-error process reduces the guesswork and/or over-engineering associated with conventional approaches based on finite element methods that are typically too slow for interactive feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Umetani, Ryan Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10435912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a kit of parts (100) for building a support base (1) for a pole-like element (2), wherein the kit of parts (100) comprises at least three substantially L-shaped elements (3), each L-shaped element (3) being arranged with an upright part (3A) extending along a body portion (101) of the pole-like element (2) in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis (z) of the pole-like element (2) and with a foot part (3C) extending outwardly from a lowermost portion (102) of the pole-like element (2), wherein the kit of parts (100) further comprises a first holding means for holding a substantially right-angled part (3B) of each L-shaped element (3) in proximity of the lowermost portion (102) of the pole-like element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Plinthit ApS
    Inventor: Arne Flemming Jensen
  • Patent number: 10435886
    Abstract: A support structure having a horizontal surface such as a deck or stage, the support structure having first and second modules which are interconnected together, the interconnection comprising a connector assembly having a first member with a vertically extending recess formed within a bottom wall thereof, the recess being bounded by first and second interior walls which each have a protrusion extending inwardly within the recess, and a second member comprising a U-shaped element having a base, first and second legs, each of the legs having an interior and an exterior wall with one of the legs having a recess formed in each of the interior and exterior walls such that the first leg sidingly fits within the recess formed within the first member and the second leg extends upwardly adjacent one of the first and second side walls to receive and support an adjacent module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Stephane Lafontaine Berger
  • Patent number: D862160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: John W. McConnell, Brandon T. Mock, Ben C. Shao, ZhaoYi Yin
  • Patent number: D862756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: AIR COOL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Helen Yang
  • Patent number: D862773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Gold Crest, LLC
    Inventors: Pat Richardson, Chris Woodward