Patents by Inventor Benjamin Shapiro
Benjamin Shapiro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10576295Abstract: This disclosure includes a method for pushing an active agent into a patient's ear via the device. The agent can be pushed to a treatment site.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: University of MarylandInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Didier A Depireux, Kenneth Dormer, Isaac B Rutel
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Patent number: 10532646Abstract: The present invention introduces a retrofit method of regenerative braking where no components of an automobile are to be replaced or removed and none of their functionality is modified. The recovering energy system is implemented as an additional, one piece, complete device, placed onto the existing automobile wheel's hub, and covered by the automobile's wheel. The system includes a housing, turbines, accumulators, and valves which act to both store and dispel energy as needed. This method of regenerative braking is therefore applicable to all the automobiles, independent or their power source, to newly built automobiles and those already on the road.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: REWHEEL, INCInventor: Benjamin Shapiro
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Publication number: 20190291562Abstract: The present invention introduces a retrofit method of regenerative braking where no components of an automobile are to be replaced or removed and none of their functionality is modified. The recovering energy system is implemented as an additional, one piece, complete device, placed onto the existing automobile wheel's hub, and covered by the automobile's wheel. The system includes a housing, turbines, accumulators, and valves which act to both store and dispel energy as needed. This method of regenerative braking is therefore applicable to all the automobiles, independent or their power source, to newly built automobiles and those already on the road.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: ReWheelInventor: Benjamin Shapiro
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Publication number: 20190282400Abstract: A method, system, and device for magnetically pushing agents into an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: UNIVERSITY OS MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARKInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Aleksandar Nacev
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Publication number: 20190161062Abstract: While the concept of saving automobile's intake of fuel or electricity by converting kinetic energy of an automobile into some form of potential energy, usually either electrical potential or compressed gas potential, in order to later convert that energy back into kinetic energy, has been well recognised over the years, and while the number of regenerative braking techniques and devices have been introduced over the years, with the exception of an electrical engine/generator, these techniques have not been well adapted. That was caused in part by either not a very simple implementation of those devices or by a necessity to completely re-engineer automobile powertrain in order to use those techniques. Present invention introduces a method of regenerative braking where no components of an automobile are to be replaced or removed and none of their functionality is modified.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: ReWheel, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Gabriel Shapiro, Roman Shapiro
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Patent number: 10279785Abstract: The present invention introduces a retrofit method of regenerative braking where no components of an automobile are to be replaced or removed and not of their functionality is modified. The recovering energy system is implemented as an additional, one piece, complete device, placed onto the existing automobile wheel's hub, and covered by the automobile's wheel. The system includes a housing, turbines, accumulators, and valves which act to both store and dispel energy as needed. This method of regenerative braking is therefore applicable to all the automobiles, independent or their power source, to newly built automobiles and those already on the road.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: REWHEEL, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Gabriel Shapiro, Roman Shapiro
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Patent number: 10112329Abstract: A dual shot molded article of cutlery that includes a working end molded from a first material and a molded handle opposite the working end. The article is designed with one or more features that facilitate the efficient and effective manufacture of such products by an overmolding or coreback molding process.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Modern Packaging LLCInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Christopher Wlezien, Martin Rathgeber, Matthew Shapiro, Tuan Nguyen
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Publication number: 20180280674Abstract: A device and method for directing an agent that is magnetic or magnetizable having a magnetic configuration in which a first magnet has a first magnetization that is opposite to a second magnetization of the second magnet. The first magnet and the second magnet define a minimal convex set and the push node is outside the convex set. The first magnetic field and the second magnetic create a combined field and a pushing force.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventor: Benjamin Shapiro
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Patent number: 10034633Abstract: Disclosed embodiments enable determining and monitoring the location of at least one particle in a subject's body, as well as the status of a local environment within the body where the at least one particle is located.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignees: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKInventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Edo Waks, Benjamin Shapiro
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Patent number: 9956815Abstract: Overmolded articles of cutlery that include a first molded structure that includes a working end and a longitudinal support core extending away from the working end, the core including top and bottom surfaces and opposed sidewalls located along its length with the sidewalls having a height that extends above the top surface of the core; and a second molded structure present upon the top surface of the core between the sidewalls forming with the support core a handle for the article. Preferably, the first and second molded structures have different colors and the first molded structure includes islands so as to enhance the appearance of the cutlery. Also, methods of making these articles by overmolding the second molded structure over at least a portion of the first molded structure are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Modern Packaging LLCInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Christopher Wlezien, Martin Rathgeber, Matthew Shapiro
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Patent number: 9682502Abstract: A method of making a molded article having a curved surface, such as plates or serving trays, and the resulting molded articles. The in-mold label (IML) is a laminated film that includes a backing layer, a printed surface incorporating one or more designs thereon, a protective film layer, and one or more notches each having adjacent edges separated by a gap of predetermined distance and configured to intersect to ensure conformance of the IML to the angled or curved peripheral portion of the article. The article has front and back sides and a central portion bounded by a peripheral portion having a perimeter that is raised on the front side of the article wherein the peripheral portion transitions from the perimeter to the central portion by an angled surface, a curved surface or combinations thereof, with the article including the IML at least peripheral portion of the molded article.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Modern Packaging LLCInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Christopher Wlezien, J. Joseph Tokich
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Publication number: 20170120490Abstract: A dual shot molded article of cutlery that includes a working end molded from a first material and a molded handle opposite the working end. The article is designed with one or more features that facilitate the efficient and effective manufacture of such products by an overmolding or coreback molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Benjamin SHAPIRO, Christopher WLEZIEN, Martin RATHGEBER, Matthew SHAPIRO, Tuan NGUYEN
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Publication number: 20160374488Abstract: The invention relates to a molded article that includes a first molded structure that includes a working end, a bottom end, at least one wall member extending from the working end to the bottom end of the structure and at least partially or fully outlining a handle for the article, at least one decorative feature that resides on the handle surface of the article, and a connecting element that provides a flow path for first material to fill the decorative feature(s). The first molded structure is configured and dimensioned to receive a second material that also resides on the handle surface surrounding the decorative feature(s). The second shot molded structure is molded from the second material and includes surface portions that form top and bottom surfaces of the handle and that surround or encompass but do not cover the decorative feature(s) of the first molded structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Benjamin SHAPIRO, Christopher WLEZIEN, Martin RATHGEBER, Matthew SHAPIRO
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Publication number: 20160023504Abstract: Overmolded articles of cutlery that include a first molded structure that includes a working end and a longitudinal support core extending away from the working end, the core including top and bottom surfaces and opposed sidewalls located along its length with the sidewalls having a height that extends above the top surface of the core; and a second molded structure present upon the top surface of the core between the sidewalls forming with the support core a handle for the article. Preferably, the first and second molded structures have different colors and the first molded structure includes islands so as to enhance the appearance of the cutlery. Also, methods of making these articles by overmolding the second molded structure over at least a portion of the first molded structure are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Benjamin SHAPIRO, Christopher WLEZIEN, Martin RATHGEBER, Matthew SHAPIRO
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Publication number: 20150374543Abstract: A method, system, and device for magnetically pushing agents into an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: University of MarylandInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Aleksandar Nacey
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Publication number: 20150238110Abstract: Disclosed embodiments enable determining and monitoring the location of at least one particle in a subject's body, as well as the status of a local environment within the body where the at least one particle is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Irving N. WEINBERG, Edo WAKS, Benjamin SHAPIRO
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Patent number: 9108035Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for directing magnetizable particles comprising therapeutic agents to a target volume, or for guiding magnetizable particles comprising therapeutic agents from a first target volume to a second target volume, at a distance using a magnetic field, to enable the treatment of diseased areas including areas deep inside a patient's body. The methods may be used to diagnose or treat diseased areas within a patient, for example tumors of the lungs, intestines, and liver, and is also useful in enhancing the permeability of solid tumors to chemotherapeutic agents.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignees: University of Maryland, College Park, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of HealthInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Michael R. Emmert-Buck
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Publication number: 20150111006Abstract: A method of making a molded article having a curved surface, such as plates or serving trays, and the resulting molded articles. The in-mold label (IML) is a laminated film that includes a backing layer, a printed surface incorporating one or more designs thereon, a protective film layer, and one or more notches each having adjacent edges separated by a gap of predetermined distance and configured to intersect to ensure conformance of the IML to the angled or curved peripheral portion of the article. The article has front and back sides and a central portion bounded by a peripheral portion having a perimeter that is raised on the front side of the article wherein the peripheral portion transitions from the perimeter to the central portion by an angled surface, a curved surface or combinations thereof, with the article including the IML at least peripheral portion of the molded article.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: MODERN PACKAGING LLCInventors: Benjamin SHAPIRO, Christopher WLEZIEN, J. Joseph TOKICH
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Patent number: 8968618Abstract: A method of making a molded article having a curved surface, such as plates or serving trays, and the resulting molded articles. The in-mold label (IML) is a laminated film that includes a backing layer, a printed surface incorporating one or more designs thereon, a protective film layer, and one or more notches each having adjacent edges separated by a gap of predetermined distance and configured to intersect to ensure conformance of the IML to the angled or curved peripheral portion of the article. The article has front and back sides and a central portion bounded by a peripheral portion having a perimeter that is raised on the front side of the article wherein the peripheral portion transitions from the perimeter to the central portion by an angled surface, a curved surface or combinations thereof, with the article including the IML at least peripheral portion of the molded article.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Modern Packaging LLCInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Christopher Wlezien, J. Joseph Tokich
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Publication number: 20150024156Abstract: A method of making a molded article having a curved surface, such as plates or serving trays, and the resulting molded articles. The in-mold label (IML) is a laminated film that includes a backing layer, a printed surface incorporating one or more designs thereon, a protective film layer, and one or more notches each having adjacent edges separated by a gap of predetermined distance and configured to intersect to ensure conformance of the IML to the angled or curved peripheral portion of the article. The article has front and back sides and a central portion bounded by a peripheral portion having a perimeter that is raised on the front side of the article wherein the peripheral portion transitions from the perimeter to the central portion by an angled surface, a curved surface or combinations thereof, with the article including the IML at least peripheral portion of the molded article.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Modern PackagingInventors: Benjamin Shapiro, Christopher Wlezien, J. Joseph Tokich