Patents by Inventor Carlos Saez

Carlos Saez 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).

  • Patent number: 11027566
    Abstract: A printed media display system includes a media mounting surface carrying discrete male touch fastening elements arranged in a field extending across the surface, and print media in the form of a flexible sheet having a fastening side and a print side, the fastening side featuring engageable fibers in a fibrous field extending across a length and width of the flexible sheet. The system exhibits particularly good wrinkle propagation and engaged alignment properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Velcro IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Luis Parellada Armela, Carlos Sáez Comet
  • Patent number: 10844922
    Abstract: An energy dissipating link includes: an elongated base having opposite, first and second end portions; and a plurality of touch fasteners permanently coupled to the base, each of the plurality of touch fasteners releasably engageable with at least one other of the touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is arranged on the base to form first and second closures, each including engagements between respective fastening elements of two or more of the plurality of touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is configured such that: in response to a tensile load applied to the end portions of the base, the engaged touch fasteners of the first closure are loaded in shear along a shear plane; and in response to a tensile overload condition causing shear displacement of the touch fasteners of the first closure, the engaged touch fasteners of the second closure are subjected to a peel load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Velcro BVBA
    Inventor: Carlos Sáez Comet
  • Patent number: 10537758
    Abstract: An energy dissipating link for a tether includes: an elongated base having opposite, first and second end portions; a first touch fastener permanently coupled to the base proximate the first base end portion; and a second touch fastener permanently coupled to the base proximate the second base end portion. The second touch fastener is engageable with the first touch fastener to form a releasable closure defining a shear plane. With the first and second touch fasteners engaged to transmit a tensile load between the first and second end portions, and with the engaged touch fasteners loaded in shear in the shear plane, the base includes a longitudinally slack idler section between the first and second end portions. The idler section of the base is configured to transmit tensile load upon an energy-dissipating shear disengagement of the first and second touch fasteners by a tensile overload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Velcro BVBA
    Inventor: Carlos Sáez Comet
  • Publication number: 20180178047
    Abstract: An energy dissipating link for a tether includes: an elongated base having opposite, first and second end portions; a first touch fastener permanently coupled to the base proximate the first base end portion; and a second touch fastener permanently coupled to the base proximate the second base end portion. The second touch fastener is engageable with the first touch fastener to form a releasable closure defining a shear plane. With the first and second touch fasteners engaged to transmit a tensile load between the first and second end portions, and with the engaged touch fasteners loaded in shear in the shear plane, the base includes a longitudinally slack idler section between the first and second end portions. The idler section of the base is configured to transmit tensile load upon an energy-dissipating shear disengagement of the first and second touch fasteners by a tensile overload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Carlos Sáez Comet
  • Publication number: 20180180130
    Abstract: An energy dissipating link includes: an elongated base having opposite, first and second end portions; and a plurality of touch fasteners permanently coupled to the base, each of the plurality of touch fasteners releasably engageable with at least one other of the touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is arranged on the base to form first and second closures, each including engagements between respective fastening elements of two or more of the plurality of touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is configured such that: in response to a tensile load applied to the end portions of the base, the engaged touch fasteners of the first closure are loaded in shear along a shear plane; and in response to a tensile overload condition causing shear displacement of the touch fasteners of the first closure, the engaged touch fasteners of the second closure are subjected to a peel load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Carlos Sáez Comet
  • Patent number: 9990719
    Abstract: The method of generating multi-parametric nosological images including the steps of obtaining a stack of images; improving such images; reducing the images to a new space of equivalent representation; classifying in an unsupervised manner the units of the images obtained according to a pre-established number of classes without biological interpretation; automatically assigning multi-parametric profiles to the obtained classes; and generating a nosological image through the obtained classes. The system includes an imaging unit; an image processing unit for processing the obtained images and generating therefrom a multi-parametric nosological image; a connection for transmitting the images obtained by the imaging unit to the image processing unit; and a display for displaying the generated multi-parametric nosological image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA
    Inventors: Miguel Esparza Manzano, Elies Fuster Garcia, Juan Miguel Garcia Gomez, Javier Juan Albarracin, Jose Vicente Manjon Herrera, Monserrat Robles Viejo, Carlos Saez Silvestre
  • Patent number: 9958070
    Abstract: An edge of a moisture barrier membrane, such as of a roof assembly, is attached and sealed using a moisture-impermeable sealing tape. The membrane has a fibrous surface and a non-fibrous surface. The tap is secured to a surface to which the edge of the membrane is to be attached, and positioned to underlie and extend along the edge of the membrane. The tape has a first edge width carrying a field of discrete touch fastener elements, and a second edge width carrying a layer of adhesive. The fibrous surface of the moisture barrier membrane is engaged against the field of touch fastener elements, such that the moisture barrier membrane overlaps the first edge width of the tape, and then the sealing tape is folded over the edge of the moisture barrier membrane, such that the adhesive engages the non-fibrous surface of the moisture barrier membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Velcro BVBA
    Inventors: Frederic Cornu, Carlos Sáez Comet, Fabio Billa Longo
  • Publication number: 20180050029
    Abstract: The present invention provides connexin hemichannel blockers for the treatment of epilepsy. In particular, the present invention relates to organic compounds which act as selective blockers connexin hemichannels which are useful in the treatment of epilepsy. In another embodiment of the present invention there is provided a composition comprising a selective connexin hemichannels blocker compounds useful in the treatment of epilepsy in combination with other antiepileptic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Juan Carlos SAEZ, Carlos LAGOS, Carola MATURANA
  • Publication number: 20170287133
    Abstract: The method of generating multi-parametric nosological images including the steps of obtaining a stack of images; improving such images; reducing the images to a new space of equivalent representation; classifying in an unsupervised manner the units of the images obtained according to a pre-established number of classes without biological interpretation; automatically assigning multi-parametric profiles to the obtained classes; and generating a nosological image through the obtained classes. The system includes an imaging unit; an image processing unit for processing the obtained images and generating therefrom a multi-parametric nosological image; a connection for transmitting the images obtained by the imaging unit to the image processing unit; and a display for displaying the generated multi-parametric nosological image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Miguel ESPARZA MANZANO, Elies FUSTER GARCIA, Juan Miguel GARCIA GOMEZ, Javier JUAN ALBARRACIN, Jose Vicente MANJON HERRERA, Monserrat ROBLES VIEJO, Carlos SAEZ SILVESTRE
  • Publication number: 20170175896
    Abstract: An edge of a moisture barrier membrane, such as of a roof assembly, is attached and sealed using a moisture-impermeable sealing tape. The membrane has a fibrous surface and a non-fibrous surface. The tap is secured to a surface to which the edge of the membrane is to be attached, and positioned to underlie and extend along the edge of the membrane. The tape has a first edge width carrying a field of discrete touch fastener elements, and a second edge width carrying a layer of adhesive. The fibrous surface of the moisture barrier membrane is engaged against the field of touch fastener elements, such that the moisture barrier membrane overlaps the first edge width of the tape, and then the sealing tape is folded over the edge of the moisture barrier membrane, such that the adhesive engages the non-fibrous surface of the moisture barrier membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Frederic Cornu, Carlos Sáez Comet, Fabio Billa Longo
  • Publication number: 20170115276
    Abstract: The invention provides identification methods of specific modulators of hemichannels formed by connexin through the use of structural bioinformation methods for the calculation of the interaction energy with ligands and compositions to selectively modulate the activity of hemichannels formed by connexins. Among other aspects, the invention describes a computer-aided method, where estimating the interaction energy between ligands coming from a database of chemical compounds is possible, with a binding pocket defined by the region comprising the residues of 3-10 (NTH), 29-40 (TM1), 74-93 (TM2) of a protomer and residues 29-40 (TM1) of an adjacent protomer in connexin 26 or the equivalent residues in other connexins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE º
    Inventors: Juan Carlos SAEZ, Carlos LAGOS
  • Patent number: D448487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Sakura Finetek U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Saez, Lester Wayne Doyle, Ronald C. Mathia