Patents by Inventor Eli Parente

Eli Parente 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: 7959215
    Abstract: The invention generally concerns a semi-trailer to be trailed by a tractor. The semi-trailer comprises a wheeled deck having two lateral sides, proximate and distal longitudinal end sides. The semi-trailer also comprises two wall structures so pivotably mounted to the deck along a respective lateral side thereof as to be movable between an upright position, where the semi-trailer is in a dry-box configuration, and a lay down position wherein the semi-trailer is in a flatbed configuration. The two pivotable wall structures allow the semi-trailer to be moved between the dry-box configuration and the flatbed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Transnat Express Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Boutin, Jean-Robert Fontaine, Dominique Marcoux, Julien Nadeau, Elis Parent
  • Publication number: 20100127523
    Abstract: The invention generally concerns a semi-trailer to be trailed by a tractor. The semi-trailer comprises a wheeled deck having two lateral sides, proximate and distal longitudinal end sides. The semi-trailer also comprises two wall structures so pivotably mounted to the deck along a respective lateral side thereof as to be movable between an upright position, where the semi-trailer is in a dry-box configuration, and a lay down position wherein the semi-trailer is in a flatbed configuration. The two pivotable wall structures allow the semi-trailer to be moved between the dry-box configuration and the flatbed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Transnat Express Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard BOUTIN, Jean-Robert FONTAINE, Dominique MARCOUX, Julien NADEAU, Elis PARENT
  • Publication number: 20070133862
    Abstract: A method for determining a location of a border in a color image, the image including at least two color populations, between a first color region associated with a first one of the two color populations and a second color region associated with a second one of the two color populations, both the first color region and the second color region being in the color image, the method includes identifying an approximate border location between the first color region and the second color region, determining a plurality of candidate border locations between the first color region and the second color region, each of the plurality of candidate border locations being determined by applying a corresponding border location method chosen from among a plurality of border location methods, choosing one method from among the plurality of border location methods as a preferred method, and determining a location of a border between the first color region and the second color region by designating one of the plurality of candid
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Uri Gold, Eli Parente, Tally Gilat-Bernshtein, Edward Baranovsky, Tamir Margalit
  • Patent number: 7200259
    Abstract: This invention discloses a method for determining a location of a border in a color image, the image comprising at least two color populations, between a first color region associated with a first one of the two color populations and a second color region associated with a second one of the two color populations, both the first color region and the second color region being comprised in the color image, the method includes identifying an approximate border location between the first color region and the second color region, determining a plurality of candidate border locations between the first color region and the second color region, each of the plurality of candidate border locations being determined by applying a corresponding border location method chosen from among a plurality of border location methods, choosing one method from among the plurality of border location methods as a preferred method, and determining a location of a border between the first color region and the second color region by design
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Orbotech Ltd.
    Inventors: Uri Gold, Eli Parente, Tally Gilat-Bernshtein, Edward Baranovsky, Tamir Margalit