Patents by Inventor Flavio Costa

Flavio Costa 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).

  • Publication number: 20090241797
    Abstract: A system for transporting goods uses public transportation infrastructure. The public transportation infrastructure includes rolling stock, transportation networks for the rolling stock, and passenger platforms. The goods transporting system includes a plurality of containers that receive the goods for transport, and container space in the rolling stock that is sized to receive the containers. The container space is either additional rolling stock or dedicated space in the existing rolling stock of the transportation infrastructure. Goods platforms are provided separate from the passenger platforms. When the rolling stock comes to a station stop, the container space is positioned near the goods platforms. The system also includes structure for moving the containers on and off the rolling stock, and structure for controlling the loading/unloading assemblies to load/unload the containers on/from the rolling stock according to a desired destination for the goods in the respective containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventor: Flavio Costa
  • Patent number: 5770354
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprising, respectively, cyan, magenta and yellow dye-forming couplers, wherein the blue-sensitive emulsion layer comprises at least two blue-sensitive emulsion layers, the uppermost of which has the highest-sensitivity and the lowermost of which has the lowest sensitivity, characterized in that the uppermost highest sensitivity blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler and a cyan dye-forming coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Imation Corp.
    Inventors: Sergio Massirio, Raffaella Biavasco, Flavio Costa