Patents by Inventor James Merten

James Merten 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: 20100234841
    Abstract: Herein it is described a magnetic medical device, and a system and method in which the magnetic medical device is implemented, that enables bipolar, minimally invasive, tissue ablation. The magnetic medical device may include magnetic means for magnetically coupling the medical device to a second medical device, wherein the magnetic medical devices may be separated by the tissue to be ablated. The magnetic medical device may also include electrical means for transferring electrical energy between the magnetic medical device and the second medical device. The magnetic medical device may further include control means whereby the physical location of the magnetic medical device may be controlled and thereby, as a result of the magnetic coupling, the physical location of the second magnetic medical device may also be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Chris Butts, Forrest James Mertens, Alex Cohen Herzick, Krishanu Nandy, Mayte Zavaleta, Catherine Chen, Joseph Thomas Breen, Colleen Fryer
  • Publication number: 20050222733
    Abstract: The entire right, title and interest in and to this application and all subject matter disclosed and/or claimed therein, including any and all divisions, continuations, reissues, etc., thereof are, effective as of the date of execution of this application, assigned, transferred, sold and set over by the applicant(s) named herein to Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation having offices at Moline, Ill. 61265, U.S.A., together with all rights to file, and to claim priorities in connection with, corresponding patent applications in any and all foreign countries in the name of Deere & Company or otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: James Merten, Robert Hachmann, Bruce Musmaker, Michael Gacioch
  • Publication number: 20050055852
    Abstract: A controller tower positioning system for a work vehicle for securing the controller tower to one of at least two positions. The system employs a mounting bracket fixed to the floor or a frame member of the work vehicle, a movable controller tower rotatably mounted to the mounting bracket and a resistive element strategically mounted to the controller tower and the mounting bracket to provide resistance to movement away from either of the two positions and a toggle effect as the controller tower is moved from one of the two positions to the other. The controller assembly is physically restrained at the free end of the controller tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Dressler, James Merten, Robert Hacmann
  • Patent number: 5429720
    Abstract: A distillation process for separating spent organic solvents such as trichloroethane or d-limonene from their contaminants such as oil is improved by the addition of a perfluorinated alkane or mixture of such alkanes to permit more efficient separation of the solvents from the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: James A. Mertens, Felipe A. Donate