Patents by Inventor OR BLUMENFELD

OR BLUMENFELD 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: 8968789
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to sulfonic esters of metal oxides including those of formulas I and II:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
    Inventors: Carl M. Blumenfeld, Harry B. Gray, Robert H. Grubbs, Karn Sorasaenee
  • Patent number: 8913143
    Abstract: In one general sense, a user may be presented with a multimedia experience corresponding to an entertainment event or venue by managing a sensor array having at least two sensors that are made configured to provide a stream of data units, associating location information with sensors in the sensor array, enabling the user to perceive a map related to an entertainment event or venue, relating the perceived map to one or more sensors within the sensor array, receiving a user request identifying a selected position within the map, identifying one or more sensors within the sensor array corresponding to the selection, and presenting to the user a multimedia experience based on one or more streams of data units associated with the selected sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140364372
    Abstract: A method of treating an injury to hyaline cartilage in a subject in need thereof. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of amelogenin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Dan DEUTSCH, Amir Haze, Anat Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140356517
    Abstract: The invention provides a freeze-dried dulce de leche pieces. The invention further provides a snack food or confection including freeze dried fruit and dulce de leche wherein the dulce de leche is formed into pyramidal pieces, freeze dried to a final moisture content of about two to three percent or less, and admixed with grains, seeds, fiber or fruit powders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Claudia URIBE, Steve V. Mendal, Ilanit Blumenfeld
  • Patent number: 8846622
    Abstract: Botulinum toxin, among other presynaptic neurotoxins is used for the treatment and prevention of migraine and other headaches associated with vascular disorders. Presynaptic neurotoxins are delivered focally, targeting the sphenopalatine ganglion. Exemplary delivery is carried out by way of injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140279999
    Abstract: A find engine provides a user with access to information via a find interface and a keep interface. The find interface accesses both a content search index and a personal search index; the keep interface accesses personal search index. The content search index lists document content, user generated content, and semantic vectors; the personal search index lists user generated content, user explicit gestures, and user implicit gestures. The user explicit gestures comprise keeps that are captured via the keep interface and that consist of any of one or more documents and sites from among the search results to which the user ascribes significance by affirmatively keeping the document or site. The keeps are preserved as one or more persistent search objects and the search results returned to the user are ranked and/or returned in response to the query at least in part in accordance with the keeps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Danny BLUMENFELD, Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Eishay SMITH
  • Publication number: 20140282550
    Abstract: A meter data management (MDM) system processes imported blocks of utility data collected from a plurality of utility meters, sensors, and/or control devices by using independent parallel pipelines associated with differing processing requirements of the data blocks. The MDM system determines processing requirements for each of the imported data blocks, selects one of the pipelines that matches the determined processing requirements for each of the imported data blocks, and directs the data blocks to the selected one of the pipelines for processing. The pipelines may include a validation pipeline for validation processing, an estimation pipeline for estimation processing and a work item pipeline for work item processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Symen Blumenfeld, Ricardo Luis Lopez, Stephen Craig Totty
  • Publication number: 20140279998
    Abstract: An expert network in connection with keeping and finding information provides a textual search engine which, in response to a user query comprising a search term, uses a semantic vector to promote documents that contain other, closely related terms that strongly correlate with the search term. A social graph is generated for the user in which connections for the user comprise hyper-dimensional relationships based on semantic vectors that link the search term with a collection of the other, closely related terms. A personalized semantic vector for the user is applied to the social graph. The expert network applies the user's personalized semantic vector to locate experts in the user's social graph based on a user query topic. When a connection is considered an expert for the user, content that the connection kept is recommended to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Danny BLUMENFELD, Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Eishay SMITH
  • Publication number: 20140280312
    Abstract: A semantic vector is generated for a search term based upon a global frequency of other, closely related terms within a corpus that is used to compute the semantic vector relative to the search term. The semantic vector is used in connection with a textual search engine, responsive to a user query comprising a search term, to promote any of documents and sites within results returned to the query by the search engine that contain other, closely related terms that strongly correlate with the search term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Danny BLUMENFELD, Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Eishay SMITH
  • Publication number: 20140227187
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to sulfonic esters of metal oxides including those of formulas I and II:
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: Children's Hospital Of Los Angeles, California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Carl M. Blumenfeld, Harry B. Gray, Robert H. Grubbs, Karn Sorasaenee
  • Publication number: 20140205590
    Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating neuropsychiatric disorder and/or a neurological disorder including a neurological disorder mediated by the thalamus. Neuropsychiatric disorders and/or a neurological disorders, including a thalamically mediated disorder can be treated by peripheral administration of a botulinum toxin to or to the vicinity of a trigeminal sensory nerve, thereby preventing or treating a neurological disorder and/or a neuropsychiatric disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: ALLERGAN, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Patent number: 8786519
    Abstract: Head up display (HUD) for displaying a combined image of a scene image of a scene and an informative image, for an observer, the HUD including an image source, an optical relay, a low physical height horizontally expanding optical assembly and a planar optical module, the image source for producing a substantially small narrow angle informative image, the optical relay for producing a substantially large narrow angle informative image, by enlarging the substantially small narrow angle informative image, received from the image source, the low physical height horizontally expanding optical assembly for producing a horizontally expanded image, by horizontally expanding the substantially large narrow angle informative image, received from the optical relay, and the planar optical module for producing a substantially large informative image, by vertically expanding the horizontally expanded image, and further producing the combined image, by combining the substantially large informative image with the scene image
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoel Blumenfeld, Ofer Sinai, Shmuel Roth, Guy Kaufman
  • Patent number: 8759138
    Abstract: A solar cell receiver for use in a concentrating solar system which concentrates the solar energy onto a solar cell for converting solar energy to electricity. The solar cell receiver may include a solar cell mounted on a support and with one or more III-V compound semiconductor layers. An optical element may be positioned over the solar cell and have an optical channel with an inlet that faces away from the solar cell and an outlet that faces towards the solar cell. A frame may be positioned over the support and extend around the solar cell with the frame having an inner side that extends above the support and faces towards the optical element. An encapsulant may be positioned over the support and contained between the optical element and the frame. The encapsulant may have enlarged heights at contact points with the optical element and the frame and a reduced height between the contact points away from the optical element and the frame. The solar cell receiver may be used in a solar cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Suncore Photovoltaics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Yang, Sunil Vaid, Mikhail Kats, Gary Hering, Philip Blumenfeld, Damien Buie, John Nagyvary, James Foresi, Peter Allen Zawadzki
  • Patent number: 8734810
    Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating neuropsychiatric disorder and/or a neurological disorder including a neurological disorder mediated by the thalamus. Neuropsychiatric disorders and/or a neurological disorders, including a thalamically mediated disorder can be treated by peripheral administration of a botulinum toxin to or to the vicinity of a trigeminal sensory nerve, thereby preventing or treating a neurological disorder and/or a neuropsychiatric disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140142968
    Abstract: Medical and other research organizations, sites within those organizations, and physicians practicing at those sites register in an online database. The company providing the database posts a description of a clinical trial opportunity or other research opportunity. The company can search and match for physicians with research opportunities, or the physicians can browse the list of opportunities. Once it is determined who will perform the research and awarded a contract, performance data are collected at 30-day intervals over the life of the trial for computation of benchmarks. The benchmarks from one physician are compared anonymously to those from other physicians participating in the same opportunity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: PCRS, Inc.
    Inventor: Tracy HARMON BLUMENFELD
  • Publication number: 20140140983
    Abstract: Botulinum toxin, among other presynaptic neurotoxins is used for the treatment of autonomic nervous system disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome. The neurotoxin is delivered to target the sympathetic ganglion. Exemplary delivery is carried out by way of injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ALLERGAN, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140137207
    Abstract: Access to content may be administered by storing content, the content comprising one or more selections, accessing a passive optical out-of-band token associated with the content, determining an access right for the content based on the passive optical out-of-band token, and enabling access to the content in accordance with the access right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Time Warner Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Blumenfeld, William J. Raduchel
  • Patent number: 8697066
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of using extracellular matrix digesting enzymes and neurotoxins, such as a Clostridial neurotoxins, to treat various medical conditions, such as overactive bladder, benign prostatic hyperplasia, hyperhidrosis, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Franklin D. Gaylis, Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140099298
    Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating depression including a depression mediated by the thalamus. Depression, including a thalamically mediated depression, can be treated by peripheral administration of a botulinum toxin to or to the vicinity of a trigeminal sensory nerve, thereby preventing or treating the depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140079687
    Abstract: The present invention utilizes patient-specific landmarks in order to treat headache pain. In one aspect, the present invention relates to the administration of Clostridial toxins, such as a botulinum neurotoxin, to a patient suffering from a headache pain, where the location of administration of the botulinum toxin is based upon at least one suture line of the patient's skull.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew M. Blumenfeld