Patents Issued in October 2, 2012
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Patent number: D668416Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: David Scott Thomas, Gordon E. Atkinson
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Patent number: D668417Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: David Scott Thomas, Gordon E. Atkinson
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Patent number: D668418Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing Co.Inventor: Jeff Nicholson
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Patent number: D668419Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing Co.Inventor: Jeff Nicholson
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Patent number: D668420Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Kennovations Pty LimitedInventor: Rory Campbell Kennard
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Patent number: D668421Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Vault Finland OyInventor: Tero Jakku
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Patent number: D668422Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Bruno Independent Living Aids, Inc.Inventors: Scott K. Uttech, William W. Belson, III, Andrew A. Bayer, Timothy G. Schwarz
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Patent number: D668423Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Camco Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: William T. Brockington, Bruce A. Angel
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Patent number: D668424Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: ilcon GmbHInventors: Michael Hüppe, Michael Kritzer
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Patent number: D668425Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Boomerang Systems, Inc.Inventors: Merin Swasey, Tyler R. Kirby
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Patent number: PP23091Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel deep red flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits upright growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KGInventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
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Patent number: PP23092Abstract: ‘Merbeingold 2350’ is a new Australian variety of mandarin. It was selected from the progeny obtained following a controlled pollination of ‘Imperial’ mandarinבEllendale’ tangor in 1984. It was selected because it is strongly parthenocarpic and is capable of yielding seedless fruits, which are sweet, juicy and easy-to-peel. Fruit maturity is mid season in the Murray Valley of Australia. The rind of Merbeingold is thin, orange-to-orange red, strong yet easily peeled. Its fruits can be snap picked, eliminating a need to clip. Internally, the flesh of ‘Merbeingold 2350’ is attractive, orange in colour and juicy with a good sugar/acid balance.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventor: Stephen Richard Sykes
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Patent number: PP23093Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Azalea plant with spring, summer, and fall blooming, attractive, showy, dark rose colored hose-in-hose flowers, easily propagated by semi-hardwood cuttings in late spring through summer, moderate growth rate under normal fertilization and moisture conditions; low growing, dense, and compact nature, grows well in containers, thrives in shade or sun and is hardy in Zone 6, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: James O. Harris, Ella Ruth Harris, legal representative
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Patent number: PP23094Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Azalea plant with spring and fall blooming, attractive, showy, single dark red flowers, easily propagated by semi-hardwood cuttings in late spring through summer, moderate growth rate under normal fertilization and moisture conditions; broadly-rounded and freely-branching in habit, grows well in containers, thrives in shade or sun and is hardy in Zone 7, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: James O. Harris, Ella Ruth Harris, legal representative
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Patent number: PP23095Abstract: A new cultivar of Hemerocallis named ‘SPd 06-11’, characterized by its flowers that are tomato red in color with yellow-green throats in color, its flowers that fully open under cool growing conditions and are self cleaning, its flower petals that are broadly elliptic in shape and heavy in substance with ruffled edges, its blooming habit that commences very early in the season with continuous rebloom until frost on recurrent, branched scapes with high bud counts, its foliage that is evergreen, semi-evergreen or dormant depending on the growing climate with suitability in a variety of growing climates, its compact plant habit with grass-like foliage, its fast multiplication rate, and its hardiness at least in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 11, and its high tolerance to daylily rust.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventor: Ted L. Petit
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Patent number: PP23096Abstract: A new cultivar of Hemerocallis named ‘SPd 06-01’, characterized by its flowers that are coral pink in color with rosy-red eyezones and green throats, its flowers that fully open under cool growing conditions and are self cleaning, its flower petals that are broadly elliptic in shape, heavy in substance, and have lightly ruffed edges, its blooming habit that commences very early in the season with continuous rebloom until frost on recurrent, branched scapes with high bud counts, its foliage that is evergreen, semi-evergreen or dormant depending on the growing climate with suitability in a variety of growing climates, its compact plant habit with grass-like foliage, its fast multiplication rate, and its hardiness at least in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 11, and its high tolerance to daylily rust.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventor: Ted L. Petit
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Patent number: PP23097Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Balsomcor’, characterized by its single-type, red-orange colored inflorescences, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, compact-upright growth habit, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Ball Horticultural CompanyInventor: Jianping Ren
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Patent number: PP23098Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Penstemon plant named ‘Marble Riding Hood’, characterized by its upright and compact plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely flowering habit; light red purple and white-colored flowers arranged on strong flowering stems; and good garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Molter B.V.Inventor: Remy Lubbe
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Patent number: RE43692Abstract: A wind turbine blade root having fully bonded insert bushings with internal threads for mounting bolts for releasable attachment to a hub of a wind turbine is manufactured by arrangement of a plurality of the insert bushings on a first layer of fibre mat arranged on a holder having a plurality of spaced recesses for accommodation of the insert bushings such that the bushings extend largely in a longitudinal direction of the blade accommodated in the spaced recesses. Subsequently, a number of additional layers of fibre mat are arranged on top of the bushings, and the fibre mat layers are consolidated.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: SSP Technology A/SInventors: Rune Schytt-Nielsen, Flemming Sørensen
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Patent number: RE43693Abstract: A coupling arrangement for securing two separable components in an excavating operation includes a wear component, a base component and a lock. The lock has a body having a configuration adapted to be received in a hole in the base component, and a rotatable locking member. The locking member includes a flange that is movable between a locking position wherein the flange holds the lock in the assembly and a release position wherein the flange permits the lock to be removed from the assembly. In the release position, the flange sets within the axial extension of the outline of the body. In the locking position, at least part of the flange sets outside the axial extension of the outline of the body. In one construction, the rotation of the locking member to the locking position tightens the fit of the wear component on the base component.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventor: Robert K. Emrich
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Patent number: RE43694Abstract: A simple, cost-effective stamping or molding in the nanometer range is enabled using a stamping surface or molding face with a surface layer having hollow chambers that have been formed by anodic oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Thomas Sawitowski
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Patent number: RE43695Abstract: A fishing reel with side walls includes a spool shaft rotatably supported therebetween and a level wind comprising a transverse shaft with an oblique segment intermediate the ends of the shaft rotatably secured between the side walls in front of the spool that engages the fishing line as it is being wound onto the spool.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: Robert C. Baenziger, Casey J. Childre
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Patent number: RE43696Abstract: A mounting bracket apparatus for adjustably supporting a flat panel display from a wall. The mounting bracket includes a wall bracket, a display bracket and two traversing mounts. The traversing mounts are supportively disposed between the wall bracket and the display bracket, and driven along a pair of substantially parallel linear axes by a pair of actuators enabling vertical adjustment of the display bracket. The traversing mounts are flexibly coupled between the wall bracket and the display bracket, thereby enabling misalignment of the positions to adjust the skew of the display bracket relative to the wall bracket.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Milestone AV Technologies LLCInventor: Jonathan W. Graham
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Patent number: RE43697Abstract: A quick connector fitting assembly is provided which includes a fitting which releasably connects to a well casing for providing an interface for the attachment of various types of well related equipment. The quick connector fitting connects using fasteners to a lip or groove formed on the casing. The fasteners can easily connect or disconnect from the groove or lip facilitating the quick connection and disconnection of the fitting from the casing.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Seaboard International Inc.Inventor: Rex E. Duhn
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Patent number: RE43698Abstract: A controller (28) for a doubly fed induction generator (12,20) adjusts control signals to a rotor side converter (24) and line side converter (22) to adjust rotor current when a voltage transient on a utility grid (10) occurs, so that the doubly fed induction generator can ride through the transient. The controller can also turn off the transistors of the rotor side converter (24) to reduce rotor current and/or activate a crowbar (42) to reduce the voltage of the DC link (26) connecting the converters (22, 24) when significant voltage transients occur on the grid (10). This permits continued operation of the DFIG system without disconnecting from the grid.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.Inventor: Raymond M. Hudson
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Patent number: RE43699Abstract: A scanner has plasma loop or plasma window antennas for selectively scanning for ID tags along distinct radials of the scanner. Scanner elements are made electromagnetically invisible to adjacent elements by removing power or lowering plasma densities so that the scanner elements do not interfere with its own operation. Activatable ID tags and a shipping container suitable for scanning with electromagnetic energy are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: Theodore R. Anderson, Igor Alexeff
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Patent number: RE43700Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and rendering multiple-view images. A camera includes an image sensor to receive images, sampling logic to digitize the images and a processor programmed to combine the images based upon a spatial relationship between the images.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLCInventor: Shenchang Eric Chen
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Patent number: RE43701Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes gate lines, data lines intersecting with the gate lines to define sub-pixels, and a transmission part including transmission lines connected with the data lines to transmit data signals, where at least one pair of the transmission lines are arranged to cross each other, some of the transmission lines cross each other so that a sequence of data signals applied to the data lines can be changed, any of the transmission lines is opened at a crossing point of the transmission lines and the opened portion is connected by a separate conductor, thereby insulating the transmission lines crossing each other from each other, and an additional process for connecting the opened portion is not needed, thereby simplifying a fabrication process for the liquid crystal display.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
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Patent number: RE43702Abstract: Microscope with heightened resolution and linear scanning wherein the sample is illuminated with a first and a second illuminating light, whereby the first illuminating light excites the sample, and the second illuminating light is generated through the refraction of coherent light at a periodic structure and displays a periodic structure in a lateral beam direction and in axial beam direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventor: Ralf Wolleschensky
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Patent number: RE43703Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission apparatus for transmitting OFDM-signals comprising modulation means 4 for modulating said signals onto a plurality of subcarriers using a OFDM-modulation method, transformation means 5 for transforming said modulated signals into the time domain, and transmission means for transmitting said signals, whereby in said modulation means every M-th subcarrier is modulated, wherein M is an integer and M?2. The present invention also relates to a corresponding transmission method for transmitting OFDM-signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventor: Ralf Böhnke
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Patent number: RE43704Abstract: A graph of a network is created by efficiently modeling the network elements, and the network links and virtual trunks that interconnect these elements. The network elements are model as one or more routing nodes wherein each routing node represents part of an element or a set of one or more elements, and has the characteristic that any ingress and egress ports of the network element or network elements associated with the routing node can be interconnected. The network links and virtual trunks are both modeled as routing links, wherein routing links interconnect the routing nodes to create the graph of the network. The graph is subsequently used for determining routing paths through the network for the provisioning of virtual trunks and circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: TTI Inventions A LLCInventors: Sanyogita Gupta, Richard Ferrer, Raj C. Raheja
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Patent number: RE43705Abstract: A method for optimally serving Stations (STA) on Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) using a Controlled Contention/Resource Reservation protocol of the IEEE 802.11e standard. The Wireless LAN includes multiple STAs, mobile or Stationary, airlinked to an access point as a Basic Service Set (BSS). A Hybrid Coordinator (HC) is co-located with the access point for allocating the bandwidth for the BSS using a Controlled Contention/Resource Reservation protocol defined in the IEEE Standard 802.11(e). The HC transmits Contention Control (CC) frames and initiates Controlled Contention Intervals (CCI) having a selected number of slotted intervals. HC receives Resource Reservations (RR) detailing bandwidth needs from STA contenders during a specified time interval called the Controlled Contention Interval (CCI.). Several parameters are installed in each CC for contention control purpose.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LP.Inventor: Matthew J. Sherman
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Patent number: RE43706Abstract: The invention herein is fallback function communications device comprised of a microprocessor, utilized to perform a predetermined operation and processing of a predetermined input signal and then output a corresponding signal, as well as a minimum of one relay circuit having an amplifier circuit and a relay. The terminal at the first side of the relay is connected to the telephone line tip/ring terminal, while the terminal at the second side of the relay is connected to the Public Services Telephone Network (PSTN) tip/ring terminal of the microprocessor. An off-hook detection circuit is connected to the PSTN tip/ring terminal and also connected to the ring detection terminal of the said microprocessor. A dummy load circuit is connected to the tip terminal and the ring terminal of the PSTN. As such, in the event of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system failure, the present invention is capable of automatically switching to the PSTN and thereby maintain telephone system operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Askey Computer CorporationInventors: Su-Yi Chen, Benson Chen
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Patent number: RE43707Abstract: Embodiments include applying a compensation to an image signal based on nonuniformity of a display device. The compensation is based on information about variations in light-output response among elements of the display device. The compensation is also modified based on a characteristic of a desired use of the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Barco N.V.Inventors: Tom Kimpe, Paul Matthijs
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Patent number: RE43709Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for eliminating a blocking effect in a compressed video signal signal. The method of the invention includes: the encoding step of eliminating a blocking effect by compensating the motion of a signal compressed in block unit to be transmitted; the decoding step of restoring the motion compensated video signal to the original video signal by reducing the prediction residual between the motion compensated video signal and the original video signal and the blocking effect; and the post-filtering step of performing post-filtering in a blocking elimination filter in order to eliminate a blocking effect and ring effect remained in the compensated signal. The equation for obtaining the original pixel is made simple by eliminating the remaining blocking effect and ring effect using a loop/post filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Min-Cheol Hong
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Patent number: RE43710Abstract: A swept turbomachinery blade for use in a cascade of such blades is disclosed. The blade (12) has an airfoil (22) uniquely swept so that an endwall shock (64) of limited radial extent and a passage shock (66) are coincident and a working medium (48) flowing through interblade passages (50) is subjected to a single coincident shock rather than the individual shocks. In one embodiment of the invention the forwardmost extremity of the airfoil defines an inner transition point (40) located at an inner transition radius rt-inner. The sweep angle of the airfoil is nondecreasing with increasing radius from the inner transition radius to an outer transition radius rt-outer, radially inward of the airfoil tip (26), and is nonincreasing with increasing radius between the outer transition radius and the airfoil tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: United Technologies Corp.Inventors: David A. Spear, Dennis N. Kantor, legal representative, Bruce P. Biederman, John A. Orosa
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Patent number: RE43711Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is related to a method of treating a patient with Parkinson's disease, the method including administering to the respiratory tract of the patient particles that include more than about 90 weight percent (wt %) of levodopa. The particles are delivered to the patient's pulmonary system, preferably to the alveoli or the deep lung.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Civitas Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Blair Jackson, David J. Bennett, Raymond T. Bartus, Dwaine F. Emerich
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Patent number: RE43712Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for assaying for agents that modify the association of Gs? with components of the plasma membrane or cytoskeleton of cells. The present invention also relates generally to methods of assaying for agents having antidepressant activity via analysis of the association of Gs? with components of the plasma membrane or cytoskeleton of cells using a fluorescent analog of Gs? and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET).Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Uniersity of IllinoisInventors: Mark M. Rasenick, Robert J. Donati, Sadamu Toki
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Patent number: RE43713Abstract: A large amount of user information is transmitted with good efficiency by means of a high-speed downlink by making transmission rates of an uplink circuit and a downlink asymmetrical. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality of terminals, an uplink established between each of the base stations and each of the terminals for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed information from a terminal to a base station, and a downlink circuit established between each of the terminals and each of the base station for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed data from a base station to a terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mutsumu Serizawa, Nobuyasu Nakajima, Koji Ogura, Minoru Namekata, Takashi Wakutsu, Manabu Mukai
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Patent number: RE43714Abstract: Repairs of cartilage defects or of cartilage/bone defects in human or animal joints with the help of devices including a bone part (1), a cartilage layer (2) and a subchondral bone plate (4) or an imitation of such a plate in the transition region between the cartilage layer (2) and the bone part (1). After implantation, the bone part (4) is resorbed and is replaced by reparative tissue only after being essentially totally resorbed. In a critical phase of the healing process, a mechanically inferior cyst is located in the place of the implanted bone part (1). In order to prevent the cartilage layer (2) from sinking into the cyst space during this critical phase of the healing process the device has a top part (11).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Zimmer Orthobiologics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Nadler, Pedro Bittmann, Margarete K. Akens, Brigitte Von Rechenberg, Jorg Auer
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Patent number: RE43715Abstract: A system and method for allowing an Internet user to create a web page which may simultaneously display public and private data as integrated data on one digital screen or other network interface device. Integrated data may derive from at least one internal content provider, but may also include data from one or more external content providers. The invention also allows an internal content provider to create a personal profile of a user, based on proprietary data stores of the internal content provider and/or on the user's choices of data for viewing on a web page. Finally, the invention allows an internal content provider to use the personal profile to personalize the user's experience on the provider's web site.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Stargazer Software, Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Margaret C. Mitchell, John Mark Page, Philip W. Steitz, Anthony R. Bowen, Jeffrey S. Fehlhaber, Fred A. Bishop
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Patent number: RE43716Abstract: A method of fast switching control for different operation systems operated in computer is provided, including installing a first operating system, a second operating system and a second operating system kernel program in a hard disk of the computer. An event signal generation unit is connected to the computer. When the computer completes the booting process, the first operating system is loaded and executed, the second operating system kernel program memory region is established in a system memory, and the second operating system kernel program is loaded into the second operating system kernel program memory region. When the computer detects that a preset event signal is generated from the event signal generation unit, the second operation system kernel program preloaded in the second operating system kernel program memory region is executed, so that the computer is switched from executing the first operation system to executing the second operation system.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Getac Technology Corp.Inventor: Szu-Chung Wang
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Patent number: 8276212Abstract: An apron, towel and bath wrap drying garment to help a caregiver bathing an infant or toddler stay dry and keep the infant or toddler warm immediately after the bath. As an apron for the caregiver, the present drying garment closes behind the neck and waist of the caregiver (with secure Velcro fasteners and optional elastic adjustable attachment for the waist) and can be easily removed. Two slits are appropriately present in the garment allowing the caregiver to slide the caregiver's arms through them when taking the infant out of the water, allowing the safe removal of the infant from the water with both hands, while preventing the caregiver from getting wet. These slits also become placeholders for the toddler's arms when the garment is folded into a bathrobe. A method is provided to wrap infants and form a bathrobe for toddlers to keep them warm until changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Maamam, llcInventor: Ana Paula Quintanilla
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Patent number: 8276213Abstract: A venting apparatus with a no-catch mechanism and a method of manufacture of the apparatus are described. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a fastening device, a venting mechanism wherein the venting mechanism further comprises an opening, a mesh arrangement, and a no-catch mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: The North Face Apparel Corp.Inventor: Kathryn Maurer
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Patent number: 8276214Abstract: A protective glove (10) is provided for use by a firefighter or other emergency worker. The glove (10) has a hand covering portion (16) with a plurality of fingers (18) extending therefrom. The protective glove (10) includes a palm face (12) to cover the palm side of the hand and fingers of a wearer, a back face (14) to cover the back side of the hands and fingers of a wearer, and at least one fourcette (22) connecting the palm face (12) to the back face (14) around a perimeter of at least one of the fingers (18) of the glove (10) to define a 3-D type construction for the at least one of the fingers (18). The palm face (12) is joined directly to the back face (14) around a perimeter of at least another one of the fingers (18) of the glove (10) to define a pancake-type construction for the at least another one of the fingers (18).Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: William L. Grilliot, William L. Grilliot, Jr., Mary I. Grilliot
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Patent number: 8276215Abstract: A temperature sensing glove (101) is provided. The glove includes a temperature sensor (131); a plurality of memory locations; and an assigning algorithm (121, 123) for assigning a temperature reading made by the temperature sensor to one of the plurality of memory locations.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventors: Denise Lynn Merkle, Nelson E. Claytor
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Patent number: 8276216Abstract: Maternity wear of the invention accommodates the changing shape of a woman's body during pregnancy, minimizing the need for maternity clothes. In one aspect of the invention, pants or a skirt are worn with the upper end unfastened so as to conform to the shape of the swelling torso in pregnancy, and an elastic band shaped similarly to a tube top is worn generally around the waist, so as to overlap the top of the unfastened pants or skirt and retain them on the body. A top, such as a blouse or shirt, can be worn with its tail end extending over the band. In another aspect of the invention, too-large maternity clothing is worn with the band garment engaged over the upper end. If desired the band garment can be folded over on itself, thus doubling its thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Ingrid & Isabel, LLCInventor: Ingrid Carney
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Patent number: 8276217Abstract: A personal roll bar device for protecting a user's head, neck and back provides, in the exemplary embodiment, an impact member positioned adjacent the user's back and removably engaged with the user proximal the user's waist, the impact member extending upwardly therefrom above the user's head. A stabilizing means is removably engaged with the user's upper body and slidably coupled with the impact member, and is configured for maintaining the impact member adjacent the user's back during use. Thus, in the event the user experiences a head-first fall while using the device, an upper end of the impact member substantially protects the user's head and neck from initial impact, with the resulting impact forces being distributed through the impact member and substantially absorbed by the user's waist, thereby reducing the risk of burst and compression fractures in the user's neck and back.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Inventor: Kurt Hamilton
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Patent number: 8276218Abstract: A macerator toilet comprising a toilet body include a bowl portion and a base portion, the base portion defining a chamber and a macerator unit in fluid communication with the bowl portion, the macerator unit completely disposed in the chamber and operative for macerating a waste received from the bowl unit and pump the waste from the macerator toilet.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Thetford CorporationInventor: George Grech
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Patent number: 8276219Abstract: A potty seat, liner system is provided wherein the seat liner (9) is supported in a receptacle (7) by resting in the contours of a pee deflector (79) and an indentation (81). The receptacle (7) rests inside a seat (5), which is supported by a base (3). Furthermore, the liner (9) can be removed and folded onto itself to enclose waste therein. When not used with the base (3), the seat (5) is provided with an adjustment mechanism to facilitate securing the seat (5) to any desired adult sized toilet seat.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Optilife Products Inc.Inventor: David Dubiel