Patents Issued in February 17, 2015
  • Patent number: D722717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Eiko Electric Products Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Chin Wang
  • Patent number: D722718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Chia-Teh Chen
  • Patent number: D722719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hubbardton Forge LLC
    Inventor: Zach Pyle
  • Patent number: D722720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Matthew J. Garbo
  • Patent number: D722721
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Edmund Ross
  • Patent number: D722722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Edmund Ross
  • Patent number: D722723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Manfred Nitsch
  • Patent number: D722724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Kevin Guor
  • Patent number: D722725
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Won Jin
  • Patent number: D722726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventors: Brian Christopher Reukema, Melissa Christine Reukema
  • Patent number: D722727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Igaue
  • Patent number: D722728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack William Renforth, Ann Hanson, Paul Fair, Jaime Kimmerfeld, Roy Swanson
  • Patent number: D722729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Teresa Thomas
  • Patent number: D722730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Kong Company, LLC
    Inventors: David F. Simon, Chuck Costello, John James Stone, Dominic Mak
  • Patent number: D722731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Herzig Interlook AG
    Inventor: Michel Aviolat
  • Patent number: D722732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yonggyun Ghim, Hanjin Jung
  • Patent number: D722733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Hee Kim, Changae Lim, Jiwon Hwang
  • Patent number: D722734
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Ho Jang, Yeon-Young Nam
  • Patent number: D722735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: IPL Inc.
    Inventors: Daisy Del Rosario Roy, Roch Nolet, Yvan Marcoux, Francis Cote, Nicolas Morneau, Stephane Mercier
  • Patent number: D722736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Joseph Mongiori
  • Patent number: D722737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Crossford International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Kane, George Cruz
  • Patent number: D722738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Harvest International, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron J. Friesen, Garry D. Friesen, Jeff A. Sivinski
  • Patent number: D722739
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Kay, Ricardo Outi, Sopnendu Mohanty, Michael Ely, Hector J. Moll-Carrillo, Samuel Kong-Yue Lising, Isao Takezawa, Timothy Mathew Kobe
  • Patent number: D722740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: William Budde, Giancarlo Miranda, Joseph Bradley Nolan, Katherine Dill, Alison Maiorano, William Koehler, Anthony Meredith, Jonathan Rowell, Howard Nuk, David Scott, Tanya Khakbaz, Charles Ambler, Hanna Wickholm
  • Patent number: PP25290
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel apricot flowers and attractive foliage with above average disease resistance. It exhibits bushy 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
  • Patent number: PP25291
    Abstract: A new and distinct Pyrus communis pear tree variety named ‘CELINA’ particularly characterized by its green-yellow fruit with a red blush, pyriform/straight to convex fruit shape, fine fruit texture, medium fruit size, high yield, early fruit maturation, and resistance to scab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Graminor AS
    Inventor: Stein Harald Hjeltnes
  • Patent number: PP25292
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Brugmansia plant named ‘Little Angel’, characterized by its semi-double type, white-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, moderately vigorous, compact-upright growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Scott Trees
  • Patent number: PP25293
    Abstract: A Tulbaghia plant particularly distinguished by purple inflorescences and green, yellow-green, and white variegated foliage with purple margins, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hines Growers, Inc.
    Inventor: David Hernandez
  • Patent number: PP25294
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALDIMXAP’, particularly characterized by purple flowers with lighter center and dark purple lip, 2 to 3 peduncles, a short, sturdy and branching inflorescence, dark green leaves with narrow obovate shape, and propagation by tissue culture is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Anthura B.V.
    Inventor: Nicolaas Arnoldus Maria Van Rosmalen
  • Patent number: PP25295
    Abstract: A new and distinct Dahlia variety named ‘KLEDH11031’ particularly distinguished by its large, red-purple flowers, and a full, compact plant habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Klemm+Sohn GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nils Klemm, Andrea Dohm
  • Patent number: RE45373
    Abstract: An on-demand electronic faucet system for providing a faucet with a flow of water in response to a stimulus. A sensor unit is positioned remote from the faucet and in wireless communication with a wireless valve control unit. The wireless valve control unit controls a valve in the water supply line that feeds the faucet. In response to a stimulus, the sensor signals the wireless valve control unit to change the status of the valve in the water supply line from open to closed or closed to open and other states affecting flow and temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sloan Valve Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Allen, Jr., Peter Zosimadis
  • Patent number: RE45374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Brian Greenfield
  • Patent number: RE45375
    Abstract: A cooking vessel top according to the present invention is presented in that at least the contact surfaces of the cooking vessel top with the different cooking vessels are formed from an elastic material, especially silicone, that the passage opening or passage openings have at least one flat closure part connected to the cooking vessel top, which in the rest state not in contact with the boiling or foaming liquid essentially closes the passage opening or passage openings allocated to it and can be moved into an opening position by the opening force that develops on contact with the boiling or foaming liquid, in which the passage opening or passage openings are at least partially released and is configured and connected to the cooking vessel top so that it offers a slight resistance to the opening movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Armin Harecker
  • Patent number: RE45376
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system comprises: a cooling channel for receiving a cooling media, a substrate disposed near the cooling channel, and a fluidic jet disposed within the substrate and in fluid communication with the cooling channel. The cooling channel is for thermal communication with a component to be cooled. The cooling channel has a height of less than or equal to about 3 mm and a width of less than or equal to 2 mm. The fluidic jet comprises a cavity defined by a well and a membrane. In one embodiment, a method of cooling an electrical component comprises: passing a cooling media through a cooling channel, drawing the cooling media into one or more of the fluidic jets, expelling the cooling media from the one or more fluidic jets into the cooling channel, and removing thermal energy from the electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mehmet Arik, Todd Garrett Wetzel, Stephen Adam Solovitz
  • Patent number: RE45377
    Abstract: An upright ESFR sprinkler includes a generally tubular body, at least one frame arm, a closure assembly, an unactuated heat responsive trigger assembly and a deflector assembly with a K-factor greater than 14, and preferably 16.8. The passageway extends between inlet and outlet openings. The closure is positioned proximate the outlet so as to occlude the passageway with a Bellville seal being. An ejection spring is coupled to the closure assembly. The heat responsive trigger assembly has a Response Time Index of 40 meter1/2second1/2 (m1/2sec1/2) or less. The deflector assembly includes a nosepiece and a plate like redirecting member. The plate like redirecting member faces the outlet and is coupled to the at least one frame arm and spaced from the outlet opening. The plate shaped member includes a first generally planar portion, a conical second portion, and a third portion extending from the conical second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Donald B. Pounder, Michael A. Fischer
  • Patent number: RE45378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a synchronous semiconductor memory device with double data rate, and more particularly, to a synchronous semiconductor memory device for inputting and outputting data using a free-running clock and inserting a preamble indicative of start of data into the outputted data. A semiconductor memory device of the present invention receives a data read command from the exterior of the memory device in response to a predetermined clock signal inputted from the exterior, and outputting data including a preamble in response to the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kye-Hyun Kyung
  • Patent number: RE45379
    Abstract: A sonar array for forming multiple transmit and/or receive acoustic beams by a frequency beamforming technique. In frequency division beamforming, beam steering direction is made a function of frequency by driving (receiving) each element of a uniformly spaced line array by a signal which leads or lags its nearest neighbor by a fixed phase shift, ??. This permits scanning a transmit and/or receive beam through a range of angles by changing its frequency. The same principle can be used to form multiple simultaneous transmit and/or receive beams. This is accomplished by transmitting a wide bandwidth signal and receiving the echoes through a spectrum analyzer. Each frequency bin of the spectrum analyzer then corresponds to a beam pointing in its own unique direction. Advantages of such a sonar system include improved cost, weight, and size versus performance for a variety of systems including ahead looking sonars and bottom mapping sonars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Teledyne Blueview, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis D. Rowe
  • Patent number: RE45380
    Abstract: A coaxial guide catheter to be passed through guide catheter having a first lumen, for use with interventional cardiology devices that are insertable into a branch artery that branches off from a main artery. The coaxial guide catheter is extended through the lumen of the guide catheter and beyond the distal end of the guide catheter and inserted into the branch artery. The device assists in resisting axial and shear forces exerted by an interventional cardiology device passed through the second lumen and beyond the flexible distal tip portion that would otherwise tend to dislodge the guide catheter from the branch artery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Vascular Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Root, Gregg Sutton, Jeffrey M. Welch, Jason M. Garrity
  • Patent number: RE45381
    Abstract: A network correction security system. The network correction security system connected between a network node and a security-related external system, detects attacks on the network node, corrects weak parts of the performance of the network node, collects information for improving the security performance of the network node from a security-related external system, analyzes the information, monitors principal resources of the network node to detect a fault, and removes the fault according to a measure corresponding to a grade of the fault. The network correction security system carries out a recovery process when the fault has not been corrected, and recovers the functions of the network node according to a recovery mechanism when the fault has not been removed after the recovery process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung-Min Lee, Taek-Yong Nam, Sung-Won Sohn, Ye Seok Cho
  • Patent number: 8955162
    Abstract: Disclosed is a welding helmet including an anti-blinding device to selectively control a welding operation and a grinding operation, and more particularly, a welding helmet, which stably protects the welder's eyes and enables easy switching of the anti-blinding device from a welding operation mode to a grinding operation mode or vice versa without taking off the welding helmet. In addition to the anti-blinding device to protect the welder's eyes from light emitted from a welding or cutting torch during a welding or grinding operation, a switch is provided at an outer surface of the welding helmet to allow a welder to conveniently select a welding operation mode or a grinding operation mode without taking off the welding helmet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Otos Wing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Moon Young Huh
  • Patent number: 8955163
    Abstract: A motorcycle glove structure comprises a system for protecting the fingers, made with a double layer of plastic, the first layer of which is injected directly and coextensively onto a flat part made of leather or similar material or fabric. The second layer made of impact and abrasion resistant plastic is injection-molded over the first layer and preferably has projections opposite the minor knuckles. The structure also comprises a shield which is made of impact and abrasion resistant plastic applied to the back of the hand and which has at the front portions shaped so as to mate with projections formed at the end of said second layer for protecting the fingers, said co-operating projections being positioned opposite the major knuckles of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Alpinestars Research SRL
    Inventor: Giovanni Mazzarolo
  • Patent number: 8955164
    Abstract: One of the challenges for hospitals or clinics where X-ray machines are used is ensuring that the integrity of the apron that is used is intact. Once it has been established that a particular apron is fit for use, a process to identify and then track the apron becomes necessary due to the number of aprons that are stored in this size medical facility. A unique tamper resistant device is placed on the apron and then a unique identifier is placed on the unique tamper resistant device for ease of identification. Software is also incorporated to keep a log of all the activities related to a particular apron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Michael J. Ruthemeyer
  • Patent number: 8955165
    Abstract: A clothing article surrounds a wearer's upper torso. The article includes connected front portion, a collar. A sleeve is formed in the front portion. A jacket, and coat with an attachable/detachable scarf will be folded and stored in the inter portion of the front side of the collar area with elastic at each end and Velcro onto the inner portion of your collar, therefore eliminating the lost of them by any consumers, and especially children. A sleeve like collar attached to the coat and jacket for storing a scarf and making it easily deployable while in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Robert Romero
  • Patent number: 8955166
    Abstract: Finger extensions for astronaut gloves are disposed in sleeves on digits of the gloves. Different embodiments for the extensions are illustrated and discussed. The sleeves are secured to the tops of the digits. The extension elements include bases disposed in the sleeves and tips at outer ends of the bases. The tips may include pads which contact elements desired to be manipulated. The extensions are pivotal with the movement of the astronaut's digits in a glove. Only a slight movement of the astronaut's digits is required to provide the required dexterity for the astronaut user to grasp, pick up, move, etc., desired elements with the extensions. Inflexible rings about the extensions are fixed to the gloves prevent reverse bending of the extensions and maintain the extensions generally parallel to the users fingers. The extensions may be fixed or extendable and retractable, as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: James R. Madden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8955167
    Abstract: A golf glove having improved fit and gripping features is disclosed herein. The golf glove of the present invention includes gripping features permanently disposed on one or more of the fingers, preferably the front surfaces of the ring and little fingers, and also includes an expandable slit that extends from an opening and that helps the golf glove expand to receive a golfer's hand and then retract so that the glove fits comfortably on the golfer's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
    Inventor: Catherine Batista
  • Patent number: 8955168
    Abstract: A surgical protective assembly having an air movement device and a head gear assembly carrying the air movement device. The head gear assembly includes an outer wall, an inner wall, a front end, a back end and a middle portion between the front end and the back end. The outer wall has an upper opening, the inner wall has an array of openings, and the inner and outer wall define a front opening at the front end. The head gear assembly has a passageway that fluidly connects together, the upper opening, the array and the front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Manzella, Jr., David K. Platt, Michael C. Shaughnessy, Kevin T. Pullen, Keith A. Larson, Alison J. Sanders
  • Patent number: 8955169
    Abstract: An embodiment of a safety helmet for protecting the human head against repetitive impacts, moderate impacts and severe impacts so as to significantly reduce the likelihood of both translational and rotational brain injury and concussions includes a outer shell, an outer liner disposed within and coupled to the outer shell, and an inner liner disposed within and coupled in spaced opposition to the outer liner by a plurality of isolation dampers for omnidirectional movement of the inner liner relative to the outer liner and the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: 6D Helmets, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Weber, Robert Daniel Reisinger
  • Patent number: 8955170
    Abstract: Swimming goggles include left and right frame bodies installed with lenses, a connecting element, and protective pads and head strap bases respectively disposed on the left and right frame bodies. The left and right frame bodies each of which has an inner peripheral face and an outer peripheral face, and the protective pads each has a face contact portion and a connecting portion. Contours of the outer peripheral faces of the left and right frame bodies and the face contact portions are fit to face portions with respect to inner peripheries of eye sockets of a cranium of a wearer. Upper and lower edges of the face contact portions with respect to lower sides of eyebrows and lower sides of under-eye bags remain gaps with the connecting portions in a manner that the upper and lower edges of the face contact portions are nearly in contact with the connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Global Esprit Inc.
    Inventor: Herman Chiang
  • Patent number: 8955171
    Abstract: A toilet seat cover providing a flushable, foldable covering having a top side and an outer edge that cover an entire top surface and outer side, respectively, of a toilet seat having a forward open mouth. A channel centrally disposed in a bottom side of the covering has a continuous outer periphery with an elastomeric edge to accommodate insertion of the toilet seat therethrough to permit the covering to be placed onto the toilet seat. Straight foldable score lines disposed horizontally and vertically on the top side and the outer edge are arranged perpendicular to each other in a crisscross pattern of sections. The score lines permit transformation from a fully folded position with the sections arranged in a compressed, stacked configuration for packaging and transport to a fully unfolded position to cover a toilet seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Bravion Ariche
  • Patent number: 8955172
    Abstract: An improved method of installing a closet flange allows installation of plumbing fixtures with a reduced likelihood of leaks. The method involves telescopically fitting an inner or outer surface of a drainpipe to a surface of a cylindrical portion of a hub of a closet flange, where the hub has a base flange extending therefrom; and securing the base flange against the upper surface of a subfloor. A first layer of sealant is applied to an upper surface of the base flange; and a flooring membrane is secured to the upper surface of the base flange by the first layer of sealant. A second layer of sealant is applied to an upper surface of the flooring membrane; and the upper surface of the flooring membrane is clamped between the base flange and a clamping ring. The method may be performed using a two-part closet flange for connection to a drain pipe for a toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Bill Culwell