Patents Issued in August 2, 2016
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Patent number: 9402343Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible agricultural platform characterized by having a plurality of support arms constructed especially composed of multiple sections hinged together, arranged to hold the cutterbar assembly. The set of multiple-beam pivoting arms used to hold the cutting mechanism of a draper conveyor type agricultural platform on multiple support points evenly distributed across the width of the main frame, and in a manner to admit the cutterbar to flex along its width—without intermediate rigid sections—in response to changes in the curvature of field while the platform is advanced.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Jose Luis Allochis
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Patent number: 9402344Abstract: A sugarcane harvester and related method are disclosed for powering various sugarcane harvester operations. An energy storage device may be configured to receive electrical power from one or more electric machines for storage. The energy storage device may be configured to provide electrical power to the one or more electric machines to power operation of the one or more electric machines. An operating state of the sugarcane harvester may be identified, wherein the operating state is associated with one or more of a power requirement, a torque requirement, and an engine speed requirement for the sugarcane harvester. Based upon identifying the operating state, the one or more electric machines may be caused to receive electrical power from the energy storage device for conversion by the one or more electric machines to mechanical power, in order to power an operation of the sugarcane harvester.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Craig E. Wenzel, Alan D. Sheidler, Kent M. Almeida
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Patent number: 9402345Abstract: A cotton harvester includes plant cutting apparatus to sever cotton plants from a ground surface, plant conveyor apparatus to convey the severed plants into and through a picking chamber, and cotton picking apparatus including picker spindles that move upwardly into the picking chamber through a floor of the chamber to pick cotton filaments from bolls of the plants conveyed as a flattened mat therethrough and carry the cotton downwardly through the floor to doffers that remove the cotton from the spindles. Cotton conveyor apparatus also below the floor conveys the cotton to a receiver, while the plant residue passes from the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Alexandra C. Collier-DeChristopher, Kevin S. Richman, Michael J. Minnich, Geoffrey Rendell, Donald Keller, Christopher D. Sellers, Jesse H. Orsborn
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Patent number: 9402346Abstract: A baler has a flywheel, a plunger connected to the flywheel via a crank, an auxiliary motor for rotating the flywheel in a reverse direction and a start-up control system comprising a sensor for providing a signal indicative for the position of the crank and a control unit for controlling the auxiliary motor for rotating the flywheel in reverse direction to a predetermined launch position for enabling the flywheel to gain sufficient kinetic energy before the first plunger impact, at the next start-up.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Xavier G. J. M. Bonte, Pieter Vandevelde
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Patent number: 9402347Abstract: A gate assembly for use with a baler that includes a belt guide mechanism coupled to a side of the baler frame and guide one or more belts used to form the bale. The gate assembly also includes a shield pivotably coupled to the side of the baler frame and configured to limit contact with one or more components of the baler. The gate assembly further includes a linkage assembly coupled between the belt guide mechanism and the shield. The belt guide mechanism is configured to pivot between a lower belt guide mechanism position and a raised belt guide mechanism position to allow the bale to be ejected from the bale chamber. The linkage assembly is configured to pivot the shield between a lower shield position and a raised shield position responsive to the pivoting of the belt guide mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Kevin M. Smith
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Patent number: 9402348Abstract: A baling press has feeding structures for feeding rope materials along opposite first and second sides of the pressing channel and one or more knotters on a first side of the pressing channel. Each knotter includes a knot tier for knotting sections of the rope materials in a knotting area to each other, a cutter and a rope holder for holding rope material cut off from the knotted rope sections. The knotting area is closer to the bale pressing channel than the rope holder. A loop supply member is suspended on the first side of the bale pressing channel and has a hook for catching the rope materials and providing loops thereof at the first side. The rope diverter is arranged for urging sections of the rope materials between the hook and the rope holder towards the bale pressing channel into positions extending through the knotting area.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: BOLLEGRAAF PATENTS AND BRANDS B.V.Inventors: Andreas Acimas, Christian Steglich
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Patent number: 9402349Abstract: A sensor assembly and method are described for calibrating a tensioning system. A first movement of a slack arm of the tensioning system may be identified. It may be determined that the slack arm has been maintained in a first calibration position for a first predetermined time interval, and a first calibration setting for the slack arm may be determined based upon the first calibration position. A second movement of a slack arm of the tensioning system may be identified. It may be determined that the slack arm has been maintained in a second calibration position for a second predetermined time interval, and a second calibration setting for the slack arm may be determined based upon the identified second calibration position.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Nathan A. Chaney
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Patent number: 9402350Abstract: A cutter apparatus comprising a frame having a mounting member connectable to a piece of prime mover equipment; a cutter assembly connected to the frame, the cutter assembly comprising a support member having a first end; a drive shaft having a first end journaled to the first end of the support member; and a plurality of discrete cutter members stacked on the drive shaft so as to be engaged with an adjacent one of the cutter members, each of the cutter members having at least one cutting edge; and a drive assembly connected to the drive shaft in a way that activation of the drive assembly causes the drive shaft to rotate and thereby rotate the cutter members. The frame may have a base and an extension arm pivotally connected to the base. The support member may be pivotally connected to the extension arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Limb Beaver, LLCInventor: Roger Carroll
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Patent number: 9402351Abstract: Aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to devices, methods, and kits for use in horticultural containers. In accordance with some embodiments, a horticultural device comprising a base and a supporting plate may advantageously reduce the amount of soil required for potting. Aspects and embodiments of the present invention may facilitate potting and may reduce plant maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Joseph A. Raffaele
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Patent number: 9402352Abstract: An apparatus for the mechanized displacement of movable wires arranged on opposite sides of a row of plants, in particular grapevines, includes a frame suitable to be removably mounted on a farm vehicle, the frame being provided with a mover configured to move the movable wires. The apparatus is characterized in that the mover includes a pair of opposite gripping elements, each of which being suitable to slidingly receive one of the movable wires, the gripping elements being movable in a sequential and synchronized manner along at least two orthogonal axes so as to displace the movable wires from a first height to a second height.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Claudio Bortolussi, Franco Bortolussi
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Patent number: 9402353Abstract: An irrigation system comprises one or more waterlines coupled to one or more watering mechanisms for watering one or more areas. The watering mechanisms are fixed in place at the desired area by an adapter which removably couples the one or more watering systems in place. Water is supplied to each of the one or more watering mechanisms by traveling from the one or more waterlines and through one or more pressure compensators. The one or more pressure compensators regulate the water flow through the one or more watering mechanisms enabling the irrigation system to uniformly distribute water at a set and constant pressure value. The water is distributed by one or more valves which are used to control one or more zones of the irrigation system. In some embodiments, a controller controls the system based upon a signal received from one or more sensors of the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: WATERPULSE, INC.Inventors: Yugen Patrick Lockhart, Ronald L. Johnson
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Patent number: 9402354Abstract: A self-propelled irrigation system includes a drive tower configured to cross over a drainage ditch or other watercourse in an irrigated field without the use of a bridge or other support structure to support the load of the drive tower.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: George Edmund Bullard, III
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Patent number: 9402355Abstract: A spray boom system is disclosed that provides substantially equal solution paths to a plurality of nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Kuide Qin, Dylan Engels
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Patent number: 9402356Abstract: A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated HMX3887 and/or HMX3888 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of tomato hybrid HMX3887 and/or HMX3888, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato HMX3887 and/or HMX3888, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HMX3887 and/or HMX3888 with itself or another tomato plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other tomato plants derived from the hybrid tomato plant HMX3887 and/or HMX3888.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HM.Clause, Inc.Inventor: Chunxiao Jiang
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Patent number: 9402357Abstract: The present invention provides novel watermelon line 4XDKFD55G and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a watermelon plant by crossing the watermelon plants of the invention with themselves or another watermelon plant. The invention also provides watermelon plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. Further provided are methods of producing triploid watermelon seed and plants and seedless watermelon fruit produced therefrom as well as the triploid watermelon seed and plants and the seedless fruits produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: James P. Brusca
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Patent number: 9402358Abstract: This invention relates in part to plant breeding and herbicide tolerant plants. This invention includes a novel aad-1 transformation event in corn plants comprising a polynucleotide sequence, as described herein, inserted into a specific site within the genome of a corn cell. In some embodiments, said event/polynucleotide sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. Additionally, the subject invention provides assays for detecting the presence of the subject event in a sample (of corn grain, for example). The assays can be based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct, inserted into the corn genome, and on the genomic sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Yunxing C. Cui, Jill R. Bryan, Donald G. Maum, Gregory J. Gilles, Terry R. Wright, Jennifer L. Hamilton, Nicole L. Arnold, Nathan J. VanOpdorp, Tina M. Kaiser, Ning Zhou
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Patent number: 9402359Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X00D886 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X00D886 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00D886 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X00D886, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00D886. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00D886.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Edwin Michael Grote, Jay Robert Hotchkiss, Martin Arbelbide, Stephen Joseph Szalma
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Patent number: 9402360Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X18D805 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X18D805 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18D805 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X18D805, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18D805. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18D805.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Terry R. Colbert, Daniel P. Gorman, Thomas Russell Henry, Joseph D. Anderson, Jason Michael Prothro, Nathan Brook O'Berry
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Patent number: 9402361Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X95D021 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X95D021 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95D021 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X95D021, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95D021. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95D021.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Todd Elliott Piper, Lori Lisa Carrigan, Stephen Joseph Szalma, Matthew David Walch
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Patent number: 9402362Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XR47AB14RX. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XR47AB14RX. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XR47AB14RX and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XR47AB14RX with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventor: Philip A. Owen
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Patent number: 9402363Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinach plant which may comprise an allele conferring resistance to downy mildew, propagation material of said spinach plant, a cell of said spinach plant, seed of said spinach plant, and to harvested leaves of said spinach plant. The invention further relates to use of a spinach plant in breeding to confer resistance against downy mildew.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Johannes Geert Jan Feitsma, Vincent Laurens Adrianus Kock
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Patent number: 9402364Abstract: A robotic milking system suitable for use with conventional milking clusters. Clusters are withdrawn to a generally known position upon release from a cow with the cups hanging down below the bowl. The cups are then located in a confined region from where they are picked up by a robotic arm and attached to teats of a cow. The arrangement allows a single robotic arm to service multiple bales of a rotary milking parlor.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Scott Milktech LimitedInventors: Mark Hamish Seaton, Thomas Glover, Bryan Gordon Grimshaw, Matthew Iain McKenzie
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Patent number: 9402365Abstract: A system includes a front wall, a rear wall opposite the front wall, and first and second side walls extending between the front wall and the rear wall. The first side wall includes a gate, and the second side wall is spaced apart from the first side wall such that the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall define a milking box stall that accommodates a dairy livestock. The system includes an equipment portion adjacent to the rear wall. It houses a separation container that receives milk to be discarded from the dairy livestock. The equipment portion further houses a robotic attacher that extends from behind and between the rear legs of a dairy livestock located within the milking box stall in order to attach milking equipment to the dairy livestock.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Technologies Holdings Corp.Inventors: Henk Hofman, Peter Willem van der Sluis, Ype Groensma
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Patent number: 9402366Abstract: Systems and methods to treat a region of a cornea of an eye having an epithelial layer disposed over a stromal layer. The system comprises a device to map a thickness of the epithelial layer over the region of the cornea to generate a map of epithelial thickness over the region, and a laser to generate a laser beam of an ablative radiation. A movable scan component is coupled to the laser to scan the laser beam over the region. A processor system is coupled to the laser and the movable scan component, and the processor system is configured to arrange pulses of laser beam to ablate the epithelial layer of the region in response to the map of epithelial thickness.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Keith Holliday, Mark E. Arnoldussen
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Patent number: 9402367Abstract: A pet sheet for pet excrement has a fluid-permeable surface sheet and a fluid-impermeable rear sheet. The pet sheet has a first folded section and a second folded section that are formed by the folding of the surface sheet and the rear sheet so as to protrude on the surface sheet side. The surface sheet and the rear sheet positioned on both sides of the first folded section and the second folded section, respectively, are configured so as to fold out and be used as the pet sheet. Ridge lines formed in the surface sheet in the first folded section and the second folded section extend continuously along a first direction parallel to the surface sheet, from one end of the surface sheet in the first direction to the other end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Chiyo Takagi, Takeshi Ikegami
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Patent number: 9402368Abstract: The number of piglets dying at birth is reduced by providing a temperature sensor in a farrowing crate at the piglet area thereof on a movable cover so that, when the sow is expected to give birth, the sensor is located in the crate at a location to detect the presence of one or more piglets after birth. On detection by a control unit using the sensor signal of the one or more piglets, the sensor communicates a signal to a pager carried by an operator indicating to the operator that birth of piglets is in progress and activates a heating lamp for the piglets in the pen to attract them away from the area of the sow to reduce crushing. The control unit and the sensor also control the heat output. The cover can slide along the piglet area and can lift to expose the piglet area.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Conception Ro-Main Inc.Inventors: Serge Labrecque, Robert Labrecque, Germain Labrecque
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Patent number: 9402369Abstract: A device for connecting to a window comprising a unitary support member configured for secure engagement with an interior portion of a door and a cushioning member removably attached to the support member.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Kimberly Burns Baker
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Patent number: 9402370Abstract: A food retainer adapted to receive food to be eaten by a domestic animal. The food retainer has a base and a number of protrusions extending from the upper surface of the base of the food retainer in mutual distances from each other. At least some of the protrusions are substantially higher than the remainder of those on the food retainer. The structure of the food retainer forces the animal to struggle for the food, thereby performing an exercise that keeps the animal healthy and active and stimulates the intelligence and physique of the animal.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Northmate ApSInventors: Frederik Estrup Lindskov, Mikkel Hansen
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Patent number: 9402371Abstract: A pet feeding bowl for holding food and water is provided. The pet feeding bowl has a main receptacle for holding food and water that is supported against the ground by a support structure. An auxiliary receptacle is formed by the outer surface of the main receptacle and the support structure, and may also be used for holding food and water. A first lid may be provided to cover the main receptacle, allowing food or liquid to be stored therein during travel or to prevent access to the contents of the main receptacle. A second lid may be provided to cover the auxiliary receptacle, also for the purpose of storing food or liquid. Both the first and second lids may be placed on the bottom of the pet feeding bowl to provide a non-skid, high-friction connection between the pet-feeding bowl and the support surface or ground on which it rests.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Joseph Rabideau
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Patent number: 9402372Abstract: A feeding trough which is accessible to livestock animals is disclosed, and is defined at the bottom and laterally by a bottom wall and side walls, respectively, wherein one of the side walls demarcates the trough interior for an access side from which the animals take up feed from the trough interior. The side wall on the access side has an upper side wall edge over which an animal's head must reach at least partly so that the animal can take up feed from the trough interior and a trough frame to which the feeding trough is fixed. An adjustment mechanism is provided for adjusting the height of the side wall edge on the access side relative to the trough frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: BIG DUTCHMAN PIG EQUIPMENT GMBHInventors: Karsten Fuchs, Daniel Holling
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Patent number: 9402373Abstract: An automated feeding apparatus for animals comprises an inlet hopper having a discharge outlet provided with a feeder actuable in accordance with a predetermined feeding regime, the discharge outlet being of variable size. The discharge outlet is adjustable in length and depth to enable variation of volumetric flow therethrough, with the distance between the auger and the top wall being at least the average size of the food particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: CAVADISTRIB, INC.Inventor: René Massicotte
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Patent number: 9402374Abstract: A container for holding and dispensing liquid or solid refreshment, includes a bottle and a bowl releasably coupleable to the bottle. The bottle includes a first side, a second side, a top and a bottom, that together define a cavity for holding refreshment, wherein the top includes an opening through which refreshment may pass to leave the cavity. The bowl includes a floor, a side and a wall, that together, define a cavity, wherein when the bowl is releasably coupled to the bottle: 1) the floor covers completely the bottle's first side, 2) the side covers completely the bottle's bottom, and 3) the wall extends over the bottle's second side. The container also includes a cap releasably coupleable to the bottle's top to prevent refreshment from passing through the top's opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Daniel Landon
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Patent number: 9402375Abstract: A recirculating pet fountain that includes a basin, pump and discharge where water pumped out the discharge is either received by an overflow tube and/or conveyed by a bridge toward water in the basin including into the tube. The bridge can include a channel and be configured so at least some discharged water clings to its underside via surface tension as water flows toward the basin. The tube has a mouth which can receive water from the bridge that can be free falling water that overflows from the tube into the basin. The tube can include one or more discharge ports that can include flow directors that help direct flow of water received in the tube that overflows out the ports. The tube can be length extensible and can include a flow adjuster that can increase effective tube length and can block one or more ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Pioneer Pet Products, LLCInventor: John M. Lipscomb
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Patent number: 9402376Abstract: A transgenic, non-human animal model for accelerated aging and/or age-related symptom, recombinant nucleic acid molecules, cells and methods that can be used to make such animal model and cells, methods of using the animal model and cells, to descendants of the transgenic non-human animal, obtained by breeding with the same or with another phenotype, and to a cell line or primary cell culture or to an organotypic brain slice culture, derived from the transgenic non-human animal or its descendants are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED GENOMIC TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventor: Eugenia Wang
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Patent number: 9402377Abstract: The invention relates generally to compositions and methods of using transgenic non-human animals expressing human SIRP? that are engrafted with a human hematopoietic system. In various embodiments, the human hematopoietic system engrafted, human SIRP? transgenic non-human animals of the invention are useful as systems for the in vivo evaluation of the growth and differentiation of hematopoietic and immune cells, for the in vivo assessment of an immune response, for the in vivo evaluation of vaccines and vaccination regimens, for in vivo production and collection of immune mediators, including human antibodies, and for use in testing the effect of agents that modulate hematopoietic and immune cell function.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Yale UniversityInventors: Richard A. Flavell, Till Strowig, Elizabeth Eynon, William Philbrick, Markus Manz
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Patent number: 9402378Abstract: In the long-term space human living environment, the biological wastes from human, animals, and plants can be fully digested and recycled by rearing six kinds of recycling animals which will be nourishing feed stuff for feeding edible animals. These edible animals and their eggs combined with space plants will be various food for human. Water and nutrition left in the residues after rearing these feedstuff recycling animals can be recycled and used to fertilize plants. All the animals and plants can be solidly reared in same cabin on the shelf with high densities in boxes, cages, trays and tanks which are all in minimum volume and weight. It is the basis for realizing mini space farm which provides a self-sufficient food regenerative system that enable humans to live and work in space independent of food supply from earth.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Mao Zhang
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Patent number: 9402379Abstract: A fishing hook assembly includes a hook element including a tie rail, which defines an enlarged line-pass-through area.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Corey Bechtold, Lisa Bechtold
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Patent number: 9402380Abstract: In the present dual-bearing reel, a pinion gear has a body, a first support part, a second support part, a gear part and a narrowed part. The first support part is disposed on a first end side of the body. The second support part is disposed on a second end side of the body. The gear part is disposed so as to be spaced from the first support part at an interval between the first support part and the second support part. The narrowed part is disposed between the first support part and the gear part. The narrowed part includes an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the second support part and less than a root circle diameter of the gear part.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventor: Akira Niitsuma
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Patent number: 9402381Abstract: An apparatus for securing a fishing pole or rod to a pier or other fixed object so that the fishing pole or rod can used without constantly being held. The head of the apparatus comprise a loop with a flat-bottomed spacer that can fit securely around a fishing pole or rod without interfering with the line. The head is attached by a quick-snap buckle to one end of an adjustable length strap, where the other end of the strap is fastened or connected to a pier railing, pole, post, cross-bar, or other fixed object or structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Ted Craddock, Robert Wessel
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Patent number: 9402382Abstract: A boot for treating laminitis in horses has a hoof casing snugly receiving an supporting a horny hoof wall of the laminitic hoof and a sole pivotally attached to the hoof casing such that the laminitic hoof may pivot with respect to the sole while the sole is planted on ground, thereby reducing stress on the inflamed laminae. A bearing assembly disposed between the hoof casing and the sole facilitates pivoting, and friction adjustment may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Michelle Burr
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Patent number: 9402383Abstract: A trap for mass capturing and controlling the insect called “cotton boll weevil”, comprising a tubular central body (1) having a bottom section provided with holes (11), a housing formed by a perforated lid (7) and a base or bottom lid (3) provided with holes (3B) and further including one or more openings (12) to allow insect entering the housing from the bottom section (1); b) an insecticide dispenser section (4) inside the housing, c) a hole section for venting and discharging vapors (5) located at a position that is farther from the base or bottom lid than the insecticide dispenser (4); d) a perforated vessel (8) to contain an attractant diffuser (14) outside the housing and above it, and e) a closure (9) of the perforated vessel (8) at its upper end.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia AgropecuariaInventor: Ivan Bonacic Kresic
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Patent number: 9402384Abstract: A transformable sporting chair system which can be transformed from a working seat for use in the outdoors, to a transportable configuration for carrying the chair to or from an outdoor location. The chair features a frame which can be nearly entirely disassembled and reassembled into the working or transport configuration. The chair includes a holding element for holding tools or equipment, such as a hunting bow. The chair may also be strapped to a tree using ratchet straps.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: George L. Weber, Jr.
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Patent number: 9402385Abstract: A waterfowl decoy deployment apparatus comprises a drive wheel 82 having a vertical drive shaft 86 depending from a horizontal support plate 84, the drive shaft 86 rotatably locked in the drive shaft bore 80 of a reinforcement bearing 76 affixed to a housing 14, the motor shaft 58 from a motor 48 affixed to the housing 14 extending upwardly and rotatably secured in a motor shaft bore 90 in the lower end of the drive shaft 86, an array of waterfowl decoy deployment arms 18 radiating symmetrically and outwardly from the support plate 84, each waterfowl decoy deploying arm for supporting a waterfowl decoy, such that activation of the motor shaft 58 causes the drive wheel 82, bearing 76, and array of decoy deployment arms 18 to rotate in unison thereby deploying a plurality of decoys in a lifelike presentation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Mike Franklin
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Patent number: 9402386Abstract: Method and apparatus for a collapsible turkey decoy having a central upright rod having an upper cap thereon along with a lower sliding collar wherein a plurality of ribs or lateral frame members extend from the upper cap to the lower sliding collar so that when the lower sliding collar is in a first upward position the ribs expand outwardly to form the body of the decoy and when the lower sliding collar is in a second lower position the ribs collapse into a folded position. The ribs also have both neck and tail frame members mounted thereon over which the cover of the turkey body is mounted along with an optional tail piece assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: W. C. Otwell
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Patent number: 9402387Abstract: A waterfowl decoy motion system comprises a self-propelled floating decoy tethered to a submerged line supported below the surface of a body of water by stakes driven into the water bottom. A thruster is attached to the bottom of the decoy such that the direction of propulsion is offset from a longitudinal axis extending along the length of the decoy by an angle of at least one degree. The tether is slidably attached to the submerged line, and a swivel located on the tether allows the decoy to rotate freely. The decoy is guided by the line as it moves across the surface of the water. When the tether reaches a stopper near each end of the line, the offset propulsion angle causes the decoy to turn in an arcing path, turn around, and travel in the opposite direction. The decoy repeats this process in a continuous loop.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Wesley Alan Goodman, Kyle Allen Burton
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Patent number: 9402388Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of freezing stem cells comprising introducing the HSCs into a cell culture medium that has been conditioned with Wharton's Jelly mesenchymal stem cells (WJSCs), thereby producing a stem cell culture, and slowly freezing the stem cell culture. In other aspects, the invention is directed to compositions comprising stem cells produced by the methods provided herein. In yet other aspects, the invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the stem cells produced by the methods provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Chui Yee Fong, Tuan Ariffeen Bongso, Daniel Hao Lin
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Patent number: 9402389Abstract: An apparatus for at least one of storage, treatment, assessment and transport of an organ or tissue includes a coolant container configured to cool the organ or tissue, a perfusion circuit configured to perfuse the organ or tissue, and a sample compartment for holding a biological sample. Preferred apparatus has a first internal compartment under a first cover (lid) of the apparatus that includes the coolant container and the sample compartment. The apparatus can include a second internal compartment under a second cover (lid) of the apparatus, the second internal compartment including at least part of the perfusion circuit and a sample compartment.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: LIFELINE SCIENTIFIC, INC.Inventors: David Kravitz, Christopher P. Steinman, David Pettinato, Matthew Copithorne, Brian L Otts, Robert J. Allen, Frank P. Nanna, Peter Demuylder
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Patent number: 9402390Abstract: A device is provided for securing a tissue sample from biological material. The tissue sample is housed in bottom and top platens that are configured to promote fluid communication between the tissue sample and the exterior environment to permit transport or cryogenic fluid to contact the sample. Additionally, diskette assemblies may be provided within the platens that permit sub-samples to be separated without directly handling the tissue sample. The diskette assemblies may also be configured to promote fluid communication with the sub-sample housed therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventor: Russell James Schweizer
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Patent number: 9402391Abstract: The present invention relates to stable, agricultural oil-in-water emulsion compositions.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Wen Xu, Holger Tank
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Patent number: 9402392Abstract: Viscoelastic compositions capable of preventing microbial proliferation and capable of capturing microbial membrane and cell wall decomposition products are provided. The compositions comprise thermal reaction products of blends of fatty acids derived and isolated from drying and semi-drying oils such as linseed, safflower, and tung oil, with a polymer component such as for example poly (isobutyl methacrylate). These compositions are capable of capturing microbes and controlling their proliferation at a material on which the compositions are deposited, and further capable of absorption or incorporation of lipopolysaccharide and protein membrane materials and endotoxins.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: MyCelx Technologies CorporationInventor: Hal Alper
