Patents Issued in May 2, 2017
  • Patent number: RE46383
    Abstract: A method for using a synchrotron, the method including the steps of: providing a synchrotron designed to accelerate a hadron beam to higher momenta; altering said synchrotron to enable deceleration of hadron beams to lower momenta; and using the synchrotron in said altering step in decelerating a hadron beam to lower momentum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HBAR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald Peter Jackson
  • Patent number: RE46384
    Abstract: A laser landscape lighting apparatus for use in accent lighting applications for landscapes and outdoor venues. In one embodiment, the laser landscape lighting apparatus includes a coherent light source in combination with a diffractive optical element and optionally a diffraction grating wheel. The diffractive optical element may be, for example, a holographic optical element. In some embodiments, the laser landscape lighting apparatus includes a temperature-controlled integral derivative system. In one application, the laser landscape lighting apparatus may project a static or movable star field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Randy Edward Johnson
  • Patent number: RE46385
    Abstract: A driving control device according to the present invention includes: a fixed member; an operation member arranged to be manually rotatable with respect to the fixed member; a transducer arranged in one of the fixed member and the operation member and arranged to come into contact with an opposed surface of the other of the fixed member and the operation member; a position detecting section for detecting a position of the operation member with respect to the fixed member; and an operation force amount control section for controlling driving of the transducer to change contact friction force generated when the transducer contacts with the fixed member or the operation member. The operation force amount control section controls the transducer such that the contact friction force applied to the operation member when the operation member is manually rotated with respect to the fixed member changes to a sense of click.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumio Kawai, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Patent number: RE46386
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program product for updating a user session in a terminal server environment. Transfer of display data corresponding to an updated user interface can occur via a memory shared between an agent server and an agent client in a terminal server environment. Access to the shared memory can be synchronized via token passing or other operation to prevent simultaneous access to the shared memory. Token sharing and synchronized input/output can be performed using FIFOs, sockets, files, semaphores and the like, allowing communications between the agent server and agent client communications to adapt to different operating system architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Strategic Technology Partners LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Chaim Cohen
  • Patent number: RE46387
    Abstract: A network system for managing remote agents of a communication center includes a primary server connected to the network the primary server controlling at least one routing point; one or more secondary servers distributed on the network and accessible to the remote agents, the secondary server or servers having data access to agent computing platforms and communication peripherals; and, a software suite distributed in part to the secondary server or servers and distributed in part to one or more agents computing platforms and peripherals, the software suite including protocol for reporting agent status data. The system monitors agents computing platforms and peripherals for activity state through the one or more secondary servers whereupon the one or more secondary servers exchange control messaging and event related data using ISCC protocols with the primary server over the network for intelligent routing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir N. Deryugin, Patrick Giacomini, Petr Makagon, Andriy Ryabchun, Nikolay Anisimov
  • Patent number: RE46388
    Abstract: There is provided an audio coding device which appropriately sets the quantization bit number by a small calculation amount in each stage when coding an input audio signal by performing multi-stage normalization/quantization. A quantization information calculation section determines total quantization information idwl0, based on normalization information idsf, and allocates the total quantization information idwl0 for quantization information idwl1 and quantization information idwl2. At this time, the quantization information calculation section limits the quantization information idwl1 by a limiter lim1, and allocates the total quantization information idwl0 for quantization information idwl1. If the quantization information idwl1 exceeds the limiter lim1, the excess is allocated for the quantization information idwl2. A first normalization section and a first quantization section normalizes and quantizes a frequency spectrum mdspec1 in the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Matsumura, Shiro Suzuki, Keisuke Toyama, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Yuhki Mitsufuji
  • Patent number: RE46389
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device and a method of forming the nonvolatile memory device, the method including forming a tunnel insulating layer on a substrate, wherein forming the tunnel insulating layer includes forming a multi-element insulating layer by a process including sequentially supplying a first element source, a second element source, and a third element source to the substrate, forming a charge storage layer on the tunnel insulating layer, forming a blocking insulating layer on the charge storage layer, and forming a control gate electrode on the blocking insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juwan Lim, Sungkweon Baek, Kwangmin Park, Seungjae Baik, Kihyun Hwang
  • Patent number: RE46390
    Abstract: According to the embodiments, a distribution of a recess portion shape is calculated based on a result obtained by measuring the recess portion shape of a first projection and recess pattern formed on a surface of a template. Next, a distribution of an application amount of a curing agent to a processing target layer is calculated based on the distribution of the recess portion shape, and the curing agent is applied to the processing target layer based on this distribution of the application amount of the curing agent. Next, a second projection and recess pattern is formed by transferring the first projection and recess pattern onto the curing agent by causing the curing agent to cure in a state where the first projection and recess pattern is in contact with the curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Asano, Ryoichi Inanami, Masayuki Hatano
  • Patent number: RE46391
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless multi-charger system capable of saving the total charging time of a large number of wireless power transmission devices since one wireless multi-power transmission device includes a plurality of the wireless power transmission devices so that a large number of the wireless power transmission devices can be charged with electricity, and preventing the damage of the wireless power transmission devices and the wireless multi-power transmission device although foreign substances are put on charger blocks that are not charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Kil Jung
  • Patent number: RE46392
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless multi-charger system capable of saving the total charging time of a large number of wireless power transmission devices since one wireless multi-power transmission device includes a plurality of the wireless power transmission devices so that a large number of the wireless power transmission devices can be charged with electricity, and preventing the damage of the wireless power transmission devices and the wireless multi-power transmission device although foreign substances are put on charger blocks that are not charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Kil Jung
  • Patent number: RE46393
    Abstract: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor expanding original enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the expanded enhanced data and inserting known data place holders into the data packets, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets including main data, and an RS encoder adding systematic RS parity data to each main data packet and adding non-systematic RS parity data holders to each enhanced data packet. It further includes a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, a known data generator generating know data symbols, a converter converting the interleaved data packet into symbols, and a symbol processor processing the converted symbols. The symbol processor removes symbols representing the null data, encodes symbols representing the original enhanced data at a rate of N/M, and replaces symbols representing the know data place holders with known data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Woo Chan Kim, Jae Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: RE46394
    Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink signals is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a user equipment, periodic control information on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) at a predetermined period, dropping the periodic control information and multiplexing uplink signals except the periodic control information when the user equipment is operating in subframe bundling transmission mode where the uplink signals are transmitted in a plurality of consecutive subframes, and transmitting the multiplexed uplink signals on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: RE46395
    Abstract: A method for delivering messages in a telecommunications network where the first text-form message of the session N is delivered to the user of the service such that the sender address (the A number) is converted to correspond to the session number N and the session stage J, in stages 2-n of the session N, a text-form message is received from the user of the message service at the sender address defined in the message in the previous stage, and the session proceeds according to the contents of the message such that the sender address (the A number) is converted to correspond to the session number N and the new session stage J, and the next text-form message of session N is sent to the user of the message service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BookIT Oy Ajanvarauspalvelu
    Inventor: Jukka Kalevi Salonen
  • Patent number: RE46396
    Abstract: A split bridge circuit for rectifying the alternating current house supply into direct current (D.C.), using hi-polar transistor as rectifying devices. Using specified terminals of the bi-polar transistors results in a high forward voltage drop across the transistors (particularly as compared to the voltage drop across diode rectifiers in the prior art circuits), which reduces ripple significantly and lessens, or even eliminates, the need for a series limiting resistor in the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: JLJ, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Janning
  • Patent number: 9635796
    Abstract: A shovel assembly for coupling a shovel to a forearm includes a shovel that may be coupled to a forearm of a user. Thus, the shovel may be manipulated to shovel material. A support is coupled to the shovel. The support may to be secured to the user's forearm. Thus, the shovel is retained on the user's forearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Marcel Amirault
  • Patent number: 9635797
    Abstract: A rolling basket assembly for use with an agricultural tillage implement having a frame. The rolling basket assembly includes a rolling basket and at least one arm assembly. The arm assembly has a first and second structural member, a biased device, a bracket and an actuator. The first structural member extends from the frame. The biased device is pivotally coupled to the first structural member or the frame. The bracket is coupled to the first structural member and to the biased device. The second structural member is pivotally coupled to the first structural member. The rolling basket is rotationally coupled to the second structural member. The actuator is pivotally coupled to both the second structural member and the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Kovach, Rick L. Gerber
  • Patent number: 9635798
    Abstract: An implement for cultivating a field is connected to a self-propelled vehicle that is steered automatically along a first reference path by a steering control unit. The implement is guided in a lateral direction with respect to the vehicle along a second reference path by an implement position control unit by means of an actuator. The steering control unit steam the vehicle in dependence on the position of the actuator at the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephan Merx, Nicolas Germann
  • Patent number: 9635799
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transformable agricultural planter that is structured and operable to transform to a Transport Configuration wherein a width of the planter is less than or equal to a Department Of Transportation maximum load width for which special ‘Wide Load’ permits are not required. The planter includes a support cart including a telescoping support axle having a plurality of wheel assemblies mounted thereto and a plurality of actuators connected to the telescoping support axle. The actuators are operable to extend and retract the telescoping support axle such that a spacing between the wheel assemblies can be set to any desired distance. The planter additionally includes a main toolbar assembly connected a toolbar lift and spin assembly rotatably mounted to the support cart and operable to rotate, raise and lower the main toolbar assembly between the Transport Configuration and a Planting Configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Hundley, Andrew D. Thielen, Brian Forinash, David J. Baitinger, Timothy J. Forbes
  • Patent number: 9635800
    Abstract: The apparatus is a tender that removes horse manure from pastures and paddocks by collecting stools of manure, grinding the manure and returning it back to the pasture as fertilizer. The tender can also process collected manure, moving it and distributing it to locations needing biomass. The tender is a specialized sled, which can be towed by small vehicle, such as a golf cart. When towed through a pasture, the tender scrapes up the horse manure, grinds it into small granules without hurting the grass, and then spreads it over a wide elongate area, utilizing a unique knife and a partitioned mesh in a structural frame. The tender has a removable bed liner for that retains some or all materials, such as collected manure, for transporting the materials, where it can be dumped or be distributed as a granular biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Ron Collins
  • Patent number: 9635801
    Abstract: A hand-planter for singulation planting of cereal, grain, seed and other crops includes a tapered soil engagement component for striking and penetrating a soil surface. With each planter strike to the soil surface, the planter is actuated to meter a granular material product by reciprocating a drum to rotate, thereby exposing a cavity to a material hopper. As the actuation force is released, the reciprocating drum rotates in an opposite direction to its original location and drops the material that has been metered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Adrian A. Koller, Randal K. Taylor, William R. Raun
  • Patent number: 9635802
    Abstract: A motor drives a seeding system. A sensor senses a characteristic of the motor and a motor jam is detected based on the sensed characteristic. The motor is momentarily reversed, when a jam is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Gerald E. Rains, Michael E. Frasier
  • Patent number: 9635803
    Abstract: A metering apparatus for distributing an agricultural product in a field has a meterbox configured for association with a hopper for receiving agricultural product from the hopper. A rotatable metering element is disposed within a chamber in the meterbox, and the rotating metering element is configured to deliver the agricultural product at a regulated rate from the hopper through the chamber to a product distribution line. Delivery of the agricultural product to the product distribution line may be selectively stopped by a reversibly inflatable seal between the metering element and an outlet to the distribution line, a reversible seal formed by contact between the metering element and an inlet from the hopper to the chamber, or a disengagement structure for disengaging the agricultural product from the metering element while the metering element continues to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: Geof J. Gray, Mikhail Rodionov, John Mark Averink, Johan Braun Friessen, Jesse Abram Dyck
  • Patent number: 9635804
    Abstract: A system for planting seeds having a metering system positioned before a belt lowering system that has a sensor to detect the position of a seed on the belt lowering system. The rotational speed of the metering system and the belt lowering system are determined by the speed and location of a planter and the position of the seed on the belt lowering system to correct seed positioning with relation to a pre-mapped or selected field starting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: GARY W. CLEM, INC.
    Inventors: Brian W. Carr, Scott A. Sporrer, Nick Merfeld, Andrew G. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 9635805
    Abstract: A fertilizer tube system for efficiently dispensing and placing fertilizer within a furrow to minimize germination injury. The fertilizer tube system generally includes a fertilizer tube having an input opening at an upper end of the fertilizer tube and an output opening at a lower end of the fertilizer tube, a tab attached to the fertilizer tube between the input opening and the output opening and a guard scraper attached to a lower portion of the fertilizer tube. The guard scraper includes a mounting portion having a receiver channel adapted to be removably attachable to a mounting member of a planter shank of a planter implement, wherein the mounting member is comprised of an inverted T-shaped structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Totally Tubular Mfg., Inc.
    Inventor: Brent W. Wiesenburger
  • Patent number: 9635806
    Abstract: A mower blade speed control system with an electronic control unit providing engine speed commands to an internal combustion engine having a maximum power speed and a reduced economy speed, and a continuously variable transmission with variable displacement providing rotational power from the engine to a plurality of mower blades. The electronic control unit monitors engine load and automatically adjusts engine speed and the displacement of the continuously variable transmission in response to engine load to achieve a constant rotational speed of a plurality of mower blades at different engine speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Taylor A. Waitt, Mark D. Evans, David V. Rotole
  • Patent number: 9635807
    Abstract: A harvesting header for a row crop machine has a plurality of row units having fore-and-aft extending arms forming a passageway, a gathering mechanism to gather stalks into the passageway, snap rolls to pull the stalks downwardly through the passageway, and a knife set to cut the stalks in the passageway. The knife set includes a pair of opposing blades, each blade having a main portion with an inner edge located on a first side of a centerline of the passageway and a cutting protrusion with a sharpened cutting edge extending across the centerline toward the opposing blade. The cutting protrusions are offset longitudinally from one another such that the cutting protrusion of one of the blades is a different distance from a mouth of the passageway than the cutting protrusion of the opposing blade such that there is a continuous gap between the blades along the length of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Randy Lohrentz
  • Patent number: 9635808
    Abstract: A head for an edge trimmer, comprising a casing (1), destined for comprising at least a cutting wire reel and to be set in rotation about an axis of rotation (X), said casing comprising at least one outlet opening (11), which is so structured as to enable passage of a portion of the cutting wire. The head comprises two bushes (12) which laterally delimit the outlet opening (11) and are rotatable about a respective axis of rotation (Y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: TECOMEC S.R.L.
    Inventors: Salvatore Longo, Enrico Cigarini
  • Patent number: 9635809
    Abstract: A system for controlling a grass cutting reel assembly of a turf-care vehicle. The system includes: a reel cylinder motor operable to rotate a reel cylinder of a grass cutting reel assembly of a turf-care vehicle at a desired rotational rate of speed to provide a controllable frequency of clip for the reel assembly; an automated height of cut control system operable to control a position of a front roller of the reel assembly to provide a controllable height of cut for the reel assembly; and a controller system operable to control the reel cylinder motor and the height of cut control system to provide a particular frequency of clip and a particular height of cut stipulated by one of a plurality of cutting scenarios programmed into the controller system and selected via a user interface of the controller system that is accessible by an operator onboard the turf-care vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Erhun Osahenrhunwen Iyasere, Robert James Pilon, Jr., Richard Michael Krzesicki
  • Patent number: 9635810
    Abstract: A draper seal for a crop harvesting header including a forwardly disposed cutter bar assembly and a rearwardly disposed draper deck assembly. The draper seal includes a flexible strip that runs parallel to the cutter bar assembly and perpendicular to the direction of travel. A bracket secures the forward edge of the flexible strip to an upper surface of the cutter bar assembly, which bracket also biases a rearward edge of the flexible strip into engagement with an upper surface of the draper deck assembly, thereby creating a seal between the cutter bar assembly and the draper deck assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING LTD.
    Inventors: Darren Leys, Barry Lindmark
  • Patent number: 9635811
    Abstract: An adjustable gathering chain assembly includes a drive unit, a driven unit spaced from and movable with respect to the drive unit and an endless gathering chain extending between the drive unit and the driven unit. An adjustment unit including an idler member in engagement with the gathering chain is operable to move the idler member with respect to the drive unit in order to move the driven unit between first and second positions relative to the drive unit whereby the header may effectively harvest both standing crop and downed or lodged crop depending on harvesting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LL
    Inventors: Jonathan Eugene Ricketts, Bart M A Missotten, Frederik Tallir, Dré Waltherus Joachim Jongmans, Eric L. Walker
  • Patent number: 9635812
    Abstract: A drive system for a self-propelled harvesting machine includes a drive engine, designed as an internal combustion engine, a transfer gearbox driven by the drive engine that includes a first driven pulley which is disposed on a drive shaft for driving at least one drive pulley of a working mechanism using a first belt, and at least one hydraulic pump for driving a further working mechanism. A second output pulley is assigned to the transfer gearbox and drives the at least one hydraulic pump using a second belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Schiewer, Andreas Krauss, Jan Furmaniak
  • Patent number: 9635813
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a chassis and a residue handling system carried by the chassis. The residue handling system includes a set of rotating knives disposed in a housing, a first set of counter-knives, and a residue pivoting platform and/or a second set of counter-knives. Crop residue travels through the system in a residue flow direction. The first set of counter-knives are configured to enter the housing proximate to the set of rotating knives. The residue pivoting platform is positioned proximate to the first set of counter-knives in an upstream direction relative to the crop residue flow direction. The second set of counter-knives are configured to enter the housing proximate to the set of rotating knives. The second set of counter-knives are in a downstream direction relative to the crop residue flow from at least one of the residue pivoting platform and the first set of counter-knives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Dilts, Nathan E. Isaac, Austin L. Jackson, Cooper W. Linde
  • Patent number: 9635814
    Abstract: A harvester and a crop accumulator combination. The harvester is configured to transfer a harvested crop to the crop accumulator. The crop accumulator comprises at least one actuator to selectively discharge the harvested crops onto a field. A GPS unit is configured with at least one virtual trip line. An ECU is in communication with the GPS unit. The ECU is configured to selectively command the actuator of the crop accumulator to discharge harvested crop onto the field when the ECU receives a signal from the GPS unit when at least one of the virtual trip line is being approached, the virtual trip line is being crossed, and the virtual trip line has been crossed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Timothy J Kraus
  • Patent number: 9635815
    Abstract: A system for automating the growing of crops, such as grapevines. Combinations of data from sensors local to a vineyard, and from optional remote stations and sensors, is combined with a control system to accurately control the dispensing of water and chemicals such as insecticides, disease prevention fungicides and fertilizers. The materials are dispensed through a multiple channel conduit which allows conflicting, or incompatible, types of materials to be transported through a common assembly. Sensors are attached to the conduit so that the placement of sensors can occur simultaneously with the laying of the conduit. This approach also ensures correct placement and spacing of the sensors with respect to each plant, or plant area, to be monitored and treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Paul W. Skinner
  • Patent number: 9635816
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for arranging plants vertically, with a built-in watering system, applicable to plants contained in plant pots (11), consisting of a framework with individual supports for plant pots, a water container provided with a trickier in the upper part, a support with a drainage collector in the lower part, and plant pots, used to carry water to the upper container where it passes through the trickier and falls to an relief (8.1) in the body of the plant pot just below. From there, it is guided to an inner cavity (8.2) which finally allows the water to enter the plant pot. The excess water is ejected via a drainage opening with a conduit used as an extension and falls to the relief of the plant pot directly beneath, in order to repeat the process in the plant pots. These elements create a supporting structure for arranging plants vertically, with a watering system that operates under gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Ignacio Garcia Arizpe
  • Patent number: 9635817
    Abstract: New plants were created from a new and efficient method of intergeneric hybridization between a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent and a plant from the genus Argyranthemum as a male parent. The plants were created by rescuing an embryo from the cross-pollination of a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent with an Argyranthemum male parent. The invention also describes a method for infecting hybrid plants with a virus and a viroid to modify plant phenotype. In addition to providing the intergeneric hybrid plants and parts thereof, the invention provides methods for making such plants and methods for creating other intergeneric hybrid plants and self plants from normally self-incompatible plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BONZA BOTANICALS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Andrew Bernuetz
  • Patent number: 9635818
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X18D810 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 X18D810 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18D810 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X18D810, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18D810. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18D810.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Barker, Terry R. Colbert
  • Patent number: 9635819
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB57E14R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB57E14R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB57E14R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB57E14R2 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Floyd Hancock
  • Patent number: 9635820
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV047602. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV047602, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV047602 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV047602 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV047602.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Shane Meis
  • Patent number: 9635821
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV048362. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV048362, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV048362 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV048362 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV048362.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Shane Meis
  • Patent number: 9635822
    Abstract: A novel sorghum variety designated PHA5ILVKE and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a plant that comprise crossing sorghum variety PHA5ILVKE with another plant. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHA5ILVKE through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the sorghum seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid sorghum seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the sorghum variety PHA5ILVKE or a locus conversion of PHA5ILVKE with another sorghum variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Roger Monk
  • Patent number: 9635823
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 373029. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 373029, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 373029 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 373029.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventor: Klaus Lutz Koehler
  • Patent number: 9635824
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FA4346, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FA4346 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FA4346, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FA4346, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Scott Tragesser
  • Patent number: 9635825
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated ID6461, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line ID6461 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line ID6461, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line ID6461, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Mohammed Ahmed
  • Patent number: 9635826
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated GAB2009, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line GAB2009 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line GAB2009, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line GAB2009, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Participation AG
    Inventor: Adrian De Dreu
  • Patent number: 9635827
    Abstract: A St. Augustine grass variety designated TBLL is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, to the plants of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, to the plant parts of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, and to methods for producing progeny of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL. The invention also relates to methods for producing a St. Augustine grass plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic St. Augustine grass plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to St. Augustine grass varieties or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from St. Augustine grass variety TBLL. The invention also relates to methods for producing other St. Augustine grass varieties, lines, or plant parts derived from St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, and to the St. Augustine grass plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid St.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NEW FRONTIER BRANDS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Robert Mark Cray, Pamela Alexandra Cray
  • Patent number: 9635828
    Abstract: A new lettuce variety designated ‘Newham’ is described. ‘Newham’ is a grasse-type lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Simon Petrus Nannes
  • Patent number: 9635829
    Abstract: A connector and a teatcup that includes a connector and a cartridge. The cartridge includes a sleeve, having a first end and a second end, and a teatcup liner mounted in the sleeve and having an inner space for receiving a teat. The connector is configured to connect a milk conduit to the cartridge. The connector includes a casing, which defines a longitudinal center axis (x) and encloses a connection space. The casing has an inner surface facing the connection space. The casing includes an inlet opening for the cartridge to the connection space, and an outlet opening for the milk conduit. Locking parts are provided on the inner surface of the casing and configured to permit locking of the cartridge in the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DELAVAL HOLDING AB
    Inventors: Carlos La Torre, Anneli Lidmar, Michael Persson
  • Patent number: 9635830
    Abstract: A portable milking machine is provided. The portable milking machine includes a container, such as a jar. The container includes a rim forming an opening leading into an inside of the container. A cover releasably secures to the rim forming an air tight seal with the container. A first nozzle and a second nozzle forms a fluid connection between the inside of the container and the outside of the container. A vacuum pump powered by a power source is fluidly connected with the first nozzle. A first teat cup sized to receive a teat of an animal within and is fluidly connected to the second nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Daniel Leo Beffa, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9635831
    Abstract: A pet housing includes a top portion having a continuous edge and a bottom portion having a continuous edge. A middle portion is disposed between the top and bottom portions. The middle portion includes a continuous top edge and a continuous bottom edge. A first zipper is operable between an open and closed position to selectively interconnect the top portion continuous edge to the middle portion continuous top edge. A second zipper is operable between an open and closed position to selectively interconnect the bottom portion continuous edge to the middle portion continuous bottom edge. When the zippers are in the closed position, the top, bottom and middle portions form an enclosed area. When the zippers are in the open position, the top and bottom portions are completely detachable from the middle portion to allow the portions to nest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Melaney Northrop, Alex Lin