Patents Issued in November 19, 2019
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Patent number: PP31069Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Bedding Rose plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘MEICERAFYN’, is provided which forms very abundantly on a nearly continuous basis attractive, cup-shaped, red-purple colored blossoms. Attractive, glossy, very dense foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. A compact, bushy growth habit is displayed. The disease tolerance is exceptional, particularly against rust and Black Spot. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape and is very floriferous.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: THE CONARD-PYLE COMPANYInventor: Alain A. Meilland
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Patent number: PP31070Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the miniature class which has abundant, yellow flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/SInventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
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Patent number: PP31071Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the Miniature class which has abundant, orange red flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/SInventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
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Patent number: PP31072Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Floribunda Rose Plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘KORteidros’, is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive, medium red colored blossoms with a cream reverse. The vegetation is vigorous and the growth habit is very bushy and compact. Attractive ornamental glossy, dark green foliage is formed. The new variety is particularly well suited for providing distinctive ornamentation in the landscape.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: W. KORDES' SOHNE ROSENSCHULEN GMBH & CO KGInventor: Wilhelm-Alexander Kordes
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Patent number: PP31073Abstract: A new and distinct floribunda Rosa cultivar named ‘ALTmine’ is disclosed, characterized by distinctive fully double yellow flowers with a sweet, spicy fragrance. Plants are vigorous and foliage glossy. The new variety is a Rosa, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.Inventor: Peter Lim
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Patent number: PP31074Abstract: The new blueberry plant variety ‘Ridley 0808’ is provided. ‘Ridley 0808’ is a commercial variety intended for use as fresh fruit for shipping, hand pick, customer pick, machine harvest and processing markets and as a home garden plant. The variety is produced from a cross of ‘M09-48-01’ (not patented) and ‘M08-38-01.’ (not patented), which can be distinguished by its outstanding features.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Mountain Blue Orchards, Pty Ltd.Inventor: Ridley Bell
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Patent number: PP31075Abstract: A new and distinct Malus domestica (Borkh.) variety that bears fruits having a yellow skin color and good eating and keeping qualities.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Varieties International, LLCInventor: Michael Neumüller
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Patent number: PP31076Abstract: A variety of crabapple which combines a combination of a narrow, upright columnar growth habit, short internodes resulting in compact growth, attractive white flowers, slightly glossy dark green foliage, persistent red fruit, and a strong resistance to the diseases fireblight and apple scab.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.Inventor: Keith S. Warren
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Patent number: PP31077Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Bedding Rose plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘MEIZYGGLIE’, is provided which forms very abundantly on a nearly continuous basis attractive, cup-shaped, intense red colored blossoms. Attractive, glossy, very dense foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. The growth habit is vigorous. The disease tolerance is very good, particularly against rust and Black Spot. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: THE CONARD-PYLE COMPANYInventor: Alain Antoine Meilland
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Patent number: PP31078Abstract: A new and distinct plum tree variety, Prunus salicina, cv. ‘Suplumfiftysix’ is characterized by having very large fruit, with reddish-black skin and red flesh. The fruit of the new variety ‘Suplumfiftysix’ also has firm flesh, a sweet-mild flavor and a stone that is semi-free from the flesh. The date of ripening of the fruit of the new variety is approximately September 7.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Sun World International, LLCInventor: Terry A. Bacon
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Patent number: PP31079Abstract: A new and distinct plum tree variety, Prunus salicina, cv. ‘Suplumfiftyfive’ is characterized by having early-ripening fruit that is large, with black skin and red flesh. The fruit of the new variety ‘Suplumfiftyfive’ also has firm flesh, a sweet-mild flavor and a stone that is semi-free from the flesh. The date of ripening of the fruit of the new variety is approximately June 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Sun World International, LLCInventor: Terry A. Bacon
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Patent number: PP31080Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during mid season and requires about 525 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid June, with first picking on Jun. 14, 2018. The fruit is uniform, medium in size, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm and crisp in texture, mostly red in skin color, white in flesh color, and sub-acidic in flavor.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventors: Lowell Glen Bradford, Jon M. Quisenberry
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Patent number: PP31081Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree, denominated ‘Rich Joy’, has firm, freestone, melting, yellow flesh fruit with normal acidity, rich flavor, good eating quality, and long shelf life on trees and after harvesting. The fruit typically ripen about one week after ‘Julyprince’ in mid-July in Byron, Ga., have a high percentage of red blush with an attractive yellow ground color on skin surface, and usually are almost round with a slightly prominent suture. The tree is moderately vigorous and semi-spreading in growth habit, has self-fertile showy pink flowers, and regularly bears heavy annual crops. This variety has a winter chilling requirement estimated at approximately 850 chill hours and is suited for high chill areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Chunxian Chen, William R. Okie
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Patent number: PP31082Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Fragaria plant ‘Blossomberry’ characterized by its white berries with red achenes with the sun exposed side of the berries flushed with pink, its firm berries, its flowers that produce pollen, its berries with a fruit weight of 10 to 20 grams, and its berries that are produced in June in The Netherlands.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: BEEKERS BERRIES BREEDING BVInventor: Johannes Adrianus Petrus de Jongh
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Patent number: PP31083Abstract: A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawSixtyThree’, particularly characterized by its early yield potential, fruit size and shape, compact plant size, and plant health, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: DRISCOLL'S, INC.Inventors: Omar Carrillo Mendoza, Luis Miguel Rodriguez, Philip J. Stewart, Maribel Martinez Negrete
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Patent number: PP31084Abstract: A new and distinct Lycium plant named ‘SMNLBBB’, characterized by its upright to outwardly arching plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit; yellow green-colored leaves; purple violet-colored flowers; large, numerous and attractive orange red-colored fruits; and good garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.Inventor: Timothy D. Wood
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Patent number: PP31085Abstract: A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, Violet Blue flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation in commercial nursery culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/SInventors: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen, Raymond J. Evison
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Patent number: PP31086Abstract: A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, violet purple flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation in commercial nursery culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/SInventors: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen, Raymond J. Evison
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Patent number: PP31087Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant named ‘Balverevlu’, characterized by its deep violet-blue colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and vigorous, upright-mounded growth habit, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Ball Horticultural CompanyInventor: Lynne Knosher
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Patent number: PP31088Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Gardenia plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘WAH-SG’, is provided which forms single, small sized, fragrant, white colored inflorescences. Attractive, glossy, dark green colored foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. The vegetation is moderately vigorous and the growth habit is tight, compact, and rounded. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: SOUTHERN PLANT GROUP, LLCInventor: William A. Head
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Patent number: PP31089Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Japanese Anemone plant named Anemone ‘Sweetly’ with medium spreading habit, dense vertical peduncle of numerous semi-double flowers with deep rose-pink petals, beginning late summer and continuing into early fall, set just above the dark green, tri-foliate leaves with irregularly serrated to biserrated margins. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31090Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Dovewihop’, characterized by its compact, semi-trailing and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; and red-colored flowers that become light red purple and white with development; flowers held above and beyond the foliar plane in mounded umbels.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Arjan Koot
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Patent number: PP31091Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGORFON’, particularly characterized by having white, flecked flowers with red-purple lips, 1 to 3 peduncles that are long and sturdy, leaves that are oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP31092Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘PHMZ0002,’ characterized by its large sized inflorescences, having a lilac color with a white eye, deep green leaves, and a compact, upright, and branched plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: DITOPLANT EXPORT BVInventor: Henricus Godefridus Wilhelmus Stemkens
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Patent number: PP31093Abstract: A new Pelargonium plant named ‘PEQZ0044” particularly distinguished by the hot rose colored inflorescences held above the medium-green foliage, very heat and drought tolerant with continuous color through the most extreme summer heat, and exceptional edema tolerance on a well-branched plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Mitchell E. Hanes
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Patent number: PP31094Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Wespecratito’, characterized by its semi-upright to semi-trailing and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; medium-sized flowers that are pale orange and red purple in color with a greyed purple star-shaped pattern; and good garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Gartenbau und Spezialkulturen Westhoff GbRInventor: Heinrich Westhoff
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Patent number: PP31095Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria agavoides cultivar named ‘Love's Fire’ is disclosed, rapid, robust growth and improved resistance to fungal disease brought on by overwatering. Plants offset freely, producing an attractive cluster. Foliage is bright red during cooler months and distinctively red during the rest of the year. Echeveria is a popular genus, typically produced as container plants for the patio or as landscape plants.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.Inventor: Renee O'Connell
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Patent number: PP31096Abstract: A new cultivar of xGasteraloe plant named ‘Kyaka’ that is characterized by green leaves with grey-green orbicular dots, leaf margins with white teeth and a basal rosette plant shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Eden Collection B.V.Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit
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Patent number: PP31097Abstract: A new variety of Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named ‘Tift PA18’ produces a reduced number of seeds, making it less invasive.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Wayne W. Hanna, Brian M. Schwartz
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Patent number: PP31098Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 1082’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large light yellow-colored flowers; and good garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Suntory Flowers LimitedInventor: Masahiro Yamada
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Patent number: PP31099Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 5101’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large red purple-colored flowers with white and yellow-colored centers; and good garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Suntory Flowers LimitedInventor: Masahiro Yamada
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Patent number: PP31100Abstract: A new cultivar of Heuchera named ‘High Hopes’ that is characterized by its leaves that are very large in size, its leaves that are green-yellow in color with brown orange veins, its flowers that are creamy white in color, its healthy and vigorous growth habit and its high tolerance to heat.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
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Patent number: PP31101Abstract: A new cultivar of Heuchera named ‘Maple Leaf’ that is characterized by its glossy young leaves, its flowers that are white in color and its unique foliage that is orange in color.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
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Patent number: PP31102Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phygelius plant characterized by medium size dark orange flowers, a long bloom time, an upright, well branched habit, with multiple crowns from the base, clean-looking, deep green foliage, and excellent vigor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.Inventor: Janet N. Egger
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Patent number: PP31103Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Portulaca plant named ‘Doporcuporze’, characterized by its upright to low spreading growth habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and large light red-colored flowers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Arjan Koot
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Patent number: PP31104Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Salvia, ‘Amante’, that is characterized by its flowers that are typical of Salvia guaranitica in flower type and red and pink in color with dark calyces, its long blooming habit with new shoots producing flowers throughout the summer, its early commencement of bloom, its plant height of up to 1.2 meter, and its growth habit that lacks spreading roots.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: NEW WORLD PLANTS LIMITEDInventor: Rolando Anibal Uria
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Patent number: RE47731Abstract: The invention is directed to a compound represented by the following structural formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: Compounds represented by this structural formula are kinase inhibitors and are therefore disclosed herein for the treatment of cancer. Definitions for the variables in the structural formula are provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventors: Peter Brent Sampson, Yong Liu, Sze-Wan Li, Bryan T. Forrest, Heinz W. Pauls, Louise G. Edwards, Miklos Feher, Narendra Kumar B. Patel
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Patent number: RE47732Abstract: An equal gain composite beamforming technique which includes the constraint that the power of the signal output by each antenna is the same, and is equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. By reducing output power requirements for each power amplifier, the silicon area of the power amplifiers are reduced by as much as N times (where N is equal to the number of transmit antennas) relative to a non-equal gain composite beamforming technique. A method and apparatus are disclosed for a transmission technique by a wireless communications device which includes providing that the power applied to each transmit antenna may be equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. The device may determine a total transmit power and produce a multi-carrier signal for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: IPR LICENSING, INC.Inventors: Gary L. Sugar, Chandra Vaidyanathan
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Patent number: RE47733Abstract: An interlocking photovoltaic module mounting system that provides a one piece, integrated photovoltaic module frame portion that is directly mountable to a support structure and interlocks with separate adjoining photovoltaic module frame portions. The apparatus includes a frame member for enclosing the perimeter of a photovoltaic module, having an inside surface and outside surface, with the inside surface including a recess for capture of the panel. The frame member outside surface includes at least one interlocking means for affixation to the complementary outside surface of an adjacent frame-member. The frame member includes a height-adjustable foot portion for supporting the frame member on a roof, so that adjacent frame members may be interlocked to form an array, and the foot portion may be adjusted to level the formed array on the roof.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventor: John Raymond West
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Patent number: RE47734Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for location based call signal conversion in a wireless communication network. The location based call signal conversion apparatus comprises an LBS (Location Based Service) server that provides location information on user terminals, and a call signal conversion server that converts the called signal to anyone called terminal on the called target terminal list that has been set up according to the current location of said called user terminal if a call connection request to a receiving user terminal from a sending user terminal is sensed among said user terminals, and if conditions for call signal conversion are satisfied according to the location and state of said called user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Ki Jeon, Min Su Kim, Shi Jae Lee
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Patent number: RE47735Abstract: A system is, method and apparatus are disclosed deploying a timer and a generator for temporally defining printable output of hyperlinked content corresponding to program material for generating a hyperlink address string structured as a print method for hyperlinking to the hyperlinked content corresponding to program material wherein the hyperlinking prints only pre-defined printing printable output of the hyperlinked content to transform the print method from a receiver receiving the hyperlink address string to a printer printing printable output of the hyperlinked content according to a second attribute of the hyperlink address string wherein activation of the hyperlinking to the hyperlinked content activates the printing printable output of the hyperlinked content comprising a the generator for generating a the hyperlink address string associated with the program material including a first attribute indicating a the hyperlink address to the hyperlinked content and a the second attribute indicating one orType: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Progme CorporationInventor: David Anthony Reams
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Method and apparatus for supporting discontinuous reception operation in mobile communication system
Patent number: RE47736Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes defining a second System Frame Number (SFN) where one cycle of a first SFN corresponds to one bit, transmitting information on the second SFN to a User Equipment (UE), determining a second SFN which is used to transmit a paging signal to the UE, determining a first SFN which is used to transmit the paging signal in the determined second SFN, and transmitting the paging signal to the UE at the determined first SFN.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Bum Kim, Sung-Ho Choi, Soeng-Hun Kim, Kyeong-In Jeong, Jung-Soo Jung, Chae-Gwon Lim -
Patent number: 10477752Abstract: An agricultural row unit for use with a towing frame hitched to a tractor includes an attachment frame adapted to be rigidly connected to the towing frame, a linkage pivotably coupled to the attachment frame, and a row unit frame having a leading end pivotably coupled to the linkage to permit vertical pivoting movement of the row unit frame relative to the attachment frame. A hydraulic cylinder coupled to the attachment frame and the linkage, for urging the row unit frame downwardly toward the soil, includes a movable ram extending into the cylinder, and a hydraulic-fluid cavity within the cylinder for receiving pressurized hydraulic fluid for advancing the ram in a direction that pivots the linkage and the row unit frame downwardly toward the soil.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Dawn Equipment CompanyInventor: Joseph D. Bassett
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Patent number: 10477753Abstract: An agricultural planter includes systems, methods, and apparatuses for maintaining down force pressure at row units of the planter. The row units may include an electric linear actuator connected to linkages of the row units to maintain a down force pressure for the row unit. The linkage may also be removed and replaced with a strut or like mechanism to apply a direct down force pressure to components of the row unit. One or more sensors can be included to obtain information related to the ground to automatically adjust the amount of down force provided based upon a ground characteristic in order to maintain a substantially uniform furrow depth.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Courtney N. Achen, Marvin Bachman, Rhett Schildroth, Merlan Rolffs, Michael J. Myers, John Kollman, John P. Mulherin
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Patent number: 10477754Abstract: An agricultural machine has a symmetrical chassis hydraulically transformable between a folded transport configuration and two unfolded configurations, using articulated beams. An air seeder example has a primary beam linking a tractor to a hopper-carrying trailer, also locating the chassis. Machinery such as seed openers is held in frames pivoted from the tertiary beams. In all configurations except completely folded, lateral chains that are maintained tight with a hydraulically powered tensioning system having sideways compliance maintain the tertiary beams and frame-supported machinery in a symmetrical configuration to each side of the primary beam, when working.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: ROTACON ENGINEERING LIMITEDInventor: Nicolaas Laurisse Sieling
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Patent number: 10477755Abstract: An agricultural implement includes a frame having a longitudinal axis and laterally opposed sides and motive supports mounted to and supporting the frame. The agricultural implement further includes a first wing carried by the frame and at least one second wing, in which each second wing is pivotably connected to the first wing. The agricultural implement also includes an elevator mechanism configured to raise and lower the first wing and the second wing. Each second wing is connected to the first wing by a wing pivot assembly that includes a skewed hinge pivotably connecting one of the second wings to the first wing. The wing pivot assembly allows each second wing to pivot with respect to the first wing between an operating position and a transport position, in which the skewed hinge defines a first pivot axis oriented at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Ronald Joseph Schlimgen, August Paul Nelson
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Patent number: 10477756Abstract: Inaccurate agronomic data may be identified and corrected by obtaining agronomic data indicating areas of sub-regions of a farmable region and value for the sub-regions, wherein the value for each sub-region includes an aggregate value of an agronomic parameter for the sub-region and/or a ratio of the aggregate value to the area of the sub-region; identifying a part of a first sub-region that overlaps a part of a second sub-region; determining whether the second sub-region is associated with a first pass or a second pass by a sensor through the overlapping parts; and if the second sub-region is associated with the second pass, determining an adjusted value for the second sub-region based on the value for the first sub-region, the value for the second sub-region, the area of the first sub-region, the area of the second sub-region, and/or an area of the overlapping parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventors: Ryan Richt, Jason Michael Rute, Joel Phillip Skelton
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Patent number: 10477757Abstract: A dual-disk seed meter for a planter may include a housing defining a first seed chamber configured to receive first seeds of a first seed type and a second seed chamber configured to receive second seeds of a second seed type. The seed meter may also include a first seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the first seeds from the first seed chamber, a second seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the second seeds from the second seed chamber, and a drive assembly configured to simultaneously rotate the first and second seed disks. In addition, the seed meter may include a seed deflector movable relative to the first seed disk and/or the second seed disk to control which of the seed types is discharged from the housing based on a selected seed type to be delivered by the seed meter.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Christopher Schoeny, Brian Anderson, Chad M. Johnson
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Patent number: 10477758Abstract: A seed meter for planting multiple types of seed and rapidly switching between the types being planted in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop planting has a segmented seed meter reservoir with multiple seed meter chambers arranged between two pairs of seed disks that may be parallel to each other or angled with respect to each other to define an X-shaped arrangement of the seed disks in the seed meter. Activation and deactivation of the seed disks within the seed meter are synchronized to selectively deliver a single one of the multiple types of seed from the respective seed meter chamber for delivery out of a single seed tube of the seed meter, which may provide absolute and instantaneous on-the-go seed switching within a single row from each seed meter.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Keith W. Wendte, Brian T. Adams
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Patent number: 10477759Abstract: A grass mower includes a vehicle speed instruction value calculation section (53) for generating a vehicle speed instruction value including a maximal vehicle speed, based on an operational position of a man-operable vehicle speed controlling tool (15), a mode selection section (70) for selecting a control mode from a plurality of control modes, a control table (52) in which a plurality of control parameters are set, a vehicle speed control target value calculation section (54) configured to calculate a vehicle speed control target value, based on a vehicle speed instruction value generated by the vehicle speed instruction value calculation section (53) and a selected control parameter corresponding to the control mode selected by the mode selection section (70), a cutter blade control target value calculation section (55) configured to calculate a rotational speed control target value for a cutter blade (30), based on the selected control parameter, and a cutter blade control section (4B) configured to contrType: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Hirokazu Ito, Yasuhiro Manji