Patents Issued in February 25, 2020
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Patent number: PP31469Abstract: A new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘VLR001’, is provided that abundantly forms on a continuous basis attractive single to semidouble formed, orange-red colored blossoms. The plant exhibits an upright and compact bush growth habit. The vegetation is vigorous. Tolerance to black spot, downy mildew, and rust is displayed. The plant is well suited for providing attractive ornamentation in the landscape.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignees: VINELAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE, Canadian Nursery landscape AssociationInventors: Rumen Conev, Parminderjit Sandhu
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Patent number: PP31470Abstract: ‘Final 131’ is a new cultivar of Prunus avium having a medium-strong tree habit, self-fertile flowers, S-alleles S3S4, heart-shaped fruit with a black-red color, a fruit ripening time that is later its male parent ‘Sweetheart’, and fruit that is bigger in size than ‘Sweetheart’.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Peter Stoppel
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Patent number: PP31471Abstract: ‘Final 113’ is a new cultivar of Prunus avium having a strong and upright tree habit, self-fertile flowers, S-alleles S3S4, a late fruit ripening time, as well as heart-shaped fruit with less cracking compared to its male parent ‘Sweetheart’.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Peter Stoppel
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Patent number: PP31472Abstract: ‘Final 121’ is a new cultivar of Prunus avium having a medium-strong tree habit, self-fertile flowers, S-alleles S3S4, heart-shaped fruit with a black-red color, a fruit ripening time that is later its male parent ‘Sweetheart’, and fruit that is bigger in size than ‘Sweetheart’.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Peter Stoppel
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Patent number: PP31473Abstract: A new cultivar of Blackberry named ‘FNZ-8VB’ that is characterized by its thornless canes, its firm berries that are medium large in size, its 3 leaflets per leaf, its berries with flavor and quality suitable for the fresh fruit market, and its spreading growth habit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: BERRY WORLD PLUS, LTDInventor: Peter Vinson
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Patent number: PP31474Abstract: A new cultivar of Cupressus plant named ‘Havfrego’ that is characterized by its foliage that is uniquely colored; emerging green and changing to having white tips, and its upright plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Marcus Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Verschuren
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Patent number: PP31475Abstract: ‘Chongyang’ is a distinctive variety of Chinese redbud plant, which is characterized by its florescence.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: HENAN MINGPIN COLORIZED SEEDLING CO., LTDInventor: Huaming Wang
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Patent number: PP31476Abstract: A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, red-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: February 25, 2020Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/SInventors: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen, Raymond J. Evison
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Patent number: PP31477Abstract: A new humulus plant named ‘Kriya’ is disclosed. The leaves of this new humulus plant contain a cannabinoid level of ˜15-23 mg/g and the inflorescence of this new humulus plant contain a cannabionoid level of ˜124-142 mg/g.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: BOMI, LLCInventor: Bomi Joseph
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Patent number: PP31478Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Holy Grail’ comprising a rounded mound habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to early September. Flowers have petals with strong red with dark red shiny eye set off with column of light yellow pollen. The foliage is ovate to rarely three-lobed, and deep mahogany-colored and the light green calyces provide sharp contrast.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31479Abstract: A new cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘Lanchippewa’ that is characterized by its uniform flowers that are bright orange in color with pink and yellow veins, its floriferous habit with flowers that last for 2 to 3 days, its early blooming and freely flowering habit, its compact and self-branching plant habit, and its foliage that is resistant to pathogens common to Hibiscus, including Pseudomonas sp., Phythium sp., and Phytophthora sp.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: D.H.M. INNOVATIONInventor: Robert M. Lannes
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Patent number: PP31480Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGILAQ’, particularly characterized by having white flowers with greenish-yellow lips, 1 to 2 peduncles that are long and sturdy, leaves that are oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP31481Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALFESFI’, particularly characterized by having white, striped flowers with reddish-purple centers and red-purple striped lips, 1 to 3 peduncles that are long and moderate, leaves that are oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP31482Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGLAOR’, particularly characterized by having reddish-purple flowers with light purple edges and centers and 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: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP31483Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Spring Phlox plant named Phlox ‘Bedazzled Orchid’ multi-stemmed compact habit, winter-hardy, slowly spreading plant with bright, glossy-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are sweetly fragrant, beginning in mid-April and continuing for about six weeks on branched peduncles. Petals are lavender-pink upon anthesis and lighten slightly with maturity. Petal apices are moderately notched and each blade has two deep purple striae marks near the center eye. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew, and the new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant, in the garden as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31484Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Spring Phlox named Phlox ‘Eye Candy’ characterized by multi-stemmed compact habit, winter-hardy, spreading plant with short, bright glossy-green, awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in mid-April and continuing for nearly five weeks on lightly branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are light lavender-pink with a large pronounced eye of dark wine purple. Petal apices are shallowly notched. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew, and the new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31485Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Spring Phlox named Phlox ‘Rocky Road Magenta’ characterized by vigorous, dense, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright glossy-green, linear leaves. Flowering begins in mid-April and continuing for nearly five weeks on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are vibrant, magenta-purple with a small dark-purple eye. Petal apices are lightly notched. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31486Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Spring Phlox named Phlox ‘Rocky Road Pink’ characterized by vigorous, dense, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright glossy-green, linear leaves. Flowering begins in mid-April and continuing for nearly five weeks on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are bright rosy-pink with a small dark-purple eye. Petal apices are moderately notched. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31487Abstract: A new cultivar of Phlox plant named, ‘Perfectly Puzzling’, that is characterized by its flowers that vary in color from near white to light to medium raspberry violet; the different color flowers can be evident on a plant at the same time, its petals that are non-overlapping, notched (bifid) and narrow resulting in a “starry” appearance that is unusual for a moss Phlox, its petals with medium to dark violet striae at the base, and its flowers that are smaller in size than most moss Phlox, however the flowers still cover the plants 100% at peak bloom.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: CHICAGOLAND GROWS, INCInventor: James Robert Ault
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Patent number: PP31488Abstract: A new Petunia plant named ‘PEHY0033’ particularly distinguished by medium sized, yellow flowers, mid late flowering and a semi-trailing plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Theodorus Cornelis Maria Van Kleinwee
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Patent number: PP31489Abstract: A new Anthurium plant named ‘ANTHFANXOL’ particularly distinguished by having shiny, blistered, bright red, orbicular-cordate, and very durable spathes that retain the original color for a very long period of time, dark green and deltoid, durable leaves, red spadices with red tips, early and rich flowering continuously throughout the year, and a plant height of 34.0 cm to 39.0 cm is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Jan Van Dijk
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Patent number: PP31490Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of X Mangave plant named ‘My Dog Spot’ characterized by compact, low-growing habit and lanceolate foliage with medium green color and with high ultra violet light exposure developing burgundy speckling on light green to chartreuse leaves. The yellowish to chartreuse flowers on tall stiff scapes are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds. The new plant is suitable as a patio or container plant, for the garden or for use as a houseplant.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31491Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria plant named ‘TSAECH1820’ which is characterized by improved plant vigor, an abundance of succulent foliage tightly held in a compact stemless rosette, heavily glaucous foliage at and near the center of the rosette which generally appears to be a mixture of blue-gray and greyed-green, foliage towards the outer whorls of the rosette which becomes decreasingly glaucous and therefore progressively darker, closer to greyed-green, foliage which is conspicuously margined and tipped pink, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Tosjami B.V.Inventor: Gerard van Langen
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Patent number: PP31492Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria plant named ‘TSAECH1806’ which is characterized by a dark brown to near-black rosette of succulent foliage which is centered green, as well as the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Tosjami B.V.Inventor: Gerard van Langen
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Patent number: PP31493Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria plant named ‘AMIECH1819’ which is characterized by narrow obovate to near spatulate succulent foliage with a moderately to strongly convex and moderately to strongly revolute to near-tubular aspect, foliage with a conspicuous irregularly globular growth on the abaxial surface, heavily glaucous juvenile foliage at the center of the rosette which generally appears to be mauve colored and margined pink, moderately glaucous mature foliage towards the outer whorls of the rosette which is greyed-green and margined greyed-red, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: NovoAmi B.V.Inventor: Gerard van Langen
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Patent number: PP31494Abstract: A new and distinct Echinacea plant named ‘Embers Sparks’ characterized by an amazing number of large inflorescences starting in the first season, very upright, compact habit, bright yellow ray florets surrounding green-yellow cones, strong upright stems, and excellent vigor.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.Inventor: Harini Korlipara
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Patent number: PP31495Abstract: A new cultivar of Lavandula plant named ‘Lavval’ that is characterized by its f compact plant habit, its foliage that is grey-green in color, its flowers that are dark blue-purple in color, and its reblooming habit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Valérie Pouillart
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Patent number: PP31496Abstract: A new Lobelia plant named ‘LOBZ0017’ particularly distinguished by its relatively large, blue flowers with white eye, medium green foliage, very good branching and a mounding to upright plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AGInventor: Theodorus Cornelis Maria van Kleinwee
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Patent number: PP31497Abstract: A new Lobelia plant named ‘LOBZ0016’ particularly distinguished by its relatively large, violet-rose flowers, dark green foliage, very good branching and a mounding to upright plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AGInventor: Theodorus Cornelis Maria van Kleinwee
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Patent number: PP31498Abstract: A new and distinct Penstemon plant is characterized by medium-size, red-pink flowers with white throats in dense clusters; long bloom time; good rebloom; a compact, upright, well-branched habit with multiple crown from the base; clean-looking, deep-green, attractive foliage; and excellent vigor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.Inventor: Janet N. Egger
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Patent number: PP31499Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Penstemon plant is characterized by medium-size red flowers in dense clusters; long bloom time; good rebloom; a compact, upright, well-branched habit with multiple crowns from the base; clean-looking, deep-green, attractive foliage; and excellent vigor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.Inventor: Janet N. Egger
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Patent number: PP31500Abstract: A new and distinct Penstemon plant characterized by medium-size flowers; pink flowers with white throats; long bloom time; good rebloom; compact, upright, well-branched habit with multiple crowns from the base; and excellent vigor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.Inventor: Janet N. Egger
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Patent number: PP31501Abstract: A new cultivar of Plectranthus plant, ‘De Wet F’ that is characterized by its large purple flowers, its floriferous blooming habit, and its well-branched plant habit.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Charles Andrew de Wet
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Patent number: RE47868Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Kranos IP CorporationInventors: Robert Erb, Cortney Warmouth, Vincent R. Long, Louis Anthony VanHoutin, Michael Princip
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Patent number: RE47869Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for applying an adhesive film to the sole of shoes. Application of a portion of the adhesive film can be performed by receiving a shoe on top of the adhesive film, which in turn is above a plate and compressible pins. Upon receiving the shoe, the plate is raised or lowered, and the compressible pins mark the perimeter of the sole of the shoe. The adhesive film is cut in a sole-shaped pattern due to the height differentiation, resulting in a sole-shaped portion of the adhesive film being adhered to the sole of the shoe.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventors: Tsontcho Ianchulev, Edward Y. Koo
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Patent number: RE47870Abstract: The inventive concept presents a device and method to better provide cooking options to a user of an outdoor cooking grill. The disclosed “Plate Setter” is a reversible, circular plate-like structure having three legs integral to, and spaced symmetrically about, the circumference of the Plate Setter. The reversible structure is characterized by two integral, back-to-back cooking surfaces. Disclosed is a first cooking surface consisting of a plurality of parallel, raised ribs elevated above a walled, circular plate bed. The second cooking surface comprises a flat cooking surface reversible from, and precisely opposite to the first cooking surface. The second cooking surface further consists of three raised beams which intersect at a common point on the surface of the second cooking surface. The raised beams provide structural strength and also partition the second cooking surface into three equal cooking sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Micahel Chance
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Patent number: RE47871Abstract: A method of stabilizing a first vertebra and a second vertebra includes implanting a first bone anchor into the first vertebra, implanting a second bone anchor into the second vertebra, connecting a first anchor connection instrument to the first anchor, connecting a second anchor connection instrument the second anchor, positioning a cement delivery tube into a passage provided through the first anchor, delivering bone cement from a bone cement delivery system coupled to the bone cement delivery tube through the passage in the first anchor to the first vertebra, removing the cement delivery tube from the first anchor connection instrument and the first anchor, connecting the cement delivery tube to second anchor connecting instrument connected to the second anchor, delivering bone cement through a passage in the second anchor to the second vertebra, connecting a spinal connection element to the first anchor and the second anchor.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Bryan S. Jones, Michael Michielli, Mark Hall, Kevin Lee
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Patent number: RE47872Abstract: An aircraft seat set is provided that allows for providing extra room for passengers and/or allow for selectively increasing the width of an aircraft aisle during enplaning and deplaning and/or increasing the width of some seats during flight. In one embodiment, the aisle seat of the seat set is movably connected to the seat frame of the seat set to allow the aisle seat to be disposed above and in front of the middle seat of the seat set for enplaning and deplaning.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventors: Frank Matthew Scott, Kevin Lee Van Liere
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Patent number: RE47873Abstract: Embolic compositions comprising macromers having a backbone comprising a polymeric backbone comprising units with a 1,2-diol or 1,3-diol structure, such as polyvinyl alcohol, and pendant chains bearing crosslinkable groups and, optionally, other modifiers. When crosslinked, the macromers form hydrogels having many properties advantageous for use as embolic agents to block and fill lumens and spaces. The embolic compositions can be used as liquid embolic agents and crosslinked in situ or as preformed embolic articles, such as microspheres.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: BIOCOMPATIBLES UK LIMITEDInventors: Dennis W. Goupil, Hassan Chaouk, Troy Holland, Bruktawit T. Asfaw, Stephen D. Goodrich, Lucas Latini
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Patent number: RE47874Abstract: Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor polynucleotide complementary to the target polynucleotide. The sensor polynucleotide comprises a signaling chromophore to receive energy from the excited multichromophore and increase emission in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Guillermo C. Bazan, Brent S. Gaylord, Shu Wang
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Patent number: RE47875Abstract: A mobile terminal device is provided, which includes a control device configured to acquire contents data, output screen data for controlling a display unit to display thereon images based on the acquired contents data, acquire, in response to an accepting unit accepting a selecting operation of selecting one or more images from among the images displayed on the display unit based on the screen data, image selection data for identifying specific contents data, of the acquired contents data, corresponding to the one or more images selected by the selecting operation, and transmit, in response to a near field wireless communication unit establishing near field wireless communication with a printer, a print instruction to print the specific contents data corresponding to the one or more images selected by the selecting operation, based on the acquired image selection data.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoto Shiraga
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Patent number: RE47876Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a processor configured to output a first print instruction to print one or more images corresponding to one or more pieces of image data contained in a specific image data set in one case of a first case that a near field wireless communication unit establishes near field wireless communication with a printer when a display unit is showing a display created based on a first display data and a second case that the near field wireless communication unit establishes the near field wireless communication with the printer when the display unit is showing a display created based on a second display data, and output a second print instruction to print one image corresponding to one piece of image data contained in the specific image data set in the other case.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Norihiko Asai
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Patent number: RE47877Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and storage mediums for managing content storage and selection activities. The method includes aggregating content from content providers and presenting the content to a content device. The method also includes monitoring consumption of storage space with respect to storage capacity in the content device, relocating content contained in the storage space of the content device when a predetermined condition is met, and providing access to relocated content. The relocation is operable for freeing up the storage space of the content device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Chanyu Holdings, LLCInventors: Barbara J. Roden, Douglas A. Bulleit
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Patent number: RE47878Abstract: Obtaining channel quality information in a wireless communication network is described. A base station allocates a resource to remote stations in order to receive channel quality information back from remote stations. The resource allocated to a remote station contains no higher layer data. A scheduler in the base station uses the channel quality information in order to schedule remote stations and/or to decide on the channel coding and/or modulation to be applied to the data transmission. A mechanism is provided to ensure that data transmitted on HS-DSCH is not transmitted to higher layers. This may provide a convenient method of obtaining channel quality information allowing for improved scheduling and thus improved performance of the communication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: RE47879Abstract: A base station and mobile station communicate using a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication. The base station includes a two dimensional (2D) antenna array comprising a number N of antenna elements configured in a 2D grid. The 2D antenna array is configured to communicate with at least one subscriber station. The base station also includes a controller configured to transmit N channel-state-information reference-signal (CSI-RS) antenna ports (APs) associated with each of the N antenna elements. The subscriber station includes an antenna array configured to communicate with at least one base station. The subscriber station also includes processing circuitry configured receives physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) from a 2D active antenna array at the at least one base station. The 2D active antenna array includes a number N antenna elements. The processing circuitry further configured to estimate a full CSI associated with the N antenna elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Jin-Kyu Han
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Patent number: 10568252Abstract: The field cultivating sweep includes a body with wings extending from a center line in opposite directions, and a conditioning element extending downwardly from the wing body. The conditioning element may be a blade extending vertically downwardly along the center line of the body and having a leading edge sloped rearedly from front to back. In alternative embodiments, the conditioning element may have a triangular or rectangular shape or may be in the form of a fluted coulter. The conditioning element acts to till the ground vertically and break up compacted soil as the sweep is drawn along the ground.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Albert R. Hemerson
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Patent number: 10568253Abstract: A small-scale land prep and maintenance equipment system includes a universal frame with a tongue element that includes an implement connection point (such as a through-hole or threaded hole) configured for receiving a saddle and bolt aspect of an implement. Advantageously, the implement connection point of the universal frame and the saddle of the implement provide for a robust and rigid connection between the universal frame and an implement while also enabling quick changeover of landscaping implements. Moreover, because the universal frame may be used on any number of implements, the cost of an integrated frame in each implement is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Tracy Milford
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Patent number: 10568254Abstract: An attachment system for removably attaching an implement under a vehicle. The mounting system includes a vehicle frame. The vehicle frame has a pair of spaced apart frame portions. Each of a pair of hitch receiving points is connectable with a respective one of the frame portions. An implement includes support structure extending for a length. A pair of hitch pins is associated with the support structure. The hitch pins are spaced apart in a direction along the length of the support structure. Each hitch pin is for attachment to a respective one of the hitch receiving points. A structural member is associated with the support structure and has a portion adapted to attach to structure outboard of a frame portion. A lift mechanism is connectable with a portion of the vehicle frame. The lift mechanism is attachable with the structural member to move the hitch pins relative to the hitch receiving points.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Venture Products, Inc.Inventors: Roy I. Steiner, Mark E. Steiner
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Patent number: 10568255Abstract: An engine is operated to produce exhaust emissions containing carbon nano soot therein which are injected into a solubilizing tank containing nitic acid and carbonic acid in a water solution for solubilizing the carbon nano soot as carbon nano tubes. A gas flow exiting the tank is captured such that some water and some solubilized carbon nano tubes are carried with the gas flow for subsequent delivery to a plant growing medium, either directly or by storing the water and solubilized carbon nano tubes carried with the gas flow in a tank for subsequent application. The solubilizing tank may be supported on agricultural seeding implements or sprayer implements for direct application to crop covered ground. In an irrigation system, the gas flow from the solubilizing tank is directed towards a condensing tank for subsequent application of the condensate to a plant growing medium with irrigation water.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: N/C Quest Inc.Inventors: Gary Lewis, Zachary Lewis
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Patent number: 10568256Abstract: A seed metering system includes a volumetric meter and a plurality of row units. Each and every one of the plurality of row units includes a singulating meter, a bypass conduit, and an outlet that is common to and downstream of the singulating meter and the bypass conduit. The seed metering system further includes a dispersion unit including an inlet and a plurality of outlets and operable to disperse the plurality of seeds from the volumetric meter to the plurality of row units. The seed metering system is operable in a first mode of operation in which the volumetric meter communicates with each singulating meter via the dispersion unit to singulate the plurality of seeds. The seed metering system is operable in a second mode of operation in which the volumetric meter communicates with each bypass conduit via the dispersion unit such that the plurality of seeds are not singulated.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Michael E. Frasier, Scott C. McCartney