Patents Issued in May 12, 2020
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Patent number: PP31740Abstract: ‘GRAcha’ is a new and distinct floribunda type Rosa hybrid plant which is characterized by the combination of an upright to semi-weeping growth habit, very high resistance to Diplocarpon rosae and Sphaerotheca pannosa, nearly continuous flowering, electric mid pink double-type flowers, a strong rose fragrance, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation. The new cultivar is generally suited to landscape applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventors: John Charles Gray, Sylvia Elizabeth Gray
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Patent number: PP31741Abstract: ‘GRAzest’ is a new and distinct floribunda type Rosa hybrid plant which is characterized by the combination of an upright to semi-weeping and bushy growth habit, nearly continuous flowering, large single type flowers with a bright true red coloration, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation. The new cultivar is generally suited to landscape applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventors: John Charles Gray, Sylvia Elizabeth Gray
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Patent number: PP31742Abstract: ‘GRAnib’ is a new and distinct cultivar of floribunda type Rosa hybrid plant which is characterized by the combination of an upright and bushy growth habit, nearly continuous flowering, double flowers that exhibit a strong dark red with velvet overlay tending black, flowers with a strong rose fragrance, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation. The new cultivar is generally suited to landscape applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventors: John Charles Gray, Sylvia Elizabeth Gray
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Patent number: PP31743Abstract: A new and distinct variety of macadamia tree named ‘MCT1’ notable for its precocity, high yield, relatively thin shell and husk, and excellent nut quality as compared to other macadamia cultivars.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Macadamia Conservation TrustInventor: Ian McConachie
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Patent number: PP31744Abstract: A new and distinct variety of red blood nectarine tree denominated ‘NSRED15273’ has fruits with high eating quality and very long shelf life without alteration before and after harvesting, with a semi-sweet pink red blood colored flesh, and a very high percentage of purple red blush on skin surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AGRO SELECTIONS FRUITSInventors: Arsène Maillard, Laurence Maillard
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Patent number: PP31745Abstract: A new and distinct variety of red blood nectarine tree denominated ‘NSRED15262’ has fruits with high eating quality and very long shelf life without alteration before and after harvesting, with a semi-sweet red blood colored flesh, and an attractive luminous and bright skin with a very high percentage of purple red blush on skin surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AGRO SELECTIONS FRUITSInventors: Arsène Maillard, Laurence Maillard
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Patent number: PP31746Abstract: This invention is a new and distinct grapevine variety denominated ‘IFG Forty-two’. The new grapevine is characterized by producing naturally large size narrow ellipsoid seedless green berries having an extremely crisp texture, thin skin and which ripen in mid-season. Berries are borne on medium size clusters which are naturally loose and do not require gibberellin to thin.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL FRUIT GENETICS, LLCInventor: David Cain
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Patent number: PP31747Abstract: ‘DAVROU01’ is a new cultivar of hybrid Spiraea with distinctive dark red-purple new foliage and stems. Plants are compact and bloom continuously throughout Spring and Summer. The new variety is a Spiraea normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventor: Jean-Paul Davasse
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Patent number: PP31748Abstract: A new Lantana plant named ‘LANZ0021’ having large sized deep cherry pink mature flowers, excellent flower production, moderate plant size and uniform dense mounded habit with medium green foliage.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Wendy R. Bergman
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Patent number: PP31749Abstract: A new and distinct Ilex verticillata cultivar named ‘B-43-4’ which is characterized by a tall plant height and a large amount of strong, upright main stems with numerous lateral branches, with each bearing very large salmon-orange berries along their entire length. The claimed plant propagates successfully by softwood stem cuttings and has proven to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Humboldt Land Company LLCInventor: Leendert DeVries
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Patent number: PP31750Abstract: ‘15719 GRW’ is a new and distinct hardy herbaceous Hibiscus hybrid with novel characteristics that include upright branched stems, numerous, outward-facing, very light purplish-blue flowers, which can intensify to very pale purplish blue in response to high UV radiation, with a dark-red eye with an external halo of vivid red, a prolonged blooming season, and hastate, trilobed leaves.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Dariusz P. Malinowski, William E. Pinchak, R. Steve Brown
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Patent number: PP31751Abstract: The new Hibiscus coccineus plant, ‘Whit XXII’ is characterized by a dense, dwarf, spherical growth habit, typically 20 to 30 inches in diameter covered by dense green foliage during the growing season and accentuated by large scarlet flowers dispersed over the entire form. Flowers last only one day, changing the flowering appearance of the plant daily, but flowering continues for 60 to 90 days depending on growing conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Lacebark Inc.Inventor: Carl E. Whitcomb
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Patent number: PP31752Abstract: The present invention provides a new and distinct cannabis cultivar designated as ‘CAKE BATTER COOKIES’. Disclosed herein are main terpenes of ‘CAKE BATTER COOKIES’, which are limonene, beta-caryophyllene, beta-pinene, linalool, alpha-humulene, alpha-pinene, fenchol, myrcene, alpha-bisabolol, and alpha-terpineol. Also, the present invention provides the estimated concentration of the THCmax, CBDmax, and CBGmax, about 6.5-14.21%, about 5.36-9.82%, and about 0.11-0.42%, respectively, at the time of assaying metabolites from flower samples of ‘CAKE BATTER COOKIES’.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Biotech Institute, LLCInventors: Mark A. Lewis, Steven Haba
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Patent number: PP31753Abstract: A new and distinct Ipomoea batatas cultivar named ‘ISGBR03-1’ is disclosed, characterized by purple-bronze palmate shaped foliage. Plants are semi-compact, have dense foliage, and produce many lateral branches. The new cultivar is an Ipomoea batatas, typically suited for ornamental container and garden use.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventor: Steve Jones
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Patent number: PP31754Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Sassy Summer Silver’, with narrow, silvery, fern-like foliage with moderately dissected lobules; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with bright, golden yellow inflorescences, beginning in mid to late June and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31755Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Sassy Summer Taffy’, with narrow, moderate green, highly-dissected, fern-like foliage; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with purplish-red inflorescences, beginning in mid-June and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31756Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow plant named Achillea ‘Peter Cottontail’, dense mounded habit, of upright heavily branched stems of medium height; linear, serrate, slightly-glossy, deep-green leaves; heavy flowering of white, predominately sterile flowers in large heads averaging over 100 florets per head beginning in mid-June and continuing for nearly seven weeks. The new plant is useful as a specimen landscape plant, mass planting or cut flower in arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP31757Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Achillea plant named ‘FLORACHRE1’, characterized by its dark red-colored inflorescences, medium green-colored foliage, low growth vigor and compact-upright growth habit, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Florensis B.V.Inventor: Tobias M. Braeunig
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Patent number: PP31758Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘CIDZ0097’ particularly distinguished by its medium size golden yellow daisy-type inflorescences, strong and uniform plant habit, and a flowering response time of 8 weeks.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AGInventor: Wendy R. Bergman
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Patent number: PP31759Abstract: A new poinsettia plant particularly distinguished by having red bracts with white spots and very good keeping quality is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Klemm+Sohn GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christian Welzel
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Patent number: PP31760Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGANZI’, particularly characterized by having very light purple, large flowers with reddish-purple shade and light purple lips, 1 to 2 peduncles that are long, leaves that are oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP31761Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Dodahhypnoyel 19’, characterized by its relatively compact, broadly upright and uniformly mounding plant habit; relatively small dark green-colored leaves; early and freely flowering habit; large inflorescences with bright yellow-colored ray florets; and good postproduction longevity.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Nadine Rijk
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Patent number: PP31762Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Dodahhypnowhit 19’, characterized by its relatively compact, broadly upright and uniformly mounding plant habit; relatively small dark green-colored leaves; early and freely flowering habit; medium to large inflorescences with white-colored ray florets; and good postproduction longevity.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Nadine Rijk
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Patent number: PP31763Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Begonia plant named ‘Dobegicspflibutcup’, characterized by its relatively compact, upright to spreading and mounded plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; dark greyed green-colored leaves; freely and continuously flowering habit; and medium-sized to large double and single flowers that are pale yellow in color.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Nadine Rijk
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Patent number: PP31764Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Monarda plant named ‘Domonpocde’, characterized by its upright plant habit; freely branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; large inflorescences with red purple-colored flowers; and relative tolerance to Powdery Mildew.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.Inventor: Herbert Oudshoorn
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Patent number: PP31765Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Rudbeckia plant named ‘ET RDB 603’, characterized by its tall and upright to somewhat outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; relatively small leaves; dense and bushy growth habit; freely flowering habit; large single-type inflorescences with yellow orange and greyed orange bi-colored ray florets positioned above the foliar plane on strong peduncles; and good postproduction and garden performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Eternal Plant Boijl B.V.Inventors: Elisabeth Bisschop, Bart Noordhuis
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Patent number: PP31766Abstract: A new Salvia plant particularly distinguished by a plant having orange-red flowers, and an upright plant habit, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventor: Flavio Sapia
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Patent number: PP31767Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Boogie Woogie’ is characterized by drought-tolerant, winter-hardy, tight, low, clumps, flower stems that remain upright in the center of the plant throughout the growing season, small, medium-green, glossy foliage with variegated margin of cream blushed with reddish-purple and numerous bright yellow flowers clustered on small heads that completely covering the compact, low-mounded plant.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: RE47979Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SUGARFINA, INC.Inventor: Rosie Colleen O'Neill
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Patent number: RE47980Abstract: Process for removing mercury from flue gases of high-temperature plants, in particular power stations and waste incineration plants in which a bromine compound is fed to the multistage furnace and/or the flue gas in a plant section downstream of the furnace, the temperature during contact of the bromine compound with the flue gas being at least 500° C., preferably at least 800° C. The combustion is carried out in the presence of a sulphur compound, in particular sulphur dioxide. Subsequently to the furnace, the flue gas is subjected to an optional multistage cleanup for removing mercury from the flue gas, which cleanup comprises a wet scrubber and/or a dry cleanup.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Bromerc LimitedInventors: Bernhard Vosteen, Rico Kanefke, Ewa Kanefke, Claus Mueller, Michael Nolte, Heinz Koeser, Joachim Beyer, Theodore-Gerhard Bonkhofer, Olaf Fleth, Andrea Schnitzer, Andreas Pohontsch
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Patent number: RE47981Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink jet recording method for recording a white overlaying layer and a non-white pattern layer to a recording medium, printed matters obtained by the recording method, and systems for realizing the recording method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Sano
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Patent number: RE47982Abstract: The present invention provides a specific binding molecule raised against the human Anx-A1 protein having the amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 2A. The present invention also relates to the sue of such a specific binding molecule in the treatment of T cell-mediated disease.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of LondonInventors: Fulvio D'Acquisto, Mauro Perretti
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Patent number: RE47983Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: University of Washington through its Center for CommercializationInventors: Xiaohu Gao, Pavel Zrazhevskiy
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Patent number: RE47984Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, an apparatus may include a display comprising a plurality of pixels. The apparatus may further include a computer system coupled with the display and operable to instruct the display to display a deconvolved image corresponding to a target image, wherein when the display displays the deconvolved image while located within a near-eye range of an observer, the target image may be perceived in focus by the observer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: David Patrick Luebke, Douglas Lanman, Thomas F. Fox, Gerrit Slavenburg
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Patent number: RE47985Abstract: A system and method for multiple vehicles to be dispatched and routed to multiple destinations, with or without constraints, containing a software core, which uses bounded geographic regions (“BGRs”) and Node Pairs to explicitly optimize, in two dimensions, for user desired dependent variables, by analyzing variance due to standard and user-defined independent variables. The invention stores Node Pair data, and can use error function, feedback, and ANOVA/MANOVA to create a tightly convergent dispatching and navigation solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Right There Ware LLCInventors: John C. Heed, Thomas P. Heed
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Patent number: RE47986Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of safety management of one or more vehicles, and more particularly, to a system and method for analyzing information relating to a vehicle's performance characteristics such as speed against environmental attributes such as speed limits to assess a vehicle and operator's tendency to operate according to preset or other criteria.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SPEEDGAUGE, INC.Inventors: Jonathan Hubbard, Christopher Kantarjiev, Robert Reid, Jonathan Tash
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Patent number: RE47987Abstract: A display system comprises a continuous flexible display and two main display supports being hingeably connected with respect to each other between a closed storage position and a planar open position for fixing the flexible display in an open position. Each of the supports is structurally configured to support respectively a first and a second portion of the flexible display, a segment of the flexible display is located between the said respective portions of the flexible display in the open position. The display system comprises a spring force biased mechanism operative in either the open or closed position or both the open and closed positions of the flexible display, biasing said segment of the flexible display in the respective position.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Michael Walters, Han Van Den Tillaar, Volker Barnhart Verschoor, Robert Sjang Josine Van Dijk, Pieter van Lieshout
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Patent number: RE47988Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell region, a peripheral circuit region and a boundary region. In the memory cell region, a concave lower electrode and a foundation layer have a same uppermost surface positioned in a height of H above the plane-A. In the boundary region, one concave lower conductive region and a foundation layer have a same uppermost surface positioned in a height of H above the plane-A.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Longitude Licensing LimitedInventors: Yoshitaka Nakamura, Kenji Komeda, Ryota Suewaka, Noriaki Ikeda
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Patent number: RE47989Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric film made of an aluminum nitride film containing a divalent element and a tetravalent element, or a divalent element and a pentavalent element; and an electrode that excites an acoustic wave propagating through the piezoelectric film.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Yoshiki Iwazaki, Tokihiro Nishihara, Yosuke Onda
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Patent number: RE47991Abstract: An IDT electrode of a SAW element has a plurality of first dummy electrodes which extend from the first bus bar to the second bus bar side and have tips which face the tips of the plurality of second electrode fingers through a plurality of first gaps, and a plurality of second dummy electrodes which extend from the second bus bar to the first bus bar side and have tips which face the tips of the plurality of first electrode fingers through a plurality of second gaps. The plurality of first gaps and the plurality of second gaps are arranged to be inclined to the same side relative to the propagation direction of SAW. When the inclination angles of the first gaps and the second gaps relative to the propagation direction are a first angle ?A and a second angle ?B, the following are true: 10°??A?26°, and 10°??B?26°.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: RE47992Abstract: Systems and methods for joining a device to a fabric using an assisting device include an indication to add a joining device to a fabric. If the joining device supports network-assisted fabric pairing, a first connection is established between a commissioning device and the assisting device. The assisting device also connects to a joining device. Through the assisting device, the commissioning device and the joining device establish a communication channel over which fabric credentials may be sent.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jay D. Logue, Andrew William Stebbins, Roger Loren Tinkoff
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Patent number: RE47993Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is capable of reducing a power loss incurred by a power-supply section in a process of generating a power-supply voltage for driving a backlight section. In the configuration of the power-supply section, a main power-supply circuit and an inverter circuit (or a DC-DC converter) are connected to an input-voltage generation unit in parallel to each other, which is used for rectifying and smoothing the commercial alternative current power. The main power-supply circuit and the inverter circuit (or the DC-DC converter) each include an isolation transformer including a primary-side winding not isolated from the commercial alternative current power and a secondary winding provided on the secondary side. The direct current input voltage is supplied to the primary side to be subjected to a power conversion process to generate an output voltage on the secondary side of the isolation transformer.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Noburo Ogura, Yoshiki Oyama, Nobuhiko Kanoi
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Patent number: 10645852Abstract: A finger-hoe tool for a soil-tilling device, which has at least one finger, and a method for mechanical control of weeds in row crops make possible an input of loose materials into the row or a discharge of loose materials from the row, because the at least one finger has at least one device for collection and/or removal of the loose materials (e.g. earth, sand, stones), whereby not only the weakly rooted weeds but also more strongly rooted weeds can be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: K.U.L.T. Kress Umweltschonende Landtechnik GmbHInventor: Christian Kirchhoff
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Patent number: 10645853Abstract: In one aspect, a shank assembly for an agricultural implement may include a shank and a tillage point coupled to a distal end of the shank. The tillage point may include a body having first and second retention walls, with the retention walls being spaced apart such that a retention slot is defined directly between the retention walls. In addition, the first retention wall may define an inner cavity that extends from an inner surface of the first retention wall towards an opposed outer surface of the first retention wall. Moreover, the shank assembly may include a retention collar received within the inner cavity and a retention pin configured to be inserted through aligned openings of the tillage point and the shank, as well as though the retention collar, when the distal end of the shank is received within the retention slot.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Michael G. Kovach
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Patent number: 10645854Abstract: A tractor mounted tiller/cultivator system that includes right and left swing arms pivotally attached to tractor chassis, right and left cutting head assemblies mounted on the swing arms, each including a right disc motor driving a rotary disc mounted on a distal portion of the swing arm and operatively coupled to the motor. Ground-engaging cultivation wheels surround the rotary disc, and an annular guard prevents unwanted contact of the wheels with vines or trunks of vines and trees. A drive mechanism lowers and raises the swing arms to put the cultivation wheels into engagement and disengagement with ground and to rotate said swing arms about their longitudinal axes. User controls operatively connected to the swing arms, cutting head assemblies, and drive mechanisms enable a user to finely tune the movement of the cutting heads into and out from rows of trees or vines.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventor: Andrew J. Flocchini
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Patent number: 10645855Abstract: A lift arm control system can be configured to raise or lower a lift arm assembly of an agricultural machine with variable speed so that the lift arm assembly can optimally perform under varying conditions, including changing a tool connected to the lift arm assembly while stationary and/or moving the lift arm assembly while operating at various speeds in the field. The lift arm assembly can be manually configured to adjust with speeds that are proportional to a user input. The lift arm assembly can also be automatically configured to adjust with speeds that are proportional to sensor(s) input of the machine, such as a vehicle speed sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Nathan P. Brooks
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Patent number: 10645856Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for remotely and individually controlling a plurality of remotely positionable stabilizer wheels of a towable agricultural implement utilize an electronic control unit that receives an input signal indicative of a desired position of the stabilizer wheel, and/or a desired depth of penetration of tillage tools operatively attached to the front and rear of the implement frame, to automatically and individually control a plurality of hydraulic positioning cylinders for individually positioning and holding the plurality of stabilizer wheel at the desired position of the stabilizer wheels.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Christopher Stovall, Kena Shah, Timothy R. Blunier
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Patent number: 10645857Abstract: An implement control system includes an automatic control valve assembly configured to utilize fluid from a supply conduit to cause a cylinder to raise a ground engaging tool relative to a soil surface and to utilize the fluid flow from the supply conduit to cause the cylinder to lower the ground engaging tool relative to the soil surface while an automatic control mode is active. The implement control system also includes a controller configured to control the automatic control valve assembly based on a position of the ground engaging tool relative to the soil surface to control the position of the ground engaging tool relative to the soil surface while the automatic control mode is active. The controller is also configured to deactivate the automatic control mode in response to fluid pressure within a first manual control conduit exceeding a threshold pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Michael W. Glennon, Duqiang Wu, John C. Endsley, Christopher Stovall
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Patent number: 10645858Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a guided line acquisition system and method for generating a path of a vehicle from its current location to a final guidance line. This path is referred to hereinafter as an acquisition path. The generated acquisition path starts at the current vehicle position and ends co-linear to the final guidance path. The acquisition path is generated using one constraint and one objective parameter. More specifically, the acquisition path is constrained by the minimum turning radius of the vehicle and angle of approach criteria, (i.e., the maximum heading relative to the guidance line). It should be appreciated that while the guided line acquisition system attempts to find an acquisition path that meets the angle of approach criteria, the guidance acquisition system will allow this objective to be sacrificed when it is not possible due to the minimum turning radius of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Joshua T. Lawson
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Patent number: 10645859Abstract: The present disclosure refers to an agricultural system having a tractor and an implement and a method of operating. A driveline is provided between a driving device (11.3) of a tractor (1) and a first functional element (12.3) of an implement (2), the driveline comprising a tractor driveline (14) and an implement driveline (17) connected through a power take-off connection (13). A driving force is provided to the first functional element (12.3) of the implement (2) through the driveline in a first mode of operation, thereby, a working tool (18) rotating in a first direction in response to the driving force. An operation problem is detected for the first functional element (12.3) by a sensor (19) provided in a tractor-implement control system. Reverse control signals are generated in a tractor controller (4) provided in the tractor-implement control system in response to the detecting of the operation problem for the first functional element (12.3).Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Kverneland Group Mechatronics B.V.Inventors: Martijn van der Bijl, Peter van der Vlugt