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  • Commands system for electronic refrigerator control
    Patent number: 4970870
    Abstract: An input command system for an electronic refrigerator control wherein dedicated function keys are provided for inputting commands to the processor. The processor will not accept inputs from the dedicated function keys unless an enable key is pressed first. The enable key is hidden on the control panel so as to avoid unauthorized inputting of commands. Once enabled, the processor receives commands for a predetermined time period that is extended when commands are input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Amana Refrigeration, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Midlang, David M. Christensen
  • Electronic components on trenched substrates and method of forming same
    Patent number: 7732894
    Abstract: A method of mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes forming at least one trench in a surface of the substrate. The trenches formed in the substrate reduce a stiffness of the substrate, which provides less resistance to shear. Accordingly, the trenches reduce the amount of strain on the joints, which mount the electronic component to the substrate, which enhances the life of the joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Questad, Vijayeshwar D. Khanna, Jennifer V. Muney, Arun Sharma, Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Lorenzo Valdevit
  • Method and apparatus of feedback signaling
    Patent number: 8457066
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of feedback signaling using a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) includes transmitting to a first cell a first uplink feedback signal that includes channel quality information (CQI) associated with the first cell. A second uplink feedback signal that includes CQI information associated with a second cell is transmitted to the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Cave, Diana Pani, Paul Marinier, Vincent Roy, Eldad M. Zeira
  • TISSUE AND ORGAN GRAFT BIOREACTOR AND METHOD OF OPERATION
    Publication number: 20120028234
    Abstract: A single-use, single or multiple tissue, organ, and graft bioreactor and environmental control system is designed to replicate the necessary conditions for growth of tissues, organs, or grafts, while addressing problems in scaling up the tissue growth; adaptation to a single-use or disposable format; and operation as a stand-alone unit that provides full environmental control of cell culture conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Patrick M. Guertin, Parrish M. Galliher, Michael Fisher, Joseph D. Crowell, Colin R. Tuohey, Laura A. Niklason, William E. Tente, Shannon M. Dahl, Juliana Blum, Justin Strader
  • Suture delivery device
    Patent number: 10357242
    Abstract: A suture-based vessel closure device can perform the dilation of an arteriotomy puncture and does not require previous dilation of the arteriotomy puncture by a separate device or by a procedural sheath dilator. The suture-based vessel closure device can place one or more sutures across the vessel access site such that, when the suture ends are tied off after sheath removal, the stitch or stitches provide hemostasis to the access site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Silk Road Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michi E. Garrison, Gregory M. Hyde, Richard J. Renati, Alan K. Schaer, Tony M. Chou
  • EFFICIENT LIGHTWEIGHT VACUUM
    Publication number: 20150196180
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including a base having an agitator housing including an air outlet. The base further includes a volute including a volute air inlet disposed substantially parallel to the agitator housing and a volute air outlet disposed substantially orthogonal to the agitator housing. An air duct connects the volute air inlet and the air outlet of the agitator housing and the air outlet of the agitator housing and the volute air outlet are substantially collinear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Charles J. Morgan, Victor B. McClearen, Ernest M. Chavana, JR., Bruce M. Kiern, Charles A. Liter, George V. Hibbs, Dennis T. Lamb, Timothy Kolody, Christopher M. Paterson
  • Torque estimator for switched reluctance machines
    Patent number: 4961038
    Abstract: Apparatus for estimating torque generated by a switched reluctance machine utilizes a ROM table look-up scheme to generate a torque estimate based upon phase current and rotor position information. Each ROM address is accessed by digitizing and then combining sensed phase current and rotor position signals. Knowledge of the instantaneous torque output enables closed-loop torque control including appropriate adjustments of phase currents to reduce or eliminate torque pulsations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stephen R. MacMinn
  • Stent delivery apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7001423
    Abstract: A stent has a tubular body with end regions and a middle region. The tubular body has a plurality of openings in it, the number of openings greater in the middle region than in the end regions. The tubular members also comprise an inner component and an outer component, the outer component disposed about the inner component. The inner component comprises a woven braid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Euteneuer, Phlayne M. Fraser, Paul H Burmeister, Dean A. Peterson, Andrew W. Buirge, Susan M. Shoemaker
  • Curing compositions for fluoropolymers
    Patent number: 8906821
    Abstract: A catalyst composition comprising a cation and an anion of the formula Anq?Qpm+, wherein m, n, p, and q are positive integers, wherein m*p=n*q, wherein Qm+is an organo onium, and Aq?is an anion, provided that at least one Aq?is selected from the formula (I) wherein each R independently is H, halo, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, or cycloalkyl, and which also may be halogenated, fluorinated, or perfluorinated, wherein two or more of R and R? groups may together form a ring, wherein each R group independently may contain one or more heteroatom(s), wherein R? can be the same as R, with the proviso that R? cannot be halo, and wherein the catalyst composition is essentially free of hydrocarbon containing alcohol. Also provided are a fluoropolymer composition including this curative, a method of making a fluoropolymer, and fluoropolymer articles containing curable or cured fluoropolymer compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Werner M. A. Grootaert, Kim M. Vogel, Dennis E. Vogel
  • Macrocyclic benzodiazepine dimers, conjugates thereof, preparation and uses
    Patent number: 9688694
    Abstract: Macrocyclic benzodiazepine dimers having a structure represented by formula I where A and B are independently according to formulae Ia or Ib and the other variables in formulae I, Ia, and Ib are as defined in the application. Such dimers are useful as anti-cancer agents, especially when used as the drug component in an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Yong Zhang, Robert M. Borzilleri, Andrew J. Tebben, Erik M. Stang, Andrew F. Donnell, Gretchen M. Schroeder, Heidi L. Perez, Donna D. Wei
  • Process to prepare a terminal aldehyde
    Patent number: 5874641
    Abstract: A hydroformylation catalyst composition comprising iridium or rhodium and a bidentate organic phosphite ligand wherein the two phosphorus atoms of the phopshite ligand are linked with a 2,2'-dihydroxyl-1,1'-binapthalene bridging group having the following structure (Q): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are substituents other than hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignees: DSM N.V., E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Patrick M. Burke, James M. Garner, Wilson Tam, Kristina A. Kreutzer, Antonius J.J.M. Teunissen, Carina S. Snijder, Carolina B. Hansen
  • Electronic game and method for playing a game based upon symbols in a game matrix
    Patent number: 10417870
    Abstract: Payout methods in a mechanical, an electro-mechanical and/or computer-based slot machine-like games-of-chance enable a series of awards based upon: appearance of predetermined symbol combinations in the symbol matrix; issuance of awards for the predetermined combination of symbols; removal of the winning symbol combinations from the symbol matrix; replacement of removed symbols with other symbols; issuance of awards for predetermined combination of symbols in the symbol matrix; and recurring cycles of award, removal and replacement until no winning symbol combinations appear in the symbol matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Daniel M. Marks, Anthony M. Singer, Howard M. Marks
  • Hydrophilic polypropylene fibers having antimicrobial activity
    Patent number: 6762339
    Abstract: Polypropylene fibers and devices that include a fatty acid monoglyceride added to the polypropylene as a melt additive are described. A hydrophilic enhancer material can be advantageously added to the polypropylene as a melt additive to enhance the hydrophilicity of the fibers and devices. An antimicrobial enhancer material can be added to the fibers to enhance the antimicrobial activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas P. Klun, Wayne K. Dunshee, Kevin R. Schaffer, Jeffrey F. Andrews, Debra M. Neu, Matthew T. Scholz
  • Systemic delivery of polypeptides
    Patent number: 11701437
    Abstract: A method for the systemic delivery of a polypeptide within a subject is provided by creating genetically modified skin cells via topical introduction of a genetically engineered virus which delivers a nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic polypeptide for expression by the skin cells, wherein the expressed therapeutic polypeptide is secreted by the skin cells and is introduced into the circulatory system of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Denitsa M. Milanova, George M. Church, Noah Davidsohn, Carl Schoellhammer, Robert S. Langer, Anna I. Mandinova, Carlo Giovanni Traverso
  • Method for producing 3,7-diaza-bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-metal complex solutions
    Patent number: 8980127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing homogeneous solutions of metal complexes of general formula (2): [MaLxXn]Ym, where M is a metal from the group comprising Mn(II), Mn(III), Mn(IV), Fe(III), Fe(III) or Fe(IV), X is a coordinated compound selected from mono- bi- or tri-charged anions or neutral molecules which are able to coordinate with a metal mono- bi- or tri-dentate, Y is a non-coordinated counter-ion which ensures charge equalization of the complex, L is a ligand of general formula (1) or the protonized or de-protonized form thereof, and a, x, n, m, R, R1, R2, R3 and z are as specified in claim 1, in diols or polyols, the monoethers or mixtures of said substances. Said method is characterized in that a ligand of the formula (1) is reacted with an iron or manganese salt in a heterogeneous reaction in the diol or polyol, the monoethers or mixtures of these substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Miriam Ladwig
  • COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH FAILURE DETECTION PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20160178603
    Abstract: A multiple layer composite material having fluid breach detection features provides indication of a failure in a fluid barrier. The indication of breach of fluid is provided before failure of a final layer of the composite material. The multiple layer composite material includes more than one fluid impermeable layer with an intermediate layer sealed between the fluid impermeable layers. Failure of one of the fluid impermeable layers is detected by fluid contact in the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a reagent and/or detection device to indicate that the fluid has reached the intermediate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin M. Patmore, Andrew M. Bentz, Brett M. Fulton, Sarah E. Mynhier
  • External acoustic liners for multi-functional aircraft noise reduction
    Patent number: 9623952
    Abstract: Acoustic liners for aircraft noise reduction include one or more chambers that are configured to provide a pressure-release surface such that the engine noise generation process is inhibited and/or absorb sound by converting the sound into heat energy. The size and shape of the chambers can be selected to inhibit the noise generation process and/or absorb sound at selected frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
    Inventors: Michael G. Jones, Russell H. Thomas, Douglas M. Nark, Brian M. Howerton, Michael J. Czech
  • Process for the preparation of 2-(N-benzyl-N-methylamino)-ethyl methyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-(m-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate and its hydrochloride salt
    Patent number: 4769465
    Abstract: A new, technologically easily feasible process for the preparation of 2-(N-benzyl-N-methylamino)ethyl methyl 2,6-dimethyl-4(m-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate, comprising a partrial hydrolysis of dimethyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-(m-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate in an inert organic solvent at a temperature between room temperature and the reflux temperature of the reaction mixture with an aqueous solution of alkali hydroxide and the reaction of the obtained 3-methoxycarbonyl-2,6-dimethyl-4-(m-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-5-car boxylic acid either with N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-N-benzyl-methylamine in the presence or absence of an organic solvent in the presence of N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide at a temperature of between 25.degree. and 120.degree. C. or with N-(2-haloethyl)-N-benzyl-methylamine in the presence of an inert organic solvent and of a proton acceptor at a temperature of between 25.degree. and 140.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: LEK, tovarna farmacevtskih in kemicnih izdelkov, n.sol.o.
    Inventors: Ljubo Antoncic, Iztok Jazbec, Darko Kocjan, Ivana Krivec
  • Automated object selection and placement for augmented reality
    Patent number: 9767768
    Abstract: A system to facilitate AR processing includes receiving captured media from a user device and context information relating to media that is being delivered to a receiving device. The system may use the media being delivered with the captured media to generate one or more virtual objects. The user device may augment a user's view of reality that is reflected in the captured media by overlaying or otherwise incorporating the virtual objects in the user's view of reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Narayanan Venkitaraman, Santosh S. Basapur, Shirley A. Chaysinh, Young S. Lee, Hiren M. Mandalia, Van M. Vuong
  • Controlled release vaccines and methods of treating diseases and disorders
    Patent number: 11975060
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the treatment of Brucella induced diseases and disorders are disclosed herein. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to vaccines. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to formulations capable of releasing said vaccines at a controlled rate of release in vivo. In further embodiments, the invention relates to modified strains of the bacteria Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to compositions that do not induce clinical symptoms or splenomegaly in a subject receiving said compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Thomas A. Ficht, Allison Ficht, Renee Tsolis, Leslie Garry Adams, Angela M. Arenas-Gamboa
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