Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Morrison & Foerster
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Patent number: 8348556Abstract: A solids distributor for injection plants includes a collecting chamber having a plurality of lance lines leading away from the chamber. The chamber has a supply connection for a solid to be distributed and is surrounded by a common wall in which a plurality of ports is formed. The lance lines are connected to the ports, and an annular gap is formed in front of the ports and along the common wall. A pressure vessel is arranged geodetically above the collecting chamber, the lower part of the pressure vessel being designed as a bunker, having an outlet providing a direct and continuous junction to the supply connection and an upper part designed as a gas space. The collecting chamber may include a central displacement body which forms the annular gap with the common wall and which may be an upwardly tapering cone which projects out of the collecting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Claudius Peters Projects GmbHInventors: Peter Hilgraf, Dietrich Schumpe, Hans-Dieter Nolde, Volker Goecke
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Patent number: 8347457Abstract: An attachment for a vacuum cleaning appliance includes a head having a bristle carrier and a bristle cover. The bristle carrier includes a plurality of bristles and the bristle cover includes a plurality of apertures. The attachment includes a conduit which is connectable to a vacuum cleaning appliance for conveying an air flow from the bristle cover towards the appliance, a handle connected to the head, and an actuator which is depressible towards the handle to effect relative movement between the bristle carrier and the bristle cover between a stowed configuration in which the bristles are retracted relative to the bristle cover and a deployed configuration in which the bristles protrude from the bristle cover through the apertures.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: James Dyson, Giles Ashbee, Simon Edward Ireland, Emma Jane Heatley-Adams
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Patent number: 8347456Abstract: A cleaner head for a cleaning appliance includes a rotatable brush bar assembly, a motor for driving the brush bar assembly, and a drive mechanism connecting the motor to the brush bar assembly. The drive mechanism includes a rotatable input drive member connected to the motor, a rotatable output drive member connected to the brush bar assembly and moveable relative to the input drive member in a direction substantially orthogonal to the axes of rotation of the drive members, a belt connecting the input drive member to the output drive member, and a belt tensioning member located between the drive members for tensioning the belt by urging the output drive member away from input drive member.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Andrew Paul Sweeby, Nigel Youatt Dymond
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Patent number: 8349386Abstract: The invention relates to a serum protein product, suitable as an ingredient for foods and therapeutic compositions, in particular infant and baby foods. The invention also provides a method for the preparation of the serum protein product, based on micro filtration of milk. The invention provides a method for the preparation of a serum protein product, comprising the preparation of a permeate through micro filtration of cow's milk at a temperature of between 10 and 20° C. utilizing a membrane having a pore size of between 0.3 and 0.5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Friesland Brands B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Glas, Rob Te Biesebeke, Jantje Kromkamp, Gijsbertus Klarenbeek
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Patent number: 8351480Abstract: A pulse width modulation method for controlling the output power of a pulsed gas discharge laser powered by a pulsed RF power supply comprises delivering a train of digital pulses to the RF power supply. Each pulse in the train has an incrementally variable duration. The power supply is arranged to deliver a train of RF pulses corresponding in number and duration to the train of digital pulses received. The average power in the RF-pulse train can be varied by incrementally varying the duration of one or more of the digital pulses in the digital pulse train. The train of RF pulses is used to power a gas discharge laser. The gas discharge laser outputs a pulse train corresponding to the RF pulse train.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Coherent, Inc.Inventor: David John Allie
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Patent number: 8350009Abstract: Antibodies and molecules derived therefrom that bind to 161P2F10B protein and variants thereof, are described wherein 161P2F10B exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, 161P2F10B provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The 161P2F10B gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with 161P2F10B can be used in active or passive immunization.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Agensys, Inc.Inventors: Aya Jakobovits, Steven B. Kanner, Pia M. Challita-Eid, Juan J. Perez-Villar, Daulet Satpaev, Arthur B. Raitano, Robert Kendall Morrison, Karen Jane Meyrick Morrison, Xiao-chi Jia, Jean Gudas
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Patent number: 8351477Abstract: A method of operating a digitally modulated solid state laser is disclosed. The laser is optically pumped by a current-supply driven diode-laser radiation and with output-power stabilized at a desired value by a light regulator cooperative with a power monitor and the current source is disclosed. When the laser is turned on, the current-source is enabled and the light-regulator is disabled. A current regulator allows current from the current-supply to increase until the monitored power reaches the desired value. At this point, the light regulator is enabled and the light regulator assumes control of the current-supply for maintaining the output-power at the desired level.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Coherent GmbHInventors: Stefan Böttcher, Axel Kneip
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Patent number: 8350425Abstract: A holder for a position sensor of an electric machine. The holder includes a pocket for holding the position sensor, an abutment, and a biasing mechanism mountable to a fixture of the electric machine so as to bias the abutment relative to the fixture. Additionally, an electric machine that incorporates the holder, the electric machine including a stator against which the biasing mechanism biases the abutment.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Robert Andrew Green, Nicholas Timothy Spence, Yu Chen, Tuncay Celik
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Patent number: 8349607Abstract: Methods are disclosed for screening for the occurrence of gene silencing (e.g., post transcriptional gene silencing) in an organism. Also provided are methods for isolating silencing agents so identified.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: David Charles Baulcombe, Andrew John Hamilton
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Patent number: 8348597Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes an air outlet mounted on a stand. The stand includes a base and a body tiltable relative to the base. The fan assembly has a center of gravity located so that when the base is located on a substantially horizontal support surface, the projection of the center of gravity on the support surface is within the footprint of the base when the body is in a fully tilted position.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 8347521Abstract: A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow, and at least one slot-like opening communicating with the fan and arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening has a maximum width which is no greater than 0.8 mm. This produces a very narrow, high velocity, high pressure airflow which is capable of drying an object efficiently and quickly and is suitable for use in a hand dryer.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: John Churchill, James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Cedric Campbell Hackwell, Frederic Nicolas, Roy Macnaughton
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Patent number: 8350821Abstract: Pre-stored no-touch or no-hover (no-event) sensor output values can initially be used when a sensor panel subsystem is first booted up to establish an initial baseline of sensor output values unaffected by fingers or other objects touching or hovering over the sensor panel during boot-up. This initial baseline can then be normalized so that each sensor generates the same output value for a given amount of touch or hover, providing a uniform response across the sensor panel and enabling subsequent touch or hover events to be more easily detected. After the initial normalization process is complete, the pre-stored baseline can be discarded in favor of a newly captured no-event baseline that may be more accurate than the pre-stored baseline due to temperature or other variations.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian Richards Land, Wayne Carl Westerman, Steve Porter Hotelling
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Patent number: 8349117Abstract: An absorbent wearing article including an air permeable and liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-retentive absorbent structure placed on the backsheet. An outer sheet has having elastic members is placed on and bonded to a surface of the backsheet opposed to its surface bonded to the absorbent structure. The outer sheet has the elastic members intermittently bonded under tension thereto, and is formed in a region thereof facing the absorbent structure with an opening. The elastic members extend laterally under tension from a peripheral edge of the opening beyond the absorbent structure and the first backsheet is exposed through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Otsubo
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Patent number: 8348629Abstract: A bladeless fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the base and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted. The nozzle extends about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The nozzle includes a surface over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The surface has a diffuser portion tapering away from the axis, and a guide portion downstream from the diffuser portion and angled thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyston Technology LimitedInventors: Nicholas Gerald Fitton, Frederic Nicolas, Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 8347455Abstract: A hand-held cleaning appliance includes a suction conduit, an airflow generator for generating an airflow along the suction conduit, a separating apparatus in communication with the suction conduit for separating dirt and dust from the airflow, a power source for supplying power to the airflow generator and a handgrip enabling a user to maneuver the hand-held cleaning appliance. The handgrip has a first end and a second end. The airflow generator is arranged directly adjacent the first end of the handgrip and the power source is arranged adjacent the second end of the handgrip. By providing a hand-held vacuum cleaner with such an arrangement, the hand-held vacuum cleaner is easier and more comfortable to manipulate in use.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: James Dyson, Richard Morgan Hickmott, Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 8350010Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of VEGF antagonists and alpha5beta1 antagonists for treating cancer and inhibiting angiogenesis and/or vascular permeability, including inhibiting abnormal angiogenesis in diseases. The present invention also relates to use of a VEGFR agonists and alpha5beta1 agonists to promote angiogenesis and vascular permeability. The present invention also relates to new anti-alpha5beta1 antibodies, compositions and kits comprising them and methods of making and using them.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Genentech, Inc.Inventors: Anan Chuntharapai, Gregory D. Plowman, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Yan Wu, Weilan Ye
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Patent number: 8351615Abstract: In an impulse response processing device, a waveform dividing part divides a waveform of an original impulse response into a plurality of blocks on a time axis. A time adjusting part performs a time adjustment to reduce a time difference between successive ones of the blocks. A waveform synthesizing part generates a waveform of a new impulse response by adding the blocks on the time axis after the time adjustment by the time adjusting part. Further, a windowing part performs a windowing process to multiply each block by a window function having a window width corresponding to a width of the block, a function value of the window function decreasing from a center to both ends of the block. The waveform synthesizing part generates the new impulse response using the blocks after the windowing process by the windowing part.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Futoshi Shirakihara
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Patent number: D673943Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Indra Sistemas, S.A.Inventor: José Miguel Huertas Moya
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Patent number: D673944Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Indra Sistemas, S.A.Inventor: Jose Miguel Huertas Moya
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Patent number: D674159Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson LimitedInventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Dawson