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20090288325 | SLING MOUNTS FOR FIREARMS - A sling mount system having a mount with associated receiver for releasable connection with a swivel connector having a longitudinal axis that lies in the same plane as a longitudinal axis of a weapon and that angles downward away from the butt stock. The receptacle for the swivel connector is integrally formed in the mount to facilitate silent connection and disconnection of the swivel mount thereto. | 11-26-2009 |
20110062194 | BUNGEE SLING AND METHOD OF MAKING - A sling that includes a first strap having an elastic sidewall enclosing a hollow interior and a pair of elastic cords attached to the strap and located inside the hollow interior of the strap, the first strap further comprising a first connector member on a first end of the first strap; and a second strap having an elastic sidewall enclosing a hollow interior and a pair of elastic cords attached to the strap and located inside the hollow interior of the strap, the second strap further comprising a second connector member on a first end and releasably connectable to the first connector member of the first strap, the first and second straps each having second ends permanently coupled together. | 03-17-2011 |
20110283580 | BOLT CATCH-RELEASE LEVER - An assembly for a bolt catch on a firearm having a bolt that slides between a latched position and an unlatched position, the bolt held in the latched position by a bolt catch mechanism that includes a catch-release actuator pivotally mounted on the rifle to provide for latching and unlatching of the bolt by a user, the assembly including a lever having an L-shaped body that comprises a first leg and a second leg that is formed at substantially a right angle to the first leg, the first leg having a free end on which is formed a mounting member; and a clamp member structured to attach to the mounting member on the lever to enable clamping of the lever to the catch-release actuator in a manner that does not require disassembly of the firearm or disassembly or removal of the catch-release actuator from the firearm. | 11-24-2011 |
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20120166311 | DEFERRED PAYMENT AND SELECTIVE FUNDING AND PAYMENTS - A user is able to change one or more payment options after payment has already been made to a merchant. A payment provider processes a payment request during a transaction with the merchant with default or selected payment options. After the transaction with the merchant is completed and the merchant has been paid, the user may change one or more of the payment options, such as funding source(s) and terms/conditions of payment (e.g., deferment period, installment period/amount, etc.). During the transaction, the user may make a purchase through the payment provider even if the user does not have an account with the payment provider by providing user information, such as name, address, phone number, email address, and date of birth, but not a social security number or funding source information. | 06-28-2012 |
20130268391 | SMART GIFT LIST - A service provider communicates, to a user device, a reminder and suggestions to a user for possible gift purchases for a recipient, based on recipient purchase history, restrictions set by the user for the recipient, preferences set by the user for the recipient/gift, the occasion for the gift, and/or other factors. The user can select one or more recommended gifts from the user device and make the purchase through the user device. | 10-10-2013 |
20130290186 | PREAUTHORIZE BUYERS TO COMMIT TO A GROUP PURCHASE - A payment provider preauthorizes and commits consumers to a group purchase when the consumers provide an indication or intent to make a group purchase. Upon receiving the intent, the payment provider may ask the consumer whether they wish to irrevocably commit to the purchase at the advertised price. If so, the payment provider may process a payment request from the consumer to the merchant, but without actually moving funds to a merchant account. If the payment request can be approved, the payment provider may hold or freeze the appropriate amount in the user account or otherwise commit the funds to the merchant if the minimum number of purchasers is met for the group purchase. If the minimum number of purchasers is not met and/or the merchant cannot fulfill the group offer, the payment provider may take off the hold or release the funds back to the consumer's account. However, if the minimum number is met, the payment provider may release the funds to a merchant account even if the consumer decides, after the initial commitment, to not make the group purchase. Thus, others who committed to the group purchase will still be able to take advantage of the group deal. | 10-31-2013 |
20140019337 | CREDITOR OFFERS FOR TAKING A USER DEBT - Once a user has made a purchase (or during a checkout), a service provider may offer one or more creditors to the user to fund a payment on behalf of the user. The service provider may offer this service to one or more creditors in an auction or bid scenario, in which creditors may submit bids to “win” this service. The winning creditor(s) or payment provider(s) may be featured or displayed to the user when the user is deciding how to make a payment. In this way, a user is more likely to either sign up with a creditor and use the creditor to make a payment or use an already-existing account with the creditor to make a payment. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025576 | Mobile Check-In - Methods and systems can facilitate more convenient shopping by users of a payment provider, such as Paypal, Inc. A user can purchase a product simply by swiping a card without being required to enter additional information, such as the user's personal identification number (PIN). Thus, the checkout process at the point-of-sale can be performed more easily and quickly. More particularly, a user can open an app on a mobile device and sign in to a payment provider system using the app. The app can show merchants near the user. The user can select one or more of the merchants. Selecting a merchant allows the user to check in with the merchant. Checking in with the merchant can result in pre-authorization of a purchase by the user with the merchant. | 01-23-2014 |
20140337138 | PAYMENT CODES FOR ENHANCED CONSUMER EXPERIENCE - Methods and systems for facilitating payments with a mobile device are described. The methods include detecting a location of a mobile device, receiving identifying information from a user through the mobile device when the mobile device is near at least one merchant without a request from the user, generating a payment code without a request from the user, transmitting the payment code to the mobile device, receiving the payment code and a payment request from a merchant, and processing the payment request. | 11-13-2014 |
20160071139 | PREAUTHORIZE BUYERS TO COMMIT TO A GROUP PURCHASE - A payment provider preauthorizes and commits consumers to a group purchase when the consumers provide an indication or intent to make a group purchase. Upon receiving the intent, the payment provider may ask the consumer whether they wish to irrevocably commit to the purchase at the advertised price. If so, the payment provider may hold or freeze the appropriate amount in the user account or otherwise commit the funds to the merchant if the minimum number of purchasers is met for the group purchase. The payment provider may release the funds to a merchant account even if the consumer decides, after the initial commitment, to not make the group purchase. Thus, others who committed to the group purchase will still be able to take advantage of the group deal. | 03-10-2016 |
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20090229766 | ADHESIVE REMOVAL DEVICE - An adhesive removal system useful for removing a stretch release adhesive from a component includes a first member that engages with a component and an adhesive removal member that moves the adhesive and component relative to each other in order to stretch the adhesive and release the adhesive from a bond surface of the component. In some embodiments, the adhesive removal member applies a substantially uniform pulling force across the adhesive. The adhesive removal member may be manually actuated by a user or with the aid of an automated device. In some embodiments, the adhesive removal system comprises a rotatable portion that moves the adhesive relative to the component. In other embodiments, the adhesive removal system includes features that enable the first member and a second member, which is mechanically coupled to at least a portion of the adhesive extending from the component, to move relative to each other. | 09-17-2009 |
20100025914 | IMAGING APPARATUS WITH MEDIA PICKUP SYSTEM EMPLOYING CURVED SURFACE FOR MEDIA SEPARATION - A media pickup system suitable for use with an imaging apparatus including a pickup assembly including at least one pickup bar having a concave channel a curved surface, and an actuator configured to move the pickup bar between a first position and a second position, wherein the pickup assembly, when the pickup bar is in the second position, is configured to selectively engage and draw a portion of a first sheet of a stack of sheets of imaging media into the concave channel to bend the first sheet to create and air channel between and to separate the first sheet from a remaining portion of the stack of sheets of imaging media. | 02-04-2010 |
20110043719 | OPTICALLY TRANSMISSIVE COMPOSITE FILM FRAME - Optical display backlight assemblies having a transmissive optical film affixed to a frame which at least partially surrounds a backlight, are disclosed. The transmissive optical film can provide an increased bending resistance to the frame. The increase in bending resistance of the frame also increases the bending resistance of a display which incorporates the backlight assemblies. The optical film can be in tension after being affixed to the frame, and the tension in the film also can result in a flatter film surface with less sag. The film can be placed in tension prior to being affixed to the frame, the frame can be elastically distorted prior to affixing the film to impart tension to the film, or the film can develop tension by shrinkage after being affixed to the frame. | 02-24-2011 |
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20090146658 | Microcoil Magnetic Resonance Detectors - The present invention provides microcoil magnetic resonance based modules, detection devices, and methods for their use. | 06-11-2009 |
20100324672 | Accommodating Intraocular Lens Having Peripherally Actuated Deflectable Surface and Method - An accommodating intraocular lens is provided in which a deflectable lens element is anchored to a substrate along its optical axis to define a fluid filled space. Fluid-filled haptics disposed in fluid communication with the space vary the fluid volume in the space responsive to forces applied by the ciliary muscles, thereby causing the periphery of the lens element to deflect relative to the substrate and changing the optical power of the intraocular lens. | 12-23-2010 |
20120112744 | MICROCOIL MAGNETIC RESONANCE DETECTORS - The present invention provides microcoil magnetic resonance based modules, detection devices, and methods for their use. | 05-10-2012 |
20130268070 | Accommodating Intraocular Lenses - An accommodating intraocular lens is provided in which a deflectable lens element is anchored to a substrate along its optical axis to define a fluid filled space. Fluid-filled haptics disposed in fluid communication with the space vary the fluid volume in the space responsive to forces applied by the ciliary muscles, thereby causing the periphery of the lens element to deflect relative to the substrate and changing the optical power of the intraocular lens. | 10-10-2013 |
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20090005865 | Post-Implant Accommodating Lens Modification - Post-implant modifications to an intraocular lens. In some embodiments the lens is an accommodating intraocular lens. | 01-01-2009 |
20100228346 | Accommodating Intraocular Lens - An accommodating intraocular lens is provided that having optical parameters that are altered in-situ using forces applied by the ciliary muscles, in which a lens body carries an actuator separating two fluid-filled chambers having either the same index of diffraction or different indices of refraction, actuation of the actuator changing the relative volumes of fluid within an optic element of the lens and altering the optical power of the lens. | 09-09-2010 |
20110262893 | SEPARATING TARGET ANALYTES USING ALTERNATING MAGNETIC FIELDS - The invention generally relates to using magnetic particles and alternating magnet fields to separate a target analyte from a sample. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve contacting a sample with magnetic particles including first moieties specific for a target analyte, thereby forming target/particle complexes in the sample, flowing the sample through a channel including second moieties attached to at least one surface of the channel, applying alternating magnetic fields to the flowing sample to result in target/particle complexes being brought into proximity of the surface to bind the second moieties and unbound particles remaining free in the sample, binding the target/particle complexes to the second moieties, and washing away unbound particles and unbound analytes of the sample. | 10-27-2011 |
20110262925 | METHODS FOR ISOLATING A TARGET ANALYTE FROM A HETEROGENEOUS SAMPLE - The invention generally relates to methods of using compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen, and magnets to isolate a pathogen from a body fluid sample. | 10-27-2011 |
20110262926 | EXTRACTING LOW CONCENTRATIONS OF BACTERIA FROM A SAMPLE - The invention generally relates to conducting an assay on a sample that isolates a bacterium from the sample, in which the assay isolates as low as about 1 CFU/ml of bacteria in the sample. | 10-27-2011 |
20110262927 | ANALYZING BACTERIA WITHOUT CULTURING - The invention generally relates to conducting an assay on a sample that isolates a pathogen from the sample and allows for analysis of the pathogen with minimal (i.e., at most | 10-27-2011 |
20110262932 | COMPOSITIONS - The invention generally relates to compositions that include magnetic particles bound to pathogens in a body fluid. | 10-27-2011 |
20110263833 | COMPOSITIONS FOR ISOLATING A TARGET ANALYTE FROM A HETEROGENEOUS SAMPLE - The invention generally relates to compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen. | 10-27-2011 |
20130316355 | METHODS FOR ISOLATING A TARGET ANALYTE FROM A HETEROGENEOUS SAMPLE - The invention generally relates to methods of using compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen, and magnets to isolate a pathogen from a body fluid sample. | 11-28-2013 |
20140170652 | TARGET CAPTURE SYSTEM - The invention generally relates to a system for isolating or separating a target from a sample. In certain aspects, processes performed by the target capture system include introducing a plurality of magnetic particles, in which a plurality of the particles include at least one binding moiety specific to a target, into a sample to form at least one target/particle complex and applying a magnetic field to isolate the magnetic particle/target complexes from the sample. The process starts at inputting a sample into the system and ends at delivering a capture target or nucleic acids of the target into a container for further analysis. | 06-19-2014 |
20140170667 | METHODS FOR AMPLIFYING NUCLEIC ACID FROM A TARGET - The invention generally relates to methods for amplifying nucleic acid from a target. In certain aspects, methods of the invention involve obtaining a sample including a target, conducting an assay that isolates the target from the sample, lysing the target to release the nucleic acid, and amplifying the released nucleic acid such that the amplifying occurs in the presence of debris from the lysing step. | 06-19-2014 |
20150212079 | METHODS FOR ISOLATING A TARGET ANALYTE FROM A HETEROGENEOUS SAMPLE - The invention generally relates to methods of using compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen, and magnets to isolate a pathogen from a body fluid sample. | 07-30-2015 |