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20130209314 | DUAL OUTLET OXYGENATOR FOR TREATING BLOOD IN AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD CIRCUIT - An apparatus for oxygenating blood including a housing and an oxygenator bundle. The housing defines a primary chamber, a blood inlet port open to the primary chamber, and a blood outlet region. The outlet region includes a blood outlet port, an outlet chamber open to the outlet port, and a partition. The partition establishes spaced apart, first and second passageways from the primary chamber to the outlet chamber. The oxygenator bundle is disposed within the primary chamber. A blood flow path is formed from the blood inlet port, through the oxygenator bundle and to the blood outlet port, and includes first and second outlet flow paths within the outlet chamber via the first and second passageways, respectively. The first and second outlet blood flow paths merge at the blood outlet port. A dual port blood outlet is created, increasing mixing of blood immediately upstream of the outlet port. | 08-15-2013 |
20140050617 | DUAL OUTLET OXYGENATOR FOR TREATING BLOOD IN AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD CIRCUIT - An apparatus for oxygenating blood including a housing and an oxygenator bundle. The housing defines a primary chamber, a blood inlet port open to the primary chamber, and a blood outlet region. The outlet region includes a blood outlet port, an outlet chamber open to the outlet port, and a partition. The partition establishes spaced apart, first and second passageways from the primary chamber to the outlet chamber. The oxygenator bundle is disposed within the primary chamber. A blood flow path is formed from the blood inlet port, through the oxygenator bundle and to the blood outlet port, and includes first and second outlet flow paths within the outlet chamber via the first and second passageways, respectively. The first and second outlet blood flow paths merge at the blood outlet port. A dual port blood outlet is created, increasing mixing of blood immediately upstream of the outlet port. | 02-20-2014 |
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20090146449 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 06-11-2009 |
20100219658 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 09-02-2010 |
20120251228 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 10-04-2012 |
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20090146449 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 06-11-2009 |
20100219658 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 09-02-2010 |
20120251228 | FOLDING CARGO BAY COVER FOR PICKUP TRUCK - A cargo bay cover for a pickup truck includes at least first and second panels hingedly connected to each other. The first panel includes a release mechanism including a lever arm that is movable between a released position and an unreleased position, and a lock that is movable to a locked position preventing movement of the lever arm. The cover includes a resiliently deformable panel latch that is released when the first panel is opened and that is capable of flexing around a keeper if the cover is opened incorrectly. The cover includes a unique mounting clamp for attachment to the pickup truck. A second half of the mounting clamp rides up a shoulder on a first half of the mounting clamp as the halves are drawn together, enabling the to pinch in two directions—one parallel to the drawing force and another perpendicular to the drawing force. | 10-04-2012 |
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20110005967 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LARGE DIAMETER WAFER HANDLING - A front opening semiconductor wafer container for large diameter wafers includes a container portion and a door. The container portion includes a left closed side, a right closed side, a closed back, an open front, and an open interior including a plurality of slots for receiving and containing the wafers. The door is attachable to the container portion to close the open front and selectively latchable to the container portion. The container portion includes a means for accommodating large diameter wafers, particularly 450 mm wafers. Optimized sag control is provided as well as enhanced structural rigidity, and wafer seating features. | 01-13-2011 |
20150068949 | WAFER SHIPPER - A wafer container for holding a spaced stack of thin wafers, comprising an H-bar carrier, a base portion for receiving same, a base wafer cushion attached at the bottom wall positioned below the H-bar carrier, the cushion having a plurality of ribs defining slots each with a bottom wafer seating region having a curvature and a pair of ends, each of the ends having a flare whereby the seating region flares outwardly at the ends, a cover portion that connects with the base portion to form a closed interior. The cover portion having an uppermost wall a wafer cushion secured thereto. The cover wafer cushion having a row of wafer engaging finger portions, the finger portions Y shaped and having two legs extending from a support portion and alternatingly extending from opposing support portions, the finger portions may be S shaped with a wafer pad flared in two direction. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120186012 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TURNING AND POSITIONING A PATIENT - A device for use with a bed having a frame and a supporting surface includes a flexible sheet with a tether strap connected to the sheet and extending from the sheet. The flexible sheet has opposed top and bottom surfaces, with the top surface having a high friction material with a higher coefficient of friction as compared to the bottom surface, which includes a low friction material. The tether strap is configured for connection to the frame of the bed to secure the sheet in place. A system incorporating the flexible sheet may also include an absorbent pad configured to be placed on the top surface of the sheet, where the high-friction top surface resists sliding of the absorbent pad, as well as one or more wedges having a base wall that the wedge rests on and a ramp surface configured to confront the sheet when the wedge is placed under the sheet. The base wall and the ramp surface may also contain high friction and low friction materials, respectively. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186587 | METHOD FOR TURNING AND POSITIONING A PATIENT - A device for use with a bed having a frame and a supporting surface includes a flexible sheet with a tether strap connected to the sheet and extending from the sheet. The flexible sheet has opposed top and bottom surfaces, with the top surface having a high friction material with a higher coefficient of friction as compared to the bottom surface, which includes a low friction material. The tether strap is configured for connection to the frame of the bed to secure the sheet in place. A system incorporating the flexible sheet may also include an absorbent pad configured to be placed on the top surface of the sheet, where the high-friction top surface resists sliding of the absorbent pad, as well as one or more wedges having a base wall that the wedge rests on and a ramp surface configured to confront the sheet when the wedge is placed under the sheet. The base wall and the ramp surface may also contain high friction and low friction materials, respectively. | 07-26-2012 |
20120278983 | TOILET BOWL TRAPPING DEVICE - A trapping device for trapping non-dispersing cloths in a toilet bowl is disclosed. The trapping device comprises a strap and a plurality of hooks. The trapping device may be installed in a trapway of the toilet bowl. The strap has a first end, a second end, and a middle portion, wherein the first end includes a first tab extending perpendicular to the strap and the second end includes a second tab extending perpendicular to the strap, and the middle portion is rounded. The plurality of hooks extend from an inner wall of the strap. The strap is made of a strap material that is resilient to bend and springs back to its previous shape, such as a stainless steel or a high density polyethylene. | 11-08-2012 |
20140304918 | Method and System for Turning and Positioning a Patient - A device for use with a bed having a frame and a supporting surface includes a flexible sheet with a tether strap connected to the sheet and extending from the sheet. The flexible sheet has opposed top and bottom surfaces, with the top surface having a high friction material with a higher coefficient of friction as compared to the bottom surface, which includes a low friction material. The tether strap is configured for connection to the frame of the bed to secure the sheet in place. A system incorporating the flexible sheet may also include an absorbent pad configured to be placed on the top surface of the sheet, where the high-friction top surface resists sliding of the absorbent pad, as well as one or more wedges having a base wall that the wedge rests on and a ramp surface configured to confront the sheet when the wedge is placed under the sheet. The base wall and the ramp surface may also contain high friction and low friction materials, respectively. | 10-16-2014 |
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20090119800 | METHODS FOR INCREASING STARCH CONTENT IN PLANTS - Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in green tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating me activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in green tissues and exhibit a starch excess phenotype. In one embodiment the method involves manipulating a monocot plant to down-regulate the activity of a starch degradation enzyme. The plants are useful for improving the yield of free sugars from plant biomass and increase dried green tissue storage stability. | 05-07-2009 |
20100071092 | METHODS AND GENETIC CONSTRUCTS FOR MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN COMPOSITION OF CORN COBS - Expression cassettes causing specific regulatory control of transgene expression in plants, wherein the expression cassettes include regulatory sequences from the MADS gene family for expression of recombinant gene products in the reproductive tissue of plants for the purpose of generating maize plants with altered lignin content of the cobs. | 03-18-2010 |
20100218278 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED STRESS TOLERANCE - A method of improving the vigor or yield of a crop plant is disclosed herein. The method involves introgressing a transgenic event comprising transgenes that encode an insecticidal protein and selectable marker protein into a crop plant, wherein the transgenic event and/or a protein thereof modulates in a transgenic crop plant tolerance to at least one abiotic stress condition when grown in a location essentially free of an insect pest population that is susceptible to the insecticidal protein. | 08-26-2010 |
20130273611 | XYLANASES ACTIVE DURING PRETREATMENT OF CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - Compositions and methods are provided for treating lignocellulosic material with a xylanase enzyme having xylanase activity. The enzyme is stable and active at increased pHs and temperatures. The present invention therefore provides methods for hydrolyzing lignocellulosic material, especially cellulose and hemicellulose, which are major components of the cell wall of non-woody and woody plants. The methods for hydrolyzing cellulose and hemicellulose can be used on any plant, wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. | 10-17-2013 |
20150203860 | METHODS FOR INCREASING STARCH CONTENT IN PLANTS - Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in green tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating me activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in green tissues and exhibit a starch excess phenotype. In one embodiment the method involves manipulating a monocot plant to down-regulate the activity of a starch degradation enzyme. The plants are useful for improving the yield of free sugars from plant biomass and increase dried green tissue storage stability. | 07-23-2015 |
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20130297368 | UPDATING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THROUGH SALES PLAYBOOK ACTIVITIES - As plays, stages and other playbook elements are processed or completed in the sales playbook, fields of the customer relationship management system are updated by the playbook system according to predefined update rules. Thus, updating of the customer relationship management system is no longer done separately and manually from activities driven by the sales playbook, and the consistency of data in the two systems is improved. In turn, because the sales playbook is driven by data in the customer relationship management system, activity in the sales playbook can dynamically drive further actions in the sales playbook. | 11-07-2013 |
20130305173 | RULES LIBRARY FOR SALES PLAYBOOKS - Rules created in a computerized sales playbook system are stored in a rules library. Rules can be shared among playbooks, stages, plays, content and other playbook elements. Any playbook element can be associated with one or more rules. Such rules include one or more conditions that trigger the rule. If the conditions are met, then a playbook element is enabled for use by the user. Rules can be selected from the rules library as the playbook is being created. For example, when adding a play or a content item to a play, a user is prompted to add a rule to be associated with the playbook element. If the user adds a rule, an interface is presented allowing the user to select an existing rule from the rules library or create a new rule. If a new rule is created, it is added to the rules library. | 11-14-2013 |
20130325532 | METRICS BASED ON CONTENT USAGE OF SALES PLAYBOOKS - By combining information from a CRM system about changes in status of entities, such as customers, leads, and the like, with information about usage of a sales playbook and content related to such playbook usage, metrics describing the effectiveness of content can be determined. | 12-05-2013 |
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20110216162 | Multi-View Video Format Control - Techniques for multi-view video format control are provided. In some embodiments, a display video format supported by a display panel is determined. A video format code is extracted from a coded bitstream in which a plurality of images is encoded in two or more source video formats. The video format code identifies a source video format in which a set of images in the plurality of images is encoded. A video format filter is selected to modify the set of images encoded in the source video format to generate another set of images encoded in the display video format. The other set of images encoded in the display video format is sent to the display panel. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221864 | Multiscalar Stereo Video Format Conversion - Techniques for converting 3D images using alpha maps are described. A left-view image and a right-view image may be determined from media data received by a 3D display system. An alpha map specifying a plurality of operations for a plurality of locations that correspond to the first plurality of locations in the images may also be determined. The plurality of operations specified in the alpha map may be applied by the 3D display system to process the left-view and right-view images, and to generate, based on the left-view and right-view images, a third image in an appropriate 3D format. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222835 | Application Tracks in Audio/Video Containers - Techniques for providing application tracks in a media data container are described. An application descriptor may be extracted from a coded bitstream. The coded bitstream comprises media data to be played by a media presentation system. The application descriptor identifies an application archive (i) that is retrievable by the media presentation system from one or more sources and (ii) that is required by the media presentation system at a set media time associated with the media data. While playing the media data, the media presentation system causes retrieving all of the application archive from the one or more sources before the set media time. | 09-15-2011 |
20120098943 | Modifying Images for a 3-Dimensional Display Mode - Modifying images for a 3-dimensional display mode includes receiving a third image encoded for a 3-dimensional display mode, receiving a first image not encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, modifying the first image to generate a second image encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, and displaying the third image and the second image in the 3-dimensional display mode. | 04-26-2012 |
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20110219067 | Internetworking Domain and Key System - A DNS component functions privately in relation to a group of client devices, each associated with a unique URL maintained with the DNS component that privately identifies the devices within the group. The URL identifies a hierarchy of private domains enforced within the group which, at least implicitly, represents private relationships therein between the devices. Network rules are applied over the group based on the private relationships or the private domains. The devices are securely authenticated within the group. A content sharing service component allows devices within the group to access information content associated with other group devices based, at least partially, on the devices' URLs. A private IP based internet allows group devices secure access to the group from external networks and free access to other devices within the group. | 09-08-2011 |
20120030316 | Unified Media Content Directory Services - A unified media content directory may be created for multiple computing devices that store media content. These computing devices may be in the same network domain or span across different network domains. These computing devices may provide their media content through the unified media content directory based in part on standard technologies. A client that has a limited security permission may be able to access the unified media content directory and the media content identified in the unified media content directory in an intuitive, consistent manner, no matter where the client may be located, assuming the client has adequate digital rights for the media content the client. Additionally, load conditions of the media content servers may be monitored. A load balancing algorithm and high availability for accessing a piece of media content may be provided, if the media content can be accessed through more than one media content server. | 02-02-2012 |
20130337793 | BUNDLED MOBILE DEVICE PURCHASE SYSTEM - Generally, this disclosure relates to a bundled mobile device purchase system. The system may include a mobile device and a bundle service. The mobile device may include transponder circuitry configured to receive and store a bundle identifier including an application identifier related to an application, the bundle identifier provided to the transponder circuitry during a transaction that includes purchasing the mobile device and the application. The mobile device may further include memory circuitry configured to receive and store the application after the transaction. The bundle service may include a bundle download module configured to provide the application to the mobile device in response to receiving the application identifier from the mobile device. | 12-19-2013 |
20140096270 | SECURE DATA CONTAINERS AND DATA ACCESS CONTROL - Various embodiments are generally directed to creating, sharing and various aspects of accessing information that is digitally stored in a data container on one or more computing devices. An apparatus comprises a processor circuit and a storage communicatively coupled to the processor circuit and storing a first sequence of instructions operative on the processor circuit to receive a signal indicating an access to a data container stored in the storage and comprising a protected data and a second sequence of instructions; and execute the second sequence of instructions, the second sequence of instructions operative on the processor circuit to examine security data associated with the apparatus and stored in the storage, and determine whether to grant access to the protected data based on the examination. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein. | 04-03-2014 |
20140184266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHIP SELF DEACTIVATION - In some embodiments, provided is a processor chip including self deactivation logic to deactivate the processor chip after a threshold of qualified events have been monitored. | 07-03-2014 |