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Adam Birk, Lohman, MO US
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| 20110010980 | ADJUSTABLE SHOOTING RESTS AND SHOOTING REST ASSEMBLIES - Adjustable shooting rests and shooting rest assemblies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a shooting rest includes a rest assembly for supporting a forestock of a firearm. The rest assembly includes a base member and first and second upright members extending from the base member. A position of each of the first and second upright members is independently adjustable with reference to the base member. The shooting rest also includes a support assembly coupled to the rest assembly to move the rest assembly in a first direction and in a second direction. The first and second directions are in a plane generally transverse to a longitudinal axis of the firearm. The shooting rest further includes a base coupled to the support assembly. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110024985 | FIREARM TARGETS WITH REINFORCING FEATURES FOR ENHANCED DURABILITY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE - The present disclosure is directed to target assemblies and targets with reinforcing features for improved durability. One example of such a target can include a target portion that is configured to be struck by a projectile, and a connector portion configured to movably couple the target portion to a support structure. The target also includes a neck portion extending between the target portion and the connector portion, and a reinforcing portion proximate to the neck portion. The reinforcing portion comprises an integral portion of the target that is at least partially deformed to reinforce or otherwise strengthen the neck portion. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110167705 | SHOOTING RESTS WITH ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT ASSEMBLIES - Shooting rests having elevation adjustment assemblies are disclosed herein. One embodiment of the disclosure, for example, is directed to a shooting rest for supporting a firearm having a buttstock spaced apart from a forestock. The shooting rest includes a first base portion carrying a first support for supporting the buttstock and a second base portion coupled to the first base portion and carrying a second support for supporting the forestock. The second base portion includes a body having an opening extending therethrough, and a height adjustment member slidably positioned in the opening. The height adjustment member has a non-circular cross-sectional shape in a plane that is generally transverse to a longitudinal axis of the height adjustment member. The height adjustment member is attached to the second support and configured to adjust a height of the second support. The second base portion includes a biasing member contacting the height adjustment member to at least partially inhibit movement of the height adjustment member through the opening. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110233076 | AMMUNITION STORAGE CONTAINER - An apparatus for storing ammunition. The apparatus is comprised of a first member and a second member. The first member has an interior portion. The second member is configured so that at least a portion of the second member may enter the interior portion of the first member. The first member includes a first element of a securing device and the second member includes a second element of the securing device. The securing device releasably secures the first and second members together. | 09-29-2011 |
Alexander V. Birk, Doylestown, PA US
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| 20090010880 | 2-Amino-2,7-dideoxy-alpha-D-glycero-D-gluco-heptopyranosyl Inhibitors of Positive Sense Single-Stranded RNA Envelope Viruses - The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods comprising the aminoglycoside moiety represented by Formula II for treating and preventing the spread of positive sense single-stranded RNA envelope viral infections. One embodiment of the present invention uses geneticin or its analogs, including 2-amino-2,7-dideoxy-alpha-D-glycero-D-gluco-heptopyranose, as the antiviral agent. The compounds, compositions and methods of the present invention are applicable to infections resulting from Hepatitis C virus, West Nile virus, Yellow Fever virus, Dengue virus, Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus, Equine Arteritis virus, and/or Sindbis virus. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090104171 | Metabolic Enhancement Therapy - A Metabolic Enhancement Therapy nutritional supplement for treating symptoms and conditions such as acute anxiety, hyperactivity, panic attacks, confusion, involuntary movements, sleep disorders, mood disorders, depression, anger, seizures, obsessive-compulsive behavior, unregulated fear, panic, neuronal disorders, autism, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and neuronally based immunologic disorders by administering to a mammal an effective amount of acetyl-L-carnitine, α-lipoic acid, biotin, vitamin B1, L-glutamine, Vitamin B6, taurine, folinic acid, vitamin B12, trimethylglycine, and L-tryptophan. | 04-23-2009 |
Alex V. Birk, Woodhaven, NY US
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| 20100204448 | METHOD AND CARRIER COMPLEXES FOR DELIVERING MOLECULES TO CELLS - The invention relates to carrier complexes and methods for delivering molecules to cells. The carrier complexes comprises a molecule and an aromatic cationic peptide in accordance with the invention. In one embodiment, the method for delivering a molecule to a cell comprises contacting the cell with a carrier complex. In another embodiment, the method for delivering a molecule to a cell comprises contacting the cell with a molecule and an aromatic cationic peptide. | 08-12-2010 |
Daniel Birk, Mchenry, IL US
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| 20120118932 | FASTENER ADVANCE DELAY FOR FASTENER DRIVING TOOL - A nailer includes a power source including a piston reciprocating within a cylinder, a driver blade secured to the piston for common movement relative to a nosepiece, a magazine connected to the nosepiece for feeding fasteners sequentially for being driven into a workpiece by the driver blade, a delay mechanism operatively associated with the magazine and configured for engaging a second fastener and delaying advancement of the subsequent fastener to the nosepiece until the driver blade returns to the pre-firing position after driving a leading fastener. | 05-17-2012 |
Daniel J. Birk, Mchenry, IL US
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| 20110095064 | FUEL LEVEL MONITORING SYSTEM FOR COMBUSTION-POWERED TOOLS - A fuel cell includes a spark initiator configured to initiate spark events, and a fuel level monitoring system configured for monitoring the fuel level in the fuel cell and indicating the monitored fuel level to a user. Included in the fuel level monitoring system is a programmable control unit configured to control the spark initiator and to count the spark events initiated by the spark initiator, to compare a number of spark events with at least two predetermined ranges of spark events, and to determine the fuel level in the fuel cell based on the determinations. An indicator controlled by the programmable control unit is supplied for providing the user with an indication of the fuel level in the fuel cell. | 04-28-2011 |
David E. Birk, Tampa, FL US
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| 20110244570 | VOLUME EXCLUSION AGENT TO ENHANCE FORMATION OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX - A method of enhancing the formation of extracellular matrix in culture. Cells in culture secrete most of the collagen into the media as unprocessed procollagen, i.e., the cells do not convert procollagen to collagen. In contrast, normal extracellular matrix deposition involves procollagen processing to collagen, fibril assembly and deposition into the cell layer to form a collagenous extracellular matrix. The addition of certain growth factors and the addition of a thin layer of a certain volume exclusion agent on top of the cells dramatically enhances the conversion of procollagen to collagen and will increase the amount of collagen and extracellular matrix associated with the cells. This invention advances bioengineering of connective tissues for medical applications that require an extensive and functional extracellular matrix with high tensile strength such as those in the cornea stroma, skin, tendons, ligaments, articular cartilage and the intervertebral disks. | 10-06-2011 |
Iwona Birk, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20090029860 | NOVEL MUTATION INVOLVED IN INCREASED TOLERANCE TO IMIDAZOLINONE HERBICIDES IN PLANTS - The present invention is directed to nucleic acids encoding polypeptides that confer upon a plant tolerance to an imidazolinone and/or other acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) inhibiting herbicide when expressed in the plant. The present invention also provides plants having increased tolerance to an imidazolinone and/or other AHAS-inhibiting herbicide. More particularly, the present invention includes plants containing at least one IMI nucleic acid. The present invention also includes seeds produced by these plants and methods of controlling weeds in the vicinity of these wheat plants. | 01-29-2009 |
Jeffrey H. Birk, Raleigh, NC US
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| 20080305954 | Method of Controlling the Aquatic Weed Hydrilla Verticillata - A method of controlling the aquatic weed Hydrilla verticillata which comprises allowing a herbicidally effective amount of (RS)-2-(4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl)-5-methoxymethylnicotinic acid (imazamox) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof to act on the aquatic weed and/or its aqueous habitat containing seeds or other propagating organs of said aquatic weed. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090011934 | Method for Controlling Aquatic Weeds - The present invention relates to a method for the control of aquatic weeds which comprises applying a herbicidally effective amount of at least one compound of formula (I) | 01-08-2009 |
Martin Birk, Holmdel, NJ US
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| 20090154926 | Highly reliable backbone video distribution architecture - An optical network for providing a plurality of end users with video content, which includes a plurality of video head ends, each coupled to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse optical communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices via a pair of optical fibers arranged in a ring structure to provide a working link and a protection link, each video serving office adapted and arranged for distributing video content to a plurality of end users. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20110063976 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE BYPASS PATHS IN AN INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) NETWORK - Methods and apparatus to manage bypass paths in an Internet protocol (IP) network are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein includes receiving IP traffic at an aggregation router and measuring a bandwidth value of the IP traffic forwarded from the aggregation router to an IP router at a starting node. The example method also includes establishing a first non-routed bypass path between a switch at the starting node and a first switch at a first destination node when a measured traffic throughput value of the IP router at the starting node exceeds a first threshold value, and sending the IP traffic from the aggregation router via the bypass path. | 03-17-2011 |
Martin Birk, Belford, NJ US
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| 20080247034 | Fast Dynamic Gain Control in a Bidirectionally-Pumped Raman Fiber Amplifier - The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain circuitry operates in an opened loop configuration and uses a predetermined function relating a power variation of at least one wavelength region with a pump power adjustment for at least one forward optical pump. Two approximate linear relationships between the input signal power variations and the required pump power adjustments are utilized in controlling the Raman fiber amplifier. Each approximate linear relationship includes at least one linear coefficient that relates a power variation for a specific wavelength region and a power adjustment of a specific Raman pump. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20100296818 | COST EFFECTIVE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION WITH FAST RAMAN TILT TRANSIENT CONTROL - A method for cost-effective optical transmission with fast Raman tilt or other transient event control uses a combination of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman fiber amplifiers (RFAs), where EDFAs are used as the primary optical amplifiers to compensate the span loss while the RFA (advantageously a forward-pumped RFA) is used only in some specific spans with a feed-forward control circuit serving as a fast Raman tilt transient compensator, the RFA also serving as an optical amplifier. A long haul optical transmission system using feed-forward controlled RFA's periodically spaced along its length, for example, when add-drop multiplexing is used, makes full use of the economics of EDFAs and the fast tilt transient control capability of a RFA enabled by an adjustable speed feed-forward or feed-back control technique. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110075130 | Selection of a Signal Input from an Optical Fiber Member - Methods and systems for analyzing optical parameters of a selected optical fiber member are disclosed. A signal input from an optical fiber member may be selected by instructing a corresponding optical separation device. The output from the corresponding optical separation device may be combined with the outputs of other optical separation devices using an optical coupler. A measurement circuit may measure the optical parameter from the output. Proper operation of an optical separation device may be validated by a monitoring circuit. The monitoring circuit may provide an indication to a user or may be processed by a diagnostic processor. A processing circuit may select one of the optical separation devices in order to measure the optical parameter for a corresponding optical fiber member and consequently may instruct an adjustment circuit to cause the selected optical fiber member to conform to a desired value of the optical ameter. | 03-31-2011 |
Peter Daniel Birk, Austin, TX US
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| 20080222697 | Application Server Object-level Security for Distributed Computing Domains - Objects on application servers may be defined into classes which receive different levels of security protection, such as definition of user objects and administrative objects. Domain-wide security may be enforced on administrative objects, which user object security may be configured separately for each application server in a domain. In a CORBA architecture, IOR's for shared objects which are to be secured on a domain-wide basis, such as administrative objects, are provided with tagged components during IOR creation and exporting to a name server. Later, when the IOR is used by a client, the client invokes necessary security measures such as authentication, authorization and transport protection according to the tagged components. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090138951 | Dynamic Cache Lookup Based on Dynamic Data - A system and method for tracking user security credentials in a distributed computing environment. The security credentials of an authenticated user includes not just his unique user identifier, but also a set of security attributes such as the time of authentication, the location where the user is authenticated (i.e., intranet user v. internet user), the authentication strength, and so on. The security attributes are used in access control decisions. The same user can be given different authorization if he has a different security attribute value. Security credentials may be generated either by WebSphere security code or by third party security provider code. This invention stores the user credentials in a distributed cache and provides a system and method to compute the unique key based on the dynamic security credentials for cache lookup | 05-28-2009 |
Robert Henry Birk, Midland, MI US
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| 20090176286 | Process for Fractionating Lignocellulosic Biomass into Liquid and Solid Products - The invention herein is an efficient, flexible biomass fractionation process comprising digesting a lignocellulosic-biomass material at about 120-220° C. and a pH of less than about 4, in an aqueous mixture containing an effective concentration of at least one solvent for lignin, and separating to recover a solid phase that contains a large fraction of the cellulose originally in the starting lignocellulosic material and a liquid phase that contains most of the lignin and hemicellulose originally in the starting lignocellulosic biomass. The process can produce a solid phase that contains at least 75% cellulose and less than 10% lignin. The cellulose-rich solid product can be converted very efficiently to glucose. The solid product can also be used in commercial pulp applications, such as papermaking or fluff pulp. Hemicellulose sugars and lignin can be used directly or converted to other products. | 07-09-2009 |
Sharon W. Birk, Wilmington, DE US
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| 20090019624 | KNIT FABRICS AND BASE LAYER GARMENTS MADE THEREFROM WITH IMPROVED THERMAL PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES - Knit fabrics and military apparel such as T-shirts made therefrom are disclosed. The fabrics are constructed from blended yarns made from an intimate combination of nylon and cotton staple fibers. Such fabrics comprise a weight ratio of cotton to nylon which ranges from about 55:45 to about 85:15, and these fabrics also have a weight ranging from about 3 to about 8 oz/yd | 01-22-2009 |
Tim Birk, Lakewood, CO US
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| 20090012844 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GATHERING AND REPORTING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A CARDHOLDER'S USE OF A PREPAID DEBIT CARD - A method and system for gathering and reporting data associated with a cardholder's use of a prepaid debit card is described. One embodiment receives primary personal data associated with the cardholder in connection with the issuance to the cardholder of the prepaid debit card; causes a financial institution to issue the prepaid debit card; causes a card fulfillment process to be performed; causes the prepaid debit card loaded with a predetermined monetary value to be distributed to the cardholder; receives secondary personal data associated with the cardholder; processes one or more transactions initiated by the cardholder with the prepaid debit card; correlates, in a computerized data processing system, the primary and secondary personal data with transactional data associated with the one or more transactions to generate correlated data; and grants an authorized entity access to at least a portion of the correlated data on an aggregated and non-personally-identifiable basis. | 01-08-2009 |