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Christopher J. Bloch, Kingwood, TX US
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| 20080236616 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMISSIONING POWER PLANTS - An apparatus and method for commissioning steam turbine generator power plants to advance the cleanliness of the complete steam cycle by the conditioned discharge of steam to the plant surface condenser. | 10-02-2008 |
Curtis Bloch, Draper, UT US
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| 20080275364 | FLASHBACK BLOOD COLLECTION NEEDLE - The invention is a self-venting blood collection needle assembly for the extraction of at least one fluid sample into an evacuated container for laboratory testing, this blood collection needle assembly providing a clear or translucent flashback chamber for blood to flow into, for visualization by the user to confirm successful vein entry. The self-venting mechanism permits escape of air during use, and which, typically, also prevents an outflow of fluid, such as blood. Thus, air under venous pressure will be allowed to escape from the blood collection needle assembly until blood reaches the venting mechanism. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20100094171 | BLOOD COLLECTION SET WITH VENTING MECHANISM - The blood collection set includes an IV needle assembly, a length of flexible plastic tubing extending from the IV needle assembly and a non-patient needle assembly. The set is formed with a venting mechanism that permits an outflow of air, while blocking an outflow of blood or other fluids. Thus, the venting mechanism enables air that had existed in interior portions of the blood collection set to be vented allowing for greater flash visualization on venous entry, and avoids the need to employ a discard tube. | 04-15-2010 |
Curtis Bloch, Sandy, UT US
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| 20090043225 | FLASHBACK BLOOD COLLECTION NEEDLE - The invention is a self-venting blood collection needle assembly for the extraction of at least one fluid sample into an evacuated container for laboratory testing, this blood collection needle assembly providing a clear or translucent flashback chamber for blood to flow into, for visualization by the user to confirm successful vein entry. The self-venting mechanism permits escape of air during use, and which, typically, also prevents an outflow of fluid, such as blood. Thus, air under venous pressure will be allowed to escape from the blood collection needle assembly until blood reaches the venting mechanism. | 02-12-2009 |
Daniel D. Bloch, St. Peters, MO US
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| 20120006845 | Fastener clearing systems - Fastener clearing systems and methods for a fastener delivery system are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes an extractor tool having one or more vacuum generators in fluid communication with a catcher for retaining fasteners during transport. The vacuum generators are selectively activated to draw fasteners into the catcher. A backflow port is formed in the extractor tool and introduces pressurized air into the catcher to dislodge fasteners that adhere to the catcher after the vacuum generators have been deactivated. The backflow port may be formed in a fitting positioned between vacuum generators and securing the vacuum generators to one another. The vacuum generators and fitting may define a common fluid channel opening into a fastener seat adapted to receive a portion of a fastener. | 01-12-2012 |
Douglas R. Bloch, Austin, TX US
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| 20080221956 | PROVIDING AUDIO-GUIDED DEPLOYMENT OF DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A method for providing audio-guided deployment of a data processing system is disclosed. An unpack instruction related to a data processing system in a first container for audio presentation is designated, and one or more position sensors in the first container are queried to determine whether the position sensors are spatially configured for audible presentation of the unpack instruction. In response to determining that the position sensors are not spatially configured for the audible presentation of the unpack instruction, a position sensor error message is audibly presented. One or more radio frequency sensors associated with the first container are queried to determine whether the first container contents are ready for audible presentation of the instruction, and in response to determining that the first container contents are not ready for audible presentation of the unpack instruction, a radio-frequency sensor error message is audibly presented. In response to determining that the first container contents are ready for audible presentation of the unpack instruction, audio-guided deployment of the data processing system is provided by audibly presenting the unpack instruction. | 09-11-2008 |
Elizabeth Bloch, Havertown, PA US
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| 20100292727 | FACE WRINKLE CORRECTION AND STRESS RELIEF DEVICE - An article and method of reducing and correcting facial wrinkles on a person when the person is resting one of its faces on a surface, such as a pillow. The article is secured to the person's head substantially above the face to be protected. The article has a cushioned section having a thickness sufficient to elevate the face a sufficient distance to reduce the pressure on the face from the flat surface when resting thereon. | 11-18-2010 |
Eric Bloch, San Mateo, CA US
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| 20100318623 | Method of Controlling Access to Network Resources Using Information in Electronic Mail Messages - A method and apparatus for controlling access to network resources referenced in electronic mail messages comprises the computer-implemented steps of receiving an electronic mail message that comprises one or more hyperlinks; determining sender information that identifies a sender of the electronic mail message; creating and storing a record that associates the sender information with each of the one or more hyperlinks; receiving a request to access a specified hyperlink among the one or more hyperlinks; retrieving, based on the specified hyperlink, the record; retrieving, based on the sender information associated with the specified hyperlink, sender reputation information associated with the sender; determining, based on the sender reputation information, a particular action among a plurality of allowed actions; and issuing a network request to access the specified hyperlink only when the particular action is allowing user access to the specified hyperlink. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110078309 | Apparatus for Filtering Server Responses - A data processing apparatus, comprising at least one processor and a traffic monitor comprising logic which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform: creating, using forward Domain Name System (DNS) lookups, a mapping of domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses; determining whether a particular domain in the mapping requires handling data traffic to or from the particular domain by performing a particular action; based on the mapping, determining one or more IP addresses that are associated with the particular domain; generating policy for a firewall that instructs the firewall to perform the particular action upon receiving a particular request; wherein the particular request specifies a particular IP address that is within the particular domain. | 03-31-2011 |
Kenneth D. Bloch, Brookline, MA US
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| 20100093760 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING COMPOUNDS THAT MODULATE CELL SIGNALING AND METHODS EMPLOYING SUCH COMPOUNDS - The invention provides methods for identifying compounds that modulate cell signaling, as well as therapeutic methods that employ such compounds. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110053930 | INHIBITORS OF THE BMP SIGNALING PATHWAY - The present invention provides small molecule inhibitors of BMP signaling. These compounds may be used to modulate cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and thus may be useful for treating diseases or conditions associated with BMP signaling, including inflammation, cardiovascular disease, hematological disease, cancer, and bone disorders, as well as for modulating cellular differentiation and/or proliferation. | 03-03-2011 |
Lewis Bloch, Catonsville, MD US
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| 20100306169 | Apparatus, Method and System For Improving Application Performance Across a Communication Network - An apparatus, method and system to enable dynamic replication of Web servers across a wide area in response to access patterns by Web clients as well as in response to customer requests. The method for dynamically replicating one or more parent nodes on a network in response to a user request by a policy manager. The policy manager transmits the user request to an event module. The event module transmits the user request to a data consistency module, wherein the data consistency module maintains integrity of the data on the parent node. The event system communicates with a resource management module to ensure proper utilization of network resources, and transmits the routing request to a request routing module for appropriately balancing the network load. The request routing module is capable of providing optimal routing based on the network resources. | 12-02-2010 |
Nathan D. Bloch, Cherry Hill, NJ US
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| 20110214976 | WATERPROOF OPERATING DEVICE - A waterproof operating device has a pressure resistant housing including a support surface with one or more openings therethrough; a cover plate having corresponding openings therethrough; an elastic member having opposing major surfaces facing the support and cover plates with a protrusion extending from one major surface through an opening in the support surface. A button shaft extends through each pair of aligned openings into the protrusion. Each opposing major surface of the elastic member is maintained in direct continuous contact with the cover and support plates from the openings in the support and cover plates outward to beyond an area covered by the head portion of the button. The protrusion is dimensional for the selected elastic material and button dimensions to resist elongation from water pressure at greater than sixty meter depths, sufficient to actuate a switch element proximal to the distal end of the protrusion. | 09-08-2011 |
Ricardo A. Bloch, Scotch Plains, NJ US
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| 20100160196 | Power Transmission Fluids with Improved Viscometric Properties - A copolymer which can be used in power transmission fluids to provide improved viscometric properties is disclosed. The copolymer includes a mixture of alcohols having side chains with an average number of carbons ranging from greater than 8 to less than 12 defined by the following formula: | 06-24-2010 |
Ricardo A. Bloch, Scotch, NJ US
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| 20090143263 | LUBRICANT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A BI-MODAL SIDE-CHAIN DISTRIBUTION LOFI - A lubricant composition is disclosed. The lubricant composition is made up of (a) an API Group III base stock; (b) one or more semi-crystalline viscosity modifier; and (c) one or more LOFIs having a side-chain distribution which satisfies the following requirements: (1) the distribution contains side chains ranging from C | 06-04-2009 |
Robert J. Bloch, Baltimore, MD US
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| 20090280517 | METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS FOR A MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY - The invention relates to the treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis of a muscular dystrophy or myopathy. The present inventors have found that the quantity of mu-crystallin is increased in a muscular dystrophy. In particular, the inventors have found that mu-crystallin is increased in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Based on the inventors' findings, the invention provides a novel means for the treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis of a muscular dystrophy or myopathy. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20120010531 | Small-Animal Unit for Muscle Injury, Muscle Testing and Muscle Training in Vivo - The invention provides a system for measuring contractile torque of skeletal muscles, performing muscle training programs, and inducing contraction-induced injury. The system is versatile and precise to measure contractile torque, train muscles, and perform contraction-induced injury protocols on living rodents. The system also allows for repeated studies of the same animal over time, thus resembling longitudinal human studies, minimizing the effect of animal-to-animal variability, and reducing the total number of animals that need to be studied. | 01-12-2012 |
Stephanie Bloch, Rush, NY US
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| 20080247023 | Method and apparatus for maximum light intensity for an optical illumination system - An illumination system using, in place of a more typical beam splitter, two right angle triangular prisms that are aligned to each other along their respective hypotenuses to form a cube, but without any reflective materials being used at their interface, and with the two halves separated by some distance so as to create an open/air gap between the two halves. When the upper/lower cube faces are normal to an optical axis of the illumination system, the cube structure reflects virtually all of the illumination from a transverse illumination source using total internal reflection so that said illumination is reflected out of the cube along the system's optical axis. However, rotating the cube structure past the critical angle eliminates total internal reflection and allows the cube to transmit almost all illumination entering the cube out of the cube parallel to the system's optical axis. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080304168 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOCAL LENGTH STABILIZATION USING ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL - An optical metrological system having a heat-generating light source coaxially mounted near a heat-sensitive lens. The system uses a temperature sensor to monitor the lens temperature and a heating element to heat the lens such that the lens operating temperature is greater than a maximum operating temperature of the light source in order to stabilize the focal length of the lens. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090096912 | High performance front objective for video metrological system - This high performance front objective lens system intended primarily for use with a video inspection apparatus has a first lens set in the form of a doublet, with a second lens set intermediate the first lens set and the imaging plane. The second lens set includes a doublet and an adjacent lens. The overall system has an effective focal length of 50 mm, a front focal length of 38.75 mm, and a numerical aperture greater than 0.2. Further, the material of the doublets is chosen to have a small, gradual transition in index between the elements of the lens and the cement, minimizing back reflections and thereby eliminating the need for index matching coatings on the cemented surfaces of the doublets. Finally, the imaging plane of the system matches that of standard ring lights used with video inspection apparatus. | 04-16-2009 |
Stephanie M. Bloch, Rush, NY US
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| 20090153860 | OPTICAL COMPARATOR USING LIGHT- EMITTING DIODE LIGHT SOURCES - The invention provides a source of illumination comprising a base having mounted thereon at least one light-emitting diode light source, a parabolic reflector mounted on the base and surrounding the at least one light-emitting diode, and a transmissive diffuser at the narrow end of the parabolic reflector. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100039714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOCAL LENGTH STABILIZATION USING ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL - An optical metrological system having a heat-generating light source coaxially mounted near a heat-sensitive lens. The system uses a temperature sensor to monitor the lens temperature and a heating element to heat the lens such that the lens operating temperature is greater than a maximum operating temperature of the light source in order to stabilize the focal length of the lens. | 02-18-2010 |
Steven C. Bloch, Ramsey, MN US
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| 20100277043 | Configurable modular articulating table and credenza assembly - A furniture assembly and method for a configurable modular articulating table and credenza. In some embodiments, the furniture assembly includes an articulating table having a pair of elongate table segments each individually and pivotally secured to a stationary base segment and containing arcuate edges located opposite the base segment. The furniture assembly also includes a pair of symmetrical credenza end table units, each having a top surface with a curved front edge and a linear rear edge. The furniture assembly further includes a modular unit having a top surface of modified trapezoidal shape including an arc-shaped front edge and a linear back edge, said modular unit shaped to interchangeably and selectively couple in abutting relation with the articulating table and the pair of symmetrical credenza units. | 11-04-2010 |
Will Bloch, White Salmon, WA US
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| 20080213859 | Methods for the Reduction of Stutter in Microsatellite Amplification - The invention provides a method for reducing stutter in the amplification of a microsatellite comprising the steps of providing a sample comprising a microsatellite having a G+C content of 50% or less; contacting the sample with at least one enzyme having nucleic acid polymerase activity; and incubating the sample with the enzyme for a sufficient amount of time and under conditions sufficient to amplify the microsatellite; wherein the incubation is performed in the presence of an amount of betaine, sorbitol or mixtures thereof, effective to reduce stutter relative to the amount of stutter observed in the absence of betaine and/or sorbitol. The invention also provides compositions containing betaine and/or sorbitol, kits for amplifying microsatellites having a G+C content of 50% or less, and methods of using all of the foregoing. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090269815 | LINEAR AMPLIFICATION OF SHORT NUCLEIC ACIDS - The present teachings provide novel methods for amplifying short nucleic acids. In some embodiments, the present teachings provide novel methods for linearly amplifying a collection of micro RNAs by using temperature cycling during a reverse transcription reaction. The cycling can comprise at least 20 cycles of an annealing temperature segment of 10° C.-30° C., and a denaturation temperature segment of 35° C.-60° C. In some embodiments, the temperature cycled reaction can comprise an osmolyte. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110143352 | Methods for the Reduction of Stutter in Microsatellite Amplification - The invention provides a method for reducing stutter in the amplification of a microsatellite comprising the steps of providing a sample comprising a microsatellite having a G+C content of 50% or less; contacting the sample with at least one enzyme having nucleic acid polymerase activity; and incubating the sample with the enzyme for a sufficient amount of time and under conditions sufficient to amplify the microsatellite; wherein the incubation is performed in the presence of an amount of betaine, sorbitol or mixtures thereof, effective to reduce stutter relative to the amount of stutter observed in the absence of betaine and/or sorbitol. The invention also provides compositions containing betaine and/or sorbitol, kits for amplifying microsatellites having a G+C content of 50% or less, and methods of using all of the foregoing. | 06-16-2011 |
William Bloch, White Salmon, WA US
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| 20120003698 | LINEAR AMPLIFICATION OF SHORT NUCLEIC ACIDS - The present teachings provide novel methods for amplifying short nucleic acids. In some embodiments, the present teachings provide novel methods for linearly amplifying a collection of micro RNAs by using temperature cycling during a reverse transcription reaction. The cycling can comprise at least 20 cycles of an annealing temperature segment of 10° C.-30° C., and a denaturation temperature segment of 35° C.-60° C. In some embodiments, the temperature cycled reaction can comprise an osmolyte. | 01-05-2012 |