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Barry M. Fell, Hummelstown, PA US
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| 20080281335 | System and Method For Shaping an Anatomical Component - A system and method for shaping an anatomical component having an existing shape and a desired reconstructed shape include an applicator for depositing material on the anatomical component and a controller in communication with the applicator, the controller controlling the deposition of material by the applicator based on a relationship between the applicator and the existing shape of the anatomical component to create the desired reconstructed shape. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080294269 | System and Method for Joint Restoration by Extracapsular Means - A system and method for joint restoration by extracapsular means includes an actuator operable to apply a force to a portion of a bone to effect a change | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090012615 | SURGICALLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH ACTIVE COMPONENT - A prosthesis for surgical implantation into a knee joint compartment between a femoral condyle and its corresponding tibial plateau includes a body including a bottom face, an opposed top face, and a peripheral edge extending between the top and bottom faces. The body has a first portion and at least one second portion, wherein at least one second portion is configured to store and release at least one active component into the knee joint compartment without degradation of the mechanical function of the prosthesis. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090118830 | Surgically Implantable Knee Prosthesis - A prosthesis is provided for implantation into a knee joint compartment between a femoral condyle and its corresponding tibial plateau without requiring bone resection. The prosthesis includes a body having a generally elliptical shape in plan and a pair of opposed surfaces where one of the surfaces is generally concave. The body further includes an exterior portion and an interior portion, where the exterior portion is constructed from a higher modulus material than the interior portion such that the body is at least slightly deformable. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100076562 | Proportioned Surgically Implantable Knee Prosthesis - A unicompartmental knee prosthesis for implantation into a knee joint includes a body having a substantially elliptical shape in plan and a pair of contoured opposed faces including a first face and a second face, the second face including a concave surface. The prosthesis is free of fixation to a permanent location within the knee joint compartment. A peripheral edge extends between the faces and has a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body including a cusp comprising a reverse curve downward from to the first face at one of the first and second ends. A first dimension D is defined by the first end and the second end, and a second dimension F is defined by the first side and the second side. A coordinate system origin (CSO) is at an intersection of D and F, the body including a material thickness at the CSO, where the dimension F is from about 0.25 to about 1.5 of the dimension D. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100249941 | SURGICALLY IMPLANTABLE KNEE PROSTHESIS WITH CAPTURED KEEL - A unicompartmental knee prosthesis for implantation in a knee joint between a femoral condyle and a corresponding tibia plateau is provided including a generally elliptical body having opposed femoral and tibial face, the body having an anterior end and a posterior end. A keel is provided on the tibial face having a generally anterior-posterior orientation, the keel having an anterior end and a posterior end, where the keel posterior end includes a distal posterior portion that extends farther toward the body posterior end compared with a proximal posterior portion of the keel posterior end. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100331892 | BONE REPAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A bone repair system and method for percutaneously fixing a first bone segment to a second bone segment, such as rib bone segments, in a body of a patient include drilling a first hole through the first bone segment and a second hole through the second bone segment, and feeding a first tether through the first hole and a second tether through the second hole, each tether having a proximal end and a distal end. The first and second tether distal ends are withdrawn from the body while the first and second tether proximal ends have not passed through the first and second bone segments, respectively. A reinforcing member, such as a bone plate, having first and second openings, is passed onto the first and second tether distal ends, and the reinforcing member is pulled into engagement with the first and second bone segments guided by the tethers. The reinforcing member is secured to the first bone segment with a first fastener assembly through the first hole and the first opening and to the second bone segment with a second fastener assembly through the second hole and the second opening to fix the first bone segment to the second bone segment. | 12-30-2010 |
Brandon Fell, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20100130996 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATING A CATHETER SHAFT - A catheter for performing a procedure at a treatment site in the lumen of a blood vessel. The catheter includes an elongate tubular shaft having a proximal bend, a distal bend and a hinge element. A distal portion of the shaft includes a window extending through the sidewall of the shaft between the hinge element and the distal end of the elongate tubular shaft. A working element is disposed within the lumen of the elongate tubular shaft and is configured for performing the procedure through the window at the treatment site. The bends and hinge element are configured to urge the window against a wall of the vessel at the treatment site. | 05-27-2010 |
David A. Fell, Neenah, WI US
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| 20080275415 | Gender-specific, disposable, adult-incontinence articles - Disposable adult-incontinence product designs tailored to the differing anatomical features of a man's body and a woman's body are disclosed. The designs take into account differing ways in which men and women age and typically distribute weight. For example, a disposable, adult-incontinence article adapted to be worn by women may employ different leg-opening shapes, absorbent placement, ornamental features, and/or other characteristics compared to a corresponding article adapted to be worn by men. Also disclosed are ways of packaging and marketing said products to help create public awareness of the disclosed arrays of gender-specific, disposable, adult-incontinence articles, as well as individual, gender-specific, disposable, adult-incontinence articles. | 11-06-2008 |
David Arthuf Fell, Neenah, WI US
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| 20090264842 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE SYSTEM - A method for providing a system of absorbent articles including offering a chassis primarily performing a base function, wherein the chassis is an absorbent article; and offering first and second enhancement products, wherein the chassis and the first and second enhancement products are adapted such that the first and second enhancement products may be coupled to the chassis. Further, a method for educating a consumer with regard to various conditions requiring an absorbent article including providing first and second packages, each including a description of a condition and an enhancement product adapted to address the conditions; allowing the consumer to learn about the conditions and what may be used to address the conditions; and providing a third package including a chassis and description of a base condition, such that the chassis may be combined with the first and/or second enhancement products. | 10-22-2009 |
David Arthur Fell, Neenah, WI US
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| 20090062762 | BODY ADHERING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A feminine care absorbent article has an absorbent structure configured for disposition adjacent a female wearer's vaginal region to absorb bodily fluids discharged by the wearer, and a shell for supporting the absorbent structure at the vaginal region. The shell has a body-facing surface and a garment-facing surface. The body-facing surface has an adhesive thereon for adhering the shell directly to the wearer. The shell has a longitudinal axis, a transverse axis, an anterior region, a posterior region, and a central region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the anterior and posterior regions. The anterior region of the shell includes a longitudinal edge having a longitudinal extent from the transverse axis. The longitudinal extent increases as the longitudinal edge extends transversely outward from the longitudinal axis of the shell. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100292661 | Absorbent Articles with Improved Odor Control - A technique for incorporating odor control agent particles into an absorbent article is provided. More specifically, the odor control particles are “homogenously” distributed (e.g., in a substantially uniform manner) within an airformed fiber matrix of an absorbent core of an absorbent article. An absorbent core containing such a homogeneously distributed odor control particles may possess a greater surface area for contacting malodorous compounds, thereby increasing the likelihood of odor reduction. | 11-18-2010 |
Jay Bradford Fell, Longmont, CO US
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| 20100204240 | Pyridin-2-YL-Amino-1, 2, 4-Thiadiazole Derivatives as Glucokinase Activators for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus - Provided are compounds of Formula (I): wherein R | 08-12-2010 |
Joseph P. Fell, Appleton, WI US
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| 20090299322 | PERSONAL WEAR ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH DISPOSAL TAB - An absorbent article for personal wear has front and back waist regions that are one of permanently attached and releasably attachable to define transversely opposite sides each extending a length Lp from a waist opening to a leg opening of the article. A disposal tab has an attachment region attached to one side of the article and extending a greatest length La along at least a portion of the length Lp of the side. A tab region of the tab extends transversely outward from the attachment region a greatest distance Dt and is attachable to the article in at least the disposal configuration of the article. The greatest length La of the attachment region of the tab is substantially greater than the greatest distance Dt that the tab region extends transversely outward from the attachment region. The greatest length La of the attachment region is in the range of about 35 percent to 100 percent of the length Lp of the side of the article. | 12-03-2009 |
Marty Fell, Siloam Springs, AR US
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| 20100051283 | Subterranean Methods Of Processing Hydrocarbon Fluid-Containing Deposits and Hydrocarbon Recovery Arrangements For Recovering Hydrocarbon-Containing Fluid From Hydrocarbon-Containing Deposits - A subterranean method of processing a hydrocarbon fluid-containing deposit includes, from a subterranean room, providing a borehole into a deposit containing formation fluid comprising fluid hydrocarbon. The borehole has a first end at a wall of the subterranean room, and a second end remote from the subterranean room and received within the deposit. The first end is elevationally lower than the second end. A string of pipe is provided within the borehole from the subterranean room. A cuttings removal fluid is injected from the string of pipe into the borehole and against a wall of the borehole in underbalanced pressure conditions. One of drilling, reaming, or jetting is conducted within the borehole during said injecting of the cuttings removal fluid. Formation fluid comprising fluid hydrocarbon is flowed from the deposit into the borehole during said injecting of the cuttings removal fluid. The injected cuttings removal fluid and the formation fluid within the borehole are flowed at least in part by gravity downhole externally of the string of pipe in underbalanced pressure conditions within the borehole and into the subterranean room. Other implementations and aspects are contemplated. | 03-04-2010 |
Richard G. Fell, San Jose, CA US
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| 20090290790 | Detection of anti aliasing in two-color images for improved compression - A method for identifying anti aliased images of two or three colors makes use of the fact that in most anti-aliasing techniques, the color values of the source images are known with sub-pixel accuracy, e.g., the boundaries of text characters are described with arbitrary high precision and averaging ensures that the destination pixel values are interpolations of the two source colors so that all of the color values of the image lie on a single line, or a single plane, in 3-dimensional color space. | 11-26-2009 |
Roger B. Fell, Avon Lake, OH US
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| 20100222663 | NON-INVASIVE PNEUMOTHORAX DETECTION AND APPARATUS - Provided is a micropower impulse radar (MIR) pneumothorax detector. The detector includes a processor and a handheld MIR scanner. The handheld MIR scanner includes a device housing, an antenna located within the device housing, circuitry that generates MIR signals, and circuitry that processes received echoes of the MIR signals and provides the processed received echoes to the processor. The processor automatically determines whether a pneumothorax is present based on the processed received echoes of the MIR signals. | 09-02-2010 |
Ryan Douglas Fell, San Carlos, CA US
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| 20090028941 | Pulsatile gastric retentive dosage forms - Dosage forms for delayed and pulsed release of therapeutic agents into the stomach are described. The dosage forms are gastric retentive dosage forms that achieve release of the therapeutic agent into the stomach and upper gastrointestinal tract subsequent to administration of the dosage form. The dosage forms find particular use in administration of acid-labile active agents such as proton pump inhibitors, and in treating gastric acid secretion such as gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and nocturnal acid breakthrough (NAB). | 01-29-2009 |
| 20110135728 | GASTRIC RETENTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR EXTENDED RELEASE OF POLYPEPTIDES - Gastric retentive dosage forms for controlled release of polypeptides are described. Methods of treatment using the dosage forms and methods of making the dosage forms are also described. | 06-09-2011 |
Simon Fell, Corte Madera, CA US
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| 20100077468 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EFFICIENT AND COMPLEX DATABASE FUNCTIONALITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods, systems, and apparatus provide efficient and complex database functionality for an electronic device, e.g. a mobile device. These mechanisms and methods for providing efficient and complex database functionality to an electronic device can enable embodiments to provide quick access to certain data using a local application and seamless access within the local application to other data and complex presentation formats that are supplied by a server. The ability of embodiments to provide this hybrid functionality can enable users of the electronic devices to be more productive. | 03-25-2010 |
Simon Fell, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20080288511 | ASYNCHRONOUS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING AN OPERATION ON METADATA - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for asynchronously performing an operation on metadata in the context of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for asynchronously performing an operation on metadata can enable embodiments to allow a subscriber to perform other database service operations, while the aforementioned operation is being performed on the metadata. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature can enable the performance of a larger number of operations on metadata without necessarily interrupting the ability of the subscriber to perform other operations using the on-demand database service. | 11-20-2008 |
Simon Z. Fell, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20100205165 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR QUERYING DATA RELATIONSHIPS OVER A NETWORK - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network. These mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network can enable embodiments to provide the capability to query for more than a single entity at a time. The ability of embodiments to query for more than a single entity at a time can enable improved network throughput, faster response time and more efficient utilization of resources. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110208705 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORING FILE SYSTEM CONTENT IN A MULTI-TENANT ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing file system content in a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for storing file system content in a multi-tenant on-demand database system can enable embodiments to reduce a number of files stored on a file system, avoid copying of all file system content to file system copies, etc. | 08-25-2011 |
Simon Z. Fell, Corte Madera, CA US
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| 20110246434 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BULK UPLOADING OF DATA IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for bulk uploading of data in an on-demand service environment are described. In one embodiment, such a method includes retrieving a bulk transaction request from a transaction queue within a host organization, where the bulk transaction request specifies a plurality of database transactions to be processed against a multi-tenant database system of the host organization. Such a method further includes determining a current computational load of the multi-tenant database system, processing a subset of the plurality of database transactions specified by the bulk transaction request against the multi-tenant database system when the current computational load is below a threshold, and updating a bulk transaction results log based on the subset of the plurality of database transactions processed. Remaining database transactions specified by the bulk transaction request may then be re-queued for later processing. | 10-06-2011 |