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20120167317 | Floor Cleaning Apparatus with Integrated Dispensing and Containment Rolls - A floor cleaning apparatus is provided. The floor cleaning apparatus includes a roller arrangement for carrying rolls of soiled and unsoiled cleaning media thereon. The floor cleaning apparatus also includes an actuation arrangement operable to simultaneously unwind unsoiled cleaning media and wind soiled cleaning media. | 07-05-2012 |
20120167918 | FLOOR CLEANING APPARATUS WITH INTEGRATED DISPENSING AND CONTAINMENT ROLLS - A floor cleaning apparatus is provided. The floor cleaning apparatus includes a roller arrangement for carrying rolls of soiled and unsoiled cleaning media thereon. The floor cleaning apparatus also includes an actuation arrangement operable to simultaneously unwind unsoiled cleaning media and wind soiled cleaning media. | 07-05-2012 |
20130171904 | BUBBLE MAKING WAND - A bubble wand device that includes an elongated handle and a pair of helical coils with a pair of smooth surface wires, a center core and a hollow space. The pair of helical coils are wound and placed in a circular configuration and provide a tapered surface to allow a bubble making solution to adhere to the hollow space between the pair of helical coils, with the center core providing a reservoir to retain the bubble making solution. The bubble wand device also includes a plurality of inner spires that protrudes from the center core of the pair of helical coils where the inner spires increase bubble production from the pair of helical coils which suspend the bubble making solution. | 07-04-2013 |
20130186289 | LEMON JUICER DEVICE - The present invention is a lemon juicer device to juice a half lemon that includes a bottom spoon-shaped base with a cup portion that includes 4 metal cutting blades and a plurality of apertures disposed on the cup portion and a handle portion, a top spoon-shaped press with a cup portion that includes a plurality of slots that correspond to the cutting blades and a handle portion and an ejector plate disposed in the front of the cup portion of the bottom spoon-shaped press. There is also an attachment indentation and an attachment protrusion where the attachment indentation and the attachment protrusion can be mated and snapped together to secure the cup portion of the bottom spoon-shaped base and the cup portion of the top spoon-shaped press together and a hinge that swingably attaches the bottom spoon-shaped base to the top spoon-shaped press. | 07-25-2013 |
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20140379421 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes calculating, with a processor, an exposure proportion for a category of interest based on visitor exposure minutes and total exposure minutes, calculating a tuning proportion for the category of interest based on household tuning minutes and total tuning minutes, calculating expected exposure minutes for the category of interest based on a product of the total exposure minutes and the exposure proportion, calculating expected tuning minutes for the category of interest based on a product of the total tuning minutes and the viewing proportion, and determining an average visitor parameter (AVP) based on a ratio of the expected exposure minutes and the expected tuning minutes. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380348 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a target set of household categories associated with a target research geography, when a quantity of households within the target research geography representing the target set of household categories does not satisfy a threshold value, generating a first subset of categories and a second subset of categories from the target set of household categories, identifying a first set of households representing the first subset of categories from the target set of household categories and identifying an associated total number of household tuning minutes and a total number of household exposure minutes associated therewith, for each category in the second subset of categories from the target set of household categories, calculating a household tuning proportion and an exposure proportion, the household tuning proportion and exposure proportion based on the total number of household tuning minutes and exposure minutes, respectively, and calculating the panelist behavior probability based on the exposure proportion and the household tuning proportion. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380349 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a household minute credited to a station in a household by a first media meter (MM) device, the first MM device collecting only audio data, determining whether a panelist audience meter device is crediting the station at the same time in the household, when the panelist audience meter device is crediting the same station, associating the household minute with an ambient tuning status, identifying a first automatic gain control (AGC) value and a first code status of the household minute, calculating model coefficients based on the ambient tuning status, the first AGC value and the first code status, and calculating a probability of ambient tuning based on the model coefficients. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380350 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a power status and a first automatic gain control (AGC) value for an exposure minute from a panelist audience meter in a first household, the panelist audience meter comprising a power sensor, identifying a second AGC value and a daypart for a household tuning minute from a first media meter (MM) in the first household, the MM comprising microphones to collect audio data, and calculating model coefficients based on the exposure minute and the household tuning minute to be applied to data from a second MM in a second household, the model coefficients to facilitate a power status probability calculation in the second household devoid of the panelist audience meter having the power sensor. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120029683 | ROBOTIC PICKING LINE FOR SERIALIZED PRODUCTS - Various embodiments are directed to a system for managing an inventory comprising serialized products. A computer system may receive from an intake sensor a first tray identifier describing a first tray present on an intake transport system. The computer system may also associate the first tray identifier with a first serial identifier of a first product unit present on a product transport system and instructing the product transport system, by the computer system, to transport the first product unit to the first tray. Additionally, the computer system may instruct a robot to place the first tray containing the first product unit at a first bin selected from a plurality of robot-accessible bins. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029685 | FULFILLING ORDERS FOR SERIALIZED PRODUCTS - Various embodiments are directed to a method for fulfilling orders from an inventory comprising serialized products. For example, a computer system may receive an order and derive from the order a plurality of products, a unit quantity for each of the plurality of products, and a serial identifier referencing a first product unit of at least one of the plurality of products. At least one of the plurality of products may be a non-reserved product. Also, the computer system may determine a first bin selected from a plurality of non-reserved product bins that is associated with product units of the non-reserved product and generate a pick instruction specifying the first bin and the unit quantity of the non-reserved product specified by the order. The computer system may also instruct a robot to retrieve the first product unit from one of the plurality of robot accessible bins. The robot may be programmed to load product units to the plurality of robot-accessible bins and retrieve product units from the plurality of robot-accessible bins. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030070 | MANAGING AN INVENTORY COMPRISING SERIALIZED PRODUCTS - Various embodiments are directed to a system for managing an inventory comprising serialized products. A robot may be instructed to load a plurality of serialized product units to a plurality of robot-accessible bins such that each of the plurality of robot-accessible bins comprises no more than one serialized product unit. A computer system may receive from a requesting system, an order specifying a serialized product. The computer system may also receive from a data storage system a serial identifier associated with a first unit of the serialized product that is present at one of the plurality of robot-accessible bins and is indicated at the data storage system as being available. The computer system may also write to the data storage system an indication that the first unit is reserved, and transmit to the requesting system a message comprising an indication of the order and an indication of the serial identifier. | 02-02-2012 |
20140358277 | FULFILLING ORDERS FOR SERIALIZED PRODUCTS - Various embodiments are directed to a method for fulfilling orders from an inventory comprising serialized products. For example, a computer system may receive an order and derive from the order a plurality of products, a unit quantity for each of the plurality of products, and a serial identifier referencing a first product unit of at least one of the plurality of products. At least one of the plurality of products may be a non-reserved product. Also, the computer system may determine a first bin selected from a plurality of non-reserved product bins that is associated with product units of the non-reserved product and generate a pick instruction specifying the first bin and the unit quantity of the non-reserved product specified by the order. The computer system may also instruct a robot to retrieve the first product unit from one of the plurality of robot accessible bins. The robot may be programmed to load product units to the plurality of robot-accessible bins and retrieve product units from the plurality of robot-accessible bins. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090186949 | Method for Treating Endothelial and Epithelial Cell Disorders by Administering High Molecular Weight PEG-Like Compounds - The invention provides methods of screening for modulators of microbial PA-I lectin/adhesin activity, including modulators of PA-I expression, as well as the modulators so identified, pharmaceutical compositions and kits containing such modulators. These modulators include soluble and membrane-bound bacterial signaling compounds produced by cells of a host containing a microbial pathogen. Methods for preventing and treating cell disorders, such as epithelial cell disorders including gut-derived sepsis, a burn injury, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, severe neutropenia, toxic colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, enteropathy, transplant rejection, pouchitis, pig belly, | 07-23-2009 |
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20100249064 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING DISEASES AND CONDITIONS INVOLVING HIGHER MOLECULAR WEIGHT HYALURONAN - The present invention concerns methods and compositions involving hyaluronan that has been substantially purified to enrich for hyaluronan with a molecular weight above 500 kilodaltons. This hyaluronan can be used for diseases and conditions characterized or caused by increased vascular permeability or angiogenesis. The higher molecular weight hyaluronan restores vascular integrity and inhibits angiogenesis in embodiments of the invention. | 09-30-2010 |
20110020364 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS INVOLVING PBEF INHIBITORS FOR LUNG INFLAMMATION CONDITIONS AND DISEASES - The present invention concerns methods and compositions involving inhibitors of Pre-B Cell Colony Enhancing Factor (PBEF) for inflammatory conditions and diseases, including acute lung injury (ALI), ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The present invention also concerns biomarkers for inflammation as well as methods for screening for PBEF inhibitors. | 01-27-2011 |
20120316190 | Modulation of Cell Barrier Dysfunction - The invention provides prophylactic and therapeutic methods for administering a μ-opioid receptor antagonist, e.g., N-methylnaltrexone or a salt thereof, to treat cell barrier diseases and disorders, such as endothelial and epithelial cell barrier diseases and disorders, e.g., inflammatory bowel disease. Methods of reducing the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease and the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease are also provided. | 12-13-2012 |
20130079309 | Method Of Treating Acute Lung Injury Using Sphingosine 1 Phosphate Analogs Or Sphingosine 1 Phosphate Receptor Agonists - The invention provides methods for treating or reducing the risk of developing acute lung injury manifested by increased vascular permeability. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising an FTY720 analog or derivative and/or SEW 2871 for use in the disclosed methods. The invention also provides methods for treating or reducing the risk of developing acute lung injury resulting from dysregulation of ceramide/sphingolipid pathway, more specifically, acute lung injury resulting from radiation. | 03-28-2013 |
20140142133 | MODULATION OF CELL BARRIER DYSFUNCTION - The invention provides prophylactic and therapeutic methods for administering a μ-opioid receptor antagonist, e.g., N-methylnaltrexone or a salt thereof, to treat cell barrier diseases and disorders, such as endothelial and epithelial cell barrier diseases and disorders, e.g., sepsis. Methods of reducing at least a symptom of sepsis and the risk of developing sepsis are also provided. | 05-22-2014 |
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20080204201 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205310 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205311 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |