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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176843 | Multi-compartment grease tray An outdoor cooking grill includes a removeable grease drip pan. The grease drip pan has a number of removable fluid pans designed to collect grease and/or other fluid. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8136517 | Remote oven valve actuator A gas cooking range includes a housing having an upper half section and a lower half section. A gas control valve is operable to control the flow of gas to a burner. The gas control valve is positioned in the lower half section of a housing of the gas cooking range.... | 03/20/2012 |
| D655564 | Two-slice toaster | 03/13/2012 |
| D655126 | Four-slice toaster | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117697 | Patient-support apparatus with a locking deck section A patient-support apparatus includes a patient-support deck movable from a use position to a stowed position. The patient-support deck is configured to engage receivers of the patient-support apparatus to support the deck in a cantilevered configuration. The patient... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109263 | User activated grease tray drain An outdoor cooking grill includes a removable grease drip pan. The grease drip pan has a drain hole and a drain assembly having a plug that is selectively moveable to seal the drain hole. The user may use the drain assembly to drain grease and other liquid collected... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105568 | Vitamin receptor binding drug delivery conjugates The invention describes a vitamin receptor binding drug delivery conjugate, and preparations therefor. The drug delivery conjugate consists of a vitamin receptor binding moiety, a bivalent linker (L), and a drug. The vitamin receptor binding moiety includes vitamins... | 01/31/2012 |
| D653080 | Blade guard | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101977 | Ballasted polycrystalline fuse A polycrystalline fuse includes a first layer of polycrystalline material on a substrate and a second layer of a silicide material on the first layer. The first and second layers are shaped to form first and second terminal portions of a first width joined along a l... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101511 | Method of manufacturing a junction barrier Schottky diode with dual silicides An integrated circuit, including a junction barrier Schottky diode, has an N type well, a P-type anode region in the surface of the well, and an N-type Schottky region in the surface of the well and horizontally abutting the anode region. A first silicide layer is o... | 01/24/2012 |
| D652679 | Removable guard | 01/24/2012 |
| 8069359 | System and method to establish and dynamically control energy consumption in large-scale datacenters or IT infrastructures A system and method for establishing and dynamically controlling energy consumption in large-scale datacenters or IT infrastructures. The system including a primary configuration server, a router coupled to the primary configuration server, and a plurality of power-... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056165 | Inflatable mattress for a bed A support apparatus includes a rotation therapy device, a pulsation therapy device, a dynamic therapy device, and a control system for operating the devices. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8039077 | Fire resistant encapsulated fiberglass products Fiberglass-based materials and fire retardant compositions are described, wherein the fiberglass materials and the fire retardant compositions are encapsulated in a plastic cover. Methods for making encapsulated fiberglass articles are also described. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027472 | Using a trusted-platform-based shared-secret derivation and WWAN infrastructure-based enrollment to establish a secure local channel A system and method for establishing a connection on a mobile computing device. A secret is generated on a trusted platform of the mobile computing device. The secret is transported to a secure channel application. The secure channel application establishes a truste... | 09/27/2011 |
| D645219 | Appliance rack handle | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011629 | Clamping device A clamping device for attaching a piece of first moveable equipment to a piece of second moveable equipment comprising a body, a mounting portion, and an attachment portion. The attachment portion comprising an attachment recess disposed within the body for receivin... | 09/06/2011 |
| D644804 | Appliance rack handle with badge | 09/06/2011 |
| D644500 | Appliance door latch | 09/06/2011 |
| D644480 | Food processor | 09/06/2011 |
| D644479 | Hand blender | 09/06/2011 |
| D644478 | Food chopper | 09/06/2011 |
| D644476 | Slow cooker | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010816 | Method and system for reducing power consumption of active web page content A method and system for reducing power consumption of active web page content includes identifying those threads associated with active advertisement components of the web page and synchronizing the wakeup periods of such threads such that the total number of wakeup... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001421 | Compiler technique for efficient register checkpointing to support transaction roll-back A method and apparatus for efficient register checkpointing is herein described. A transaction is detected in program code. A recovery block is inserted in the program code to perform recovery operations in response to an abort of the first transaction. A roll-back ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7971203 | Method, apparatus and system for dynamically reassigning a physical device from one virtual machine to another A method, apparatus and system enable a virtual machine manager (“VMM”) to dynamically reassign physical devices from one virtual machine (“VM”) to another. The VMM may generate a message to the VM that currently owns the physical device and inform the devic... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7953852 | Method and system for detecting and reducing botnet activity A method and system for detecting and reducing botnet activity includes tracking the number of connections to a destination address over predetermined periods of time. A persistence value is assigned to the destination address based on the number of time periods dur... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7947765 | Binder and wood board product from maillard reactants Binders to produce or promote cohesion in non or loosely assembled matter. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7457404 | Methods of monitoring communications sessions in a contact centre A method of monitoring a communications session between an agent of a contact centre and a user of that contact centre involves analysing data from the session to locate a pattern of data indicative of a situation requiring intervention in the communications session... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7445055 | Trigger-actuated tip-type air valve with integrated wear surface A tip valve assembly for a pneumatic tool with an integrated wear surface. The tool has a portion with an air channel bore housing. The tip valve assembly includes a first valve member having a bore and defining a valve seat about the bore and a second valve member ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7410637 | Transgenic algae for delivering antigens to an animal Delivery systems and methods are provided for delivering a biologically active protein to a host animal. The systems and methods provided include obtaining an algal cell transformed by an expression vector, the expression vector comprising a nucleotide sequence codi... | 08/12/2008 |
| RE40398 | ATM telecommunications systems and method for routing narrow band traffic A telecommunications system comprises an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network having uncommitted bandwidth, and a plurality of adaptive grooming routers (AGR) coupled to the network. The AGRs comprise a group adapted to function as a virtual transit exchange who... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7371367 | Method of treating inflammatory acne vulgaris and rosacea with carbamide peroxide A method of treating inflammatory acne vulgaris or inflammatory acne rosacea comprises the topical application of a formulation incorporating carbamide peroxide in a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. Inflammatory acneform lesions that can be successfully treat wi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349938 | Arithmetic circuit with balanced logic levels for low-power operation An adder circuit includes a plurality of adder stages interconnected in series, with a carry out of each of the adder stages other than a final adder stage being coupled to a carry in of a subsequent one of the adder stages. Carry, generate and propagate signals app... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349683 | Sequence-based positioning technique A target device's location is estimated by a location estimation module (LEM) that comprises a probabilistic model (PM) for a plurality of sample points, each of which comprises a sample location and an expected distribution of signal values at that sample point. Th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347423 | Arrangement in connection with mechanical seal An arrangement in connection with a mechanical seal includes at least two sliding surfaces pressing against each other, which are arranged to seal a gap between a rotating and a non-rotating machining part, and mechanism for providing a sealing fluid flow cooling th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340485 | Information management system for biochemical information An information management system for managing biochemical information (200). The biochemical information (200) comprises data sets (202) and each data set comprises a variable value matrix containing variable values organized as rows and columns... | 03/04/2008 |
| D562991 | Step stool | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330667 | Electrical compensation of optical impairments Optical impairments such as dispersion and fibre nonlinearity are compensated by generating a pre-distorted electrical signal at the transmitter. This signal is modulated onto a carrier signal, so that it is upconverted in frequency. This up converted signal is then... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325248 | Personal firewall with location dependent functionality A computer device is provided with a local security mechanism, a personal firewall, for protecting the computer device from attacks from a foreign network, in addition to or instead of a firewall in the internal network which protects the computer when connected to ... | 01/29/2008 |
