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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182639 | Weight applicator for a wheel and method for utilizing the same A weight applicator for a wheel of a tire-wheel assembly is disclosed. The weight applicator includes an arm portion and an applicator portion connected to the arm portion. The applicator includes a radially-extending flange portion. The radially-extending flange po... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660095 | Food container | 05/22/2012 |
| D660094 | Food container | 05/22/2012 |
| D660093 | Food container | 05/22/2012 |
| D660092 | Food container | 05/22/2012 |
| D659976 | Article of footwear | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179930 | Phase control by active thermal adjustments in an external cavity laser A wavelength tuneable external-cavity laser module comprises a gain medium in thermal contact with a thermally stabilized substrate; an end mirror, and a phase element for controlling the phase of the optical beam and being positioned within the external cavity betw... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176960 | System for transporting and manipulating tires and wheels A factory layout including a track circuit, one or more wheeled carts for traversing the track circuit and a tire/wheel assembly carried by the wheeled cart. One or more work stations can be positioned at locations along the track circuit. Various wheeled cart embod... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659378 | Articles of footwear | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173670 | Methods of using substituted isoxazolo pyridinones as dissociated glucocorticoids A method for treating a subject having an inflammatory or auto-immune disease with a substituted isoxazolo pyridinone. Also, a method for administering a substituted isoxazolo pyridinone to a cell to retain or increase glucocorticoid receptor transrepression activit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172765 | Method of assessment of airway variability in airway hyperresponsiveness The invention relates to a method of assessing airway variability in airway responsiveness or asthma by measuring the variation of resistance (Rrs) by a forced oscillation technique utilizing either a single or a plurality of input frequencies during a plurality of ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172636 | Playground hoop-holding apparatus A toy-holding apparatus for securely holding at least two playground toys, such as hoops or wands, in a predetermined relationship to one another includes a first hoop grip adapted to releasably grip a first playground hoop and a second hoop grip adapted to releasab... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659221 | Accessory gun rail | 05/08/2012 |
| D658867 | Footwear | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167062 | Power generation system and method for assembling the same A power generation system is disclosed. The power generation system includes an electrical converting device and a repowered portion connected to the electrical converting device. The repowered portion includes a reciprocating internal combustion engine and a gearbo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8163942 | Salt of (2S, 3S)-3-[[(1S)-1-isobutoxymethyl-3-methylbutyl]carbamoyl]oxirane-2-carboxylic acid The invention relates to purification of (2S,3S)-3-[[(1S)-1-isobutoxymethyl-3-methylbutyl]carbamoyl]oxirane-2-carboxylic acid [hereinafter, referred to as the carboxylic acid] using the salt of the carboxylic acid with an organic amine selected from the group consis... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163917 | Azaindoles useful as inhibitors of Janus kinases The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of protein kinases, particularly of JAK family kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatm... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163772 | Solid forms of N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxypheny1]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide Solid forms of N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide are described herein, including crystalline forms thereof. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161650 | Workcell for tire and wheel assembly including a tire inflating sub-station that utilizes a flexible flip seal An apparatus for assembling a tire and a wheel is disclosed. The apparatus includes a single-cell workstation including a device that retains a wheel, and a plurality of sub-stations. The device moves the wheel to each of the plurality of sub-stations, without relea... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161632 | Flip seal apparatus and system and method for inflating a tire using the same An inflator device is disclosed. The inflator device includes a seal assembly that maintains, while sealing from ambient pressure, an open air passageway between a tire bead and wheel bead seat during an inflation procedure. A seal for the inflator device is also di... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8158675 | Compounds and methods for the treatment or prevention of infections Compounds represented by formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R1, X, Y, Y1, and Z are as defined herein, are useful for treating flaviv... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657541 | Footwear strap | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153211 | Ink-jet-printable decorative paper Decorative paper for decorative coating materials comprising a base paper and an ink receiving layer dyed in such a way that the decorative paper has after impregnation with impregnating resins and pressing as laminate the same coloring as the coloring of a laminate... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152118 | Locking and lifting mechanism for safety fence support post A support post for a safety fence assembly. The post includes an outer tube having a floor engaging end for engagement with a floor, an inner tube adapted for sliding telescoping engagement with the outer tube, and a ceiling engaging end for engagement with a ceilin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149492 | Optical modulator An optical modulator has an optical splitter for splitting an input light beam into a first and second light beam; a first and a second wave-guide arm connected to the optical splitter for receiving and transmitting therethrough the first and second light beam, resp... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148794 | Photodetector in germanium on silicon A photodetector structure includes a silicon-based waveguide in which optical signals to be detected travel in a given direction and are confined therein and a germanium layer disposed in contact with a portion of the silicon-based waveguide so that an evanescent ta... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143224 | Oxidant resistant apolipoprotein A-1 and mimetic peptides A purified polypeptide includes an ApoA1 mimetic or fragment thereof that are resistant to oxidation. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141779 | Sensor and markers for speed feedback in a hand-operated document reader/imager A hand-operated document processor includes a base for receiving a document containing magnetic ink character data to be read and recognized, and a manually operated moving magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) subsystem. The subsystem includes a MICR read head.... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141692 | Check-processing device with single image camera An apparatus for capturing images from checks and other financial and payment-related documents includes a base unit including an input slot for receiving a document to be processed. A transport stage located within the base unit receives the document from the input... | 03/27/2012 |
| D655897 | Pair of footwear articles | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133686 | IL-8 as a biomarker for sunitinib resistance A method of determining whether a tumor will be non-responsive to sunitinib therapy including detecting whether IL-8 or MMP12 expression levels in the tumor are elevated as compared to a control, that is, a tumor having elevated IL-8 or MMP12 levels will be non-resp... | 03/13/2012 |
| D655489 | Pair of footwear articles | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129387 | Substituted 5,6-dihydroimidazo[1,5-F]pteridines useful as protein kinase inhibitors The present invention relates to substituted 5,6-dihydroimidazo[1,5-f]pteridines of formula I: which are useful as inhibitors of protein kinase. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprisin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129003 | Vehicle panel with metalized film A vehicle panel (10) includes a core layer (12) and a layer of metalized film (14) bonded to the core layer (12). In one embodiment, the core layer (12) is made of a material with heat absorption or insulation properties. The layer... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127934 | Fluid filter element A filter element is removably positionable within a filter housing defining a filter chamber for said filter element. The filter housing comprises a standpipe extending within the filter chamber. The filter element includes a tubular filter media circumscribing the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| D654552 | Accessory gun rail | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116533 | Operator interactive document image processing system Methods and systems for operator intervention in a document processing system are disclosed. One possible method includes capturing images of documents within a document processing system. The method further includes executing computerized analysis of the images to ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114283 | Separator to separate a liquid/liquid/gas/solid mixture A separator for separating or partially separating oil, water, gas and solids from hydrocarbon production well fluids comprises a vessel and a cyclone contained within the vessel. An inlet passage passes through a wall of the vessel and into the cyclone, the inlet p... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113156 | Energy recovery system for an added motion system A hydraulic circuit is disclosed. The hydraulic circuit includes an actuating mechanism having an engine valve and an engine valve spring, an added motion valve system having a cam system, a valve in fluid communication with the actuator mechanism, and a dump valve ... | 02/14/2012 |
| D653931 | Tool handle | 02/14/2012 |