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Forehead support apparatus 

A forehead support apparatus for resting a standing users forehead against a wall above a bathroom commode or urinal or beneath a showerhead.

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Number of patents: 61
Last date: February 28, 2012

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8123792Perioperative warming device
A perioperative warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with stacked sections. One section of the convective apparatus is adapted to provide comfort warming by convection. Another section of the convectiv...
02/28/2012
8123790Clinical garment for comfort warming and prewarming
A clinical garment having a lower hem and sleeves includes permeable surfaces inside near peripheral portions, a duct in communication with the permeable surfaces, and at least one inlet port opening into the duct. When worn by a patient, the permeable surfaces are ...
02/28/2012
8116982System and method for automatic color segmentation and minimum significant response for measurement of fractional localized intensity of cellular compartments
A system, a method, and a programmed device for measurement of translocational activity among cellular compartments process magnified images of cellular material exposed to an agent by segmenting and compartmentalizing the images and then measuring fractional locali...
02/14/2012
8107711User interface method and system for management and control of automated image processing in high content screening or high throughput screening
A user interface method and system for controlling automated image processing operations of HCS and/or HTS systems includes a graphical interface to enable user designation of an image naming convention, image sources and destinations, image processing channels, pro...
01/31/2012
8105370Surgical barrier device incorporating an inflatable thermal blanket with an attached surgical drape
A surgical barrier device includes an inflatable thermal blanket with an attached surgical drape. The inflatable thermal blanket is inflatable through an inlet by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of the inflatable therma...
01/31/2012
8097031Warming device with provisions for deploying elements of an upper body convective apparatus and for deploying the lower portion of the warming device
A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting one or more convective apparatuses disposed to warm a patient perioperatively. The warming device may include an upper body convective apparatus supported on the inside of the clinical ...
01/17/2012
8087389Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine
In a two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine, opposed pistons disposed in a cylinder are coupled to a pair of side-mounted crankshafts by connecting rods that are subject to substantially tensile forces acting between the pistons and the crankshafts. Th...
01/03/2012
8070787Warming device
A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with multiple separately inflatable sections, each adapted to enable a particular mode of warming. ...
12/06/2011
8043350Warming device
A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with comb-shaped, interleaved, separately inflatable sections, each adapted to enable a particular mode of warming. ...
10/25/2011
8025690Perioperative warming method
A method for warming a person perioperatively using a warming device including a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with stacked, separately-inflatable sections includes inflating one of the stacked sections of the convective...
09/27/2011
7983540Heat exchanger for high flow rate infusion
A heat exchanger has a laminar fluid flow path receivable between the heating plates of a high flow rate infusion unit to which heat is conducted by contact with the heating plates. A bubble trap and a valve are integrated with the heat exchanger. The bubble trap co...
07/19/2011
7976572Forced air warming unit
Both the flow rate and the temperature of the air exiting a forced air warming unit are regulated in response to a single act or operation of a single element of control on a manually-operated remote control. ...
07/12/2011
7405897Single-pass self-servowriting method and system employing a low sector rate startup procedure
A self-servowriting (SSW) method that, with the actuator fully engaged against a compliant structure (e.g., a crashstop), first writes a tightly-spaced open-loop sequence of servo bursts in a segmented spiral path and then continues writing this tightly-spaced seque...
07/29/2008
7394976Fluid warming cassette and system capable of operation under negative pressure
A fluid warming cassette for use in a fluid warming system includes a first sheet, a second sheet and a flexible spacer having a serpentine opening. At least one of the first and second sheets is a flexible plastic sheet. The spacer is positioned between the first a...
07/01/2008
7388938Method for bit-byte synchronization in sampling a data string
Bit and byte synchronization for sampling and decoding a data string is provided a single data field u. The data string x has pre-pended to it a short string of 1s (ones), followed by u to yield a string y= . . . 1111, u, x. The string is pre-coded by convolution wi...
06/17/2008
7360511Opposed piston engine
A two-cycle, opposed piston engine with side-mounted crankshafts and cylinders isolated from mechanical stresses of the engine includes tailored cooling of cylinders and symmetrical cooling of the interior surfaces of piston crowns. Each opposed piston includes a co...
04/22/2008
7346149Method and apparatus for reversibly correcting nonlinear impairments in a communications channel
In a transmission line, nonlinear impairments resulting from imperfect splices are mitigated by providing a bias current that shifts the operating points of these impairments resulting in improved stability, conductivity and linearity. ...
03/18/2008
7316666Fluid warming cassette with rails and a stiffening member
A fluid warming cassette useful in a system for warming parenteral fluids is provided. The cassette comprises a thermally conductive, flexible fluid container with a fluid channel. Rails are disposed in the fluid container near its periphery, and a stiffener is disp...
01/08/2008
7308023Dual function clock signal suitable for host control of synchronous and asynchronous target devices
A host device in a data communication system provides a dual-function clock/enable signal at a single output port shared by at least one asynchronous target device and at least one synchronous target device. In the asynchronous operating mode, the host device genera...
12/11/2007
7278081Optical transport network frame structure with in-band data channel and forward error correction
An optical transport network data frame structure is configured to provide an in-band data channel. The in-band channel data is contained in the data frame space that would otherwise be allocated to forward error correction (“FEC”) bytes. Consequently, the provi...
10/02/2007
7244268Warming apparatus with an inflatable cover and an inlet port plug
The present invention is a method and apparatus for conveniently and removably sealing inlet ports within an inflatable thermal blanket. In accordance with the present invention a generally planar sheet of material having a plurality of resilient side extensions ext...
07/17/2007
7230970Apparatus and method for locating nonlinear impairments in a communication channel by use of nonlinear time domain reflectometry
A series of time domain reflectometry (tdr) measurements are made on a channel having nonlinear impairments as well as linear impairments. In a given measurement, the reflected signals from the impairments are digitized and sequentially stored in memory. The paramet...
06/12/2007
7228200Apparatus, system and methods for dispensing products
Products are dispensed from a dispensing apparatus in which products marked with transaction information are received in a chain of bins. In response to control information synthesized from transaction information on the products in the bins and a dispense request, ...
06/05/2007
7139348Distributed clock network using all-digital master-slave delay lock loops
A distributed clock circuit for clocking high speed data at various different physical locations on a chip while improving setup and hold times. The clock circuit includes a master delay lock loop (DLL) circuit configured to lock a global clock signal with a first d...
11/21/2006
7132861Amplifier with digital DC offset cancellation feature
A high speed, high sensitivity post amplifier as described herein includes a digitally-controlled DC offset cancellation feature. The amplifier circuit is configured to provide DC offset voltage levels in response to a digital control signal, where the digital contr...
11/07/2006
7130367Digital delay lock loop for setup and hold time enhancement
A digital delay lock loop (DLL) circuit for receiving parallel data and clock signals, deserializing the high speed parallel data to low speed data, and for improving setup and hold times. A DLL circuit for an N-bit datapath, includes a clock DLL configured to provi...
10/31/2006
7120951System for warming lower extremities of supine persons
A warming system, mounted to the foot of a bed, warms a person's lower extremities by directing air into the space between the mattress and overlaying blankets. A blower directs air into an elongated distribution chamber having many tiny exit apertures. The chamber ...
10/17/2006
7108713Surgical barrier device incorporating an inflatable thermal blanket with a surgical drape to provide thermal control and surgical access
A surgical barrier device includes an inflatable thermal blanket formed integrally with, or attached to, a surgical drape. The inflatable thermal blanket is inflatable through an inlet by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface...
09/19/2006
7106862Digital information hiding techniques for use with data streams carried over a data communication network
A data communication system transports a sequence of digital data frames that convey client input data encoded with secondary data. The system can utilize known, proprietary, or future techniques for digital data encoding, digital watermarking, data encryption, or t...
09/12/2006
7090692Thermal Blanket
A thermal blanket includes an inflatable covering with a head end, a foot end, two edges and an undersurface. The covering is inflated through an inlet at the foot end by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of the covering ...
08/15/2006
7057418High speed linear half-rate phase detector
A high-speed, half rate phase detector provides an effective solution to the problem of XOR gate response to the minimum width signal precursors (Q1 and Q2) of a phase signal that indicates a phase difference between a data signal and a clock signal by...
06/06/2006
7023881System and method for selectively scrambling multidimensional digital frame structure communications
A system and method have been provided to increase security in scrambled communications by periodically changing the seed masks used to generate the scrambling algorithms at the transmitter and receiver. The scrambling algorithm is changed by periodically modifying ...
04/04/2006
7014431Forced air warming unit
A forced air warming unit has a casing with inlet and outlet openings. The casing encloses a scroll housing with a curved inside surface in which a blower is disposed. A circuit board in the casing encloses the blower in the scroll housing. At least one opening pene...
03/21/2006
6987209Flexible non-contact wound treatment device
A non-contact wound treatment device suitable for releasable attachment to a patient's skin surface over a selected wound area in a non-contact position relative to the selected wound area, the wound treatment device comprising an attachment portion suitable for rel...
01/17/2006
6973100System and method for programming the location of frame synchronization words in a multidimensional digital frame structure
A system and method have been provided for programming synchronization features of a multidimensional digital frame structure. Such a frame structure acts as a digital wrapper, and includes overhead, payload, and forward error correction (FEC) sections. Words in the...
12/06/2005
6961366System and method for redundant path connections in digital communications network
A system and method for providing redundancy in an integrated circuit (IC) relay device has been disclosed. The relay device accepts communications on a first and second receive path. The relay device monitors communications on both the receive paths, and selects a ...
11/01/2005
6961350System and method for segmenting a multidimensional digital frame structure
A system and method have been provided to segment communications between relay nodes in a network using digitally wrapped, or frame structure communications. The overhead bytes in the frame are given special functions, to enable processes such as synchronization or ...
11/01/2005
6952480Self-synchronous data scrambler
An encryption system has been provided to self-synchronously scramble communications where the receiver must recover the clock information from the data stream, such as the SONET format. To prevent jamming during initialization, or during times when no data is being...
10/04/2005
6949817Stackable test apparatus for protecting integrated circuit packages during testing
A stackable test apparatus is disclosed including a body having a first surface with a raised portion extending from the first surface along a perimeter of the body and a plurality of stacking pins extending away from the first surface arraigned in a stacking pin pa...
09/27/2005
6931006System and method for selectively broadcasting a multidimensional digital frame structure
A system and method have been provided for programming synchronization features of a multidimensional digital frame structure. Such a frame structure acts as a digital wrapper and includes overhead, payload, and forward error correction (FEC) sections. Words in the ...
08/16/2005
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