Liability insurer and health plan data exchange
Patent 8,688,470
A data information exchange, which accesses data from liability insurers and health plans, manages the data and allows health plans to identify when their plan participants are third party claimants in injury claims. In another aspect, subrogation entities access the data information exchange in order to perform subrogation operations for the health plans, relating to the health plan’s participants. In another aspect, coordination of benefit recovery entities access the data information exchange in order to perform recovery operations for the health plans, relating to health providers which rendered services to participants of the health plans.
Inventors: Stephen Ambrose (Richmond)
Assignee: ICEX, Inc. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Impact resistant, torsion-reducing protective athletic gear using shear thickening fluid
Patent 8,679,047
An athletic tape or protective athletic sleeve is formed from an impregnated fabric substrate that is sealed on both sides. The impregnated fabric includes a shear thickening fluid that is made up of a suspension solution and solid particles. The shear thickening fluid is sealed within the fabric through use of sealing layers on both sides of the fabric.
Inventors: Shawn Edan Holt (Chesterfield); Michael Paul Perez (Chesterfield)
Assignee: Presidium Athletics LLC (Chesterfield)
March 25, 2014
High strength ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene tape articles
Patent 8,685,519
Processes for the production of high strength polyethylene tape articles from high strength ultra-high molecular weight multi-filament yarns, and to the tape articles, fabrics, laminates and impact resistant materials made therefrom.
Inventors: Thomas Tam (Chesterfield); Mark Benjamin Boone (Mechanicsville); Ashok Bhatnagar (Richmond); Steven Correale (Chester)
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc (Morristown, N.J.)
April 1, 2014
Flavor pouch
Patent 8,685,478
A flavor pouch includes a porous covering that encloses a carrier having a flavorant. The carrier may be solid or particulate. Flavorants may be one or more of tea, coffee, rose hips, honey, royal jelly, fruit extracts, mint, sweeteners, ginger, pepper extract, exotic flavors, ethnic flavors and the like. Where the carrier comprises a plurality of beads, the beads may have randomly dissolvable encapsulation to extend the time duration of flavor release. To use the flavor pouch, it is placed in the mouth and masticated or exposed to saliva to thereby release the flavorant.
Inventors: Bruce Neidle (Midlothian); Kenneth Newman (Prince George); William R. Sweeney (Richmond); Cynthia S. Hayes (Midlothian); Robert T. Mitten (Glen Allen); Danielle R. Crawford (Chester)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Treatment using dantrolene
Patent 8,685,460
Provided are low-volume, safe for injection formulations of dantrolene yielding significant advantages over the currently approved and marketed dantrolene for malignant hyperthermia (MH) threatening anesthetic crisis. Once dantrolene can be made immediately available to patients triggered of MH, the anesthesiologist will be able to focus exclusively on the management of the patient’s physiologic status in this complex and evolving crisis, not on the laborious and time consuming reconstitution process of the rescue agent. The low volume, safe for injection formulations of dantrolene have significant advantages over currently used approaches to the prevention and treatment of pumphead, and other neurological, cognitive and motor dysfunction incident to iatrogenically or trauma induced situations of altered blood flow, including those incurred during surgical procedures involving CPB or related procedures, as well as those incurred during non-normothermic episodes caused iatrogenically or by disease.
Inventors: David Anderson (Ashland); Benjamin G. Cameransi, Jr. (Georgetown, S.C.); Vincent M. Conklin (Richmond)
Assignee: Lyotropic Therapeutics, Inc. (Ashland)
April 1, 2014
End effector with internal valve
Patent 8,684,434
A valve 28 is positioned in the upper portion of the interior space of the bellows 10. A flow of low pressure air is induced inside the bellows when the valve elements 40 move away from the air inlet openings 38. When high pressure air is moved into the central portion of the valve housing 30, the valve elements 40 tend to move radially outwardly to block the air passages 38 and 42, thereby terminating the suction applied to the bellows.
Inventors: Roland Lomerson, Jr. (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.); Michael W. Norton (Richmond)
Assignee: AMF Automation Technologies, LLC (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Package standing feature utilizing blister and paperboard
Patent 8,684,182
A package is disclosed including a blister and a folded paperboard card, and having features that provide for the package to be displayed in a self-standing configuration.
Inventors: Ryan A. Bailey (Richmond)
Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corp. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Laser barrier system for optical tables
Patent 8,683,928
A laser barrier system for an optical table includes a plurality of laser barrier panels hingeably mounted to the edge of the table by a plurality of spaced hinge brackets. The hinge brackets include a horizontal flange secured to the surface of the table, a lower pivot support extending downwardly from the flange and an upper support column extending upwardly from the flange. Each hinge bracket supports a vertically extending jamb member secured to the upper support column. Each laser barrier panel is hingeably supported by pivot pins between a pair of spaced hinge brackets and their associated jamb members, and is hingeably movable about the pivot pins between a closed position and an open position. Each laser barrier panel is maintained in the closed position by a spaced pair of rotatable latch tabs that selectively engage with the adjacent jamb members.
Inventors: Sean Anderson (Richmond)
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, N.J.)
April 1, 2014
System to determine product density
Patent 8,682,027
A system for determining the product density value of a zone of preferable small fungible products within an acceptable size range and potentially in an acceptable color range. The system differentiates among products even if in close contact to determine acceptable product. The system may store data for later review or for dispensing of product in real time. The system includes a scale to determine a sample’s weight, a camera to image the sample, an imaging table to permit viewing of the sample, a processor to determine the number of products in the sample, and a processor to determine the density of desired product.
Inventors: William Keith Beaty (Webster, Texas); Patric Carey Pike (Hopkins, Mich.); Calvin G. Gray (Richmond)
Assignee: Satake USA, Inc. (Stafford, Texas)
March 25, 2014
Methods and systems for movement of an automatic cleaning device using video signal
Patent 8,679,260
A method of cleaning an area using an automatic cleaning device may include receiving, from a video camera, information associated with an edge located on a surface, determining, by an automatic cleaning device, a position of the automatic cleaning device on the surface relative to the edge and using the received information to move the automatic cleaning device from the determined position along a path so that the automatic cleaning device cleans the surface along the path. The path may be substantially parallel to the edge, and the edge may be located a distance from a reference point on the automatic cleaning device during movement of the automatic cleaning device.
Inventors: Henry L. Hillman, Jr. (Vancouver, Wash.); David M. Knuth, Jr. (East Dubuque, Ill.); Daniel M. Daly (Brownsburgh, Ind.); Vinton Coffman (Pittsburgh); Ralph McCann (Richmond); Stephen D. Herr (Richmond); Kevin L. Thomas (Richmond)
Assignee: Intellibot Robotics LLC (Portland, Ore.)
March 25, 2014
Non-tobacco pouch product
Patent 8,678,015
A pouched non-tobacco product includes a lined pouch material of a web and a water-soluble liner adjacent the web and a non-tobacco flavorful component contained within the lined pouch material. The water-soluble liner is interposed between the web and the non-tobacco flavorful component. The liner preferably reduces staining of the web by the non-tobacco flavorful component. Additionally, the liner may include a flavorant.
Inventors: Warren D. Winterson (Chester); Timothy D. Cochran (Richmond); Tommy C. Holland (Midlothian); Karen M. Torrence (Chester); Steve Rinehart (Chesterfield); G. Robert Scott (Midlothian)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
March 25, 2014
Liability insurer and health plan data exchange
Patent 8,688,470
A data information exchange, which accesses data from liability insurers and health plans, manages the data and allows health plans to identify when their plan participants are third party claimants in injury claims. In another aspect, subrogation entities access the data information exchange in order to perform subrogation operations for the health plans, relating to the health plan’s participants. In another aspect, coordination of benefit recovery entities access the data information exchange in order to perform recovery operations for the health plans, relating to health providers which rendered services to participants of the health plans.
Inventors: Stephen Ambrose (Richmond)
Assignee: ICEX, Inc. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Impact resistant, torsion-reducing protective athletic gear using shear thickening fluid
Patent 8,679,047
An athletic tape or protective athletic sleeve is formed from an impregnated fabric substrate that is sealed on both sides. The impregnated fabric includes a shear thickening fluid that is made up of a suspension solution and solid particles. The shear thickening fluid is sealed within the fabric through use of sealing layers on both sides of the fabric.
Inventors: Shawn Edan Holt (Chesterfield); Michael Paul Perez (Chesterfield)
Assignee: Presidium Athletics LLC (Chesterfield)
March 25, 2014
High strength ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene tape articles
Patent 8,685,519
Processes for the production of high strength polyethylene tape articles from high strength ultra-high molecular weight multi-filament yarns, and to the tape articles, fabrics, laminates and impact resistant materials made therefrom.
Inventors: Thomas Tam (Chesterfield); Mark Benjamin Boone (Mechanicsville); Ashok Bhatnagar (Richmond); Steven Correale (Chester)
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc (Morristown, N.J.)
April 1, 2014
Flavor pouch
Patent 8,685,478
A flavor pouch includes a porous covering that encloses a carrier having a flavorant. The carrier may be solid or particulate. Flavorants may be one or more of tea, coffee, rose hips, honey, royal jelly, fruit extracts, mint, sweeteners, ginger, pepper extract, exotic flavors, ethnic flavors and the like. Where the carrier comprises a plurality of beads, the beads may have randomly dissolvable encapsulation to extend the time duration of flavor release. To use the flavor pouch, it is placed in the mouth and masticated or exposed to saliva to thereby release the flavorant.
Inventors: Bruce Neidle (Midlothian); Kenneth Newman (Prince George); William R. Sweeney (Richmond); Cynthia S. Hayes (Midlothian); Robert T. Mitten (Glen Allen); Danielle R. Crawford (Chester)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Treatment using dantrolene
Patent 8,685,460
Provided are low-volume, safe for injection formulations of dantrolene yielding significant advantages over the currently approved and marketed dantrolene for malignant hyperthermia (MH) threatening anesthetic crisis. Once dantrolene can be made immediately available to patients triggered of MH, the anesthesiologist will be able to focus exclusively on the management of the patient’s physiologic status in this complex and evolving crisis, not on the laborious and time consuming reconstitution process of the rescue agent. The low volume, safe for injection formulations of dantrolene have significant advantages over currently used approaches to the prevention and treatment of pumphead, and other neurological, cognitive and motor dysfunction incident to iatrogenically or trauma induced situations of altered blood flow, including those incurred during surgical procedures involving CPB or related procedures, as well as those incurred during non-normothermic episodes caused iatrogenically or by disease.
Inventors: David Anderson (Ashland); Benjamin G. Cameransi, Jr. (Georgetown, S.C.); Vincent M. Conklin (Richmond)
Assignee: Lyotropic Therapeutics, Inc. (Ashland)
April 1, 2014
End effector with internal valve
Patent 8,684,434
A valve 28 is positioned in the upper portion of the interior space of the bellows 10. A flow of low pressure air is induced inside the bellows when the valve elements 40 move away from the air inlet openings 38. When high pressure air is moved into the central portion of the valve housing 30, the valve elements 40 tend to move radially outwardly to block the air passages 38 and 42, thereby terminating the suction applied to the bellows.
Inventors: Roland Lomerson, Jr. (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.); Michael W. Norton (Richmond)
Assignee: AMF Automation Technologies, LLC (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Package standing feature utilizing blister and paperboard
Patent 8,684,182
A package is disclosed including a blister and a folded paperboard card, and having features that provide for the package to be displayed in a self-standing configuration.
Inventors: Ryan A. Bailey (Richmond)
Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corp. (Richmond)
April 1, 2014
Laser barrier system for optical tables
Patent 8,683,928
A laser barrier system for an optical table includes a plurality of laser barrier panels hingeably mounted to the edge of the table by a plurality of spaced hinge brackets. The hinge brackets include a horizontal flange secured to the surface of the table, a lower pivot support extending downwardly from the flange and an upper support column extending upwardly from the flange. Each hinge bracket supports a vertically extending jamb member secured to the upper support column. Each laser barrier panel is hingeably supported by pivot pins between a pair of spaced hinge brackets and their associated jamb members, and is hingeably movable about the pivot pins between a closed position and an open position. Each laser barrier panel is maintained in the closed position by a spaced pair of rotatable latch tabs that selectively engage with the adjacent jamb members.
Inventors: Sean Anderson (Richmond)
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, N.J.)
April 1, 2014
System to determine product density
Patent 8,682,027
A system for determining the product density value of a zone of preferable small fungible products within an acceptable size range and potentially in an acceptable color range. The system differentiates among products even if in close contact to determine acceptable product. The system may store data for later review or for dispensing of product in real time. The system includes a scale to determine a sample’s weight, a camera to image the sample, an imaging table to permit viewing of the sample, a processor to determine the number of products in the sample, and a processor to determine the density of desired product.
Inventors: William Keith Beaty (Webster, Texas); Patric Carey Pike (Hopkins, Mich.); Calvin G. Gray (Richmond)
Assignee: Satake USA, Inc. (Stafford, Texas)
March 25, 2014
Methods and systems for movement of an automatic cleaning device using video signal
Patent 8,679,260
A method of cleaning an area using an automatic cleaning device may include receiving, from a video camera, information associated with an edge located on a surface, determining, by an automatic cleaning device, a position of the automatic cleaning device on the surface relative to the edge and using the received information to move the automatic cleaning device from the determined position along a path so that the automatic cleaning device cleans the surface along the path. The path may be substantially parallel to the edge, and the edge may be located a distance from a reference point on the automatic cleaning device during movement of the automatic cleaning device.
Inventors: Henry L. Hillman, Jr. (Vancouver, Wash.); David M. Knuth, Jr. (East Dubuque, Ill.); Daniel M. Daly (Brownsburgh, Ind.); Vinton Coffman (Pittsburgh); Ralph McCann (Richmond); Stephen D. Herr (Richmond); Kevin L. Thomas (Richmond)
Assignee: Intellibot Robotics LLC (Portland, Ore.)
March 25, 2014
Non-tobacco pouch product
Patent 8,678,015
A pouched non-tobacco product includes a lined pouch material of a web and a water-soluble liner adjacent the web and a non-tobacco flavorful component contained within the lined pouch material. The water-soluble liner is interposed between the web and the non-tobacco flavorful component. The liner preferably reduces staining of the web by the non-tobacco flavorful component. Additionally, the liner may include a flavorant.
Inventors: Warren D. Winterson (Chester); Timothy D. Cochran (Richmond); Tommy C. Holland (Midlothian); Karen M. Torrence (Chester); Steve Rinehart (Chesterfield); G. Robert Scott (Midlothian)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond)
March 25, 2014