Area Patents

6/22/2009

The following U.S. patents were granted to Lucas, Fulton, and Wood County, Ohio, inventors in May, 2009, and published in the Official Gazette of the Patent & Trademark Office. For more information, call the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, business technology department, at 419-259-5209.

#7,370,673 Self-contained isolated port; Michael Trumbower, Cromwell, Ind.; Jeffrey Grau, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Nazih Khatib, Ann Arbor; Michael Wells, Bowling Green; assignors to Parker-Hannifin Corp., Cleveland.

#7,368,164 Smooth outer coating for combustor components and coating method therefor; William Stowell, Risingsun, Ohio; Daniel Ivkovich, Fairfield, Ohio; Timothy Manning, Cincinnati; Tara McGovern, Simpsonville, S.C.; Jane Murphy; Franklin, Ohio; Thomas Rentz, Cincinnati; Mathew Roling, Simpsonville, S.C.; Raymond Rowe, Niskayuna, N.Y.; and Andrew Skoog, West Chester, Ohio; assignors to General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y.

#7,367,609 Automotive glazing system with deployable wind excitation suppressor; Gregory Grudzinski, Perrysburg, and Greg Ehlert, Northville, Mich.; assignors to Ford Global Technologies LLC, Dearborn, Mich.

#7,375,342 Plasma-shell radiation detector; Carol Wedding, Toledo; assignor to Imaging Systems Technology, Toledo.

#7,370,673 Self-contained isolated port; Michael Trumbower, Cromwell, Ind.; Jeffrey Grau, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Nazih Khatib, Ann Arbor; and Michael Wells, Bowling Green; assignors to Parker-Hannifin Corp., Cleveland.

#7,370,550 Power take-off unit; Thomas Bowen, Rochester Hills, Mich.; Ned Wright, Toledo; Dan Stefan, Windsor, Calif.; and Marius Enache, LaSalle, Calif.; assignors to Dymos Co. Ltd., Farmington Hills, Mich.

#D569,750 Hand-held torque meter; Frank Semersky, Holland; Jonathan McGurk, Toledo; Aaron Teitlebaum, Toledo; and Daniel Witham, Holland; assignors to Plastic Technologies Inc., Holland.

#D570,068 Hand truck; Stephen A. Dukes, North Baltimore; assignor to Impact Products LLC, Toledo.

#D569,569 Bag holder; Stephen A Dukes, North Baltimore; assignor to Impact Products, LLC, Toledo.

The following U.S. patents were granted to Monroe and Lenawee County, Michigan, inventors in May, 2009.

#7,378,051 Method and apparatus for slitting steel slabs; Barry Alexin, Monroe; assignor to Edw. C. Levy Co., Dearborn, Mich.

#7,377,399 Inverting vacuum panels for a plastic container; Michael Lane, Brooklyn, Mich.; Richard Steih, Britton, Mich.; Daniel Gamber, Lakeland, Tenn.; Randall Brown, Kennesaw, Ga.; and Rohit Joshi, Ann Arbor, assignors to AMCOR Ltd., Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia.

#7,376,258 Image quality assurance system and methodologies in a post-image capture document processing environment; Robert Klein, Farmington Hills, Mich.; Craig Lapan, Brighton, Mich.; George Reasoner, Jr., Tecumseh; assignors to Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, Pa.??