Double Patenting – 1

Double-Patenting: Manual of Patent Examining Procedures (MPEP) states, “The doctrine of double patenting seeks to prevent the unjustified extension of patent exclusivity beyond the term of a patent.” In general, inventors may obtain a (singular) patent for an invention. Stated otherwise, an inventor cannot obtain two patents for the same invention. Why would an inventor…

Patent related to prosthetics

Inventor: Keith Longino Patent number: 7819926 Filing date: Aug 29, 2008 Issue date: Oct 26, 2010 Application number: 12/231,107 A prosthetic foot and ankle BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to a prosthetic foot and ankle and, more particularly, to a prosthetic foot and ankle with asymmetrically cascading motion and…

Integrated circuit device using substrate-on-insulator for driving a load and method for fabricating the same

Inventors: Henry Wong, Raymond Chow Patent number: 7729147 Filing date: Sep 13, 2007 Issue date: Jun 1, 2010 Application number: 11/900,765 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (1) Field of the Invention This invention relates generally to the field of semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) devices for driving a load and more particularly, to a semiconductor integrated circuit device…