MKS Instruments, Inc. has introduced the Granville-Phillips Series 500 Cold Cathode Gauge, which sets a new accuracy standard (±10%) for wide pressure range CC gauges. The Series 500 features a longer lifetime than traditional CC ...
Posted in Medical Device Business by Brian Buntz on January 8, 2015 Pete Nicholas, who co-founded Boston Scientific with John Abele in 1979, has announced that he intends to resign from the firm’s board of directors in 2017. ...
New reports suggest that Samsung is working on a round-faced smartwatch a la the Moto 360. Until now, Samsung has remained resolutely square in its proliferation of wearables, much to the chagrin of design dons and fashionistas ...
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Riddell, Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., claiming Rawlings has infringed on four different patents arising from Riddell’s helmet and shoulder pad technologies. The four-count federal court ...
Tags: shoulder pad technologies, football helmets, Sporting Goods
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Solar-Tectic LLC of Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA with a patent for technology that allows the growth of single-crystal semiconductor films on inexpensive substrates such as ...
Tags: Solar Cell Technology, thin-film specialist, Electrical
Color crystalline silicon solar cell maker Lof Solar has filed a lawsuit with Taiwan Intellectual Property Court, accusing Sunshine PV, which makes CIGS thin-film PV modules and color polycrystalline silicon solar cells, of infringing its ...
Tags: solar cells, Sunshine PV, Lights
CoreTec One Waterproof Engineered Flooring, new from Beaulieu America and USFloors. Beaulieu America has reached a distribution agreement with US Floors for a new line of waterproof products. Featuring USFloor' patent pending CoreTec ...
Tags: Waterproof Product, Floors, Construction
Microsoft's rumoured Virtual Reality headset for the Xbox One is already in the hands of developers who're working on games for the device, according to reports on Friday. TechRadar sources say development kits are already in existence ...
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Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA says that on 25 November the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its subsidiary Magnolia Solar Inc a patent (US Patent No. 8,895,838) describing an improved ...
Tags: multi-junction solar cell, absorber materials, Electrical
ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany, which was founded in June, says that it has acquired (via auction) the exclusive ownership of all technology, know-how and intellectual property of the former AZZURRO Semiconductors AG, which ...
Tags: patent landscape, market, technology strategy, Electrical
U.S. 8,633,293 B2 GM Global Technology Operations has been granted a patent for a polymer comprised of a reaction product of an epoxy resin; a first crosslinking agent reactive with the epoxy resin and having a first molecular weight; and ...
U.S. 8,632,895 B2 PPG has obtained a patent for a coated article comprised of a decorative metal substrate having a specular gloss greater than 400, with the proviso that the decorative metal substrate does not contain a pigmented coating ...
Tags: Decorative Metals, Construction
U.S. 8,632,857 B2 Valspar Sourcing Inc. has been awarded a patent for a method of coating a metal substrate with a hardenable packaging coating system comprised of applying an under-coat composition to a metal substrate, the under-coat ...
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U.S. 8,633,263 B2 3M has received a patent for a composition comprised of an aqueous continuous liquid phase; and core-shell particles dispersed in the aqueous continuous liquid phase, each core-shell particle comprising a polymer core ...
Tags: Coating Composition, Construction
A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to research from McGill University in Canada. The study, published in the November 2014 issue of the Molecular Nutrition ...
Tags: Potato, Agriculture