OCFB prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international utility and design patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and international patent offices through a worldwide network of patent practitioners. We have an in an-depth process for patent prosecution, from the initial discussions to the prior art search and to the drafting of the patent application and responding to the patent examiner’s office actions. Our process is highly interactive with our clients as well as with the patent examiners we work with. This includes:
In addition to our experience with the above “utility” patent prosecution, OCFB has also prosecuted and defended design patents, which cover the aesthetic design of an article of manufacture.
We understand the technical nuances of obtaining patent protection for new technology, process, and design inventions in a wide variety of technical fields including:
Printing; Paper Products; Packaging; and Related Production Machinery; Aircraft Manufacturing Systems; Robotics; Transport Systems; Machine Tools.
Representative Patents:
11,264,152 Method and apparatus for robotically routing wires on a harness form board
(Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,101,582 Methods and apparatus for installing sleeve on cable using active dimensional analysis (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,872,514 Safety system for tracking movable objects during vehicle production
(Assignee: The Boeing Company)
7,172,545 Registration of intermittently moved fastener tape with continuously moving web (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,891,535 Method of making tailored blanks using linear friction welding (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,145,670 Systems and methods for projected grid-based location tracking (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
5,632,072 Method for hydropatterning napped fabric (Assignee: International Paper Company)
5,682,410 Method for determining core flow rate and water temperature/density in boiling water reactor (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,711,058 Method for manufacturing transducer assembly with curved transducer array (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,737,379 Reactor core shroud repair using thermally tensioned ring to apply compression across shroud vertical seam weld (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,876,559 Deinking of impact and non-impact printed paper by an agglomeration process (Assignee: International Paper Company)
5,878,490 Method for connecting piping system components with limited clearance for stud tensioner (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,017,415 Method for co-pulping waste cellulosic material and wood chips (Assignee: International Paper Company)
6,334,678 Method for applying chemical watermarks on substrate (Assignee: International Paper Company)
6,733,622 Method and apparatus for ultrasonically stomping slider end stops on zipper (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
6,884,208 Method and apparatus for making reclosable bags having slider-actuated string zippers (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
6,973,704 Method and apparatus for positioning sliders for automated slider insertion (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,109,433 Method and apparatus for initiating welding arc using chemical spray (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,415,810 Methods of manufacturing hooded slider-operated zippered bags (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,585,444 Method for reducing camber in coiled plastic ribbon or tape (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
8,202,002 Reclosable vacuum storage bag having flat resealable means (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
9,010,684 Automated inspection of soft-tooled hollow structure (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,834,323 Automated scanning systems for non-destructive inspection of curved cylinder-like workpieces (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,053,165 Automated maintenance of surface skins using transporter system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,625,427 Method for controlling location of end effector of robot using location alignment feedback (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,079,554 Process for polishing end face of gigabit plastic optical fiber (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
Mechanical and Electromechanical Apparatus; Photographic And Fiber Optic Devices; Heating And Cooling Systems; Power Generation Systems; Fuel Systems; Biomechanical Devices; Aircraft Engines; Aircraft Systems, Fluid Systems; Toys and Games; Stage and Lighting Equipment for Architectural, Photographic and Entertainment Uses; Safes; Firearms; Medical Devices.
Representative Patents:
11,427,306 Piezoelectric thrust vector control for dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,347,039 Optical imaging and scanning of holes (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,163,067 Interface device and method for retrofitting an airplane with GNSS landing capability (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
5,537,806 Bag sealing apparatus and related method for sealing bags (Assignee: International Paper Company)
5,778,545 Magnetically damped azimuth resolver (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,852,271 Water exclusion device for underwater thermal processing (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,190,218 Pump jet with redirected exhaust gas through stator wane for drag reduction (Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation)
6,780,263 Sealer with continuous motion ultrasonic zipper welding (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,461,680 Apparatus for repeatedly advancing fastener tape a predetermined distance (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
8,738,226 Holonomic motion vehicle for travel on non-level surfaces (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,650,991 Pivoting ring petal actuation for variable area fan nozzle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,053,269 Multi-functional fiber optic fuel sensor system having a photonic membrane (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,634,123 Apparatus and methods for maintenance of wind turbine blades (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,652,441 Systems and methods for protecting imaging devices against high-radiant-flux light (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,969,367 Automated ultrasonic inspection of elongated composite members using single-pass robotic system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,128,251 Fault-tolerant power system architecture for aircraft electric propulsion (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
5,493,541 Ultrasonic transducer array having laser-drilled vias for electrical connection of electrodes (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
5,668,516 Simplified active shield superconducting magnet assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,701,742 Configured indium gasket for thermal joint in cryocooler (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,293,836 Water jet propulsion unit with means for varying area of nozzle outlet (Assignee: Bombardier Motor Corporation of America)
6,491,554 Watercraft with steerable planing surface (Assignee: Bombardier Motor Corporation of America)
6,592,721 Apparatus for dewatering a suction papermaking roll (Assignee: International Paper Company)
6,634,384 One-way valve for use with vacuum pump (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
6,812,585 Fuel cutoff system for engine-driven generator (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
6,924,461 Gas diffuser for head tube assembly of welding gun (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,025,841 Ultrasonic apparatus with non-rotating horn and rotating anvil for welding plastic parts (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
7,176,404 System for quick disconnect of torch from power and gas supply unit (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
8,746,616 Mid-wing multi-deck airplane (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,322,685 Mems-based conformal air speed sensor (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,410,659 Automated mobile boom system for crawling robots (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,950,813 Non-destructive inspection of airfoil-shaped body using self-propelling articulated robot (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,525,638 Heater system for fiber placement machine (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,128,086 Apparatus for contact insertion and retention testing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,009,871 Protective headwear (Assignee: Aaron Shasha)
Semiconductors; Thin Films; Photoconductors; Magnetic Media; Ceramics; Amorphous Materials; Alloys; Liquid Crystals, Composites; Paper, Fiber, Laminates, Woven and Nonwoven Fabrics; Polymers; Films; Building Materials.
Representative Patents:
5,403,444 Printable, high-strength, tear-resistant nonwoven material and related method of manufacture (Assignee: International Paper Company)
5,770,273 Plasma coating process for improved bonding of coatings on substrates (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,792,598 Photographic developing compositions and use thereof in the processing of photographic elements (Assignee: International Paper Company)
5,932,930 Method for fabricating mixed oxide fuel (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,935,884 Wet-laid nonwoven nylon battery separator material (Assignee: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.)
6,066,379 Repulpable, water repellant paperboard (Assignee: International Paper Company)
6,277,299 High-sensitivity piezocomposite material and ultrasonic transducer made therefrom (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,497,790 Paperboard of improved smoothiness and bulk (Assignee: International Paper Company)
9,353,480 Sterilizable and printable nonwoven packaging materials (Assignee: Ahlstrom Corporation,)
9,518,160 Graphene-augmented composite materials (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,539,798 Verifiable quick patch repair for composite structures (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,981,421 Adaptive composite structure using shape memory alloys (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,094,794 Characterization of wrinkles and periodic variations in material using infrared thermography (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,169,492 Fiber placement optimization for steered-fiber plies (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,603,844 Apparatus and methods for injecting filler material into a hole in a composite layer (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,710,327 Methods for making composite parts from stacked partially cured sublaminate units (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,933,600 Three-dimensional printing of composite repair patches and structures (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
Analog and Digital Signal Processing; IC Circuits; Detection Systems and Sensors; Magnetics; Optoelectronics; Imaging and Display Devices; Medical Diagnostic Equipment; Reprographics, including Facsimile Machines, Printers, Scanners, and Copiers; Communications Technology; Telecommunications and Telemetry Systems; Audio and Video Signal Processing; Aerospace Electronic Systems; Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telecare Medical Systems; Prepaid telephone calling cards; Electrical Power Supplies.
Representative Patents:
6,865,140 Mosaic arrays using micromachined ultrasound transducers (Assignee: General Electric Company)
8,547,225 Systems and methods for remote detection of volcanic plumes using satellite signals (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,639,401 Dynamic adaptation of trigger thresholds to manage when data messages are transmitted (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,157,827 Tilt electrolyte sensing for battery health management (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,438,338 System for bidirectional free-space laser communication of gigabit ethernet telemetry data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,955,547 Combined radar and communications system using common signal waveform (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,958,302 Signal cueing using an IIR filter array with inverted state tree (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,005,301 System and method for encrypted resonant inductive power transfer (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,054,284 Method of ratiometric proximity sensing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,128,212 Current ripple reduction for a direct current source powering an alternating current load (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,152,986 Fast spatial search using phased array antennas (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,367,201 System and method for continual localization of scanner using non-destructive inspection data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,415,646 Magnetic field visualization using modulation screen and compressive sensing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
Computer Systems and Hardware; Parallel Processing; Microprocessors; Optical Processors; Neural Networks; Local Area and Wide Area Networks; Smartcards; Computer-Assisted Devices; Computer-Integrated Manufacturing; Speech and Music Processors & Synthesizers.
Representative Patents:
7,898,383 System and method for detecting security violation (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,041,946 Data transfer between networks operating at different security levels (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,332,504 Method for testing connectivity of software applications hosted on networked computers (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,676,403 Four-dimensional guidance of an aircraft (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,098,999 Systems and methods for assuring the accuracy of a synthetic runway presentation (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,262,933 Lateral avoidance maneuver solver (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,586,067 Fire detection and suppression pack for battery-powered personal computing devices (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,001,776 Unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,102,753 Systems and methods for processing flight information (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,486,826 Flight management system having customized performance database (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,081,012 Electronic device and method for optimizing vertical profile for cruise phase of flight (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,262,764 Computer-implemented method and a system for defining a path for a vehicle within an environment with obstacles (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
Operating Systems; Windowing Functions; Data Storage And Database Management Systems; Encoding And Encryption; Network And Internet Systems; Audio, Video, Speech and Music Processing; Imaging; Graphic Interfaces; Interactive TV; Computerized Translation.
Representative Patents:
5,357,965 Method for controlling adaptive color flow processing using fuzzy logic (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5.535,748 Real-time graphics on cine playback in ultrasound imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,841,889 Ultrasound image texture control using adaptive speckle control algorithm (Assignee: General Electric Company)
5,964,706 Method and apparatus for pulsed doppler imaging using coded excitation on transmit and pulse compression on receive (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,050,947 Method and apparatus for harmonic tissue imaging and contrast imaging using coded transmission (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,126,603 Method and apparatus for segmenting color flow mode data using velocity information in three-dimensional ultrasound imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,176,828 Method and apparatus for optimal data mapping of power doppler images (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,373,970 Image registration using Fourier phase matching (Assignee: General Electric Company)
6,417,870 Method and apparatus for simultaneous construction of multiple data objects for image transfer (Assignee: General Electric Company)
8,259,012 Software GNSS receiver for high-altitude spacecraft applications (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,782,673 Sharing of first class objects across multiple interpreted programming languages (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
8,798,976 Calculating liquid levels in arbitrarily shaped containment vessels using solid modeling (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,047,771 Systems and methods for ground collision avoidance (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,073,648 Star tracker rate estimation with kalman filter enhancement (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,347,321 Methods for optimized engine balancing based on flight data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
9,950,805 Aircraft engine fan speed display improvements for enhanced monitoring and thrust setting ability (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,184,799 Systems and methods for targeting objects of interest in denied GPS environments (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,450,053 Methods using predictive shimming to optimize part-to-part alignment (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,451,743 Integrated interface architecture and control logic for enhanced emergency location functionality (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,607,409 Synthetic geotagging for computer-generated images (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
10,929,670 Marker-to-model location pairing and registration for augmented reality applications (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,203,445 Data- and model-driven inspection of autonomous aircraft using an unmanned aerial vehicle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,257,386 Camera-based angle tracking of swarms for collision avoidance (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
11,268,827 Vertical situation display with interactive speed profile bar (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
Neurological, Brain, Human Developmental, and Genetic Processes, Treatments, and Materials; Pharmaceuticals; Health Care Products; Genetic Mapping; Radioisotope Labeling; C-DNA Cloning; Enzyme and Protein Isolation; Monoclonal Antibodies and Antigens; Agriculture; Fermentation.
Representative Patents:
5,821,220 Method of producing concentrated non-buffered solutions of fibronectin (Assignee: André Beaulieu)
6,251,859 Deepithelialized skin diffusion cell system
6,528,483 Method of producing concentrated non-buffered solutions of fibronectin (Assignee: André Beaulieu)
7,112,320 Solid wound healing formulations containing fibronectin
10,092,769 Apparatus for non-invasive therapy of biological tissue using directed magnetic beams (Assignee: Aerotel Ltd.)
Representative Patents:
D 503,929 Dimmer control system (Assignee: Cooper Wiring Devices, Inc.)
D 517,024 Electrical dimmer switch and cover plate (Assignee: Cooper Wiring Devices, Inc.)
D 521,932 Ground fault interrupter (Assignee: Cooper Wiring Devices, Inc.)
D 617,936 Light module
D 958,691 Rectangular emerald cut stone (Assignee: Dov Padeh)
D 617,254 Airplane window configuration (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
D 620,875 Aerial refueling receptacle with raised fairing marking (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
D 643,500 Rifle rack (Assignee: Provo Steel & Supply Co.)
D 662,341 Adjustable shelf (Assignee: Prosteel Security Products, Inc.)
D 674,380 Cellphone case (Assignee: Soberg, LLC)
D 726,208 Display screen with graphical user interface and icons (Assignee: The Boeing Company)
D 782,658 Airway device (Assignee: Indian Ocean Medical, Inc.)
D 791,543 Tumbler (Assignee: Silver Buffalo, LLC)
D 795,009 Lid with loop (Assignee: Silver Buffalo, LLC)
D 945,633 Therapeutic device (Assignee: Aerotel Ltd.)
D 964,201 Ring with interior baguette-shaped stones
D 964,202 Ring with interior princess-cut stones
D 863,876 Lid (Assignee: Silver Buffalo, LLC)
D 951,805 Round stone (Assignee: Dov Padeh)
D 955,274 Round stone (Assignee: Dov Padeh)