Richard F Weber

US Patent:

20050086085, Apr 21, 2005

Filed:

Oct 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/677839

Inventors:

Paul Berlin - Chicago IL, US
Theresa Cordo - Closter NJ, US
Michael DiPiazza - Freehold NJ, US
Pamela Duffy - Purchase NY, US
Richard Weber - Carlsbad CA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705004000

Abstract:

A variable universal life insurance product that includes a death benefit and associated investment vehicles is selectively offered. A life insurance policy chassis is provided by an insurance company to an asset manager. The asset manager combines the life insurance policy chassis with one or more associated investment vehicles managed by the asset manager to form a variable universal life insurance product. The asset manager selectively makes the insurance product available to respective clients of the asset manager. The insurance company providing service for the death benefit and the asset manager providing service for the associated investment vehicles.

US Patent:

20070102647, May 10, 2007

Filed:

Nov 4, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/267056

Inventors:

Jacqueline Johnson - Woodridge IL, US
Richard Weber - Arlington Heights IL, US
Stefan Schweizer - Paderborn, DE
Douglas MacFarlane - Brighton East Victoria, AU
Peter Newman - Brighton Victoria, AU
Gang Chen - Woodridge IL, US

Assignee:

The University of Chicago - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G01T 3/06

US Classification:

250390110

Abstract:

A radiation detector having glass emitting photons by scintillation in response to incident neutrons and/or electromagnetic radiation of at least about 1 keV, and a system associated with the glass for detecting the presence of photons emitted by scintillation. The glass ceramic material is a fluoride glass matrix having nanocrystalline particles distributed therein substantially all of which are in a phase that scintillates with average diameters of less than about 100 nm in a fluorozirconate matrix. Various metals are disclosed for the ceramic particles and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.

US Patent:

20100169128, Jul 1, 2010

Filed:

Nov 11, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/616588

Inventors:

Paul F. BERLIN - Chicago IL, US
Theresa CORDO - Closter NJ, US
Michael C. DIPIAZZA - Freehold NJ, US
Pamela Duffy - Purchase NY, US
Richard M. Weber - Carlsbad CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 4, 705 37

Abstract:

A variable universal life insurance product that includes a death benefit and associated investment vehicles is selectively offered. A life insurance policy chassis is provided by an insurance company to an asset manager. The asset manager combines the life insurance policy chassis with one or more associated investment vehicles managed by the asset manager to form a variable universal life insurance product. The asset manager selectively makes the insurance product available to respective clients of the asset manager. The insurance company providing service for the death benefit and the asset manager providing service for the associated investment vehicles.

US Patent:

43855750, May 31, 1983

Filed:

Jul 8, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/167098

Inventors:

Richard D. Weber - Wheeling IL

International Classification:

D05B 8502

US Classification:

112224

Abstract:

Easy-threading sewing needles, in two embodiments, for hand needles and sewing machine needles are disclosed, as well as a method for making the easy-threading structure. The needles have eyes defined by sidewalls, one of which is slit along a plane which passes from the outer surface into the eye and divides the sidewall into an elongated inner clip member and a conforming retaining member. The clip member is mechanically spring-biased against the retainer but may be resiliently bent inward to open the slit by pressing a thread loop against the outside of the sidewall. The clip springs back against the mating surface of the retainer as soon as the thread enters the eye and the pressure is removed. The machine needle includes an off-center eye and the thread trap formed on the thinner sidewall, the point of the needle being formed off-center under the eye and a smooth shoulder projecting outward just under the entrance to the slit. In making the thread trap, maleable needle stock is slit prior to tempering and the clip and retainer members reversed in position by moving the clip outward.