Patents by Inventor Anthony Ralph Ford

Anthony Ralph Ford has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20040125444
    Abstract: A housing for a magnification loupe is provided having a body portion for an eyepiece lens and a nose portion for an objective lens. The body portion for the eyepiece lens includes outer circumferential threads over which the objective nose portion fits. The objective nose portion includes a pin slot defining an arc across the body of the nose. The arc is configured such that a pin may be secured through the holes in the nose piece to co-act with the threads of the eyepiece body such that radial movement is prohibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: Kerr Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Howard Caplan, Richard Alfred Buchroeder, Frederick Nicholas Bushroe, Anthony Ralph Ford
  • Patent number: 6704142
    Abstract: A housing for a magnification loupe is provided having a body portion for an eyepiece lens and a nose portion for an objective lens. The body portion for the eyepiece lens includes outer circumferential threads over which the objective nose portion fits. The objective nose portion includes a pin slot defining an arc across the body of the nose. The arc is configured such that a pin may be secured through the holes in the nose piece to co-act with the threads of the eyepiece body such that radial movement is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Kerr Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Howard Caplan, Richard Alfred Buchroeder, Frederick Nicholas Bushroe, Anthony Ralph Ford
  • Publication number: 20010001249
    Abstract: A housing for a magnification loupe is provided having a body portion for an eyepiece lens and a nose portion for an objective lens. The body portion for the eyepiece lens includes outer circumferential threads over which the objective nose portion fits. The objective nose portion includes a pin slot defining an arc across the body of the nose. The arc is configured such that a pin may be secured through the holes in the nose piece to co-act with the threads of the eyepiece body such that radial movement is prohibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Publication date: May 17, 2001
    Applicant: Surgical Acuity, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Howard Caplan, Richard Alfred Buchroeder, Frederick Nicholas Bushroe, Anthony Ralph Ford
  • Patent number: 6201640
    Abstract: A housing for a magnification loupe is provided having a body portion for an eyepiece lens and a nose portion for an objective lens. The body portion for the eyepiece lens includes outer circumferential threads over which the objective nose portion fits. The objective nose portion includes a pin slot defining an arc across the body of the nose. The arc is configured such that a pin may be secured through the holes in the nose piece to co-act with the threads of the eyepiece body such that radial movement is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Surgical Acuity, Inc
    Inventors: Charles Howard Caplan, Richard Alfred Buchroeder, Frederick Nicholas Bushroe, Anthony Ralph Ford
  • Patent number: 5980839
    Abstract: The objective of combinatorial chemical synthesis is the preparation of a very large number of different molecular entities by a randomized process of sequential chemical syntheses. The present invention provides a combinatorial vessel comprising a reaction region and a mixing region, adjacent to each other, which can be used to practice combinatorial chemical synthesis. The reaction region comprises a plurality of reaction cavities, in which a plurality of different chemical reactions may be performed simultaneously on resin beads. The resin beads are then transferred to the mixing region and mixed into a single group. Then, the resin beads are transferred into the reaction cavities. The process of performing reactions, transferring to the mixing region, mixing, and transferring to the reaction region can be repeated multiple times to obtain a large number of resin beads, each of which has been exposed to a series of reactions different from most of the other resin beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Protein Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Milan Bier, German Eduardo Fuentes, Rodolfo Bacheleir Marquez, Anthony Ralph Ford