Patents by Inventor David B. Pierce

David B. Pierce 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).

  • Patent number: 5571995
    Abstract: A safety cover for electrical outlets includes a center locking block which is attached to an electrical outlet by a screw, and which has grooves to receive elongate members integral with individual receptacle covers. Matching cross-sectional shapes of the grooves and members fit closely so that the elongate members are retained in the grooves. A flexible latching arm on the front of a receptacle cover engages the locking block to latch the cover in place; the latching arm is pressed aside with a fingertip to permit removal of the receptacle cover. One of the covers has prongs which engage openings in the receptacle to prevent the safety cover assembly from being rotated around the mounting screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Inventor: David B. Pierce
  • Patent number: 5474122
    Abstract: The invention relates to a facade plate, assembly and heat exchanger, and relates in particular to a facade plate for securement to a tube plate of a heat exchanger, and to an assembled heat exchanger.In order to avoid, or reduce the frequency of, replacement of the tubes and tube plates of a heat exchanger, damaged as by erosion and corrosion, we disclose a facade plate for securement to at least a part of a heat exchanger tube plate, said facade plate having apertures conforming to the openings in the said part of the tube plate. We also disclose a facade assembly and fitted heat exchanger, and a method of fitting the facade plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Inventor: David B. Pierce
  • Patent number: 5019390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel antineoplastic agent, designated IMIC (Inhibitor of Mevalonate Incorporation Into Cholesterol) having the following characteristics:(a) is present in the retentate of dialyzed skim milk;(b) is non-dialyzable;(c) has general properties of pyrimidines;(d) is bound to a protein in the proteose-peptone fration of milk;(e) is soluble in water;(f) is insoluble in organic solvents;(g) is stable in acid;(h) is not bound or retained by a C.sub.18 or C.sub.8 reverse phase HPLC columns;(i) is not retained by a C.sub.18 or silica gel sep. pak;(j) has .lambda. maximum absorbance at 208 nm and 278 nm (UV) in neutral ad acidic solution and in a basic solution at 223 and 290 nm;(k) provides peaks with a retention time of 7.52 minutes upon fractionation by HFLC on a Biorad Aminex resin column (30 cm .times.7.9 nm) with 0.05 NH.sub.2 SO.sub.4 as the mobile phase and with a flow rate of 0.7 ml/minute;(l) provides peaks with a retention time of 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. McCarthy, deceased, Arun Kilara, David B. Pierce