Patents by Inventor Harold Norris Weller, III

Harold Norris Weller, III 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: 6432366
    Abstract: The simultaneous synthesis of diverse organic compounds is performed in stackable modules which are moveable among nesting sites located on work station platforms. The reactor module includes a block adapted to receive an array of tube-like reactor vessels. The vessels are sized to optionally accept porus polyethelyene mircocannisters with radio frequency transmitter tags. Each vessel has a bottom port connected to an outlet tube. A valve block located below the reactor vessels simultaneously controls discharge through the outlet tubes. The valve block includes plates with aligned, relatively moveable sets of rib surfaces which act through Teflon encapsulated silicone O-ring cord sections to simultaneously close rows of outlet tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Waldemar Ruediger, Wenjeng Li, John William Allen, Jr., Harold Norris Weller, III
  • Patent number: 6274094
    Abstract: The simultaneous synthesis of diverse organic compounds is performed in stackable modules which are moveable among nesting sites located on work station platforms. The reactor module includes a heat transfer block adapted to receive an array of reactor vessels, preferrably in the form of solid phase extraction cartridges without sorbent, each with an outlet port. A plurality of valves are located below the vessels. The valves consist of rows of gang-controlled stopcocks which regulate the passage of fluids from the reactor vessel outlet ports into aligned channels, each formed by a pair of threated Leur tip adapters. The reactor module may be situated over a discharge module. The inlet openings in the discharge module accept the threaded ends of the Leur tip adapters. The discharge module may consist of a multi-well collector block or a drain block. An introduction module, which includes a pressure plate having an array of openings and a septum, may be received over the reactor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Inventors: Harold Norris Weller, III, Waldemar Ruediger, R. Michael Lawrence
  • Patent number: 6267930
    Abstract: The simultaneous synthesis of diverse organic compounds is performed in stackable modules which are moveable among nesting sites located on work station platform. The reactor module includes a block adapted to receive an array of tube-like reactor vessels. The vessels are sized to optionally accept porus polyethelyene microcannisters with radio frequency transmitter tags. Each vessel has a bottom port connected to an outlet tube. A valve block located below the reactor vessels simultaneously controls discharge through the outlet tubes. The valves block includes plates with aligned, relatively moveable sets of rib surfaces which act through Teflon encapsulated silicone O-ring cord sections to simultaneously close rows of outlet tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Inventors: Waldemar Ruediger, Wenjeng Li, John William Allen, Jr., Harold Norris Weller, III
  • Patent number: 5961925
    Abstract: The simultaneous synthesis of diverse organic compounds is performed in stackable modules which are moveable among nesting sites located on work station platforms. The reactor module includes a block adapted to receive an array of tube-like reactor vessels. The vessels are sized to optionally accept porus polyethelyene mircocannisters with radio frequency transmitter tags. Each vessel has a bottom port connected to an outlet tube. A valve block located below the reactor vessels simultaneously controls discharge through the outlet tubes. The valve block includes plates with aligned, relatively moveable sets of rib surfaces which act through Teflon encapsulated silicone O-ring cord sections to simultaneously close rows of outlet tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Waldemar Ruediger, Wenjeng Li, John William Allen, Jr., Harold Norris Weller, III