Patents by Inventor Howard J. Greenwald
Howard J. Greenwald 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).
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Patent number: 7491263Abstract: A gas storage assembly that has an enclosure within which are disposed at least about 100 inorganic tubules are present for each cubic micron of volume of the enclosure. The assembly has a storage capacity of at least 20 grams of hydrogen per liter of volume of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Technology Innovation, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald
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Patent number: 7473843Abstract: An assembly for shielding an implanted medical device from the effects of high-frequency radiation and for emitting magnetic resonance signals during magnetic resonance imaging. The assembly includes an implanted medical device and a magnetic shield comprised of nanomagnetic material disposed between the medical device and the high-frequency radiation. In one embodiment, the magnetic resonance signals are detected by a receiver, which is thus able to locate the implanted medical device within a biological organism.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Biophan Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert W. Gray, Michael L. Weiner
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Publication number: 20080119421Abstract: A process for treating a biological organism, comprising the steps in which a cell cycle arresting drug is administered to the organism to produce synchronized cells, the microtubules within the synchronized cells are stabilized by means of a microtubule stabilizing agent, and the synchronized cells with the stabilized microtubules are then contacted with mechanical vibrational energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2004Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventors: Jack Tuszynski, Howard J. Greenwald, Stephen H. Curry, Kendrick Goss
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Patent number: 7162302Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent; and it is bonded to the medical device by means of an interlayer with a thickness of less than about 10 microns. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Nanoset LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Ronald E. Miller, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert Gray
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Patent number: 7127294Abstract: A magnetically shielded assembly with a medical device located near biological tissue. The assembly contains a device for limiting the amount of current flowing through the biological tissue, and a magnetic shield. The magnetic shield is located over at least a portion of the medical device, and it contains nanomagnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Nanoset LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald
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Patent number: 7091412Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Ronald E. Miller, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert Gray
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Patent number: 7001162Abstract: A guided rotor compressor that contains at least three hollow rollers, each of which has a sheath surrounding a core. The coefficient of friction of the sheath and the core is from about 0.01 to about 0.15, but the coefficient of friction of the core is at least 1.2 times as great as the coefficient of friction of the sheath. The core has a cross-sectional area that is at least about 1.5 times as great as the cross-sectional area of the said sheath. Each of the core and the sheath has a coefficient of thermal expansion of from about 1×10?5 to about 20×10?5. Each of the core and the sheath has a a notch Izod impact strength of from about 50 Joule-meters to about 100 Joule-meters.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Inventors: Ewan Choroszylow, Giovanni Aquino, Howard J. Greenwald
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Patent number: 6980865Abstract: An implantable device that contains a power source, a device for producing electrical signals, and a conductor assembly for communicating the electrical signals to biological matter. The conductor assembly contains of a conductor that is capable of being flexed at least about 15 degrees and that has a resistivity at 20 degrees Centigrade of from about 1 to about 100 micro ohm-centimeters. The conductor assembly also contains a magnetic shield located above the flexible conductor; the magnetic shield contains an antithrombogenic composition. The magnetic shield also contains a magnetic shielding material that has a magnetic shielding factor of at least about 0.5.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2002Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Howard J. Greenwald
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Patent number: 6971391Abstract: An assembly for protecting biological tissue from the effects of heating. The assembly contains a conductor in contact with the biological tissue and forming an electrical circuit comprising the biological tissue. The assembly contains a device for modifying the impedance of the electrical circuit such that, at a frequency of from about 10 megahertz to about 150 megahertz, such impedance is at least about 0.5 ohms per centimeter of length of said conductor. The assembly also contains a device for limiting the flow of current through the biological tissue such that, when the assembly is exposed to an alternating current electromagnetic field at a frequency of 64 megahertz and a magnetic field strength of 1.5 Tesla for 15 minutes, the temperature of the biological tissue does not exceed 42 degrees Celsius.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert W. Gray
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Patent number: 6864418Abstract: A shielded substrate assembly that contains a magnetic shield with a layer of magnetic shielding material; the magnetic shield has a magnetic shielding factor of at least about 0.5. The magnetic shield contains nanomagnetic material nanomagnetic material with a mass density of at least about 0.01 grams per cubic centimeter, a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers. The nanomagnetic material contains magnetic material with a coherence length of from about 0.1 to about 100 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald
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Publication number: 20040256131Abstract: A shielded substrate assembly that contains a magnetic shield with a layer of magnetic shielding material; the magnetic shield has a magnetic shielding factor of at least about 0.5 The magnetic shield contains nanomagnetic material nanomagnetic material with a mass density of at least about 0.01 grams per cubic centimeter, a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers. The nanomagnetic material contains magnetic material with a coherence length of from about 0.1 to about 100 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald
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Publication number: 20040254419Abstract: A therapeutic assembly that contains a therapeutic agent, a ctyotoxic radioactive material, and a nanomagnetic material with nanomagnetic particles. The nanomagentic particles have an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers; and the average coherence length between adjacent nanomagnetic particles is less than 100 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, John Lanzafame, Michael L. Weiner, Patrick R. Connelly
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Publication number: 20040249428Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent; and it is bonded to the medical device by means of an interlayer with a thickness of less than about 10 microns. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Ronald E. Miller, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert Gray
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Publication number: 20040230271Abstract: A shielded medical device implanted in a biological organism. The device has a magnetic shield, and the magnetic shield contains a layer of nanomagnetic material; such layer has a morphological density of at least 98 percent. The nanomagnetic material in such layer has a saturation magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2004Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Ronald E. Miller, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert Gray
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Publication number: 20040225213Abstract: An assembly for shielding an implanted medical device from the effects of high-frequency radiation and for emitting magnetic resonance signals during magnetic resonance imaging. The assembly includes an implanted medical device and a magnetic shield comprised of nanomagnetic material disposed between the medical device and the high-frequency radiation. In one embodiment, the magnetic resonance signals are detected by a receiver, which is thus able to locate the implanted medical device within a biological organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert W. Gray, Michael L. Weiner
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Patent number: 6815609Abstract: A magnetically shielded substrate assembly includes a substrate and, disposed over the substrate, a magnetic shield with a magnetic shielding factor of at least about 0.5. The magnetic shield has a film of nanomagnetic material containing at least about 40 weight percent of nomagnetic material with a mass density of at least about 0.01 grams per cubic centimeter, a saturization magnetization of from about 1 to about 36,000 Gauss, a coercive force of from about 0.01 to about 5,000 Oersteds, a relative magnetic permeability of from about 1 to about 500,000, and an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers. This film of nanomagnetic material has a squareness of from about 0.5 to about 1.0.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Ronald E. Miller
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Publication number: 20040210289Abstract: A composition containing nanomagnetic particles. The, nanomagnetic particles have an average particle size of less than about 100 nanometers, a saturation magnetization of from about 2 to about 2,000 electromagnetic units per cubic centimeter, a phase transition temperature of from about 40 to about 200 degrees Celsius, and a squareness of from about 0.05 to about 1.0; the average coherence length between adjacent nanomagnetic particles is less than about 100 nanometers; and the nanomagnetic particles are at least triatomic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald
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Publication number: 20040164291Abstract: A nanoelectrical material with an average particle size of less than 100 nanometers, a surface area to volume ratio of from about 0.1 to about 0.05 l/nanometer, and a relative dielectric constant of less than about 1.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Xingwu Wang, Ronald Miller, Howard J. Greenwald
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Patent number: 6765144Abstract: An assembly for shielding an implanted medical device from the effects of high-frequency radiation and for emitting magnetic resonance signals during magnetic resonance imaging. The assembly includes an implanted medical device and a magnetic shield comprised of nanomagnetic material disposed between the medical device and the high-frequency radiation. In one embodiment, the magnetic resonance signals are detected by a receiver, which is thus able to locate the implanted medical device within a biological organism.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Nanoset, LLCInventors: Xingwu Wang, Howard J. Greenwald, Jeffrey L. Helfer, Robert W. Gray, Michael L. Weiner
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Patent number: 6688857Abstract: A system for compressing gas comprised of a liquid lubricated rotary positive displacement compressor system. The system contains a rotary positive displacement compressor, a device for separating a mixture of gas and liquid to produce a separated liquid connected to the compressor, a device for cooling the separated liquid to produce a cooled separated liquid, and a device for feeding the cooled separated liquid into the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventors: Ewan Choroszylow, Giovanni Aquino, Howard J. Greenwald