Patents by Inventor Kenneth S. Brown
Kenneth S. Brown 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: 11944596Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to an enteral feeding device for hydrolyzing triglycerides in a nutritional formula. The device may include a body housing a chamber, an inlet configured to fluidly couple with a source of nutritional formula, and an outlet configured to fluidly couple with an enteral feeding tube. The device may include a headspace and a plurality of particles contained within the chamber, wherein the lipase is covalently bonded to the plurality of particles. The device may include an inlet filter located between the inlet and the chamber, wherein the inlet filter contains a first plurality of openings, and an outlet filter located between the chamber and the outlet, wherein the outlet filter has a second plurality of openings smaller than the plurality of particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Gallotto, Greta L. Loring, Kenneth Gary, Edward S. Park, David J. Brown, Willem Robert Klaas Schoevaart, Michiel Christian Alexander van Vliet
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Patent number: 11911357Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to an enteral feeding device for hydrolyzing triglycerides in a nutritional formula. The device may include a body housing a chamber, an inlet configured to fluidly couple with a source of nutritional formula, and an outlet configured to fluidly couple with an enteral feeding tube. The device may include a headspace and a plurality of particles contained within the chamber, wherein the lipase is covalently bonded to the plurality of particles. The device may include an inlet filter located between the inlet and the chamber, wherein the inlet filter contains a first plurality of openings, and an outlet filter located between the chamber and the outlet, wherein the outlet filter has a second plurality of openings smaller than the plurality of particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Gallotto, Greta L. Loring, Kenneth Gary, Edward S. Park, David J. Brown, Willem Robert Klaas Schoevaart, Michiel Christian Alexander van Vliet
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Patent number: 11700844Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: James W. Austin, Cheryl Ann Leichter, Kenneth S. Brown
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Publication number: 20230172182Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: BASF CorporationInventors: James W. Austin, Cheryl Ann Leichter, Kenneth S. Brown
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Patent number: 11477973Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: BASF CORPORATIONInventors: James H. Cink, Greggory K. Storey, Kyle K. Jordan, James W. Austin, Charles E. Evanhoe, Bart Ivy, Daniel W. Engels, Daniel Freeman, Kenneth Lauffenburger, Thomas Dills, Kenneth S. Brown, Cheryl Leichter
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Patent number: 11192784Abstract: A method for making a metal-hydride slurry includes adding metal to a liquid carrier to create a metal slurry and hydriding the metal in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry. In some embodiments, a metal hydride is added to the liquid carrier of the metal slurry prior to hydriding the metal. The metal can be magnesium and the metal hydride can be magnesium hydride.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Safe Hydrogen, LLCInventors: Kenneth S. Brown, Jr., David D. G. Bowen, Andrew W. McClaine
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Publication number: 20210267186Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: BASF CorporationInventors: James W. Austin, Cheryl Ann Leichter, Kenneth S. Brown
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Patent number: 11051504Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: James W Austin, Cheryl A Leichter, Kenneth S Brown
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Patent number: 10729116Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: BASF CORPORATIONInventors: James H. Cink, Greggory K. Storey, Kyle K. Jordan, James W. Austin, Charles E. Evanhoe, Bart Ivy, Daniel W. Engels, Daniel Freeman, Kenneth Lauffenburger, Thomas Dills, Kenneth S. Brown, Cheryl Leichter
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Publication number: 20200196588Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: BASF CorporationInventors: James W. Austin, Cheryl A. Leichter, Kenneth S. Brown
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Publication number: 20200180951Abstract: A method for making a metal-hydride slurry includes adding metal to a liquid carrier to create a metal slurry and hydriding the metal in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry. In some embodiments, a metal hydride is added to the liquid carrier of the metal slurry prior to hydriding the metal. The metal can be magnesium and the metal hydride can be magnesium hydride.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Kenneth S. Brown, JR., David D.G. Bowen, Andrew W. McClaine
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Publication number: 20200165126Abstract: Among other things, hydrogen is released from water at a first location using energy from a first energy source; the released hydrogen is stored in a metal hydride slurry; and the metal hydride slurry is transported to a second location remote from the first location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Andrew W. McClaine, Kenneth S. Brown, JR.
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Patent number: 10570012Abstract: A method for making a metal-hydride slurry includes adding metal to a liquid carrier to create a metal slurry and hydriding the metal in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry. In some embodiments, a metal hydride is added to the liquid carrier of the metal slurry prior to hydriding the metal. The metal can be magnesium and the metal hydride can be magnesium hydride.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Safe Hydrogen, LLCInventors: Kenneth S. Brown, Jr., David D. G. Bowen, Andrew W. McClaine
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Patent number: 10549990Abstract: Among other things, hydrogen is released from water at a first location using energy from a first energy source; the released hydrogen is stored in a metal hydride slurry; and the metal hydride slurry is transported to a second location remote from the first location.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Safe Hydrogen, LLCInventors: Andrew W. McClaine, Kenneth S. Brown, Jr.
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Patent number: 10420332Abstract: In a method for treating soil at a work site, a first pressure application tool is connected to a base unit and moved relative thereto along a first area of the work site adjacent a structure and operated to inject soil treatment down into the soil along the first area of the work site. A second pressure application tool is interchanged with the first pressure application tool and moved relative to the base unit along a second area of the work site adjacent the structure and different from the first area of the work site. The second pressure application tool is operated to apply soil treatment to the soil along the second area of the work site.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: James H. Cink, Kenneth S. Brown, Richard A. Warriner
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Publication number: 20190239499Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: James H. CINK, Greggory K. STOREY, Kyle K. JORDAN, James W. AUSTIN, Charles E. EVANHOE, Bart IVY, Daniel W. ENGELS, Daniel FREEMAN, Kenneth LAUFFENBURGER, Thomas DILLS, Kenneth S. BROWN, Cheryl LEICHTER
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Publication number: 20190119106Abstract: A method for making a metal-hydride slurry includes adding metal to a liquid carrier to create a metal slurry and hydriding the metal in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry. In some embodiments, a metal hydride is added to the liquid carrier of the metal slurry prior to hydriding the metal. The metal can be magnesium and the metal hydride can be magnesium hydride.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Kenneth S. Brown, JR., David D.G. Bowen, Andrew W. McClaine
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Publication number: 20190000060Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: James H. CINK, Greggory K. STOREY, Kyle K. JORDAN, James W. AUSTIN, Charles E. EVANHOE, Bart IVY, Daniel W. ENGELS, Daniel FREEMAN, Kenneth LAUFFENBURGER, Thomas DILLS, Kenneth S. BROWN, Cheryl LEICHTER
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Patent number: 10098275Abstract: In a system (10) for managing a soil treatment business, an injection apparatus (12) is operable to inject soil treatment under high pressure down into soil. A control system (92) is associated with the injection apparatus (12) and is configured to collect data during operation of the injection apparatus (12). A data management system (801) is configured to receive the data collected by the injection apparatus (12) control system (92). The data management system (801) generally comprises a database for storing the collected data, with the data management system being accessible by the business for reviewing the collected data.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.Inventors: James H. Cink, Kenneth S. Brown, Richard A. Warriner, Jeffrey Douglas Vannoy
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Patent number: 10085435Abstract: A pest control and detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant, consumable, and displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes at least one of a thermoplastic material and a resin.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: James H. Cink, Greggory K. Storey, Kyle K. Jordan, James W. Austin, Charles E. Evanhoe, Bart Ivy, Daniel W. Engels, Daniel Freeman, Kenneth Lauffenburger, Thomas Dills, Kenneth S. Brown, Cheryl Leichter