Patents by Inventor Kenneth Thomson
Kenneth Thomson 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: 11935540Abstract: A method may include obtaining first audio data originating at a first device during a communication session between the first device and a second device. The method may also include obtaining an availability of revoiced transcription units in a transcription system and in response to establishment of the communication session, selecting, based on the availability of revoiced transcription units, a revoiced transcription unit instead of a non-revoiced transcription unit to generate a transcript of the first audio data. The method may also include obtaining revoiced audio generated by a revoicing of the first audio data by a captioning assistant and generating a transcription of the revoiced audio using an automatic speech recognition system. The method may further include in response to selecting the revoiced transcription unit, directing the transcription of the revoiced audio to the second device as the transcript of the first audio data.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Sorenson IP Holdings, LLCInventors: David Thomson, David Black, Jonathan Skaggs, Kenneth Boehme, Shane Roylance
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Patent number: 10509032Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid-liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to trans-port an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ALERE SWITZERLAND GMBHInventors: Phillip Lowe, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Claus Marquordt, Ruth Polwart, Alan Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20180059105Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid-liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to trans-port an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND GMBHInventors: Phillip Lowe, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Claus Marquordt, Ruth Polwart, Alan Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 9618506Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid-liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to transport an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND GMBHInventors: Phillip Lowe, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Claus Marquordt, Ruth Polwart, Alan Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 8318937Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (A), (B) or (C): wherein P is H, CH3 or a hydroxyl protecting group; X is O, a protected ketone, OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; Y is OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; W is C(CH3)2OH, C(CH3)(C(CH3)3)OH or COCH3; Z is C2-C10 alkyl or C2-C10 arylalkyl; and is a single bond or a double bond, is disclosed. The process is a reductive alkylation in the presence of hydrogen and a reductive alkylation catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Melville Mitchell, Neil Kenneth Thomson, George Scott Wilson, Neil John Goodwin, Maureen Joan Young
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Publication number: 20120046466Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (A), (B) or (C): wherein P is H, CH3 or a hydroxyl protecting group; X is O, a protected ketone, OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; Y is OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; W is C(CH3)2OH, C(CH3)(C(CH3)3)OH or COCH3; Z is C2-C10 alkyl or C2-C10 arylalkyl; and is a single bond or a double bond, is disclosed. The process is a reductive alkylation in the presence of hydrogen and a reductive alkylation catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Melville Mitchell, Neil Kenneth Thomson, George Scott Wilson, Neil John Goodwin, Maureen Joan Young
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Patent number: 8119803Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (A), (B) or (C): wherein P is H, CH3 or a hydroxyl protecting group; X is O, a protected ketone, OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; Y is OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; W is C(CH3)2OH, (CH3)(C(CH3)3)OH or COCH3; Z is C2-C10 alkyl or C2-C10 arylalkyl; and is a single bond or a double bond, is disclosed. The process includes reductive alkylation in the presence of hydrogen and a reductive alkylation catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Melville Mitchell, Neil Kenneth Thomson, George Scott Wilson, Neil John Goodwin, Maureen Joan Young
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Publication number: 20110144341Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (A), (B) or (C): wherein P is H, CH3 or a hydroxyl protecting group; X is O, a protected ketone, OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; Y is OH, a protected hydroxyl group or H; W is C(CH3)2OH, C(CH3)(C(CH3)3)OH or COCH3; Z is C2-C10 alkyl or C2-C10 arylalkyl; and is a single bond or a double bond, is disclosed. The process is a reductive alkylation in the presence of hydrogen and a reductive alkylation catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Melville Mitchell, Neil Kenneth Thomson, George Scott Wilson, Neil John Goodwin, Maureen Joan Young
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Publication number: 20110053289Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid-liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to trans-port an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND GMBHInventors: Phillip Lowe, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Claus Marquordt, Ruth Polwart, Alan Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 7718392Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. First, a culture of the microorganism whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. Next, the assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Creighton UniversityInventors: Jennifer A. Black, Ellen S. Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 7452691Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting production of antibiotic-inactivating factor and for determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps, a culture of the microorganism suspected of producing inactivating factors and/or whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. The assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine production of antibiotic-inactivating factors and/or the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Creighton UniversityInventors: Jennifer A. Black, Ellen S. Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20080102483Abstract: A method for determining whether a microorganism produces an AmpC ?-lactamase is disclosed in which a culture of a microorganism suspected of producing a ?-lactamase that inactivates a ?-lactam-containing antibiotic is admixed with an effective amount of each of i) a ?-lactam-containing antibiotic, ii) a ?-lactamase inhibitor to which AmpC ?-lactamase is resistant, and iii) a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing amount to form an assay culture. That assay culture in maintained under appropriate culture conditions and for a time period sufficient to determine the interaction of the microorganism with the AmpC ?-lactamase resistant inhibitor and antibacterial compound, and thereby determine the presence of an AmpC ?-lactamase, wherein a positive test indicates the presence of an AmpC ?-lactamase.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventors: Jennifer Black, Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 7335485Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. First, a culture of the microorganism whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. Next, the assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Creighton UniversityInventors: Jennifer A. Black, Ellen S. Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20080026418Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. First, a culture of the microorganism whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. Next, the assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Jennifer Black, Ellen Smith Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20070190592Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting production of antibiotic-inactivating factor and for determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. a culture of the microorganism suspected of producing inactivating factors and/or whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. The assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine production of antibiotic-inactivating factors and/or the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Jennifer Black, Ellen Smith Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20070087592Abstract: An electrical device includes terminals encased within a housing and having distal ends connectable to two different circuit boards to provide a reliable electrical connection between the circuit boards. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are electrically connected through terminals that are embedded within the housing. Openings within the two circuit boards provide for electrical communication and continuity between the two circuit boards by a mating interference fit with the terminals. The electric contact provided by the interference fit between the terminal and the opening is dependable through extreme temperature ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: Siemens VDO Automotive CorporationInventors: Kenneth Thomson, Karl Laue
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Publication number: 20070082376Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. First, a culture of the microorganism whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. Next, the assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: Jennifer Black, Ellen Smith Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Patent number: 7166442Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the antibiotic susceptibility of a microorganism comprising the following steps. First, a culture of the microorganism whose susceptibility is to be determined is admixed with an antibiotic to which susceptibility is to be assayed, and a permeabilizing agent for the microorganism present in a non-growth-inhibiting microorganism-permeabilizing effective amount to form an assay culture. Next, the assay culture is incubated under appropriate culture conditions and for a time sufficient to determine the susceptibility of the microorganism to the antibiotic.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Creighton UniversityInventors: Jennifer A. Black, Ellen S. Moland, Kenneth Thomson
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Publication number: 20060175916Abstract: A permanent magnet DC motor 10 having electro-magnetic interference (EMI) suppression includes a metal motor housing 12 and a brush card assembly 34. The brush card assembly includes brushes 20 and leads 24 constructed and arranged to be coupled with a source of power to power the motor. A brush card housing 14 has a first portion 18 housing the brushes and a second portion 22, integral with the first portion, and housing the leads. A printed circuit board 26 is mounted with respect to the second portion of the housing and carries at least one electro-magnetic interference (EMI) suppression component 30 constructed and arranged to suppress EMI generated by the motor. The leads are electrically connected to the printed circuit board so that current can be provided through the printed circuit board to the brushes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2005Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Kenneth Thomson, Robet Bent
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Publication number: 20060100547Abstract: An apparatus and a method for using an ultrasonic medical device to reinforce bone. An ultrasonic medical device ablates a marrow in a bone to create a channel in the bone for injection of a bone supporting compound to reinforce and strengthen the bone. An ultrasonic probe of the ultrasonic medical device is inserted through an introducer and into the bone to engage the marrow. An ultrasonic energy source is activated to provide an ultrasonic energy to the ultrasonic probe to ablate the marrow. The ultrasonic probe is moved within the bone to ablate the marrow in the bone and create the channel in the bone. A bone supporting compound is injected into the channel to reinforce the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2004Publication date: May 11, 2006Inventors: Robert Rabiner, Bradley Hare, Kenneth Thomson