Patents by Inventor Louise Barrett

Louise Barrett 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).

  • MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160121329
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and in particular microfluidic devices incorporating a cascading valve arrangement for selectively controlling the flow of a fluid within the microfluidic device are described. Specific examples of a microfluidic device comprising a sacrificial valve (210) whose opening is triggered by the opening of a second valve (220), causing a retraction of a fluid spacer (213) thus bringing liquid (214) into contact with the dissolvable valve membrane (210).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: David Kinahan, Jens Ducree, Nikolay Dimov, Sinead Kearney, Elizaveta Vereshchagina, Jennifer Gaughran, Robert Burger, Louise Barrett
  • Method and apparatus for determining endpoints for use as testing devices
    Patent number: 7352705
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a digital network having a plurality of subnetworks by determining by one of a plurality of user endpoint devices assigned to one of the plurality of subnetworks upon the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices being idle that the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices should perform the functions of a testing user endpoint device for the one of the plurality of subnetworks; identifying the one of plurality of user endpoint devices to a server or a distributed system of servers as a testing user endpoint device; obtaining the identifies of other testing user endpoint devices in other ones of the plurality of subnetworks from the server; and testing the network by transmission of test packets to other ones of the testing user endpoint devices in the other ones of the plurality of subnetworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Akshay Arun Adhikari, Karen Louise Barrett, Lorraine Denby, Neil Hepworth, Jean Meloche
  • Chewy confectionery product
    Patent number: 6531174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chewy confectionery product, preferably a chewy sweet product, and to methods for making such products. The chewy confectionery product contains oxidized starch, optionally in combination with a gum such as gum arabic, as a replacement for at least a part and preferably all of the gelatin in the product. The chewy confectionery product has the property of providing a long-lasting cohesive chew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Louise Barrett, Jamie Edward Geddes, Santi Francesco Mangano, Frank Schmick, Andrew Steve Whitehouse
  • Chewy confectionery product
    Publication number: 20020001665
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chewy confectionery product, preferably a chewy sweet product, and to methods for making such products. The chewy confectionery product contains oxidized starch, optionally in combination with a gum such as gum arabic, as a replacement for at least a part and preferably all of the gelatin in the product. The chewy confectionery product has the property of providing a long-lasting cohesive chew.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Louise Barrett, Jamie Edward Geddes, Santi Francesco Mangano, Frank Schmick, Andrew Steve Whitehouse