Patents by Inventor Robert D. Thompson

Robert D. Thompson 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).

  • Publication number: 20020103952
    Abstract: A lookup table is fixed in electronically readable hardware such as a ROM inside of an integrated circuit responsible for controlling or interfacing with a USB bus. An index is read and used to pick an entry in the lookup table. That entry provides a Product ID that is combined with fixed vendor information to complete the identification information provided for in the USB specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Robert D. Thompson, John Mark Carleton
  • Patent number: 5410546
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for computing CRC codes for fixed length page buffers of user data where the user data arrives from a transmission device in variable length packets with the packet contents being out of sequential order. The received data is written to a storage device after being restored to the correct sequential order. The data packets are comprised of a header portion and a data portion. The transmission and compression methods commonly employed by the transmission device dictates that the header portion of each packet follows the data portion. The present invention computes a complete CRC code for the data stored in a page buffer in real time as the packets are received by using several registers for saving intermediate CRC codes and circuitry to combine partial CRC codes for those packet portions received out of order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Keith G. Boyer, Kenneth R. Burns, Thomas H. Gohl, Terry R. Gottehrer, Bernie R. Marasco, Michael R. Stephens, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5310731
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## are disclosed, wherein R.sub.1, represents secondary alkyl; aralkyl; cycloalkyl; heteroaryl substituted alkyl; norbornyl; and substituted secondary alkyl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroaryl substituted alkyl, norbornyl; and para-substituted phenyl groups; and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are hydrogen or pharmacologically acceptable acyl groups. The compounds of the invention are useful as cardiovascular vasodilator or anti-hypertensive agents. The therapeutically useful compounds of the invention as well as similar 5'-N and N-6 substituted adenosine 5'-uronamides are prepared, in accordance with a novel process, from isopropylidene (or otherwise suitably blocked) inosine-5' -uronic acid. Isopropylideneinosine-5' -uronic acid is reacted with a suitable inorganic acid halide, such as thionyl chloride, to yield 6-halogeno-9-[ 2',3' -O-isopropylidene-.beta.-D-ribofuranosyl-5-uronic acid halide] -9H-purine. This intermediate is reacted with an amine of the general formula R.sub.4,R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Whitby Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5278150
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a compound of the formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is hydrogen or the group ##STR2## where R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, C.sub.1 to C.sub.12 linear or branched alkyl, C.sub.3 to C.sub.7 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6 to C.sub.10 aryl unsubstituted or substituted with C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 linear or branched alkyl, C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 linear or branched alkoxy, nitro, amino, amino substituted with at least one C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 linear or branched alkyl or phenyl, C.sub.2 to C.sub.10 aralkyl, C.sub.4 to C.sub.8 heteroaryl wherein said heteroatom is nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur or oxygen, and R.sub.2 is hydrogen, or taken together with R.sub.5, forms a chemical bond, and R is a monosaccharide radical selected from the group consisting essentially of glucose, fructose, ribose, 2-deoxyribose, mannose, galactose, xylose and arabinose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Whitby Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5140015
    Abstract: Compounds are disclosed having the formulae: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is selected from the group, consisting of radicals represented by the general formulae: ##STR2## wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, and halogen; Z is oxygen, sulfur or --NH, Q is --CH or nitrogen; a is zero or an integer of from one to three; andwherein, R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and straight chain, branched and cyclic hydrocarbyl radicals having from one to four carbon atoms, and optionally substituted with a hydroxyl radical; andwherein X is two hydrogen atoms or oxygen and B is selected from oxygen and nitrogen, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, with the proviso that when X is two hydrogen atoms, B is oxygen, and with the further proviso that when B is oxygen then R.sub.1 cannot be a phenyl or a substituted phenyl radical. Pharmaceutical preparations using these compounds and a method for inducing an adenosine response mediated by the adenosine A.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Whitby Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5043325
    Abstract: New, N-6 monosubstituted adenosine derivatives are disclosed which have significant cardiac vasodilatory effect. The compounds of the invention include 6-(cyclo-butyl amino)-9-(.beta.-D-ribofuranosyl)-9H-purine, 6-(2-methyl-2-phenyl hydrazino)-9-(.beta.-D-ribofuranosyl)-9H-purine, and compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is H, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, alkylamino, or arylamino, R.sub.2 is H, lower alkyl, hydroxymethyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl, R.sub.3 is H, lower alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, R.sub.3 is H, lower alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, 2 or 3-thienyl, or 2 or 3-pyridyl, R.sub.4 is H or lower alkyl, and R.sub.5 is H or lower acyl. Particularly active as a cardiac vasodilator is the compound (-)-6-(R-1-phenyl-2-butyl amino)-9-(.beta.-D-ribofuranosyl)-9H-purine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Whitby Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: RE37045
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula are disclosed, wherein R1, represents secondary alkyl; aralkyl; cycloalkyl; heteroaryl substituted alkyl; norbornyl; and substituted secondary alkyl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroaryl substituted alkyl, norbornyl; and para-substituted phenyl groups; and R2 and R3 are hydrogen or pharmacologically acceptable acyl groups. The compounds of the invention are useful as cardiovascular vasodilator or anti-hypertensive agents. The therapeutically useful compounds of the invention as well as similar 5-N and N-6 substituted adenosine 5-uronamides are prepared, in accordance with a novel process, from isopropylidene (or otherwise suitably blocked) inosine-5′-uronic acid. Isopropylideneinosine-5′-uronic acid is reacted with a suitable inorganic acid halide, such as thionyl chloride, to yield 6-halogeno-9-[2′,3′-O-isopropylidene-&bgr;-D-ribofuranosyl-5-uronic acid halide]-9H-purine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Discovery Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: D297111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Beta Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Thompson, Wayne E. Sturgeon
  • Patent number: D397891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Inventor: Robert D. Thompson
  • Patent number: D416354
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: Robert D Thompson
  • Patent number: RE36494
    Abstract: Compounds are disclosed having the formulae: ##STR1## .Iadd.wherein R' is hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; r is 0 or 1 and p is zero to four; and .Iaddend.wherein R.sub.1 is selected from the group, consisting of radicals represented by the general formulae: ##STR2## wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, and halogen; Z is oxygen, sulfur or --NH, Q is --CH or nitrogen; a is zero or an integer of from one to three; andwherein, R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and straight chain, branched and cyclic hydrocarbyl radicals having from one to four carbon atoms, and optionally substituted with a hydroxyl radical; andwherein X is two hydrogen atoms or oxygen and B is selected from oxygen and nitrogen, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, with the proviso that when X is two hydrogen atoms, B is oxygen, and with the further proviso that when B is oxygen then R.sub.1 cannot be a phenyl or a substituted phenyl radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Discovery Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ray A. Olsson, Robert D. Thompson