Patents by Inventor Robert L. Hester

Robert L. Hester 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: 20240148742
    Abstract: The disclosure describes methods of synthesis of pyridazinone compounds as thyroid hormone analogs and their prodrugs. Preferred methods according to the disclosure allow for large-scale preparation of pyridazinone compounds having high purity. In some embodiments, preferred methods according to the disclosure also allow for the preparation of pyridazinone compounds in better yield than previously used methods for preparing such compounds. Also disclosed are morphic forms of a pyridazinone compound. Further disclosed is a method for treating resistance to thyroid hormone in a subject having at least one TR? mutation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: D. Keith HESTER, II, Robert J. DUGUID, Martha J. KELLY, Anna CHASNOFF, Gang DONG, Edwin L. CROW, Lianhe SHU, Ping WANG, Duk Soon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240122936
    Abstract: The disclosure describes methods of synthesis of pyridazinone compounds as thyroid hormone analogs and their prodrugs. Preferred methods according to the disclosure allow for large-scale preparation of pyridazinone compounds having high purity. In some embodiments, preferred methods according to the disclosure also allow for the preparation of pyridazinone compounds in better yield than previously used methods for preparing such compounds. Also disclosed are morphic forms of a pyridazinone compound. Further disclosed is a method for treating resistance to thyroid hormone in a subject having at least one TR? mutation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: D. Keith HESTER, II, Robert J. DUGUID, Martha J. KELLY, Anna CHASNOFF, Gang DONG, Edwin L. CROW, Lianhe SHU, Ping WANG, Duk Soon CHOI
  • Patent number: 9841369
    Abstract: A system for analyzing a coating test on a test surface with a portable electronic device includes a hood that is at least partially open at a bottom side thereof and fixable with the portable electronic device at an opposing top side thereof. At least one lamp is fixed with an inside surface of the hood and is adapted to project light towards the open bottom side thereof. A software application is resident on a memory of the portable electronic device that directs a processor of the portable electronic device to at least a) capture an image of an original color input area (CIA) of the test surface as a reference, b) capture an image of an area of interest (AOI) of the test surface, and c) compare the AOI to the CIA to determine a percentage of the coating that has been removed in the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Inventors: Myron E. Taylor, Jr., Robert L. Hester
  • Patent number: 5312550
    Abstract: In a dialysis system wherein blood is removed from a patient's vascular system and passed through a dialyzer system comprising an inlet arterial line, a dialyzer, and an outlet venous line, the blood being fed via the inlet arterial line to the dialyzer and returned to the patient via the outlet venous line, a material having a physical property differing from that of blood is injected at a point in the venous return line. The fluid in the dialysis system upstream from the injection point is monitored for the presence of the different physical property whereby direct recirculation from the venous return line to the arterial intake line is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Inventor: Robert L. Hester