Patents by Inventor Robert Paul Wood

Robert Paul Wood 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).

  • Patent number: 9896652
    Abstract: Photobioreactors having a vertically-oriented enclosure with a thin panel shape, systems, and methods for using the same to culture productive organisms to accumulate biomass and/or make biofuels or other chemical products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Algenol Biofuels Switzerland GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Ashley, William M. Drake, II, Omatoyo Kofi Dalrymple, Edwin Malkiel, Robert Paul Woods, Jason Keith Ward, Kevin Sweeney, Harlan L. Miller, III
  • Publication number: 20160060586
    Abstract: Photobioreactors having a vertically-oriented enclosure with a thin panel shape, systems, and methods for using the same to culture productive organisms to accumulate biomass and/or make biofuels or other chemical products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: ALGENOL BIOFUELS SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Ashley, William M. Drake, II, Omatoyo Kofi Dalrymple, Edwin Malkiel, Robert Paul Woods, Jason Keith Ward, Kevin Sweeney, Harlan L. Miller, III
  • Patent number: 9139805
    Abstract: The invention provides a mixing system comprising a magnetically coupled drive system and a foil for cultivating algae, or cyanobacteria, in an open or enclosed vessel. The invention provides effective mixing, low energy usage, low capital expenditure, and ease of drive system component maintenance while maintaining the integrity of a sealed mixing vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Algenol Biotech LLC
    Inventors: Harlan Miller, III, George Meichel, Edward Legere, Edwin Malkiel, Robert Paul Woods, Oliver Ashley, Joseph Katz, Jason Ward, Paul Petersen
  • Patent number: 8684592
    Abstract: The invention provides a mixing system comprising a magnetically coupled drive system and a foil for cultivating algae, or cyanobacteria, in an open or enclosed vessel. The invention provides effective mixing, low energy usage, low capital expenditure, and ease of drive system component maintenance while maintaining the integrity of a sealed mixing vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Algenol Biofuels Inc.
    Inventors: Harlan Miller, III, George Meichel, Edward Legere, Edwin Malkiel, Robert Paul Woods, Oliver Ashley, Joseph Katz, Jason Ward, Paul Petersen
  • Publication number: 20140011264
    Abstract: The invention provides genetically modified photoautotrophic ethanol producing host cells. Ethanol production is controlled by an inducible promoter. Promoters utilized may be endogenous or heterologous, and genetic modification may be obtained by extrachromosomal means or chromosomal insertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Algenol Biofuels Inc.
    Inventors: Ulf Duhring, Heike Enke, Dan Kramer, Craig Smith, Robert Paul Woods, Kerstin Baier, Christine Oesterhelt
  • Patent number: 8586353
    Abstract: The invention provides a device for growing genetically enhanced aquatic photoautotrophic organisms in a stable culture, causing the organisms to produce ethanol, and then separating, collecting, and removing the ethanol in situ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Algenol Biofuels Switzerland GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Paul Woods, Edwin Malkiel, Benjamin Moll, Edward Legere
  • Patent number: 8398296
    Abstract: The invention provides a mixing system comprising a magnetically coupled drive system and a foil for cultivating algae, or cyanobacteria, in an open or enclosed vessel. The invention provides effective mixing, low energy usage, low capital expenditure, and ease of drive system component maintenance while maintaining the integrity of a sealed mixing vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Algenol Biofuels Inc.
    Inventors: Harlan Miller, III, George Meichel, Edward Legere, Edwin Malkiel, Robert Paul Woods, Oliver Ashley, Joseph Katz, Jason Ward, Paul Petersen
  • Patent number: 8300823
    Abstract: Described is a process for encrypting and compressing data for storage by computing systems. A data stream received by a computing system is separated into data chunks for storage on a storage device using a data layout format. Each data chunk is examined and if possible, compressed to produce a compressed data chunk. Whether or not the data chunk can be compressed, the data chunk is encrypted and stored on the storage device in addition to metadata that describes the data chunk. When reading the stored data chunk from the storage device, the metadata identifies the starting location of the stored data chunk and provides metadata information to the computing system for decryption and decompression processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Hristo Bojinov, Yuval Frandzel, Robert Paul Wood
  • Patent number: 7865741
    Abstract: A system and method securely replicates a configuration database of a security appliance. Keys stored on an original configuration database of an original security appliance are organized as a novel key hierarchy. A replica or clone of the original security appliance may be constructed in accordance with a cloning technique of the invention. Construction of the cloned security appliance illustratively involves sharing of data between the appliances, as well as substantially replicating the key hierarchy on a cloned configuration database of the cloned appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Wood, Robert Jan Sussland
  • Patent number: 7739301
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the invention distributes, and effectively caches, information by inserting it into file handles that the proxy sends to clients. This information can be used to improve performance by eliminating the need for the proxy to generate additional requests to the server to establish file identity. The distributed information can also be intended to improve security, for example, by allowing the proxy to encode into the file handle a session key that expires after some amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Hristo Iankov Bojinov, Hiroshi Ishii, Robert Paul Wood, Serge Plotkin
  • Publication number: 20090190760
    Abstract: Described is a process for encrypting and compressing data for storage by computing systems. A data stream received by a computing system is separated into data chunks for storage on a storage device using a data layout format. Each data chunk is examined and if possible, compressed to produce a compressed data chunk. Whether or not the data chunk can be compressed, the data chunk is encrypted and stored on the storage device in addition to metadata that describes the data chunk. When reading the stored data chunk from the storage device, the metadata identifies the starting location of the stored data chunk and provides metadata information to the computing system for decryption and decompression processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: NETWORK APPLIANCE, INC.
    Inventors: Hristo Bojinov, Yuval Frandzel, Robert Paul Wood
  • Patent number: 6699696
    Abstract: The invention provides a genetically modified Cyanobacteria having a construct comprising DNA fragments encoding pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adh) enzymes obtained from the Zymomonas mobilis plasmid pLOI295. The Cyanobacteria are capable of producing ethanol in recoverable quantities of at least 1.7 &mgr;mol ethanol per mg of chlorophyll per hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Enol Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Woods, John Robert Coleman, Ming De Deng
  • Publication number: 20020042111
    Abstract: The invention provides a genetically modified Cyanobacteria having a construct comprising DNA fragments encoding pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adh) enzymes obtained from the Zymomonas mobilis plasmid pLOI295. The Cyanobacteria are capable of producing ethanol in recoverable quantities of at least 1.7 &mgr;mol ethanol per mg of chlorophyll per hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Enol Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Woods, John Robert Coleman, Ming De Deng
  • Patent number: 6306639
    Abstract: The invention relates to the genetic modification of Cyanobacteria for the production of ethanol, and more particularly, to the genetic modification of Cyanobacteria by incorporating the genetic information encoding for pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adh).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Enol Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Woods, John Robert Coleman, Ming De Deng