Patents by Inventor Thomas McNeill

Thomas McNeill 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).

  • Small interfering RNAS with target-specific seed sequences
    Patent number: 9434942
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for design and synthesis of siRNA libraries, siRNA libraries produced thereby, siRNA molecules, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations, AG
    Inventors: Xiang Huang, Thomas McNeill, Mike Schweiner
  • INTERFERING RNAs THAT PROMOTE ROOT GROWTH
    Publication number: 20140047582
    Abstract: siRNA, miRNA and amiRNA molecules having plant root growth promoting activity, compositions comprising the same, and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Xiang Huang, Thomas McNeill, Michael Schweiner, Peter Wittich
  • Aggregated subscriber profile based on static and dynamic information
    Patent number: 8583642
    Abstract: Static user information such as address, title, phone number(s), email address(es) and dynamic user information such as location, calendar, current phone number(s), etc. are combined in a dynamically updateable subscriber contact card for publishing to other applications. The subscriber contact card also includes user defined access controls for restricting access to portions of the information by select users. Other applications provide services such as communication services based on up-to-date information through the subscriber contact card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Gupta, Ginger Tien, Marcelo D. Truffat, Thomas McNeill, Li Qing Xia, Eran Shtiegman, Kelly Rollin
  • Providing contextual information automatically
    Patent number: 7702798
    Abstract: A facility is described for providing contextual information automatically. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication to start a conversation, automatically determines an identification for an item indicated by the indication, encodes the identification in a message, and sends the message so that a recipient of the message can locate the item. The facility can include a responder component and an initiator component. The initiator component can receive an identification for contextual information and an identification of the responder, initiate a conversation with the responder's computing device, and automatically encode the received indication of the contextual information in a message that it sends to the responder component so that the responder component can cause a link to the contextual information to be provided that, when selected, causes an application executing on the responder's computing device to load the contextual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Elena Apreutesei, Edward G. Simnett, Eran Shtiegman, Frank Shao, Sahib Aulakh, Marc Boyer, Thomas McNeill
  • PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY
    Publication number: 20070071187
    Abstract: A facility is described for providing contextual information automatically. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication to start a conversation, automatically determines an identification for an item indicated by the indication, encodes the identification in a message, and sends the message so that a recipient of the message can locate the item. The facility can include a responder component and an initiator component. The initiator component can receive an identification for contextual information and an identification of the responder, initiate a conversation with the responder's computing device, and automatically encode the received indication of the contextual information in a message that it sends to the responder component so that the responder component can cause a link to the contextual information to be provided that, when selected, causes an application executing on the responder's computing device to load the contextual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Elena Apreutesei, Edward Simnett, Eran Shtiegman, Frank Shao, Sahib Aulakh, Marc Boyer, Thomas McNeill
  • Battery charging apparatus
    Patent number: 6859012
    Abstract: A load, such as a cordless telephone handset, is powered by a rechargeable battery. The battery is recharged, when the load is not in use, by a battery charger which is controlled by a usage timer which totals the amount of time that the load has drawn power from the battery since the last recharging cycle. The usage timer causes operation of the battery charger to be inhibited until after a predetermined cumulative use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing, S.A.
    Inventor: James Thomas McNeill
  • Battery charging apparatus
    Publication number: 20040164710
    Abstract: A load, such as a cordless telephone handset, is powered by a rechargeable battery. The battery is recharged, when the load is not in use, by a battery charger which is controlled by a usage timer which totals the amount of time that the load has drawn power from the battery since the last recharging cycle. The usage timer causes operation of the battery charger to be inhibited until after a predetermined cumulative use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventor: James Thomas McNeill