Patents by Inventor Thomas Pease

Thomas Pease 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: 11918792
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dose detection system for use with a medication delivery device in which a dose setting member rotates relative to an actuator during dose delivery. The dose detection system includes a module which is removably attached to the medication delivery device. The module includes a rotation sensor attached to the actuator during dose delivery. A sensed element is attached to the dose setting member and includes surface features detectable by the rotation sensor. The rotation sensor comprises a following member including a contact portion resting against and spring-biased in the direction of the surface features. The contact surface is positioned to move over the surface features during rotation of the sensed element, and the rotation sensor is responsive to the movement of the contact portion over the surface features to detect the rotation of the dose setting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Antonelli, William Churchill Taliaferro Burke, Roy Howard Byerly, Christopher Robert McCaslin, Ethan Edward Pease, Kenneth Alan Ritsher
  • Patent number: 5771378
    Abstract: An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide information to the system and receive information from the system. The system also includes storage for a plurality of text documents, and at least one processor, coupled to the front end processors and the document storage. The processor(s) search the text documents according to a search request provided by the user and provide to the front end processor a predetermined number of retrieved documents containing at least one term of the search request. The retrieved documents have higher ranks than documents not provided to the front end processor. The ranks are calculated using a formula that varies according to the square of the frequency in each of the text documents of each of the search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Reed Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: John Holt, David James Miller, X. Allan Lu, Ray Daley, Minh Doan, Richard G. Graham, Catherine Leininger, Darin W. McBeath, Thomas Pease, Stephen M. Sever, Dale Waddell, Franz Weckesser
  • Patent number: 5761497
    Abstract: An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide information to the system and receive information from the system. The system also includes storage for a plurality of text documents, and at least one processor, coupled to the front end processors and the document storage. The processor(s) search the text documents according to a search request provided by the user and provide to the front end processor a predetermined number of retrieved documents containing at least one term of the search request. The retrieved documents have higher ranks than documents not provided to the front end processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Reed Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: John Holt, David James Miller, Ray Daley, Thomas Pease
  • Patent number: 5692176
    Abstract: An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide information to the system and receive information from the system. The system also includes storage for a plurality of text documents, and at least one processor, coupled to the front end processors and the document storage. The processor(s) search the text documents according to a search request provided by the user and provide to the front end processor a predetermined number of retrieved documents containing at least one term of the search request. The retrieved documents have higher ranks than documents not provided to the front end processor. The ranks are calculated using a formula that varies according to the square of the frequency in each of the text documents of each of the search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Reed Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: John Holt, David James Miller, X. Allen Lu, Ray Daley, Minh Doan, Richard G. Graham, Catherine Leininger, Darin W. McBeath, Thomas Pease, Steven M. Sever, Dale Waddell, Franz Weckesser
  • Patent number: 4112585
    Abstract: A level indicating instrument permitting simultaneous reading in two horizontal and/or vertical planes, one of which planes may be preset to any desired deviation from the horizontal. A pair of straight-edges perpendicular to each other along their long axis are coupled to a bubble indicator of the bull's-eye type. The bubble indicator may be rotated relative to the straight edges and set to indicate vertically or horizontally or any desired preset angle between vertical and horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Alproco, Inc.
    Inventor: William Thomas Pease