Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Bryan D. Wright
  • Patent number: 6713638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): wherein: R3 is selected from the group consisting of 1-napthyl, 2-napthyl and cycloalkylphenyl; and R4 and R5 taken together form a ring having from 5 to 10 carbon atoms. Additionally, the invention provides a therapeutic method for preventing or treating a pathological condition or symptom in a mammal subject, such as a human, wherein increased angiogenesis is desired, comprising administering to a mammal in need of such therapy an effective amount of the aforementioned thiophene selective adenosine A1 allosteric enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Inventors: Joel M. Linden, Ray A. Ollson, Peter J. Scammells
  • Patent number: 6561468
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for mounting and displaying a taxidermy display, usually a bird or fowl. A bird is mounted on a rod appropriately sized to the birds size and weight. Said rod may be bent to effect the desired presentation of the mounted bird. Types of mounts include landing birds, flying birds right and left directions, or others not traditionally used. The bird is secured on the rod eliminating wires for holding the bird and eliminating driftwood as a mounting base. The resulting combination of the rod with its ability to be bent to and then holding the desired position, the affixing of the bird to that rod, and the affixing of the rod to a mounting base which may be securely affixed to a wall provides unsurpassed stability for the mounted bird. The rod being fixedly or adjustably joined to the mounting base also provides a permanent and more stable mounting apparatus than the heretofore unstable methods of mounting birds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Inventor: Don Williamson
  • Patent number: 6364902
    Abstract: Metal composite tubes offer advantages in constructing biomedical device components such as stents. The composite tube comprises a cylindrical wall made of a biocompatible metal matrix with a filament or filaments of other metals that add radiopacity, and/or other advantageous mechanical or physical properties. The filaments are generally oriented along the length of the tube and are surrounded by the wall of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Noble-Met, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roger C. Dickenson, John Freeland
  • Patent number: 6279492
    Abstract: A method of burning tires in a horizontally rotating combuster includes the steps of loading the tires into a rotating combustion chamber through a traveling air lock and burning them until they are reduced to ash; enhancing combustion by tumbling the burning tires in a tapered rotating chamber while adding preheated draft air; controlling the intake draft air using thermal expansion of the rotary combustion chamber to activate the draft control valve; advancing the residual ash with each successive revolution of the combustion chamber by use of angled flights on the inner surface of the chamber to an afterburner for completion of the combustion and disposal of the ash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Atlantic Pacific Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack B. Larson, James C. Branscome