Patents Assigned to wills
  • Small molecule cellular reprogramming to generate neuronal cells
    Patent number: 10500232
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are described herein for chemically inducing cells to change their differentiation state and become neuronal cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: The J. David Gladstone Ins., a testamentary trust established under the Will of J. David Gladstone
    Inventors: Changsheng Lin, Sheng Ding
  • AUTO-LOCKING TELESCOPING MAST
    Publication number: 20190368216
    Abstract: An auto-lock assembly for a telescoping mast having a plurality of telescoping tube sections configurable between a retracted position and an extended position is disclosed herein. Also disclosed herein is a telescoping mast, which includes a plurality of telescoping mast sections including a base tube, an intermediate tube, and an end tube, the intermediate and end tube adapted to be telescopically received in the base tube, a base auto-lock having a collar for mounting to the base tube, and an intermediate auto-lock having a collar for mounting to the intermediate tube. Further disclosed herein is an auto-lock for use with a telescoping mast having a plurality of tube sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventors: Cameron Jay Young, Rexford Richard Mast, Ng Kah Fei
  • Methods for treatment of retinal disease by photoreceptor gene expression modulation
    Patent number: 10363256
    Abstract: Methods for decreasing rod gene expression in a retina, methods for decreasing the protein products expressed by rod genes in a retina, methods for treating a disease or condition treatable by decreasing rod gene expression or their protein products in a retina, and methods for treating a retinal disease in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: University of Washington, The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a Testamentary Trust Established Under the Will of J. David Gladstone
    Inventors: Thomas A. Reh, Paul Nakamura, Sheng Ding
  • FOLDING LIGHT TOWER
    Publication number: 20190145613
    Abstract: A folding light tower is provided that utilizes a 4-bar linkage mechanism which enables full vertical extension of the tower with the use of one actuator. The exemplary tower generally includes a base, a lower lift arm, and an upper lift arm. Spring elements are used near the rotating joints of the lower lift arm and upper lift arm of the tower. The spring elements act to preload the joints and help to remove play and movement when the tower is unfolded/during the vertical extension process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventors: Paul Bradford Blackwelder, Andrew Paul Wasson
  • MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MULTI-COMPONENT ALLOYING STEEL WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND HIGH WEAR-RESISTANCE AND HOT ROLLED PLATE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190071743
    Abstract: This invention provides a manufacturing method of a multi-component alloying steel with high strength and high wear-resistance and a hot rolled plate thereof. The weight percentages of the chemical composition of the wear-resistant steel above is as follows: C: 1.0-1.2%, Si: 0.6-1.0%, Mn: 8.0-10.0%, P<0.02%, S<0.02%, Cr: 1.5-2.5%, Mo: 0.2-0.5%, V: 0.6-1.0%, Nb: 0.02-0.06%, Ti: 0.01-0.1%, Al: 0.03-0.08%, and the rest are Fe and unavoidable impurities. The manufacturing process of the hot rolled plate of the wear-resistant steel includes the steel making, continuous casting, heating, hot rolling and heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: TIANJIN WILL LONG SCI.&TECH CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Junxiang WANG, Honglin YUE
  • Apparatus for bi-directional load testing of driven piles and injection piles, and method thereof
    Patent number: 10167608
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out bi-directional load testing of close ended driven piles and injection piles utilizing a hydraulic jack, comprising an enclosure for housing the hydraulic jack. The apparatus includes a first hollow body, a second hollow body and a third hollow body. The first hollow body has an open upper end, an open lower end, and a base for attaching the top of the hydraulic jack. The second hollow body has an open upper end, an open lower end, and a base for attaching the base of the hydraulic jack. The third hollow body has an open upper end and an open lower end, and has an inner diameter corresponding to the outer diameter of the first hollow body and the second hollow body, the third hollow body being capable of being axially received by both the first hollow body and the second hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: WILL N WELL PROPERTY SDN BHD
    Inventor: Yee Kong Wai
  • Apparatus for bi-directional load testing of driven piles and injection piles, and method thereof
    Patent number: 10151076
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out bi-directional load testing of close ended driven piles and injection piles utilizing a hydraulic jack, comprising an enclosure for housing the hydraulic jack (13). The enclosure (1) includes a first hollow body (10) a second hollow body (15). The first hollow body (10) had a covered upper end (10a) and an open lower end (10b), with the upper end being capped by an attached top plate (11) having an external surface (11a) which the lower end (81b) of a first pile (81) may be axially attached to, and an internal surface (11b). The open lower end (10b) has a cut-out (12) originating on the edge of the open end (10b) of the first hollow body for receiving a hydraulic connection (14) for the jack (13). The second hollow body (15) is capable of housing the hydraulic jack (13), has an open upper end (15a) and a lower end (15b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: WILL N WELL PROPERTY SDN BHD
    Inventor: Yee Kong Wai
  • Reprogramming fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes
    Patent number: 10144915
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are described herein for chemically inducing cells that express a single pluripotency transcription factor to change their differentiation state and become cardiac cells, cardiac progenitor cells, cardiomyocytes, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES, A TESTAMENTARY TRUST ESTABLISHED UNDER THE WILL OF J. DAVID GLADSTONE
    Inventors: Haixia Wang, Sheng Ding
  • Substituted benzoxazine and related compounds
    Patent number: 10087151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds including but not limited to of any one of formulas Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, and IV to VI, VIIa, VIIb, VIIIa, VIIIb and VIIIc as described herein and their tautomers and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, compositions, and methods of uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES, A TESTIMENTARY TRUST ESTABLISHED UNDER THE WILL OF J. DAVID GLADSTONE
    Inventors: Andrey S. Tsvetkov, Steven M. Finkbeiner, Michael A. Pleiss, Robert Greenhouse
  • Novelty Toilet Sticker
    Publication number: 20180190165
    Abstract: A novelty toilet sticker depicting a human face caricature is configured for application to a conventional toilet having a lid and a rim with an opening. The sticker includes an upper portion that is applied to the lid and a separate lower portion that is applied to the rim. A first part of the human face caricature is printed on the upper portion and a second part of the human face caricature is printed on the lower portion. When the upper portion and the lower portion are applied to the toilet, they cooperate to depict the human face caricature with a mouth severed between the upper portion and the lower portion to flank the opening. Thus, the sticker presents a complete depiction of the human face caricature on the toilet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: The Will Joseph Schreiber Revocable Living Trust
    Inventor: Will Joseph Schreiber
  • Methods for reprogramming differentiated non-cardiac cells into cardiomyocytes
    Patent number: 9982231
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are described herein for chemically inducing cells to change their differentiation state and become cardiac progenitor cells or cardiomyocytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES, A TESTAMENTARY TRUST ESTABLISHED UNDER THE WILL OF J. DAVID GLADSTONE
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Sheng Ding
  • METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF RETINAL DISEASE BY PHOTORECEPTOR GENE EXPRESSION MODULATION
    Publication number: 20180125847
    Abstract: Methods for decreasing rod gene expression in a retina, methods for decreasing the protein products expressed by rod genes in a retina, methods for treating a disease or condition treatable by decreasing rod gene expression or their protein products in a retina, and methods for treating a retinal disease in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicants: University of Washington, The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a Testamentary Trust Established Under the Will of J. David Glads
    Inventors: Thomas A. Reh, Paul Nakamura, Sheng Ding
  • Generating definitive endoderm and pancreatic progenitor cells
    Patent number: 9909104
    Abstract: Compositions and methods of producing mammalian cell populations that include a high proportion of definitive endoderm cells, posterior foregut-like progenitor cells, pancreatic progenitor cells and/or pancreatic beta cells are described herein. Such cell populations are useful for treatment of diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a testamentary trust established under the Will of J. David Gladstone
    Inventors: Sheng Ding, Ke Li, Saiyong Zhu
  • Retainer ring for chemical-mechanical polishing device
    Patent number: 9827647
    Abstract: A retainer ring for a chemical-mechanical polishing device. The ring prevents damage that occur during polishing work and being usable in stable fashion up until a predetermined lifespan has elapsed, by ensuring that a first ring body mounted on the chemical-mechanical polishing device and a second ring body making contact with a polishing pad are firmly coupled together by means of securing bodies which pass through coupling holes in the first ring body and are coupled to recessed coupling parts in the second ring body, and also by means of adhesive parts which are provided in the coupling holes or the recessed coupling parts and adhere and secure the securing bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: WILL BE S & T CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Bok Lee, Jun-Je Lee
  • Latch for sequentially extended mechanical mast
    Patent number: 9670948
    Abstract: A latch assembly and telescoping mast having a plurality of telescoping tube sections including the same wherein the latch assembly includes a first latch member mounted to an associated first tube section, a second latch member mounted to an associated second tube section and configured to selectively engage the first latch member to interlock the first and second associated tubes when the associated first tube section is at least partially extended from the associated second tube section, and a trigger member mounted to an associated third tube section. The second latch member includes a latch housing having an opening configured to receive the trigger post when the second associated tube section is retracted into the third associated tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: THE WILL-BURT COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Wasson, Douglas Anthony Jacobs
  • Method for scale adjustment of touch-based measurement equipment
    Patent number: 9582185
    Abstract: A method for scale adjustment of touch-based measurement equipment has steps of providing a touch-based screen with a waveform area; determining if a first-direction gesture or a second-direction gesture is present on the waveform area; when the first-direction gesture is present, determining if an object touches one of two portions of the waveform area divided along a second direction of the waveform area and incrementing or decrementing a first scale when positive; and when the second-direction gesture is present, determining if an object touches one of two portions of the waveform area divided along a first direction of the waveform area and incrementing or decrementing a second scale. Scale adjustment on touch-based measurement equipment using one finger can be implemented with the foregoing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Good Will Instrument Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan-Long Huang, De-En Yan
  • Toggle latch for sequentially extended mechanical mast
    Patent number: 9574590
    Abstract: A telescoping mast having a latch assembly includes a latch body mountable to a first tube section, a latch mechanism supported by the latch body, a toggle mechanism operatively connected to the latch mechanism, and a latch plate mountable to a second tube section. The latch mechanism includes a pawl member pivotably between an engaged position for interlocking with a corresponding recess in the latch plate to thereby restrict axial movement between the first and second tube sections, and a disengaged position allowing relative axial movement between the first and second tube sections. The toggle mechanism is movable between an over-center locked configuration corresponding to the engaged position of the latch mechanism and an unlocked configuration corresponding to the disengaged position of the latch member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventors: Neil David Dykes, Paul B. Blackwelder, Anatol Kwartler, Rexford R. Mast, Andrew Paul Wasson, Michael James Kardohely, Douglas A. Jacobs
  • Tool handle
    Patent number: D799932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Orbis Will GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Andreas H. Groten, Markus Jepping
  • Play construction kit
    Patent number: D830473
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HEROES WILL RISE, INC.
    Inventor: Cas Holman
  • Mechanical connection play system
    Patent number: D830474
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Heroes Will Rise, Inc.
    Inventor: Cas Holman