Patents by Inventor A. Jones

A. Jones 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).

  • Process for preparation of oligomeric or polymeric compounds using selective Michael addition
    Patent number: 8524958
    Abstract: A method of preparing an oligomeric or polymeric compound in a liquid solution is disclosed which consists of reacting a Michael donor compound with a Michael acceptor compound in the presence of a first catalyst and a Group IA and/or Group IIA metal ion catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. Jones, Steven H. Nahm
  • Racking system for deep fryer
    Patent number: 8522671
    Abstract: A system for a deep fryer having a frypot containing a cooking Medium including a holder that carries a food product to be cooked in the cooking medium and a motor operatively connected to the holder that lowers the holder into the cooking medium. The system further includes a sensor that detects contact of the holder when the holder is immersed in the cooking medium; and a controller including a timer that commences cooking the food product when the sensor contacts holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Frymaster L.L.C.
    Inventors: Douglas S. Jones, Henry Preston Hutson
  • Hospital bed having alert light
    Patent number: 8525682
    Abstract: A bed includes a frame, a controller coupled to the frame, and a patient position detection system coupled to the frame and coupled to the controller. The patient position detection system has multiple modes of operation of varying sensitivities for determining whether a person supported on the frame has moved by a sufficient amount to activate an alarm. The frame includes a plurality of barriers. An alert light is coupled to one of the barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Dixon, Douglas J. Menkedick, William L. Jacques, II, James W. Jones, James K. Findlay, Jack Wilker, Jr., Eugene E. Osborne, Carl W. Riley
  • Off-device service platform discovery
    Patent number: 8526924
    Abstract: Many mobile devices can access websites on the Internet. A mobile device running a web server application can host websites and provide services. For a first mobile device to access services on a second mobile device, the first mobile device needs the IP address of the second mobile device. The first mobile device sends a connection request to the second mobile device. The first mobile device receives, from the second mobile device, the network address of the second mobile device, identification of services that are available on the second mobile device, and a security token. The first mobile device selects a service and sends an HTTP or HTTPS request for the service to the network address of the second mobile device, and also sends the security token. The second mobile device authenticates the request based on the token and allows the first mobile device to access the selected service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Brandon C. Annan, Dhananjay Indurkar, John M. Jones, III
  • Vertebrae Support Device and Method
    Publication number: 20130226238
    Abstract: A vertebrae support device and method. An embodiment of a method of using the vertebrae support device by a person includes disposing a resting surface of a vertebrae support device on a substantially flat horizontal surface, and lying on the vertebrae support device such that muscles on the left side of a vertebrae column of the person are supported on a first rail of the vertebrae support device, the muscles on the right side of the vertebrae column of the person are supported on a second rail of the vertebrae support device, and the thoracic and lumbar portions of the vertebrae column of the person lying on the vertebrae support device are disposed unsupported in a trough between the first rail and the second rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Kevin D. Jones
  • SEQUENTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF A REPLICATION DEFECTIVE ADENOVIRUS VECTOR IN VACCINATION PROTOCOLS
    Publication number: 20130224144
    Abstract: Methods for generating immune responses using adenovirus vectors that allow multiple vaccinations with the same adenovirus vector and vaccinations in individuals with preexisting immunity to adenovirus are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Etubics Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph P. Balint, Frank R. Jones, Richard B. Gayle, III
  • METHOD OF DETECTION OF USER CONFUSION HAVING FOLLOW-UP INSTRUCTIONS
    Publication number: 20130224693
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing instructions to a user of a vehicle wherein the vehicle includes a plurality of sensors and a display screen. Instructions related to a vehicle operation are provided to the user by using the method comprising the steps of sensing by a sensor of a signal containing information regarding a condition indicative of confusion or human trigger of confusion, transmitting the signal containing the information regarding the confusion from the sensor to a processor, and then displaying instructions to the user on the display screen within the vehicle regarding how to remedy the confusion regarding the vehicle operation. The human trigger is sensed by a sensor or a plurality of sensors and includes detection of confusion when the vehicle user is pressing multiple buttons, incorrect buttons, pressing the same button multiple times, or a lack of pressing any buttons or triggers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Earnee Jones Gilling, Rebecca L. Kirschweng
  • METHOD TO GRAPHICALLY DISPLAY A VEHICLE CONDITION
    Publication number: 20130224721
    Abstract: A method for graphically displaying a vehicle condition within an automotive vehicle is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving information from a sensor on a vehicle regarding a vehicle condition. The vehicle condition is measured against a predetermined level for that specified vehicle condition. The method then determines if the vehicle condition is above the predetermined level. If the vehicle condition is above the predetermined level, the method then transmits information regarding the vehicle condition to a processor connected to a display screen. The method then proceeds to graphically display the vehicle condition on a vehicle within the vehicle by means of a graphical replication of an image replication of the actual vehicle condition in the actual vehicle being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Earnee Jones Gilling
  • Optical Waveguide Arrangements Comprising An Auxiliary Waveguide - Like Structure
    Publication number: 20130223790
    Abstract: An optical waveguide arrangement is provided which comprises an active ridge waveguide structure 12 formed by etching of a semiconductor substrate 1, 2, 3. There is also provided an auxiliary waveguide-like structure 8 formed on the substrate adjacent the active ridge waveguide structure 12 to control the etched profile of the active waveguide structure. The arrangement of the auxiliary structure 8 on the substrate controls the etched profile over the cross-section of the active waveguide structure 12 and along the length of the active waveguide structure 12. Advantageously, this arrangement reduces or eliminates the disadvantages associated with etch-process induced asymmetries in the shape of closely spaced waveguides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: OCLARO TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen K. Jones, Peter J. Williams
  • BEARING ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20130223997
    Abstract: A bearing assembly that includes a first bearing, a second bearing, a spring and a sleeve. The spring applies a preload to each of the bearings, and the sleeve surrounds the spring and the bearings. The sleeve includes an end portion that extends axially beyond the first bearing. The end portion includes a step down in the outer diameter that defines a seat for an o-ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Matthew John Childe, Geoffrey Michael Burlington, David Michael Jones
  • TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALS OVER A REDUCED NUMBER OF PHYSICAL CHANNELS
    Publication number: 20130223293
    Abstract: Transmitting a bidirectional, virtual differential signal in addition to other differential signals over physical communication channels. Thus, four signal lines can provide three differential signals, where the virtual differential signal is bidirectional. The virtual differential signal can be provided over one or more of the other physical communication channels. Additional configurations allow for providing a bidirectional DC power supply. Additional configurations allow for providing DC power in addition to data over a reduced number of lines. Selective switching of signal lines can allow backward and forward interoperability with other standard interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Graeme P. Jones, Glenn L. Marks
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRALLY SERIALIZING A CAST PART
    Publication number: 20130220567
    Abstract: A method of serializing a cast part includes providing a mold for a metal casting, with the mold including an inner face partially defining a part cavity; laser engraving a representation of the two-dimensional data matrix into the inner face of the mold; and forming a serialized part by pouring molten metal into the part cavity of the mold, where the molten metal fills the part cavity including the engraved representation of the two-dimensional data matrix. The two-dimensional data matrix being generated by an electronic controller and includes error correcting information and part identifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stephen L. Jones, Barry L. Priem, Aram H. Papazian
  • FORMULATIONS COMPRISING POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL
    Publication number: 20130225692
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a solid formulation for oral administration as a solid comprising polyethylene glycol and a further solid such as mannitol. The formulation may be used to prevent gastrointestinal disorders such as constipation in healthy subjects. In some embodiments, the solid formulation is chewable or suckable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Stein, Leighton Jones, Samuel Smith, Ian Cox, Jörg Plessl
  • OUTLIER DETECTION TOOL
    Publication number: 20130226519
    Abstract: A test results screening tool allows capture of test item and test results data and provides a reviewer with a robust set of tools for entering screening criteria and display of test results by both test subject and test center. The tool includes parametrically sets flags for unwanted testing behaviors including test item harvesting, test subjects with pre-knowledge of the test subject matter, and proxy test takers for some a portion of a test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: NATIONAL ASSOC. OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY
    Inventors: Paul E. Jones, Joy L. Matthews-López
  • METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR AMELIORATING THE EFFECTS FOR A SUBJECT EXPOSED TO RADIATION OR OTHER SOURCES OF OXIDATIVE STRESS
    Publication number: 20130224281
    Abstract: Radiation-oxidative exposure treatment compositions may include a mixture of micronutrient multivitamin and trace elements, a mixture of antioxidants and chemopreventative agents, and optionally a mixture of fatty acids. Methods of treatment of a subject exposed to a radiation source or an oxidative stress with the radiation-oxidative exposure treatment composition may include the step of administering to the subject a daily dose of the radiation-oxidative exposure treatment composition such that the life shortening effects induced by the radiation source or the oxidative stress are ameliorated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space, Amerisciences, LP
    Inventors: Carlos A. Montesinos, Jeffrey A. Jones
  • Shear Bond Strength of Set Cement
    Publication number: 20130220612
    Abstract: Subterranean operations include methods of cementing well bores. Disclosed methods include the steps of coating at least a portion of the walls of a formation well bore with a resin, introducing a cement composition into the formation well bore, and allowing the cement composition to set to provide a set cement sheath, wherein a shear bond strength of the set cement sheath in the presence of the resin coating is greater than a shear bond strength of the cement composition or a shear bond strength of the resin, each individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Dwane Karcher, Misty Dawn Rowe, Paul Joseph Jones
  • BICYCLIC DIAMINES AS JANUS KINASE INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20130225577
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of formula I which are Jak inhibitors, and as such are useful for the treatment of Jak-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: David Joseph Guerin, Jason D. Brubaker, Michelle Martinez, Joon O. Jung, Neville J. Anthony, Mark E. Scott, Carolyn Michele Cammarano, Dawn Marie Mampreian Hoffman, Hyun Chong Woo, Christopher J. Dinsmore, Philip Jones
  • GENERATING A SEARCH SET OF TELEVISION WHITE SPACE CHANNELS BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20130223357
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at an electronic device, information associated with a location of the first electronic device. An initial set of television white space channels is filtered based on the information to generate a search set of television white space channels. A passive scan of the search set of television white space channels is performed at the electronic device to identify a television white space access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vincent K. Jones, Hemanth Sampath, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Tevfik Yucek, Santosh Paul Abraham
  • TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILM DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130220412
    Abstract: A method of producing a transparent electrode suitable for use in an organic semiconductor photovoltaic device. First and second silanes (3) are deposited from the vapour phase on a substrate (1) and bind to the surface of the substrate. A metal film (4) is then deposited from the vapour phase and binds to both the first and second silanes so as to produce a transparent metal layer having a thickness which is no greater than about 15 nanometres. The first silane is a non-amino functional silane and the second silane is an aminofunctional silane. The electrode may be flexible, using a polymer substrate (1). The metal film (4) may be provided with a plurality of apertures (5), provided for example by masking the substrate with microspheres (2) while depositing the metal and subsequently removing the microspheres, and/or annealing the metal so that apertures appear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: University of Warwick
    Inventors: Ross Andrew Hatton, Helena Maria Stec, Timothy Simon Jones
  • SPECIFIC REGULATION OF CYTOKINE LEVELS BY HDAC6 INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20130225543
    Abstract: The invention provides for methods of treating a disease using HDAC6 inhibitors that modulate the extracellular level of a subset of cytokines. The invention also provides for compositions for treating a disease associated with a modulation in the extracellular level of a subset of cytokines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Acetylon Pharmaceuticals
    Inventors: Simon S. Jones, Matthew Blair Jarpe