Patents by Inventor Alan Frank

Alan Frank 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).

  • Publication number: 20240059666
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Patent number: 11852870
    Abstract: Optical fiber photonic integrated chip connector interfaces and photonic integrated chip assemblies utilizing low-profile optical fibers and methods thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical fiber photonic integrated chip (PIC) connector interface includes at least one low-profile optical fiber having an end face, at least one core, and a cladding layer, wherein the end face is non-rotationally symmetric with respect to the at least one core, and the cladding layer includes at least one minimum perimeter point that is a minimum distance from the at least one core as compared to remaining perimeter points of the cladding. The PIC connector interface further includes an interconnect substrate including a fiber mounting surface, and a mechanical coupling surface. The at least one low-profile optical fiber is disposed on the fiber mounting surface such that one or more surfaces of the cladding defining the at least one minimum perimeter point faces away from the fiber mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Alan Frank Evans, James Scott Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11827618
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms, such as tablets, made by these processes. Additionally, embodiments of the present invention provide tablets including 25 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg, or 200 mg free base equivalent of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methyl-piperidine-4-carbonyl)-pyridin-2-yl]-benzamide hemisuccinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Publication number: 20230322682
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes and key intermediates for the synthesis of (S)-5-amino-3-(4-((5-fluoro-2-methoxybenzamido)methyl)phenyl)-1-(1,1,1-trifluoro-propane-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Alonso Jose ARGUELLES DELGADO, Charles Todd EARY, Jared Wade FENNELL, Scott Alan FRANK, Nicholas Andrew MAGNUS, Elizabeth Ann MCFADDIN, Roger Ryan ROTHHAAR, Stacey Renee SPENCER, Radhe Krishan VAID
  • Publication number: 20230250076
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Publication number: 20230250075
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Patent number: 11658411
    Abstract: A dielectric substrate for RF, microwave, or millimeter wave devices, circuits, or surfaces includes a propagating region for transmitting or reflecting an electromagnetic field, and one or more material-filled vias located within the propagating region. The application of an external electric or magnetic field to the material-filled vias may be used to tune the electric permittivity or the magnetic permeability of the fill material and hence control the effective electric permittivity or the effective magnetic permeability of the dielectric substrate within the propagating region. A dimension of the material-filled vias may be less than half of a wavelength of the propagating electromagnetic field. The fill material may include liquid crystals, a ferroelectric crystal composite, a ferromagnetic crystal composite, organic semiconductors, and/or electro-optic or magneto-optic polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DR. ALAN EVANS BUSINESS AND SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING, LLC
    Inventor: Alan Frank Evans
  • Patent number: 11656407
    Abstract: A terahertz (THz) waveguide and method for production allows for THz waveguides to be used in or on a printed circuit board (PCB) such that the propagation of THz waves require less power, result in less signal loss due to radiation or dispersion, and propagate more efficiently. Additionally, the position and/or geometry of a waveguide, as well as any additional antenna or coupling element, may be adjusted on or in the PCB such that the electromagnetic field of the waveguide may more efficiently couple with the electromagnetic field of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Lars Martin Otfried Brusberg, Alan Frank Evans, Michael John Yadlowsky
  • Publication number: 20230137090
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-tri-fluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Patent number: 11586000
    Abstract: A fiber optic assembly is provided including a support substrate having a substantially flat surface and a signal-fiber array supported on the support substrate. The signal-fiber array includes a plurality of optical fibers. At least some of the optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers includes a first datum contact disposed between the optical fiber and an adjacent optical fiber and each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers includes a second datum contact disposed between each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers and the support substrate. A first datum surface is disposed at a top surface of each of the plurality of optical fibers opposite the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Alexander Lee Cuno, Alan Frank Evans, Hailey Perraut, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20220398628
    Abstract: The current invention's web site displays a 30-second-long advertisement every minute of the day. The remaining seconds in each minute are used to display four-digit videos of winning numbers being randomly generated for online number-matching games. The games are free to play and award valuable prizes. For each game, the digits of the winning numbers are created by randomly selecting and sequentially displaying four videos of ten balls being mixed in a transparent chamber for about seven seconds each. One ball randomly separates itself from the others. Each ball is marked with a different digit. The videos are randomly selected from a pool of 100 different pre-recorded videos of digits being randomly generated. Each digit in said pool was randomly generated ten times. The bottom ramp of the mixing chamber vibrates to prevent balls from jamming. Play is limited to one game per day unless players click on ads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Alan Frank
  • Patent number: 11372169
    Abstract: Waveguide substrates, waveguide substrate assemblies, and methods for fabricating waveguide substrates are disclosed. In one embodiment, a waveguide substrate includes an input edge, an output edge, and at least one waveguide within the waveguide substrate. The waveguide substrate further includes at least one input alignment feature within the input edge adjacent to the input end of the at least one waveguide, wherein the at least one input alignment feature is fabricated from a material of the waveguide substrate. The waveguide substrate may also include at least one output alignment feature within the input edge adjacent to the output end of the at least one waveguide, wherein the at least one output alignment feature is fabricated from the material of the waveguide substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Frank Evans, Micah Colen Isenhour, Christopher Paul Lewallen, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20220128767
    Abstract: Waveguide connector assemblies having a clamshell shell housing and methods of assembling a waveguide module assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment, a waveguide module assembly includes a first shell housing, and a second shell housing coupled to the first shell housing. The first shell housing and the second shell housing define a cavity. The waveguide module assembly further includes a waveguide substrate including at least one waveguide, a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The waveguide substrate is at least partially disposed within the cavity such that at least a portion of the first surface and at least a portion of the second surface are covered by at least one of the first shell housing and the second shell housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Alan Frank Evans, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20220082759
    Abstract: Optical fiber photonic integrated chip connector interfaces and photonic integrated chip assemblies utilizing low-profile optical fibers and methods thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical fiber photonic integrated chip (PIC) connector interface includes at least one low-profile optical fiber having an end face, at least one core, and a cladding layer, wherein the end face is non-rotationally symmetric with respect to the at least one core, and the cladding layer includes at least one minimum perimeter point that is a minimum distance from the at least one core as compared to remaining perimeter points of the cladding. The PIC connector interface further includes an interconnect substrate including a fiber mounting surface, and a mechanical coupling surface. The at least one low-profile optical fiber is disposed on the fiber mounting surface such that one or more surfaces of the cladding defining the at least one minimum perimeter point faces away from the fiber mounting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Alan Frank Evans, James Scott Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11275213
    Abstract: The methods disclosed herein include forming an expanded core in an optical fiber with a glass core having a core dopant and a core outer surface, and a glass cladding immediately surrounding the core and having a flat glass-portion surface closest to the core outer surface at a first core spacing S1. The methods include applying heat to a section of the optical fiber to cause the glass core to expand toward the flat glass-portion surface due to thermal diffusion of the core dopant. The methods also include terminating the application of heat to define the expanded core in the heated section of the optical fiber. The expanded core defines an evanescent coupling region having a second core spacing 0?S2<S1 and an adiabatic transition region between the core and the evanescent coupling region of the expanded core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Frank Evans, Davide Domenico Fortusini, Ming-Jun Li, Aramais Robert Zakharian
  • Patent number: 11256042
    Abstract: Waveguide substrate, waveguide substrate assemblies and methods of fabricating waveguide substrates having various waveguide routing schemes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a waveguide substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, and a plurality of waveguides within the waveguide substrate. The plurality of waveguides defines a plurality of inputs at the first surface. A subset of the plurality of waveguides extends to the second surface to at least partially define a plurality of outputs at the second surface. In one waveguide routing scheme, at least one branching waveguide extends between one of the first surface and the second surface to a surface other than the first surface and the second surface. Another waveguide routing scheme arranges the plurality of waveguides into optical receive-transmit pairs for duplex pairing of optical signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Frank Evans, Christian Fiebig, Claudio Mazzali, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20220013903
    Abstract: A dielectric substrate for RF, microwave, or millimeter wave devices, circuits, or surfaces includes a propagating region for transmitting or reflecting an electromagnetic field, and one or more material-filled vias located within the propagating region. The application of an external electric or magnetic field to the material-filled vias may be used to tune the electric permittivity or the magnetic permeability of the fill material and hence control the effective electric permittivity or the effective magnetic permeability of the dielectric substrate within the propagating region. A dimension of the material-filled vias may be less than half of a wavelength of the propagating electromagnetic field. The fill material may include liquid crystals, a ferroelectric crystal composite, a ferromagnetic crystal composite, organic semiconductors, and/or electro-optic or magneto-optic polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Alan Frank Evans
  • Patent number: 11204466
    Abstract: Optical fiber photonic integrated chip connector interfaces and photonic integrated chip assemblies utilizing low-profile optical fibers and methods thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical fiber photonic integrated chip (PIC) connector interface includes at least one low-profile optical fiber having an end face, at least one core, and a cladding layer, wherein the end face is non-rotationally symmetric with respect to the at least one core, and the cladding layer includes at least one minimum perimeter point that is a minimum distance from the at least one core as compared to remaining perimeter points of the cladding. The PIC connector interface further includes an interconnect substrate including a fiber mounting surface, and a mechanical coupling surface. The at least one low-profile optical fiber is disposed on the fiber mounting surface such that one or more surfaces of the cladding defining the at least one minimum perimeter point faces away from the fiber mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Alan Frank Evans, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20210356666
    Abstract: A terahertz (THz) waveguide and method for production allows for THz waveguides to be used in or on a printed circuit board (PCB) such that the propagation of THz waves require less power, result in less signal loss due to radiation or dispersion, and propagate more efficiently. Additionally, the position and/or geometry of a waveguide, as well as any additional antenna or coupling element, may be adjusted on or in the PCB such that the electromagnetic field of the waveguide may more efficiently couple with the electromagnetic field of the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Lars Martin Otfried Brusberg, Alan Frank Evans, Michael John Yadlowsky
  • Publication number: 20210341678
    Abstract: A fiber optic assembly is provided including a support substrate having a substantially flat surface and a signal-fiber array supported on the support substrate. The signal-fiber array includes a plurality of optical fibers. Al least some of the optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers includes a first datum contact disposed between the optical fiber and an adjacent optical fiber and each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers includes a second datum contact disposed between each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers and the support substrate. A first datum surface is disposed at a top surface of each of the plurality of optical fibers opposite the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Alexander Lee Cuno, Alan Frank Evans, Hailey Perraut, James Scott Sutherland