Patents by Inventor Alan Murray

Alan Murray 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: 20150345136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to furniture and devices and a system for forming working areas within open spaces. More specifically, the present invention relates to furniture, devices and systems that can be used to create individual working areas and offices in an open space with the ability to create privacy similar to an enclosed office without constructing permanent walls and partitions. The invention includes a main support frame/structure supported off the floor which receives and connects to component panels also supported off the floor which function like office walls. The configuration of the resulting compartments is adjustable using different sized panels and by positioning panels and opening in different locations. The system has an open top configuration with an upward lighting system integral to the top support member and inside it to provide upward lighting to the space(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Cristina Azario, Nicholas Thatos, Michael Siporin, David Rockwell
  • Patent number: 9195990
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for review content traffic are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method, implemented on a processor, for reviewing advertisement placement on webpages is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Integral Ad Science, Inc.
    Inventors: David Brett Hahn, Alan Murray
  • Publication number: 20150316240
    Abstract: The present invention is a chandelier with a height adjustment system comprising a counterweight located within a pair of vertically positioned rails connected to a chandelier by two wires corrected to the top of the counterweight on one end and to the chandelier at the other. The counterweight is configured (weighted) such that it is close in weight to the chandelier such that the chandelier can be easily raised or lowered by moving the counterweight by hand down or up within the vertical rails. The pair of wires traverse up between the vertical rails over a first pair of pivoting pulleys located above the counterweight. The pair of wires further traverse over a second pair of pivoting pulleys located above the chandelier and then down to the top of the chandelier where each of the wires are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Cristina Azario, Nicholas Thatos, Michael Siporin, David Rockwell
  • Patent number: 9102743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immunogenic polypeptide isolated from Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and variants of the polypeptide. The polypeptide and variants may be used in vaccines against Johne's disease and in methods for detection of the disease. Antibodies against the polypeptide or variants may be used in diagnostic tests for Johne's disease. Also included are polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide and variants, and methods for preparing these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: MASSEY UNIVERSITY, INSTITUT PASTEUR
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Christine Dupont
  • Patent number: 9103134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to furniture and devices and a system for forming working areas within open spaces. More specifically, the present invention relates to furniture, devices and systems that can be used to create individual working areas and offices in an open space with the ability to create privacy similar to an enclosed office without constructing permanent walls and partitions. The invention includes a main support frame/structure supported off the floor which receives and connects to component panels also supported off the floor which function like office walls. The configuration of the resulting compartments is adjustable using different sized panels and by positioning panels and opening in different locations. The system has an open top configuration with an upward lighting system integral to the top support member and inside it to provide upward lighting to the space(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Cristina Azario, Nicholas Thatos, Michael Siporin, David Rockwell
  • Publication number: 20150091573
    Abstract: A system and method for transporting a hyperpolarized substance is disclosed. A transport vessel for transporting such a hyperpolarized substance includes a vessel housing, a chamber formed within the vessel housing that is configured to receive a container holding a hyperpolarized substance, and an electromagnet configured to generate a magnetic containment field about the chamber when a current is supplied thereto, the magnetic containment field comprising a homogeneous magnetic field. The transport vessel also includes a non-magnetic power source to supply the current to the electromagnet and a control circuit configured to selectively interrupt the supply of current to the electromagnet so as to control generation of the magnetic containment field, with the transport vessel being magnetically inert when the supply of current to the electromagnet is interrupted by the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicants: General Electric Company, The United States of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Serv
    Inventors: Timothy William Skloss, Jonathan Alan Murray, Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Murali K. Cherukuri, Marcelino Bernardo, Nallathamby Devasahayam
  • Publication number: 20140058853
    Abstract: Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: David Luttrell, JR., Alan Murray, Christopher L Chapman
  • Publication number: 20140058852
    Abstract: Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: David Luttrell, JR., Alan Murray, Christopher L. Chapman
  • Publication number: 20140058851
    Abstract: Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: David Luttrell, JR., Alan Murray, Christopher L. Chapman
  • Patent number: 8595072
    Abstract: Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Integral Ad Science, Inc.
    Inventors: David Luttrell, Jr., Alan Murray, Christopher L. Chapman
  • Patent number: 8312846
    Abstract: An animal loading and unloading apparatus is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the animal loading/unloading apparatus includes a base having a ramp space, a fence carried by the base and a ramp extendable from the ramp space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Alan Murray
  • Publication number: 20110313850
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for review content traffic are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method, implemented on a processor, for reviewing advertisement placement on webpages is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: David Brett Hahn, Alan Murray
  • Publication number: 20110270073
    Abstract: An electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) system includes a resistive magnet driven by a power supply such as a power supply module to generate radio frequency signals in a substantially coherent polyphase perfect sequence scheme. The EPRI system further includes image acquisition and processing electronics configured to generate, acquire, quantify and map pO2 information associated with a free radical agent in vivo and having a resonance line width that is sensitive to oxygen and in response to the radio frequency signals without imparting harmful heating effects to a corresponding human or animal body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jan-Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Jonathan Alan Murray, Fraser John Laing Robb, Ralph Eugene Hurd, Victor Taracila
  • Publication number: 20110125895
    Abstract: The system and method described herein for providing scorecards to visualize services in an intelligent workload management system may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads. In particular, the management threads may converge information for describing services, applications, workloads, in an information technology infrastructure. For example, a discovery engine may reference an identity vault to capture enriched models of an infrastructure, and a management infrastructure may then generate one or more scorecards that can be used to manage the infrastructure. In particular, the scorecards may provide information for tuning or otherwise controlling risk, complexity, cost, availability, and agility versus rigidness in the infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Novell; Inc.
    Inventors: Eric W.B. Anderson, Alan Murray, Adam Spiers
  • Publication number: 20110106634
    Abstract: Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: David Luttrell, JR., Alan Murray, Christopher L. Chapman
  • Publication number: 20110040586
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing social networking-based advertisements are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, methods for providing social networking-based advertisements to users are provided, the method comprising: collecting user information relating to a user from a user profile on a social networking website, wherein the user information includes relationship data that describes a social network of members of the social networking website connected to the user; determining whether the user information has missing attributes; in response to determining that the user information has missing attributes, deriving the missing attributes from users profiles associated with the members of the social network; using the collected user information and the missing attributes to select an advertisement; and providing the selected advertisement to the user and at least one member of the social network associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Joshua Abram, Rodney Hook, Balaji Devarajan
  • Publication number: 20110041168
    Abstract: Systems and methods for targeting online advertisements using data derived from social networks are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Joshua Abram, Rodney Hook, Balaji Devarajan
  • Publication number: 20100330560
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immunogenic polypeptide isolated from Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and variants of the polypeptide. The polypeptide and variants may be used in vaccines against Johne's disease and in methods for detection of the disease. Antibodies against the polypeptide or variants may be used in diagnostic tests for Johne's disease. Also included are polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide and variants, and methods for preparing these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Christine Dupont
  • Patent number: 7758875
    Abstract: The invention provides a vaccine comprising secreted protein derived from Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis (M. ptb) substantially free of whole organisms of that species either dead or alive. The secreted protein may be obtained from a culture of M. ptb with the microorganisms being removed by centrifugation and subsequent filtration. The vaccine may be used for vaccination against Johne's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignees: Massey University, The New Zealand Meat Board, Wool Production Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Christine DuPont, Jeremy Lawrence Rae
  • Patent number: D740042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventors: Alan Murray, Cristina Azario, Nicholas Thatos, Michael Siporin, David Rockwell