Patents by Inventor Alan Rhodes
Alan Rhodes 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).
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Patent number: 11441092Abstract: A method of making a coating solution includes the steps of polymerising an initial monomer feed comprising an N-vinyl pyrrolidone and an acrylate, preferably methacrylate, salt in water to synthesise a copolymer thereof, acidifying the resulting copolymer-water mixture to give free carboxylic acid groups along the copolymer backbone, diluting the aqueous solution down with alcohol, and adding a cross-linking agent which is capable of reacting with the carboxylic acid groups and curing the copolymer at a later stage after the coating solution has been applied to a substrate and the copolymer coated thereon. Also disclosed are a coating solution in storage, a method of coating a substrate which is on, or is part of, a medical device or other article, a substrate, article or medical device having a coating so applied, and a coated medical device packaged in a hydration solution.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: BIOINTERACTIONS LIMITEDInventors: Alan Rhodes, Bethany Sheila Huddart
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Patent number: 10647406Abstract: A closed-angle composite airfoil spar is provided for an airfoil assembly. The composite airfoil spar comprises a web portion having a thickness. The composite airfoil spar also comprises a flange portion having a thickness. The flange portion extends transverse to the web portion. The composite airfoil spar further comprises a radius portion interconnecting the web and flange portions. The radius portion is an acceptable amount thinner relative to thickness of the web portion and thickness of the flange portion based on design requirements and material properties.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Eric E Deck, Charles Alan Rhodes, Jeffry K Berner
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Patent number: 10338564Abstract: A system for processing a work-piece including a sheet of material into pieces includes a production environment configured for collecting data characterizing the work-piece and for subsequently cutting the work-piece into a plurality of products; and a development environment separate from the production environment, the development environment configured for receiving characterization data from the production environment, developing a nesting strategy for cutting the work-piece and providing the nesting strategy.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: GERBER TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Thomas A. Gordon, William T. Lord, Todd Alan Rhodes
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Patent number: 10251982Abstract: New ampholyte biomaterial compounds containing ampholyte moieties are synthesized and integrated into polymeric assemblies to provide hydrophilic polymers exhibiting improved biocompatibility, haemocompatibility, hydrophilicity non-thrombogenicity, anti-bacterial ability, and mechanical strength, as well as suitability as a drug delivery platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: BioInteractions Ltd.Inventors: Fanny Burrows, John E. Mckendrick, Alan Rhodes, Simon J. Onis, Shivpal S. Sandhu
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Patent number: 10206945Abstract: Antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend, compounds, coatings, and materials containing the same, as well as articles made with, or coated with the same, and methods of making the same exhibiting improved antimicrobial properties and reduced platelet adhesion. Embodiments include polymers with antimicrobial and antithrombogenic groups bound to a single polymer backbone, an antimicrobial polymer blended with an antithrombogenic polymer, and medical devices coated with the antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: BioInteractions Ltd.Inventors: Simon Onis, Fanny Burrows, Krishan Kapoor, Alan Rhodes, Ajay Luthra
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Publication number: 20180346094Abstract: A closed-angle composite airfoil spar is provided for an airfoil assembly. The composite airfoil spar comprises a web portion having a thickness. The composite airfoil spar also comprises a flange portion having a thickness. The flange portion extends transverse to the web portion. The composite airfoil spar further comprises a radius portion interconnecting the web and flange portions. The radius portion is an acceptable amount thinner relative to thickness of the web portion and thickness of the flange portion based on design requirements and material properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Eric E Deck, Charles Alan Rhodes, Jeffry K Berner
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Publication number: 20180258363Abstract: A method of making a coating solution includes the steps of polymerising an initial monomer feed comprising an N-vinyl pyrrolidone and an acrylate, preferably methacrylate, salt in water to synthesise a copolymer thereof, acidifying the resulting copolymer-water mixture to give free carboxylic acid groups along the copolymer backbone, diluting the aqueous solution down with alcohol, and adding a cross-linking agent which is capable of reacting with the carboxylic acid groups and curing the copolymer at a later stage after the coating solution has been applied to a substrate and the copolymer coated thereon. Also disclosed are a coating solution in storage, a method of coating a substrate which is on, or is part of, a medical device or other article, a substrate, article or medical device having a coating so applied, and a coated medical device packaged in a hydration solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Alan Rhodes, Bethany Sheila Huddart
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Publication number: 20170151375Abstract: New ampholyte biomaterial compounds containing ampholyte moieties are synthesized and integrated into polymeric assemblies to provide hydrophilic polymers exhibiting improved biocompatibility, haemocompatibility, hydrophilicity non-thrombogenicity, anti-bacterial ability, and mechanical strength, as well as suitability as a drug delivery platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Fanny Burrows, John E. Mckendrick, Alan Rhodes, Simon J. Onis, Shivpal S. Sandhu
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Publication number: 20170131703Abstract: A system for processing a work-piece including a sheet of material into pieces includes a production environment configured for collecting data characterizing the work-piece and for subsequently cutting the work-piece into a plurality of products; and a development environment separate from the production environment, the development environment configured for receiving characterization data from the production environment, developing a nesting strategy for cutting the work-piece and providing the nesting strategy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Thomas A. Gordon, William T. Lord, Todd Alan Rhodes
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Patent number: 9567357Abstract: New ampholyte biomaterial compounds containing ampholyte moieties are synthesized and integrated into polymeric assemblies to provide hydrophilic polymers exhibiting improved biocompatibility, haemocompatibility, hydrophilicity non-thrombogenicity, anti-bacterial ability, and mechanical strength, as well as suitability as a drug delivery platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: BioInteractions Ltd.Inventors: Fanny Raisin-Dadre, John E. McKendrick, Alan Rhodes, Simon J. Onis, Shivpal S. Sandhu
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Patent number: 9333348Abstract: A diagnostic device in an electrical interferential treatment regime applies different pulse frequencies in one selection of electrode placement and determines the change of blood flow in response to the change in pulse frequency in an attempt to determine an optimum or workable set of parameters. The device includes electronic storage to record a series of tests and their results and a communication link. The communication link enables a professional caregiver to determine whether the parameter determinations, made at a location remote from the professional's office, such as at the residence of the patient, were conducted and were conducted correctly. The communication link also enables the professional to determine whether the treatments were conducted and conducted correctly.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Inventor: Donald Alan Rhodes
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Publication number: 20150297888Abstract: A diagnostic device in an electrical interferential treatment regime applies different pulse frequencies in one selection of electrode placement and determines the change of blood flow in response to the change in pulse frequency in an attempt to determine an optimum or workable set of parameters. The device includes electronic storage to record a series of tests and their results and a communication link. The communication link enables a professional caregiver to determine whether the parameter determinations, made at a location remote from the professional's office, such as at the residence of the patient, were conducted and were conducted correctly. The communication link also enables the professional to determine whether the treatments were conducted and conducted correctly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventor: Donald Alan Rhodes
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Patent number: 9150795Abstract: A method of recovering bitumen from a froth utilizes solvent and a single settling vessel having a plurality of internals. The froth is diluted with enough solvent to reduce viscosity and is added to the vessel above the internals. Additional solvent is added below the internals, intermediate the internals or both and is flowed counter-current to the diluted froth flowing downwardly over the internals, forming a gradient of solvent concentration relative to hydrocarbon concentration throughout the internals, acting as multiple stages of separation. The bitumen and other light components, rise with the solvent to the top of the vessel. The heavier components, such as water, solids and asphaltene aggregates fall to the bottom by gravity. Where paraffinic solvents are used, the solvent-to-bitumen ratio (S:B) for the initial dilution of froth is below that at which asphaltenes are rejected. Substantially all asphaltene rejection occurs in the vessel as S:B increases therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: TOTAL E&P CANADA LTD.Inventors: Ali Milani, Alan Rhodes
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Publication number: 20150246229Abstract: A method of treating a wide variety of heretofore considered unrelated ailments comprises delivering electricity through a circuit in the body. The circuit includes at least four nerves leading from at least two of the patient's extremities to various nerve roots adjacent the spinal column. Electrical energy from an electrical interferential therapy device is delivered though electrodes on the extremities adjacent the nerve endings until symptoms of the diagnosed ailment ameliorate. Sending impulses from the periphery to the central nervous system, appears to help the body manufacture various neuropeptides and other chemicals, which control the essential basics of the body's health and well being.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventor: Donald Alan Rhodes
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Publication number: 20140322287Abstract: Antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend, compounds, coatings, and materials containing the same, as well as articles made with, or coated with the same, and methods of making the same exhibiting improved antimicrobial properties and reduced platelet adhesion. Embodiments include polymers with antimicrobial and antithrombogenic groups bound to a single polymer backbone, an antimicrobial polymer blended with an antithrombogenic polymer, and medical devices coated with the antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Simon Onis, Fanny Burrows, Krishan Kapoor, Alan Rhodes, Ajay Luthra
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Patent number: 8541498Abstract: Substrates may be coated with copolymers of N-vinyl pyrrolidinone and aryl ketones. Processes are described for making the copolymers at high molecular weight with the ketones randomly dispersed on the copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Biointeractions Ltd.Inventors: Shivpal S. Sandhu, Alan Rhodes, Simon Jon Onis
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Publication number: 20130177898Abstract: A method of treating tissue, including organs, with electromagnetic energy to decrease the fat content of the tissue comprises the steps of providing a source of electromagnetic energy, and subjecting adipose cells to the source of electromagnetic energy at hypothermic conditions. The tissue may be harvested and in an isolated state, such as being placed in an organ preservation system. Electromagnetic energy between 600 nm to 700 nm is used for treatment. During treatment, target tissue such as a harvested organ is subject to perfusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: John Brassil, Alan Rhodes
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Publication number: 20130053470Abstract: New ampholyte biomaterial compounds containing ampholyte moieties are synthesized and integrated into polymeric assemblies to provide hydrophilic polymers exhibiting improved biocompatibility, haemocompatibility, hydrophilicity non-thrombogenicity, anti-bacterial ability, and mechanical strength, as well as suitability as a drug delivery platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Fanny Raisin-Dadre, John E. Mckendrick, Alan Rhodes, Simon J. Onis, Shivpal S. Sandhu
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Patent number: RE49522Abstract: Antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend, compounds, coatings, and materials containing the same, as well as articles made with, or coated with the same, and methods of making the same exhibiting improved antimicrobial properties and reduced platelet adhesion. Embodiments include polymers with antimicrobial and antithrombogenic groups bound to a single polymer backbone, an antimicrobial polymer blended with an antithrombogenic polymer, and medical devices coated with the antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: BIOINTERACTIONS LTD.Inventors: Simon Onis, Fanny Burrows, Krishan Kapoor, Alan Rhodes, Ajay Luthra
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Patent number: RE49528Abstract: Antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend, compounds, coatings, and materials containing the same, as well as articles made with, or coated with the same, and methods of making the same exhibiting improved antimicrobial properties and reduced platelet adhesion. Embodiments include polymers with antimicrobial and antithrombogenic groups bound to a single polymer backbone, an antimicrobial polymer blended with an antithrombogenic polymer, and medical devices coated with the antimicrobial and antithrombogenic polymer or polymeric blend.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: BIOINTERACTIONS LTD.Inventors: Simon Jon Onis, Fanny Burrows, Krishan Kapoor, Alan Rhodes, Ajay K Luthra