Patents by Inventor Alan Vaughn
Alan Vaughn 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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Publication number: 20240108648Abstract: One aspect of the present application relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a sulfated glycosaminoglycan having an average molecular weight ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 Daltons, a skin penetrating agent, where the skin penetrating agent promotes transdermal penetration of the sulfated glycosaminoglycan when applied to intact skin surfaces, and a pharmaceutical carrier for topical application, where the pharmaceutical carrier is mixed with the sulfated glycosaminoglycan and the skin penetrating agent. This composition is useful in carrying out a method of treating a subject for pain, joint stiffness, soft tissue injury, connective tissue disorders, and/or muscle soreness.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Thomas Michael VAUGHN, Joshua Alan HARRISON, Karl F. POPP, David J. FAIRFAX, Thomas Edward D'AMBRA, John QUINN
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Publication number: 20230397579Abstract: Technologies are described herein for an automated chicken sorting conveyor belt system. Conveyor belts that move chicks from a loading area into bins move laterally (or horizontally) as the chicks fill up the bins. This reduces various impact, acceleration, and other forces imparted on the chicks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Steven Meriwether Cole, Garland Alan Vaughn, II, Zachary Adam Chance
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Patent number: 11758885Abstract: Technologies are described herein for an automated chicken sorting conveyor belt system. Conveyor belts that move chicks from a loading area into bins move laterally (or horizontally) as the chicks fill up the bins. This reduces various impact, acceleration, and other forces imparted on the chicks.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Hatchery Planning, Inc.Inventors: Steven Meriwether Cole, Garland Alan Vaughn, II, Zachary Adam Chance
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Publication number: 20210068374Abstract: Technologies are described herein for an automated chicken sorting conveyor belt system. Conveyor belts that move chicks from a loading area into bins move laterally (or horizontally) as the chicks fill up the bins. This reduces various impact, acceleration, and other forces imparted on the chicks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: Hatchery Planning, Inc.Inventors: Steven Meriwether Cole, Garland Alan Vaughn II, Zachary Adam Chance
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Publication number: 20190370849Abstract: Determining the effectiveness of an advertising campaign includes determining metrics that indicate the relative effectiveness of the different elements of the campaign. A model may be generated by the system using information about the manner in which consumers are exposed to advertisements. The information, for example, can include a history of exposures to advertisements in the campaign that occur before a user submits input, such as a survey response. In addition, the information also can include a history of exposures to advertisements in the campaign that occur after the user submits input, such as a survey response. As a result, the effectiveness can be distributed across multiple exposures experienced by consumers rather than a single exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Magid M. Abraham, Harvir S. Bansai, Alan Vaughn
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Patent number: 10303703Abstract: A first data set associated with a first group of users is accessed. The first data set includes demographic data, online behavior data, and additional user data associated with the users in the first group. A second data set associated with a second group of users is accessed. The second data set includes demographic data and online behavior data but not additional user data associated with the users in the second group. One or more sets of matched users are determined based on the demographic data and online behavior data included in the first data set and the demographic data and online behavior data included in the second data set. Each set includes a user from the first group matched with a user from the second group. Based on the one or more sets of matched users, an augmented second data set that includes additional user data associated with the users in the second group is generated. One or more reports are generated based on the augmented second data set.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: comScore, Inc.Inventors: Cameron S. Meierhoefer, David Pham Kapar, Patrick James Kemp, Alan Vaughn
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Patent number: 10118142Abstract: A processing plate assembly for mounting to a homogenizer and for holding tubes containing samples to be homogenized. The processing plate assembly includes a mounting structure and one or plural tube holders. The mounting structure removably or permanently mounts to the homogenizer and can be provided by for example a flat plate-like mounting structure. The tube holders are attached to the mounting structure and hold the tubes in generally tangential use positions with a centroid of each tube positioned along a longitudinal axis of the tube and axially offset from a radius line of the processing plate that is perpendicular to the tube axis. In this way, the homogenizer imparts sinusoidal swashing forces on the tubes that urge the tubes forward into securement in their tube holders and that produces improved homogenization in the tubes.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Omni International, Inc.Inventors: Voya Vidakovic, Thomas Gray, John Hancock, Spencer Smith, Alan Vaughn
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Patent number: 10105664Abstract: Agitation mechanisms for homogenization devices for processing sample materials in tubes that are secured by tube holders to the agitation mechanisms. Each agitation mechanism includes a first rotary member having a first fixed rotational axis, a second rotary member having a second fixed rotational axis, and a connecting member that extends between them, is rotationally mounted to them at third and fourth non-fixed rotational axes, and to which the tube holder is mounted, with the first and third rotational axes defining a first offset, and with the second and fourth rotational axes defining a second offset. When the first rotary member is driven through rotation, the sample in the tube in the tube holder on the connecting member is driven through a nonlinearly reciprocating motion profile to produce a grinding shear action to better homogenize the samples. Other disclosed embodiments produce linearly reciprocating motion profiles.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: OMNI INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: John Hancock, Thomas Gray, Spencer Smith, Voya Vidakovic, Alan Vaughn
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Publication number: 20160199800Abstract: A processing plate assembly for mounting to a homogenizer and for holding tubes containing samples to be homogenized. The processing plate assembly includes a mounting structure and one or plural tube holders. The mounting structure removably or permanently mounts to the homogenizer and can be provided by for example a flat plate-like mounting structure. The tube holders are attached to the mounting structure and hold the tubes in generally tangential use positions with a centroid of each tube positioned along a longitudinal axis of the tube and axially offset from a radius line of the processing plate that is perpendicular to the tube axis. In this way, the homogenizer imparts sinusoidal swashing forces on the tubes that urge the tubes forward into securement in their tube holders and that produces improved homogenization in the tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: OMNI INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Voya VIDAKOVIC, Thomas GRAY, John HANCOCK, Spencer SMITH, Alan VAUGHN
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Publication number: 20150006559Abstract: A first data set associated with a first group of users is accessed. The first data set includes demographic data, online behavior data, and additional user data associated with the users in the first group. A second data set associated with a second group of users is accessed. The second data set includes demographic data and online behavior data but not additional user data associated with the users in the second group. One or more sets of matched users are determined based on the demographic data and online behavior data included in the first data set and the demographic data and online behavior data included in the second data set. Each set includes a user from the first group matched with a user from the second group. Based on the one or more sets of matched users, an augmented second data set that includes additional user data associated with the users in the second group is generated. One or more reports are generated based on the augmented second data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Cameron S. Meierhoefer, David Pham Kapar, Patrick James Kemp, Alan Vaughn
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Patent number: 8838601Abstract: A first data set associated with a first group of users is accessed. The first data set includes demographic data, online behavior data, and additional user data associated with the users in the first group. A second data set associated with a second group of users is accessed. The second data set includes demographic data and online behavior data but not additional user data associated with the users in the second group. One or more sets of matched users are determined based on the demographic data and online behavior data included in the first data set and the demographic data and online behavior data included in the second data set. Each set includes a user from the first group matched with a user from the second group. Based on the one or more sets of matched users, an augmented second data set that includes additional user data associated with the users in the second group is generated. One or more reports are generated based on the augmented second data set.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: comScore, Inc.Inventors: Cameron S. Meierhoefer, David Pham Kapar, Patrick James Kemp, Alan Vaughn
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Publication number: 20130054628Abstract: A first data set associated with a first group of users is accessed. The first data set includes demographic data, online behavior data, and additional user data associated with the users in the first group. A second data set associated with a second group of users is accessed. The second data set includes demographic data and online behavior data but not additional user data associated with the users in the second group. One or more sets of matched users are determined based on the demographic data and online behavior data included in the first data set and the demographic data and online behavior data included in the second data set. Each set includes a user from the first group matched with a user from the second group. Based on the one or more sets of matched users, an augmented second data set that includes additional user data associated with the users in the second group is generated. One or more reports are generated based on the augmented second data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: COMSCORE, INC.Inventors: Cameron S. Meierhoefer, David Pham Kapar, Patrick James Kemp, Alan Vaughn
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Publication number: 20130018719Abstract: One or more systems, processes, and models are provided to determine the effectiveness of different elements of an advertising campaign. Using the one or more systems, processes, and models, advertising effectiveness metrics are determined that indicate the relative effectiveness of the different elements of the campaign. A model may be generated by the system using information about the manner in which consumers are exposed to advertisements. The information, for example, can include a history of exposures to advertisements in the campaign that occur before a user submits input, such as a survey response. In addition, the information also can include a history of exposures to advertisements in the campaign that occur after the user submits input, such as a survey response. As a result, the effectiveness can be distributed across multiple exposures experienced by consumers rather than a single exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: COMSCORE, INC.Inventors: Magid M. Abraham, Harvir S. Bansal, Alan Vaughn
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Patent number: D733066Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Roger Alan Vaughn, Edward Michael Morris