Patents by Inventor Blake A. Jones

Blake 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).

  • Publication number: 20240067905
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages. The present invention concerns the use of compositions comprising compounds that are present in hop extracts or in beer and result from natural processes that occur during processing or storage (aging) of hops or beer. The present invention further concerns the use of suitable amounts of a composition comprising humulinones for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Blake JONES, Hershel Jude, JR., Brian Patrick Buffin, Donald Richard Berdahl
  • Patent number: 11821020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer tittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids and to the novel enzyme catalysts which may be employed in such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KALAMAZOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Katie Whalen, Donald Richard Berdahl, Brian Patrick Buffin, Matthew Blake Jones, Katrina Williams
  • Patent number: 11807838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages. The present invention concerns the use of compositions comprising compounds that are present in hop extracts or in beer and result from natural processes that occur during processing or storage (aging) of hops or beer. The present invention further concerns the use of suitable amounts of a composition comprising humulinones for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KALAMAZOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Blake Jones, Hershel Jude, Jr., Brian Patrick Buffin, Donald Richard Berdahl
  • Publication number: 20230313237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer bittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard BERDAHL, Brian Patrick BUFFIN, Matthew Blake JONES, Katrina WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20230287360
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme, as well as polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a chiral alcohol. The present invention further provides methods of using the engineered enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jack Liang, Nandhitha Subramanian, Charlene Ching, David William Homan, Katie Whalen, Matthew Blake Jones
  • Patent number: 11591625
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer littering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KALAMAZOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Katie Whalen, Donald Richard Berdahl, Brian Patrick Buffin, Matthew Blake Jones, Katrina Williams
  • Publication number: 20210355510
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer tittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids and to the novel enzyme catalysts which may be employed in such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard BERDAHL, Brian Patrick BUFFIN, Matthew Blake JONES, Katrina WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20210164000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer littering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard BERDAHL, Brian Patrick BUFFIN, Matthew Blake JONES, Katrina WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 10961550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer bittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KALAMAZOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Katie Whalen, Donald Richard Berdahl, Brian Patrick Buffin, Matthew Blake Jones, Katrina Williams
  • Publication number: 20210010038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer bite ring agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard Berdahl, Brian Patrick Buffin, Matthew Blake Jones, Katrina Williams
  • Publication number: 20200095619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer bittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids and to the novel enzyme catalysts which may be employed in such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard BERDAHL, Brian Patrick BUFFIN, Matthew Blake JONES, Katrina WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20200095618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a beer bittering agent via enzyme catalyzed bioconversion of hop-derived isoalpha acids to dihydro-(rho)-isoalpha acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Katie WHALEN, Donald Richard BERDAHL, Brian Patrick BUFFIN, Matthew Blake JONES, Katrina WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20190359918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages. The present invention concerns the use of compositions comprising compounds that are present in hop extracts or in beer and result from natural processes that occur during processing or storage (aging) of hops or beer. The present invention further concerns the use of suitable amounts of a composition comprising humulinones for adding bitter flavor to beer and other beverages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Matthew Blake JONES, Hershel Jude, JR., Brian Patrick Buffin, Donald Richard Berdahl
  • Patent number: 10402378
    Abstract: A method for executing an executable file. The method includes executing instructions in the executable file by a first process, receiving a write request from a second process to write to the executable file, generating an anonymous file from the executable file in response to the write request, executing the anonymous file by the first process, and accessing the executable file by the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Zolnowsky, George R. Cameron, Blake A. Jones
  • Publication number: 20160371298
    Abstract: A method for executing an executable file. The method includes executing instructions in the executable file by a first process, receiving a write request from a second process to write to the executable file, generating an anonymous file from the executable file in response to the write request, executing the anonymous file by the first process, and accessing the executable file by the second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: John E. Zolnowsky, George R. Cameron, Blake A. Jones
  • Patent number: 9367439
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system that includes memory and a prediction subsystem. The memory includes a first memgroup and a second memgroup, wherein the first memgroup comprises a first physical page and a second physical page, wherein the first physical page is a first subtype, and wherein the second physical page is a second subtype. The prediction subsystem is configured to obtain a status value indicating an amount of freed physical pages on the memory, store the status value in a sample buffer comprising a plurality of previous status values, determine, using the status value and the plurality of previous status values, a deficiency subtype state for the first subtype based on an anticipated need for the first subtype on the memory, and instruct, based on the determination, an allocation subsystem to coalesce the second physical page to the first subtype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Eric E. Lowe, Blake A. Jones, Jonathan William Adams
  • Patent number: 9183126
    Abstract: A system that includes a memory, a tilelet data structure entry, a first tile freelist, and an allocation subsystem. The memory includes a first tilelet on a first tile. The tilelet data structure entry includes a first tilelet preferred pagesize assigned to a first value. The first tile freelist for the first tile includes a first tile in-bounds page freelist, and a first tile out-of-bounds page freelist. The allocation subsystem is configured to detect that a first physical page is freed, store, in the first tile in-bounds page freelist, a first page data structure, detect that a second physical page is freed, store, in the first tile out-of-bounds page freelist, a second page data structure, and coalesce the memory using the second page and at least one of the physical pages associated with the plurality of out-of-bounds page data structures into a third physical page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Blake A. Jones, Jonathan William Adams
  • Patent number: 9052903
    Abstract: A system including memory and a resource controller. The memory includes a first memgroup and a second memgroup, wherein the first memgroup comprises a first physical page mapped to a virtual page, and wherein the second memgroup comprises a second physical page. The resource controller is configured to receive a request to stop the first memgroup, instruct a memory power management subsystem to mark the first memgroup as stopped in response to receiving the request to stop the first memgroup, wherein no free pages are allocated from the first memgroup after the first memgroup is marked as stopped, remap the virtual page to the second physical page in response to the marking the first memgroup as stopped, and reduce power to the first memgroup in response to a determination that the first physical page is not mapped to the virtual page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Blake A. Jones, Julia D. Harper, Jonathan William Adams
  • Patent number: 8930894
    Abstract: A method for executing an executable file. The method includes executing instructions in the executable file by a first process, receiving a write request from a second process to write to the executable file, generating an anonymous file from the executable file in response to the write request, executing the anonymous file by the first process, and accessing the executable file by the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Zolnowsky, George R. Cameron, Blake A. Jones
  • Publication number: 20130290752
    Abstract: A system including memory and a resource controller. The memory includes a first memgroup and a second memgroup, wherein the first memgroup comprises a first physical page mapped to a virtual page, and wherein the second memgroup comprises a second physical page. The resource controller is configured to receive a request to stop the first memgroup, instruct a memory power management subsystem to mark the first memgroup as stopped in response to receiving the request to stop the first memgroup, wherein no free pages are allocated from the first memgroup after the first memgroup is marked as stopped, remap the virtual page to the second physical page in response to the marking the first memgroup as stopped, and reduce power to the first memgroup in response to a determination that the first physical page is not mapped to the virtual page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Blake A. Jones, Julia D. Harper, Jonathan William Adams