Patents by Inventor Brian Leslie

Brian Leslie 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).

  • Patent number: 7833927
    Abstract: Catalyst structures comprising a single palladium metal center and a substituted tri-arylphosphine ligand. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the catalyst structures to facilitate polymerization reactions and Heck coupling reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Nathan Tait Allen, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh, III
  • Patent number: 7832621
    Abstract: A fully enclosed paperboard carton having a top, a base, a pair of oppositely disposed sides and a pair of oppositely disposed end panels. Each end panel being substantially planar and perpendicular to the base and top. Each side having a lower portion that is substantially planar and perpendicular to the base and an upper portion that is substantially planar and tapers inwardly towards its edge connection with the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Leslie Smalley
  • Patent number: 7793780
    Abstract: A carrier device with article receiving compartments on either side of a partial central wall and handle portion. The handle being separate from the central wall and moveable relative thereto between a raised position and a lowered position. The handle can be retained in either the raised or lowered positions by hook formations and is connected to the carrier device by interconnecting webs extending from the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Leslie Smalley
  • Patent number: 7711177
    Abstract: Various methods, carrier media, and systems for detecting defects on a specimen using a combination of bright field channel data and dark field channel data are provided. One computer-implemented method includes combining pixel-level data acquired for the specimen by a bright field channel and a dark field channel of an inspection system. The method also includes detecting defects on the specimen by applying a two-dimensional threshold to the combined data. The two-dimensional threshold is defined as a function of a threshold for the data acquired by the bright field channel and a threshold for the data acquired by the dark field channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Brian Leslie, Ashok Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 7669755
    Abstract: A blank capable of being formed into a carton to define a volume for receiving articles is provided. The carton includes a lid formed hingedly connected at a fold at one end and including a line of weakening to facilitate separation of the lid from the main body of the carton. The volume can accommodate introduction of ice or other substance with and/or between the articles and the lid can be hinged between open and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Leslie Smalley
  • Patent number: 7671150
    Abstract: A robust, impurity tolerant method of making substantially linear polymers of acyclic aliphatic olefins using catalyst complexes comprising a single palladium metal center and a substituted tri-aryl ligand is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: David M. Conner, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh, III
  • Patent number: 7635739
    Abstract: Copolymers and terpolymers containing acyclic aliphatic olefin derived units and polar monomer derived units are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making such copolymers and terpolymers using late transition metal catalyst complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Nathan Tait Allen, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh, III
  • Patent number: 7524905
    Abstract: Substantially linear copolymers derived from at least one acyclic aliphatic olefin monomer and at least one nitrogen containing vinyl monomer, wherein the at least one nitrogen containing vinyl monomer is according to Formula (I) wherein R19 is selected —C?C; and —C(O)—C?C; wherein R20 and R21 are independently selected from H, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, a biphenyl group, a carboxylate group, a carboxyalkyl group, a carboxyarylalkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkenyloxy group, an alkynyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, and derivatives thereof. Also disclosed are methods of making such copolymers using late transition metal catalyst complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: David M. Conner, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh, III
  • Patent number: 7524912
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition including a late transition metal complex, a non-polar olefin, a polar olefin, and a free radical scavenger, wherein the polymerizable composition is capable of forming a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer, is disclosed. A method of copolymerizing a non-polar olefin with a polar olefin, catalyzed by a late transition metal complex in the presence of a free radical scavenger, to produce a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Brian Leslie Goodall, Thomas Cleveland Kirk, Lester Howard McIntosh, III
  • Publication number: 20090008273
    Abstract: A carrier device with article receiving compartments on either side of a central wall (31) and handle portion (14). The handle being separate from the central wall and moveable relative thereto between a raised position and a lowered position. The handle can be retained in either the raised or lowered positions by hook formations (22) and is connected to the carrier device by interconnecting webs (17) extending from the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Brian Leslie Smalley
  • Publication number: 20080314905
    Abstract: A blank capable of being formed into a carton to define a volume for receiving articles is provided. The carton includes a lid formed hingedly connected at a fold at one end and including a line of weakening to facilitate separation of the lid from the main body of the carton. The volume can accommodate introduction of ice or other substance with and/or between the articles and the lid can be hinged between open and closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Brian Leslie Smalley
  • Patent number: 7466667
    Abstract: In a packet detector, one or more tests are performed for packet detection according to packet detection parameters associated with the one or more tests, a rate of false detection is measured, and the packet detection parameters are adjusted accordingly to reduce the rate of false detection. The rate of false detection might be determined by analyzing post-detection and processing of a signal deemed to be a signal representing a packet for a failure of decoding indicative of a false detection. Such analysis might include testing for a failed SFD search, training symbol anomalies, poor conditioning of metrics used to determine frequency offset and OFDM timing, incorrect data fields, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Vincent K. Jones, IV, Partho Mishra, Geert Arnout Awater, D. J. Richard van Nee, Arnold Liu, Brian Leslie Wong
  • Publication number: 20080301941
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a method of manufacturing an all-metal cold plate heat exchanger assembly for removing excess heat from a heat generating electronic component. The cold plate assembly includes a base plate having micro-channels and associated micro-fins, a manifold plate having alternating channels, and a manifold cover, wherein the manifold plate cooperates with the micro-channels to form an engineered pathway for coolant flow. This method assures a tight interface sealing between the contact surfaces of the alternating channels of the manifold plate and the coplanar surfaces of the micro-fins that would prevent coolant by-pass flow, but without clogging or jeopardizing the flow through the micro-channels. This method utilizes a layer of recast metallic particulates, which is a natural by-product of laser machining, as a compliant gasket material between the coplanar edges of the alternating channels and the coplanar edges of the micro-fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Russell Charles Anderson, JR., Brian Leslie Barten, John Benoit, Stephan Michael Vetter
  • Patent number: 7435701
    Abstract: A catalytic composition, including a neutral metal-pair complex, is disclosed, along with a method for its preparation. A method for the polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers using the catalytic composition, and the addition polymers produced thereby are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Han Shen, Brian Leslie Goodall
  • Publication number: 20080229580
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a brazed micro-channel cold plate assembly for cooling a heat producing electronic component. The primary components of a cold plate assembly are a base plate, a manifold cover, and inlet/outlet pipes; wherein the individual components are assembled and brazed into an integral unit. The joining surfaces of the individual components have novel features that provide for permanent bonding of the joints by brazing and a hermetic seal along the joint seams. The novel features also forestall excess braze alloy from contaminating the interior surfaces of the assembled cold plate and obstructing the engineered flow channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Russell Charles Anderson, Brian Leslie Barten, John Benoit, Stephan Michael Vetter
  • Publication number: 20080207854
    Abstract: Substantially linear copolymers derived from at least one acyclic aliphatic olefin monomer and at least one nitrogen containing vinyl monomer, wherein the at least one nitrogen containing vinyl monomer is according to Formula (I) wherein R19 is selected —C?C; wherein R20 and R21 are independently selected from H, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, a biphenyl group, a carboxylate group, a carboxyalkyl group, a carboxyarylalkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkenyloxy group, an alkynyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, and derivatives thereof. Also disclosed are methods of making such copolymers using late transition metal catalyst complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: David M. Conner, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20080208524
    Abstract: A surface profile measuring instrument has a means for measuring the profile of a surface and a means for storing measurements produced by the means for measuring the profile of a surface. The instrument may have a tip physically coupled to a sensor. The instrument may also have means for processing the measurements and/or for analysing the measurements. The instrument may be connected to an external device such as a printer and/or to a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: ELCOMETER INSTRUMENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Carrington Sellars, Peter Ian Baldwin, Philip Anthony May, Colin John Morley, Brian Leslie Williams, Michael Carrington Sellars
  • Publication number: 20080207855
    Abstract: A robust, impurity tolerant method of making substantially linear polymers of acyclic aliphatic olefins using catalyst complexes comprising a single palladium metal center and a substituted tri-aryl ligand is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: David M. Conner, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20080207789
    Abstract: A porous polymer composition including plural linear mixed polarity polymer particles, wherein the particles include a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] and at least one pore, is disclosed, as are those particles further including a catalytic component. A method of forming the plural linear mixed polarity polymer particles is also disclosed. A method of using plural linear mixed polarity polymer particles which include a catalytic component to catalyze polymerization is further disclosed. A porous polymer composition including plural linear non-polar polymer particles and a catalytic component is further disclosed, along with a method of making those linear non-polar polymer particles including the catalytic component and a method of using them to catalyze polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Francis V. Acholla, Brian Leslie Goodall, Lester Howard McIntosh, Han Shen
  • Publication number: 20080207856
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition including a late transition metal complex, a non-polar olefin, a polar olefin, and a free radical scavenger, wherein the polymerizable composition is capable of forming a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer, is disclosed. A method of copolymerizing a non-polar olefin with a polar olefin, catalyzed by a late transition metal complex in the presence of a free radical scavenger, to produce a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Brian Leslie Goodall, Thomas Cleveland Kirk, Lester Howard McIntosh