Patents by Inventor Brian Peters

Brian Peters 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).

  • Method for treating metabolic disorders by administration of an anti-ActRIIB antibody
    Patent number: 9365651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising anti-ActRIIB antibodies and use thereof for increasing brown fat in vertebrate, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans without significantly affecting hematological parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Jerome Feige, David Glass, Shinji Hatakeyama, Brian Peter Richardson, Estelle Trifilieff
  • AUTOMATIC SOLAR POWER SYSTEM ISOLATION SWITCH
    Publication number: 20160111919
    Abstract: In the case of solar, wind, or other such resource being chosen as a primary power system (hereafter means “normal state”) of a dwelling or recreational vehicle, this process is for automatic protection or disconnection of the preferred electrical system whenever an alternate power source is applied. Whenever two power sources may not be applied simultaneously to a normally closed circuit, this process opens the circuit such that the alternate power source may become primary. As an example: Recreational vehicles or other craft, prior to conversion to solar power, normally receive power from a generator or public utility. To modify such a system, this process is inserted into the existing system to temporarily substitute external power to devices within, or devoted to, the existing system without human participation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventor: BRIAN PETER SCHAUERTE
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GAME WITH WARPING SYMBOLS
    Publication number: 20160093134
    Abstract: A gaming machine identifies a first pattern within a first play area including a plurality of first positions arranged in a plurality of first columns, determines whether the first pattern satisfies a predetermined first threshold based on a first position and a first symbol, identifies a second position associated with the first symbol in a second play area including a plurality of second positions arranged in a plurality of second columns, and associates the second position with a second symbol. Each first position is associated with a respective symbol of a plurality of symbols including the first symbol and the second symbol. The first pattern is associated with the first position. The first position is associated with the first symbol. Each second position is associated with a respective symbol of the plurality of symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Peters, Zachary Thomas Schmid, Craig Ronald Kelly, Brandon Mason, Edgar Portigal
  • Cooling structures in the tips of turbine rotor blades
    Patent number: 9297262
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade for a gas turbine engine is described. The turbine rotor blade includes an airfoil that includes a tip at an outer radial end. The tip includes a rail that defines a tip cavity; and the rail includes a circumscribing rail microchannel. The circumscribing rail microchannel is a microchannel that extends around at least a majority of the length of the inner rail surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Xiuzhang James Zhang, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Anthony Louis Giglio, Brian Peter Arness, Benjamin Paul Lacy
  • Process for preparing catalysts
    Patent number: 9221034
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a catalyst composition comprises the steps of (i) precipitating one or more metal compounds from solution using an alkaline precipitant, preferably comprising an alkaline carbonate, optionally in the presence of a thermostabilizing material, ii) ageing the precipitated composition, and (iii) recovering and drying the aged composition, wherein the ageing step is performed using a pulse-flow reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: Graeme Douglas Campbell, Gordon James Kelly, Fiona Mary Campbell, Brian Peter Williams
  • Cooling structures in the tips of turbine rotor blades
    Patent number: 9188012
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade used in a gas turbine engine, which includes an airfoil having a tip at an outer radial edge, is described. The airfoil includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that join together at a leading edge and a trailing edge of the airfoil, the pressure sidewall and the suction sidewall extending from a root to the tip. The tip includes a tip plate and, disposed along a periphery of the tip plate, a rail. The rail includes a microchannel connected to a coolant source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Paul Lacy, Brian Peter Arness, Xiuzhang James Zhang
  • PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM ALLOYS SUITABLE AS FUEL CELL ELECTRODES
    Publication number: 20150325861
    Abstract: The present invention concerns electrode catalysts used in fuel cells, such as proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The invention is related to the reduction of the noble metal content and the improvement of the catalytic5 efficiency by low level substitution of the noble metal to provide new and innovative catalyst compositions in fuel cell electrodes. The novel electrode catalysts of the invention comprise a noble metal selected from Pt and Pd alloyed with a lanthanide metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Ifan Erfyl Lester Stephens, Jan Rossmeist, Maria Escudero Escribano, Amau Verdaguer-Casadevall, Paolo Malacrida, Ulrick Grønbjerg Vej-Hansen, Brian Peter Knudsen, Anders Konge Jepsen, Ib Chorkendorff
  • APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AND USE OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20150077221
    Abstract: Various prison services are rendered more efficient by providing inmates access to portable electronic devices in a controlled and regulated manner. A dispenser is employed to control and monitor the checking out and return of portable electronic devices and to communicate with such devices during use by inmates to monitor inmate use and ensure the portable electronic devices are only used by inmates as authorized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Renovo Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Peters, Timothy J. Eickhoff, Ehren R. Jarosek, Tim Skaja
  • Methanol synthesis process
    Patent number: 8957117
    Abstract: A methanol synthesis process includes reacting a process gas containing hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide over a catalyst including shaped units formed from a reduced and passivated catalyst powder the powder including copper in the range 10-80% by weight, zinc oxide in the range 20-90% by weight, alumina in the range 5-60% by weight and optionally one or more oxidic promoter compounds selected from compounds of Mg, Cr, Mn, V, Ti, Zr, Ta, Mo, W, Si and rare earths in the range 0.01-10% by weight, to form a product gas, and condensing methanol, water and oxygenate by-products therefrom, wherein the total oxygenate by-product level in the condensate is below 500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: Colin William Park, Brian Peter Williams, Gordon James Kelly, Terence James Fitzpatrick
  • Method and system for GIS enabled land management system
    Patent number: 8930411
    Abstract: A improved tract-based lease data management systems is described that allow for rendering maps of database entities with reduced data entry. The invention includes methods for linking, unlinking, detecting invalidating changes, and rebuilding database entity geographical representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventor: Brian Peter Klawinski
  • Electrical connector assembly with improved shield and shield coupling
    Patent number: 8920195
    Abstract: An electrical connector provides shielded signal pathways. The electrical connector includes a shield plate, a first finger that extends from an edge of the shield plate, and a second finger that extends from the edged of the shield and that is adjacent to the first finger. A channel is formed between the first finger and the second finger. A coupling is placed within the channel adjacent the first finger. The coupling includes a contact, a first connecting arm extending from a first end of the contact to a first portion of the first finger, and a second connecting arm extending from a second end of the contact to a second portion of the first finger. The first connecting arm and the second connecting arm provide at least two current paths from the contact to the first finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas S. Cohen, Brian Peter Kirk, John R. Dunham
  • Mobile Device Applications
    Publication number: 20140333670
    Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Venkata Nagesh Babu Balivada, Blair Harold Beebe, Joseph Robert Buchta, Vibhunandan Gavini, Catherine Ann Hendricks, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Santhosh Kumar Paraliyil Krishnankutty, Richard Leigh Mains, Garret Martin Miller Graaf, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Marc Anthony Salazar, Nino Yuniardi
  • Mobile Device Gestures
    Publication number: 20140333530
    Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Jason Phillip Kriese, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney
  • Mobile Device Interfaces
    Publication number: 20140337791
    Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Catherine Ann Hendricks, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Richard Leigh Mains, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Marc Anthony Salazar, Jason Glenn Silvis, Nino Yuniardi
  • Rock dusting compositions and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 8883868
    Abstract: A rock dusting composition composed of rock dust, e.g., limestone or other mineral dust, water, pumping aid, and polymer, e.g., acrylamide homopolymers, acrylamide copolymers, and combinations thereof, and a method for applying the composition to the surface of a mine. The composition has a water content and a polymer content sufficient to allow the polymer to (i) disperse water molecules within the composition and, upon drying of the composition, (ii) dissipate forming void spaces in the dried composition. The composition is useful for suppressing propagation of a flame and/or fire caused by ignition of coal dust and/or gas within a coal mine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: DSI Underground Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Peter Masloff, James Edward Pinkley, Billy J. Brown, Steven J. Thorogood, John C. Fodor
  • Method for Treating Metabolic Disorders
    Publication number: 20140328848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising anti-ActRIIB antibodies and use thereof for increasing brown fat in vertebrate, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans without significantly affecting hematological parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Jerome Feige, David Glass, Shinji Hatakeyama, Brian Peter Richardson, Estelle Trifilieff
  • Flexible seal for turbine engine
    Patent number: 8827642
    Abstract: A system including: a first turbine segment comprising a first blade coupled to a first shank. The system also includes a second turbine segment including a second blade coupled to a second shank, as well as an elongated flexible seal disposed in a gap between the first and second shanks. The elongated flexible seal includes an opening configured to channel a fluid flow into a hollow region of the elongated flexible seal to induce expansion of the elongated flexible seal in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jalindar Appa Walunj, Brian Peter Arness, Mark Steven Honkomp, Scott Edmond Ellis, Prashant Shukla, Narayayanaswamy Kuruboor Veerabhadrappa
  • COOLING STRUCTURE FOR TURBOMACHINE
    Publication number: 20140219780
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a turbomachine. In one embodiment, the cooling structure is for a seal slot of the turbomachine. The cooling structure includes a body coupled to a surface of the seal slot. The body includes a passageway on a first surface of the body for providing a cooling fluid to the seal slot. In an other embodiment, a apparatus includes a first component and a second component adjacent the first component. The apparatus also includes a seal slot extending between the first component and the second component, and a cooling structure positioned within the seal slot. The cooling structure includes a body coupled to a surface of the seal slot. The body has a passageway on a first surface of the body for providing a cooling fluid to the seal slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Benjamin Paul Lacy, Brian Peter Arness, David Edward Schick
  • Curved cooling passages for a turbine component
    Patent number: 8753083
    Abstract: A turbine component having a curved cooling passage is disclosed. The turbine component may generally comprise an airfoil having a base and a tip disposed opposite the base. The airfoil may further include a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge. An airfoil cooling circuit may be at least partially disposed within the airfoil and may be configured to direct a cooling medium through the airfoil. The curved cooling passage may generally be in flow communication with the airfoil cooling circuit such that the cooling medium flowing through the airfoil cooling circuit may be directed into the cooling passage. Additionally, the curved cooling passage may generally extend lengthwise within the airfoil between the leading and trialing edges along at least a portion of one of the pressure side and the suction side of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Paul Lacy, Brian Peter Arness, Victor John Morgan
  • Snack food product
    Patent number: D701667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: James Coomes, Brian Peter Jacoby, Jorge C. Morales-Alvarez