Patents by Inventor Brian Underwood
Brian Underwood 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: 20170296501Abstract: In various implementations, beta-hydroxybutyrate, related compounds, and/or one or more other compounds may be administered to an individual to cause weight loss, weight maintenance, elevate blood ketone levels, maintain blood ketone levels, reduce blood glucose levels, maintain blood glucose levels, improve energy, focus, mood, cognitive function, or aide with neurological or inflammatory disorders and/or combinations thereof. Other compounds may include short chain fatty acids, short chain triglycerides, medium chain fatty acids, medium chain triglycerides, long chain fatty acids, long chain triglycerides, berberine, metabolites of berberine (e.g., dihydroberberine), and/or combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Ryan Lowery, Jacob Wilson, Shawn Wells, Brian Underwood, Christopher N. Harding, Terry LaCore
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Publication number: 20170296520Abstract: In various implementations, berberine metabolites, such as dihydroberberine and/or tetrahydroberberine, may be administered to manage blood glucose levels, increase ketone levels (e.g., blood concentration of ketones), and/or for therapeutic purposes in humans. The administration of a pharmaceutically effective amount of berberine metabolites, such as dihydroberberine, may reduce fasting blood glucose levels, improve glucose tolerance, and/or improve blood ketone response. In some implementations, berberine metabolites may be administered with one or more other compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Ryan Lowery, Jacob Wilson, Shawn Wells, Brian Underwood, Christopher N. Harding, Terry LaCore
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Patent number: 9582581Abstract: One or more servers perform functions that include: maintaining a database including information relating to facilities that are subject to a first entity, the facilities being dispersed geographically, the information including geographic locations for at least some of the facilities; receiving a first message from a facility for which information is in the database, the first message identifying a fixture of the facility that requires attention, where information in the database for the facility identifies the fixture by at least one of a designation of the fixture and a characteristic of the fixture; sending a second message to a second entity that has contracted with the first entity to provide service within a geographic location of the facility; and enabling the second entity to access the database to identify the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: RBM TechnologiesInventors: Raymond Ferrara, Brian Underwood
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Publication number: 20150234923Abstract: One or more servers perform functions that include: maintaining a database including information relating to facilities that are subject to a first entity, the facilities being dispersed geographically, the information including geographic locations for at least some of the facilities; receiving a first message from a facility for which information is in the database, the first message identifying a fixture of the facility that requires attention, where information in the database for the facility identifies the fixture by at least one of a designation of the fixture and a characteristic of the fixture; sending a second message to a second entity that has contracted with the first entity to provide service within a geographic location of the facility; and enabling the second entity to access the database to identify the fixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Raymond Ferrara, Brian Underwood
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Patent number: 8965927Abstract: One or more servers perform functions that include: maintaining a database including information relating to facilities that are subject to a first entity, the facilities being dispersed geographically, the information including geographic locations for at least some of the facilities; receiving a first message from a facility for which information is in the database, the first message identifying a fixture of the facility that requires attention, where information in the database for the facility identifies the fixture by at least one of a designation of the fixture and a characteristic of the fixture; sending a second message to a second entity that has contracted with the first entity to provide service within a geographic location of the facility; and enabling the second entity to access the database to identify the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: RBM TechnologiesInventors: Raymond Ferrara, Brian Underwood
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Patent number: 8889566Abstract: A method of forming a dielectric layer is described. The method deposits a silicon-containing film by chemical vapor deposition using a local plasma. The silicon-containing film is flowable during deposition at low substrate temperature. A silicon precursor (e.g. a silylamine, higher order silane or halogenated silane) is delivered to the substrate processing region and excited in a local plasma. A second plasma vapor or gas is combined with the silicon precursor in the substrate processing region and may include ammonia, nitrogen (N2), argon, hydrogen (H2) and/or oxygen (O2). The equipment configurations disclosed herein in combination with these vapor/gas combinations have been found to result in flowable deposition at substrate temperatures below or about 200° C. when a local plasma is excited using relatively low power.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Amit Chatterjee, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Nitin K. Ingle, Brian Underwood, Kiran V. Thadani, Xiaolin Chen, Abhishek Dube, Jingmei Liang
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Patent number: 8753985Abstract: Molecular layer deposition of silicon carbide is described. A deposition precursor includes a precursor molecule which contains silicon, carbon and hydrogen. Exposure of a surface to the precursor molecule results in self-limited growth of a single layer. Though the growth is self-limited, the thickness deposited during each cycle of molecular layer deposition involves multiple “atomic” layers and so each cycle may deposit thicknesses greater than typically found during atomic layer depositions. Precursor effluents are removed from the substrate processing region and then the surface is irradiated before exposing the layer to the deposition precursor again.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Brian Underwood, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Nitin K. Ingle
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Publication number: 20140073144Abstract: A method of forming a dielectric layer is described. The method deposits a silicon-containing film by chemical vapor deposition using a local plasma. The silicon-containing film is flowable during deposition at low substrate temperature. A silicon precursor (e.g. a silylamine, higher order silane or halogenated silane) is delivered to the substrate processing region and excited in a local plasma. A second plasma vapor or gas is combined with the silicon precursor in the substrate processing region and may include ammonia, nitrogen (N2), argon, hydrogen (H2) and/or oxygen (O2). The equipment configurations disclosed herein in combination with these vapor/gas combinations have been found to result in flowable deposition at substrate temperatures below or about 200° C. when a local plasma is excited using relatively low power.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Amit Chatterjee, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Nitin K. Ingle, Brian Underwood, Kiran V. Thadani, Xiaolin Chen, Abhishek Dube, Jingmei Liang
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Publication number: 20130267079Abstract: Molecular layer deposition of silicon carbide is described. A deposition precursor includes a precursor molecule which contains silicon, carbon and hydrogen. Exposure of a surface to the precursor molecule results in self-limited growth of a single layer. Though the growth is self-limited, the thickness deposited during each cycle of molecular layer deposition involves multiple “atomic” layers and so each cycle may deposit thicknesses greater than typically found during atomic layer depositions. Precursor effluents are removed from the substrate processing region and then the surface is irradiated before exposing the layer to the deposition precursor again.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Brian Underwood, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Nitin K. Ingle
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Publication number: 20120054242Abstract: One or more servers perform functions that include: maintaining a database including information relating to facilities that are subject to a first entity, the facilities being dispersed geographically, the information including geographic locations for at least some of the facilities; receiving a first message from a facility for which information is in the database, the first message identifying a fixture of the facility that requires attention, where information in the database for the facility identifies the fixture by at least one of a designation of the fixture and a characteristic of the fixture; sending a second message to a second entity that has contracted with the first entity to provide service within a geographic location of the facility; and enabling the second entity to access the database to identify the fixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Inventors: Raymond Ferrara, Brian Underwood