Patents by Inventor Charles A. Ray

Charles A. Ray 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: 9845291
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are estrogen receptor modulators of Formula (I): and stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein SERMF is a selective estrogen receptor modulator fragment and with the substituents and structural features described herein. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such estrogen receptor modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that are mediated or dependent upon estrogen receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Liang, Daniel Fred Ortwine, Xiaojing Wang, Steven P. Govek, Mehmet Kahraman, Johnny Y. Nagasawa, Nicholas D. Smith, Simon Charles Goodacre, Nicholas Charles Ray
  • Publication number: 20170332819
    Abstract: A header attachment fixture and methods for its use are disclosed. The header attachment fixture includes two attachment pieces and a header support piece. Each of the two attachment pieces is respectively attached to a distinct one of the two window casement pieces. The header support piece is placed between and attached to each of the two attachment pieces. Each of the two attachment pieces has a fastener portion for attaching the attachment piece to a window casement piece, and a fixture for attaching the attachment piece to the header support piece. Accordingly, the fastener portion is substantially hidden from view outside the header support piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventor: Charles Ray Hollenbeck
  • Publication number: 20170260226
    Abstract: The invention relates to AKR1C3 inhibitors of formula (I) and to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially of bleeding disorders and endometriosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ulrich BOTHE, Yolanda CANCHO GRANDE, Horst IRLBACHER, Nicholas Charles RAY
  • Patent number: 9719872
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a base having a high-pressure contact portion, and a diaphragm positioned over the base and having an external top surface opposite the base. The external top surface is defined within a closed perimeter and external side surfaces extend down from an entirety of the closed perimeter toward the base. A high-pressure contact portion of the diaphragm is aligned with and separated by a gap from the high-pressure contact portion of the base. A sensing element is coupled to the diaphragm and provides an output based on changes to the diaphragm. When a hydrostatic pressure load above a threshold value is applied to the entire external top surface and external side surfaces of the diaphragm, the hydrostatic pressure load causes the high-pressure contact portion of the diaphragm to contact the high-pressure contact portion of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Ray Willcox, Jennifer Ann Blodgett, Mark George Romo
  • Publication number: 20170197915
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are estrogen receptor modulators of Formula (I): and stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein SERMF is a selective estrogen receptor modulator fragment and with the substituents and structural features described herein. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such estrogen receptor modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that are mediated or dependent upon estrogen receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Liang, Daniel Fred Ortwine, Xiaojing Wang, Steven P. Govek, Mehmet Kahraman, Johnny Y. Nagasawa, Nicholas D. Smith, Simon Charles Goodacre, Nicholas Charles Ray
  • Patent number: 9703516
    Abstract: A flexible input/output controller logic interfaces with existing input/output controllers (IOC's) in order to configure the amount of data sent to and received from the IOC's. The flexible I/O interface receives data from a component at a rate determined by the particular component. The flexible I/O interface then feeds the received data to a traditional I/O controller at a rate suitable for the I/O controller. Thus, the interface to the individual I/O controllers is maintained. The flexible I/O logic balances bandwidth between a plurality of individual I/O controllers in order to better utilize the overall system I/O bandwidth. In one embodiment, the I/O configuration managed by the flexible I/O logic is determined during system-build, while in another embodiment, the I/O configuration is set during system initialization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harm Peter Hofstee, Charles Ray Johns, James Allan Kahle
  • Publication number: 20170145020
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (00A) and methods of use as Janus kinase inhibitors are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Zak, Nicholas Charles Ray, Simon Charles Goodacre, Rohan Mendonca, Terry Kellar, Yun-Xing Cheng, Wei Li, Po-Wei Yuen
  • Patent number: 9613335
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic reorganization of pick slot assignments in a warehouse are described. Replenishments of products from storage slots to pick slots are used to perform product relocation to new pick slots for active items, along with traditional relocation moves for inactive items to establish open pick slots. By use of replenishments, the blocking of product relocations to new pick slots due to order picking activity is reduced or eliminated, enabling product relocation for improved slotting to be performed during normal warehouse operations. A dynamic slotting method is described where each item is assigned to a zone having a designated set of slots and each item is replenished to any new slot, as compared to an originally assigned slot, in the zone as stock is depleted by picking. Inactive items may be proactively relocated to temporary slots to reduce or eliminate the blocking of relocations of active items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OPTRICITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Ray Grissom, Daniel Basmajian
  • Publication number: 20170089786
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a base having a high-pressure contact portion, and a diaphragm positioned over the base and having an external top surface opposite the base. The external top surface is defined within a closed perimeter and external side surfaces extend down from an entirety of the closed perimeter toward the base. A high-pressure contact portion of the diaphragm is aligned with and separated by a gap from the high-pressure contact portion of the base. A sensing element is coupled to the diaphragm and provides an output based on changes to the diaphragm. When a hydrostatic pressure load above a threshold value is applied to the entire external top surface and external side surfaces of the diaphragm, the hydrostatic pressure load causes the high-pressure contact portion of the diaphragm to contact the high-pressure contact portion of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Charles Ray Willcox, Jennifer Ann Blodgett, Mark George Romo
  • Patent number: 9604984
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (00A) and methods of use as Janus kinase inhibitors are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Zak, Nicholas Charles Ray, Simon Charles Goodacre, Rohan Mendonca, Terry Kellar, Yun-Xing Cheng, Wei Li, Po-Wei Yuen
  • Publication number: 20170050961
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-carboxamides, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof, alone or in combinations, for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexandros VAKALOPOULOS, Gaelle VALOT, Markus FOLLMANN, Frank WUNDER, Johannes-Peter STASCH, Tobias MARQUARDT, Lisa DIETZ, Volkhart Min-Jian LI, Nicholas Charles RAY, Dominika BACHERA
  • Publication number: 20170050962
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel heterocyclyl- and heteroaryl-substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof, alone or in combinations, for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexandros VAKALOPOULOS, Markus FOLLMANN, Frank WUNDER, Johannes-Peter STASCH, Tobias MARQUARDT, Lisa DIETZ, Volkhart Min-Jian LI, Nicholas Charles RAY, Ines VUJASINOVIĆ
  • Patent number: 9527846
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R2, W, A, Y and R1 are as defined in the specification, are p38 MAPK inhibitors, and are useful as anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of, inter alia, diseases of the respiratory tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Monique Bodil Van Niel, Nicholas Charles Ray, Lilian Alcaraz, Terry Aaron Panchal, Andrew Stephen Robert Jennings, Elisabetta Armani, Andrew Peter Cridland, Christopher Hurley
  • Publication number: 20160347742
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are estrogen receptor modulators. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such estrogen receptor modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that are mediated or dependent upon estrogen receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharada Labadie, Jun Liang, Daniel Fred Ortwine, Xiaojing Wang, Birong Zhang, Nicholas D. Smith, Steven P. Govek, Mehmet Kahraman, Andiliy G. Lai, Johnny Y. Nagasawa, Simon Charles Goodacre, Nicholas Charles Ray
  • Publication number: 20160317118
    Abstract: A classification-based medical image segmentation apparatus includes an ultrasound image acquisition device configured for acquiring, from ultrasound, an image depicting a medical instrument such as needle; and machine-learning-based-classification circuitry configured for using machine-learning-based-classification to, dynamically responsive to the acquiring, segment the instrument by operating on information (212) derived from the image. The segmenting can be accomplished via statistical boosting (220) of parameters of wavelet features. Each pixel (216) of the image is identified as “needle” or “background.” The whole process of acquiring an image, segmenting the needle, and displaying an image with a visually enhanced and artifact-free needle-only overlay may be performed automatically and without the need for user intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, Gary Cheng-How Ng, Charles Ray Hatt
  • Publication number: 20160304450
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are estrogen receptor modulators of Formula (I): and stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein SERMF is a selective estrogen receptor modulator fragment and with the substituents and structural features described herein. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such estrogen receptor modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that are mediated or dependent upon estrogen receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Liang, Daniel Fred Ortwine, Xiaojing Wang, Steven P. Govek, Mehmet Kahraman, Johnny Y. Nagasawa, Nicholas D. Smith, Simon Charles Goodacre, Nicholas Charles Ray
  • Publication number: 20160235191
    Abstract: A toothbrush having a first end and a second end with a plurality of picks in removeable communication with the second end, and a floss cutter configured to cut dental floss. The toothbrush has a body with a first side and a second side, the body comprising a hollow interior, wherein at least at least one plastic stud is configured to engage at least one sleeve, wherein dental floss is wrapped around the at least one sleeve. The dental floss extends from the at least one sleeve through the floss cutter, wherein the body and wherein the first end and the second end are in communication with the first side of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: Charles Ray Trent
  • Publication number: 20160237086
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (00A) and methods of use as Janus kinase inhibitors are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward ZAK, Nicholas Charles RAY, Simon Charles GOODACRE, Rohan MENDONCA, Terry KELLAR, Yun-Xing CHENG, Wei LI, Po-Wei YUEN
  • Publication number: 20160229852
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R2, W, A, Y and R1 are as defined in the specification, are p38 MAPK inhibitors, and are useful as anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of, inter alia, diseases of the respiratory tract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Monique Bodil VAN NIEL, Nicholas Charles RAY, Lilian ALCARAZ, Terry Aaron PANCHAL, Andrew Stephen Robert JENNINGS, Elisabetta ARMANI, Andrew Peter CRIDLAND, Christopher HURLEY
  • Patent number: 9412048
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cookware detection are provided. One example system includes a vision sensor positioned so as to collect imagery depicting a cooktop. The system includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include obtaining a frame of imagery depicting the cooktop and using a classifier to classify the frame of imagery as either depicting cookware or not depicting cookware. When the frame is classified as depicting cookware, the operations include performing one or more operations in response to the detected cookware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Guan, Charles Ray Smith