Patents by Inventor Chris Beard

Chris Beard 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: 20250021612
    Abstract: Real time, on demand rendered image delivery may be provided using one or more local image servers, image stores corresponding to the local image servers, one or more rendering servers, and a global image store. When a request for an image of three dimensional object is provided to a local image server, that server may respond to the request by determining if is present in its corresponding local image store. If it is not, then the local image server may obtain the image, store it in its corresponding local image store, and then return it. The one or more rendering servers may respond to messages indicating that one or the local image servers are obtaining an image by generating that image based on rendering it using special purpose rendering hardware, storing it in the global image store, and sending a completion message indicating that the requested image had been generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Chris BEARD, Brian POWELL
  • Patent number: 11971946
    Abstract: Real time, on demand rendered image delivery may be provided using one or more local image servers, image stores corresponding to the local image servers, one or more rendering servers, and a global image store. When a request for an image of three dimensional object is provided to a local image server, that server may respond to the request by determining if is present in its corresponding local image store. If it is not, then the local image server may obtain the image, store it in its corresponding local image store, and then return it. The one or more rendering servers may respond to messages indicating that one or the local image servers are obtaining an image by generating that image based on rendering it using special purpose rendering hardware, storing it in the global image store, and sending a completion message indicating that the requested image had been generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VORA VENTURES, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Beard, Brian Powell
  • Publication number: 20100136541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for identifying among the genes that are down-regulated in cells or tissues having disease including cancer, the CpG sites within the CpG islands of said genes, wherein the identified CpG sites show great potential for diagnostic utility. In another aspect, the present invention also provides methods of using the selected CpG sites for purposes of diagnosis, prognosis, staging, assessing or monitoring the therapy of or recovery from a disease such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Beard, Chris Burgess, Allison Gannon, Jeanne Harvey, John F. Lechner, Zheng Li
  • Publication number: 20100047778
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining genomic imprinting disorders in a patient based upon methylation specific primer extension in a format amenable to high throughput and multiplex formats. After bisulfite modification of a genomic sample, DNA is amplified and hybridized to discrimination primers specific for a CpG dinucleotide site in the sample. Because no extension products from the discrimination primers are produced from DNA that has a deletion or functional inactivation at the CpG site, the sample may be diagnosed as having a genomic imprinting disorder by way of comparison with a normal sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics
    Inventors: Ruth Koehler, Chris Beard
  • Publication number: 20050130172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for identifying among the genes that are down-regulated in cells or tissues having disease including cancer, the CpG sites within the CpG islands of said genes, wherein the identified CpG sites show great potential for diagnostic utility. In another aspect, the present invention also provides methods of using the selected CpG sites for purposes of diagnosis, prognosis, staging, assessing or monitoring the therapy of or recovery from a disease such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Chris Beard, Chris Burgess, Allison Gannon, Jeanne Harvey, John Lechner, Zheng Li
  • Publication number: 20050130170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for identifying among the genes that are down-regulated in cells or tissues having disease including cancer, the CpG sites within the CpG islands of said genes, wherein the identified CpG sites show great potential for diagnostic utility. In another aspect, the present invention also provides methods of using the selected CpG sites for purposes of diagnosis, prognosis, staging, assessing or monitoring the therapy of or recovery from a disease such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Jeanne Harvey, Chris Beard, Chris Burgess, Allison Gannon, John Lechner, Zheng Li