Patents by Inventor Christopher Davies

Christopher Davies 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 OF MANUFACTURING ANALYTE TEST STRIP FOR ACCEPTING DIVERSE SAMPLE VOLUMES
    Publication number: 20090314425
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an analyte test strip includes positioning a patterned spacer layer between a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer such that the second insulating is disposed above the first insulating layer and a channel is defined between the first and second insulating layers. Moreover, the channel thus defined has a sample-receiving chamber therein, a first port, and a second port. The method also includes coupling a third insulating layer to the first insulating layer such that the third insulating layer is disposed at least partially below the first insulating layer. In the coupling step, the third insulating layer includes a platform portion that extends beyond the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and the platform portion has an upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: John Mahoney, Caroline Chu, Herb Perasso, Susan Tannenbaum, Janice Jones, Koon-Wah Leong, John Christopher Davis
  • Ketoreductase polypeptides and related polynucleotides
    Patent number: 7629157
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to variant polypeptides having enhanced ketoreductase activity and/or thermostability for use in the stereospecific reduction of ketones. In addition, the present invention is directed to polynucleotides that encode the ketoreductase polypeptides, including codon optimized versions of the polynucleotides which provide for enhanced expression in host cells. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to nucleotide constructs, vectors and host cells that are transformed with polynucleotides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Christopher Davis, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Anke Kebber, Lisa Marie Newman
  • HALOHYDRIN DEHALOGENASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES
    Publication number: 20090298125
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: S. Christopher Davis, Richard J. Fox, Gjalt W. Huisman, Vesna Gavrilovic, Emily C. Mundorff, Lisa M. Newman
  • Scoop and sheath
    Patent number: 7621572
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a scoop having an angled or tapered front shovel portion, a shaped back support, an angled handle attached to the back support and a hand guard. A sheath to hold the scoop when not in use is also preferably provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: The Colman Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Omdoll, Michael Young, Nisha Gupta, Jayson Peal, Christopher Davis
  • Associating User Comments to Events Presented in a Media Stream
    Publication number: 20090271524
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises collecting, by a server from a user device, a comment input by a user into the user device, the collecting including identifying a time that the user generated the comment; associating, by the server, the comment input by the user with an identifiable addressable media stream and at an identified position within the addressable media stream that is coincident with the time that the user generated the comment relative to an event presented in the addressable media stream; and generating and outputting by the server a media comment message that identifies the user, the comment generated by the user, the addressable media stream and the identified position within the addressable media stream coinciding with the time that the user generated the comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: John Christopher Davi, Glenn Thomas Millican, III, Marco Schmoecker, James Seung-Gyu Young, John Toebes
  • Defining Workflow Processing Using a Static Class-Level Network in Object-Oriented Classes
    Publication number: 20090249293
    Abstract: Methods for configuring a computer-implemented workflow process in a computing environment include defining a workflow class using an underlying object oriented programming language of the computing environment as a metalanguage, and extending the workflow class with a static class-level model that defines a flow network,
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher Davies
  • New use of a kinked rigid-rod polyarylene, and articles made from said kinked rigid-rod polyarylene
    Publication number: 20090234077
    Abstract: Use of at least one kinked rigid-rod polyarylene of a specific type for its fire resistance properties. Films and coatings consisting of a material comprising the same kinked rigid-rod polyarylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: SOLVAY ADVANCED POLYMERS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Leslie J. Myrick, David B. Thomas, Roy L. Carter, Nikica Maljkovic, Christopher Davis, Scott A. Harding, Mohammad Jamal El-Hibri
  • Halohydrin dehalogenases and related polynucleotides
    Patent number: 7588928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Christopher Davis, Richard John Fox, Gjalt W. Huisman, Vesna Gavrilovic, Emily C. Mundorff, Lisa Marie Newman
  • Halohydrin dehalogenases and related polynucleotides
    Patent number: 7541171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Christopher Davis, Richard John Fox, Gjalt W. Huisman, Vesna Gavrilovic, Lisa Marie Newman
  • Structure-activity relationships
    Publication number: 20090118130
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for screening a plurality of polypeptide variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Mundorff, Simon Christopher Davis, Gjalt W. Huisman, Anke Krebber, John H. Grate
  • START, STYLE, AND FINISH HAIRSTYLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090114238
    Abstract: A first method of systematizing hairstyling tools includes defining hairstyling steps, defining indicia for the steps, determining hairstyling tools to perform the steps, and displaying the indicia on the corresponding tools. A second method of systematizing hairstyling tools includes additionally defining hairstyles, selecting the hairstyling steps to implement the hairstyle, and packaging the corresponding hairstyling tools together as a set. Also within the scope of the invention are hairstyling tools, sets of hairstyling tools, and systems of hairstyling tools according to the first and second methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Angela Marie Hornbach, Christopher Davis
  • Aromatic Polyimide Composition
    Publication number: 20090069507
    Abstract: Blend (B) comprising: at least one aromatic polyimide (P1), and at least one polyarylene (P2), more than 50 wt. % of the recurring units thereof are optionally substituted arylene groups [recurring units (R2)], each of said recurring units (R2) being linked by each of its two ends to two other optionally substituted arylene groups via a direct C—C linkage, and said recurring units (R2) being a mix (M) consisting of: between 0 and 75 mole %, based on the total number of moles of recurring units (R2), of rigid rod-forming arylene units (R2a), optionally substituted by at least one monovalent substituting group, with between 25 and 100 mole %, based on the total number of moles of recurring units (R2), of kink-forming arylene units (R2b), optionally substituted by at least one monovalent substituting group. Article or part of an article comprising the blend (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: SOLVAY ADVANCED POLYMERS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mohammad Jamal El-Hibri, Leslie J. Myrick, David B. Thomas, Roy L. Carter, Nikica Maljkovic, Christopher Davis, Scott A. Harding
  • HIGHWAY MARKING SPHERE DISPENSING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20080310917
    Abstract: A marking sphere dispensing apparatus for dispensing fluid-assisted marking spheres into pavement marking materials applied to a surface has a frame defining a marking sphere receptacle, a valve seat defining an opening between the marking sphere receptacle and an expulsion duct. A plunger is disposed coaxially to the longitudinal axis of the dispensing apparatus and defines an internal fluid passage for providing pressurized fluid. The plunger is moveable in a longitudinal direction within the marking sphere dispensing frame between a first position at which a plunger head of the plunger is seated against the valve seat to close the opening, and a second position at which the plunger head is axially offset from the valve seat to define a marking sphere inlet gap across the opening. A method for applying marking spheres uses the marking sphere dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: POTTERS INDUSTRIES, INC
    Inventors: Kevin E. Hall, Christopher Davies, Thomas Still, Keith Wolos, Kenneth Grimbilas
  • Integrated system for diversity generation and screening
    Patent number: 7462469
    Abstract: Integrated systems and methods for diversity generation and screening are provided. The systems use common fluid and array handling components to provide nucleic acid diversification, transcription, translation, product screening and subsequent diversification reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Maxygen, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven H. Bass, S. Christopher Davis, Phillip A. Patten, Matthew Tobin, Jeremy Minshull, Mark Welch, Claes Gustafsson, Brian Carr, Stephane Jenne, Sun Ai Raillard, Andreas Crameri, Willem P. C. Stemmer, Robin Emig, Pascal Longchamp, Stanley Goldman, Lorraine J. Giver, Joseph A. Affholter
  • VEHICLE ARMOR
    Publication number: 20080257141
    Abstract: Armor for a vehicle comprises a grid of bars, at least the majority of the bars being formed from carbon fiber. The carbon fiber bars may be pultruded and some of the bars may be metallic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Roger Terence Arthur MEDWELL, Christopher Davies
  • Flow restrictor
    Patent number: 7431045
    Abstract: A flow restrictor with a first disk having at least one inlet and at least one outlet and a flow path and a second disk having no flow path. The first disk and the second disk being stacked together. A mass flow controller comprising with an input, an output, a flow path, a pressure transducer and the above flow restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Horiba Stec, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Mudd, William W. White, Virginia Miller, Christopher Davis, Kimura Miyoshi, Tadahiro Yasuda
  • Highway marking sphere dispensing apparatus
    Patent number: 7429146
    Abstract: A marking sphere dispensing apparatus for dispensing fluid-assisted marking spheres into pavement marking materials applied to a surface has a frame defining a marking sphere receptacle, a valve seat defining an opening between the marking sphere receptacle and an expulsion duct. A plunger is disposed coaxially to the longitudinal axis of the dispensing apparatus and defines an internal fluid passage for providing pressurized fluid. The plunger is moveable in a longitudinal direction within the marking sphere dispensing frame between a first position at which a plunger head of the plunger is seated against the valve seat to close the opening, and a second position at which the plunger head is axially offset from the valve seat to define a marking sphere inlet gap across the opening. A method for applying marking spheres uses the marking sphere dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Potters Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Hall, Christopher Davies, Thomas Still, Keith Wolos, Kenneth Grimbilas
  • Cutting Device
    Publication number: 20080201963
    Abstract: A cutting device, particularly suited for removing vehicle glazing panels, has forward blade carrier and a rearward handle spaced from the forward blade carrier. The forward blade carrier may function as a handle, the device thereby being operable in two handed use. The rearward handle and forward blade carrier may be movable relative to one another permitting re-configuration of the device. The rearward handle and forward blade carrier may be connected by a bridge portion. Novel aspects of the blade and lubrication for the device are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: CAR GLASS LUXEMBOURG SARL-ZUG BRANCH
    Inventors: Christopher Davies, Nicholas James Mival
  • Multiple Fluid Delivery Device For Poultry
    Publication number: 20080177223
    Abstract: The present invention provides an injection delivery system for the injection delivery of at least two fluid doses to a small bird by penetrating the skin of the recipient bird with at least on injection needle. The present injection delivery system comprises an injection needle device and a metering device. The injection needle device can either be a stationary unit or a hand held device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Joseph H. Johnston, Christopher Davis Leslie
  • Methods, systems, and software for identifying functional biomolecules
    Publication number: 20080133143
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space. More specifically, the invention includes methods of identifying bio-molecules with desired properties, or which are most suitable for acquiring such properties, from complex bio-molecule libraries or sets of such libraries. The invention also provides methods of modeling sequence-activity relationships. As many of the methods are computer-implemented, the invention additionally provides digital systems and software for performing these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: MAXYGEN, INC
    Inventors: Claes Gustafsson, Sridhar Govindarajan, Robin A. Emig, Richard John Fox, Ajoy K. Roy, Jeremy S. Minshull, S. Christopher Davis, Anthony R. Cox, Phillip A. Patten, Linda A. Castle, Daniel L. Siehl, Rebecca Lynne Gorton, Teddy Chen