Patents by Inventor Craig A. Smith

Craig A. Smith 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: 20090264349
    Abstract: There is disclosed a polypeptide (CD30-L) and DNA sequences, vectors and transformed host cells useful in providing CD30-L polypeptides. The CD30-L polypeptide binds to the receptor known as CD30, which is expressed on a number of cell types, among which are Hodgkin's Disease tumor cells, large cell anaplastic lymphoma cells, adult T-cell leukemia (T-ALL) cells, and a number of other malignant cell types. CD30-L polypeptides find use as carriers for delivering diagnostic and cytotoxic agents to cells expressing the CD30 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Immunex Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond G. Goodwin, Craig A. Smith, Richard J. Armitage, Hans-Juergen Gruss
  • Patent number: 7594182
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method for enabling a graphical program to dynamically register one or more events during execution of the graphical program. An event registration node may be displayed in the block diagram of the graphical program. One or more events may be associated with the event registration node. The event registration node may be operable to dynamically register the one or more events during execution of the graphical program. Another embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method for enabling a graphical program to programmatically generate and respond to a user-defined event. The user may desire to define custom, i.e., user-defined, events for use in a graphical program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: National Insturments Corporation
    Inventors: Jason S. King, B. Craig Smith
  • Publication number: 20090204914
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method for enabling a graphical program to dynamically register one or more events during execution of the graphical program. An event registration node may be displayed in the block diagram of the graphical program. One or more events may be associated with the event registration node. The event registration node may be operable to dynamically register the one or more events during execution of the graphical program. Another embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method for enabling a graphical program to programmatically generate and respond to a user-defined event. The user may desire to define custom, i.e., user-defined, events for use in a graphical program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Jason S. King, B. Craig Smith
  • Publication number: 20090183938
    Abstract: A vehicle having a center console 29 provided with left and right walls 29a and 29b, and a top wall 29c, provided to the rear, in the front/back direction of the vehicle, from a front panel 5, extending rearward, in the front/back direction of the vehicle, from the center portion, in the direction of width of the vehicle, of the front panel 5 to at least the front end of a seat 7, wherein the top wall 29c is provided at a position that is higher than the bottommost end a of the front portion of a seating surface 7e of a seat cushion portion 7a of the front seat 7 and higher than the top end of an engine 6, and at a position that is lower than a top end 5b of the front panel 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Cover, Craig Smith, Satoshi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20090184534
    Abstract: A utility vehicle including: a vehicle body frame including a left and right side portion; a front seat affixed to the vehicle body frame; a rear seat affixed to the vehicle body frame provided to the rear of the front seat; a rear roof support structure including a left member and right pipe member that extend generally in the vertical direction from the vehicle body frame, disposed respectively at both the left and right side portions of the vehicle body frame to the rear of the rear seat, wherein at least a downward direction portion of the left pipe member and right pipe member are positioned lower than a seating surface of a seat cushion portion of the rear seat and are angled so as to be positioned further towards the back the higher up; and a pair of rear wheels supported by the vehicle body frame provided a position that is below the seat cushion portion of the rear seat wherein, at least a portion thereof, is coincident with the rear seat and with the rear roof support structure in the front/back dir
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Craig Smith, Takashi Yamamura, Akira Inui, Chaitanya Tadipatri
  • Publication number: 20090184541
    Abstract: A utility vehicle including: a vehicle body frame having a left and right side portion; a front seat affixed to the vehicle body frame; a rear seat affixed to the vehicle body frame provided to the rear of the front seat; a rear floor affixed to the vehicle body frame provided between the front seat and the rear seat; a first roof support structure including a first left member and first right pipe member that extend generally in the vertical direction from the vehicle body frame, disposed respectively at the left and right side portions of the vehicle body frame in front of the front seat; a second roof support structure including a second left member and a second right pipe member that extend generally in the vertical direction from the vehicle body frame, disposed respectively at the left and right side portions of the vehicle body frame to the rear of the front seat, wherein at least a portion of the second left pipe member and second right pipe member are positioned lower than a seating surface of a seat
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamura, Craig Smith
  • Publication number: 20090183939
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a front seat 7, provided to the rear, in the forward/back direction of the vehicle, of a front panel 5, and having a seat cushion portion 7a, a backrest portion 7b that is provided at integrally with the seat cushion portion 7a, and a headrest portion 7c that is provided integrally with the backrest portion 7b, wherein at least the backrest portion 7b and the headrest portion 7c are fabricated independently for the left and the right, and wherein the left and right headrest portions 7c are fabricated so that the widths thereof, in the direction of width of the vehicle, are narrower than the widths of, in the direction of width of the vehicle, of the left and right backrest portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Craig Smith, Takashi Yamamura, Satoshi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20090184531
    Abstract: A utility vehicle including: a vehicle body frame; a pair of left and right front wheels and at least a pair of left and right rear wheels that are supported on the vehicle frame; a front seat that is provided to the rear of the front wheels; a rear seat that is provided to the rear of the front seat having an in-use position, a transition position, and a non-use position; a cargo bed, disposed to the rear of the front seat including: a bottom wall portion whereon the seat cushion portion of the rear seat is provided movably; a left side wall portion and a right side wall portion that are provided on the left and right side portions of the bottom wall portion, wherein the left side wall portion and the right side wall portion extend forward to the rear seat in its non-use position; and a rear wall portion that is provided at the rear end portion of the bottom wall portion; and a rear floor provided between the front seat and the rear seat and lower than the bottom wall portion of the cargo bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamura, Craig Smith
  • Patent number: 7559032
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling a graphical program to receive and respond to programmatic events. The graphical program may include a graphical user interface having various user interface elements and a block diagram having a plurality of nodes indicating functionality of the graphical program. The graphical program may be configured to respond to one or more events. For each event, a portion of graphical source code may be operable to receive and respond to a respective event. The portion of graphical source code may be executable to perform a desired process or action in response to the respective event. In one embodiment, a sub-program node may be associated with each event. In another embodiment, an event structure node may be included in the block diagram, wherein the event structure node includes one or more sub-diagrams, each sub-diagram including graphical source code for responding to one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Jason King, Craig Smith, Greg McKaskle, Andrew Dove
  • Patent number: 7551387
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a rotatable member is mounted to a spindle hub so that initial servo data previously provided to the rotatable member are eccentrically offset with respect to a rotational center of the spindle hub. Compensation vales are determined to characterize said offset, after which final servo data are provided to the rotatable member in relation to the initial servo data and the determined compensation values. The final servo data are nominally concentric with the rotational center of the spindle hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Sun, Dave McMurtrey, Bruce Liikanen, Don Brunnett, John W. VanLaanen, Charles R. Watt, Stan Shepherd, S. Craig Smith, Todd Franks, Lin Guo
  • Publication number: 20090117112
    Abstract: The poxvirus proteins designated A41L and 130L bind to three receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTP), leukocyte common antigen related protein (LAR), RPTP-?, and RPTP-?, that are present on the cell surface of immune cells. When a host is infected with the poxvirus, binding of A41L to cell surface proteins on the host cells results in suppression of the immune response. The present invention provides agents such as antibodies, and antigen-binding fragments thereof, small molecules, aptamers, small interfering RNAs, and peptide-IgFc fusion polypeptides that interact with one or more of LAR, RPTP-?, and RPTP-? expressed by immune cells or interact with a polynucleotide encoding the RPTP. Also provided are RPTP Ig domain oligomers and Fc fusion polypeptides. Such agents are useful for treating an immunological disorder in a subject according to the methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: VIRAL LOGIC SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig A. Smith, Steven Wiley, Ajamete Kaykas, Jalal Vakili, Peter Probst
  • Patent number: 7498140
    Abstract: A method for detecting a target biomolecule directly in a polyacrylamide gel in which it has been separated from other substances. Prior to binding the target to a probe and while the target biomolecule remains in the gel, the gel is immersed in a water miscible aqueous extracting medium containing a base to shrink the gel by at least about ten percent, and then the gel is washed with water to restore the gel to substantially its original size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Pierce Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Surbhi Desai, Craig Smith, Boguslawa Dworecki, Steven Moore
  • Publication number: 20090020254
    Abstract: In-Place Cope Molding or “IPCM,” is designed to reduce or eliminate certain inefficiencies present in traditional molding techniques during production of the cope half of a sand mold. IPCM allows the cope half of the mold to be produced on top of the drag half of the mold by use of a separation barrier which supports the sand above the mold cavity in the drag. This method reduces or eliminates parting line flash, and also avoids the need to turn over or otherwise handle the cope, allowing the cope to be made thinner than a traditional cope and allowing for lower material costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: William J. Norris, Craig A. Smith
  • Patent number: 7461851
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a wheel suspension device on a right side and a wheel suspension device on a left side, with the right and left side wheel suspension devices being connected to each other through a rear frame mounted on a body frame. The right and left side wheel suspension devices include a lower arm supported at an inner end of the rear frame so as to extend outward and so as to be pivotally movable in a vertical direction. The right and left side wheel suspension devices also include an upper arm connected to the outer end of the lower arm through a wheel-supporting knuckle and so as to extend outward from the knuckle. The wheel suspension devices are provided with a rear cushion unit connected at one end to the swinging side end of one of the lower and upper arm members. At least one of the inner end of the upper arm and the other end of the rear cushion unit is supported on the rear frame so as to be pivotally movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamura, Katsuhisa Shimizu, Minoru Seto, Tomoaki Ooishi, Craig Smith
  • Patent number: 7459528
    Abstract: Tumor necrosis factor receptor DNAs and expression vectors encoding TNF receptors, and processes for producing TNF receptors as products of recombinant cell culture, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Immunex Corporation
    Inventors: Craig A. Smith, Raymond G. Goodwin, M. Patricia Beckmann
  • Patent number: 7414809
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, initial servo data are written to a storage medium as a series of radially overlapped spiral segments. Final servo data are thereafter written to the medium while concurrently servoing on said overlapped segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: S. Craig Smith, Stan Shepherd, Yu Sun, Yuan Roy Chen, Lin Guo
  • Patent number: 7385161
    Abstract: The resistance of an oxygen sensor heating element is estimated by modeling the effects of physical and electrical heating on the resistance of the heating element lead-in conductors, and subtracting the lead-in conductor resistance from a measure of the heating circuit resistance. The lead-in conductor resistance model is based on the temperature of the oxygen sensor boss and the current carried by the lead-in conductors. The heating element temperature is calculated from the determined heating element resistance and initial (cold-start) parameters of the heating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Craig Smith
  • Publication number: 20080131431
    Abstract: Provide herein are fusion polypeptides that comprise a CD47 extracellular domain or a variant thereof that is fused to a Fc polypeptide. The fusion polypeptides are useful for treating an immunological disease or disorder in a subject according to the methods described herein. The fusion polypeptides are capable of suppressing immunoresponsiveness of an immune cell, inhibiting production of proinflammatory cytokines, including inhibiting immune complex-induced production of cytokines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Viral Logic Systems Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Craig A. Smith, Steven Wiley, Ajamete Kaykas, Peter Probst
  • Publication number: 20080045716
    Abstract: This invention relates to intermediates useful in the preparation of opiate alkaloids, particularly morphinane compounds. The invention also relates to processes for preparing such intermediates and to processes which utilise such intermediates in the synthesis of morphinane compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Craig Smith, Stuart Purcell, Lucy Waddell, Nicholas Hayes, Jarrod Ritchie, Scott Halliday, Melville Mitchell, George Wilson
  • Patent number: 7331308
    Abstract: An exemplary collapsible game feeder and method are provided. In one embodiment, the collapsible game feeder includes a collapsible container and a dispensing device. The collapsible container may receive and store feed and release feed to the dispensing device for dispensing external the collapsible game feeder. In another aspect of the invention, a method for transporting and using a collapsible game feeder. The method includes providing a collapsible game feeder, transporting the collapsible game feeder to a desired location in the collapsed state, filling the collapsible game feeder with feed, and using the collapsible game feeder by having it dispense feed. The present invention also encompasses other embodiments and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Dynamic Color Images, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Smith