Patents by Inventor David A. Cummings

David A. Cummings 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: 20090286709
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Michael David Cummings, Donna D' Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael A. Valenti, Laurent D. Kieken, Xiayong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leonard J. Starks
  • Publication number: 20090150859
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to model validation for modeling tools and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for dynamic validation of models using constraint targets. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic validation of models using constraint targets can be provided. The method can include defining constraint targets on object validation in a model within a MDD tool to object instances affected by a change in another object in the model, detecting a change in an object instance in the model in the MDD tool, and validating only other object instances in the model that are affected by the detected change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Cummings, Maneesh Goyal
  • Publication number: 20090098922
    Abstract: A lottery game using tickets in which the tickets bear concealed numbers that may be exposed by the player after purchase to determine the winning number of that lottery ticket and after the player selects the numbers upon which the player is betting to win. In one embodiment the concealed numbers comprise the winning number for that ticket to be matched by those selected by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Edith Cummings, Richard David Cummings
  • Publication number: 20090100087
    Abstract: The present invention is a method, system and framework for generating and processing XForms documents. Utilizing the method, system and framework of the present invention, developers need only write loosely coupled components that implement the minimal application-specific interface code, and the method, system and framework coordinates the generation and processing based on a description of the form's lifecycle. It also allows developers to reuse components created for other integrations that implemented the framework. The advantage of the method, system and framework is to significantly reduce development effort to integrate XForms with a vast number of applications, while all known solutions are specific to a single integration case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Robert A. Connell, David Cummings, Charles M. Gobeil, Rachna Juneja Singhal, Michael C. Mansell
  • Publication number: 20090009290
    Abstract: A medical fluid delivery system includes a dialysis instrument; a disposable pumping cassette operable with a pumping actuator of the dialysis instrument, the disposable cassette including or connected fluidly to a plurality of first connectors; a plurality of second connectors configured to interface with the first connectors, each second connector associated with a radio frequency (“RFID”) tag; and electronics configured to read the RFID tags via a plurality of antennae and to identify that each of the second connectors is positioned properly with respect to a proper one of the first connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicants: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE S.A.
    Inventors: Daniel Kneip, David West, David Cummings, Patrick Lee, Randy Murphy
  • Publication number: 20080255108
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds for treating the symptoms of an acute or chronic disorder mediated by the classical pathway of the complement cascade. Said compounds are of Formula I or a solvate, hydrate, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or prodrug thereof; wherein Ra, Rb, and Rc are defined in the specification, as are A Z, Q, R1 and R2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Nalin L. Subasinghe, Shelley Ballentine, Jeremy M. Travins, Ehab M. Khalil, Farah Ali, Kristi A. Leonard, Joan M. Gushue, Michael Peter Winters, Heather Hufnagel, Maxwell David Cummings
  • Publication number: 20080249890
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for anonymous online matching for products and services. A listing party uploads a detailed profile (e.g., indicating goods and/or service they desire to purchase) to a matching system. The matching system, automatically and/or manually, detects a match with a potential seller. The matching system sends a redacted profile to the potential seller. The redacted profile includes product and/or service information but omits indentify information of the listing party. The seller determines if further investigation is worthwhile (e.g., purchase of the detailed profile including identify information) based on the content of the redacted profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: SINGLEEDGE DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Chris Sower, David Cumming
  • Publication number: 20080235884
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael A. Valenti, Laurent D. Kieken, Xiayong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leonard J. Starks
  • Patent number: 7422272
    Abstract: A module for a frame for a motor vehicle and a method of forming a frame assembly with a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending central side rail structures includes, in one embodiment, using a pair of tubular hydroformed side rail members and a laterally extending connecting structure connected between the pair of side rail members to secure the pair of side rail members in laterally spaced, fixed relation to one another. Each first portion of the pair of side rail members extending longitudinally and each second portion of the pair of side rail members extending laterally relative to the respective first portion and each second portion having an end being constructed and arranged to form a joint with a portion of a respective central side rail structure such that the end of each of the pair of side rail members extends generally laterally through a side of the respective central side rail structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Magna International Inc.
    Inventors: Frank A. Horton, Gianfranco Gabbianelli, Richard D. Ashley, David Cumming
  • Patent number: 7405209
    Abstract: The present invention provides 4-amino-azepan-3-one protease inhibitors and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates and solvates thereof which inhibit proteases, including cathepsin K, pharmaceutical compositions of such compounds, novel intermediates of such compounds, and methods for treating diseases of excessive bone loss or cartilage or matrix degradation, including osteoporosis; gingival disease including gingivitis and periodontitis; arthritis, more specifically, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis; Paget's disease; hypercalcemia of malignancy; and metabolic bone disease, comprising inhibiting said bone loss or excessive cartilage or matrix degradation by administering to a patient in need thereof a compound of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignees: SmithKline Beecham Corporation, SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventors: Robert Wells Marquis, Jr., Yu Ru, Daniel Frank Veber, Maxwell David Cummings, Scott Kevin Thompson, Dennis Shinji Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20080177089
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael A. Valenti, Laurent D. Kieken, Xiayong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leonard J. Starks
  • Patent number: 7385066
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds for treating the symptoms of an acute or chronic disorder mediated by the classical pathway of the complement cascade. The compounds are of Formula I or a solvate, hydrate, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or prodrug thereof; wherein Ra, Rb, and Rc are defined in the specification, as are A Z, Q, R1 and R2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Nalin L. Subasinghe, Shelley Ballentine, Jeremy M. Travins, Ehab M. Khalil, Farah Ali, Kristi A. Leonard, Joan M. Gushue, Michael Peter Winters, Heather Hufnagel, Maxwell David Cummings
  • Patent number: 7345738
    Abstract: A method of using a cell library to create a device, includes projecting a series of masks, each mask of the series corresponding to a layer of each of one or more selected cells, onto a substrate according to a data layout of the device or combining a series of masks, each mask of the series corresponding to a layer of one or more of the selected cells, into a series of global masks, each of global masks of the series of global masks embodying a layer of the device according to a data layout of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Kevin David Cummings
  • Patent number: 7325866
    Abstract: A module for a frame for a motor vehicle with a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending central side rail structures. The module including a pair of tubular hydroformed side rail members and a laterally extending connecting structure connected between the pair of side rail members to secure the pair of side rail members in laterally spaced, fixed relation to one another. Each first portion of the pair of side rail members extending longitudinally and each second portion of the pair of side rail members extending laterally relative to the respective first portion and each second portion having an end being constructed and arranged to form a joint with a portion of a respective central side rail structure such that the end of each of the pair of side rail members extends generally laterally through a side of the respective central side rail structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Magna International Inc.
    Inventors: Frank A. Horton, Gianfranco Gabbianelli, Richard D. Ashley, David Cumming
  • Publication number: 20080023953
    Abstract: A module for a frame for a motor vehicle and a method of forming a frame assembly with a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending central side rail structures includes, in one embodiment, using a pair of tubular hydroformed side rail members and a laterally extending connecting structure connected between the pair of side rail members to secure the pair of side rail members in laterally spaced, fixed relation to one another. Each first portion of the pair of side rail members extending longitudinally and each second portion of the pair of side rail members extending laterally relative to the respective first portion and each second portion having an end being constructed and arranged to form a joint with a portion of a respective central side rail structure such that the end of each of the pair of side rail members extends generally laterally through a side of the respective central side rail structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Frank HORTON, Gianfranco GABBIANELLI, Richard ASHLEY, David CUMMING
  • Patent number: 7235518
    Abstract: Fabric conditioning compositions comprising a fabric care active and a hueing dye, wherein the hueing dye exhibits a hueing efficiency of at least about 20 according to the Hueing Efficiency Test method; and a Wash Removal Value from about 50% to about 98%, are useful in mitigating the discoloration of white and other light colored fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lisa Grace Brush, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Jodi Lee Brown, Marena Dessette Brown, Shulin Larry Zhang, Michael David Cummings, Eugene Steven Sadlowski
  • Patent number: 7208459
    Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions comprise (a) surfactant, and (b) a hueing dye, wherein the hueing dye exhibits a hueing efficiency of at least 10 and a wash removal value in the range of from about 30% to about 85%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Michael David Cummings
  • Patent number: 7205269
    Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions comprise (a) surfactant, and (b) a hueing dye selected from triarylmethane blue and violet basic dyes, methine blue and violet basic dyes, anthraquinone blue and violet basic dyes, azo dyes basic blue 16, basic blue 65, basic blue 66 basic blue 67, basic blue 71, basic blue 159, basic violet 19, basic violet 35, basic violet 38, basic violet 48, oxazine dyes, basic blue 3, basic blue 75, basic blue 95, basic blue 122, basic blue 124, basic blue 141, Nile blue A and xanthene dye basic violet 10, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Michael David Cummings
  • Publication number: 20070073233
    Abstract: A thrombectomy catheter deployment system which greatly simplifies setup procedures and operation of a thrombectomy catheter includes a stand alone drive unit and a disposable pump/catheter assembly which is manually placed into a carriage assembly in the drive unit. The pump/catheter assembly has a plurality of preconnected components including tubular structure and a thrombectomy catheter connected thereto and is transported into or out of the interior of the drive unit for automatic high pressure pump piston head engagement or disengagement with a reciprocating linear actuator and for automatic engagement or disengagement of an effluent waste tube with a roller pump. A barcode reader senses specific operational data pertaining to an individual pump and provides an interface for operation of the reciprocating linear actuator. A bubble trap incorporated for effective debubbling of saline solution is closely coupled to an insert molded pump having an improved valve arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Thor, Michael Bonnette, Nicole Aasen, Martyn Abbott, Douglas Ball, Walter Croll, David Cummings, Chad Grant, Mark Hilse, James Karpinski, Daniel Kneip, Jeffrey Rogers, Ernest Scherger, John Teschendorf, Stephen Weisel, David West
  • Publication number: 20060231625
    Abstract: The present invention relates to security label (12) for securing or authenticating goods or services or a security document. Currently radio frequency ID cards, having an inductive loop and a microchip containing security information, are used. However, such RF ID cards are expensive to manufacture. Therefore it is proposed to use a security label or document (12) including a terahertz image or tag (14, 15, 76) which may beta hologram. Security information can then be read by reflection or transmission of terahertz radiation which is not visible to the unaided eye. The terahertz image or tag may be covered by a material (66, 68) opaque to visible light, but transparent or transmissive of terahertz wavelengths, making it difficult for potential fraudsters to investigate the terahertz image. A method of making such a security label or document, a security or authentication method and system using terahertz radiation are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: David Cumming, Timothy Drysdale