Patents by Inventor David A. Stuart

David A. Stuart 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: 12093036
    Abstract: A proctoring system that includes a communication device coupled to a remote station. The remote station has a visual display that displays first information relating to an action that causes an effect on an object, and simultaneously displays second information relating to the effect on the object. The remote station includes at least one input device that allows a communication to be transmitted by an operator to the communication device. By way of example, during the deployment of a heart stent, a specialist doctor may remotely view real-time fluoroscopy imagery and patient hemodynamics. The specialist can remotely proctor medical personnel on the proper orientation and timing requirements for installing the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TELADOC HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: David A. Stuart, Michael C. Chan, Timothy Wright, Yulun Wang, Fuji Lai
  • Publication number: 20200281229
    Abstract: The invention comprises compositions and methods for improving exercise performance, reducing muscle fatigue and improving recovery of muscle tissue after exercise. One method includes administering a composition of a plant-derived nitrate and a cocoa-derived product daily and before exercise. The synergistic combination of nitrate and cocoa polyphenols acts to improve exercise performance and to improve recovery from a strenuous exercise bout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Crozier, David A. Stuart
  • Patent number: 10660350
    Abstract: The invention includes compositions and methods for improving exercise performance or improving recovery of muscle tissue after exercise performance. One method includes administering a composition of a plant-derived nitrate and a cocoa-derived product daily and before exercise. The synergistic combination of nitrate and cocoa polyphenols acts to improve recovery from a strenuous exercise bout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Crozier, David A. Stuart
  • Publication number: 20170119729
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds and plant extract compositions that inhibit pancreatic enzymes, such as lipases and amylases, and most particularly pancreatic lipase and phospholipase A2 (PLA2), and COX-2 enzyme, and improve the inflammatory state or response conditions in animals. The compounds and plant extracts can be used in methods and administration regimens to treat animals for obesity-related conditions, diabetes and related conditions, metabolic syndrome, metabolic endotoxemia, and inflammatory conditions. The compounds and plant extracts can also be used to produce comestible compositions to be incorporated into a normal diet to improve health or prevent or reduce the uptake of free fatty acids during digestion or the production of inflammatory eicosanoids or cytokines. The inhibitor compounds and compositions include cocoa-derived polymers of epicatechin, such as epicatechin-rich polymers of 2 units through polymers of 14 units, or 5 to 14 units, and combinations of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: THE HERSHEY COMPANY
    Inventors: W. Jeffrey HURST, David A. STUART, Joshua D. LAMBERT, Yeyi GU
  • Publication number: 20160095342
    Abstract: The invention includes compositions and methods for improving exercise performance or improving recovery of muscle tissue after exercise performance. One method includes administering a composition of a plant-derived nitrate and a cocoa-derived product daily and before exercise. The synergistic combination of nitrate and cocoa polyphenols acts to improve recovery from a strenuous exercise bout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen J. CROZIER, David A. STUART
  • Publication number: 20160095341
    Abstract: The invention includes compositions and methods for improving exercise performance or improving recovery of muscle tissue after exercise performance. One method includes administering a composition of a plant-derived nitrate and a cocoa-derived product daily and before exercise. The synergistic combination of nitrate and cocoa polyphenols acts to improve recovery from a strenuous exercise bout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen J. CROZIER, David A. STUART
  • Patent number: 9040096
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for isolating and enhancing the levels of jasmonates from cacao plant sources. In a preferred embodiment, jasmonic acid and 12-hydroxy jasmonate sulfate are detected in various cocoa products, and the levels of these compounds can be manipulated to increase the beneficial health effects of a food product made with the cocoa products The invention includes methods to prepare edible products containing cocoa jasmonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: William Jeffrey Hurst, David A. Stuart, Angela Isabel Calderon Justavino, Richard B. Van Breemen
  • Publication number: 20140363529
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds and plant extract compositions that inhibit pancreatic enzymes, such as lipases and amylases, and most particularly pancreatic lipase and phospholipase A2 (PLA2), and COX-2 enzyme, and improve the inflammatory state or response conditions in animals. The compounds and plant extracts can be used in methods and administration regimens to treat animals for obesity-related conditions, diabetes and related conditions, metabolic syndrome, metabolic endotoxemia, and inflammatory conditions. The compounds and plant extracts can also be used to produce comestible compositions to be incorporated into a normal diet to improve health or prevent or reduce the uptake of free fatty acids during digestion or the production of inflammatory eicosanoids or cytokines. The inhibitor compounds and compositions include cocoa-derived polymers of epicatechin, such as epicatechin-rich polymers of 2 units through polymers of 14 units and combinations of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: W. Jeffrey HURST, David A. STUART, Joshua D. LAMBERT, Yeyi GU
  • Patent number: 8709524
    Abstract: The invention provides acidified red cocoa products and ingredients, such as acidified red cocoa bean nibs, red cocoa liquor, and red cocoa powder. The acidified cocoa products and ingredients are generally made from under-fermented or unfermented cocoa beans that are treated with an acid composition. The methods include those of making food products and ingredients where the levels cocoa antioxidants are maintained by the use of an acid treatment and the avoidance of dutching, and the food products and ingredient have a distinctive red color. Cocoa nibs, chocolate or cocoa liquor and cocoa powders having a red hue or color and having high levels of cocoa antioxidants are disclosed, as well as food products made from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Hersey Company
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Miller, Xiaoying Wang, David A. Stuart, Mark Holmgren
  • Publication number: 20120191464
    Abstract: A proctoring system that includes a communication device coupled to a remote station. The remote station has a visual display that displays first information relating to an action that causes an effect on an object, and simultaneously displays second information relating to the effect on the object. The remote station includes at least one input device that allows a communication to be transmitted by an operator to the communication device. By way of example, during the deployment of a heart stent, a specialist doctor may remotely view real-time fluoroscopy imagery and patient hemodynamics. The specialist can remotely proctor medical personnel on the proper orientation and timing requirements for installing the stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: InTouch Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stuart, Michael C. Chan, Timothy Wright, Yulun Wang, Fuji Lai
  • Publication number: 20110257263
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for isolating and enhancing the levels of jasmonates from cacao plant sources. In a preferred embodiment, jasmonic acid and 12-hydroxy jasmonate sulfate are detected in various cocoa products, and the levels of these compounds can be manipulated to increase the beneficial health effects of a food product made with the cocoa products The invention includes methods to prepare edible products containing cocoa jasmonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: William Jeffrey Hurst, David A. Stuart, Angela Isabela Calderon Justavino, Richard B. Van Breemen
  • Publication number: 20090130284
    Abstract: The invention provides acidified red cocoa products and ingredients, such as acidified red cocoa bean nibs, red cocoa liquor, and red cocoa powder. The acidified cocoa products and ingredients are generally made from under-fermented or unfermented cocoa beans that are treated with an acid composition. The methods include those of making food products and ingredients where the levels cocoa antioxidants are maintained by the use of an acid treatment and the avoidance of dutching, and the food products and ingredient have a distinctive red color. Cocoa nibs, chocolate or cocoa liquor and cocoa powders having a red hue or color and having high levels of cocoa antioxidants are disclosed, as well as food products made from them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth B. MILLER, Xiaoying WANG, David A. STUART, Mark HOLMGREN
  • Publication number: 20080268097
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of making food products and ingredients having enhanced levels of natural stilbene compounds, such as resveratrol. Chocolate liquor, cocoa powders, and cocoa extracts having enhanced levels of resveratrol prepared from cacao beans are disclosed. The invention also provides methods of treatment using compositions and ingredients having enhanced natural stilbene content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: W. Jeffrey HURST, Kenneth B. MILLER, David A. STUART
  • Publication number: 20080240239
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to selectively transmit compressed data based upon whether a image movement threshold has been met. In one embodiment, edge map frames are transmitted during periods of camera movement. Edge maps generated from a video stream are processed to identify the periods of camera movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: David A. Stuart
  • Patent number: 5676993
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a means of enhancing the cocoa flavor to a fat matrix by adding thereto about 0.3 g to about 4.0 g phenylalanine, 0.75 g to about 2.0 g leucine, and about 0.5 g to about 3.0 g reducing sugar and optionally about 0.05 g to about 0.8 g alanine for each 100 g of unroasted fat matrix and roasting the same, and to the products produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Hershey Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Julia J. Watterson, Kenneth B. Miller, Joseph J. Furjanic, David A. Stuart
  • Patent number: 5585135
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to chocolate confectionery containing roasted high oleic acid peanuts, in whole, or in part, and a process for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Hershey Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Patterson, David A. Stuart, Paula Thomas, Douglas W. Lehrian
  • Patent number: 4818693
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided to improve the quantity of embryos obtained by induction of somatic plant tissue. These involve the addition of effective amounts of selected amino acids, their derivatives or combinations of these as a source of reduced nitrogen, together with an optimum auxin dosage to the nutritive media used to regenerate or maintain the embryonic tissue. A synergistic effect is found by adding these amino acids either in combination or in combination with ammonium ion together with the selected auxin dosage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Plant Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stuart, Steven G. Strickland
  • Patent number: 4801545
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the growth of cultured plant cells which include the addition of maltose as a carbohydrate source. Additional improvements in the plant cell growth medium can be obtained by adding a source of ammonium ion to the medium to obtain a synergistic effect with the maltose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Plant Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stuart, Steven G. Strickland, James W. Nichol