Patents by Inventor David Michael Smith

David Michael 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).

  • Patent number: 12534514
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide with a length of 25 amino acids or less comprising the sequence X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7-X8-X9-X10-X11-X12-X13 (SEQ ID No: 1) as well as to A peptide with a length of 25 amino acids or less comprising the sequence X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7-X8-X9-X10-X11-X12-X13-X14 (SEQ ID No: 2). The present invention further relates to a nanostructure comprising a nucleic acid scaffold and at least two peptide moieties, wherein the sequence of each of the at least two peptide moieties is independently selected from the sequence of the peptide of the invention as well as pharmaceutical compositions, nucleic acids, methods and uses related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewanditen Forschung
    Inventors: David Michael Smith, Christin Möser, Thomas Grunwald, Leila Issmail, Christian Jäger, Martin Kleinschmidt, Daniel Ramsbeck, Mirko Buchholz
  • Publication number: 20250182582
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Patent number: 12243393
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Publication number: 20230064545
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Patent number: 11514757
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Publication number: 20220195016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide with a length of 25 amino acids or less comprising the sequence X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7-X8-X9-X10-X11-X12-X13 (SEQ ID No: 1) as well as to A peptide with a length of 25 amino acids or less comprising the sequence X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7-X8-X9-X10-X11-X12-X13-X14 (SEQ ID No: 2). The present invention further relates to a nanostructure comprising a nucleic acid scaffold and at least two peptide moieties, wherein the sequence of each of the at least two peptide moieties is independently selected from the sequence of the peptide of the invention as well as pharmaceutical compositions, nucleic acids, methods and uses related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: David Michael Smith, Christin Möser, Thomas Grunwald, Leila Issmail, Christian Jäger, Martin Kleinschmidt, Daniel Ramsbeck, Mirko Buchholz
  • Publication number: 20210145972
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanostructure comprising: a) a nucleic acid scaffold; and b) at least two peptide moieties, wherein the at least two peptide moieties specifically bind to a molecule expressed on the surface of a virus and are attached to the nucleic acid scaffold, wherein the structure of the nucleic acid scaffold is selected from the group of: i) a linear nucleic acid scaffold, wherein the at least two peptide moieties are each attached at or near different ends of the nucleic acid scaffold; and ii) a branched nucleic acid scaffold, wherein the at least two peptide moieties are each attached to a different branch of the scaffold. The invention furthermore relates to the nanostructure of the invention for use as a medicament, and more specifically for use in the treatment of viral infections. The invention also relates to the nanostructure of the invention for the use in diagnostic purposes and in methods of detecting whether a virus is present in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: David Michael Smith, Jessica Sophie Lorenz, Christin Möser, Jasmin Fertey, Walter Stöcklein, Andreas Herrmann, Daniel Lauster
  • Publication number: 20210019998
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Patent number: 10810840
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Publication number: 20190295380
    Abstract: A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Michael P. Casey, David Michael Smith, Jose Antonio Uberuaga, Joshua Wade Davis, Kelton F. Flinn, Zhao Ming Fei, Kenner Scott Warren
  • Patent number: 8801831
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling inert gas generation. An apparatus comprises an air separation module and an air flow control system. The air separation module is configured to separate an inert gas from air input into the air separation module. The air flow control system is configured to control the flow of the air into the air separation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Donald Ray Snow, Jr., David Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 7572735
    Abstract: Yield loss in semiconductor processing is mitigated by forming a resist over an active side of a semiconductor workpiece or wafer, as well as around the edge of the wafer. The resist mitigates the creation of contaminants, such as nitride flakes, for example, that can develop when an oxide, nitride, oxide (ONO) layer is removed from the back or in-active side of the wafer. In the absence of the resist, such flakes may migrate to the front or active side of the wafer and cause defects to form therein, which can result in yield loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Cuong Nguyen, Keith David Fenstermacher, David Michael Smith, Courtney Michael Hazelton
  • Publication number: 20080076254
    Abstract: Yield loss in semiconductor processing is mitigated by forming a resist over an active side of a semiconductor workpiece or wafer, as well as around the edge of the wafer. The resist mitigates the creation of contaminants, such as nitride flakes, for example, that can develop when an oxide, nitride, oxide (ONO) layer is removed from the back or in-active side of the wafer. In the absence of the resist, such flakes may migrate to the front or active side of the wafer and cause defects to form therein, which can result in yield loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Scott Cuong Nguyen, Keith David Fenstermacher, David Michael Smith, Courtney Michael Hazelton
  • Publication number: 20030230376
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pneumatic tire with puncture sealing property and a method for preparing such tire. Such tire is prepared by building an uncured butyl rubber-based layer, which contains a peroxide and a dispersion therein of a particulate precured rubber selected from pre resin-cured butyl rubber and/or pre sulfur-cured diene-based elastomer, into an uncured tire and between an innerliner layer and the tire carcass. Upon curing the prepared tire under conditions of elevated temperature, a major portion of the uncured butyl rubber composition is depolymerized to form a tacky material, which contains said dispersion therein of said particulate precured rubber, which has puncture sealant properties. Such layer of depolymerized butyl rubber and dispersed precured rubber particles may be collectively referred to as the sealant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: David Michael Smith, Bina Patel Botts, John Richard White, Ronald James Dill, John Kotanides, Michael Brendan Rodgers
  • Publication number: 20020007017
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the rate of vulcanization of a halogenated isobutylene sulfur rubber composition comprising heating said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition to a temperature ranging from 100° C. to 200° C., wherein said halogenated isobutylene rubber composition contains from 0.05 to 10 phr of sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Michael D'Sidocky, Bernard Matthew Bezilla, Leighton Randolph Spadone, David Michael Smith, Mark Andrew Marinko
  • Patent number: 6308898
    Abstract: Mixing of a subsonic exhaust plume from a nozzle is induced and enhanced, and shaping of the plume is controlled, by periodic pulsed jets of fluid injected into the plume from two or more locations spaced circumferentially about the plume. The jets are pulsed out of phase relative to one another. An active flow control apparatus includes at least first and second pulsed jet nozzles circumferentially spaced apart about the exhaust plume near an exit plane of the exhaust nozzle, and a pulse generator operable to supply periodic pulses of fluid to each of the pulsed jet nozzles such that the pulses to each nozzle are out of phase relative to the pulses to the other nozzle or nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John Dorris, III, David Michael Smith, David Espineli Parekh, Valdis Kibens