Patents by Inventor David Morris

David Morris 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).

  • SEED-ORIGIN ENDOPHYTE POPULATIONS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20170164620
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich, Craig Sadowski
  • METHODS OF USE OF SEED-ORIGIN ENDOPHYTE POPULATIONS
    Publication number: 20170164619
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich, Craig Sadowski
  • Customized presentation of event guest lists in a social networking system
    Patent number: 9661089
    Abstract: A user creates an event in a social networking system specifying a location, a time, and a guest list of other users invited to the event. The social networking system generates a page associated with the event that provides information about the event and identifies whether users have responded to invitations to the event. The content of the page may be customized for the user viewing the page to encourage the viewing user to attend the event. For example, the viewing user's relationship to and/or similar characteristics with other users on the guest list is determined and used by the social networking system to identify the users whose responses to invitations are shown to the viewing user via the page. Additionally, a notification method more prominently distributes acceptances of invitations to other users to encourage attendance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Baldwin, Henry Bridge, Robyn David Morris
  • Security badge
    Patent number: 9652909
    Abstract: An identification device includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) card, a base member, and a front panel. The RFID card is configured to transmit an identification number. The front panel includes a laser-markable layer. The base member has a back panel and a perimeter wall extending transverse from the back panel. The base member forms a recess accommodating the front panel. The base member and the front panel are joined to form an assembly in which the RFID card is enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giles David Matthew McWilliam, Steven Craig DiNoto, Michael David Morris Sniderman, Jesse Scott Knutson
  • Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations
    Patent number: 9622485
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich, Craig Sadowski
  • PROCESS FOR THE AROMATIZATION OF A METHANE-CONTAINING GAS STREAM USING TITANIUM ALLOY HYDROGEN ACCEPTOR PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20170081258
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a process for the aromatization of a methane-containing gas stream that includes contacting the methane-containing gas stream in a reaction zone of an aromatization reactor comprising an aromatization catalyst and a titanium alloy hydrogen acceptor under methane-containing gas aromatization conditions to produce a product stream comprising aromatics and hydrogen, wherein at least a portion of the produced hydrogen is bound by the titanium alloy hydrogen acceptor in the reaction zone and removed from the product and the reaction zone as titanium hydride, and wherein the titanium alloy hydrogen acceptor is a single phase alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Sangyun LIM, Peter Tanev TANEV, David Morris HAMILTON, JR., Suchismita SANYAL
  • Electrosurgical instrument and shaft
    Patent number: 9592088
    Abstract: A shaft (14) is provided for a flexible endoscopic instrument, the shaft including at least one flexible section (20) along the length of the shaft, a distal section (19) located distally of the flexible section, and a proximal section (18) located proximally of the flexible section (20). The distal section (19) includes a connection to a shaft electrode, while the proximal section (18) includes at least one connection for connecting the shaft (14) to an electrosurgical generator (1). The shaft also includes a bypass lead (26) in electrical connection with both the distal section (19) and the proximal section (18). The bypass lead (26) ensures that the distal section (19) and the proximal section (18) remain at the same potential even if the electrical pathway via the flexible section (20) becomes degraded by wear or damage thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: GYRUS MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: David Morris, Louise Murphy, Richard John Hoodless, Richard John Keogh
  • Fuel composition and method of formulating a fuel composition to reduce real-world driving cycle particulate emissions
    Patent number: 9587190
    Abstract: In order to blend fuels to meet specific regulatory and industry requirements, for instance octane requirements, different octane blending components can be used. One added component includes a composition of higher aromatics content. Unfortunately, this aromatic content may increase the particulate emissions of an internal combustion engine when the high aromatic fuel is combusted in that engine. As explained herein, reducing the aromatics content and replacing that octane increasing requirement with an alternative octane enhancer results in a formulated fuel that will have lower particulate emissions in the real-world driving of that engine as compared with a fuel having higher aromatic content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Meffert, John David Morris, Joseph W. Roos, Huifang Shao
  • Direct stream hydrodynamic catheter system
    Patent number: 9586023
    Abstract: A direct stream hydrodynamic catheter system is provided for the removal of thrombus, lesions and the like including provisions for the infusion of drugs, lysing fluids and the like into a blood vessel. Physician controlled powered direct fluid jet streams emanate from a fluid jet emanatory in the form of robust radially directed fluid jet streams to impinge upon and ablate difficult and strong thrombus and lesions within a blood vessel. Effluent aspiration is controlled by an exhaust regulator in the form of a roller pump, but effluent removal can be assistingly influenced by the fluid pressure associated with the radially directed fluid jet streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael J. Bonnette, Eric J. Thor, Debra M. Kozak, Douglas J. Ball, Richard Prather, David Morris, Stephen E. Weisel
  • SIMULTANEOUS DISPLAY OF USER LOCATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA
    Publication number: 20170049406
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for simultaneously displaying location data and physiological data for a plurality of users. The methods may include receiving physiological data corresponding to one or more physiological parameters of each of the plurality of users. The methods may also include receiving location data corresponding to a location of each of the plurality of users. The method may also include displaying the received physiological data and location data simultaneously on a same visual representation for each of the plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: AARON JOHN LANZEL, BENJAMIN DAVID MORRIS, ROBERT JEFFREY NELSEN
  • QUANTIFYING AND REPORTING USER READINESS
    Publication number: 20170053078
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for determining a readiness of a user. The methods may include receiving physiological data corresponding to one or more physiological parameters of the user. The methods may also include receiving user input data corresponding to one or more subjective user state parameters of the user. The methods may also include assigning a respective component score to each of the received physiological data and user input data. The methods may further include assigning a respective weight to at least one of the one or more physiological parameters or one or more subjective user state parameters of the user. The methods may also include deriving a readiness score for the user based at least in part on the component scores of the corresponding weights. The derived readiness score may be communicated to the user via a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: AARON JOHN LANZEL, BENJAMIN DAVID MORRIS, BRIAN KEITH RUSSELL
  • RADIO NETWORK COMMUNICATION MODES IN PHYSIOLOGICAL STATUS MONITORING
    Publication number: 20170055205
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for managing communication modes on a network used for physiological status monitoring. The methods may include receiving indications that a network had been selected and that a communication or operation mode for the network had been selected. The communication or operation mode may be based at least in part on a number of remote physiological monitoring devices that are to be allowed to communicate on the radio access network. A beacon may be transmitted to indicate one or more transmission parameters associated with the selected communication or operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: BENJAMIN DAVID MORRIS, ISTVAN ROLAND FELLNER, JERRY JUN WONG
  • AGRICULTURAL ENDOPHYTE-PLANT COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20170020138
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant or a Gycine plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal or soy seeds and/or cereal or soy seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Richard Bailey FLAVELL, Gerardo V. TOLEDO, Allison JACK, David Morris JOHNSTON, Slavica DJONOVIC, Luis Miguel MARQUEZ, Yves Alain MILLET, Craig SADOWSKI, Jeffrey LYFORD, Alexander NAYDICH
  • Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations
    Patent number: 9532572
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich, Craig Sadowski
  • Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations
    Patent number: 9532573
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Craig Sadowski, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich
  • PLANTS CONTAINING BENEFICIAL ENDOPHYTES
    Publication number: 20160338360
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed, seedling or plant by producing seeds that are internally colonized with endophytes. Beneficial endophytes with particular characteristics are provided. These may be used in the methods described to provide a benefit to a seed, seedling or plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicants: INDIGO AG, INC., AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Birgit MITTER, Muhammad NAVEED, Teresa BERNINGER, Stephane COMPANT, Angela SESSITSCH, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Richard Bailey FLAVELL, Gerardo V. TOLEDO, Slavica DJONOVIC, Luis Miguel MARQUEZ, David Morris JOHNSTON, Yves Alain MILLET, Jeffrey LYFORD, Jonathan W. LEFF, Phillip SAMAYOA, Craig SADOWSKI
  • METHOD FOR PROPAGATING MICROORGANISMS WITHIN PLANT BIOREACTORS AND STABLY STORING MICROORGANISMS WITHIN AGRICULTURAL SEEDS
    Publication number: 20160330976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of scalably producing microorganisms by propagating them within plant tissues and introducing them into agricultural seeds to improve their shelf-life during long-term storage, to produce substances of interest, and to create libraries of microbes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicants: INDIGO AG, INC., AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Birgit MITTER, Muhammad NAVEED, Teresa BERNINGER, Stephane COMPANT, Angela SESSITSCH, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Richard Bailey FLAVELL, Gerardo V. TOLEDO, Slavica DJONOVIC, Luis Miguel MARQUEZ, David Morris JOHNSTON, Yves Alain MILLET, Jeffrey LYFORD, Jonathan W. LEFF, Phillip SAMAYOA, Craig SADOWSKI
  • VISUALIZING REACH OF POSTED CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160308740
    Abstract: Effects of content communications propagated to users of a social networking system may be tracked and measured by the social networking system. Identifiers of content presented to users within a time period before the users interact with the content are recorded. As users interact with the content, additional data describing the interactions with the content and the users interacting with the content are stored. Various metrics may be determined from the data describing interactions with the content. For example including virality metrics and reach metrics, may be determined and presented to the user that posted the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Robyn David Morris
  • Handguard
    Patent number: D787003
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Radical Firearms, LLC
    Inventors: David Morris Spector, Philip Brent Middleton
  • Handguard assembly
    Patent number: D787004
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Radical Firearms, LLC
    Inventors: David Morris Spector, Philip Brent Middleton