Patents by Inventor Douglas B. Taylor

Douglas B. Taylor 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: 20240110245
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detecting one or more types of gynecological cancer in a biological sample from a subject. In particular, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for detecting the presence or absence of one or more types of gynecological cancer (e.g., cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer) in a biological sample from a subject having or suspected of having a gynecological cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: William R. Taylor, John B. Kisiel, Douglas W. Mahoney
  • Patent number: 5496238
    Abstract: Physical conditioning apparatus which includes a left foot pedal, a right foot pedal, a binder for binding the user's left foot onto the left foot pedal, a binder for binding the user's right foot onto the right foot pedal, support means for supporting the user, and resistance producing means for resisting upward movement of the foot pedals but producing little or no resistance to downward movement of the foot pedals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventor: Douglas B. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5170833
    Abstract: A rolling door assembly including a flexible curtain having an inner end, an outer end and side edges. The inner end of this curtain is mounted to a rotatable curtain roll. The assembly includes a sprocket mounted on the curtain roll and a continuous chain loop that extends around this sprocket and is connected to a motor drive to form a curtain winding and unwinding mechanism. Two drive loop members are in operable engagement with the curtain roll for purposes of loop travel during rotation of the roll. The bottom end of the curtain is secured to the two drive members so that the bottom end and the drive loop members travel together. There are also two adjusting mechanisms connected between the bottom end of the curtain and the two loop members to accommodate a difference in speed of travel between the loop members and the bottom end of the curtain, the latter moving at a variable speed as the curtain is wound or unwound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: M & I Door Systems Limited
    Inventors: Douglas B. Taylor, Craig Jerry
  • Patent number: 4976302
    Abstract: A rolling door mechanism employing an idler drive member freely supported about an idler roll of a roll door assembly. An adjusting element, for example, a coiled spring which surrounds the idler roll, accommodates differences in speed of the idler drive member and the idler roll. The adjusting element is connected at one end for rotation with the idler drive member and at the other end for rotation with the idler roll. In one preferred embodiment the coiled spring is tensioned during rotation of the idler drive member in one direction by drive means and this tension is released during rotation of the idler drive member in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: M & I Door Systems Limited
    Inventor: Douglas B. Taylor
  • Patent number: 4690195
    Abstract: An operator for a rolling door having a curtain barrel shaft rotatable for actuating the door and including a drive gear adapted for connection to one end of the curtain barrel shaft and a second gear adapted for connection to one end of an idler roller. The idler roller in use engages one surface of the door and extends horizontally across the top of the door opening. A third gear is rotatably mounted in the region of the drive gear and the second gear and an electric motor is provided to rotate this third gear. In one version of the invention there is a moveable fourth gear in meshing engagement with the third gear and driven thereby. The fourth gear can be swung from a first position where it is in meshing engagement with the second gear to a second position where it is in meshing engagement with the drive gear. A chain loop connectable to the door is driven when the second gear and the idler roller rotate and it is provided to close the door even under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Cooper Cliff Door Manufacturing (1980) Ltd.
    Inventor: Douglas B. Taylor