Patents by Inventor Douglas Davies

Douglas Davies 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: 12025004
    Abstract: A horizontal boring rig that may be used for the excavation of horizontal bores in soil or other substrates without the use of tracks or other supporting equipment. The boring rig may include a hydraulic motor or other powered device for turning an auger or other excavation tool. The hydraulic motor may be pivotally mounted to the boring rig and drive the bore string through an intermediate shaft including a universal joint. The degree of freedom provided by the universal joint and motor mounting prevents breakage of the boring string from deflection or kickback. A front guide may be used to prevent excessive deflection of the universal joint. The boring rig may ride on skids that allow the rig to follow a working grade and may incorporate spoil channels for directing excavated material around or away from the skid feet for improved accuracy in following the working grade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Brent Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20230228154
    Abstract: A horizontal boring rig that may be used for the excavation of horizontal bores in soil or other substrates without the use of tracks or other supporting equipment. The boring rig may include a hydraulic motor or other powered device for turning an auger or other excavation tool. The hydraulic motor may be pivotally mounted to the boring rig and drive the bore string through an intermediate shaft including a universal joint. The degree of freedom provided by the universal joint and motor mounting prevents breakage of the boring string from deflection or kickback. A front guide may be used to prevent excessive deflection of the universal joint. The boring rig may ride on skids that allow the rig to follow a working grade and may incorporate spoil channels for directing excavated material around or away from the skid feet for improved accuracy in following the working grade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Brent Douglas Davis
  • Patent number: 10006201
    Abstract: A structural support beam for use in buildings, bridges, mechanical frames and the like to resist bending due to gravitational and external forces comprising a top substantially flat flange disposed in fixed spaced relationship relative to a bottom substantially concave flange by an interconnecting web and a lower stabilizing brace disposed to engage the opposite end portions of the bottom substantially concave flange and the opposite end portions of the interconnecting web to reinforce the interconnection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Inventor: C. Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20180128957
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass articles, such as light guide plates, comprising a first surface (101) and an opposing second surface (102), wherein the first surface comprises an array of light extraction features (103) having a diameter of at least about 10 microns and a height ranging from about 1 micron to about 10 microns. Display devices comprising such glass articles are also disclosed herein as well as methods for producing such glass articles. The method involves depositing ink on a first surface of a glass substrate to form an array of coated and uncoated surfaces and etching the uncoated surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Douglas Davis, Jacques Gollier, Vasudha Ravichandran, Christine Coulter Wolcott
  • Publication number: 20170298629
    Abstract: A structural support beam for use in buildings, bridges, mechanical frames and the like to resist bending due to gravitational and external forces comprising a top substantially flat flange disposed in fixed spaced relationship relative to a bottom substantially concave flange by an interconnecting web and a lower stabilizing brace disposed to engage the opposite end portions of the bottom substantially concave flange and the opposite end portions of the interconnecting web to reinforce the interconnection therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: C. Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20170238700
    Abstract: Collapsible fabric pods may include a plurality of posts attached to a base and a fabric bin array attached to the plurality of posts, wherein the plurality of posts are displaceable between an upright position and collapsed position. When the plurality of posts are in the upright position, the plurality of posts support the fabric bin array above the base, and when the plurality of posts are in the collapsed position, the plurality of posts are decoupled or displaced and the fabric bin array is in a compressed position on top of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Scot Douglas Davis, John W. Cullen, Gregory Delaney, Daniel Robert Deshaies, John M. Tucker, Anne Elliott Veit
  • Patent number: 9657477
    Abstract: A structural support beam for use in buildings, bridges, mechanical frames and the like to resist bending due to gravitational and external forces comprising a top substantially flat flange disposed in fixed spaced relationship relative to a bottom substantially concave flange by an interconnecting web and a lower stabilizing brace disposed to engage the opposite end portions of the bottom substantially concave flange and the opposite end portions of the interconnecting web to reinforce the interconnection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Inventor: C Douglas Davis
  • Patent number: 9618932
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Publication number: 20160355297
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Publication number: 20160355606
    Abstract: The invention provides anti-PCSK9 antibodies, formulations, dosing regimens, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yan Wu, Cecilia Pui Chi Chiu, Daniel K. Kirchhofer, Andrew Peterson, Ganesh A. Kolumam, Monica Kong Beltran, Paul Moran, Wei Li, Xanthe Lam, Lin Luis, Ada Hui, Whittemore Tingley, John Douglas Davis, Nageshwar R. Budha
  • Patent number: 9422084
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Publication number: 20160130033
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Patent number: 9278840
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Patent number: 9250917
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a distributed runtime environment executes a software application that includes isolated runtime constructs corresponding to an isolated runtime environment. During the execution, the distributed runtime environment identifies isolated runtime constructs included in the software application and selects distributed runtime constructs corresponding to the isolated runtime constructs. In turn, the distributed runtime environment executes the distributed runtime constructs in lieu of executing the isolated runtime constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20150368078
    Abstract: An inventory system includes a pallet and a base for palletizing or unpalletizing a mobile drive unit. The pallet has a set of openings corresponding with features of the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit features may extend into the pallet openings. The base includes protrusions corresponding to the pallet openings. Engaging the pallet and base can position the base protrusions in the pallet openings. Positioning the base protrusions in the pallet openings can displace the mobile drive unit features from the pallet openings and/or provide a surface upon which the mobile drive unit can navigate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Martin Hess, Scot Douglas Davis, Stephen Aquilino
  • Patent number: 9207946
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a distributed runtime environment executes a software application that includes isolated runtime constructs corresponding to an isolated runtime environment. During the execution, the distributed runtime environment identifies isolated runtime constructs included in the software application and selects distributed runtime constructs corresponding to the isolated runtime constructs. In turn, the distributed runtime environment executes the distributed runtime constructs in lieu of executing the isolated runtime constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20150067659
    Abstract: An approach is provided in in which distributed runtime environment executes a software application that includes isolated runtime constructs corresponding to an isolated runtime environment. During the execution, the distributed runtime environment identifies isolated runtime constructs included in the software application and selects distributed runtime constructs corresponding to the isolated runtime constructs. In turn, the distributed runtime environment executes the distributed runtime constructs in lieu of executing the isolated runtime constructs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas Davis
  • Publication number: 20150067686
    Abstract: An approach is provided in in which distributed runtime environment executes a software application that includes isolated runtime constructs corresponding to an isolated runtime environment. During the execution, the distributed runtime environment identifies isolated runtime constructs included in the software application and selects distributed runtime constructs corresponding to the isolated runtime constructs. In turn, the distributed runtime environment executes the distributed runtime constructs in lieu of executing the isolated runtime constructs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Douglas Davis
  • Patent number: 8222371
    Abstract: Proteins (INSP141, INSP142, INSP143, and INSP144) identified as anthrax receptor-like proteins containing von Willebrand factor A (vWFA) and Anthrax receptor extracellular (ANT_IG) domains and the use of these proteins and nucleic acid sequences from the encoding genes in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ares Trading S.A.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Davies, David Michalovich, Melanie Yorke, Christine Power
  • Publication number: 20100048467
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel protein (INSP002), herein identified as a secreted protein that is a member of the Dan family of the cystine-knot fold cytokine superfamily and to the use of this protein and nucleic acid sequences from the encoding genes in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: ARES TRADING S.A.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Davies, Christopher Benjamin Phelps, Richard Joseph Fagan, Christine Power, Melanie Yorke, Mark Ibberson, Yan Lavrovsky