Patents by Inventor Douglas Jeffery

Douglas Jeffery 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: 20150335876
    Abstract: Methods for attaching a wearable neurostimulator to a user's head (or head and neck) using a cantilever electrode apparatuses for neuromodulation. In practice an electrode assembly may mate with the wearable neuromodulation devices so that the device is worn over one portion of the electrode assembly while the rest of the electrode assembly attaches to another portion of the body. The neuromodulator may be worn on a portion of the electrode assembly in a cantilevered manner (e.g., held at one end while the opposite end is free-floating), which allows the rigid neuromodulation device to conform to a variety of user head sizes and shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Douglas JEFFERY, Isy GOLDWASSER, Wing LAW, Remi DEMERS, Jay Frederick HAMLIN, Daniel Z. WETMORE, Sumon K. PAL, Jonathan CHARLESWORTH, William J. TYLER
  • Publication number: 20150335875
    Abstract: Neurostimulator apparatuses for applying transdermal electrical stimulation that may be comfortably and securely worn on a variety of head shapes and sizes. The apparatuses and methods of using them described herein may be lightweight and wearable and configured to be attached at one end of a patient-facing surface of the apparatus by a cantilevered attachment so that an opposite end of the surface is free to float relative to the user's head. The cantilevered attachment may include two or more connectors spaced apart along an edge region of the patient-facing surface in an optimal arrangement to secure the neurostimulator in place. The neurostimulator apparatuses described herein may be secured to a separate or integral electrode assembly that may adhesively secure to the subject's head. The patient-facing surface of the neurostimulator may also be curved and twisted specifically for use at the temple/forehead region of a diverse population of potential users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Isy GOLDWASSER, Sumon K. PAL, Jonathan CHARLESWORTH, Wing LAW, Jay Frederick HAMLIN, Daniel Z. WETMORE, William J. TYLER, Douglas JEFFERY
  • Publication number: 20150335877
    Abstract: Cantilever electrode apparatuses for wearable neuromodulation devices configured to be worn on a subject's (user's) head or on the subject's head and neck. These cantilever electrodes may mate with the wearable neuromodulation devices to form a neuromodulation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Douglas JEFFERY, Isy GOLDWASSER, Wing LAW, Remi DEMERS, Jay Frederick HAMLIN, Daniel Z. WETMORE, Sumon K. PAL, Jonathan CHARLESWORTH, William J. TYLER
  • Publication number: 20150088224
    Abstract: Apparatuses (e.g., devices, systems), and methods for transdermal electrical stimulation (TES). Apparatuses described herein can be self-contained, lightweight, and wearable. The apparatus may include a primary unit (TES stimulator) and an electrode portion that includes a first transdermal electrode and a second transdermal electrode and mates with the TES stimulator. The first electrode and secondary electrode are placed at two locations on the skin of a user, for example on the head and/or neck of a user. Electrical stimulation driven between the two electrodes may induce a cognitive effect in a user of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Isy GOLDWASSER, William J. TYLER, Jonathan CHARLESWORTH, Sumon K. PAL, Daniel Z. WETMORE, Douglas JEFFERY, Wing LAW
  • Publication number: 20150051210
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical combination product comprising (i) a MET inhibitor and (ii) an FGFR inhibitor, or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof, respectively, or a prodrug thereof, respectively, and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ralph Tiedt, Alan Buckler, Fred Harbinski, Sneha Sanghavi, Douglas Jeffery, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 7298475
    Abstract: A method, suitable for stand off analysis of a sample (2), comprising: (i) using an excitation means (6) to vaporise the sample (2) thereby producing a vapour plume (10) of molecular species; and (ii) using an analytical means (12) to analyse molecular species within the vapour plume (10) wherein the analytical means (12) analyses the molecular emission spectra of the vapour plume (10). The invention also relates to a kit and an apparatus for use with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Sunilkumar Babulal Gandhi, Paul Douglas Jeffery, Gerard David McAnally
  • Patent number: 5967878
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for lapping row edges of a substrate work piece with a flat lapping element. The substrate work piece comprises a section of wafer having parallel aligned multiple row edges to be individually lapped. The wafer has different bow characteristics imparted to different substrate work piece. The bow characteristic of the substrate work piece to be lapped is determined, load points are selected on the work piece which will counteract the bow characteristic, and a pusher with push pads located at the selected load points pushes the work piece at those load points so that the pushing flexes the substrate work piece to counteract the bow characteristic to lap the row edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Arcona, Robert Owen Barr, Alain Michel Desouches, Jeffrey Paul Gunder, Douglas Jeffery Lucken, Michael Zung