Patents by Inventor Edward McDonald
Edward McDonald 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).
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Publication number: 20240082004Abstract: Systems for improvising sensorimotor function of a patient, wherein the various systems can include at least one force and/or pressure sensor associated with at least one lower limb or prosthesis of the patient, at least one motion and/or angle sensor associated with at least one lower limb or prosthesis of the patient, a processor configured to receive force and/or pressure signals and motion and/or angle signals and generate an estimated center of pressure and a center of gravity, and generate balance stimulation signals based on the estimated center of pressure and the center of gravity, and at least one sensory stimulation unit disposed on at least one lower limb or prosthesis of the patient, wherein the at least one sensory stimulation unit comprises at least two stimulators that are actuable to provide stimulation to the patient based on the balance stimulation signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Lars Ingimar Eugen Oddsson, Daniel Allan Samuel Nilsson, Rudolf Johannes Cornelus Buijs, Jennifer Lynne Johansson, Todd Richard Garrell, Benjamin Edward McDonald
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Patent number: 11672677Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: LIBERATING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Edward McDonald, Todd Richard Farrell, Edward Clancy, Jianan Li, Xinming Huang
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Publication number: 20230172122Abstract: A growing media composition includes peat and a biosurfactant produced by only mechanical and biological processes without chemical reaction that would result in any structural alteration to the biosurfactant molecule. The biosurfactant can be a glycolipid such as a rhamnolipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: AQUATROLS CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Arianna Lubomyra Watters, Darryl Ramoutar, Casey Edward McDonald, Lauren M. Atkinson
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Publication number: 20230174510Abstract: This disclosure relates to N-acetylserotonin derivatives that have neuroprotective properties for uses in treating or preventing traumatic brain injury, vision loss, neuronal cell ischemia, and retinal degenerative diseases. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the N-acetylserotonin derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Paul Michael Iuvone, Frank Edward McDonald, Christopher Lee Walker
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Patent number: 11661224Abstract: An apparatus for heat shrinking packages includes a mover having an active surface configured for receiving one or more packages and for displacing the one or more packages along a predetermined operating path, a heating fluid circuit configured to circulate a heating fluid, a control unit operative on the heating fluid circuit, the control unit being configured to control circulation of the heating fluid in the heating fluid circuit, a chamber having an opening and being configured for receiving the one or more packages positioned on the active surface and for heat shrinking the one or more packages based on circulation of the heating fluid in the heating fluid circuit, and means for forming a liquid curtain arranged at the opening and configured to define a liquid curtain along the opening, the liquid curtain separating an inner volume of the chamber from an ambient atmosphere external to the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Cryovac, LLCInventors: Peter Thürig, Stefan Landolt, Gregory Edward McDonald
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Patent number: 11582924Abstract: A growing media composition includes peat and a biosurfactant produced by only mechanical and biological processes without chemical reaction that would result in any structural alteration to the biosurfactant molecule. The biosurfactant can be a glycolipid such as a rhamnolipid.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AQUATROLS CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Arianna Lubomyra Watters, Darryl Ramoutar, Casey Edward McDonald, Lauren M. Atkinson
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Publication number: 20220039973Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicants: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Liberating Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Edward McDonald, Todd Richard Farrell, Edward Clancy, Jianan Li, Xinming Huang
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Patent number: 11234987Abstract: Isoxazoles of formula (A) or (B) are inhibitors of HSP90 activity, and useful for treatment of, for example cancers: wherein R1, is a group of formula (IA): —Ar1-(Alk1)p-(Z)r-(Alk2)s-Q, wherein in any compatible combination Ar1 is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl radical, Alk1 and Alk2 are optionally substituted divalent C1-C6 alkylene or C2-C6 alkenylene radicals, p, r and s are independently 0 or 1, Z is -0-, —S—, —(C?O)—, —(C?S)—, —SO.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignees: Cancer Research Technology Limited, The Institute of Cancer Research, Vernalis (R&D) LimitedInventors: Martin James Drysdale, Brian William Dymock, Harry Finch, Paul Webb, Edward McDonald, Karen Elizabeth James, Kwai Ming Cheung, Thomas Peter Matthews
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Publication number: 20210360882Abstract: A growing media composition includes peat and a biosurfactant produced by only mechanical and biological processes without chemical reaction that would result in any structural alteration to the biosurfactant molecule. The biosurfactant can be a glycolipid such as a rhamnolipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: AQUATROLS CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Arianna Lubomyra WATTERS, Darryl RAMOUTAR, Casey Edward McDONALD, Lauren M. ATKINSON
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Patent number: 11154408Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignees: Liberating Technologies, Inc., Worcester Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Benjamin Edward McDonald, Todd Richard Farrell, Edward Clancy, Jianan Li, Xinming Huang
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Patent number: 10869773Abstract: A prosthetic finger includes a main body and a terminal gripper at an end of the main body for enabling fine-motor grasping skills. The terminal gripper has at least two tongs movable relative to one another. The prosthetic finger includes a gripping mode and a flexion mode. In the gripping mode, the tongs of the terminal gripper are able to move relative to one another while the main body is not able to flex, and in the flexion mode, the main body is able to flex while the at two tongs is not able to move relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: College Park Industries, Inc.Inventors: Carlos Humberto Martinez-Luna, Michael Alfred Delph, II, Taylor Raven Duckworth, Todd Richard Farrell, Thane Robert Hunt, Craig Malone Kelly, Kevin Edward Keough, Carlton Winslow King, Benjamin Douglas Pulver, Todd William Roberts, Benjamin Edward McDonald
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Publication number: 20200163782Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Benjamin Edward McDonald, Todd Richard Farrell, Edward Clancy, Jianan Li, Xinming Huang
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Publication number: 20200108964Abstract: An apparatus for heat shrinking packages includes a mover having an active surface configured for receiving one or more packages and for displacing the one or more packages along a predetermined operating path, a heating fluid circuit configured to circulate a heating fluid, a control unit operative on the heating fluid circuit, the control unit being configured to control circulation of the heating fluid in the heating fluid circuit, a chamber having an opening and being configured for receiving the one or more packages positioned on the active surface and for heat shrinking the one or more packages based on circulation of the heating fluid in the heating fluid circuit, and means for forming a liquid curtain arranged at the opening and configured to define a liquid curtain along the opening, the liquid curtain separating an inner volume of the chamber from an ambient atmosphere external to the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Peter Thürig, Stefan Landolt, Gregory Edward McDonald
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Publication number: 20190358241Abstract: Isoxazoles of formula (A) or (B) are inhibitors of HSP90 activity, and useful for treatment of, for example cancers: wherein R1, is a group of formula (IA): —Ar1-(Alk1)p-(Z)r-(Alk2)s-Q, wherein in any compatible combination Ar1 is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl radical, Alk1 and Alk2 are optionally substituted divalent C1-C6 alkylene or C2-C6 alkenylene radicals, p, r and s are independently 0 or 1, Z is -0-, —S—, —(C?O)—, —(C?S)—, —SO.sub.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Martin James Drysdale, Brian William Dymock, Harry Finch, Paul Webb, Edward McDonald, Karen Elizabeth James, Kwai Ming Cheung, Thomas Peter Matthews
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Patent number: 10413550Abstract: Isoxazoles of formula (A) or (B) are inhibitors of HSP90 activity, and useful for treatment of, for example cancers: wherein R1, is a group of formula (IA): —Ar1-(Alk1)p-(Z)r-(Alk2)s-Q, wherein in any compatible combination Ar1 is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl radical, Alk1 and Alk2 are optionally substituted divalent C1-C6 alkylene or C2-C6 alkenylene radicals, p, r and s are independently 0 or 1, Z is —O—, —S—, —(C?O)—, —(C?S)—, —SO.sub.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: The Institute of Cancer Research, Cancer Research Technology Limited, Vernalis (R&D) LimitedInventors: Martin James Drysdale, Brian William Dymock, Harry Finch, Paul Webb, Edward McDonald, Karen Elizabeth James, Kwai Ming Cheung, Thomas Peter Matthews
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Publication number: 20190105184Abstract: A prosthetic finger includes a main body and a terminal gripper at an end of the main body for enabling fine-motor grasping skills. The terminal gripper has at least two tongs movable relative to one another. The prosthetic finger includes a gripping mode and a flexion mode. In the gripping mode, the tongs of the terminal gripper are able to move relative to one another while the main body is not able to flex, and in the flexion mode, the main body is able to flex while the at two tongs is not able to move relative to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Carlos Humberto Martinez-Luna, Michael Alfred Delph, II, Taylor Raven Duckworth, Todd Richard Farrell, Thane Robert Hunt, Craig Malone Kelly, Kevin Edward Keough, Carlton Winslow King, Benjamin Douglas Pulver, Todd William Roberts, Benjamin Edward McDonald
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Publication number: 20180295869Abstract: There is provided a food composition comprising at least one edible oil in a gel matrix wherein the composition is a flexible cohesive solid at a temperature in a range of from 3° to 6° C. The composition can contain cocoa solids and/or other edible ingredients such as food pastes, fruit preparations, jams and the like. In at least some embodiments the composition can be provided in sheet form, typically with a thickness in a range of from 2 mm to 6 mm. The composition can be used as a snack by itself or be provided on other food items as an edible layering and further, can be provided in packaged slice form. In a further embodiment there is provided a package of sheets or slice of the composition. There is also described a method for providing the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Salvatore Villa, EDWARD MCDONALD
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Patent number: 10065871Abstract: In a process for the treatment of wastewater containing carbonaceous and nitrogenous contaminants, wastewater is mixed with aerobic microorganisms capable of converting carbonaceous biological oxygen demand (CBOD) into carbon dioxide, water, and biological cell mass. Oxygen is supplied to the reaction mixture for supporting reduction of the CBOD by the aerobic microorganisms in the reaction mixture. To substantially prevent nitrification of the nitrogenous contaminants in the reaction mixture and avoid the cost of downstream denitrification, the hydraulic residence time of the nitrogenous contaminants in the reaction mixture is controlled by removing partially treated water with dissolved ammonia from the reaction mixture, while retaining the biological cell mass in the reaction mixture. This separates the nitrogen load from the carbon load and enables independent treatment of these contaminants.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: BluMetric Environmental Inc.Inventors: Danny Lee Scroggins, Ross Edward McDonald, Erik Hefler Donaldson
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Patent number: 9996058Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to end devices (e.g., meters, sensors, pumps, etc.) of an industrial monitoring system or an industrial control system. A system includes an end device having processing circuitry configured to execute instructions stored in at least one memory device to enable the end device to collect and store a plurality of measurements of operational parameters of a monitored system in the at least one memory device according to a dynamic mapping that is updatable.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventors: Mikhail Brusilovsky, Benjamin Edward McDonald
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Patent number: 9833548Abstract: The present invention is directed to an implantable drug depot useful for reducing, preventing or treating post-operative pain in a patient in need of such treatment, the implantable drug depot comprising a therapeutically effective amount of clonidine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a polymer; wherein the depot is implantable at a site beneath the skin to reduce, prevent or treat post-operative pain, and the depot is capable of releasing (i) about 5% to about 45% of the clonidine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof relative to a total amount of the clonidine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof loaded in the drug depot over a first period of up to 48 hours and (ii) about 55% to about 95% of the clonidine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof relative to a total amount of the clonidine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof loaded in the drug depot over a subsequent period of at least 3 days.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: William F. McKay, Amira Wohabrebbi, Vanja Margareta King, Phillip Edward McDonald, Christopher M. Hobot, Troy Carter