Patents by Inventor Evelyn Thomas

Evelyn Thomas 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: 10722580
    Abstract: Methods and antibody compositions that displace mannose from the binding pocket of fimbrial adhesin FimH of enterobacteria, including uropathogenic E. coli, Klebsiella oxytoca, or Klebsiella pneumoniae, can be used to disrupt or prevent the attachment of a single layer of bacteria to a mannose-coated surface, or to disrupt or prevent the formation of a multilayer biofilm. The antibody compositions of the invention can thus be used in methods to inhibit, prevent, or reverse the colonization of a surface with enterobacteria that express the bacterial Type 1 fimbrial adhesin FimH, to inhibit or prevent infection of a cell by enterobacteria that express the bacterial Type 1 fimbrial adhesin FimH, such as, for example, uropathogenic E. coli, to treat a bacterial infection in subject in need thereof and to treat or prevent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    Inventors: Evgeni V. Sokurenko, Dagmara Kisiela, Wendy Evelyn Thomas, Veronika L. Tchesnokova
  • Patent number: 10286304
    Abstract: An accessory apparatus includes a housing, an apparatus connector, a plurality of auxiliary accessory interfaces, and an internal microcontroller. The connection connector is configured to mate with a corresponding accessory connector of a physical controller to electrically connect the internal microcontroller to the physical controller. Each auxiliary accessory connector is configured to enable a separate auxiliary user input device to operatively connect to the accessory apparatus and electrically connect with the internal microcontroller. The internal microcontroller is configured to: (1) receive an input control signal from an auxiliary user input device operatively connected to an auxiliary accessory connector of the plurality of auxiliary accessory connectors, (2) map the input control signal to a mapped control signal corresponding to a physical control of the physical controller, and (3) send the mapped control signal to the physical controller via the apparatus connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Brian G. Russell, Sam Michael Sarmast, Robert Bryce Johnson, Jonathan Shea Robinson, Andre Sutanto, Leo Shing, Ross Nelson, Christopher Kujawski, Evelyn Thomas, Kristine A. Hunter, Flor Albornoz, Rachel Yang, Christopher Harmon, Gregory M. Daly, Matthew Edward Hite
  • Patent number: 10232258
    Abstract: A method for fusing game control inputs includes, on a computing device, receiving a first game control input from a first input device having a first housing and receiving a second game control input from a second input device having a second housing. The first game and second game control inputs are fused into a fused game control input mimicking a game control input from a single input device having a single housing. The fused game control input is provided to a video game application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Evelyn Thomas, Glenn Lavigne, Rudy Opavsky, Hamze Kalache, Ali Aqel, Nicholas Freda, Susanne Lynette Schell, Melissa Natasha Alleyne, Richard Sauer
  • Publication number: 20180311578
    Abstract: A method for fusing game control inputs includes, on a computing device, receiving a first game control input from a first input device having a first housing and receiving a second game control input from a second input device having a second housing. The first game and second game control inputs are fused into a fused game control input mimicking a game control input from a single input device having a single housing. The fused game control input is provided to a video game application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Evelyn THOMAS, Glenn LAVIGNE, Rudy OPAVSKY, Hamze KALACHE, Ali AQEL, Nicholas FREDA, Susanne Lynette SCHELL, Melissa Natasha ALLEYNE, Richard SAUER
  • Publication number: 20180193457
    Abstract: Methods and antibody compositions that displace mannose from the binding pocket of fimbrial adhesin FimH of enterobacteria, including uropathogenic E. coli, Klebsiella oxytoca, or Klebsiella pneumoniae, can be used to disrupt or prevent the attachment of a single layer of bacteria to a mannose-coated surface, or to disrupt or prevent the formation of a multilayer biofilm. The antibody compositions of the invention can thus be used in methods to inhibit, prevent, or reverse the colonization of a surface with enterobacteria that express the bacterial Type 1 fimbrial adhesin FimH, to inhibit or prevent infection of a cell by enterobacteria that express the bacterial Type 1 fimbrial adhesin FimH, such as, for example, uropathogenic E. coli, to treat a bacterial infection in subject in need thereof and to treat or prevent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    Inventors: Evgeni V. SOKURENKO, Dagmara KISIELA, Wendy Evelyn THOMAS, Veronika L. TCHESNOKOVA
  • Publication number: 20180056180
    Abstract: An accessory apparatus includes a housing, an apparatus connector, a plurality of auxiliary accessory interfaces, and an internal microcontroller. The connection connector is configured to mate with a corresponding accessory connector of a physical controller to electrically connect the internal microcontroller to the physical controller. Each auxiliary accessory connector is configured to enable a separate auxiliary user input device to operatively connect to the accessory apparatus and electrically connect with the internal microcontroller. The internal microcontroller is configured to: (1) receive an input control signal from an auxiliary user input device operatively connected to an auxiliary accessory connector of the plurality of auxiliary accessory connectors, (2) map the input control signal to a mapped control signal corresponding to a physical control of the physical controller, and (3) send the mapped control signal to the physical controller via the apparatus connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brian G. Russell, Sam Michael Sarmast, Robert Bryce Johnson, Jonathan Shea Robinson, Andre Sutanto, Leo Shing, Ross Nelson, Christopher Kujawski, Evelyn Thomas, Kristine A. Hunter, Flor Albornoz, Rachel Yang, Christopher Harmon, Gregory M. Daly