Patents by Inventor Frank A. Martin

Frank A. Martin 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).

  • COMPOSITIONS FOR USE IN SURGERY
    Publication number: 20140243410
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating a subject in need of medication as an adjunct to elective surgery, comprising administration of a ketogenic material sufficient to produce a physiologically acceptable ketosis in the patient. Preferably the surgery is selected from the groups consisting of removal or section of tumours, removal of redundant organs such as lymph nodes and appendix, open heart surgery, cosmetic surgery, joint and bone surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: BTG International Limited
    Inventors: Keith Frank Martin, David John Heal
  • COMBINED ANNUITY AND LIFE INSURANCE METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140195271
    Abstract: An interconnected deferred equity indexed annuity policy and a fixed, variable or equity indexed universal life insurance policy, or variable life insurance policy, method and system where a computer periodically transfers annuity investment gains, if any, and the gains are transformed into premiums for the life insurance policy. Further growth of the transformed annuity policy gains as well as life insurance gains in the life insurance policy is tax-free as long as the involved insurance company observes the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code. Having the annuity policy gains loaned from the annuity policy owner to the life insurance owner, and disproportionately allocating fees from the life insurance policy to the annuity policy derive additional benefits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: FRANK MARTIN SEXTON
  • Method of intervertebral disc treatment using articular chondrocyte cells
    Patent number: 8697139
    Abstract: Harvesting articular chondrocyte cells from a non-critical location of a patient and growing additional cells for transplantation into a damaged or diseased disc of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Inventor: Frank Martin Phillips
  • Reverse Bridge Tension Configuration for a Stringed Instrument
    Publication number: 20140083275
    Abstract: A reverse bridge tension configuration for a stringed instrument allows the stringed instrument to offset some of the tension felt by the bridge. For a typical stringed instrument such as a guitar, the tensioned strings are bound between the bridge and the headstock. However, the reverse bridge tension configuration loops the tensioned strings on a path that goes around the back of the instrument, through the body of the instrument, and back to the bridge. A reverse bridge is positioned on the corner of the soundboard and the back end so that the tensioned strings can loop around the back end without causing pressure damage to the outer surface of the instrument. Once the tensioned strings travel around the reverse bridge and into the body, channels are positioned within the body in order to guide the tensioned strings back to the bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventor: Billy Frank Martin
  • LEAD-ACID BATTERY DESIGN HAVING VERSATILE FORM FACTOR
    Publication number: 20140087237
    Abstract: An electrochemical storage device comprises a plurality of layer electrodes each including a first charged sector and a second charged sector. The plurality of layer electrodes are assembled with respect to each other such that the first charged sector of a first plate of the plurality of layer electrodes is laid below the second charged sector of a second plate of the plurality of layer electrodes located immediately above the first plate. The charges of the first charged sectors of the first and second plates have a first sign and the charges of the second charged sectors of the first and second plates have a second sign that is opposite the first sign. The device also comprises a separator sector located, and enabling ionic charge exchange, between the first charged sector of the first plate and the second charged sector of the second plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: ENERGY POWER SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Subhash Dhar, William Koetting, Kwok Tom, Frank Martin, Jorge Espinel, Michael Nielson
  • Method for producing coated carbon particles and use of the latter in anode materials for lithium-ion batteries
    Patent number: 8673502
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing coated carbon particles, which comprises coating electrically conductive carbon particles with elemental doped or undoped silicon by chemical vapor deposition from at least one gaseous silane in an oxygen-free gas atmosphere in a reaction space, with the electrically conductive carbon particles being in continual motion during the vapor deposition, and also correspondingly coated carbon particles and their use in anode materials for lithium ion batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: EVONIK DEGUSSA GmbH
    Inventors: Frank-Martin Petrat, Hartmut Wiggers, Burkhard Reeken, Michael Holzapfel, Hilmi Buqa, Petr Novak
  • Preparation of primary diamines having a linear main chain for polyamide syntheses
    Patent number: 8642811
    Abstract: The invention provides a method to produce primary diamines by catalytic conversion of diols having a linear main chain of from 4 to 31 carbon atoms into the corresponding diamines. The reaction is conducted in a liquid or supercritical phase and is catalyzed by a homogeneous ruthenium-containing complex. The primary diamines obtained may be suitable for polyamide syntheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Erich Baumann, Matthias Ullrich, Martin Roos, Peter Hannen, Frank-Martin Petrat, Harald Haeger, Angela Koeckritz, Guido Walther, Jens Deutsch, Andreas Martin
  • Communication system for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8634968
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication system for a motor vehicle for transmitting an information relating to the operation of the motor vehicle from a transmitting control device to a receiving control device. The communication system comprises an interface for the input or output of the information relating to the operation of the motor vehicle. Communication can be established via the interface by means of a protocol which comprises an operation field for identifying a task to be carried out using the information relating to the operation of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignees: Audi AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Frank-Martin Wille, Holger Esser, Heinz-Willi Vassen, Tobias Ammler, Norbert Ammler, Helmut Lebmeier, Yvonne Gross, Hans-Christian Jung, Rudolf Leinfelder, Jens Kötz, Carsten Krömke, Stefan Anderlik, Christian Penshorn, Matthias Wenzel
  • Process for preparing linear alpha,omega-dicarboxylic diesters
    Patent number: 8604227
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing linear alpha,omega-dicarboxylic diesters by reacting a triglyceride containing fatty acid residues having monounsaturated or polyunsaturated carbon chains with carbon monoxide, an acid and an OH-group donor in one reaction step in the presence of a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Frank-Martin Petrat, Franz-Erich Baumann, Harald Haeger, Guido Walther, Andreas Martin, Angela Koeckritz
  • EPILEPSY TREATMENT EMPLOYING KETOGENIC COMPOUNDS WHICH ARREST APOPTOSIS (AS AMENDED)
    Publication number: 20130289116
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating a patient suffering from apoptosis of tissue comprising administering to that subject a therapeutically effective amount of one or more ketogenic compounds such that a physiological ketosis is produced sufficient to arrest said apoptosis. Preferably the apoptosis is of cerebral tissue such as that associated with acute intractible seizures, particularly with status epilepticus. The method is also applicable to apoptosis associated with administration of toxic stuimuli for treatment of cancer, that produced by viral infections, autoimmune diseases or Aquired Immuno Difficiency Syndrome. The ketosis produced is a state in which levels of one or both of acetoacetate and (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate concentrations in the blood of the subject such that their total concentration in the blood is elevated above the normal fed levels to between 0.1 and 30 mM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Keith Frank Martin, David John Heal, Elizabeth Jagger
  • Valve for mixing of substances
    Patent number: 8556848
    Abstract: A valve is provided herein for permitting mixing of at least two components, the valve including a body configured for slidable liquid tight engagement with an injector or drug cartridge barrel. The body includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a channel extending therebetween, the channel having a proximal portion and a distal portion. A poppet is sealingly and slidably disposed in the channel to selectively move between first and second positions. The poppet includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a fluid channel, the fluid channel being defined in the poppet and extending from an outlet opening located distally of the distal end of the body. With the poppet being in the first position, the poppet defines a liquid tight seal in the channel such that liquid flow through the channel is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson & Company
    Inventors: Richard J. Klug, M. Ishaq Haider, Frank Martin
  • Motor vehicle control system
    Patent number: 8515617
    Abstract: A control system for a motor vehicle comprises an output control unit for outputting data related to the operation of the motor vehicle and an operation control unit spatially separated from the output control unit for generating or providing data related to the operation of the motor vehicle. The output control unit comprises a data storage for storing data related to the operation of the motor vehicle and the data related to the operation of the motor vehicle can be read out of the data storage and outputted by the output control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Audi AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Frank-Martin Wille, Holger Esser, Heinz-Willi Vassen, Tobias Ammler, Norbert Ammler, Helmut Lebmeier, Yvonne Grob, Hans-Christian Jung, Rudolf Leinfelder, Jens Kötz, Carsten Krömke, Stefan Anderlik, Christian Penshorn, Matthias Wenzel
  • LEAD-ACID BATTERY DESIGN HAVING VERSATILE FORM FACTOR
    Publication number: 20130183572
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes an electrode assembly having a plurality of electrode plates. Each electrode plate includes a current collector having a first portion and a second portion, and each first and second portion having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The first and second surfaces of the first portion include a positively charged active material, and the first and second surfaces of the second portion include a negatively charged active material. In addition, the plurality of electrode plates includes at least two electrode plates, such that the electrochemical cell is arranged with a first portion of one plate electrochemically connected to a second portion of a second plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Energy Power Systems LLC
    Inventors: Subhash Dhar, William Koetting, Kwok Tom, Frank Martin
  • Acoustic Stringed Instrument Bridge Truss
    Publication number: 20130174710
    Abstract: The present invention is a bridge truss that alleviates tensile and compressive stresses applied to an acoustic stringed instruments soundboard from the bridge. These tensile and compressive stresses are transferred through the bridge truss to chamber of the acoustic stringed instrument instead. The bridge truss allows the support brace of the acoustic stringed instrument to be reduced or eliminated. The bridge truss provides the soundboard with the ability to produce longer sustained vibrations, and vibrations of greater amplitude—increasing performance and tone. Also, the relative height of the soundboard can be altered for greater playability, at a user's discretion. A user only needs to reposition threaded adjustment rods from atop the bridge of the acoustic stringed instrument in order to transfer more or less stress to the bridge truss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Billy Frank MARTIN
  • MARKING OF A SUBSTRATE OF A SOLAR CELL
    Publication number: 20130160832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solar-cell-marking method. The method comprises providing a substrate for a solar cell, forming an etching mask on the substrate, and carrying out an etching process, wherein an elevated marking structure defined by the etching mask is formed on the substrate. The invention further relates to a solar cell comprising such a marking structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Krause, Frank Martin, Grit Bonsdorf, Matthias Georgi, Bernd Scheibe, Matthias Wagner
  • Human anti-OPGL neutralizing antibodies as selective OPGL pathway inhibitors
    Patent number: 8455629
    Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies and hybridomas producing them that interact with osteoprotegerin ligand (OPGL) are provided. Methods of treating osteopenic disorders by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of antibodies to OPGL are also provided. Methods of detecting the amount of OPGL in a sample using antibodies to OPGL are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Amgen Inc., Medarex, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Boyle, Eugene Medlock, John K. Sullivan, Robin L. Elliott, Frank Martin, Haichun Huang
  • NEEDLE ASSEMBLY FOR MIXING OF SUBSTANCES
    Publication number: 20130116617
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a needle assembly is provided, including: a body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a channel located therebetween, the body being configured to be mounted to an injector; a needle fixed to the body, the needle having proximal and distal ends, the distal end extending distally from the distal end of the body and being formed for insertion into a patient, the proximal end of the needle being in communication with the channel; and, a filter disposed in the channel proximally of the proximal end of the needle. Advantageously, a needle assembly is provided which permits mixing of at least two substances in preparation for injection, without modification to the associated injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Frank Martin, Richard J. Klug, M. Ishaq Haider
  • Audio onset detection
    Patent number: 8401683
    Abstract: Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for detecting onsets. On a device, an audio signal is pre-processed in temporal domain. The pre-processed audio signal is smoothed on the device. A predetermined quantity of peaks is selectively identified in the pre-processed and smoothed audio signal based on a size of a sample window applied to the pre-processed and smoothed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Maxwell, Frank Martin Ludwig Gunter Baumgarte
  • Tab for providing on-product source indicia
    Patent number: D696597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Martin Thiele, Boris Simon
  • Tab for providing on-product source indicia
    Patent number: D696598
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Martin Thiele, Boris Simon