Patents by Inventor Frederick Porter

Frederick Porter 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: 20240300994
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Patent number: 12018044
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Yingxia Wen, Andrew Geall, Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 11880320
    Abstract: A system and method of adding a high-rate channel to a legacy baseband bus includes a bus communicatively coupled to a transmitter and a receiver via one or more transformer couplers, where the transmitter and receiver transmit and receive a first signal over the bus utilizing a differential mode. The system also includes at least two modems coupled to the bus, where a first modem transmits a second signal over the bus for receipt by a second modem, where the at least two modems are each coupled to the bus via the one or more transformer couplers, where the second signal is transmitted over the bus utilizing a common mode, and where the first signal and the second signal are spatially separated on the bus based on an isolation between the common mode and the differential mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PERATON LABS INC.
    Inventors: James Dixon, Thomas Banwell, Seth Robertson, Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 11155572
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Yingxia Wen, Andrew Geall, Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20210214388
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Patent number: 10673816
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system where a processor(s) in a distributed computing environment intercepts a communication (of sequential elements) between a first computing node and a second computing node. The processor(s) determines if the communication is undesired by evaluating data related to or comprising each element individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Perspecta Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Robertson, Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20180360949
    Abstract: The invention provides, inter alia, compositions useful for, e.g., raising an immune response to HIV-1, and associated methods of raising an immune response to HIV in a mammalian subject. In some embodiments, the compositions are bivalent immunogenic compositions comprising two (or, in some embodiments more than two) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clade C envelope gp120 polypeptide antigens, together with a liposome-based adjuvant, such as the adjuvant known as AS01.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS, SA
    Inventors: Susan BARNETT, Marguerite Christine KOUTSOUKOS, Clarisse Marie-Madeleine LORIN, Frederick PORTER, Zihao WANG, Ying ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160024139
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Patent number: 9017495
    Abstract: Methods and a reinforcement fabric are disclosed for making a reinforced smooth cementitious board having a cement skin adjacent to an outer face, by depositing a reinforcement fabric and a layer of hydraulic cementitious material, one on the other, wherein the reinforcement fabric comprises an open mesh united with a thin, porous nonwoven web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.
    Inventor: John Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20120312489
    Abstract: A cementitious board and a reinforcement sheet for the board includes, a water vapor porous layer of glass fibers bonded together by a cured binder, and a hydrophilic coating material being mobile in slurry water to wet the binder coated glass fibers and spread a slurry of a cementitious compound, and the hydrophilic coating material being volatile to dissipate by evaporation at an elevated temperature at which the cementitious compound dries to form a dried cementitious board having both the cementitious compound and the binder coated glass fibers essentially free of the hydrophilic coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Timothy Nathaniel Theut, Missy Raye Miller
  • Patent number: 8273415
    Abstract: A method of making a reinforcement sheet for a cementitious board includes applying a hydrophilic coating material on binder coated glass fibers, the hydrophilic coating material being mobile in slurry water at a surface of a slurry of a cementitious compound to dilute and disperse, and to wet and spread the slurry on the binder coated glass fibers, and the hydrophilic coating material in the slurry water being volatile to dissipate by evaporation at an elevated temperature at which the cementitious compound is dried for the binder coated glass fibers to be essentially free of the hydrophilic coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Timothy Nathaniel Theut, Missy Raye Miller
  • Publication number: 20120077397
    Abstract: A method for making a reinforcement material comprises providing at least one strand of carbon fibers. A polyolefin coating is applied. A coating comprising an inner layer of a first polyolefin material and an outer layer of a second polyolefin material may be coextruded on the at least one strand. The first polyolefin material has a substantially lower viscosity than the second polyolefin material at an extrusion temperature of the coextruding step. Alternatively, polyolefin fibers may be core sheath spun on the strands to coat the strands, and the coated strands of carbon fibers formed into a woven or knit fabric or a non-woven mesh for a reinforcing a material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.
    Inventor: John Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20110053445
    Abstract: Methods and a reinforcement fabric are disclosed for making a reinforced smooth cementitious board having a cement skin adjacent to an outer face, by depositing a reinforcement fabric and a layer of hydraulic cementitious material, one on the other, wherein the reinforcement fabric comprises an open mesh united with a thin, porous nonwoven web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: John Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20100310850
    Abstract: A cementitious board and a reinforcement sheet for the board includes, a water vapor porous layer of glass fibers bonded together by a cured binder, and a hydrophilic coating material being mobile in slurry water to wet the binder coated glass fibers and spread a slurry of a cementitious compound, and the hydrophilic coating material being volatile to dissipate by evaporation at an elevated temperature at which the cementitious compound dries to form a dried cementitious board having both the cementitious compound and the binder coated glass fibers essentially free of the hydrophilic coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: JOHN Frederick PORTER, Timothy Nathaniel Theut, Missy Raye Miller
  • Patent number: 7846278
    Abstract: A composite fabric for use in reinforcement of cementitious boards and similar prefabricated building wall panels. The fabric includes an open mesh first component of continuously coated, high modulus of elasticity strands and a nonwoven second component fabricated from alkali resistant thermoplastic material. The high modulus strands of the first component are preferably bundled glass fibers encapsulated by alkali and water resistant thermoplastic material. The composite fabric also has suitable physical characteristics for embedment within the cement matrix of the panels or boards closely adjacent the opposed faces thereof. The reinforcement provides long-lasting, high strength tensile reinforcement and impact resistance for the panels or boards. The reinforcement also enables the boards to have smooth outer faces suitable for painting, papering, tiling or other finishing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics America, Inc.
    Inventor: John Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 7615504
    Abstract: A cementitious board and methods of making the same are disclosed by a cementitious board including a cementitious core, a plurality of warp yarns and weft yarns and a coating applied to produce a coating weight distribution ratio of less than about 2.0:1, based upon the weight of the resinous coating of the weft yarns, over the weight of the resinous coating on the warp yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Geraint Roberts
  • Patent number: 7615178
    Abstract: Fabric and reinforcements are provided by this invention which, in a first embodiment, include a plurality of warp yarns having a first twist (turns/inch) and a plurality of weft yarns having a second twist which is greater than the first twist. A coating is applied over a substantial portion of the warp and weft yarns after they are assembled or laid together, so as to produce a weight distribution ratio of less than about 2.0:1, based upon the weight of the resinous coating of the weft yarns over the weight of the resinous coating on the warp yarns. This can be achieved, in substantial part, due to the difference in the twist ratios of the warp and weft yarns, which difference permits a more uniform coating to be applied. Further embodiments of this invention include a cementitious board and methods of making a coated fabric and cementitious board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Technical Fabrics America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Geraint Roberts
  • Publication number: 20080200086
    Abstract: A cementitious board and methods of making the same are disclosed by a cementitious board including a cementitious core, a plurality of warp yarns and weft yarns and a coating applied to produce a coating weight distribution ratio of less than about 2.0:1, based upon the weight of the resinous coating of the weft yarns, over the weight of the resinous coating on the warp yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Geraint Roberts
  • Patent number: 7393799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite sheet material that is moisture vapor permeable and substantially liquid impermeable, the composite sheet material including as layers a lightweight, non-wet laid polyester nonwoven, a polyurethane breathable film, a polymer-coated, high tenacity polyester mesh, and a lightweight, non-wet laid, polyester nonwoven material. The material is also abrasion, tear, mildew and fire resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics Canada, Ltd
    Inventor: John Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 7354876
    Abstract: Fabric and reinforcements are provided by this invention which, in a first embodiment, include a plurality of warp yarns having a first twist (turns/inch) and a plurality of weft yarns having a second twist which is greater than the first twist. A coating is applied over a substantial portion of the warp and weft yarns after they are assembled or laid together, so as to produce a weight distribution ratio of less than about 2.0:1, based upon the weight of the resinous coating of the weft yarns over the weight of the resinous coating on the warp yarns. This can be achieved, in substantial part, due to the difference in the twist ratios of the warp and weft yarns, which difference permits a more uniform coating to be applied. Further embodiments of this invention include a cementitious board and methods of making a coated fabric and cementitious board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: John Frederick Porter, Geraint Roberts