Patents by Inventor Greg Butler

Greg Butler 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: 20150329841
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cellulose-degrading enzyme composition comprising one or more cellobiohydrolase and/or endoglucanase enzyme, and an effective amount of an isolated GH16 polypeptide, where the presence of the isolated GH16 polypeptide in the enzyme composition increases the rate or extent of degradation of a cellulosic substrate compared to an equivalent dosage of a corresponding cellulose-degrading enzyme composition lacking the at least one isolated GH16 polypeptide. The present invention also relates to a method for producing fermentable sugars from a cellulosic substrate using the above cellulose-degrading enzyme composition and to genetically modified microbes for produced the above cellulose-degrading enzyme composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher M. D. Hill, John J. Tomashek, James A. Lavigne, Sandra Mortimer, Reginald Storms, Adrian Tsang, Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski
  • Patent number: 8724867
    Abstract: A method of distributing an image study to a chosen image reader is disclosed having steps of receiving an image study from an image producer at a third party communication module, sending a receive notification message to a messaging layer, sending a study available notification message from the messaging layer to a workload distribution engine wherein the available notification message includes extracted image study information pulled from study headers of the image study, identifying image study rules from the extracted image study information, applying an image study complexity to the image study based on the image study rules, calculating image reader complexities for a plurality of image readers subscribed to receive image studies from the image producer, each of the image reader complexities calculated using the image study complexity and an Image reader profile assigned to each of the plurality of accredited image readers, selecting the chosen image reader from the plurality of image readers based on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Realtime Radiology Inc.
    Inventors: David Koff, Nadine Koff, Greg Butler, Ian Maynard, Taras Vasylenko, Alex Pakka, Paul Pierre, Oleg Kovalchuk
  • Publication number: 20120243754
    Abstract: A method of distributing an image study to a chosen image reader is disclosed having steps of receiving an image study from an image producer at a third party communication module, sending a receive notification message to a messaging layer, sending a study available notification message from the messaging layer to a workload distribution engine wherein the available notification message includes extracted image study information pulled from study headers of the image study, identifying image study rules from the extracted image study information, applying an image study complexity to the image study based on the image study rules, calculating image reader complexities for a plurality of image readers subscribed to receive image studies from the image producer, each of the image reader complexities calculated using the image study complexity and an Image reader profile assigned to each of the plurality of accredited image readers, selecting the chosen image reader from the plurality of image readers based on
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: David Koff, Nadine Koff, Greg Butler, Ian Maynard, Taras Vasylenko, Alex Pakka, Paul Pierre, Oleg Kovalchuk
  • Patent number: 5799568
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing increased protein chicken meal. Product is loaded into a cooking vat that is 40 feet long by 5 feet wide by 4 feet deep, with a system of moving chain conveyors and paddles. These conveyors move the product at a predetermined speed through oil maintained at a temperature of approximately 360.degree. to 380.degree. F. for the entire length of the vessel, and dumps the product at the opposite end of entry. Oil is circulated through the vat at a rate of approximately 680 to 860 gallons per minute (gpm) to allow for the rapid removal of fat and moisture from skin and meat in a continuous process. The volume of oil in the cooking vat is approximately 4,500 gallons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: B.C. Rogers Poultry, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Warren, John M. Rogers, Sr., Scott Cooper, Greg Butler
  • Patent number: 5786015
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing increased protein chicken meal. Scrap chicken parts are loaded into a cooking vat that is 40 feet long by 5 feet wide by 4 feet deep, with a system of moving chain conveyors and paddles. These conveyors move the scrap chicken parts at a predetermined speed through oil maintained at a temperature of approximately 360.degree. to 380.degree. F. for the entire length of the vessel, and dump the scrap chicken parts at the opposite end of entry. Oil is circulated through the vat at a rate of approximately 680 to 860 gallons per minute (gpm) to allow for the rapid removal of fat and moisture from skin and meat in a continuous process. The scrap chicken parts are removed from the vat and pressed to form poultry oil. Subsequently, the scrap chicken parts are broken up to form a high protein chicken meal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: B. C. Rogers Poultry, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Warren, John M. Rogers, Sr., Scott Cooper, Greg Butler