Patents by Inventor Ian Alexander

Ian Alexander 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: 6167429
    Abstract: Using a server to provide access to a plurality of unrelated types of services, to a user communicating from a remote terminal to the server, by detecting a service access command sent from the user, the service access command comprising an indication of a service type, the service access command having a syntax which uses only alphanumeric characters, or "#" or "*" characters. Interpreting the command involves extracting the service type, to detect if the command further comprises one or more parameters relating to the service, extracting any such parameters and initiating the provision of the selected service. By having a server which understands commands in a form having a syntax using a limited set of characters, service access from telephones or terminals with smaller keyboards, becomes easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: David Edward William Mercer, Ian Alexander Macfarlane, A. Julian Craddock
  • Patent number: 6110878
    Abstract: Oil-soluble or oil-dispersible trinuclear molybdenum-sulfur compounds are made by reacting less than three, such as 1.5 to 2.5, preferably two to 2.1, molar equivalents of a disulfide with one molar equivalent of a compound containing the [Mo.sub.3 S.sub.13 ].sup.2- ion. The trinuclear compounds include S-containing ligands that are derived from the disulfide reactant via cleavage of the disulfide bond; the ligands are bound to the core via the S atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc
    Inventors: Jonathan M. McConnachie, Edward Ira Stiefel, Ian Alexander Weston Bell, Velautha-Cumaran Arunasalam
  • Patent number: 6088890
    Abstract: A buckle for a vehicle safety restraint for use with a pretensioner has an actuating button for operating a latch for the tongue of the safety restraint. The button is connected via pulleys to a counterbalancing mass. When the pretensioner is operated and the buckle is retracted, the inertia of the mass counteracts the inertia of the button. Thus the button is prevented from moving in relation to the buckle in a direction which would tend to unlatch the tongue of the safety restraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Breed Automotive Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Burke, Ian Alexander Gordon, Alan George Smithson
  • Patent number: 6056853
    Abstract: A process for peroxide bleaching of pulp using magnesium oxide as sole alkaline source wherein said pulp is bleached in the presence of hydrogen peroxide for a maximum period of 180 minutes and achievement of a maximum target ISO brightness of 65 in regard to freshly prepared pulp characterized in that said magnesium oxide is utilized as MgO particles having a particle size of 5-500 microns and a particle surface area (PSA) of between 20-60 m.sup.2 /g. By using such parameters, a peroxide bleaching process may be carried out most efficiently on a commercial scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Adam Hayden Vincent, Ian Alexander McLean
  • Patent number: 6051684
    Abstract: Methods of use of compounds for the treatment of disorders characterized by the cerebral deposition of amyloid are provided. Among the compounds provided for use in the methods are those of the formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is preferably 2-methylpropenyl, 2-butenyl, cyclohexyl or cyclohexylmethyl; R.sub.2, R.sub.4, and R.sub.8 are each preferably independently methyl or ethyl; R.sub.3 is preferably iso-butyl or phenyl; R.sub.5 is preferably iso-butyl; R.sub.6 is preferably H or methyl; R.sub.7 --(Q).sub.n is preferably benzyloxycarbonyl or acetyl; Q is preferably --C(O)--; and X is preferably an aldehyde, .alpha.-ketoester or .alpha.-ketoamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: SIBIA Neurosciences Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander McDonald, Elisabeth Albrecht, Benito Munoz
  • Patent number: 6015879
    Abstract: Methods of use of compounds and compounds for the treatment of disorders characterized by the cerebral deposition of amyloid are provided Among the compounds are those of formulae I and II: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is preferably 2-methyl propene, 2-butene, cyclohexyl or cyclohexylmethyl; R.sub.2, R.sub.4, and R.sub.8 are each independently methyl or ethyl; R.sub.3 is preferably iso-butyl or phenyl; R.sub.5 is preferably iso-butyl; R.sub.6 is H or methyl; R.sub.7 --(Q).sub.n is preferably benzyloxycarbonyl or acetyl; Q is preferably --C(O)--; R.sub.B is preferbly iso-butyl; --R.sub.A =--(T).sub.m --(D).sub.m --R.sub.1, is which T is preferably oxygen or carbon, and D is preferably a mono-unsaturated C.sub.3-4 alkenyl being more preferred; and X is preferably an .alpha.-ketoester or .alpha.-ketoamide or aldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Sibia Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander McDonald, Elisabeth Albrecht, Benito Munoz
  • Patent number: 5968517
    Abstract: A method for extraction and isolation of proanthocyanidins from biological material. The method includes the steps of hot water extraction of the material after comminution using deoxygenated water, separation of the solids from the liquor, concentration of liquor into a concentrated solution and waste streams,and drying the concentrated solution to a solid product. The hot water can be recycled. The residue results in a usable by-product and the tannins can be extracted from the tannin-rich waste stream. The most preferred biological material is bark from Pinus radiata trees which are 15 years old, the bark most optionally coming from the upper portion of the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventors: Kelvin Winston Duncan, Ian Alexander Gilmour
  • Patent number: 5962419
    Abstract: Methods of use of compounds for the treatment of disorders characterized by the cerebral deposition of amyloid are provided. Among the compounds provided for use in the methods are those of the formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is preferably 2-methylpropenyl, 2-butenyl, cyclohexyl or cyclohexylmethyl; R.sub.2, R.sub.4, and R.sub.8 are each preferably independently methyl or ethyl; R.sub.3 is preferably iso-butyl or phenyl; Q is preferably --C(O)--; R.sub.B is preferably iso-butyl; R.sub.A is --(T).sub.m --(D).sub.m --R.sub.1, in which T is preferably oxygen or NH, m is 0 or 1, and D is preferably C.sub.1-4 alkyl or C.sub.2-4 alkenyl; and X is preferably an aldehyde, .alpha.-ketoester or .alpha.-ketoamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander McDonald, Elisabeth Albrecht, Benito Munoz, Blake Alan Rowe, Robert Steven Siegel, Steven Lee Wagner
  • Patent number: 5906968
    Abstract: A method of making an oil-soluble or oil-dispersible trinuclear molybdenum-sulfur compound, comprising: reacting two to less than three equivalents of a tetrahydrocarbyl thiuram disulfide and one equivalent of a compound containing the ?Mo.sub.3 S.sub.13 !.sup.2- ion to produce a trinuclear molybdenum compound of the formula Mo.sub.3 S.sub.x (L).sub.4 wherein x is from 4 to 10 and L is dihydrocarbyl-dithiocarbamate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Jonathan M. McConnachie, Edward I. Stiefel, Ian Alexander Weston Bell, Velautha-Cumaran Arunasalam
  • Patent number: 5862876
    Abstract: A guide loop height adjustment arrangement for a driver's seat belt has a drive that raises and lowers a guide loop in response to a sensed change in the position of the driver's mirror. The change in the mirror position is indicative of the presence of a seat occupant with a different shoulder height from the preceding seat occupant and therefore causes the guide loop height to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Ltd.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Gordon, Howard James Foster
  • Patent number: 5861993
    Abstract: Apparatus for displaying an image suspended in space above a horizontal surface such as a tabletop or vehicle dash-board, of an original image below the surface, comprises a beam-splitter window in the surface and a retroreflector below the surface in a path for light reflected by the beamsplitter. The original image may for example be a VDU screen or vehicle instrument panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Central Research Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Shanks, Christoph Dobrusskin
  • Patent number: 5859342
    Abstract: Nucleotide sequences encoding antisense RNA to proteins having enzymic activity in .beta.-oxidation, constructs, vectors, plants and plant cells comprising such nucleotide sequences, and uses of such nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: The University Court of The University of Glasgow
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Graham, Mark Allen Hooks
  • Patent number: 5853464
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink which contains a SERS--active metal aggregate containing a Raman active compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Macpherson, Iain Frank Fraser, Sharon Kathleen Wilson, Peter Cyril White, Calum Hugh Munro, William Ewen Smith
  • Patent number: 5837761
    Abstract: A plastics composition comprising a high molecular weight material and an effective coloring amount of an azo pigment of formula ##STR1## where M is Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba or Mn or a mixture of two or more thereof, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are chlorine or methyl, x is zero or 1, y is zero or 1 and the sum of x and y is 1, with the proviso that when the high molecular weight material is polyvinyl chloride y is zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Alexander MacPherson, Iain Frank Fraser, Alison MacLennan
  • Patent number: 5830766
    Abstract: A method of assaying for a ligand in a sample involves incubating the sample in contact with a specific binding partner for the ligand carried on one surface of an optical structure, irradiating the structure at a suitable angle or range of angles to the normal such that the resonance and/or total internal reflection of the radiation occurs within the optical structure and/or the layer of specific binding partner, and analyzing the radiation in order to determine whether, and if desired the extent to which and/or rate at which the generated radiation and/or optical characteristics of the optical structure are altered by complex formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Ares-Serono Research & Development Ltd. Partnership
    Inventors: John Worthington Attridge, Ian Alexander Shanks
  • Patent number: 5806218
    Abstract: A border for a substantially two-dimensional image comprises an anterior pattern and a posterior pattern, the patterns being space one from the other and being arranged to form, when viewed together, a resultant apparent pattern in a different plane to that of the image. The patterns each comprise relatively brighter and relatively darker regions, but each usually has a different pitch. The posterior pattern may advantageously comprise an array of reflective dots printed onto a major surface of a light transmissive sheet which may be edge lit by a light source. The border brightness can then be independent of ambient light conditions and simple to manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Central Research Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Shanks, Christoph Dobrusskin
  • Patent number: 5804560
    Abstract: Methods of use of compounds and compounds for the treatment of disorders characterized by the cerebral deposition of amyloid are provided. Among the compounds are those of formulae I and II: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is preferably 2-methyl propene, 2-butene, cyclohexyl or cyclohexylmethyl; R.sub.2, R.sub.4, and R.sub.8 are each independently methyl or ethyl; R.sub.3 is preferably iso-butyl or phenyl; R.sub.5 is preferably iso-butyl; R.sub.6 is H or methyl; R.sub.7 -(Q).sub.n is preferably benzyloxycarbonyl or acetyl; Q is preferably --C(O)--; R.sub.B is preferbly iso-butyl; R.sub.A =--(T).sub.m--(D).sub.m--R.sub.1, is which T is preferably oxygen or carbon, and D is preferably a mono-unsaturated C.sub.3-4 alkenyl being more preferred; and X is preferably an .alpha.-ketoester or .alpha.-ketoamide or aldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander McDonald, Elisabeth Albrecht, Benito Munoz
  • Patent number: 5764411
    Abstract: An imaging system for the generation of an apparent three-dimensional (3-D) image suspended in space for direct vieiwing includes a beamsplitter and a retroreflector. The optical property of reflecting light back along its original path enable the system to generate such an apparent 3-D image based on the perception of depth cues present in the original scene for viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Thorn EMI plc
    Inventor: Ian Alexander Shanks
  • Patent number: 5759254
    Abstract: The present invention provides a phthalocyanine of Formula (1): ##STR1## wherein: MPc is a phthalocyanine nucleus of Formula (2); ##STR2## in which M is a metal atom, a chloro-metal group, an oxy-metal group or hydrogenX is halogenR.sup.1 is an benzylamino or N-alkyl aminoalkylR.sup.2 is H or an optionally substituted alkyla has an average value from 15 to 8b has an average value from 1 to 8a+b is from 4 to 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Macpherson, Iain Frank Fraser, Sharon Kathleen Wilson
  • Patent number: 5718754
    Abstract: The invention provides a pigment composition comprising a pigment having adsorbed on its surface, or as a physical mixture, up to 10% by weight, based on the total weight of pigment composition of a coding compound which is a compound containing an azo, azomethine or polycyclic chromophore and which has an absorption spectrum and a Raman spectrum different from that of the pigment. The compositions are suitable for use in printing inks for security applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Macpherson, Iain Frank Fraser, Peter Cyril White, William Ewen Smith, Calum Hugh Munro