Patents by Inventor Ian Bruce

Ian Bruce 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: 9616626
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one vinyl alcohol copolymer and having a static sessile drop contact angle of less than 70 degrees, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use dry or wet demolding processes, or dry or wet delensing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Publication number: 20170042889
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard BELLENIE, Graham Charles BLOOMFIELD, Ian BRUCE, Andrew James CULSHAW, Edward Charles HALL, Gregory John HOLLINGWORTH, James NEEF, Matthew SPENDIFF, Simon James WATSON
  • Publication number: 20170037032
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard BELLENIE, Graham Charles BLOOMFIELD, Ian BRUCE, Andrew James CULSHAW, Edward Charles HALL, Gregory John HOLLINGWORTH, James NEEF, Matthew SPENDIFF, Simon James WATSON
  • Publication number: 20170029414
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard BELLENIE, Ian BRUCE, Andrew James CULSHAW, Gregory John HOLLINGWORTH, James NEEF, Matthew SPENDIFF, Simon James WATSON
  • Publication number: 20170001391
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, packaged ophthalmic devices present in a solution comprising the at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use wet demolding processes, or wet delensing processes or both wet demolding and wet delensing processes involving dissolving the molds in water or an aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Publication number: 20160359739
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a networking switch of a network and method for operating the networking switch. The networking switch communicates within the network using datagrams, such as packets and/or frames. The frames include packets of a first communication protocol or layer having headers of the first communication protocol or layer. In some situations, the packets of the first communication protocol or layer are embedded with packets of a second communication protocol or layer. Often times, one or more fields of headers of the first communication protocol or layer convey substantially similar or redundant information, such as routing information to provide an example, as one or more fields of headers of the second communication protocol or layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Bruce Bernard COX, Ariel HENDEL
  • Patent number: 9498924
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lens molds made from one or more thermoplastic polymer having a low level of UV light transmittance (UV % T) ophthalmic lenses including silicone hydrogel contact lenses molded using these thermoplastic polymer having low UV % T, and methods of manufacturing ophthalmic lenses by cast molding a polymerizable composition in mold members formed of these thermoplastic polymers having low UV % T and curing the polymerizable composition using UV light are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Lee Darren Norris, Edyta S. Bialek, Sarah L. Almond, David Robert Morsley, A. K. M. Shahab Siddiqui, Richard C. Rogers, Ian Bruce, Benjamin S. Sheader
  • Patent number: 9492951
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, packaged ophthalmic devices present in a solution comprising the at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use wet demolding processes, or wet delensing processes or both wet demolding and wet delensing processes involving dissolving the molds in water or an aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Publication number: 20160303132
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, where R1-R3 and Y are defined in the description, and its use in the treatment of disorders in which pi3 kinase is implicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Judy Fox Hayler, Graham Charles Bloomfield, Lee Edwards, Brian Cox, Catherine Howsham
  • Publication number: 20160159019
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silicone hydrogel contact lens is described that comprises curing a polymerizable composition comprising at least one siloxane monomer and at least one hydrophilic vinyl-containing monomer in a contact lens mold comprising a molding surface having a coating comprising a hydrophilic polymer. The hydrophilic coating is not solubilized by the polymerizable composition during the curing step. The resulting polymeric lens body is removed from the mold, washed to remove any of the hydrophilic polymer that may have transferred from the mold surface to the lens during the curing or lens removal process, and packaged to provide a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a contact angle that is lower than what it would otherwise be had the lens been cured in the same contact lens mold lacking the hydrophilic coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Charlie Chen, Robin Frith, Rachel Marullo, David Morsley, AKM Shahab Siddiqui, Victoria Tran
  • Publication number: 20160136847
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from a first portion of a molding surface formed from a first polymer and a second portion of the molding surface formed from a second polymer are described. When combined, the first portion and the second portion of the molding surface form an entire molding surface suitable for molding an entire surface, such as an anterior surface or a posterior surface of an ophthalmic device. Methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices using these molds, including contact lenses, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL HOLDING COMPANY, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Patent number: 9281955
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Patent number: 9278489
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from a first portion of a molding surface formed from a first polymer and a second portion of the molding surface formed from a second polymer are described. When combined, the first portion and the second portion of the molding surface form an entire molding surface suitable for molding an entire surface, such as an anterior surface or a posterior surface of an ophthalmic device. Methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices using these molds, including contact lenses, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Patent number: 9193118
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing contact lenses using ophthalmic lens molds having a molding surface comprising a thermoplastic polymer, the molding surface having a percent polarity from 3% to 20% and a surface energy from about 25 mN/m to about 40 mN/m to cast mold a polymerizable composition having a surface tension from about 20 mN/m to about 25 mN/m, wherein a surface energy differential of the surface tension of the polymerizable composition less the surface energy of the molding surface less than or equal to zero (0); and silicone hydrogel contact lens bodies so manufactured are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: A. K. M. Shahab Siddiqui, David Robert Morsley, Sarah L. Almond, Richard C. Rogers, Ian Bruce, Lee Darren Norris, Edyta S. Bialek, Benjamin S. Sheader
  • Patent number: 9156214
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lens molds made from one or more thermoplastic polymers with average polarities from about 1% to about 7%, ophthalmic lenses including silicone hydrogel contact lenses molded using these less polar thermoplastic polymers, and related methods are described. When the molds are used to cast mold silicone hydrogel contact lenses, the resulting polymerized lens bodies have ophthalmically acceptably wettable surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Lee Darren Norris, Edyta S. Bialek, Sarah L. Almond, David Robert Morsley, A. K. M. Shahab Siddiqui, Richard C. Rogers, Ian Bruce, Benjamin S. Sheader
  • Publication number: 20150274160
    Abstract: A three-wheeled tilting vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle can include an electronic control system that controls the tilting of the vehicle in higher speed turns for increased stability. The vehicle may also include a traction control system to provide additional stability during higher speed turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Helen Lee, Stephen R. Duffy, Timothy F. McLellan, Ian Bruce
  • Patent number: 9102110
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for separating mold sections, removing a lens product from the separated mold sections, and transferring the lens product to a processing tray are provided and include contacting assembled mold sections with a warm fluid to break fused portions between the mold sections, and using one or more wedge shaped elements to pry apart and separate the mold sections, one from the other. A vacuum head having multiple vacuum ports is employed for lifting the newly molded lens product from a mold section and for releasing the lens from the vacuum head into a processing tray. A cylinder of flowing air directed around the circumference of the lens is effective to maintain the lens in an unfolded position as the lens is being released into the processing tray. A tray set including multiple trays holding multiple lenses is provided and includes features for enabling visual and/or mechanical distinction of the trays and lenses held thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Sarah L. Almond, Philip A. Brame, Eve Blyth
  • Patent number: 9073921
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel solid forms of pharmaceutically active agents and therapeutic uses thereof. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Sylvie Chamoin, Stephen Paul Collingwood, Pascal Furet, Vikki Furminger, Sarah Lewis, Jon Christopher Loren, Lin Lv, Valentina Molten, Alex Michael Saunders, Duncan Shaw, Roy Maxwell Turner, Vince Yeh
  • Publication number: 20150188723
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Patent number: D730774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: GOTECH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian A. Bruce