Patents by Inventor Ian Murray

Ian Murray 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: 6242203
    Abstract: The discovery that Cyp1B1 protein is detectable in a wide range of human cancers of different histogenetic types, but is not detectable in non-cancerous tissues, gives rise to diagnostic methods for detecting tumors based on this protein as a marker, and to the possibility of tumor therapies involving the protein. A diagnostic method may include the steps of: (a) obtaining from a patient a tissue sample to be tested for the presence of cancer cells; (b) producing a prepared sample in a sample preparation process; (c) contacting the prepared sample with an antibody that reacts with human Cyp1B1 protein; and (d) detecting binding of the antibody to CYP1B1 protein in the prepared sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignees: University of Aberdeen, University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: William Thomas Melvin, Graeme Ian Murray, Michael Danny Burke, William Frank Greenlee
  • Patent number: 6139752
    Abstract: A composition of matter is provided in which a phosphonic acid or phosphonic acid ester group is linked through a thioether residue to a silicon atom which is further covalently bonded to a solid inorganic support. The compositions can be employed to selectively separate metal ions having high cationic charge from a solution containing lower-charged cations, and also to selectively separate highly charged cations having a relatively high charge density from cations having the same charge, but a lower charge density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Leonard Francis Lindoy, Peter Anthony Tasker, Ian Murray Atkinson, Derek Thorp
  • Patent number: 5718514
    Abstract: A container apparatus and method of manufacture for same, in which the container includes an inner tube formed of plastic material, and an outer tube of one or more plies of material. The container is generally configured to lie flat, when in its unfilled condition. The container has a flat first end formed from flap members configured from one or more plies of the outer tube. The container is advantageously configured to enable opening of the first end of the outer tube to provide access to the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Stone Container Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond George Steele, Stephen John Grace, John Frederick Robinson, Andreas Karl Haussrer, Eric John Brown, Michael John Kane, Allan Paul MacFarlane, Ian Murray Allerby
  • Patent number: 5644900
    Abstract: A container apparatus and method of manufacture for same, in which the container includes an inner tube formed of plastics material, and an outer tube of one or more plies of material. The container is generally configured to lie flat, when in its unfilled condition. The container has a flat first end formed from flap members configured from one or more plies of the outer tube. The container is advantageously configured to enable opening of the first end of the outer tube to provide access to the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Stone Container Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond George Steele, Stephen John Grace, John Frederick Robinson, Andreas Karl Haussrer, Eric John Brown, Michael John Kane, Allan Paul MacFarlane, Ian Murray Allerby
  • Patent number: 4224697
    Abstract: A constrained prosthetic knee having as its component parts a femoral implant, a tibial implant, and a meniscal plate disposed between the implants. Knee flexion and extension is permitted by compoundly curved condyle surfaces of the femoral implant, which resemble corresponding surfaces of a natural knee, and correspondingly shaped convex bearing surfaces in the meniscal plate and tibial implant. This interface is defined by a continuous, concave, spherically shaped surface in the upwardly facing plateau of the tibial implant and a corresponding, continuous, convex spherical surface of the meniscal plate. A post projects from the tibial implant into a cavity defined by the femoral implant and the free end of the post and the cavity have opposing, cooperating and overlapping ledges which maintain the implants constrained to each other. The ledges permit unrestrained flexion, extension and torsional movement of the knee and limited lateral rocking (adduction-abduction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Hexcel Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Murray, Stanley Kampner
  • Patent number: 4224696
    Abstract: A prosthetic knee having as its component parts a femoral implant, a tibial implant, and a meniscal plate disposed between the implants. Knee flexion and extension is permitted by compoundly curved condyle surfaces of the femoral implant, which resemble corresponding surfaces of a natural knee, and correspondingly shaped convex bearing surfaces in the meniscal plate. All other motions of the prosthetic knee take place at the interface between the meniscal plate and tibial implant. This interface is defined by a continuous, concave, spherically shaped surface in the upwardly facing plateau of the tibial implant and a corresponding, continuous, convex spherical surface of the meniscal plate. The components are biased into mutual engagement along the cooperating concave and convex surfaces by the natural ligaments which surround the prosthetic knee. The continuous biased engagement of the cooperating convex and concave surfaces of the prosthetic knee assure its stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Hexcel Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Murray, Stanley Kampner
  • Patent number: 4095580
    Abstract: A replacement spark plug for reciprocating internal combustion engines that functions as a fuel injector and as a spark plug to provide a "stratified-charge" effect. The conventional carburetor is retained to supply the main fuel-air mixture which may be very lean because of the stratified charge. The replacement plug includes a cylindrical piezoelectric ceramic which contracts to act as a pump whenever an ignition pulse is applied to a central rod through the ceramic. The rod is hollow at its upper end for receiving fuel, it is tapered along its lower length to act as a pump, and it is flattened at its lower end to act as a valve for fuel injection from the pump into the cylinder. The rod also acts as the center electrode of the plug, with the spark jumping from the plug base to the lower end of the rod to thereby provide spark ignition that has inherent proper timing with the fuel injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Ian Murray, Clement A. Tatro