Patents by Inventor Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts 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).

  • Thiopyrane-4-ones as DNA protein kinase inhibitors
    Patent number: 7105518
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and isomers, salts, solvates, chemically protected forms, and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, an option ally substituted C1-7 alkyl group, C3-20 heterocyclyl group, or C5-20 aryl group, or may together form, along with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring having from 4 to 8 ring atoms; and R3 is an optionally substituted C3-20 heterocyclyl or C5-20 aryl group, and their use as pharmaceuticals, particularly in treating diseases which are retroviral mediated or ameliorated by the inhibition of DNA-PK,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Niall Morrison Barr Martin, Graeme Cameron Murray Smith, Roger John Griffin, Bernard Thomas Golding, Ian Robert Hardcastle, Laurent Jean Martin Rigoreau, David Richard Newell, Hilary Alan Calvert, Nicola Jane Curtin, Paul Workman, Florence Irene Raynaud, Bernard Paul Nutley
  • Method and apparatus for detecting surveillance devices
    Publication number: 20060144170
    Abstract: An integrated sweep kit provides for the detection and location of covert electronic eavesdropping devices of both the radiating type (ie. transmitting electromagnetic energy) and the non-radiating type (ie. not transmitting electromagnetic energy). The kit includes at least one non-radiating device sensor for actively transmitting a detection signal, which detection signal is adapted to trigger a response from a normally non-radiating device; and at least one radiating device sensor for passively receiving a signal generated by a radiating device. A synchronization means is used for consecutively activating operation of the non-radiating device sensor and the radiating device sensor during sequential time slots so that the sensors do not interfere with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen, Ian Roberts, Ian Powell, Steven Holmes
  • Light channelling window panel for shading and illuminating rooms
    Patent number: 7070314
    Abstract: A method for producing a light channelling panel by making an array of angled cuts in a first transparent plastic sheet, making a similarly spaced array of angled cuts in a second plastic sheet, transposing or flipping the second sheet and fixing it in contact with the first sheet to form a panel with an array of internal light channels. Alternatively, by making an array of angled cuts in the surface of a transparent plastic sheet and an array of similarly spaced angled cuts in the opposite surface of the transparent plastic sheet to form a panel with an array of internal light channels. Said light channelling panel when positioned in a window of a building channels substantially all sunlight incident on the panel through the panel and over the ceiling in the building thereby illuminating the building with daylight and shading work areas near the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Inventor: Ian Robert Edmonds
  • Fusion proteins incorporating lysozyme
    Patent number: 7045677
    Abstract: A process for the production of a peptide is disclosed, the process comprising expressing in the milk of a transgenic, non-human, placental mammal a fusion protein which comprises the peptide to be expressed linked to a fusion partner protein which is lysozyme. The fusion protein may be separate from the milk and cleaved to yield the target peptide. A transgenic, non-human, placental mammal whose genome incorporates a DNA molecule comprising a coding sequence encoding lysozyme coupled to a peptide is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Pharming Intellectual Property BV
    Inventors: Ian Robert Cottingham, Graham Edward McCreath
  • Stabilization of milk from transgenic animals
    Patent number: 7030289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the stabilization of milk from transgenic animals. In particular, the invention relates to the protection of proteins (e.g. fibrinogen) expressed in milk from transgenic animals by co-expression of a serine proteinase inhibitor (e.g., ?1-antitrypsin) in the milk of the transgenic animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: PPL Therapeutics (Scotland) Ltd
    Inventors: Ian Robert Cottingham, Graham Edward McCreath
  • Optical network units preconfigured to accept predetermined subsets of wavelengths
    Patent number: 7016608
    Abstract: An optical network is provided which comprises a plurality of optical network units (19) and optical source means (3) connected and arranged to transmit light signals to each of the plurality of optical network units (19). The optical source means (3) are capable of transmitting light signals at one or more of a plurality of different wavelengths and at least one optical network unit (19) is operable to accept more than one of the said wavelengths. Further, each wavelength of the plurality is accepted by at least one of the optical network units (19) such that each such wavelength is accepted by a different subset of optical network units (19). The optical network further comprises control means (18) operable to cause the optical source means (3) to transmit light signals at one or more selected such wavelengths corresponding to respective desired subsets of the optical network units (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Peter Raymond Ball, Ian Robert Wright, Michael Robert Handley
  • Networking
    Patent number: 6947480
    Abstract: A network adapter capable of receiving data from a network, said adapter arranged to receive data at at least a lowest and a highest rate; said adapter comprising: sampling means arranged to sample said data; an equalizer arranged to receive, and equalize, said data samples, and said equalizer capable of being trained to equalize data, at at least, each of said lowest and highest data rates; and training means capable of training said equalizer to equalize data; wherein; said adapter is initially arranged to train said equalizer to receive data at said lowest data rate allowing data to be decoded and if upon decoding said adapter determines that said equalizer has been trained to equalise data at the incorrect rate to retrain said equalize to equalize data at the correct rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Timothy Alan Heath Wilkinson, Ian Robert Johnson, Robert John Castle
  • Ingestible device for the release of substances at distinct locations in alimentary canal
    Patent number: 6884239
    Abstract: The field of the invention is site-specific drug delivery capsules (SSDC's). The disclosure relates to a closure member (14) for a substance reservoir (12) of an SSDC (10). The SSDC (10) includes a retainer that provides a non-linear force resisting opening of the closure member (14). The non-linear force ensures that the closure member (14) unseals the reservoir (12) only when an opening force exceeds a maximal value of the resisting force, thereby preventing premature or accidental emptying of the reservoir (12). The preferred means of providing the resistive force is a rolling, elastomeric o-ring (64) that additionally seals the closure member (14) into an aperture (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Phaeton Research Limited
    Inventors: Peter John Houzego, Peter Neil Morgan, Peter Hanson Hirst, Duncan James Westland, Ian Robert Wilding
  • Coated dental floss or tape
    Publication number: 20050064089
    Abstract: A method of coating a yarn to provide a coated dental floss comprises supplying the yarn from a supply zone through a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages comprises a coating zone to provide the coated dental floss. The method further includes storing the coated dental floss in a storage zone. The yarn is under tension through at least one of the stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Ian Roberts, James Hill
  • Tool and method for evaluating a pin connector
    Patent number: 6856409
    Abstract: A tool for evaluating a pin connector of a backplane preferably includes at least one connector having receptacles for receiving pins of a pin connector of a backplane. The receptacles are open at both ends so that ends of the pins are visible in the receptacles when the tool is seated on the pin connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven F. Mastoris, Akbar Monfared, Ian Robert Inglis
  • Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus with means to screen rf fields
    Patent number: 6819106
    Abstract: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, an array of coils (7, 8, 9, 10) is used to receive magnetic resonance signals from a desired region of a patient. Screens 11 to 13 and 14 and 15 are provided between the coils and at the ends of the array of coils to control the sensitive region A of each coil but, in accordance with the invention, the screening properties of the screens is controllable so that for example the screens may be made inoperative beneath the plane of the array of coils so that each has the field of view B, in order to vary the properties produced by the array. Other uses of screens are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Inventors: Ian Robert Young, Michael Charles Keogh
  • Ingestible device for the release of substances at distinct locations in alimentary canal
    Publication number: 20040215171
    Abstract: The field of the invention is site-specific drug delivery capsules (SSDC's). The disclosure relates to a closure member (14) for a substance reservoir (12) of an SSDC (10). The SSDC (10) includes a retainer that provides a non-linear force resisting opening of the closure member (14). The non-linear force ensures that the closure member (14) unseals the reservoir (12) only when an opening force exceeds a maximal value of the resisting force, thereby preventing premature or accidental emptying of the reservoir (12). The preferred means of providing the resistive force is a rolling, elastomeric o-ring (64) that additionally seals the closure member (14) into an aperture (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Phaeton Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter John Houzego, Peter Neil Morgan, Peter Hanson Hirst, Duncan James Westland, Ian Robert Wilding
  • Methods for producing three dimensional, self-supporting, light redirecting roof lighting systems
    Publication number: 20040200182
    Abstract: A self-supporting roof lighting system that accepts low elevation light and rejects high elevation light may be produced by making arrays of parallel laser cuts through, or partly through, a flat sheet of transparent acrylic, cutting the segment containing the arrays from the sheet, positioning the segment over linear heating elements to soften the acrylic along the lines between adjoining laser cut arrays, folding the segment along the softened lines through the angle necessary to form a multi-faceted structure of saddle, pyramid or higher order form and allowing this structure to cool and solidify to produce a self-supporting angle-selective roof lighting system with an array of light redirecting laser cuts on each facet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Ian Robert Edmonds
  • Light channelling window panel for shading and illuminating rooms
    Publication number: 20040201977
    Abstract: A method for producing a light channelling panel by making an array of angled cuts in a first transparent plastic sheet, making a similarly spaced array of angled cuts in a second plastic sheet, transposing or flipping the second sheet and fixing it in contact with the first sheet to form a panel with an array of internal light channels. Alternatively, by making an array of angled cuts in the surface of a transparent plastic sheet and an array of similarly spaced angled cuts in the opposite surface of the transparent plastic sheet to form a panel with an array of internal light channels. Said light channelling panel when positioned in a window of a building channels substantially all sunlight incident on the panel through the panel and over the ceiling in the building thereby illuminating the building with daylight and shading work areas near the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Ian Robert Edmonds
  • Dna-pk inhibitors
    Publication number: 20040192687
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of formula (I) and isomers, salts, solvates, chemically protected forms, and prodrugs thereof, in the preparation of a medicament for inhibiting the activity of DNA-PK, wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, an optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl group, C3-20 heterocyclyl group, or C5-20 aryl group, or may together form, along with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring having from 4 to 8 ring atoms; X and Y are selected from CR4 and O, O and CR′4 and NR″4 and N, where the unsaturation is in the appropriate place in the ring, and where one of R3 and R4 or R′4 is an optionally substituted C3-20 heteroaryl or C5-20 aryl group, and the other of R3 and R4 or R′4 is H, or R3 and R4 or R″4 together are —A—B—, which collectively represent a fused optionally substituted aromatic ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Niall Morrison Barr Martin, Graeme Cameron Murray Smith, Roger John Griffin, Bernard Thomas Golding, Ian Robert Hardcastle, David Richard Newell, Hilary Alan Calvert, Nicola Jane Curtin, Laurent Jean Martin Rigoreau, Xiao-ling Fan Cockcroft, Vincent Junior Ming-lai Loh, Paul Workman, Florence Irene Raynaud, Bernard Paul Nutley
  • Method and apparatus for authenticating service to a wireless communications device
    Publication number: 20040152447
    Abstract: A cellular communications service provider authenticates a provider of a location-dependent service, such as a wireless hotspot. Once the cellular communications service provider is aware of potential use of the service by the user, it authenticates the service provider and provides an authentication to the user. Users can thus avoid untrustworthy providers of local services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: James Thomas Edward McDonnell, Ian Robert Johnson, Amanda Richardson
  • Methods and devices for protecting pins of a pin connector
    Publication number: 20040152350
    Abstract: A protective cover for a pin connector of a backplane includes at least one connector having receptacles for receiving the pins of a pin connector of a backplane and a planar member extending from the connector, the connector being on the planar member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Steven F. Mastoris, Akbar Monfared, Ian Robert Inglis
  • Screens for RF magnetic flux
    Patent number: 6768051
    Abstract: Microstructured materials which can be tuned to a particular range of r.f. frequencies to display particular magnetic permeabilities have been proposed. A typical material is made of an array of capacitive elements e.g. spirals or rolls of conducting material on a non-conducting substrate. These materials can be used as screening material which is effective for the particular band of frequencies to which it is tuned. In one example, the rolls 2 to 5 are orientated normal to the face of the screen 1, which reflects or absorbs the magnetic vector of electromagnetic radiation impinging normal onto the reflector face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Marconi Optical Components Limited
    Inventors: Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Ian Robert Young
  • Wine glass coaster
    Patent number: D522815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Carrie Olsen Garrard, Ian Robert Garrard
  • Wine glass coaster
    Patent number: D528372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Inventors: Carrie Olsen Garrard, Ian Robert Garrard