Patents by Inventor James Christian
James Christian 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).
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Publication number: 20140186901Abstract: In some variations, the invention provides a process for fractionating biomass, comprising: fractionating the biomass in the presence of a solvent for lignin, sulfur dioxide, and water, to produce a liquor containing hemicellulose, cellulose-rich solids, and lignin; hydrolyzing the hemicellulose contained in the liquor, to produce hemicellulosic monomers; hydrolyzing the cellulose-rich solids to produce glucose; and recovering the hemicellulosic monomers and the glucose, as fermentable sugars, wherein a metal sulfite or metal bisulfite additive is introduced to react directly or indirectly with lignin to produce sulfonated lignin. The disclosed processes may enhance lignin separations as well as promote the co-product potential of lignin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLCInventors: Theodora RETSINA, Vesa PYLKKANEN, Kimberly NELSON, James Christian SAMP
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Publication number: 20140071607Abstract: A case for a portable electronic device (PED) may include a keyboard, a base, and a support. The keyboard includes a receiving surface configured to support an edge of the PED. The base is configured to slidably engage the keyboard and the keyboard is removable from the base. The support is coupled to the base and includes a support surface for supporting the PED in an elevated position. The support is pivotable relative to the base and allows the PED to pivot relative to the support between a collapsed position and an elevated position. The angle of the PED supported by the receiving surface and the support surface is changed as the keyboard is slid relative to the base such that the angle of the PED with respect to the base is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Targus Group International, Inc.Inventors: James Christian Frinak, Katrina Huang, Alice MC Lee, Craig Ian Reiser
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Publication number: 20140071478Abstract: We disclose herein a system and method to submit, personalize and activate a physical identity credential via the internet. This product is a new process and an improvement over existing products that either allow a user to (a) submit data and photos to an online service to personalize a physical identity credential or (b) utilize installed software to personalize and activate a physical identity credential by utilizing a local or network printing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: BADGEPASS, INC.Inventors: Phillip G. King, James Christian Eaton, Jon Delozier, Lindsay Martin-Nez
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Publication number: 20140065682Abstract: Variations of this invention reduce or avoid lignin precipitation during acidic hydrolysis of biomass hydrolysates (such as hemicellulose-containing liquid extracts). Net acid usage and byproduct salt formation are significantly reduced. In some embodiments, hemicellulosic oligomers are hydrolyzed, in the presence of sulfur dioxide, to produce fermentable hemicellulosic sugars; the process comprising recovering and recycling at least a portion of the sulfur dioxide, wherein at least a portion of the sulfur dioxide reacts with the lignin to produce hydrophilic sulfonated lignin that has less tendency to precipitate or stick.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLCInventors: Theodora RETSINA, Vesa PYLKKANEN, Kimberly NELSON, Mark SZCZEPANIK, James Christian SAMP
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Patent number: 8545837Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, compositions and methods for CNS delivery of lysosomal enzymes for effective treatment of lysosomal storage diseases. In some embodiments, the present invention includes a stable formulation for direct CNS intrathecal administration comprising an iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S) protein, salt, and a polysorbate surfactant for the treatment of Hunters Syndrome.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.Inventors: Gaozhong Zhu, Kris Lowe, Zahra Shahrokh, James Christian, Richard Fahmer, Jing Pan, Teresa Leah Wright, Pericles Calias
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Patent number: 8447751Abstract: An optimization engine allows website publishers and other network document publishers to view and navigate statistics and scoring methodologies of a search engine. Publishers may thus gain a better understanding of how their website or network document is scored and how to optimize those documents to increase a search engine score. The user is thus able to navigate the network from the perspective of a search engine, viewing webpages, websites, and links in the same way a search engine would analyze them. Upon making changes to a website or network document, publishers may further request on-demand re-crawling of their website or network document to view changes in the score. Alerts may also be activated by a user to notify the user when certain conditions are met.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Efficient Systems, LLCInventors: Scott Allen Stouffer, Maura Dennison Stouffer, James Christian Fink
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Patent number: 8370365Abstract: The present inventions may be implemented by tools for predicting website search engine rankings. An example system may comprise: a first website having a first IP address hosted on at least one server computer communicatively coupled to a network; a second website having a second IP address hosted on one or more of the at least one server computer; and one or more of the at least one server computers being configured to calculate a link match score indicating whether a search engine ranking for the first website would improve if the first website entered a linking relationship with the second website, wherein the link match score is a function of whether the first IP address is similar to the second IP address.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLCInventors: James Christian, Rajinder Nijjer, Tiffany Rowe
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Publication number: 20120203656Abstract: A method of customizing bulk purchases of consumer personal care products includes providing a consumer-accessible electronic display configured to allow a consumer to purchase the personal care products by selecting between first and second order counts of personal care products, wherein the first and second order counts are multiples of a package count of a first pre-set package of the personal care products, of a second pre-set package of the personal care products, or of a combination thereof, and fulfilling the purchase by determining the number of first and second pre-set packages to ship to meet the selected order count.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: James Michael Schuh, Mary Watt Goggans, James Christian Buchta, Jerome Joseph Kristynik, Matthew Wolf
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Patent number: 8215186Abstract: A computerized prosthesis alignment system includes a transducer that can measure socket reactions in the anterior/posterior plane and the right/left planes, while canceling or reducing the transverse forces on the measurements of these socket reactions. In addition, the transducer is also capable of determining the axial load or weight experienced by the prosthesis. The computerized prosthesis alignment system is in communication with a host computer. The moment data from the transducer is interpreted by the user via a computer interface. The host computer includes memory for storing one or more applications. These applications receive data from the transducer, interpret the data with discrete algebraic or fuzzy logic algorithms, and display the output numerically and graphically. Applications may also interpret the data to provide analyses to the user for aligning the prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Orthocare Innovations LLCInventors: Ben Gilbert Macomber, David Alan Boone, James Christian Beck
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Publication number: 20110318323Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, compositions and methods for CNS delivery of lysosomal enzymes for effective treatment of lysosomal storage diseases. In some embodiments, the present invention includes a stable formulation for direct CNS intrathecal administration comprising an iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S) protein, salt, and a polysorbate surfactant for the treatment of Hunters Syndrome.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: SHIRE HUMAN GENETIC THERAPIES, INC.Inventors: Gaozhong Zhu, Kris Lowe, Zahra Shahrokh, James Christian, Rick Richard Fahmer, Jing Pan, Teresa Leah Wright, Pericles Calias
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Publication number: 20110130684Abstract: A computerized prosthesis alignment system includes a transducer that can measure socket reactions in the anterior/posterior plane and the right/left planes, while canceling or reducing the transverse forces on the measurements of these socket reactions. In addition, the transducer is also capable of determining the axial load or weight experienced by the prosthesis. The computerized prosthesis alignment system is in communication with a host computer. The moment data from the transducer is interpreted by the user via a computer interface. The host computer includes memory for storing one or more applications. These applications receive data from the transducer, interpret the data with discrete algebraic or fuzzy logic algorithms, and display the output numerically and graphically. Applications may also interpret the data to provide analyses to the user for aligning the prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: ORTHOCARE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Ben Gilbert Macomber, David Alan Boone, James Christian Beck
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Patent number: 7923420Abstract: A lubricating oil composition having a total base number of more than 15 mg KOH/g including oil of lubricating viscosity; detergent; and at least one compound of the formula (I) and/or formula (II): wherein Ar and Ar? represent substituted or unsubstituted aromatic moieties; L and L? are linking moieties; each Y is independently —ORI?or H(O(CR12)n)yX—, wherein X is (CR1?2)z, O or S; R1 and R1? are H, alkyl or aryl; R1? is alkyl or aryl; each Y? is independently Z(O(CR22)n?)y?X?—, wherein X? is (CR2?2)z?, O or S; R2 and R2? are H, alkyl or aryl; Z is H, acyl, alkyl or aryl; z and z? are 1 to 10; n is 0 to 10 when X is (CR1?2)z and 2 to 10 when X is O or S; n? is 0 to 10 when X? is (CR2?2)z?, and 2 to 10 when X? is O or S; y and y? are 1 to 30; a and a? are 0 to 3; and m and m? are 1 to 100, with the proviso that in compounds of formula (I), at least one Ar moiety bears at least one group Y and that in compounds of formula (II), at least one Ar? moiety bears at least one group Y? in wherein Z is not H.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Infineum International LimitedInventors: James Christian Dodd, Frederick Wein Girshick, Michael Dennis Hoey, Jeremy Roger Spencer, Jacob Emert, Tushar kanti Bera
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Patent number: 7886618Abstract: A computerized prosthesis alignment system includes a transducer that can measure socket reactions in the anterior/posterior plane and the right/left planes, while canceling or reducing the transverse forces on the measurements of these socket reactions. In addition, the transducer is also capable of determining the axial load or weight experienced by the prosthesis. The computerized prosthesis alignment system is in communication with a host computer. The moment data from the transducer is interpreted by the user via a computer interface. The host computer includes memory for storing one or more applications. These applications receive data from the transducer, interpret the data with discrete algebraic or fuzzy logic algorithms, and display the output numerically and graphically. Applications may also interpret the data to provide analyses to the user for aligning the prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: OrthoCare Innovations LLCInventors: Ben Gilbert Macomber, David Alan Boone, James Christian Beck
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Publication number: 20090203559Abstract: A trunk piston or cross-head diesel engine having a centrifuge system including a sealing medium is lubricated with a lubricant which, for the cross-head engine, is a system lubricant and which contains 0.04 to 5 mass %, expressed as active ingredient, of a combination of one or more linked aromatic compounds and one or more nitrogen containing ashless disperants, in a mass:mass ratio in the range of 1:3 to 9:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Tushar Kanti Bera, James Christian Dodd, Jacob Emert, Alvaro Rincon-Barbado, Jeremy Roger Spencer
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Publication number: 20090132524Abstract: An optimization engine allows website publishers and other network document publishers to view and navigate statistics and scoring methodologies of a search engine. Publishers may thus gain a better understanding of how their website or network document is scored and how to optimize those documents to increase a search engine score. The user is thus able to navigate the network from the perspective of a search engine, viewing webpages, websites, and links in the same way a search engine would analyze them. Upon making changes to a website or network document, publishers may further request on-demand re-crawling of their website or network document to view changes in the score. Alerts may also be activated by a user to notify the user when certain conditions are met.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: SEOENG LLC.Inventors: Scott Allen Stouffer, Maura Dennison Stouffer, James Christian Fink
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Publication number: 20090011966Abstract: A lubricating oil composition having a total base number of more than 15 mg KOH/g, as determined by ASTM D2896, and including at least 40 mass % of an oil of lubricating viscosity; at least one detergent; and at least one compound of the formula (I) and/or formula (II): In formula (I), each Ar independently represents an aromatic moiety having 0 to 3 substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, aryloxy, aryloxyalkyl, hydroxy, hydroxyalkyl, halo and combinations thereof; each L is independently a linking moiety comprising a carbon-carbon single bond or a linking group; each Y is independently —OR1? or a moiety of the formula H(O(CR12)n)yX—, wherein X is selected from the group consisting of (CR1?2)z, O and S; R1 and R1? are each independently selected from H, C1 to C6 alkyl and aryl; R1? is selected from C1 to C100 alkyl and aryl; z is 1 to 10; n is 0 to 10 when X is (CR1?2)z, and 2 to 10 when X is O or S; and y is 1 to 30; each a is independently 0 to 3, with the provisoType: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: James Christian Dodd, Frederick Wein Girshick, Michael Dennis Hoey, Jeremy Roger Spencer, Jacob Emert, Tushar kanti Bera
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Publication number: 20080139970Abstract: A computerized prosthesis alignment system includes a transducer that can measure socket reactions in the anterior/posterior plane and the right/left planes, while canceling or reducing the transverse forces on the measurements of these socket reactions. In addition, the transducer is also capable of determining the axial load or weight experienced by the prosthesis. The computerized prosthesis alignment system is in communication with a host computer. The moment data from the transducer is interpreted by the user via a computer interface. The host computer includes memory for storing one or more applications. These applications receive data from the transducer, interpret the data with discrete algebraic or fuzzy logic algorithms, and display the output numerically and graphically. Applications may also interpret the data to provide analyses to the user for aligning the prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: CYMA CORPORATIONInventors: Ben Gilbert Macomber, David Alan Boone, James Christian Beck
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Publication number: 20070214015Abstract: A computer assessment is performed of ways for managing an individual's health. A patient report is generated, from the computer assessment, for the individual's use. The patient report provides advice tailored to help the individual manage the individual's health. A healthcare provider report is generated, from the computer assessment, for use by the individual's healthcare provider. The healthcare provider report summarizes findings of the assessment and provides counseling guidelines, for the individual's healthcare provider, tailored to the individual and the assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventor: James Christian
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Patent number: 7191540Abstract: A work piece holder includes a base plate, a slide plate, a rotary indexing device, a support assembly, a spindle, and a pallet receiver. The slide plate is manually slidable over the base plate between a plurality of predetermined positions. The rotary indexing device is affixed to the slide plate, and has the support assembly secured thereto and rotated thereby into a desired angular orientation about a first axis of rotation. The spindle is secured to the support assembly, and defines a second axis of rotation that is generally perpendicular to the first axis of rotation. The spindle is manually rotatable about the second axis of rotation between a plurality of predetermined rotary positions. The pallet receiver, which is secured to the spindle and is rotatable therewith about the first and second axes, is adapted to releasably receive a pallet to which a work piece is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventors: Robert J. Brewer, James A. Christian
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Patent number: 6642280Abstract: A control scheme is set forth for conversion of variable composition synthesis gas to liquid fuels in a three-phase or slurry bubble column reactor (SBCR). The control scheme allows one to achieve constant or optimum liquid fuel production and constant or limited purge gas flow with highly variable synthesis gas feed condition. This is accomplished by adjusting one or more of the following independent variables: recycle ratio, water addition, and bypass flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: James Christian Sorensen, Douglas Edward Benedict, Tsun-Chiu Robert Tsao, Joseph Klosek