Patents by Inventor James Clarke

James Clarke 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).

  • Hydrogenation of benzene polycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof
    Patent number: 8203017
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating benzenepolycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof, such as esters and/or anhydrides, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Henry Schlosberg, Jose Guadalupe Santiesteban, Stuart L. Soled, Andrzej Mariusz Malek, Joseph E. Baumgartner, Luo Shifang, Sabato Miseo, James Clarke Vartuli
  • COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE FOR USE WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING PROTOCOLS AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20120131659
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of operating protocols. The system may also include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the data storage devices, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Furthermore, the system may also include a protocol interface device including a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the plurality of data storage devices using respective operating protocols. More particularly, the front-end proxy module and the protocol engine module may communicate using a common interface protocol able to represent a desired number of protocol-supported elements for a desired operating protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: TEAMON SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Shaibal Roy, David James Clarke
  • METHOD OF FABRICATING A MEMBRANE HAVING A TAPERED PORE
    Publication number: 20120114925
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a membrane having a tampered pore, a polymeric membrane having a tapered pore, and uses of such polymeric membrane are disclosed. The membrane includes apertures of increasing diameter which are aligned with each other to form the tapered pore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: Oxford Nanolabs Limited, Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver HARNACK, Jurina Wessels, Akio Yasuda, James Clarke, Terry Reid
  • Hydrogenation processes
    Patent number: 8143438
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for hydrogenating one or more organic compounds especially unsaturated organic compounds by bringing the compound into contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst, which comprises one or more catalytically active metals applied to a porous catalyst support. The one or more catalytically active metals having been derived via a decomposed organic complex of the metal on the support, in particular amine complexes of the metal. The decomposed complex may be treated with hydrogen to activate the catalyst before use as a hydrogenation catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Leon Soled, Andrzej Malek, James Clarke Vartuli, Jennifer Schaefer Feeley, Sabato Miseo, Shifang Luo, Richard Henry Schlosberg, Joseph Ernest Baumgartner, Christine E. Kliewer, Steven T. Ragomo
  • Method of fabricating a membrane having a tapered pore
    Patent number: 8137569
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a membrane having a tapered pore, a polymeric membrane having a tapered pore, and uses of such polymeric membrane are disclosed. The membrane includes apertures of increasing diameter which are aligned with each other to form the tapered pore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Deutschland GmbH, Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Oliver Harnack, Jurina Wessels, Akio Yasuda, James Clarke, Terry Reid
  • HYBRIDIZATION LINKERS
    Publication number: 20120064599
    Abstract: The invention provides method of covalently coupling two or more moieties, the method comprising: (a) providing a first moiety having covalently attached thereto (i) at least one first linker comprising a first hybridizable region and (ii) at least one first group capable of forming a covalent bond; (b) providing a second moiety having covalently attached thereto (i) at least one second linker comprising a second hybridizable region capable of hybridizing to the first hybridizable region and (ii) at least a second group capable of forming a covalent bond with the first group; (c) contacting the first and second moieties under conditions that allow the first and second hybridizable regions to hybridize and link the moieties; and (d) exposing the linked moieties to conditions that allow the formation of a covalent bond between the first and second groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Lakmal Jayasinghe, John Milton, Luke McNeill, James Clarke, James White, Ruth Moysey
  • Communications system including protocol interface device for use with multiple operating protocols and related methods
    Patent number: 8135759
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of operating protocols. The system may also include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the data storage devices, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Furthermore, the system may also include a protocol interface device including a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the plurality of data storage devices using respective operating protocols. More particularly, the front-end proxy module and the protocol engine module may communicate using a common interface protocol able to represent a desired number of protocol-supported elements for a desired operating protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Teamon Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaibal Roy, David James Clarke
  • Email SMS notification system providing enhanced charge accounting features and related methods
    Patent number: 8135788
    Abstract: A communications system may include at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device. An email relay server may detect a new email message on the at least one email server and, based thereon, send a short message service (SMS) notification with an original SMS identifier to the at least one wireless communications device. The at least one wireless communications device may detect the SMS notification and send an instruction to the email relay server to thereafter send any subsequent SMS notification with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David James Clarke, Harshad N. Kamat, David Jaray Hanson
  • APPLICATION PORTABILITY AND TRANSFER OF DEVICE MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110246978
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatus for managing software components on a device when transferring device management responsibilities for the device from a first device management server to a second device management server. The capability to change device management servers while coordinating changes to software components on a managed device may be referred to as application portability. A mobile device in the present disclosure may change device management providers while maintaining access to certain licensed applications managed by a device management server. In an embodiment, a proprietary software component may be removed and a replacement software component installed from a category of applications that comprises the removed proprietary software component and the installed replacement software component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas Patrick Alfano, Axel Ferrazzini, Christopher David Smith, Jason Lee Carter, David James Clarke, Salim Hayder Omar, James Andrew Godfrey, Thomas Owen Parry
  • ENZYME-PORE CONSTRUCTS
    Publication number: 20110229877
    Abstract: The invention relates to constructs comprising a transmembrane protein pore subunit and a nucleic acid handling enzyme. The pore subunit is covalently attached to the enzyme such that both the subunit and enzyme retain their activity. The constructs can be used to generate transmembrane protein pores having a nucleic acid handling enzyme attached thereto. Such pores are particularly useful for sequencing nucleic acids. The enzyme handles the nucleic acid in such a way that the pore can detect its component nucleotides by stochastic sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Lakmal Jayasinghe, Hagan Bayley, Stephen Cheley, Brian Mckeown, James White, James Clarke
  • Probe card actuator
    Patent number: 8008936
    Abstract: A probe card test interface is described. The probe card test interface includes a first frame configured to support a probe card circuit card assembly (CCA). The probe card CCA is configured to contact a semiconductor wafer with one or more test probes. The first frame is also configured to support a first group of electrical contact points, the first group of electrical contact point being electrically coupled to circuitry of the probe card CCA. A second frame is coupled to a test interface CCA, where the test interface CCA includes a second group of electrical contact points. A number of actuation devices are slidably mounted on the second frame. The actuation devices have a tip member configured to engage a lip of the first frame when the corresponding actuation device is moved to an engagement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Clarke, John Thomas Josefosky, Michael A. Larkin
  • DOSAGE FORM COMPRISING 1-ISOPROPYL-4-HEXAHYDRO-1H-1,4-DIAZEPINE OR A SALT THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110189280
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dosage form for oral administration comprising a carrier tablet, wherein the carrier tablet is at least partially (preferably partially) covered by a film comprising 1-isopropyl-4-{[4-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yloxy)phenyl]carbonyl}hexahydro-1H-1,4-diazepine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, such as the mono-maleate salt thereof. In particular embodiments, the film, which at least partially covers the carrier tablet, comprises a stabiliser (e.g. citric acid), and/or a film former (e.g. hydroxypropylcellulose). The film is preferably present in a recess on the carrier tablet. The invention also relates to a method of producing said dosage form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Allan James Clarke, Yu Li, Yinka Bunmi Ogunlana
  • BASE-DETECTING PORE
    Publication number: 20110177498
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mutant ?-hemolysin (?-HL) pore which is useful for detecting one or more nucleotides by stochastic sensing. The pore is particularly useful for sequencing DNA or RNA. A molecular adaptor that allows detection of the nucleotide(s) is covalently attached to the pore. The pore is specifically modified to facilitate positioning of the adaptor and may be modified to facilitate covalent attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: James Clarke, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Terence Reid, Hagan Bayley
  • JOINING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20110126396
    Abstract: A joint is produced in at least two overlapping workpieces (W1, W2) using a joining tool comprising a punch (16) reciprocally disposed in a cylinder. The workpieces (W1, W2) are disposed between the tool and a die (12) and the tool is used to apply a compressive force to deform the workpieces into a joint at a joining area between the tool and the die. Continuous ultra-sonic energy (A) is applied to at least one of the workpieces in the joining area for at least part of the time during production of the joint so as to increase the ductility of at least one of the workpieces in the joining area. This induces an acousto-plastic effect in the material being formed which temporarily reduces its strength so as to exhibit increased ductility. The joining method is used in self-piercing riveting and enables viable joints to be formed in high strength materials or thick sheets of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher James Clarke, Roger Stanton Doo, Margaret Lucas, Russell John Trinick
  • Hydrogenation of Benzene Polycarboxylic Acids or Derivatives Thereof
    Publication number: 20110112322
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating benzenepolycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof, such as esters and/or anhydrides, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Richard Henry Schlosberg, Jose Guadalupe Santiesteban, Stuart L. Soled, Andrzej Mariusz Malek, Joseph E. Baumgartner, Luo Shifang, Sabato Miseo, James Clarke Vartuli
  • Hydrogenation Processes
    Publication number: 20110082311
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for hydrogenating one or more organic compounds especially unsaturated organic compounds by bringing the compound into contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst, which comprises one or more catalytically active metals applied to a porous catalyst support. The one or more catalytically active metals having been derived via a decomposed organic complex of the metal on the support, in particular amine complexes of the metal. The decomposed complex may be treated with hydrogen to activate the catalyst before use as a hydrogenation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Stuart Leon Soled, Andrzej Malek, James Clarke Vartuli, Jennifer Schaefer Feeley, Sabato Miseo, Shifang Luo, Richard Henry Schlosberg, Joseph Ernest Baumgartner, Christine E. Kliewer, Steven T. Ragomo
  • Confirmation of delivery of content to an HTTP/TCP device
    Patent number: 7911994
    Abstract: A method to confirm delivery of data to a receiving device via a sending socket is disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises determining when a predetermined amount of data has been removed from a send buffer of the sending socket and sending a confirmation when the predetermined amount of data has been removed from the send buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Openwave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: James Clarke, John M. Coughlan
  • Hydrogenation of benzene polycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof
    Patent number: 7893295
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating benzenepolycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof, such as esters and/or anhydrides, by bringing one or more benzenepolycarboxylic acids or one or more derivatives thereof into contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in the presence of one or more catalytically active metal, such as platinum, palladium ruthenium or mixtures thereof, deposited on a catalyst support comprising one or more ordered mesoporous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Exxon Mobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Henry Schlosberg, Jose Guadalupe Santiesteban, Stuart L. Soled, Andrzej Mariusz Malek, Joseph E. Baumgartner, Shifang L. Luo, Sabato Miseo, James Clarke Vartuli
  • Communications system with interface for enabling communication of alerts to mobile wireless communications devices
    Patent number: 7894594
    Abstract: An interface device, method and computer-readable program includes a proxy operative as an agent for communicating with a plurality of mobile wireless devices using different operating protocols. A device information module is operative with the proxy and determines functional features of a wireless mobile communications device and selects a configuration file for configuring the proxy to interface with the device and enable communications of any desired alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Teamon Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David James Clarke, Darren L. Gardner
  • NOVEL DOSAGE FORM
    Publication number: 20110020447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel dosage form, to a process for preparing the dosage form and to the use of the dosage form in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Allan James Clarke, Ian Paul Conn, Simon Richard Hicks, Yu Li, Xiaolei Wang