Patents by Inventor James Fowler
James Fowler 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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Patent number: 12208105Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for attenuating graft-versus-host disease after transplantation of a graft comprising hematopoietic stem cells in a subject. The invention further relates to methods of limiting opportunistic microbial infections in a subject after transplantation of a graft comprising hematopoietic stem cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: James M. Coghill, Kenneth A. Fowler
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Patent number: 11931663Abstract: An automated damping system including a damping device arranged and disposed to provide variable resistance to a load. The variable resistance provides resistance values corresponding to a displacement position of the damping device. The system includes a damping profile generator that calculates a damping profile and a sensor is arranged and disposed to measure one or more damping affecting properties. The sensor provides the one or more damping affecting properties to the damping profile generator. The damping profile provides the variable resistance based upon the one or more damping affecting properties of the load.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TAIT TOWERS MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: Matthew Steven Bettinger, Nicholas James Bonsell, Andrew Phillips Mudie, Andrew John Penney, James Fowler Shumway, Jr., McLane Walker Snow
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Patent number: 11806634Abstract: A connector system, ride system and method for connecting and supporting a suspended load. The system includes a suspended carrier having a first connector part and a suspended load support, arranged and disposed to support a suspended load, the suspended load support having a second connector part. A first magnetic coupler is affixed to the suspended carrier and a second magnetic coupler is affixed to the suspended load support. The first magnetic coupler includes a first arrangement of magnets and the second magnetic coupler includes a second arrangement of magnets. The first arrangement of magnets is selectively arranged and disposed to provide alignment and detachable engagement to the magnets of the second arrangement of magnets. The first connector part and the second connector part releasably engage to connect the suspended carrier to the suspended load support and permit transmission of motion, power, signal and at least one utility from the suspended carrier to the suspended load support.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Tait Towers Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Matthew Steven Bettinger, Nicholas James Bonsell, Andrew Phillips Mudie, Andrew John Penney, James Fowler Shumway, Jr., McLane Walker Snow
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Publication number: 20230032506Abstract: An automated damping system including a damping device arranged and disposed to provide variable resistance to a load. The variable resistance provides resistance values corresponding to a displacement position of the damping device. The system includes a damping profile generator that calculates a damping profile and a sensor is arranged and disposed to measure one or more damping affecting properties. The sensor provides the one or more damping affecting properties to the damping profile generator. The damping profile provides the variable resistance based upon the one or more damping affecting properties of the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Matthew Steven Bettinger, Nicholas James Bonsell, Andrew Phillips Mudie, Andrew John Penney, James Fowler Shumway, JR., McLane Walker Snow
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Publication number: 20230029823Abstract: A connector system, ride system and method for connecting and supporting a suspended load. The system includes a suspended carrier having a first connector part and a suspended load support, arranged and disposed to support a suspended load, the suspended load support having a second connector part. A first magnetic coupler is affixed to the suspended carrier and a second magnetic coupler is affixed to the suspended load support. The first magnetic coupler includes a first arrangement of magnets and the second magnetic coupler includes a second arrangement of magnets. The first arrangement of magnets is selectively arranged and disposed to provide alignment and detachable engagement to the magnets of the second arrangement of magnets. The first connector part and the second connector part releasably engage to connect the suspended carrier to the suspended load support and permit transmission of motion, power, signal and at least one utility from the suspended carrier to the suspended load support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Matthew Steven BETTINGER, Nicholas James BONSELL, Andrew Phillips MUDIE, Andrew John PENNEY, James Fowler SHUMWAY, JR., McLane Walker SNOW
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Publication number: 20210362907Abstract: Implementations of a novel inflatable are provided. In some implementations, the novel inflatable comprises an inflatable housing having an inner surface and an outer surface configured to store a gas therebetween to inflate and deflate the inflatable housing, and an inner opening extending through the inflatable housing surrounded by the inner surface and configured to receive and conceal an object therein when the inflatable is inflated. In some implementations, a method for using the novel inflatable comprises receiving and concealing the object within the inner opening by inflating the inflatable housing, and revealing and releasing the object from the inner opening by deflating the inflatable housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventor: James Fowler
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Publication number: 20180290774Abstract: A rotatable thermoforming machine for producing soluble pockets made from a soluble web. The machine has a plurality of pocket forming cavities 38a, b, c in each of which a respective pocket is formed in the soluble web. The pockets travel in a machine direction defined as the X direction and filling means 44 is arranged to at least partially fill the or each pocket formed in the soluble web. The filling means 44 comprising one or more nozzles 44, each nozzle 44 being arranged to be moveable in at least the X-direction as the or each respective pocket is filled from the filling nozzle 44.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: James FOWLER, Boris MAKUTONIN
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Publication number: 20170057716Abstract: A multi-compartment pouch is formed from two water soluble substrates, wherein the pouch is substantially symmetrical about a weld line between the two substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: James Fowler, Boris Makutonin
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Publication number: 20160347521Abstract: A method of producing a water soluble pouch having at least one compartment containing more than one component includes forming an open compartment in a base web, adding a component to the compartment at a sufficiently high temperature to be in a molten form, and solidifying at least an upper surface of the molten material. The method further includes adding at least one further component to the compartment after the upper surface has solidified to prevent the components mixing with each other and closing the compartment with a lidding web.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: James FOWLER, Boris MAKUTONIN
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Publication number: 20160068285Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing multi-compartment water-soluble pouches 38 from a base web 27 and a lidding web 35 is disclosed. The apparatus includes a rotatable former 21 having compartment forming cavities 23 into which the base web 27 can be formed. The former 21 is configured so that compartments 26,29,32 of a pouch 38 can be formed and filled sequentially and thereafter all compartments 26,29,32 closed and sealed by affixing the lidding web 35 to the base web 27.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: James Fowler, Boris Makutonin
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Publication number: 20150336691Abstract: A machine and method of forming multi-compartment pouches is disclosed in which two pouches formed on separate adjacent formers (1, 3) are brought together in register and the lidding webs (9, 15) of the pouches joined to form a combined pouch (33). The pouches may be held on the formers (1, 3) by vacuum until the pouches are joined whereupon the vacuum holding one of the pouches on its former (1) is released while maintaining the vacuum holding the other pouch on its former (3) so that the combined pouches (33) are held on that former by the vacuum until the vacuum is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Rideau Machinery Inc.Inventors: James FOWLER, Boris MAKUTONIN
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Patent number: 9095020Abstract: The generator for a piezoelectric motor is also suitable for powering a high power LED for a dental polymerisation lamp via a rectifier, and comprises two transformers each including a primary winding and a secondary winding and four switches controlled by an ultrasonic reference oscillator, two switches being arranged to alternately connect the secondary windings of the two transformers to the piezoelectric load, and the other two switches being arranged to alternately connect the two primary windings to a voltage supply so that during the positive alternation, the primary winding of one of the transformers is charged with energy whereas the secondary winding of the other transformer is discharged into the piezoelectric load, and so that during the negative alternation, the secondary winding of the first transformer discharges the energy thereof whereas the primary winding of the first transformer is charged.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: OZONE TECHNOLOGIES LTDInventors: Denis Klopfenstein, Daniel Baour, James Fowler
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Patent number: 8920342Abstract: A single-use lancet cartridge for inserting into a multi-use lancet driver assembly of a meter housing includes an elongated lancet housing with an open end, a lancet within the lancet housing and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end, and a re-use prevention component that is a rotated drive wing incorporated within the lancet cartridge and oriented to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into a piercing orientation a second time.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Patent number: 8758267Abstract: A lancet carrier for an integrated lancet sensor assembly incorporating a lance cover includes an elongated body with a bottom, an open top, a body open end and a body closed end, a lancet-receiving recess with a recess bottom surface, the recess extending between the open end and the closed end, and a trough-forming member forming a trough with a trough open end in communication with the body open end, the trough-forming member longitudinally extending a predefined distance along the bottom from the body open end, the trough replacing a portion of the recess bottom surface at the body open end.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Publication number: 20140124990Abstract: A method of making a pouch from webs that include soluble polymeric substrates includes, among other steps, rotating a former that includes a plurality of cavities around its periphery and one or more heaters around the former for heating the cavities and heating the cavities. A base web is drawn into the cavities with a vacuum to form pockets in the base web, after which the pockets are filled and closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Rideau Machinery Inc.Inventors: James FOWLER, Boris MAKUTONIN
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Patent number: 8662880Abstract: Soluble pouches are formed on a continous motion rotating thermoforming machine having cavities in the surface of a drum into which a web of polymeric film is drawn by a vacuum to form pockets. The pockets are filled with one or more components and closed by a further web of polymeric film. Shrink-back of the polymeric film within the cavities is reduced by heating the cavities with heaters.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Rideau Machinery Inc.Inventors: James Fowler, Boris Makutonin
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Publication number: 20130253373Abstract: A single-use lancet cartridge for inserting into a multi-use lancet driver assembly of a meter housing includes an elongated lancet housing with an open end, a lancet within the lancet housing and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end, and a re-use prevention component that is a rotated drive wing incorporated within the lancet cartridge and oriented to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into a piercing orientation a second time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Publication number: 20130221863Abstract: The generator for a piezoelectric motor is also suitable for powering a high power LED for a dental polymerisation lamp via a rectifier, and comprises two transformers each including a primary winding and a secondary winding and four switches controlled by an ultrasonic reference oscillator, two switches being arranged to alternately connect the secondary windings of the two transformers to the piezoelectric load, and the other two switches being arranged to alternately connect the two primary windings to a voltage supply so that during the positive alternation, the primary winding of one of the transformers is charged with energy whereas the secondary winding of the other transformer is discharged into the piezoelectric load, and so that during the negative alternation, the secondary winding of the first transformer discharges the energy thereof whereas the primary winding of the first transformer is charged.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: TIP TOP TIPS SARLInventors: Denis Klopfenstein, Daniel Baour, James Fowler
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Patent number: D937021Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Tait Towers Manufacturing, LLCInventors: James Fowler Shumway, Jr., Gregory Alan Zittle, Alexander Michael Serrano, Boris Kalaba
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Patent number: D1004645Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Rideau Machinery, Inc.Inventors: James A Fowler, Boris E Makutonin