Patents by Inventor John E. Taylor

John E. Taylor 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).

  • Publication number: 20090054148
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. One aspect relates to accumulating outcomes. Another relates to incentives provided to player program member(s). In some embodiments, the person does not need to be qualified. In one embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location, in another at a redemption location. In one embodiment, a player is required to take an action in order to redeem an outcome. In some embodiments, a game play and/or redemption and/or any action must occur in a specified time, respectively. In one embodiment the electronic game is not located at a gambling location, in another it is not located at a redemption location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, JR., John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Publication number: 20080146345
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. In one embodiment, the qualified person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location. In another embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at a redemption location. In another aspect, a method is provided for permitting a person to take one or more actions within a gambling location and in response inviting the person to play an electronic game separate from the games offered in a gambling environment at the gambling location, where the game has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome, and if the person obtains a winning outcome, requiring the person to redeem the at least one outcome at the gambling location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Publication number: 20080146346
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. In one embodiment, the qualified person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location. In another embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at a redemption location. In another aspect, a method is provided for permitting a person to take one or more actions within a gambling location and in response inviting the person to play an electronic game separate from the games offered in a gambling environment at the gambling location, where the game has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome, and if the person obtains a winning outcome, requiring the person to redeem the at least one outcome at the gambling location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Publication number: 20080146322
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. In one embodiment, the qualified person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location. In another embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at a redemption location. In another aspect, a method is provided for permitting a person to take one or more actions within a gambling location and in response inviting the person to play an electronic game separate from the games offered in a gambling environment at the gambling location, where the game has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome, and if the person obtains a winning outcome, requiring the person to redeem the at least one outcome at the gambling location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Publication number: 20080146323
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. In one embodiment, the qualified person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location. In another embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at a redemption location. In another aspect, a method is provided for permitting a person to take one or more actions within a gambling location and in response inviting the person to play an electronic game separate from the games offered in a gambling environment at the gambling location, where the game has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome, and if the person obtains a winning outcome, requiring the person to redeem the at least one outcome at the gambling location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Patent number: 7241737
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel class of cyclic polypeptides of the formula: (R1)a-AA1-cyclo[AA2-AA3-AA4-AA5-AA6-Cys]-AA7-R2, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables are as defined in the specification, which inhibit the effects of urotensin-II and are useful for treating a variety of diseases and/or conditions characterized by an excess of urotensin-II including ischaemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, portal hypertension, variceal bleeding, hypotension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, ulcers, anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, delirium, dementia, mental retardation and/or dyskinesias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignees: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques, SAS, The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: David H. Coy, Wojciech J. Rossowski, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6512456
    Abstract: A mobile monitoring device provides for measurement of a bodily function of a mobile monitored person while the mobile monitored person moves about during their daily activities. Various methods are explained to measure various bodily functions which may be employed with the mobile monitoring device. Means are provided for determining the onset of a medical crisis in the health of the mobile monitored person. A medical intervention may be employed in response to the detection of the onset of the medical crisis. A notification of an oversight authority may be employed in response to the detection of the onset of the medical crisis. Locational tracking provides for the oversight authority to quickly and efficiently dispatch medical assistance in response to the onset of the medical crisis. Historic preservation of the measurements of the bodily functions allow medical personnel to better prescribe a course of treatment to medical problems including following onset of the medical crisis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6409969
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a system and method for controlling or adjusting the accuracy of an exhaust gas sensor utilizing the impedance of the sensing element. In one embodiment, a periodic AC signal is superimposed over low frequency or DC output signal produced by the gas sensor. The AC current flowing through the gas sensor is a function of the actual impedance of the sensor, which is in turn a function of the temperature of the sensor. Thus, the invention further contemplates an impedance sensor circuit connected to an output of the gas sensor. The output of the impedance sensor circuit is a peak voltage that is indicative of the AC voltage drop across the sensor, and ultimately the impedance of the sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Streicher, James A. Freeman, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6218945
    Abstract: Cooperation between a monitored person device and a companion device allow for a relatively accurate determination of a locational reference for the monitored person device and therefore, a monitored person. This is accomplished while minimizing the weight of the monitored person device which is constantly transported by the monitored person during movement of the monitored person. The companion device may be either a fixed position type or, more preferred, a transportable type which may be moved about by the monitored person. These components of the companion device include those required to receive a signal, or signals, sufficient to allow for a determining of a locational reference of the companion device and those required to transmit a signal for eventual transfer to a central location. The monitored person device must have components which provide for transmitting a signal to the companion device, if within a communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6160481
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6035456
    Abstract: A splash guard and storage apparatus for use with plungers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shield, a handle, grip, and basin. The plunger rod may be inserted through the shield, handle, and grip. The shield may be positioned along the length of the handle with the grip to block debris that might be expelled during the use of a standard plunger to unclog an apparatus such as a sink or toilet. Additionally, the shield is designed to be attached to the basin, and the apparatus further includes several locking embodiments to keep the shield attached to the basin. The basin further includes several embodiments of the base, such as the addition of dimples or ribs, to allow fresh air to circulate around the suction cup of the plunger. Additionally, a mesh weave may be inserted into the basin to allow for retention of anti-bacterial chemicals, which contact the plunger during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Inventor: John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6001801
    Abstract: A cyclic peptide analog of somatostatin wherein a disulfide bond links the N-terminus residue and the C-terminus residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignees: Biomeasure, Inc., Tulane Univ. Medical Ctr.
    Inventors: David H. Coy, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5867103
    Abstract: A portable monitoring device is provided for each monitored person which secures to a respective monitored person and which has tamper detection means contained therein. The portable monitoring device receives a signal from a detached sending unit and transmits a signal for transfer to a central location. A position reference is arrived at following a mathematical computation. Storage of the position reference may occur within a locational tracking database along with associated occurrence references which identify when the portable monitoring device was at a specific positional location. The locational tracking database will be used as a law enforcement tool. Excluded sites may be designated within the system, which the monitored person may not enter. A dual tracking monitoring enables a restrictor person to be protected from a restrictee person by determining when the restrictee person comes within a predetermined distance measurement from the restrictor person and generating a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5750646
    Abstract: A linear peptide which is an analog of a naturally occurring, biologically active peptide having an active site and a binding site responsible for the binding of the peptide to a receptor on a target cell, cleavage of a peptide bond in the active site to the naturally occurring peptide being unnecessary for in vivo biological activity, the analog having a non-peptide bond instead of a peptide bond between an amino acid of the active site and an adjacent amino acid, and having the same binding site as the naturally occurring peptide, so that the analog is capable of acting as a competitive inhibitor of the naturally occurring peptide by binding to the receptor and, by virtue of the non-peptide bond, failing to exhibit the in vivo activity of the naturally occurring peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignees: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, Biomeasure, Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Coy, Jacques-Pierre Moreau, John E. Taylor, Sun Hyuk Kim
  • Patent number: 5708135
    Abstract: A cyclic peptide analog of somatostatin wherein a disulfide bond links the N-terminus residue and the C-terminus residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignees: Biomeasure Incorporated, The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: David H. Coy, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5663295
    Abstract: Opioid peptides including those of the formula ##STR1## in which A.sub.1 is the identifying group of an amino acid selected from 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, 3,4-dimethoxyphenylalanine, azatyrosine, and 2,6-dimethyltyrosine; A.sub.2 is the identifying group of an amino acid selected from D-Ala and D-Arg; A.sub.3 is H, or the identifying group of an amino acid selected from of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine and 3,4-dimethoxyphenylalanine, A.sub.4 is H, cyclohexylmethyl, the identifying group of an amino acid selected from 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, 3,4-dimethoxyphenylalanine, Phe, and substituted Phe with its benzene ring substituted by halogen, NO.sub.2, OH, or CH.sub.3 ; A.sub.5 is the identifying group of a D- or L-amino acid selected from Leu, Nle, Lys, Met and Met(O), or is deleted together with R.sub.4 --CH attached thereto; each R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is --H, --C(NH.sub.2).dbd.NH, or C.sub.1-12 alkyl; R.sub.3 is ##STR2## R.sub.4 is ##STR3## and R.sub.5 is --(CH.sub.2).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Biomeasure Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques-Pierre Moreau, Sun Hyuk Kim, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5569741
    Abstract: A cyclic octapeptide of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: A.sup.1 is D-Nal or D-Trp;A.sup.3 is Phe, F.sub.5 -Phe, or X-Phe wherein X is a halogen, NO.sub.2, CH.sub.3, or OH;A.sup.5 is --NH--CH(Y)--CO-- wherein Y is (CH.sub.2).sub.m --R.sub.4 --N(R.sub.5)(R.sub.6) or (CH.sub.2).sub.n --R.sub.4 --NH--C(R.sub.7)--N(R.sub.5) (R.sub.6);A.sup.6 is the D-- or L-- isomer of Thr, Leu, Ile, Nle, Val, and Abu;A.sup.8 is Nal or Trp;m is 1, 2, or 3;n is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5;each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, independently, is H, E, COE, or COOE wherein E is C.sub.1-12 alkyl, C.sub.2-12 alkenyl, C.sub.2-12 alkynyl, phenyl, naphthyl, C.sub.7-12 phenylalkyl or alkylphenyl, C.sub.8-12 phenylalkenyl or alkenylphenyl, C.sub.8-12 phenylalkynyl or alkynylphenyl, C.sub.11-20 naphthylalkyl or alkylnaphthyl, C.sub.12-20 naphthylalkenyl or alkenylnaphthyl, or C.sub.12-20 naphthylalkynyl or alkynylnaphthyl, provided that when one of R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 is COE or COOE, the other must be H;R.sub.4 is C.sub.6 H.sub.4 or absent;R.sub.7 is .dbd.NR.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignees: Biomeasure, Inc., The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: David H. Coy, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5462926
    Abstract: A method of selectively inhibiting biochemical activity of cells induced by neuromedin B. The method includes the step of contacting cells which contain neuromedin B receptor with a cyclic octapeptide, D-Nal-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Val-Cys-Nal-NH.sub.2, or an analog thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignees: Biomeasure, Inc., Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: David H. Coy, John E. Taylor
  • Patent number: RE38838
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE39909
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Michelle Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.