Patents by Inventor Joseph M. Shaw

Joseph M. Shaw 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).

  • Substituted tetrahydrofurans as modulators of sodium channels
    Patent number: 11919887
    Abstract: Compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as inhibitors of sodium channels are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and methods of using the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of various disorders, including pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven John Durrant, Nadia M. Ahmad, Elizabeth Mary Beck, Lidio Marx Carvalho Meireles, Ewa Iwona Chudyk, Gorka Etxebarria Jardi, Bhairavi Galan, Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Dennis James Hurley, Ronald Marcellus Knegtel, Timothy Donald Neubert, Joanne Louise Pinder, Joseph Pontillo, Robert Pullin, Yvonne Schmidt, David Matthew Shaw, Sarah Skerratt, Dean Stamos, Stephen Andrew Thomson, Anisa Nizarali Virani, Christopher Wray
  • Lock nut
    Patent number: 11680599
    Abstract: In one aspect, a lock nut is provided that includes a washer, a threaded body, and an actuator that are distinct from one another. The washer is configured to form a non-rotatable connection with a vehicle spindle. The threaded body has threads to engage threads of the vehicle spindle. The actuator has a rotary drive structure and is configured to be turned in a tightening direction to cause turning of the threaded body in the tightening direction relative to the washer. The lock nut includes a lock operably coupled to the actuator and configured to inhibit turning of the threaded body in a loosening direction relative to the washer. The actuator is configured to be turned relative to the threaded body in the loosening direction to disengage the lock and permit turning of the threaded body in the loosening direction relative to the washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Consolidated Metco, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Coyne, Logan M. Howell, Joseph M. Shaw, Mary K. Marshall, Michael Barden, Jonathan Liao
  • Lock Nut
    Publication number: 20200200209
    Abstract: In one aspect, a lock nut is provided that includes a washer, a threaded body, and an actuator that are distinct from one another. The washer is configured to form a non-rotatable connection with a vehicle spindle. The threaded body has threads to engage threads of the vehicle spindle. The actuator has a rotary drive structure and is configured to be turned in a tightening direction to cause turning of the threaded body in the tightening direction relative to the washer. The lock nut includes a lock operably coupled to the actuator and configured to inhibit turning of the threaded body in a loosening direction relative to the washer. The actuator is configured to be turned relative to the threaded body in the loosening direction to disengage the lock and permit turning of the threaded body in the loosening direction relative to the washer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Brendan Coyne, Logan M. Howell, Joseph M. Shaw, Mary K. Marshall, Michael Barden, Jonathan Liao
  • Laundry treating appliance with controlled cycle time
    Patent number: 9027258
    Abstract: A method of operating a clothes dryer having a treating chamber for receiving a laundry load, an air system for supplying and exhausting air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air supplied to the treating chamber, and a controller implementing a cycle of operation, wherein the controller estimates a cycle time of a drying cycle of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan R. Bellinger, David J. Kmet, Scott D. Parde, Michele A. Paustian, Joseph M. Shaw, David M. Williams
  • LAUNDRY TREATING APPLIANCE WITH CONTROLLED CYCLE TIME
    Publication number: 20120096736
    Abstract: A method of operating a clothes dryer having a treating chamber for receiving a laundry load, an air system for supplying and exhausting air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air supplied to the treating chamber, and a controller implementing a cycle of operation, wherein the controller estimates a cycle time of a drying cycle of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: RYAN R. BELLINGER, DAVID J. KMET, SCOTT D. PARDE, MICHELE A. PAUSTIAN, JOSEPH M. SHAW, DAVID M. WILLIAMS
  • Method of manufacturing low resistance gates and interconnections
    Patent number: 4392299
    Abstract: A method of forming low resistance silicided gates or interconnects is described wherein a refractory metal and silicon is simultaneously co-deposited to form a composite layer which is thereafter heat treated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to form the polycrystalline state of the silicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph M. Shaw
  • Planar silicon-on-sapphire composite
    Patent number: 4133925
    Abstract: A semi-planar silicon-on-sapphire composite comprises a sapphire substrate, an epitaxial monocrystalline silicon mesa formed adjacent the substrate and an epitaxial deposition of monocrystalline aluminum oxide surrounding the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: RCA Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Shaw, Karl H. Zaininger