Patents by Inventor Kenneth Stephens

Kenneth Stephens 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: 20110173020
    Abstract: The world was shocked at the untimely death of Michael Jackson, a Rock and Roll Legend in the World of Music. This demonstrates how easy access to habit forming drugs and celebrity status contributed to his sudden death. A prescription is used to administer a prescription drug to a patient. This printed prescription is encrypted with a cipher glyph that has the patient's name, drug prescribed, dosage and doctor's name and registration number graphically hidden in the prescription itself. The prescription when presented to the pharmacy for dispensing is inserted into a machine which verifies and authenticates the prescription and other embedded information. The encrypted information is sent to a central server database to log and record the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Paul Salvador Mula
  • Publication number: 20110160948
    Abstract: A portable dispensing device that can be used in a hospital to dispense drugs or can be used to dispense alcoholic beverages. A cart may store and dispense dispensible items, e.g., drugs, to patients room by room as are periodically prescribed by their physicians. The drugs are automatically billed and automatically verified as being properly dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Paul Salvador Mula
  • Publication number: 20110140844
    Abstract: A reactive label is capable of reacting with a shopper that peruses the label while considering the purchase of the labeled product. The label includes sensors and a display unit and is powered by incorporated batteries or photovoltaic cells. The sensors can include a timer that provides the shopper with additional information from a ROM by displaying it sequentially on an LCD screen or the like. The sensors can also include a sensor such as an optical sensor that measures such factors as hair reflectance and can inform the shopper as to the suitability of the product (if, for example, it is a shampoo) for their personal use. The reactive label gives the shopper a previously unattainable sense of product personalization and will thereby enhance a sense of loyalty to and confidence in the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: 7953452
    Abstract: A cellular multiscreen system forms an image which can be a frame of a video or still image, divides that image into a number of parts, and sends each part to a different cellular telephone. The cellular telephones which receives the images collectively can display the images so that one can see the original image by looking at the multiple different cellular telephones. A game can also be played by determining which of the cellular phones receive which portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings, Inc
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 7845079
    Abstract: A shaving foil for a shaving system comprises a foil support section and a hair-receiving section. The foil support section is provided for support of the foil over a cutting member of the shaving system. The hair-receiving section of the foil includes a plurality of hair-entrance apertures that define at least one amorphous arrangement of apertures and a plurality of foil surface members that form a network of surface area adjacent to the plurality of hair-entrance apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Publication number: 20100270198
    Abstract: A product system comprises a package base unit and a package. The package base unit comprises a control element and a package interface operatively connected to the control element. The package comprises a package base interface, and a printed element. The printed element comprises a control circuit element and an output circuit element. Each of the control circuit element and the output circuit element are operatively connected to the package base interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Cathy Wen, Kevin Rodgers, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Robert Joseph Schick, William Paul Mahoney, III
  • Publication number: 20100101709
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to deliver an elastomeric composition to a substrate. The elastomeric composition is cooled. The cooling also results in substantially complete transfer of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate with a resulting reduction in elastomer degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Mary Lee Amirpour, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Fred Naval Desai, Charles Bruce Lambert, David Richard Tucker
  • Publication number: 20100049417
    Abstract: Modern ECU's control fuel flow and efficiency of high performance vehicles. Converting a standard fossil fuel vehicle or boat to oxy-hydrogen requires monitoring of additional factors such as oxy-hydrogen burn rates, oxy-hydrogen flow, oxy-hydrogen temperature, oxy-hydrogen production rates and overall factors such as barometric pressure, altitude, humidity, ambient temperatures etc. When a vehicle operating as a hybrid, experiences difficulties with oxy-hydrogen production, burn rate, fuel flow, or operating temperature, the ECU must compensate and revert back to fossil fuel operating status, or suffer engine failure and potentially costly mechanical damages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Advanced Combustion Tecnology
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Gary Bethurem
  • Patent number: 7665732
    Abstract: A scratch off lottery game card including a substrate on which a plurality of game indicia are printed on the substrate and a layer of translucent thermal ink coating is placed upon the lottery game card covering the game indicia. The translucent thermal ink coating changes its color when heat is applied, typically from the player scratching the game indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Scientific Games International, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Stephens
  • Patent number: 7658811
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to deliver an elastomeric composition to a substrate. The elastomeric composition is cooled. The cooling also results in substantially complete transfer of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate with a resulting reduction in elastomer degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Mary Lee Amirpour, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Fred Naval Desai, Charles Bruce Lambert, David Richard Tucker
  • Publication number: 20100006462
    Abstract: A sensory interactable packaging assembly having a base and a container. The base has a power supply. The container may contain a consumer product. The container is removably attachable to the base. The container has an outer surface and a sensory interactable element disposed on the outer surface and a control system having an output. The control system is s in electrical communication with the sensory interactable element and the sensory interactable element is responsive to the output of the control system when the container is proximate to the base and the control system is in electrical communication with the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, John Patrick Goodall, Jerry Ray Stephens, Michael Guercio Ferrari
  • Publication number: 20090261114
    Abstract: A sensory interactable packaging assembly having a base and a container. The base has a power supply. The container may contain a consumer product. The container is removably attachable to the base. The container has an outer surface and a sensory interactable element disposed on the outer surface and a control system having an output. The control system is s in electrical communication with the sensory interactable element and the sensory interactable element is responsive to the output of the control system when the container is proximate to the base and the control system is in electrical communication with the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, John Patrick Goodall, Jerry Ray Stephens, Michael G. Ferrari
  • Publication number: 20090220746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sheet-like materials suitable for use in the containment and protection of various items, as well as the preservation of perishable materials such as food items. More particularly, the present invention provides an improved storage wrap material comprising a sheet of material having a first side and a second side. The first side comprises an active side exhibiting an adhesion peel force after activation by a user which is greater than an adhesion peel force exhibited prior to activation by a user. The storage wrap material may be activated by different approaches, but in a preferred embodiment the active side is activatible by an externally applied force exerted upon the sheet of material. The force may be an externally applied compressive force exerted in a direction substantially normal to the sheet of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Worthington Hamilton, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Publication number: 20090158389
    Abstract: An unattended computer-based machine is authenticated by the present invention method, system or apparatus. The subject machine may be an auto-restarted machine or similar machine configured to be unattended. Upon receipt of initializing input from a user at a subject computer-based machine, a working process authenticates the user and generates resulting credentials. The working process stores the generated credentials in a memory area of the subject machine. Separate from and independent of the working process is a security monitor of the present invention. A monitoring module of the present invention monitors user activity on the subject machine and upon detecting suspect activity destroys the stored credentials of the working process. Suspect activity includes any activity raising a suspicion of compromise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Theodore Waltenberg, Kenneth Stephen, Timothy Simon Bartley
  • Publication number: 20090133027
    Abstract: A project management task prioritization system is provided to refine the prioritization factors for tasks in a project based on changes to the order of performing the tasks. The initial proposed order for performing the tasks is provided by the system to the person responsible for the task in a graphical format that allows the person to drag and drop the tasks, adjusting the order of the tasks to their preferred order. A neural network comparator is used to compare the task prioritization factors associated with each pair of tasks that are altered in order to determine a relative priority. The neural network system updates the task prioritization factors based on the changes in order the tasks are to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Mark B. Gunning, Jason E. Kelley, Nefaur R. Khandker, Ivan S. Kornienko, Patrick R. Richer, Jeffrey C. Sneden, Kenneth Stephen
  • Publication number: 20090118256
    Abstract: A method of treating or preventing myocardial ischemia in a patient in need thereof comprising administration of a controlled-release Galenical preparation of pharmaceutically acceptable Diltiazem including the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, suitable for evening dosing every 24 hours containing from about 180 mg to about 420 mg of the form of Diltiazem associated with excipients to provide controlled (sustained) release of the form of Diltiazem for providing a Cmax of diltiazem in the blood at between about 10 hours and about 17 hours after administration, the preparation comprising the form of Diltiazem in oral sustained-release dosage form in which the Diltiazem is adapted to be released after administration over a prolonged period of time and exhibits when given to humans (i) a higher bioavailability when given at night compared to when given in the morning without food according to FDA guidelines or criteria and (ii) bioequivalence when given in the morning with and without food according to t
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: BIOVAIL LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen ALBERT, Theophilus Jones Gana, Paul Maes
  • Publication number: 20080299956
    Abstract: Video clips are stored and converted on a website into different formats which are compatible with different cellular phones. The source for the video can be sources such as DVDs, other cellular phones, or broadcast television. The system can automatically store profiles from multiple different phones and automatically carry out a conversion based on information stored in the profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20080275289
    Abstract: A method of determining an optimal coil shape for use in magnetic stimulation includes identifying a stimulation location and a constraint at the stimulation location. A first electromagnetic effect at the stimulation location is determined. The first electromagnetic effect is induced by a first electrical quantity assigned to a first current element at a first current element location with a first orientation. A second electromagnetic effect at the stimulation location is also determined. The second electromagnetic effect is induced by a second electrical quantity assigned to a second current element at the first current element location with a second orientation. Based on the first electromagnetic effect and the second electromagnetic effect, an optimal orientation of a current element at the first current element location is determined. The optimal orientation is such that the constraint is satisfied. Repeating the process at a plurality of locations yields the optimal coil shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Olree, Kenneth W. Horch
  • Publication number: 20080222686
    Abstract: A system which correlates across multiple images to find commonalities among the images and compresses according to those commonalities. The commonalities can be across multiple different images which are unrelated. The information is quantized according to the client that will display the images, and then, and luminance in common color areas are encoded as a single encoding. A WAP application may also be downloaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20080081156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sheet-like materials suitable for use in the containment and protection of various items, as well as the preservation of perishable materials such as food items. More particularly, the present invention provides an improved storage wrap material comprising a sheet of material having a first side and a second side. The first side comprises an active side exhibiting an adhesion peel force after activation by a user which is greater than an adhesion peel force exhibited prior to activation by a user. The storage wrap material may be activated by different approaches, but in a preferred embodiment the active side is activatible by an externally applied force exerted upon the sheet of material. The force may be an externally applied compressive force exerted in a direction substantially normal to the sheet of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Worthington Hamilton, Kenneth Stephen McGuire