Patents by Inventor Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen 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).

  • DEFINITIVE ENDODERM
    Publication number: 20140134727
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising definitive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified definitive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying definitive endoderm cells from other cell types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: VIACYTE, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • MARKERS OF DEFINITIVE ENDODERM
    Publication number: 20140134726
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are reagent-cell complexes comprising one or more definitive endoderm cells. Also described herein are compositions for detecting definitive endoderm. Method of enriching, isolating and/or purifying definitive endoderm cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel Edward Baetge
  • Container system for storing remains
    Patent number: 8707526
    Abstract: A container system for storing remains is provided, including a rigid storage vessel defining an inner chamber for receiving remains. The system includes at least one display frame member outside the rigid storage vessel for displaying information, such as a picture. A cap is provided proximate the storage vessel, wherein the cap defines at least one storage area for receiving an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Orchard Hill Memorial Park, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Michael Cooke, Kevin Allen Cooke
  • IMPRESSION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140065252
    Abstract: An impression system is provided for capturing an anatomical impression of an animal. The impression system comprises a foam that substantially retains an impression after application of pressure and subsequent removal of pressure and a case having a recessed area for receiving the foam and a case for retaining the foam therein. The system further comprises a cover having a viewing pane attachable to the case for providing viewing of the foam when closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Orchard Hill Memorial Park, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Michael Cooke, Kevin Allen Cooke
  • CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR STORING REMAINS
    Publication number: 20140047683
    Abstract: A container system for storing remains is provided, including a rigid storage vessel defining an inner chamber for receiving remains. The system includes at least one display frame member outside the rigid storage vessel for displaying information, such as a picture. A cap is provided proximate the storage vessel, wherein the cap defines at least one storage area for receiving an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Orchard Hill Memorial Park, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Michael Cooke, Kevin Allen Cooke
  • PDX1 expressing endoderm
    Patent number: 8647873
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising PDX1-positive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified PDX1-positive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying PDX1-positive endoderm cells from other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of endoderm cells, such as PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and PDX1-negative definitive endoderm cells, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • PDX1 expressing endoderm
    Patent number: 8633024
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising PDX1-positive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified PDX1-positive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying PDX1-positive endoderm cells from other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of endoderm cells, such as PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and PDX1-negative definitive endoderm cells, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Definitive endoderm
    Patent number: 8623645
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising definitive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified definitive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying definitive endoderm cells from other cell types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Viacyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Push signaling to run jobs on available servers
    Patent number: 8621062
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards push signaling to run jobs on available servers. Users may provide jobs or job instructions to a job control node. Job control node may determine one or more available job target nodes from among a plurality of managed nodes associated with the job control node. The job target nodes may be determined based on information included in the provided job instructions. If there are available job target nodes, the job control node may provide the job instructions to each available job target node. Further, the job control node may receive communications from one or more available job target nodes that indicates that the job target node is prepared and ready to execute the received job instructions. Next, the job control node may issue a job start command that triggers the prepared job target nodes to begin executing the provided job instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Opscode, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Anderson, Christopher James Brown, Kevin Allen Smith, John Braden Keiser
  • PDX1-EXPRESSING DORSAL AND VENTRAL FOREGUT ENDODERM
    Publication number: 20130316357
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells from other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Markers of definitive endoderm
    Patent number: 8586357
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are reagent-cell complexes comprising one or more definitive endoderm cells. Also described herein are compositions for detecting definitive endoderm. Method of enriching, isolating and/or purifying definitive endoderm cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D Agulnick, Emmanuel Edward Baetge
  • PREDICTIVE CONVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20130282734
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
  • Predictive conversion systems and methods
    Patent number: 8375037
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
  • Rechargeable hand-held devices using capacitors, such as supercapacitors
    Patent number: 8373391
    Abstract: Systems devices and methods for flash charging a portable device with a charging device. The portable device may be a ruggedized hand-held controller. In some examples, the portable device includes a capacitive power supply which comprises one or more capacitors, e.g. supercapacitors. In use, the capacitive power supply may receive charge, store the charge, and provide power to power-using components of the portable device, when needed. In some examples, the system includes a charging device, such as a docking station. The charging device may couple to the portable device to charge the portable device. The charging device may include a capacitive power supply, which may comprise one or more capacitors, such as supercapacitors. In some cases, the system flash charges the capacitive power supply within the portable device, via the capacitive power supply of the charging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Esterline Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Allen, Terry Peterson, Joe C. Fielding
  • Debug circuit comparing processor instruction set operating mode
    Patent number: 8352713
    Abstract: A processor is operative to execute two or more instruction sets, each in a different instruction set operating mode. As each instruction is executed, debug circuit comparison the current instruction set operating mode to a target instruction set operating mode sent by a programmer, and outputs an alert or indication in they match. The alert or indication may additionally be dependent upon the instruction address following within a predetermined target address range. The alert or indication may comprise a breakpoint signal that halts execution and/or it is output as an external signal of the processor. The instruction address at which the processor detects a match in the instruction set operating modes may additionally be output. Additionally or alternatively, the alert or indication may comprise starting or stopping a trace operation, causing an exception, or any other known debugger function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin Charles Burke, Brian Michael Stempel, Daren Streett, Kevin Allen Sapp, Leslie Mark DeBruyne, Nabil Amir Rizk, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Rodney Wayne Smith
  • Method for manufacturing stator for a rotary actuator
    Patent number: 8347484
    Abstract: A rotary actuator includes an outer enclosure having an inner diameter surrounding a hollow interior. A stack of stator laminations, each having a stator diameter greater than the inner diameter of the outer enclosure when in an unflexed state, are also included in the rotary actuator. Each of the stator laminations is configured to flex into a shape so as to be positionable within the outer enclosure and substantially conform to the inner diameter. The stator lamination thus forms a line-to-line fit with at least a portion of the outer enclosure to form an interface having a desirable reluctance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventor: Kevin Allen Bischel
  • Method and device for bending electric machine conductors
    Patent number: 8327677
    Abstract: A twisting device comprises at least one conductor coupler configured to engage a plurality of the conductors and at least one drive operably connected to the conductor coupler. The at least one drive is configured to rotate the conductor coupler in order to bend the plurality of the conductors and simultaneously move the conductor coupler in an axial direction relative to the electric machine component. An associated method of bending conductors positioned in a component of an electric machine comprises first engaging a plurality conductors with a conductor coupler. Thereafter, the plurality of conductors are bent by rotating the conductor coupler while simultaneously moving the conductor coupler in an axial direction relative to the component of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Young, Mark A. Stephenson
  • Predictive conversion systems and methods
    Patent number: 8326845
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
  • METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING FACTORS FOR DIFFERENTIATING DEFINITIVE ENDODERM
    Publication number: 20120276624
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of identifying one or more differentiation factors that are useful for differentiating cells in a cell population comprising definitive endoderm cells into cells which are capable of forming tissues and/or organs that are derived from the gut tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Methods for identifying factors for differentiating definitive endoderm
    Patent number: 8216836
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of identifying one or more differentiation factors that are useful for differentiating cells in a cell population comprising definitive endoderm cells into cells which are capable of forming tissues and/or organs that are derived from the gut tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Viacyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge