Patents by Inventor Kevin Alton
Kevin Alton 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: 10228526Abstract: A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a side-emitting optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The side-emitting optical fiber has a core and a cladding substantially surrounding the core to define an exterior surface. The cladding has spaced apart scattering sites penetrating the exterior surface along the length of the optical fiber. The scattering sites scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations. When light is transmitted through the core, light scattered from the side-emitting optical fiber allows the cable to be traced along at least a portion of the length thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Adam Kent Collier, Kevin Alton Lewis, Claudio Mazzali
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Patent number: 10197471Abstract: A method for measuring a mechanical property of a coating on an optical fiber may include collecting Brillouin frequency shift data of the coating on the optical fiber, and determining the mechanical property of the coating by comparing the collected Brillouin frequency shift data with correlation data that may include a set of collected sample Brillouin frequency shift data and a set of collected sample mechanical property data of a plurality of sample materials. The sample materials may include a substantially identical sample composition including one or more curable polymers, be prepared with varying processing conditions, and have different mechanical property values. The coating on the optical fiber may include a material composition substantially identical to the sample materials composition. The set of collected sample Brillouin frequency shift data may be correlated with the set of collected sample mechanical property data to determine a quantitative relationship therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Kevin Alton Lewis
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Patent number: 10101553Abstract: A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a side-emitting optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The side-emitting optical fiber can have a core, spaced apart scattering sites having scattering material disposed on an exterior surface of the core along the length of the optical fiber, and a cladding substantially surrounding the core and the scattering material. The scattering sites are capable of scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations proximate to the scattering sites. When light is transmitted through the core, light scattered from the side-emitting optical fiber allows the cable to be traced along at least a portion of the length thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Adam Kent Collier, Kevin Alton Lewis
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Patent number: 10094973Abstract: Optical fibers having a mode field diameter at 1310 nm of at least 8.8 ?m, wire mesh covered drum microbending losses at 1550 nm less than 0.03 dB/km, and a 2 m cutoff wavelength less than 1320 nm. The fibers may include a central core region, an inner cladding region, an outer cladding region, a primary coating with an in situ modulus less than 0.20 MPa and glass transition temperature less than ?35° C., and a secondary coating with an in situ modulus greater than 1500 MPa. The fibers may further include a depressed index cladding region. The relative refractive index of the central core region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the outer cladding region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the inner cladding region. The fibers may be produced at draw speeds of 30 m/s or greater.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Kevin Alton Lewis, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Manuela Ocampo, Joan Diana Patterson
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Publication number: 20170082535Abstract: A method for measuring a mechanical property of a coating on an optical fiber may include collecting Brillouin frequency shift data of the coating on the optical fiber, and determining the mechanical property of the coating by comparing the collected Brillouin frequency shift data with correlation data that may include a set of collected sample Brillouin frequency shift data and a set of collected sample mechanical property data of a plurality of sample materials. The sample materials may include a substantially identical sample composition including one or more curable polymers, be prepared with varying processing conditions, and have different mechanical property values. The coating on the optical fiber may include a material composition substantially identical to the sample materials composition. The set of collected sample Brillouin frequency shift data may be correlated with the set of collected sample mechanical property data to determine a quantitative relationship therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Kevin Alton Lewis
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Publication number: 20160341922Abstract: A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a side-emitting optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The side-emitting optical fiber can have a core, spaced apart scattering sites having scattering material disposed on an exterior surface of the core along the length of the optical fiber, and a cladding substantially surrounding the core and the scattering material. The scattering sites are capable of scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations proximate to the scattering sites. When light is transmitted through the core, light scattered from the side-emitting optical fiber allows the cable to be traced along at least a portion of the length thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Adam Kent Collier, Kevin Alton Lewis
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Publication number: 20160306107Abstract: Optical fibers having a mode field diameter at 1310 nm of at least 8.8 ?m, wire mesh covered drum microbending losses at 1550 nm less than 0.03 dB/km, and a 2 m cutoff wavelength less than 1320 nm. The fibers may include a central core region, an inner cladding region, an outer cladding region, a primary coating with an in situ modulus less than 0.20 MPa and glass transition temperature less than ?35° C., and a secondary coating with an in situ modulus greater than 1500 MPa. The fibers may further include a depressed index cladding region. The relative refractive index of the central core region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the outer cladding region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the inner cladding region. The fibers may be produced at draw speeds of 30 m/s or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Kevin Alton Lewis, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Manuela Ocampo, Joan Diana Patterson
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Publication number: 20160291277Abstract: A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a side-emitting optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The side-emitting optical fiber has a core and a cladding substantially surrounding the core to define an exterior surface. The cladding has spaced apart scattering sites penetrating the exterior surface along the length of the optical fiber. The scattering sites scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations. When light is transmitted through the core, light scattered from the side-emitting optical fiber allows the cable to be traced along at least a portion of the length thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Adam Kent Collier, Kevin Alton Lewis, Claudio Mazzali
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Patent number: 9383511Abstract: Optical fibers having a mode field diameter at 1310 nm of at least 8.8 ?m, wire mesh covered drum microbending losses at 1550 nm less than 0.03 dB/km, and a 2 m cutoff wavelength less than 1320 nm. The fibers may include a central core region, an inner cladding region, an outer cladding region, a primary coating with an in situ modulus less than 0.20 MPa and glass transition temperature less than ?35° C., and a secondary coating with an in situ modulus greater than 1500 MPa. The fibers may further include a depressed index cladding region. The relative refractive index of the central core region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the outer cladding region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the inner cladding region. The fibers may be produced at draw speeds of 30 m/s or greater.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Kevin Alton Lewis, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Manuela Ocampo, Joan Diana Patterson
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Patent number: 9304278Abstract: A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a side-emitting optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The side-emitting optical fiber has a core and a cladding substantially surrounding the core to define an exterior surface. The cladding has spaced apart scattering sites penetrating the exterior surface along the length of the optical fiber. The scattering sites scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations. When light is transmitted through the core, light scattered from the side-emitting optical fiber allows the cable to be traced along at least a portion of the length thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Adam Kent Collier, Kevin Alton Lewis, Claudio Mazzali
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Publication number: 20140328566Abstract: Optical fibers having a mode field diameter at 1310 nm of at least 8.8 ?m, wire mesh covered drum microbending losses at 1550 nm less than 0.03 dB/km, and a 2 m cutoff wavelength less than 1320 nm. The fibers may include a central core region, an inner cladding region, an outer cladding region, a primary coating with an in situ modulus less than 0.20 MPa and glass transition temperature less than ?35° C., and a secondary coating with an in situ modulus greater than 1500 MPa. The fibers may further include a depressed index cladding region. The relative refractive index of the central core region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the outer cladding region may be greater than the relative refractive index of the inner cladding region. The fibers may be produced at draw speeds of 30 m/s or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Kevin Alton Lewis, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Manuela Ocampo, Joan Diana Patterson
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Publication number: 20070237818Abstract: Controlled-release dosage formulations including at least one compound of Formulae I to XXVIII herein and a controlled-release carrier and methods of treatment using the same are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventors: Bruce Malcolm, Wing-Kee Cho, Kevin Alton, Zhihui Qiu, Jiansheng Wan, David Monteith
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Publication number: 20070232527Abstract: Disclosed are medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical kits, and methods based on combinations of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor and an aldo-keto reductase (AKR) competitor, for concurrent or consecutive administration in treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of HCV, treating disorders associated with HCV, or inhibiting cathepsin activity in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Anima Ghosal, Narendra Kishnani, Kevin Alton, Ronald White
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Publication number: 20070207949Abstract: Disclosed are medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical kits, and methods based on combinations of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor and an aldo-keto reductase (AKR) competitor, for concurrent or consecutive administration in treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of HCV, treating disorders associated with HCV, or inhibiting cathepsin activity in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Anima Ghosal, Narendra Kishnani, Kevin Alton, Ronald White
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Publication number: 20070203149Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of compounds of structural formula I as inhibitors of the CCR5 receptors, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with CCR5 using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions. The invention also relates to the use of a combination of a compound of this invention and one or more antiviral or other agents useful in the treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The invention further relates to the use of a compound of this invention, alone or in combination with another agent, in the treatment of solid organ transplant rejection, graft v. host disease, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, asthma, allergies or multiple sclerosis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Ragulan Ramanathan, Michael Miller, Swapan Chowdhury, Kevin Alton, Diane Grotz, Diane Rindgen, Amol Tendolkar
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Publication number: 20060276404Abstract: Disclosed are medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical kits, and methods based on combinations of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor and an aldo-keto reductase (AKR) competitor, for concurrent or consecutive administration in treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of HCV, treating disorders associated with HCV, or inhibiting cathepsin activity in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventors: Anima Ghosal, Narendra Kishnani, Kevin Alton, Ronald White
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Publication number: 20060105964Abstract: The use of CCR5 antagonists of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is optionally substituted phenyl, pyridyl, thiophenyl or naphthyl; R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is substituted phenyl, substituted heteroaryl, naphthyl, fluorenyl, diphenylmethyl or optionally substituted phenyl- or heteroaryl-alkyl; R3 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, or optionally substituted phenyl, phenylalkyl, naphthyl, naphthylalkyl, heteroaryl or heteroarylalkyl; R4, R5 and R7 are hydrogen or alkyl; R6 is hydrogen, alkyl or alkenyl; for the treatment of HIV, solid organ transplant rejection, graft v.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Inventors: Ragulan Ramanathan, Anima Ghosal, Michael Miller, Swapan Chowdhury, Kevin Alton
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Publication number: 20050026939Abstract: The present invention is directed to a metabolite of a xanthine Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor having the following structure derivatives, and formulations thereof, and processes for preparing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Anima Ghosal, Wei Tong, Swapan Chowdhury, Shmuel Zbaida, Mark Wirth, Kevin Alton, James Patrick, Craig Boyle, Andrew Stamford