Patents by Inventor Lawrence Charles

Lawrence Charles 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).

  • Patent number: 8795255
    Abstract: A catheter comprising an elongate tubular member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a passageway defining a lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends. The elongate tubular member comprises a relatively stiff proximal section and a relatively flexible distal section. The proximal section includes an inner tubular liner, a first stiffener comprising a metal alloy, and a second stiffener comprising a non-metal alloy. The first and second stiffeners are coaxially wound exterior to the proximal inner liner. The distal section includes a distal inner tubular liner and the second stiffener coaxially wound exterior to the distal inner liner. The first stiffener terminates before reaching the distal section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Lex P. Jansen, Thomas Yung-Hui Chien, Perry Alvin Fukui, Jeffrey A. Sarge, Lawrence Charles Alpert
  • Patent number: 8794439
    Abstract: Described herein are systems relating to packaging boxes. In some implementations, the packaging boxes include one or more trays used to support product cups, such as k-cups. The product cups, for example, can be used to hold tea, coffee, or flavoring. Some examples of flavoring include honey or other liquid flavoring a user can add to tea or coffee to adjust the flavor of the tea or coffee (e.g., honey comb and lemon grass, creamer, orange marmalade, mint peach, etc.). The packaging boxes can include a longitudinal axis parallel to the top and a long side of the box. The trays placed in the packaging boxes, for example, can have a similar longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axes of the packaging box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventor: Lawrence Charles
  • Publication number: 20140155280
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method for screening a subject for the onset, predisposition to the onset and/or progression of a colorectal neoplasm by screening for modulation in the level of expression of one or more nucleic acid markers. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for screening a subject for the onset, predisposition to the onset and/or progression of a colorectal neoplasm by screening for modulation in the level of expression of one or more gene markers in membranous microvesicles. The expression profiles of the present invention are useful in a range of applications including, but not limited to, those relating to the diagnosing and/or monitoring of colorectal neoplasms, such as colorectal adenoma and adenocarcinomas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clinical Genomics Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lawrence Charles Lapointe, Susanne Kartin Pedersen, Peter Molloy
  • Patent number: 8616380
    Abstract: Improved methods for reducing boron concentration in seawater or brackish water, while simultaneously maintaining or improving the salt rejection of membrane and flow performance of polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes include contacting the water with a composite membrane comprising moieties derived from an aromatic sulfonyl halide, a heteroaromatic sulfonyl halide, a sulfinyl halide; a sulfenyl halide; a sulfuryl halide; a phosphoryl halide; a phosphonyl halide; a phosphinyl halide; a thiophosphoryl halide; a thiophosphonyl halide, an isocyanate, a urea, a cyanate, an aromatic carbonyl halide, an epoxide or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Wang, David Allen Olson, Jiang Ji, Michael Todd Luttrell, Gary William Yeager, Joseph Anthony Suriano, Lawrence Charles Costa
  • Patent number: 8595377
    Abstract: A video control server includes a central processing unit and a memory storing executable instructions to receive control station commands, update state information specifying how network video sources are to be assessed and displayed by a client, and send the state information to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Arthur Apgar, Matthew Thomas Graham, Lawrence Charles Hastings, Jeffrey Allen Robinson
  • Patent number: 8580341
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite membrane comprising a porous base membrane and a polyamide coating disposed on said porous base membrane, said polyamide coating comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound and a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety. In addition the present invention provides a method of preparing a composite membrane comprising contacting under interfacial polymerization conditions an organic solution comprising a polyacid halide with an aqueous solution comprising a polyamine, said contacting being carried out on a surface of a porous base membrane, said organic solution further comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound, said aqueous solution comprising a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Su Lu, Hua Li, Steven Thomas Rice, Joseph Anthony Suriano, Bing Zhang, Chen Wang, Lawrence Charles Costa, Steven John Harrold, David Allen Olson, Wenqing Peng
  • Patent number: 8457891
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for compensating nonlinearities in a navigational model. In one embodiment, a system comprises an inertial measurement unit configured to measure inertial motion of a vehicle and an aiding source configured to provide observational measurements of vehicle motion. Further, the system comprises a navigation computer coupled to the inertial measurement unit and the aiding source, wherein the navigation computer is configured to calculate a predicted state and an error covariance data based on the measured inertial motion received from the inertial measurement unit and the observational measurements from the aiding source and calculate variance increments based on attitude uncertainty in the predicted state. Also, the navigation computer is configured to add the variance increments into a process noise covariance matrix for the predicted state and calculate an update for the vehicle motion based on the predicted state, the error covariance data, and the observational measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Charles Vallot, Timothy Merrill Buck
  • Patent number: 8391330
    Abstract: Metallization patterns are provided to reduce the probability of chip fracture in semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment disclosed herein, the pad edges of a metallization pattern extend across a plurality of crystallographic planes in the laser substrate. In this manner, cracks initiated at any given stress concentration would need to propagate across many crystallographic planes in the substrate to reach a significant size. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the respective geometries and orientations of adjacent pairs of contact pads. Still further embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Satish Chandra Chaparala, Martin Hai Hu, Lawrence Charles Hughes, Jr., Chung-En Zah
  • Patent number: 8369667
    Abstract: Downhole cables are described that are configured to protect internal structures that may be detrimentally impacted by exposure to the downhole environment, by protecting such structures by at least two protective layers. In some examples, the structures to be protected may be housed in a protective tube housed within the protective outer sheath. The described configuration enables the use of structures such as polymer fibers in the cables for strength and load-bearing capability by protecting the fibers, by multiple protective layers, from exposure to gases or fluids within a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Charles Rose
  • Publication number: 20120323189
    Abstract: A catheter shaft with an improved manifold bond and methods for making and using the same. The catheter shaft may include a sleeve disposed, for example, near its proximal end. The sleeve may include a first layer that is attached to the catheter shaft and a second layer to which a hub or manifold may be attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Huey Quoc Chan, Ting Tina Ye, Lawrence Charles Alpert, Sean McFerran, Roland S. Mompar
  • Patent number: 8317772
    Abstract: A catheter comprising an elongate tubular member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a passageway defining a lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends. The elongate tubular member comprises a relatively stiff proximal section and a relatively flexible distal section. The proximal section includes an inner tubular liner, a first stiffener comprising a metal alloy, and a second stiffener comprising a non-metal alloy. The first and second stiffeners are coaxially wound exterior to the proximal inner liner. The distal section includes a distal inner tubular liner and the second stiffener coaxially wound exterior to the distal inner liner. The first stiffener terminates before reaching the distal section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Target Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lex P. Jansen, Thomas Yung-Hui Chien, Perry Alvin Fukui, Jeffrey A. Sarge, Lawrence Charles Alpert
  • Publication number: 20120292249
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite membrane comprising a porous base membrane and a polyamide coating disposed on said porous base membrane, said polyamide coating comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound and a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety. In addition the present invention provides a method of preparing a composite membrane comprising contacting under interfacial polymerization conditions an organic solution comprising a polyacid halide with an aqueous solution comprising a polyamine, said contacting being carried out on a surface of a porous base membrane, said organic solution further comprising a C3-C8 cyclic carbonyl compound, said aqueous solution comprising a C1-C8 amide compound, said amide compound comprising at least one N—H moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Su Lu, Hua Li, Steven Thomas Rice, Joseph Anthony Suriano, Bing Zhang, Chen Wang, Lawrence Charles Costa, Steven John Harrold, David Allen Olson, Wenqing Peng
  • Publication number: 20120255909
    Abstract: Improved methods for reducing boron concentration in seawater or brackish water, while simultaneously maintaining or improving the salt rejection of membrane and flow performance of polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes include contacting the water with a composite membrane comprising moieties derived from an aromatic sulfonyl halide, a heteroaromatic sulfonyl halide, a sulfinyl halide; a sulfenyl halide; a sulfuryl halide; a phosphoryl halide; a phosphonyl halide; a phosphinyl halide; a thiophosphoryl halide; a thiophosphonyl halide, an isocyanate, a urea, a cyanate, an aromatic carbonyl halide, an epoxide or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hua Wang, David Allen Olson, Jiang Ji, Michael Todd Luttrell, Gary William Yeager, Joseph Anthony Suriano, Lawrence Charles Costa
  • Publication number: 20120247995
    Abstract: Described herein are systems relating to packaging boxes. In some implementations, the packaging boxes include one or more trays used to support product cups, such as k-cups. The product cups, for example, can be used to hold tea, coffee, or flavoring. Some examples of flavoring include honey or other liquid flavoring a user can add to tea or coffee to adjust the flavor of the tea or coffee (e.g., honey comb and lemon grass, creamer, orange marmalade, mint peach, etc.). The packaging boxes can include a longitudinal axis parallel to the top and a long side of the box. The trays placed in the packaging boxes, for example, can have a similar longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axes of the packaging box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Lawrence Charles
  • Publication number: 20120227481
    Abstract: A cable includes a conductor. A plurality of inner armor wires is wrapped around the conductor. At least some of the plurality of inner armor wires have non-circular and non-rectangular cross-sectional shapes. A plurality of outer armor wires are wrapped around the inner armor wires. At least some of the plurality of outer armor wires have non-circular and non-rectangular cross-sectional shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Daniel F. Dorffer, Lawrence Charles Rose
  • Patent number: 8257343
    Abstract: A catheter shaft with an improved manifold bond and methods for making and using the same. The catheter shaft may include a sleeve disposed, for example, near its proximal end. The sleeve may include a first layer that is attached to the catheter shaft and a second layer to which a hub or manifold may be attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc
    Inventors: Huey Quoc Chan, Ting Tina Ye, Lawrence Charles Alpert, Sean McFerran, Roland S. Mompar
  • Patent number: 8102887
    Abstract: Particular embodiments of the present disclosure bring an SHG crystal, or other type of wavelength conversion device, into close proximity with a laser source to eliminate the need for coupling optics, reduce the number of package components, and reduce package volume. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an optical package is provided comprising a laser source subassembly comprising a laser base and a wavelength conversion device subassembly comprising a converter base. The bonding interface of the laser base is bonded the complementary bonding interface of the converter base such that the laser output face can be proximity-coupled to the converter input face at an predetermined interfacial spacing x. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkata Adiseshaiah Bhagavatula, Satish Chandra Chaparala, John Himmelreich, Lawrence Charles Hughes, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110267682
    Abstract: Particular embodiments of the present disclosure bring an SHG crystal, or other type of wavelength conversion device, into close proximity with a laser source to eliminate the need for coupling optics, reduce the number of package components, and reduce package volume. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an optical package is provided comprising a laser source and a wavelength conversion device. The laser source is positioned such that the output face of the laser source is proximity-coupled to a waveguide portion of the input face of the wavelength conversion device. The input face of the wavelength conversion device comprises an ?-cut facet and ?-cut facet. The ?-cut facet of the input face is oriented at a horizontal angle ?, relative to the waveguide of the wavelength conversion device to permit proximity coupling of the output face of the laser source and the input face of the wavelength conversion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Venkata Adisehaiah Bhagavatula, Satish Chandra Chaparala, John Himmelreich, Lawrence Charles Hughes, JR.
  • Patent number: D651097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Inventor: Lawrence Charles
  • Patent number: D671402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventor: Lawrence Charles