Patents by Inventor Leslie A. Williams
Leslie A. Williams 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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Publication number: 20240106913Abstract: In certain aspects, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, responsive to a managed device communicating with a reader, user data and access information of the managed device. The method includes identifying device information of the managed device associated with the user data and the access information. The method also includes determining at least one mobile device action to perform on the managed device based on the device information, the user data, and the access information. The method includes, responsive to determining the at least one mobile device action, transmitting a message to a push notification service, wherein the message initiates the managed device to communicate with a mobile device management server. The method includes, responsive to the managed device communicating with the mobile device management server, transmitting a management command to the managed device to perform the at least one mobile device action. Systems and media are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Joshua Jagdfeld, Jonathan William Yuresko, Leslie N. Helou, Matthew Vlasach
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Publication number: 20240081354Abstract: An essentially carbohydrate-free, protein-based flour substitute and methods for preparing the same are disclosed herein. The flour substitute may be used to make pizza crusts, chips, taco shells, tortillas, crackers, sandwich thins, and other food products that are traditionally flour-based. The organoleptic properties of the disclosed flour substitute preferably resemble the organoleptic properties of traditional baked goods and are substantially different from the organoleptic properties of traditional meat products. The disclosed flour substitute comprises a meat or nut flour, a flavor-masking spice, salt, and a vegetable, fruit, or plant-based oil or an oil-based spray. The disclosed flour substitute is used to make substitute food products that preferably resemble, in both appearance and taste, the traditional food products that the substitute food products are replacing. The flour substitute is preferably fiber-free and does not contain any other non-digestible carbohydrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: ZeroCarb Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Elhosiny Aly, Omar Mohamed Atia, Leslie Ann Hawkins, John William Pena, III
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Patent number: 11903632Abstract: Various embodiments of multielectrode radiofrequency (RF) ablation probes are described herein that disclose methods and apparatus for improved control and predictability of the size and shape of RF thermal electrocoagulations. The features of the invention include the ability to make irregularly shaped ablations in order to conform to irregularly shaped target tissue volumes, and to make very large ablations without the requirement for electrode cooling.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: DIROS TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Leslie William Organ, Peter George Darmos, Moshe Morrie Altmejd, George Peter Darmos, Ilya Gavrilov, Joel Ironstone
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Patent number: 10865216Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds having the structure of Formula I and pharmaceutically suitable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof that are useful as antibacterially effective tricyclic gyrase inhibitors. In addition, species of tricyclic gyrase inhibitors compounds are also disclosed herein. Related pharmaceutical compositions, uses and methods of making the compounds are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Daniel Bensen, Allen Borchardt, Zhiyong Chen, John M. Finn, Thanh To Lam, Suk Joong Lee, Xiaoming Li, Leslie William Tari, Min Teng, Michael Trzoss, Junhu Zhang, Michael E. Jung, Felice C. Lightstone, Sergio E. Wong, Toan B. Nguyen
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Patent number: 10661243Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of ethene by vapour phase chemical dehydration of ethanol using an adiabatic reactor, wherein the interior of the adiabatic reactor is separated into at least three reaction zones, comprising a first reaction zone, at least one intermediate reaction zone and a final reaction zone, and wherein each zone contains an ethanol dehydration catalyst; said process comprising the steps of; a) feeding a pre-heated reactant feed-stream into an inlet of the first reaction zone; b) extracting an effluent-stream from an outlet of the first reaction zone; c) feeding said effluent-stream into an inlet of a subsequent intermediate reaction zone; d) extracting an effluent-stream from an outlet of the intermediate reaction zone; e) repeating steps (c) and (d) for any subsequent intermediate reaction zones, if present; f) feeding, into an inlet of the final reaction zone, the effluent-stream from the preceding intermediate reaction zone; g) extracting a product streamType: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Technip E&C LimitedInventor: Leslie William Bolton
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Patent number: 10464871Abstract: Process for the production of ethanol from acetic acid and hydrogen, said process comprising: reacting in an esterification reaction vessel methanol with acetic acid in the presence of an esterification catalyst and an entrainer to form a product comprising entrainer, methyl acetate and water, and in a distillation column, recovering from the product an overhead product fraction comprising methyl acetate, methanol and water, feeding the overhead product fraction, together with hydrogen, into a hydrogenation unit containing a copper based hydrogenation catalyst, to produce a hydrogenation product stream comprising ethanol, methanol, unreacted methyl acetate, unreacted hydrogen, ethyl acetate and water, cooling the hydrogenation product stream; separating the cooled hydrogenation product stream into a liquid phase which comprises the majority of the methanol, ethanol, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate and water, and a gaseous phase which comprises the majority of the unreacted hydrogen; recycling at least part of tType: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Craig Bailey, Leslie William Bolton
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Patent number: 10441105Abstract: A portable and automatic beverage brewing device configured in a unitary drinking vessel provides for an integral brewing device that is also a drinking vessel. The drinking vessel is configured with a pump and one or more heating elements to heat the liquid and pump it from a liquid container to a receptacle for receiving infusible material, such as coffee or tea, for example. A pump may be configured in the base of the unitary drinking vessel and a tube may extend up between the exterior of the liquid container and the exterior wall of the drinking vessel, to the receptacle. The tube may be spiraled around the liquid container and a heating element may be configured around on in contact with the tube within the inner wall space.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Inventor: Leslie William Fogg, IV
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Patent number: 10385055Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds having the structure of Formula I and pharmaceutically suitable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof that are useful as antibacterially effective tricyclic gyrase inhibitors. Related pharmaceutical compositions, uses and methods of making the compounds are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: John Finn, Leslie William Tari, Zhiyong Chen, Junhu Zhang, Douglas Phillipson, Suk Joong Lee, Michael Trzoss, Daniel Bensen, Xiaoming Li, Min Teng, Voon Ong, Allen John Borchardt, Thanh To Lam, Felice C. Lightstone, Sergio E. Wong, Toan B. Nguyen
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Patent number: 10047105Abstract: Novel gyrase inhibitors and related compositions and methods are useful for impeding bacterial growth.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Christopher J. Creighton, Leslie William Tari, Zhiyong Chen, Mark Hilgers, Thanh To Lam, Xiaoming Li, Michael Trzoss, Junhu Zhang, John Finn, Daniel Bensen
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Patent number: 9975828Abstract: Hydrogenation of methyl acetate to methanol and ethanol by feeding a hydrogenation feed of methyl acetate, water, hydrogen and a carbon oxide into a hydrogenation unit containing a copper-zinc oxide hydrogenation catalyst to produce a hydrogenation product stream of ethanol, methanol, unreacted methyl acetate, water, unreacted hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and ethyl acetate. The hydrogenation unit is operated in the vapor phase at elevated temperature and pressure. The total molar ratio of hydrogen to methyl acetate fed to the hydrogenation unit is 5:1 to 20:1. The total molar ratio of methyl acetate to carbon oxide(s) fed to the hydrogenation unit is 1:2 to 100:1. The hydrogenation product stream is separated into a liquid stream containing ethanol, methanol, unreacted methyl acetate, water and ethyl acetate, and a gaseous stream containing unreacted hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and a portion of the gaseous stream is recycled to the hydrogenation unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Craig Bailey, Leslie William Bolton, Jon Michael Stewart Deeley
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Publication number: 20180016215Abstract: Provided are methods for removing one or more components from a butanol based composition. The methods comprise providing a butanol based composition comprising one or more components, targeting at least one component or a combination thereof for reduction, and processing said butanol based composition such that the at least one targeted component is substantially removed. The butanol based composition can, for example, be bio-produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Cecilia CHENG, Ian David DOBSON, Andrew John HOGBEN, Andrew Richard LUCY, John Glenn SUNLEY, Leslie William BOLTON
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Publication number: 20170368522Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of ethene by vapour phase chemical dehydration of ethanol using an adiabatic reactor, wherein the interior of the adiabatic reactor is separated into at least three reaction zones, comprising a first reaction zone, at least one intermediate reaction zone and a final reaction zone, and wherein each zone contains an ethanol dehydration catalyst; said process comprising the steps of; a) feeding a pre-heated reactant feed-stream into an inlet of the first reaction zone; b) extracting an effluent-stream from an outlet of the first reaction zone; c) feeding said effluent-stream into an inlet of a subsequent intermediate reaction zone; d) extracting an effluent-stream from an outlet of the intermediate reaction zone; e) repeating steps (c) and (d) for any subsequent intermediate reaction zones, if present; f) feeding, into an inlet of the final reaction zone, the effluent-stream from the preceding intermediate reaction zone; g) extracting a product streamType: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventor: Leslie William Bolton
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Patent number: 9828319Abstract: A process for the acid-catalyzed dehydration of ethanol, the process comprising the steps of distilling an ethanol feedstock (101) comprising at least one nitrogen-containing contaminant to form an overhead stream (102) and a bottom stream comprising ethanol (103), wherein the distillation has a reflux ratio of at least 20:1; and reacting the bottom stream in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a product stream comprising ethylene.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Technip E&C LimitedInventors: Leslie William Bolton, Nigel Stewart Brown, Lewis Adam Heptonstall, Andrew John Hogben, Susan Elizabeth Little, Stephen James Smith
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Patent number: 9809520Abstract: Provided are methods for removing one or more components from a butanol based composition. The methods comprise providing a butanol based composition comprising one or more components, targeting at least one component or a combination thereof for reduction, and processing said butanol based composition such that the at least one targeted component is substantially removed. The butanol based composition can, for example, be bio-produced.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLCInventors: Cecilia Cheng, Ian David Dobson, Andrew John Hogben, Andrew Richard Lucy, John Glenn Sunley, Leslie William Bolton
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Patent number: 9732083Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds having the structure of Formula I and pharmaceutically suitable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof that are useful as antibacterially effective tricyclic gyrase inhibitors. Related pharmaceutical compositions, uses and methods of making the compounds are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Daniel Bensen, Zhiyong Chen, John Finn, Thanh To Lam, Suk Joong Lee, Xiaoming Li, Douglas W. Phillipson, Leslie William Tari, Michael Trzoss, Junhu Zhang, Felice C. Lightstone, Toan B. Nguyen, Sergio E. Wong, Paul Aristoff, Michael Jung
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Patent number: 9713789Abstract: Process for reducing the water and carboxylic acid content of an alcohol composition containing at least one alcohol having one to four carbon atoms, water and at least one carboxylic acid having from one to four carbon atoms by contacting the alcohol composition with a desiccant bed containing at least one porous inorganic oxide material at elevated temperature. At least one of the porous inorganic oxide material(s) contains Brønsted acid sites and/or neutralized Brønsted acid sites.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Leslie William Bolton, John Glenn Sunley
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Publication number: 20170190644Abstract: A process for the hydrogenation of methyl acetate to methanol and ethanol comprising feeding a hydrogenation feed composition comprising methyl acetate and water, together with hydrogen and at least one carbon oxide selected from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, into a hydrogenation unit containing a copper-zinc oxide hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogenating the methyl acetate to produce a hydrogenation product stream comprising ethanol, methanol, unreacted methyl acetate, water, unreacted hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and ethyl acetate, wherein said hydrogenation unit is operated in the vapour phase at elevated temperature, preferably at a temperature in the range of from 180 to 270° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Craig BAILEY, Leslie William BOLTON, Jon Michael Stewart DEELEY
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Publication number: 20170057894Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butanol through microbial fermentation, in which the butanol product is removed by extraction into a water immiscible organic extractant during the fermentation. The invention also relates to a method for producing butanol through microbial fermentation, in which the butanol product is removed during the fermentation by extraction into a water-immiscible extractant composition. The invention further relates to compositions comprising a solution of butanol in a water immiscible organic extractant composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Thomas Basham, Leslie William Bolton, Ian David Dobson, Sarah Richardson Hanson, Aidan Hurley, Karen Kustedjo, Andrew Richard Lucy, Liang Song
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Publication number: 20170037059Abstract: Novel gyrase inhibitors and related compositions and methods are useful for impeding bacterial growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Christopher J. Creighton, Leslie William Tari, Zhiyong Chen, Mark Hilgers, Thanh To Lam, Xiaoming Li, Michael Trzoss, Junhu Zhang, John Finn, Daniel Bensen
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Patent number: 9517985Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butanol through microbial fermentation, in which the butanol product is removed by extraction into a water immiscible organic extractant during the fermentation. The invention also relates to a method for producing butanol through microbial fermentation, in which the butanol product is removed during the fermentation by extraction into a water-immiscible extractant composition. The invention further relates to compositions comprising a solution of butanol in a water immiscible organic extractant composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLCInventors: Thomas Basham, Leslie William Bolton, Ian David Dobson, Sarah Richardson Hanson, Aidan Hurley, Karen Kustedjo, Andrew Richard Lucy, Liang Song