Patents by Inventor Mark Lloyd
Mark Lloyd 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: 7731501Abstract: An underwater writing and drawing tablet that stretches a length of waterproof (plastic) vellum between two rollers over a flat surface thereby enabling the user to easily draw or write on said vellum and permanently save the drawing and writing.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Inventor: Mark Lloyd Hagan
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Patent number: 7688836Abstract: A method and system is provided for establishing a secure intercarrier, interlayer communications path that can allocate bandwidth on demand. Using the present invention, one network carrier uses the resources of another carrier to communicate with an otherwise unreachable target component. As bandwidth capacity is reached, the intercarrier connection can be dynamically migrated to a lower network layer. Transmissions of the upper layer are mapped into the lower layer to satisfy the additional bandwidth requested by the connection.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Sprint Communications Company, L.P.Inventors: Wesam Alanqar, Mark Lloyd Jones, Lynn Andrew Neir
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Patent number: 7630838Abstract: This invention is directed to the three dimensional crystal structure of Beta-site APP Cleaving Enzyme (BACE), and to the use of this structure in rational drug design methods to identify agents that may interact with active sites of BACE. Such agents may represent new therapeutics in the treatment and/or prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: American Home Products CorporationInventors: Rajiv Chopra, Kristine Svenson, Bethany Annis Freeman, Tatos N. Akopian, Jonathan Bard, Mark Lloyd Stahl, William S. Somers
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Publication number: 20090231183Abstract: A method of tracking a target is applied to a decentralised network (100) comprising a plurality of sensing nodes (110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170) operable to make observations of the target. The method comprises the steps of: each node (110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170) performing a multiple models tracking algorithm, thereby updating track information stored at each said node; each node (110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170) communicating updated track information to selected other nodes in the network (100); and each node (110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170), in response to receiving track information from another node, conservatively fusing the receiving track information with local track information. In one embodiment, the multiple models tracking algorithm is an interacting multiple models tracking algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Bae Systems plcInventors: Eric William Nettleton, Christopher Mark Lloyd
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Publication number: 20090214513Abstract: The present invention features mammalian expression systems with improved production yields, and method of using these systems to produce desired proteins. In one embodiment, the expression systems of the present invention comprise genetically-engineered mammalian host cells cultured in a medium that contains an effective amount of heparin or heparin-like molecules. The presence of heparin or heparin-like molecules significantly increases protein production by the cultured cells. The present invention also features the use of constitutively-active components of FGFR-I-mediated signal transduction pathways to improve protein production by cultured mammalian cells. Co-expression of such a component with a protein of interest markedly increases the production yield of the protein of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: WyethInventors: Xiaotian Zhong, Ronald William Kriz, Mark Lloyd Stahl
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Patent number: 7497932Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-chemical deposition system that is designed with a flexible architecture that is expandable to accommodate future designs and gap fill requirements and provides satisfactory throughput to meet the demands of other processing systems. The electro-chemical deposition system generally comprises a mainframe having a mainframe wafer transfer robot, a loading station disposed in connection with the mainframe, one or more processing cells disposed in connection with the mainframe, and an electrolyte supply fluidly connected to the one or more electrical processing cells. Preferably, the electro-chemical deposition system includes a spin-rinse-dry (SRD) station disposed between the loading station and the mainframe, a rapid thermal anneal chamber attached to the loading station, and a system controller for controlling the electro-chemical deposition process and the components of the electro-chemical deposition system.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Yezdi Dordi, Donald J. Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome, Michael Sugarman, Anna Marie Lloyd, legal representative, Joseph Stevens, Dan Marohl, Ho Seon Shin, Eugene Ravinovich, Robin Cheung, Ashok K. Sinha, Avi Tepman, Dan Carl, George Birkmaier, Mark Lloyd
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Patent number: 7264477Abstract: An underwater writing and drawing tablet that stretches a length of waterproof (plastic) vellum between two rollers over a flat surface thereby enabling the user to easily draw or write on said vellum and permanently save the drawing and writing.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventor: Mark Lloyd Hagan
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Publication number: 20070116599Abstract: A fluid handling system adapted to provide storage and supply of a number of liquid solutions to an automatic clinical analyzer having three different bottle-like containers, a collapsible plastic-metal-plastic pouch having a mouth-like opening, a fitment to be sealed within mouth-like opening a septum within the fitment, and open meal band or cap to seal the septum into the fitment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: DADE BEHRING INC.Inventors: JAY WALTERS, JEANNINE CARRIO, DAVID THOMPSON, MARK LLOYD, JEFFREY PARMER, RICHARD WARWICK, THOMAS SHIELDS, LAWRENCE HUPPMAN
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Patent number: 7135319Abstract: This invention is directed to the crystal structure of Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase (ACPS) complexed with Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP), the solution structure of B. subtilis ACP, and to the use of these structures in rational drug design methods to identify agents that may interact with active sites of ACPS and ACP, and to the testing of these agents to identify agents that may represent novel antibiotics.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2003Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: WyethInventors: Kevin Delos Parris, William Stuart Somers, Amy Szepui Tam, Laura Long Lin, Mark Lloyd Stahl
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Publication number: 20060246690Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-chemical deposition system that is designed with a flexible architecture that is expandable to accommodate future designs and gap fill requirements and provides satisfactory throughput to meet the demands of other processing systems. The electro-chemical deposition system generally comprises a mainframe having a mainframe wafer transfer robot, a loading station disposed in connection with the mainframe, one or more processing cells disposed in connection with the mainframe, and an electrolyte supply fluidly connected to the one or more electrical processing cells. Preferably, the electro-chemical deposition system includes a spin-rinse-dry (SRD) station disposed between the loading station and the mainframe, a rapid thermal anneal chamber attached to the loading station, and a system controller for controlling the electro-chemical deposition process and the components of the electro-chemical deposition system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Yezdi Dordi, Donald Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome, Michael Sugarman, Mark Lloyd, Anna Lloyd, Joseph Stevens, Dan Marohl, Ho Shin, Eugene Ravinovich, Robin Cheung, Ashok Sinha, Avi Tepman, Dan Carl, George Birkmaier
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Patent number: 6957150Abstract: This invention is directed to Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase (ACPS) crystals and crystals of Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase-Coenzyme A (ACPS-CoA) complex, and to the use of these crystals to determine the three dimensional structure of ACPS. This invention is further directed to the use of rational drug design methods to identify agents that may interact with active sites of ACPS and ACPS-CoA complex, and to the testing of these agents to identify agents that may inhibit ACPS and/or ACPS-CoA complex activity.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignees: Wyeth, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Delos Parris, William Stuart Somers, Amy Szepui Tam, Laura Long Lin, Mark Lloyd Stahl
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Patent number: 6916290Abstract: An in situ breast tumor temperature profile measuring probe includes a rod, thermal sensors and electrical output leads. The thermal sensors are formed in spaced apart holes in an outer insulating layer of the rod and a common electrical input lead to provide an electrical input signal to the thermal sensors is disposed below and has portions exposed at the holes and electrically connected to the thermal sensors. The thermal sensors receive the electrical input signal from the common electrical input lead, sense the temperature of biological matter adjacent to the thermal sensors and produce an electrical output signal correlated thereto. Each electrical output lead mounted to the outer insulating layer is in electrical contact with a different one of the thermal sensors to receive the electrical output signal from the one thermal sensor and output the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren, William Paul Kornrumpf, Mark Lloyd Miller, Egidijus Edward Uzgiris
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Publication number: 20040084301Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-chemical deposition system that is designed with a flexible architecture that is expandable to accommodate future designs and gap fill requirements and provides satisfactory throughput to meet the demands of other processing systems. The electro-chemical deposition system generally comprises a mainframe having a mainframe wafer transfer robot, a loading station disposed in connection with the mainframe, one or more processing cells disposed in connection with the mainframe, and an electrolyte supply fluidly connected to the one or more electrical processing cells. Preferably, the electro-chemical deposition system includes a spin-rinse-dry (SRD) station disposed between the loading station and the mainframe, a rapid thermal anneal chamber attached to the loading station, and a system controller for controlling the electro-chemical deposition process and the components of the electro-chemical deposition system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Yezdi Dordi, Donald J. Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome, Michael Sugarman, Mark Lloyd, Anna Marie Lloyd, Joseph Stevens, Dan Marohl, Ho Seon Shin, Eugene Ravinovich, Robin Cheung, Ashok K. Sinha, Avi Tepman, Dan Carl, George Birkmaier
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Patent number: 6684162Abstract: This invention is directed to the crystal structure of Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase (ACPS) complexed with Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP), the solution structure of B. subtilis ACP, and to the use of these structures in rational drug design methods to identify agents that may interact with active sites of ACPS and ACP, and to the testing of these agents to identify agents that may represent novel antibiotics.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignees: Wyeth, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Delos Parris, William Stuart Somers, Amy Szepui Tam, Laura Long Lin, Mark Lloyd Stahl, Robert Powers, Guang-Yi Xu
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Patent number: 6676992Abstract: A method for coating an article includes preparing a coating precursor paint including aluminum-containing pigment particles, a temporary organic binder comprising an acrylic, and a solvent for the temporary organic binder. The coating precursor paint is applied to a surface of the article and thereafter heated to a temperature of from about 1200° F. to about 2100° F. in a non-oxidizing environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Michael James Weimer, William Evan McCormack, Joseph David Rigney, Mark Lloyd Miller, John Lewis Lackman
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Patent number: 6677037Abstract: An ablative tape is applied onto a substrate surface. The ablative tape comprises an ablative medium comprising a polymer and dispersed metallic component. The tape is then irradiated to ablate the ablative medium. An article comprises a substrate and the ablative tape applied to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Lloyd Miller, Farzin Homayoun Azad, Seetha Ramaiah Mannava, Philemon Kennard Wright, III
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Publication number: 20030211588Abstract: This invention is directed to the crystal structure of Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase (ACPS) complexed with Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP), the solution structure of B. subtilis ACP, and to the use of these structures in rational drug design methods to identify agents that may interact with active sites of ACPS and ACP, and to the testing of these agents to identify agents that may represent novel antibiotics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2001Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Kevin Delos Parris, William Stuart Somers, Amy Szepui Tam, Laura Long Lin, Mark Lloyd Stahl, Robert Powers, Guang-Yi Xu
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Patent number: 6635157Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-chemical deposition system that is designed with a flexible architecture that is expandable to accommodate future designs and gap fill requirements and provides satisfactory throughput to meet the demands of other processing systems. The electro-chemical deposition system generally comprises a mainframe having a mainframe wafer transfer robot, a loading station disposed in connection with the mainframe, one or more processing cells disposed in connection with the mainframe, and an electrolyte supply fluidly connected to the one or more electrical processing cells. Preferably, the electro-chemical deposition system includes a spin-rinse-dry (SRD) station disposed between the loading station and the mainframe, a rapid thermal anneal chamber attached to the loading station, and a system controller for controlling the electro-chemical deposition process and the components of the electro-chemical deposition system.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Yezdi Dordi, Donald J. Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome, Michael Sugarman, Mark Lloyd, Joseph Stevens, Dan Marohl, Ho Seon Shin, Eugene Ravinovich, Robin Cheung, Ashok K. Sinha, Avi Tepman, Dan Carl, George Birkmaier
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Publication number: 20030152705Abstract: A method for coating an article includes preparing a coating precursor paint including aluminum-containing pigment particles, a temporary organic binder comprising an acrylic, and a solvent for the temporary organic binder. The coating precursor paint is applied to a surface of the article and thereafter heated to a temperature of from about 1200° F. to about 2100° F. in a non-oxidizing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2001Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Michael James Weimer, William Evan McCormack, Joseph David Rigney, Mark Lloyd Miller, John Lewis Lackman
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Patent number: 6559415Abstract: A method for single sided laser shock peening an article includes laser shock peening a laser shock peening surface on a first side of the article while maintaining an opposite second surface on a back side of the article in acoustic communication with a shock attenuating material. The second surface is opposite the laser shock peening surface. The shock attenuating material is a material that does not allow tensile waves to be reflected back off the back side through the article. The shock attenuating material may be a liquid metal and the article made from a titanium alloy. One such article is a gas turbine engine airfoil of an integrally bladed disk and the surfaces may be on an edge of the airfoil. The shock attenuating material may be one that dissipates compressive waves or reflects back compressive shock waves caused by the laser shock peening.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: SeethaRamaiah Mannava, Philemon Kennard Wright, III, Farzin Homayoun Azad, Mark Lloyd Miller