Patents by Inventor Michael A. Wood

Michael A. Wood 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).

  • Publication number: 20140302689
    Abstract: Methods for depositing flowable dielectric films are provided. In some embodiments, the methods involve introducing a silicon-containing precursor to a deposition chamber wherein the precursor is characterized by having a partial pressure:vapor pressure ratio between 0.01 and 1. In some embodiments, the methods involve depositing a high density plasma dielectric film on a flowable dielectric film. The high density plasma dielectric film may fill a gap on a substrate. Also provided are apparatuses for performing the methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaihan Ashtiani, Michael Wood, John Drewery, Naohiro Shoda, Bart van Schravendijk, Lakshminarayana Nittala, Nerissa Draeger
  • Patent number: 8846737
    Abstract: There is provided a compound of formula I wherein Z is selected from N and CR22, wherein R22 is H or a bond with D; wherein D is selected from a bond, C?O, and linear or branched hydrocarbon groups having a carbon chain of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, wherein the carbon chain optionally contains an oxy group (?O), an ether (—O—) or thioether (—S—) link, wherein R1 is selected from: triazolyl, imidazolyl, pyrimidinyl radical wherein each of R2 to R6 is independently selected from —H, NO2, halo, —CN, —N[(C?O)0-1R12][(C?O)0-1R13] and —(CH2)0-1R14, or two adjacent groups of R2 to R6, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, form a ring, wherein at least one of R2 to R6 is —CN, wherein (i) at least one of R2 to R6 is —(CH2)0-1R14, or (ii) at least one of R2 to R6 is —N[(C?O)0-1R12][(C?O)0-1R13], or (iii) at least two adjacent groups of R2 to R6 together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, form a ring, or (iv) at least one of R2 to R6 is —(CH2)0-1—O—R?14, wherein R12 and R13
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sterix Limited
    Inventors: Lok Wai Lawrence Woo, Christian Bubert, Paul Michael Wood, Aurélien Putey, Atul Purohit, Barry Victor Lloyd Potter
  • Publication number: 20140276534
    Abstract: A needleless injector includes an injector body having first and second opposite ends. There is a first piston disposed within the body. A second piston may also be disposed within the body configured with a second end for housing a nozzle. There is a medicine inlet for receiving medicine and a pressurized fluid inlet for receiving pressurized fluid. There is also a trigger for releasing the pressurized fluid to drive the first piston thereby driving the medicine through the nozzle for needleless delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Nova Pneumatics LLC
    Inventor: Michael Wood
  • Publication number: 20140276535
    Abstract: A needleless injector includes an injector body, a nozzle at one end of the body, a medicine inlet for receiving medicine into the injector body, a rod disposed within the injector body for driving the medicine towards the nozzle, and a sensor for monitoring operation of the needleless injector. The sensor may be a position sensor. The sensor may be a slide potentiometer. The sensor may provide for monitoring firing of the rod and/or monitoring length of a stroke of the rod. An intelligent control operatively may be operatively connected to the sensor. An RFID reader may also be operatively connected to the intelligent control for associating RFID data with operations of the needleless injector. A keypad may be operatively connected to the intelligent control and a display may be operatively connected to the intelligent control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Wood, Chris Vanden Berghe
  • Publication number: 20140167693
    Abstract: A surface mountable charging device connectable to a power receptacle for charging an electrically powered vehicle is disclosed. The charging device comprises a housing and a first locking portion defining a first locking aperture. The device also comprises an electric charging circuit to supply current to an electric vehicle power storage device, and includes a power connector electrically coupled to the electric circuit, configured for a releasable electrical connection with the power receptacle. The device further includes a mounting base mountable to the mounting surface, comprising a first coupling portion defining a coupling aperture to operatively receive the power connector. The mounting base also comprises a second locking portion defining a second locking aperture. The housing is coupled to the mounting member and the first and second locking apertures cooperate with a locking element to prevent a de-coupling of the housing from the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Wood, Javier I Larranaga, Brian Mooney, Cecil Rivers, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140160640
    Abstract: An electrical switching apparatus for housing a pair of opposing circuit breakers each circuit breaker of the pair of opposing circuit breakers having an opposing end face including an exhaust vent disposed thereon is disclosed. The electrical switching apparatus includes a panelboard to operatively support the pair of opposing circuit breakers to define a gap therebetween, and an insulative barrier to be operatively disposed in the gap. The insulative barrier includes a first cantilever wall member arrangeable to define a first plenum region having a first cross sectional area, and a second plenum region having a second cross sectional area. The insulative barrier is operative to deflect in a first direction to thereby increase one of the first and second cross sectional areas in response to a venting of ionized gases from one circuit breaker of the pair of circuit breakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mariusz DUDA, William MAURER, Dean ROBARGE, Michael WOOD
  • Publication number: 20140160639
    Abstract: An electrical switching apparatus for housing a pair of opposing circuit breakers includes a panelboard having a first longitudinal axis and configured to support the pair of opposing circuit breakers to define a gap therebetween, the gap having a second longitudinal axis extending generally parallel to the first longitudinal axis. An insulative barrier is arranged to define a plenum region having a third longitudinal axis, and is operatively disposed in the gap, wherein the third longitudinal axis extends generally parallel to said second longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Comppany
    Inventors: Mariusz DUDA, William MAURER, Dean ROBARGE, Eric ROWLAND, Michael WOOD
  • Patent number: 8728958
    Abstract: Novel gap fill schemes involving depositing both flowable oxide films and high density plasma chemical vapor deposition oxide (HDP oxide) films are provided. According to various embodiments, the flowable oxide films may be used as a sacrificial layer and/or as a material for bottom up gap fill. In certain embodiments, the top surface of the filled gap is an HDP oxide film. The resulting filled gap may be filled only with HDP oxide film or a combination of HDP oxide and flowable oxide films. The methods provide improved top hat reduction and avoid clipping of the structures defining the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaihan Ashtiani, Michael Wood, John Drewery, Naohiro Shoda, Bart van Schravendijk, Lakshminarayana Nittala, Nerissa Draeger
  • Publication number: 20140123351
    Abstract: ‘TWD01’ is a distinctive variety of Grevillea hybrid which is characterized by a short plant height, a denser plant habit, larger leaves, and a compact red flower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Wood
  • Publication number: 20140060439
    Abstract: An improved automated animal feeder or feeding apparatus comprises a substantially water-resistant housing having at least one closable port. A feed distributor is located in the housing and configured to distribute feed to the exterior of the housing through the port. An opening in an upper end of the housing is configured to admit feed to the housing and to the feed distributor through gravity. A drive arrangement is disposed in the housing and coupled to the feed distributor and to the closeable port to selectively actuate the feed distributor and selectively open and close the closeable port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Art R. Browning, Joseph Michael Wood
  • Patent number: 8653257
    Abstract: Compounds the following formula: wherein Z is as described in the specification, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions comprising the same, and methods of treating bipolar disorder, an anxiety disorder, a mood disorder or schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder with said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Astrazeneca AB
    Inventors: Dean Brown, James R. Damewood, Phil Edwards, James Hulsizer, James Campbell Muir, M. Edward Pierson, Jr., Ashokkumar Bhikkappa Shenvi, Steven Wesolowski, Dan Widzowski, Michael Wood
  • Patent number: 8616259
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is described herein for automatically labeling using labels having a fluid activatable adhesive along the back surface of such label. The apparatus has multiple pallets each being positionable with the lowermost label of a stack of one or more labels to releasably secure by suction the label against the pallet, and multiple pads each being positionable with respect to pallets to receive labels from the pallets and then releasably retain such labels until application onto containers. Fluid for activating adhesive is applied by an applicator onto labels retained upon the pad to change the fluid activatable adhesive along the label's back surface from a non-tacky state to a tacky state just prior to application of the label onto container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: NuLabel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Woods, Ben Lux, Randy Peckham
  • Publication number: 20130337127
    Abstract: An automated casing removal system for removing the casing of encased food products supported on a support frame. An inclined surface on the support frame has a staging area onto which encased food product is loaded. The staging area has a cutting member moveable along a portion of the length of the staging area, and a stop mechanism downstream from the cutting member on the inclined surface. The stop mechanism extends within a plane which intersects the inclined surface to prevent the food product from moving down the inclined surface. The staging area has retaining member upstream of the stop mechanism which retains the casing to unravel the casing from the food product as the food product rolls down the inclined surface when the stop mechanism is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Noah Z. Pentelovitch, Henry George Randolph, III, Sean Michael Wood, Krystian Zimowski
  • Publication number: 20130230353
    Abstract: A card-holding component. The card-holding component comprises a main body that includes a base and a card-holding portion. The card-holding portion having a geometry of a segment of a circle with an arcuate edge. The card-holding component also comprises a multiplicity of peripheral slots arranged to open on the arcuate edge of the card-holding portion. Additionally, the card-holding component comprises a coupling notch having a width that substantially matches a thickness of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: E&M LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Evan MURPHY, Michael WOODS, Marshall GRINSTEAD, Forrest GRINSTEAD
  • Patent number: 8496889
    Abstract: A microfluidic device for separating emulsion solution into separate particles by passing the emulsion solution through a passive filter. The separated particles can then be sorted into separate chambers through active filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Aditya Rajagopal, Michael Woods
  • Patent number: 8490368
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for making a band-driven package or a band-drive component for a package, and machines for performing the methods. One method comprises feeding first and second flexible webs in a feed direction, one web being fed each side of a substrate such that the webs are in mutual face-to-face disposition ahead of and behind the substrate with respect to the feed direction; joining the face-to-face webs at a first join ahead of the substrate and at a second join behind the substrate, the joins bounding web portions that together encircle the substrate between the joins; and dividing the joined web portions from the remainder of the webs such that the joined web portions together define a band that encircles the substrate, to be slid around the substrate in use of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Duff Design Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Wood, Adrian James David Howson, Ian Dunckley, Cyrille Fuellemann, Alfred Wipf, Daniel Kummer
  • Publication number: 20130142432
    Abstract: A method of tracking targets in video data. At each of a sequence of time steps, a set of weighted probability distribution components is derived. At each time step the following steps are performed. First, a new set of components from the components of the previous time step are derived in accordance with a predefined motion model for the targets. The video at the current time step is then analysed to obtain a set of measurements, and the new set of components is updated using the measurements in accordance with a predefined measurement model. Finally, the set of components derived at each time step are analysed to derive a set of tracks for the targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Trevor Michael Wood
  • Patent number: 8438951
    Abstract: A pill bottle opener including a base, a utility ring, and a cap. The utility ring includes two tabs positioned in its inner portion. The cap has a hollow, cylindrical body open on one end and has a dome-shaped top on its other end. The utility ring and cap may be interlocked by a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Patrick A. McCabe, Mark Jeffrey Hornick, Eliot Thomas Dill, Michael Wood, Dean A. Collura
  • Patent number: 8428702
    Abstract: Easy to use, cost-effective methods and devices for evaluating and treating stress and thereby disorders caused or exacerbated by stress are provided. More particularly methods and devices for identifying RSA waves during respiration which provide a subject with real-time RSA wave information are provided. These methods and devices also can be used to identify drop points in RSA waves. Such methods and devices provide subjects with the ability to maintain parasympathetic outflow and thereby prevent and/or reduce levels of stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Respironics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wood, Adam Forbes, Kirstin Rhys
  • Publication number: 20130038674
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving and interacting with a set of presentation images by a user on a mobile device, during a presentation given by a presenter to a plurality of participants. The presentation images are received on the mobile device from a presentation server. A first display instruction is also received from the presenter via the server. The presentation images (rendered locally on the mobile device) are displayed through an interactivity interface on the device taking into account the first display instructions as permitted by the capabilities of the mobile device. When a second display instruction is received from the presenter via the server the appearance or pacing of the presentation images is automatically changed on the interactivity interface without the need to reload the presentation images from the presentation server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: XTREME LABS INC.
    Inventors: James Michael Woods, Alexander Louis Christodoulou