Patents by Inventor Michael J. Pierce

Michael J. Pierce 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: 20100297609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of isotopically labeling glycans and in facilitating high throughput quantitative/comparative analysis of glycomic compositions of biological cells. The method is applicable inter alia for identifying differentiated cells and their glycomic characteristics, differentiation conditions, disease and/or therapeutic progression, diagnosing disease states, determining drug activity, establishing manufacturing efficiencies and for determining the half-life of glycans in cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Wells, Ronald C. Orlando, Stephen Dalton, Kelley W. Moreman, Michael J. Pierce, James A. Attwood, III, Michael Tiemeyer, William S. York
  • Publication number: 20100025504
    Abstract: The invention comprises a seed spreader having a cylindrical drum mounted upon a pair of wheels for traviling the drum along the wheels for distributing seed along path upon the ground. The drum rotates with the wheels as the wheels rotate along the ground as an operator pushes the wheels forward by a handle mounted to the drum. The drum is hollow and has a door which can be opened to enable seed to be deposited into the interior of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Randy Dufault
  • Patent number: 7610866
    Abstract: The invention comprises a radio controlled tree planter. The planter has four hydraulically controlled tree spades mounted on vehicle, with hydraulic cylinders to position the spades in a storage, position, a vertical digging position, and a actual digging action. A tv size radio transmitter has button controls for transmitting radio signals to a radio receiver mounted on the planter, which receiver in turn transmits signals to solenoids operating the hydraulic cylinders to thereby control the movement of the spades in the three positions of its operation to thereby control the digging operations of the spades within the range of the receiver from a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Inventors: Michael J. Pierce, Kevin J. Pierce, Austin M. Pierce, Megan A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 7598493
    Abstract: A method of identifying different brands of peat moss including the steps of separation of the peat and sand by first adding water to the peat and sand mixture to enable the peat to float to the top of the water and the sand to gravitate to the bottom collecting the peat at the surface of the water and drying the peat there after grinding the peat to pass thru a sieve of small mesh then mixing the ground peat with Potassium Bromide (KBr) at a ratio in the neighborhood of 1:20 then grinding said mixture with a mortar and pestle then loading to a sample cell; then loading a ground pure KBr to a reference cell, then scanning and collecting wave spectrums of the references and samples in the range of 4000 to 600 cm?1, collect said spectrums directly from said peat/sand mixtures and dry said peat/sand mixtures in the neighborhood of 105 degrees centigrade for a 24 hour period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Inventor: Michael J. Pierce
  • Publication number: 20090051209
    Abstract: The invention comprises a dump trailer for dispensing materials onto receiving objects from different heights comprising a box and main frame with the box tiltable to raise one end of the box at an angle to the main frame. The box has a first and second conveyor with the first conveyor powered to travel along the bottom of the box towards the one end of the box to convey material in the box towards the one end of the box when the box is tiltable at an angle. The second conveyor is raisable with the box at the one end of the box with means to maintain the second conveyor parallel to the main frame and generally parallel to the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Randy Dufault
  • Publication number: 20090053026
    Abstract: A dump trailer having a box for storing material therein, a first conveyor for conveying the material out of the forward end of the box, a second conveyor pivot able from a storage position beside the box to a position across the front end of the first conveyor for receiving material from the first conveyor. Said second conveyor being pivotal at an angle for transporting material from the first conveyor at different heights to another object at different heights. Said second conveyor being slidable along its length to different locations on either side of the box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Randy Dufault
  • Publication number: 20080029560
    Abstract: The invention comprises of a two wheeled seed spreader having a centrally located box for storing the seed. The box has surrounding sides and an open bottom. A conveyor belt is mounted across the open bottom for conveying seed in the box forward to the front bottom of the box, an adjustable brush is mounted above the forward end of the conveyor and adjustable downward against the belt to vary the amount of seed conveyed off the forward end of the belt. A rotary brush is mounted just in front of the forward end of the belt and driven counterclockwise and downward against the belt to drive seed traveling off the forward end of the belt downward toward the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Randy Dufault
  • Patent number: 6283697
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a mobile bin device having a mobile bin with a first conveyor extending along the bottom of the bin beneath a bin opening to convey material in the bin to one end of the bin. A second belt conveyor has one end pivotally mounted to the one end of the bin to pivot relative to the bin upward and downward and to one side or the other. The second conveyor is slidably mounted in its pivotal mounting to side longitudinally in the mounting to along the one end of the bin beneath the one end of the first conveyor to shorten or lengthen the distance from the outer end of the first conveyor to the outlet end of the second conveyor at the one end of the bin. Power devices are provided to power the upward and downward movement of the second conveyor and the longitudinal movement of the second conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Karen Dufault, Wayne A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 6237695
    Abstract: The invention comprises a mobile dethatching or ground cutting apparatus having a frame with front and rear wheels and a towing arm mounted to the frame for towing behind a tractor. A rotary drum is rotatably mounted to the frame and a hydraulic motor is mounted to the frame for powering the rotation of the drum. The front wheels are adjustable in height for adjusting the weight of the drum relative to the ground. The drum has a plurality of slots and peripheral rods are mounted about the circumference of the drum with the drum having plurality of slots at intervals about its circumference rod receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce
  • Patent number: 6220531
    Abstract: The invention is a mobile bin with two conveyors with each mounted on a main frame and with the main frame having wheels for rotatably supporting the vehicle along the ground. The bin has an opening along its bottom and the first belt conveyor is mounted beneath the opening in the bin and its remote ends extend to the opposite ends of the bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Karen Dufault, Wayne A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 5833012
    Abstract: The invention comprises a scraper and drag attachment for a tractor. The attachment has a main frame with a hitch at it forward end for attachment to a tractor. A scraper is fixed to the main frame behind the hitch and a first pivotal frame is pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper. A pair of wheel frames each having a wheel rotatably mounted thereon are individually pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper and laterally adjacent one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventors: Kevin J. Pierce, Michael J. Pierce, Karen Dufault, Wayne A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 5273211
    Abstract: The invention comprises a mobile trailer having a frame with a set of wheels on the frame for hauling the trailer and a pair of storage bins on the frame in side by side spaced relation with one bin adapted to a receive peat with a mixing blade to mix the peat and the other bin adapted to receive sand. The bins have openings along their bottoms and connecting openings along their vertical front walls with vertically adjustable plates to vary the sizes of the vertical openings. Horizontal conveyors are mounted beneath the bottom openings to the bins. Collecting and mixing blades are in the front of the trailer and a rotating spreader mounted to the rear upper portion of the trailer. An inclined conveyor is mounted with its lower end beneath the mixing blade and its upper end above the spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventors: Michael J. Pierce, Kevin J. Pierce, Wayne A. Pierce, Lyle S. Pierce, Randal J. Dufault
  • Patent number: 4353201
    Abstract: Our transfer mechanism is attached to the front of a conventional combine. The transfer mechanism includes a number of longitudinally spaced rows of laterally spaced curved teeth or tines that move rearwardly and upwardly so that the tines of each row successively engage a growing or standing crop, such as pinto beans or field peas, lifting the crop sufficiently so that the cutter bar of the combine effectively severs the crop adjacent the surface of the ground. Continued rearward and upward movement of the tines, while still engaging the severed crop, transfers the crop to a more elevated location adjacent the auger. When the tines reach the auger, the shaft on which those particular tines are mounted is angularly rotated so as to release or dump the severed crop onto a curved floor beneath the auger. The auger moves the cut crop laterally and then rearwardly into the threshing portion of the combine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Inventors: Michael J. Pierce, Kevin J. Pierce, Wayne A. Pierce