Patents by Inventor Michael Nicholas

Michael Nicholas 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: 20030101248
    Abstract: A network management and administration system provisioning data links in an optical networking environment is provided. The network management and administration system makes use of connectivity information in establishing and monitoring data links. The connectivity information includes data link termination specifications. Data link termination specifications include port and channel specifications. Each port may have a channelized or an unchannelized configuration. A virtual channel having a data transport capacity substantially equal to that of a corresponding unchannelized port is defined therefor. The advantages include a standardized, concise and comprehensive provisioning and presentation of data links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Nicholas Tofinetti, Jane Zhan, Dan Falkenham, Felix Katz, Jizong Li, Trevor Dale Janes
  • Patent number: 6527980
    Abstract: According to the present invention, hydrogen/carbon monoxide synthesis gas (also called syngas) is produced by injection of a second reactant stream into a hydrocarbon reformer at a location between the entry and discharge ends of the reformer. The second reactant stream can contain: carbon dioxide; a mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon; a mixture of hydrocarbon and steam, a mixture of carbon dioxide and steam; or a mixture of carbon dioxide with hydrocarbon and steam. All or part of the mixtures containing hydrocarbon and steam can be prereformed hydrocarbon in steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Roden, Arthur Daniel Bixler, David Michael Nicholas, Shankar Nataraj
  • Publication number: 20020147324
    Abstract: Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • Patent number: 6262248
    Abstract: Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignees: Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • Patent number: 6127607
    Abstract: Disclosed is a new plant resistance gene family, the members of which encode plant resistance polypeptides having P-loop and LRR structural motifs. Also disclosed are substantially pure plant DNAs encoding such polypeptides. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these DNAs and exhibit enhanced disease resistance to plant pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Frederick Michael Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu
  • Patent number: 3992931
    Abstract: A bearing transducer assembly for measuring the dynamic load applied to a bearing by an oscillating or rotating member. The apparatus includes a shaft journaled within a thin walled bearing, a support member, a plurality of transducer assemblies mounted between the support member and the bearing for supporting the bearing and shaft and for detecting the dynamic load placed thereupon by the oscillation or rotation of the shaft, and an electrical circuitry for cancelling the bearing distortion components and measuring the dynamic load component representative of the dynamic load applied to the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Union Special Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Nicholas Tranquilla, Prakash Dhirubhai Desai
  • Patent number: D336861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Inventor: Michael Nicholas
  • Patent number: D416519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Won, Trevor M. Creed, Raymond C. Cannara, Robert J. Janosko, Michael Nicholas