Patents by Inventor Neil Hogg

Neil Hogg 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).

  • Patent number: 8143420
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for detecting free radicals, the compositions being spin trapping compounds comprising a nitrone having a detecting moiety and optionally having a targeting moiety for targeting the nitrone to an organ, a cell, an organelle or a molecule of interest for directly detecting free radicals, especially free radicals in biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Medical Collage of Wisconsin, Inc., Université de Provence
    Inventors: Micael Joel Hardy, Marcos Lopez, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Neil Hogg, Olivier Ouari, Paul Tordo
  • Publication number: 20120028708
    Abstract: A gaming machine (10) is provided having a plurality of modules. The gaming machine (10) may be used to provide a flexible architecture gaming machine. The plurality of modules include a play module (12) containing a display device (14) and a computational device (100) for controlling the operation of the gaming machine (10), and a base module (24) shaped and dimensioned to either directly or indirectly support the play module (12). The play module (12) includes a communication interface device (104) operable to communicate with a transaction handler that may be a transaction handling module (16). Also described and claimed is a method of supplying and a method of manufacturing a flexible architecture gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Dreyer, Neil Hogg
  • Patent number: 8012026
    Abstract: A gaming machine (10) is provided having a plurality of modules. The gaming machine (10) may be used to provide a flexible architecture gaming machine. The plurality of modules include a play module (12) containing a display device (14) and a computational device (100) for controlling the operation of the gaming machine (10), and a base module (24) shaped and dimensioned to either directly or indirectly support the play module (1 2). The play module (12) includes a communication interface device (104) operable to communicate with a transaction handler that may be a transaction handling module (16). Also described and claimed is a method of supplying and a method of manufacturing a flexible architecture gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty.
    Inventors: Peter Dreyer, Neil Hogg
  • Publication number: 20090170134
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for detecting free radicals, the compositions being spin trapping compounds comprising a nitrone having a detecting moiety and optionally having a targeting moiety for targeting the nitrone to an organ, a cell, an organelle or a molecule of interest for directly detecting free radicals, especially free radicals in biological samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Micael Joel Hardy, Marcos Lopez, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Neil Hogg, Olivier Ouari, Paul Tordo
  • Publication number: 20080254880
    Abstract: A gaming machine (10) is provided having a plurality of modules. The gaming machine (10) may be used to provide a flexible architecture gaming machine. The plurality of modules include a play module (12) containing a display device (14) and a computational device (100) for controlling the operation of the gaming machine (10), and a base module (24) shaped and dimensioned to either directly or indirectly support the play module (1 2). The play module (12) includes a communication interface device (104) operable to communicate with a transaction handler that may be a transaction handling module (16). Also described and claimed is a method of supplying and a method of manufacturing a flexible architecture gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Dreyer, Neil Hogg
  • Patent number: 5490391
    Abstract: An air separation apparatus and method for producing a gaseous oxygen product at a delivery pressure. A, filtered, compressed and purified air stream is formed and preferably divided into first and second air streams. The air contained within the first air stream is separated by a low temperature rectification process operating in accordance with a Claude cycle to produce liquid oxygen in a lower pressure column with a double column air separation unit. A Claude expander expands at least a major portion of the air contained within the first air stream into the high pressure column. The second air stream is compressed and partially cooled and is then expanded with the performance of work which is in turn applied to the work of compression of the second air stream. Liquid oxygen is pumped from the lower pressure column to substantially the delivery pressure and is vaporized within a mixing column against the second air stream which is also introduced into the mixing column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Hogg, Joseph Straub
  • Patent number: 5456083
    Abstract: An air separation apparatus and method in which a high pressure gaseous product is produced as a liquid, pumped to a delivery pressure and then vaporized prior to its discharge as product. In order to accomplish the requisite vaporization, a subsidiary stream of incoming air is compressed by a booster compressor and then passed into indirect heat exchange with the pumped liquid in a falling film evaporator. The falling film evaporator maintains an essentially constant temperature difference between the air and falling film, formed of the pumped liquid. As a result, a very small temperature differences can be maintained as compared with the conventional use of a thermosyphon reboiler. As a result, less booster compression is required for the subsidiary air stream over a prior art plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Hogg, Mark Leskowicz