Patents by Inventor Patricia Dowling

Patricia Dowling 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: 20080118343
    Abstract: A method for controlling instability in a combustion system comprising a combustion chamber and a passage external of the combustion chamber which supplies a secondary non-combustible fluid to the combustor chamber. The passage external to the combustion chamber is arranged such that the phase of perturbations in the mass flow of the secondary non-combustible fluid in the passage acts to reduce the amplitude of unsteady instability in the combustor chamber. Furthermore, the geometry of the external passage may be actively adjusted to tune the system if the frequency of the unstable instability differs from that for which the combustor was originally designed to attenuate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: David Matthew Arthur, Ann Patricia Dowling
  • Publication number: 20070196388
    Abstract: The present invention provides experimentally-generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and reassortant influenza A viruses comprising at least one genome segment of such an equine influenza virus, wherein the equine influenza virus genome segment confers at least one identifying phenotype of the cold-adapted equine influenza virus, such as cold-adaptation, temperature sensitivity, dominant interference, or attenuation. Such viruses are formulated into therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A viruses, and in particular, to protect horses from disease caused by equine influenza virus. The present invention also includes methods to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A virus utilizing the claimed therapeutic compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Patricia Dowling, Julius Youngner
  • Publication number: 20070172494
    Abstract: The present invention provides experimentally-generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and reassortant influenza A viruses comprising at least one genome segment of such an equine influenza virus, wherein the equine influenza virus genome segment confers at least one identifying phenotype of the cold-adapted equine influenza virus, such as cold-adaptation, temperature sensitivity, dominant interference, or attenuation. Such viruses are formulated into therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A viruses, and in particular, to protect horses from disease caused by equine influenza virus. The present invention also includes methods to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A virus utilizing the claimed therapeutic compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Patricia Dowling, Julius Youngner
  • Publication number: 20070092536
    Abstract: The present invention provides experimentally-generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and reassortant influenza A viruses comprising at least one genome segment of such an equine influenza virus, wherein the equine influenza virus genome segment confers at least one identifying phenotype of the cold-adapted equine influenza virus, such as cold-adaptation, temperature sensitivity, dominant interference, or attenuation. Such viruses are formulated into therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A viruses, and in particular, to protect horses from disease caused by equine influenza virus. The present invention also includes methods to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A virus utilizing the claimed therapeutic compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Patricia Dowling, Julius Youngner
  • Publication number: 20060121521
    Abstract: The present invention provides experimentally-generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and reassortant influenza A viruses comprising at least one genome segment of such an equine influenza virus, wherein the equine influenza virus genome segment confers at least one identifying phenotype of the cold-adapted equine influenza virus, such as cold-adaptation, temperature sensitivity, dominant interference, or attenuation. Such viruses are formulated into therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A viruses, and in particular, to protect horses from disease caused by equine influenza virus. The present invention also includes methods to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A virus or other infectious agents utilizing the claimed therapeutic compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Patricia Dowling, Julius Youngner
  • Publication number: 20050175985
    Abstract: The present invention provides experimentally-generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and reassortant influenza A viruses comprising at least one genome segment of such an equine influenza virus, wherein the equine influenza virus genome segment confers at least one identifying phenotype of the cold-adapted equine influenza virus, such as cold-adaptation, temperature sensitivity, dominant interference, or attenuation. Such viruses are formulated into therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A viruses, and in particular, to protect horses from disease caused by equine influenza virus. The present invention also includes methods to protect animals from diseases caused by influenza A virus utilizing the claimed therapeutic compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Patricia Dowling, Julius Youngner