Patents by Inventor Paul A. Ward

Paul A. Ward 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: 12180186
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I or II. Compounds of Formula I or II may be used in pharmaceutical formulations, and may be used for modulating glucocorticoid receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hazel Hunt, Lorna Duffy, Ian Strutt, Morgan Jouanneau, Thomas Hornsby, Mark Mills, Andrew William Phillips, Jon-Paul Ward
  • Patent number: 12163787
    Abstract: A tuning fork sensor system places a controlled bias on the proof-mass drive-axis electrodes to cancel the quadrature charge. Also, its charge amplifiers employ a field-effect transistor biased slightly into the triode region so that it behaves as a very large value resistor. In addition, it uses a phase-locked loop having a special loop filter in order to optimize performance by rejecting off-frequency drive feedthrough to the motor pick-off while resulting in very low phase wander for the demodulation references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, Richard D. Elliott, III, Daniel Joseph Guyon
  • Patent number: 12119760
    Abstract: A control circuit for an electrostatic machine includes a current source or sink, an inductor, a switching network coupled between the current source or sink and the electrostatic machine, and between the inductor and the electrostatic machine. A controller is configured to automatically cause the switching network to connect the current source or sink to the electrostatic machine each half-cycle of a periodically alternating polarity. At each polarity alternation, the electrostatic machine is isolated from the current source or sink for a first period of time. At each polarity alternation, the inductor is connected to the electrostatic machine for a second period of time while the electrostatic machine is isolated from the current source or sink, and then disconnect the inductor from the electrostatic machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Beryl Kratchman, James A. Bickford, Kasey Russell, Paul A. Ward
  • Publication number: 20240235469
    Abstract: An electrical bus system has an integrated trunk bus that includes at least one positive bus line, an equal number of negative bus line, and a messenger cable that that are twisted together to form a single, integrated trunk bus line. The messenger cable provides mechanical support and is coupled to vertical support using brackets, ground clamps, or other suitable coupling techniques, thereby eliminating the need for cable hangers or trenching. The messenger cable provides a grounding function, thereby eliminating the need for an additional grounding line. Multi-tap shear bolt connectors are used to connect the integrated trunk bus line to photovoltaic wires carrying the output from one or more solar panel arrays, thereby obviating the need for combiner boxes used in conventional systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Orin B. Singh, Paul Ward, Ryan Deputy, Robert Hanes, Victor Mikheev, Ghanem Alnaser
  • Publication number: 20240150320
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I or II. Compounds of Formula I or II may be used in pharmaceutical formulations, and may be used for modulating glucocorticoid receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hazel Hunt, Lorna DUFFY, Ian STRUTT, Morgan JOUANNEAU, Thomas HORNSBY, Mark MILLS, Andrew William PHILLIPS, Jon-Paul WARD
  • Publication number: 20240136974
    Abstract: An electrical bus system has an integrated trunk bus that includes at least one positive bus line, an equal number of negative bus line, and a messenger cable that that are twisted together to form a single, integrated trunk bus line. The messenger cable provides mechanical support and is coupled to vertical support using brackets, ground clamps, or other suitable coupling techniques, thereby eliminating the need for cable hangers or trenching. The messenger cable provides a grounding function, thereby eliminating the need for an additional grounding line. Multi-tap shear bolt connectors are used to connect the integrated trunk bus line to photovoltaic wires carrying the output from one or more solar panel arrays, thereby obviating the need for combiner boxes used in conventional systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Orin B. Singh, Paul Ward, Ryan Deputy, Robert Hanes, Victor Mikheev, Ghanem Alnaser
  • Publication number: 20240127252
    Abstract: The present technology provides solutions for determining transaction insights regarding a subject entity and on behalf of an inquiring entity. An exemplary method includes receiving an Application Programming Interface (API) communication calling an API, determining that the inquiring entity is permitted to access the transaction insights for the use case associated with the API, collecting data for the parameters in the defined in the API communication to yield collected data, analyzing the collected data to derive the transaction insights including at least one risk insight score and at least one reason code associated with the risk insight score, and providing a data pack of the transaction insights in a responsive communication to the inquiring entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ravindran Loganathan, Michael Paul Ward, Srikant Rao, Bino John Thomas, Kazuki Nishiura
  • Patent number: 11787780
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I or II. Compounds of Formula I or II may be used in pharmaceutical formulations, and may be used for modulating glucocorticoid receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hazel Hunt, Lorna Duffy, Ian Strutt, Morgan Jouanneau, Thomas Hornsby, Mark Mills, Andrew William Phillips, Jon-Paul Ward
  • Publication number: 20230119809
    Abstract: A tuning fork sensor system places a controlled bias on the proof-mass drive-axis electrodes to cancel the quadrature charge. Also, its charge amplifiers employ a field-effect transistor biased slightly into the triode region so that it behaves as a very large value resistor. In addition, it uses a phase-locked loop having a special loop filter in order to optimize performance by rejecting off-frequency drive feedthrough to the motor pick-off while resulting in very low phase wander for the demodulation references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, Richard D. Elliott, III, Daniel Joseph Guyon
  • Publication number: 20230032612
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I or II. Compounds of Formula I or II may be used in pharmaceutical formulations, and may be used for modulating glucocorticoid receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hazel Hunt, Lorna DUFFY, Ian STRUTT, Morgan JOUANNEAU, Thomas HORNSBY, Mark MILLS, Andrew William PHILLIPS, Jon-Paul WARD
  • Patent number: 11561094
    Abstract: A tuning fork sensor system places a controlled bias on the proof-mass drive-axis electrodes to cancel the quadrature charge. Also, its charge amplifiers employ a field-effect transistor biased slightly into the triode region so that it behaves as a very large value resistor. In addition, it uses a phase-locked loop having a special loop filter in order to optimize performance by rejecting off-frequency drive feedthrough to the motor pick-off while resulting in very low phase wander for the demodulation references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, Richard D. Elliott, III, Daniel Joseph Guyon
  • Publication number: 20220369928
    Abstract: A method is described which provides patient vital sign measurements to a medical professional during a telemedicine visit. The method includes establishing, by a patient communication device, a video call with a medical professional communication device, processing at least one of a patient video feed from a camera of the patient communication device or an embedded sensor of the patient communication device, determining one or more patient vital sign measurements based on at least one of the processed patient video feed or signal; and transmitting, the one or more patient vital sign measurements and the patient video feed to the medical professional communication device, receipt of the one or more vital sign measurements causing the medical professional communication device to display the one or more vital sign measurements concurrently with the patient video feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Caremeda LLC
    Inventors: Wilson Paul Ward, Matthew Hartley
  • Patent number: 11379191
    Abstract: An improved computer system and method for the publication of business content using a metadata framework that provides for rapid development, encapsulated and extensible functionality, and simplified communication with a wide variety of systems, each of which may support multiple data formats. The system includes an interface and formatting engine configured for identifying data related to a service in data fields in a service request and a control engine for selecting and executing at least one executable code module based on the service request and generating a user interface for display at a client system. The user interface includes a financial transaction field, an amount-of-transaction field, a payee field, a payor field, and a date field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Reddy Malireddy, Michael Paul Ward, Philip John Waldorf, Kevin Michael Burns
  • Patent number: 11327102
    Abstract: Aspects are generally directed to a compact and low-noise electric field detector, methods of operation, and methods of production thereof. In one example, an electric field detector includes a proof mass, a source of concentrated charge coupled to the proof mass, and a substrate having a substrate offset space defined therein, the proof mass being suspended above the substrate offset space. The electric field detector further includes a sense electrode disposed on the substrate within the substrate offset space and proximate the proof mass, the sense electrode being configured to measure a change in capacitance relative to the proof mass from movement of the proof mass in response to a received electric field at the source of concentrated charge. The electric field detector includes a control circuit coupled to the sense electrode and configured to determine a characteristic of the electric field based on the measured change in capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: James A. Bickford, Stephanie Lynne Golmon, Paul A. Ward, William D. Sawyer, Marc Steven Weinberg, John J. Le Blanc, Louis Kratchman, James S. Pringle, Jr., Daniel K. Freeman, Amy Duwel, Max Lindsay Turnquist, Ronald Steven McNabb, Jr., William A. Lenk
  • Publication number: 20200386803
    Abstract: Aspects are generally directed to a compact and low-noise electric field detector, methods of operation, and methods of production thereof. In one example, an electric field detector includes a proof mass, a source of concentrated charge coupled to the proof mass, and a substrate having a substrate offset space defined therein, the proof mass being suspended above the substrate offset space. The electric field detector further includes a sense electrode disposed on the substrate within the substrate offset space and proximate the proof mass, the sense electrode being configured to measure a change in capacitance relative to the proof mass from movement of the proof mass in response to a received electric field at the source of concentrated charge. The electric field detector includes a control circuit coupled to the sense electrode and configured to determine a characteristic of the electric field based on the measured change in capacitance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: James A. Bickford, Stephanie Lynne Golmon, Paul A. Ward, William D. Sawyer, Marc Steven Weinberg, John J. Le Blanc, Louis Kratchman, James S. Pringle, JR., Daniel K. Freeman, Amy Duwel, Max Lindsay Turnquist, Ronald Steven McNabb, JR., William A. Lenk
  • Patent number: 10859620
    Abstract: Aspects are generally directed to a compact and low-noise electric field detector, methods of operation, and methods of production thereof. In one example, an electric field detector includes a proof mass, a source of concentrated charge coupled to the proof mass, and a substrate having a substrate offset space defined therein, the proof mass being suspended above the substrate offset space. The electric field detector further includes a sense electrode disposed on the substrate within the substrate offset space and proximate the proof mass, the sense electrode being configured to measure a change in capacitance relative to the proof mass from movement of the proof mass in response to a received electric field at the source of concentrated charge. The electric field detector includes a control circuit coupled to the sense electrode and configured to determine a characteristic of the electric field based on the measured change in capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: James A. Bickford, Stephanie Lynne Golmon, Paul A. Ward, William D. Sawyer, Marc S. Weinberg, John J. LeBlanc, Louis Kratchman, James S. Pringle, Jr., Daniel Freeman, Amy Duwel, Max Lindsay Turnquist, Ronald Steven McNabb, Jr., William A. Lenk
  • Patent number: 10629095
    Abstract: A training manikin comprising a plurality of sensors for registering training data pertaining to the per-formance of a trainee during use of the training manikin in a training session, a communication module for enabling a communication connection be-tween the training manikin and a user terminal with a display so that the training data can be displayed to a trainer in a training user interface on the display, characterized in that the training manikin comprises a server embedded in the training manikin and the server hosts a client-server application, said server is adapted to be accessed via the communication connection by a user client running on the user terminal and to communicate the client-server application to the user client, said client-server application is con figured to be executed by the user client and provide the training user interface on the display and to process the training data before displaying to the trainer in the training user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Fabian Sachs, Peter Aagaard Kristensen, Christian Paul Ward
  • Publication number: 20200116487
    Abstract: A tuning fork sensor system places a controlled bias on the proof-mass drive-axis electrodes to cancel the quadrature charge. Also, its charge amplifiers employ a field-effect transistor biased slightly into the triode region so that it behaves as a very large value resistor. In addition, it uses a phase-locked loop having a special loop filter in order to optimize performance by rejecting off-frequency drive feedthrough to the motor pick-off while resulting in very low phase wander for the demodulation references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, Richard D. Elliott, III, Daniel Joseph Guyon
  • Patent number: 10601962
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data from a mobile communication device to a remote server across a wireless network is described. The method comprising the following steps. Data is transmitted from an application executing on the mobile communication device using a standard reliable communication protocol. Prior to transmitting the data across the wireless network, receipt of the data is acknowledged, thereby simulating, to the application, receipt of the data by the remote server. Data is transmitted from the mobile communication device to the remote server using an intermediary communication protocol. A mobile communication device and a system implementing the method are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: CTH Lending Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jakub Schmidtke, Paul Ward
  • Patent number: 10566974
    Abstract: Provided is a Precision Voltage Reference (PVR). In one example, the PVR includes a resonator having an oscillation frequency, the resonator including a first proof-mass, a first forcer located adjacent a first side of the first proof-mass, and a second forcer located adjacent a second side of the first proof-mass. The PVR may include control circuitry configured to generate a reference voltage based on the oscillation frequency of the resonator, at least one converter configured to receive the reference voltage from the control circuitry, provide a first bias voltage to the first forcer based on the reference voltage, provide a second bias voltage to the second forcer based on the reference voltage, and periodically alter a polarity of the first and second bias voltages to drive the oscillation frequency to match a reference frequency, and an output configured to provide the reference voltage as a voltage reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Paul A. Ward, James S. Pringle, Marc Steven Weinberg, Warner G. Harrison