Patents by Inventor Paul Nichols

Paul Nichols 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: 20200171002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, processes for preparing crystallized 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, and intermediates useful therefore. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystallized compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Christoph Max Krell, Marian Misun, Daniel Andreas Niederer, Werner Heinz Pachinger, Marie-Christine Wolf, Daniel Zimmermann, Weidong Liu, Peter J. Stengel, Paul Nichols
  • Publication number: 20200031826
    Abstract: A method of recovering a highly pure hydrocodone base from an impure hydrocodone preparation includes contacting the impure hydrocodone preparation with a weak acid in water to form a solution and adding a strong base to the solution in an amount sufficient to precipitate the pure hydrocodone base product. A highly pure hydrocodone base comprises less than 0.0025 wt % codeinone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: JESSICA CARDOT, JOSHUA SASINE, PAUL NICHOLS
  • Publication number: 20190377460
    Abstract: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven content generation system is configured to interact with and inject user inputs into the decision-making process to navigate the user through the boundless creative space offered by content generation algorithms powered by AI. A content generation application may generate an initial collection of artifacts (e.g., multimedia) for exposure to a user, which may be generated based on user input, context awareness, or randomly generated. Responsive to user selection of one of the initial artifacts, a subsequent collection of artifacts is generated based on characteristics of the selected artifact. The generative process is recursive in that the generative application and the user continue to interact until the user decides to use one of the generated artifacts. The generative process enables the user to navigate the virtually infinite creative space of artifacts which may be generated by AI algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Charles BUTCHER, Eric Paul NICHOLS, Mark Fenwick WHEELER, Ted Tai-Yu CHEN, George VALAVANIS, Wesley HODGSON, Ines KHELIFI
  • Patent number: 10435238
    Abstract: Unitary ornamental front load containers for containing trash and/or recyclables include a container for containing the trash and/or recyclables, and an ornamental surround attached with a connector to the front load container. The attached ornamental surround defines right and left front openings aligned with right and left front pocket openings of right and left fork pockets of the container. The ornamental surround obscures from view the front sidewall, the right sidewall having the right fork pocket, the left sidewall having the left fork pocket, the rear sidewall, and the at least one hinged top of the container by an observer standing on the ground. The container and the attached ornamental surround being liftable as a unit by forks of a front loading garbage truck to empty the trash and/or the recyclables from the unitary ornamental front load container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Dumpster Dress LLC
    Inventor: Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: 10398683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, processes for preparing crystallized 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, and intermediates useful therefore. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystallized compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Array BioPharma Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph Max Krell, Marian Misun, Daniel Andreas Niederer, Werner Heinz Pachinger, Marie-Christine Wolf, Daniel Zimmermann, Weidong Liu, Peter J. Stengel, Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: 10171953
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to vehicle event notification via cell broadcast. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can receive an event message in response to an event. The system can extract information associated with the event from the event message. The system can determine an area of relevance for the event. The system can create an event notification message. The event notification message can be formatted as a cell broadcast message to be broadcast to a cell serving at least a portion of the area of relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Murali Narayanan, Thomas Becker, Zachery Carter, Roger Mahler, George Murphy, Paul Nichols
  • Publication number: 20180357548
    Abstract: A content server stores video and audio, and other media containing songs. One or more seed songs associated with seed lyrics and a client device are obtained. A seed feature vector characterizing the seed lyrics is obtained. A song lyric corpus including candidate feature vectors characterizing candidate song lyrics of candidate songs is accessed. Song lyric features are stored in the song lyric corpus to facilitate identification of candidate lyrics most similar to the seed lyrics. The candidate feature vectors in the song lyric corpus may be reduced-dimension versions of high-dimensional feature vectors quantifying characteristics of the song lyrics. One of the candidate songs is selected according to a measure of similarity between the seed feature vector and one of the candidate feature vectors corresponding to the selected candidate song. A song recommendation including the selected candidate song is generated and provided to the client device associated with the song.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Paul Nichols, Yading Song, Justin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10141010
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to censoring audio data. A censoring system receives audio data including a song tag and amplitude data as a function of time. The amplitude data represents spoken words occurring over a duration, as well as non-spoken word sound overlapping with some of the spoken words during the duration. The system accesses a set of song lyrics and processes the set of song lyrics and the amplitude data together to identify timestamps in the amplitude data. These timestamps indicate a time during the duration when one of the words from the lyrics begins in the amplitude data. The system compares the words in the set of song lyrics to a blacklist and adjusts the amplitude data at the timestamps of blacklisted word occurrences to render the audio at the blacklisted words incomprehensible. The system outputs the adjusted amplitude data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Eric Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: 10136196
    Abstract: A connector brick for a cable communication system includes a header frame including end spacers and side spacers defining a header opening. The header frame is configured for mating with a circuit card. A plurality of cable connectors are received in the header opening and connected to the header frame. Each cable connector has cables extending therefrom. Each cable connector has a header holding signal contacts at a mating end of the header and configured for mating with a corresponding card connector of the circuit card. Float mechanisms extend from the header frame. The float mechanisms allow limited movement in at least two directions of the header frame. The float mechanisms allow alignment of the header frame with the circuit card. The cable connectors float with the header frame as a unit for mating with the corresponding card connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher David Ritter, Robert Paul Nichols, Jared Evan Rossman, Jeffrey Stewart Simpson, Joshua Tyler Sechrist
  • Publication number: 20180296533
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, processes for preparing crystallized 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, and intermediates useful therefore. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystallized compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Christoph Max Krell, Marian Misun, Daniel Andreas Niederer, Werner Heinz Pachinger, Marie-Christine Wolf, Daniel Zimmermann, Weidong Liu, Peter J. Stengel, Paul Nichols
  • Publication number: 20180176209
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) certificate management. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can receive a CRL from a security credential management (“SCM”) system. The CRL can identify one or more certificates that have been determined to be invalid, such as when the certificate(s) has expired. The certificate(s) can be utilized by a vehicle for secure communications, including vehicle-to-vehicle (“V2V”) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (“V2I”) (collectively V2X). The system can format the CRL as a cell broadcast message. The system can then create a cell broadcast request directed to a cell broadcast center (“CBC”). The cell broadcast request can include the CRL formatted as the cell broadcast message. The system can send the cell broadcast request to the CBC to instruct the CBC to broadcast the CRL as the cell broadcast message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Murali Narayanan, Roger Mahler, Paul Nichols, George Murphy, Zachery Carter, Senthil Ramakrishnan, Thomas Becker
  • Publication number: 20180176742
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to vehicle event notification via cell broadcast. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can receive an event message in response to an event. The system can extract information associated with the event from the event message. The system can determine an area of relevance for the event. The system can create an event notification message. The event notification message can be formatted as a cell broadcast message to be broadcast to a cell serving at least a portion of the area of relevance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Murali Narayanan, Thomas Becker, Zachery Carter, Roger Mahler, George Murphy, Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: 9980944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, processes for preparing crystallized 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, and intermediates useful therefore. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystallized compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Array BioPharma Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph Max Krell, Marian Misun, Daniel Andreas Niederer, Werner Heinz Pachinger, Marie-Christine Wolf, Daniel Zimmermann, Weidong Liu, Peter J. Stengel, Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: 9972927
    Abstract: An electrical power contact includes a mating segment having a mating interface at which the electrical power contact is configured to mate with a mating contact. The mating segment includes an electrically conductive base layer, and an electrically conductive outer layer that includes the mating interface. The mating segment also includes a circuit protection layer that extends between the base layer and the outer layer. The circuit protection layer provides an electrical pathway between the base layer and the outer layer. The circuit protection layer includes a selectively conductive material that is configured to open the electrical pathway between the base layer and the outer layer when an electrical current above a predetermined threshold is passed through the circuit protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Paul Nichols, Kevin Edward Weidner, David Patrick Orris, Julia Lachman
  • Patent number: 9960508
    Abstract: A wire lug connector includes a lug having a termination end configured to be terminated to a conductor of a wire. The lug has a conductive base at a mounting end configured to be mounted to a substrate. The base has a plurality of compliant pins extending from a bottom of the base. The compliant pins are electrically connected to the conductor by the base. The compliant pins are configured to be mechanically and electrically connected to the substrate. The compliant pins may have double ended press-fit sections at opposite heads and tails of the compliant pins that are press-fit into corresponding openings in the base and vias in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Paul Nichols, Michael Allen Blanchfield
  • Publication number: 20180015687
    Abstract: A reinforced gasket material. A non-metallic scrim layer is interposed between layers of gasket material to provide strength to the gasket material. The layers of the gasket material can include binding agent to aid adhering to each other and to the non-metallic scrim layer. The non-metallic scrim layer can also be coated in binding agent. The layers of the gasket material can include high-temperature sealing material, compressed fiber, exfoliated graphite, or polytetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Michael McManus, Paul Nichols, Sherwin Damdar
  • Publication number: 20170374435
    Abstract: A connector brick for a cable communication system includes a header frame including end spacers and side spacers defining a header opening. The header frame is configured for mating with a circuit card. A plurality of cable connectors are received in the header opening and connected to the header frame. Each cable connector has cables extending therefrom. Each cable connector has a header holding signal contacts at a mating end of the header and configured for mating with a corresponding card connector of the circuit card. Float mechanisms extend from the header frame. The float mechanisms allow limited movement in at least two directions of the header frame. The float mechanisms allow alignment of the header frame with the circuit card. The cable connectors float with the header frame as a unit for mating with the corresponding card connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher David Ritter, Robert Paul Nichols, Jared Evan Rossman, Jeffrey Stewart Simpson, Joshua Tyler Sechrist
  • Publication number: 20170355521
    Abstract: Unitary ornamental front load containers for containing trash and/or recyclables include a container for containing the trash and/or recyclables, and an ornamental surround attached with a connector to the front load container. The attached ornamental surround defines right and left front openings aligned with right and left front pocket openings of right and left fork pockets of the container. The ornamental surround obscures from view the front sidewall, the right sidewall having the right fork pocket, the left sidewall having the left fork pocket, the rear sidewall, and the at least one hinged top of the container by an observer standing on the ground. The container and the attached ornamental surround being liftable as a unit by forks of a front loading garbage truck to empty the trash and/or the recyclables from the unitary ornamental front load container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Dumpster Dress LLC
    Inventor: Paul NICHOLS
  • Publication number: 20170231963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, processes for preparing crystallized 6-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-fluoro-3-methyl-3H-benzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (2-hydroxyethyoxy)-amide, and intermediates useful therefore. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystallized compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Christoph Max Krell, Marian Misun, Daniel Andreas Niederer, Werner Heinz Pachinger, Marie-Christine Wolf, Daniel Zimmermann, Weidong Liu, Peter J. Stengel, Paul Nichols
  • Patent number: D797394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: DUMPSTER DRESS, LLC
    Inventor: Paul Nichols