Patents by Inventor Peter David

Peter David 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).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARTRIDGE-BASED CARBONATION OF BEVERAGES
    Publication number: 20140331867
    Abstract: Systems, methods and cartridges for carbonating or otherwise dissolving gas in a precursor liquid, such as water, to form a beverage. A gas source can be provided in a cartridge which is used to generate gas that is dissolved into the precursor liquid. A beverage medium, such as a powdered drink mix or liquid syrup, may be provided in the same, or a separate cartridge as the gas source and mixed with the precursor liquid to form a beverage. The use of one or more cartridges for the gas source and/or beverage medium may make for an easy to use and mess-free system for making sparkling beverages, e.g., in the consumer's home.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Keurig Green Mountain,Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Novak, Ross Packard, Peter Peterson, Shawn Gulla, Jennifer Caitlin Huot Carlson, Camilla Schmitt, Mark Joseph Cohen, Ross Peter Jones, Nicolas Alejandro Martinez, Miles William Noel Hember, Fabien Yannick Schmitt, Gary Stacey, Niall Allan Mottram, Neil Lester Campbell, Cormac O'Prey, Wai Ting Chan, Nicholas David Rollings, Charles Frazer Kilby, Christopher Paul Richardson, Thomas Bates Jackson, Scott Grubb, Chris Covey, Barry Dobson, Paul Wilkins, Chris Roach, Peter David Cauwood, Keith Paul Thompson, James Hewitt, Marc Angotti, Ray Carroll, Richard Estabrook, Kevin Hartley, Frank Consoli
  • SYNTHESIS OF LONG-CHAIN POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS BY RECOMBINANT CELL
    Publication number: 20140314727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desatorase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Stanley Suresh Robert, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Xue-Rong Zhou, James Robertson Petrie, Allan Graham Green
  • Equipment and processes for the application of atomized fluid to a web substrate
    Patent number: 8858213
    Abstract: An apparatus for the application of atomized fluid to a permeable web material is disclosed. The apparatus has a fluid source and a receipt plenum. The fluid source is disposed in proximate fluid contact with the first surface of the web material. The fluid source has a positively pressured permeable roll having atomized fluid and at least one aperture disposed therein. The apertures provide fluid communication between an inner portion of the roll and a surface thereof. The fluid is disposable from the inner portion to the surface through the apertures into contacting engagement with the permeable web material. The receipt plenum has an opening disposed adjacent to the second surface of the web material that provides a source of negative pressure to the second surface of the web material that causes the fluid to traverse through the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: André Mellin, Kevin Benson McNeil, Peter David Meyer
  • Synthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids by recombinant cell
    Patent number: 8853432
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Stanley Suresh Robert, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Xue-Rong Zhou, James Robertson Petrie, Allan Graham Green
  • Methods and systems for controlling access to resources and privileges per process
    Patent number: 8850549
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: BeyondTrust Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • INTERFACE COMPRISING A NASAL SEALING PORTION
    Publication number: 20140283842
    Abstract: An interface for positive pressure therapy includes a mask assembly and a headgear assembly. The mask assembly comprises a mask seal that is adapted to underlie the nose. The mask seal extends up the lateral sides of the nose. The mask seal has a primary seal below the nose and a secondary seal alongside the nose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Peter David Alexander Bearne, Roheet Patel, Kristin Elizabeth Middelkoop, Michael John Henri Cox, Fadi Mashal, Gregory James Olsen, Isaac Tristram Tane Mason, Matthew Roger Stephenson
  • MULTIFUNCTION SOLID-STATE INSPECTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140268109
    Abstract: An inspection system includes optical components for operating the inspection system in an interference fringe imaging mode and a microscope imaging mode. The inspection system further includes at least one optical light source configured to emit a first wavelength of light to operate the inspection system in the interference fringe imaging mode and configure to emit a second wavelength of light to operate the inspection system in the microscope mode. The first wavelength of light is different from the second wavelength of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: PROMET International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Elliot Eckman, Peter David Koudelka, Lubomir Koudelka
  • RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXOR AND OPTICAL SWITCHING NODE
    Publication number: 20140255026
    Abstract: A colorless, directionless ROADM includes a pair of contentioned add and drop wavelength-selective optical switches, an input wavelength-selective optical switch having one input port, and an output wavelength-selective optical switch having one output port. Unintended input-to-output port couplings, which appear in the “contentioned” add and drop switches, can be mitigated by the input and output wavelength-selective optical switches carrying the through traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Peter David Roorda, Sheldon McLaughlin
  • AUTONOMOUS SURFACE TREATING APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20140238756
    Abstract: An autonomous surface treating appliance comprising a chassis having a drive arrangement and a control system interfaced to the drive arrangement so as enable control of the appliance across a surface to be treated, wherein the drive arrangement comprises at least one traction unit, each traction unit comprising a surface-engaging track constrained around a leading wheel and a trailing wheel, the leading wheel and the trailing wheel being arranged so that a track portion opposing the floor surface and extending between the leading and trailing wheels defines a ramped climbing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: James DYSON, Peter David GAMMACK, Mark Stamford VANDERSTEGEN-DRAKE, Paul Joshua BOTT
  • EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES FOR THE APPLICATION OF ATOMIZED FLUID TO A WEB SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20140242210
    Abstract: An apparatus for the application of atomized fluid to a permeable web material is disclosed. The apparatus has a fluid source and a receipt plenum. The fluid source is disposed in proximate fluid contact with the first surface of the web material. The fluid source has a positively pressured permeable roll having atomized fluid and at least one aperture disposed therein. The apertures provide fluid communication between an inner portion of the roll and a surface thereof. The fluid is disposable from the inner portion to the surface through the apertures into contacting engagement with the permeable web material. The receipt plenum has an opening disposed adjacent to the second surface of the web material that provides a source of negative pressure to the second surface of the web material that causes the fluid to traverse through the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: André MELLIN, Kevin Benson MCNEIL, Peter David MEYER
  • Enzymes and methods for producing omega-3 fatty acids
    Patent number: 8809559
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of recombinant fatty acid synthesis, particularly in transgenic plants. The application describes genes involved in fatty acid synthesis and provides methods and vectors for the manipulation of fatty acid composition of plant oils. In particular, the invention provides constructs for achieving the integration of multiple heterologous genes involved in fatty acid synthesis into the plant genome, such that the resulting plants produce altered levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Also described are methods for enhancing the expression of fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes by co-expressing a silencing suppressor within the plant storage organ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Commonwelath Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
  • Fuel Cell Separator Plates
    Publication number: 20140227630
    Abstract: The invention relates to separator plates (108) for fuel cells, and in particular to separator plates having particular geometries for improved edge sealing properties. Exemplary embodiments of the invention include a fuel cell separator plate (308) having first and second opposing faces (304, 305), the separator plate having a series of corrugations (301) extending, and providing air flow paths (302), between first and second opposing edges of the plate, wherein crests of corrugations along the first face (304) proximate the first edge (303) of the plate are depressed to be coplanar with adjacent crests of corrugations along the second face such that a greater contact surface on the second face (305) is provided compared with the first face (304).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Peter David Hood, Paul Leonard Adcock
  • Fuel Cell Assembly
    Publication number: 20140220473
    Abstract: The invention relates to fuel cell assemblies, and in particular to improvements relating to sealing of such assemblies, embodiments of which include a fuel cell assembly (200) comprising a membrane electrode assembly (104), a cathode separator plate (208) having a series of corrugations extending, and providing air flow paths, between first and second opposing edges of the plate, a gasket (105) providing a fluid seal around a peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104) between the separator plate (208) and the membrane electrode assembly (104) and a metal shim (107) disposed between the gasket (105) and the separator plate (208) over the peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Intelligent Energy Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Cole, Christopher James Kirk, Christopher Conlon, Peter David Hood
  • Fuel Cell System
    Publication number: 20140220466
    Abstract: A fuel cell (FC) system operating as its own hydrogen leak detector. The system including at least one cathode and cathode conduit for passage of oxidant to to the cathode and a housing containing one or more FCs and defining a plenum around the FC. A ventilation system forces air from the plenum into the cathode conduit and a control system monitors the FC voltage and detects a drop in voltage attributable to hydrogen in the cathode conduit. A control system may include actual cell voltage monitoring of the FC or of one or more cells in the FC stack and a processor for receiving inputs indicative of the operation of the FC or FC stack and/or to determine an expected voltage of FC(s) being monitored and whether the difference between the actual and expected voltage(s) exceeds a predetermined threshold indicative of a predetermined level of hydrogen in the cathode conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Edward Foster, Peter David Hood, Christopher James Kirk
  • Battery pack
    Patent number: D710299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Timothy Nicholas Stickney, Jonathan George Marsh
  • Vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: D710559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Joanne Katy Mitchell, Paul Dawson, James Dyson, Peter David Gammack
  • Part of a vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: D714503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Dawson, James Jonathan Dearing, Samuel James Czerpak, Jonathan George Marsh
  • Hair dryer
    Patent number: D715995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Patrick Joseph William Moloney, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton
  • Hair dryer
    Patent number: D715996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Patrick Joseph William Moloney, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton
  • Hair dryer
    Patent number: D716492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Patrick Joseph William Moloney, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton