Patents by Inventor Peter Davies

Peter Davies 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: 20080076461
    Abstract: A radio device is located far from other radio devices in a radio network system. The radio device determines a threshold WIth for detecting a strength equal to or more than the minimum strength of radio waves transmitted/received in a stable radio wave environment based on a plurality of reception signal strengths of Hello packets received from radio devices adjacent to the radio device. Then, if the number of radio devices adjacent to the radio device when the threshold WIth is introduced is less than a standard value (such as five), the radio device stores the adjacent radio devices in the neighbor list without introducing the threshold WIth, and then, maintains in the routing table the routing information of routes passing through the adjacent radio devices based on the neighbor list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Satoko Itaya, Jun Hasegawa, Akio Hasegawa, Peter Davis, Tetsuya Ito, Akira Matsumoto, Naoto Kadowaki, Sadao Obana
  • Publication number: 20080062901
    Abstract: Radio apparatuses each has a plurality of channels and, when data is to be transmitted, selects a specific channel having relatively low signal interference from the plurality of channels. Each radio apparatus spreads transmission data with a prescribed spread code arbitrarily selected from a plurality of spread codes, and modulates the spread spectrum signal with the frequency of the specific channel to transmit. As a result, delay in an autonomously established wireless network can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Naoto Kadowaki, Peter Davis, Jun Hasegawa, Akio Hasegawa, Sadao Obana
  • Publication number: 20080056196
    Abstract: The route maintenance unit outputs a period setting request to the period setting unit when the communication unit normally receives a Hello packet for the first time. The period setting unit sets a link connection confirmation period in response to the period setting request and outputs the set period to the route maintenance unit. The route maintenance unit maintains a radio link between the radio device in which the route maintenance unit is provided and an adjacent device upon receiving a data packet other than a Hello packet from the adjacent radio device even if a Hello packet is not received in the link connection confirmation period. Consequently, route disconnection or switching occurs less often.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ito, Jun Hasegawa, Satoko Itaya, Akira Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Yuichiro Ezure, Akio Hasegawa, Peter Davis, Naoto Kadowaki, Sadao Obana
  • Publication number: 20080027786
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for management of sales activity information. In an embodiment, a system comprises a client system; and a server system, communicatively coupled to the client system, wherein the server system comprises: a client interface to receive sales activity data from the client system, wherein the sales activity is associated with a sales process and arranged using a multi-dimensional matrix; and a data storage system to store the sales activity data using a coordinate system that corresponds with the multi-dimensional matrix. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Mark Harvat
  • Publication number: 20080027378
    Abstract: A catheter used for treatment of complex vasculature, such as a bifurcated aneurysm, is provided with an inflatable balloon at a distal portion thereof. The shape, location and material of the inflatable balloon are selected such that when inflated, the balloon conforms to the shape of the complex vasculature, or at least a portion thereof, without appreciably deforming the vessel walls. In this manner, the balloon can be used to control flow in the vasculature, for example occluding a selected branch of the vasculature during introduction of material in order concentrate the material and minimize its disbursement by blood flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Douglas Hayman, Peter Davis, Maria Sanson, Komonn Reedy, Todd Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20080014963
    Abstract: A radio apparatus forming a radio network system calculates a calculated distance, based on a tentative self-position and tentative positions of a plurality of radio apparatuses existing in the vicinity. The radio apparatus successively and autonomously corrects the tentative self-position so that the calculated distance comes closer to the measured distance, relying more heavily on the calculated distance than the measured distance between itself and each of the plurality of radio apparatuses, and determines the position of itself. Other radio apparatuses also successively correct the tentative self-positions by the same method as the radio apparatus, and determine the positions of themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Takizawa, Peter Davis, Makoto Kawai, Hisato Iwai, Akira Yamaguchi, Sadao Obana
  • Publication number: 20080014868
    Abstract: An office communication system provides intra-office communication within a medical or dental office, for example. The system includes a door or wall unit, a table or desk unit, and a wearable or portable unit. The door and desk units are configured to transmit and receive both infrared and radio frequency type wireless signals. The portable unit may include an infrared light transmitter configured to transmit infrared light encoded with a unique address or identifier. The system operates to non-obtrusively notify office personnel whether a practitioner has entered or is presently within a particular exam room of the office, even if a door of the exam room is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventor: Andrew Peter Davis
  • Patent number: 7314733
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding saitohin (STH), an isolated nucleic acid sequence that hybridizes to said sequence, and a purified protein encoded by said nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also provides a purified STH protein, and a method of making STH protein. The present invention is further directed to an antibody specific for STH, and a method for producing said antibody. Additionally, the present invention discloses a vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding STH, a host cell transformed with said vector, and transgenic nonhuman animals. The present invention further provides methods for determining whether a subject has, or is at increased risk for developing, a neurodegenerative disease, and for assessing said subject's prognosis. Finally, the present invention discloses kits for determining whether a subject has, or is at increased risk for developing, a neurodegenerative disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
    Inventors: Chris Conrad, Peter Davies
  • Publication number: 20070249985
    Abstract: A shunt rivet for implantation in the aorta and inferior vena cava to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and a method of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: ROX Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney Brenneman, J. Flaherty, Dean Schaefer, Peter Davis, Brad Kellerman
  • Publication number: 20070219417
    Abstract: An LED for use with a medical diagnostic instrument having an adapter disposed between an instrument head and a hand-grippable handle, the LED being removably attachable in relation to the adapter in order to permit selective replacement of the LED, as needed. The LED is situated in order to provide mechanical and electrical interface with at least one of the adapter and the instrument, thereby enabling the adapter and the LED to convert the illumination source of the instrument selectively between an incandescent light source and the LED. The adapter matches a polarity between the LED and a power supply that is specifically intended for powering an incandescent light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: WELCH ALLYN, INC.
    Inventors: Chris Roberts, Corinn Fahrenkrug, Allan Krauter, Shawn Briggman, Michael Pasik, Peter Davis, John Strom, Charles Stewart, Jon Salvati, Robert Vivenzio
  • Patent number: 7254886
    Abstract: In recapitulation, the present invention is a method and apparatus for the reliable removal and installation of a component feeding system, such as a direct die feeder, within a printed circuit board or similar assembly machine such as those used in the assembly of printed circuit boards. The invention employs a docking channel operatively affixed to the assembly machine, where the docking channel includes at least a pair of parallel grooves into which alignment rails on the component feeder may be inserted. In this way, the position of the component feeder may be controlled. The docking channel may further include stops, safety locks, alignment pins and a transport device to facilitate easy removal and exchange of component feeders on an assembly machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: UI Holding Co.
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Dean Tarrant
  • Publication number: 20070152785
    Abstract: A magnet assembly comprising a former having an outer surface (20) with a cavity (12) formed therein, and a coil (14) wound into the cavity (12), said cavity being of greater depth than the coil, wherein the coil is overlain with a layer of filler material (18) of sufficient thickness that its outer surface at least aligns with the outer surface of the former (20); a clamp (22, 30) is provided, over at least part of the surface of the layer of filler material, and fastened to the outer surface of the former; and the filler material and the coil are impregnated with a solid material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Magnet Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon Calvert, Peter Davis
  • Publication number: 20070154936
    Abstract: Differentially expressed genes and profiles of differentially expressed genes associated with hemodynamic shear stress in vivo in mammalian vasculature are provided. Methods for identifying such profiles and using these profiles to identify and target regions of the vasculature with anti-atherogenic therapies are provided. Also provided are methods of identifying agents which modulate a gene of the profile for use in preventing atherogenesis and treating atherosclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Davies, Denise Polacek
  • Publication number: 20070142612
    Abstract: Polycarbonate is prepared by reactive extrusion on a reactive extruder. A method incorporates the steps of introducing a polycarbonate oligomer, an activated carbonate residue, and a transesterification catalyst to the extruder through a feed section. The extruder has the feed section, a polycarbonate exit section, and a reaction section between the feed section and the polycarbonate exit section. The reaction section is made up of at least one conveying section, kneading sections, and venting sections. The configuration of the reaction section requires that at least one venting section be disposed between each pair of kneading sections, and that the kneading sections and venting sections are selected such that the number of venting sections minus the number of kneading sections is greater than or equal to one. The method further contains the step of extruding the reaction components at a temperature in a range between 100° C. and 500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Hans Looij
  • Publication number: 20070142618
    Abstract: Polycarbonate is prepared by reactive extrusion on a reactive extruder. A method incorporates the steps of introducing a polycarbonate oligomer, an activated carbonate, and a transesterification catalyst to the extruder through a feed section. The extruder has a feed section, a polycarbonate exit section, and a reaction section between the feed section and the polycarbonate exit section. The reaction section has one or more devolatilization units, wherein each devolatilization unit incorporates an array of vent-conveying sections and conveying sections arranged in a configuration of: (C V C)x(V)n, and/or (V C V)x(C)n. (V) is a vent-conveying section, (C) is a conveying section, x is 1 or more, and n is 1 or 0. The extruder screw in the vent-conveying sections and the conveying sections in each devolatilization unit have conveying elements or conveying elements and mixing elements and no elements that create a melt seal in the devolatilization unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Hans Looij
  • Publication number: 20070134724
    Abstract: Methods of diagnosing a tauopathy and predicting whether a subject will develop a tauopathy are provided. Also provided are antibody preparations that specifically bind to tau phosphorylated at tyr394 and/or tyr310. Methods of inhibiting tau phosphorylation in a cell and methods of treating a subject having a tauopathy are additionally provided. Methods of treating a subject at risk for a tauopathy are also provided. Additionally, non-human mammals comprising a transgene encoding an abl tyrosine kinase are provided. Also provided are methods of evaluating whether a compound inhibits development of a tauopathy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Davies, Christopher Conrad
  • Publication number: 20070118915
    Abstract: The invention provides transgenic mice comprising tau transgenes, and methods of preparing and using the transgenic mice. For example, the invention provides a transgenic mouse, the genome of the cells of which stably comprise a DNA molecule which comprises a human genomic DNA sequence comprising a human tau promoter and which DNA sequence encodes human tau.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Karen Duff, Peter Davies
  • Publication number: 20070099871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Ar is a substituted aryl or heteroaryl group bearing at least one nitro or azido group or is a group of formula (2) or (3) wherein R1, and R2, which may be the same or different are independently optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted alkynyl, aryl, COR3 or, together with the intervening carbon atom, form an optionally substituted heterocycloalkyl or carbocyclic ring; L is —OC(O)— or —OP(O)(OR6)—; n is 0 or 1; X is 0, S, NR7 or a single covalent bond; R3 is OR4 or NR4R5; R4, R5, R6 and R7 are each independently hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl or, where Rr is NR4R5, R4 and R5 can be joined to form, together with the intervening nitrogen atom, a heterocycloalkyl ring; R8 is hydrogen, alkoxy or dialkylaminoalkyl; R9 is optionally substituted alkyl; Rio is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or dialkylaminoalkyl; R11 and R12 are independently hydrogen, alky
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicants: ANGIOGENE PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED, GRAY LABORATORY CANCER RESEARCH TRUST
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Matthew Naylor, Peter Thomson, Steven Everett, Michael Stratford, Peter Wardman
  • Patent number: 7207430
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for use within a die feeder associated with a circuit board assembly machines and includes, among other aspects and features, a cavity to capture and maintain the position of the die within a vacuum gripper. The invention also includes the interaction of a pair of nozzles whereas one moves within the nozzle tip containing the die cavity and has the ability to compensate for any offset between the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: UI Holding Company
    Inventors: Peter Davis, Dean Tarrant
  • Publication number: 20070080000
    Abstract: A wheel assembly for a small-scale machine includes a pair of opposing, individually-driven wheels, associated motors and possibly one or more gear assemblies. The motors receive separate drive signals from a control electronics subsystem of the wheel assembly. The motors can be connected to the wheels via the gear assemblies. Because the wheels are separately driven, driving the two wheel assemblies at similar or different speeds drives the wheel assembly over straight or curved paths. An orientation assembly allows the orientation of the wheels to the machine to be controllably altered. A height adjusting assembly allows the distance between the wheels and a point on the machine where the wheel assembly is attached to be adjusted. The rotational axis that the wheel assembly rotates about when re-oriented need not pass through either wheel of the wheel assembly. The wheels can be driven by control signals generated by on-board control electronics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: CYCOGS, LLC
    Inventors: Wayland Tobey, Peter Davis