Patents by Inventor Phat Tran

Phat Tran 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: 20260103439
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel molecules and methods for using the same to treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for at least one of AUD, SUD, pain, or a proinflammatory disorder; and providing the subject with an effective amount of a modified minocycline to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, pain, or proinflammatory disorder and that has reduced, or no, antimicrobial activity, wherein the modified tetracycline has a formula, e.g., or the modified doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline and their tautomerized structures, where the R-groups shown in the minocycline example above could be different combination of halogen, acetyl ester, methyl ester, and diacetal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtri, Peter Syapin, Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 12486219
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel molecules and methods for using the same to treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for at least one of AUD, SUD, pain, or a proinflammatory disorder; and providing the subject with an effective amount of a modified minocycline to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, pain, or proinflammatory disorder and that has reduced, or no, antimicrobial activity, wherein the modified tetracycline has a formula, e.g., or the modified doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline and their tautomerized structures, where the R-groups shown in the minocycline example above could be different combination of halogen, acetyl ester, methyl ester, and diacetal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Tech University System
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtri, Peter Syapin, Phat Tran
  • Publication number: 20250129014
    Abstract: A method of treating Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: providing a subject with an effective amount of a modified tetracycline or derivative thereof to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorder, and wherein the modified tetracycline or derivative thereof has reduced binding to a microbial ribosome and has the formula: wherein R1 is acetyl, R2 is OH or acetyl, R3 is acetyl, R4 is H or acetyl, and R5 is acetyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Peter Syapin, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtri, Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 12202785
    Abstract: A method of treating Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: providing a subject with an effective amount of a modified tetracycline or derivative thereof to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorder, and wherein the modified tetracycline or derivative thereof has reduced binding to a microbial ribosome and has the formula: wherein R1 is acetyl, R2 is OH or acetyl, R3 is acetyl, R4 is H or acetyl, and R5 is acetyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Peter Syapin, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shastri, Phat Tran
  • Publication number: 20230127462
    Abstract: A method of treating Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: providing a subject with an effective amount of a modified tetracycline or derivative thereof to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorder, and wherein the modified tetracycline or derivative thereof has reduced binding to a microbial ribosome and has the formula: wherein R1 is acetyl, R2 is OH or acetyl, R3 is acetyl, R4 is H or acetyl, and R5 is acetyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Peter Syapin, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shastri, Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 11542227
    Abstract: A method of treating Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: providing a subject with an effective amount of a modified tetracycline or derivative thereof to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorder, and wherein the modified tetracycline or derivative thereof has reduced binding to a microbial ribosome and has the formula wherein R1 is acetyl, R2 is OH or acetyl, R3 is acetyl, R4 is H or acetyl, and R5 is acetyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Tech University System
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Peter Syapin, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtri, Phat Tran
  • Publication number: 20220040208
    Abstract: A method of treating Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: providing a subject with an effective amount of a modified tetracycline or derivative thereof to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorder, and wherein the modified tetracycline or derivative thereof has reduced binding to a microbial ribosome and has the formula wherein R1 is acetyl, R2 is OH or acetyl, R3 is acetyl, R4 is H or acetyl, and R5 is acetyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Peter Syapin, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtrl, Phat Tran
  • Publication number: 20210403416
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel molecules and methods for using the same to treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for at least one of AUD, SUD, pain, or a proinflammatory disorder; and providing the subject with an effective amount of a modified minocycline to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, pain, or proinflammatory disorder and that has reduced, or no, antimicrobial activity, wherein the modified tetracycline has a formula, e.g., or the modified doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline and their tautomerized structures, where the R-groups shown in the minocycline example above could be different combination of halogen, acetyl ester, methyl ester, and diacetal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Susan E. Bergeson, Ted W. Reid, Mayank Shashtri, Peter Syapin, Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 10643193
    Abstract: A mainframe computing system includes a central processor complex, and a plurality of billing entities, each billing entity having a respective capacity limit, and a workload manager that schedules work requested by the plurality of billing entities on the central processor complex and tracks, by billing entity, a rolling average of service units. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping policy for the central processor complex that identifies a maximum service unit limit, a subset of the plurality of billing entities, and, for each identified billing entity, information from which to determine a service unit entitlement value. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping master that adjusts the respective capacity limits of the subset of the plurality of billing entities at scheduled intervals based on the dynamic capping policy to favor billing entities having high-importance workload within the maximum service unit limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Phat Tran, Edward Williams, Hemanth Rama, Robert Perini, Steven Degrange
  • Publication number: 20160283926
    Abstract: A mainframe computing system includes a central processor complex, and a plurality of billing entities, each billing entity having a respective capacity limit, and a workload manager that schedules work requested by the plurality of billing entities on the central processor complex and tracks, by billing entity, a rolling average of service units. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping policy for the central processor complex that identifies a maximum service unit limit, a subset of the plurality of billing entities, and, for each identified billing entity, information from which to determine a service unit entitlement value. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping master that adjusts the respective capacity limits of the subset of the plurality of billing entities at scheduled intervals based on the dynamic capping policy to favor billing entities having high-importance workload within the maximum service unit limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Phat TRAN, Edward WILLIAMS, Hemanth RAMA, Robert PERINI, Steven DEGRANGE
  • Patent number: 9342372
    Abstract: A mainframe computing system includes a central processor complex, and a plurality of billing entities, each billing entity having a respective capacity limit, and a workload manager that schedules work requested by the plurality of billing entities on the central processor complex and tracks, by billing entity, a rolling average of service units. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping policy for the central processor complex that identifies a maximum service unit limit, a subset of the plurality of billing entities, and, for each identified billing entity, information from which to determine a service unit entitlement value. The mainframe computing system also includes a dynamic capping master that adjusts the respective capacity limits of the subset of the plurality of billing entities at scheduled intervals based on the dynamic capping policy to favor billing entities having high-importance workload within the maximum service unit limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Phat Tran, Edward Williams, Hemanth Rama, Robert Perini, Steven Degrange
  • Patent number: 8555135
    Abstract: Different transmissions based on different content blocks which were segmented from the same digital content according to different segmentation schemes, where each of the content blocks has any substring in common with at least one of the other content blocks, are received by a receiving radio communication station, for example a mobile telephone or a mobile network base station. Certain encoded received bits derived from different ones of the transmissions are combined into combined bits. Other encoded received bits derived from one or more of the different transmissions are provided together with the combined bits to a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventor: Phat Tran
  • Publication number: 20130013984
    Abstract: A method and system of decoding a ccnvolutionally encoded data block having known padding bits. A Viterbi decoder is constrained to a state corresponding to k?1 padding bits immediately adjacent to data bits of the data block, where k is a constraint length of a convolution encoder used to encode the data block. Symbols of the encoded data block that have influence only from the padding bits are discarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Phat TRAN
  • Publication number: 20130013971
    Abstract: Different transmissions based on different content blocks which were segmented from the same digital content according to different segmentation schemes, where each of the content blocks has any substring in common with at least one of the other content blocks, are received by a receiving radio communication station, for example a mobile telephone or a mobile network base station. Certain encoded received bits derived from different ones of the transmissions are combined into combined bits. Other encoded received bits derived from one or more of the different transmissions are provided together with the combined bits to a decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Phat TRAN
  • Publication number: 20120309334
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatic frequency control in a receiver of a wireless device, the method determining a channel estimation for a received signal; calculating a signal to noise ratio for the channel estimation; applying a weighting factor determined based on the calculated signal to noise ratio for the channel estimation to the channel estimation to create a weighted channel estimation; and supplying the weighted channel estimation to a voltage controlled oscillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Zahir Raza, Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 8301964
    Abstract: Different transmissions based on different content blocks which were segmented from the same digital content according to different segmentation schemes, where each of the content blocks has any substring in common with at least one of the other content blocks, are received by a receiving radio communication station, for example a mobile telephone or a mobile network base station. Certain encoded received bits derived from different ones of the transmissions are combined into combined bits. Other encoded received bits derived from one or more of the different transmissions are provided together with the combined bits to a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Phat Tran
  • Patent number: 8295410
    Abstract: A method and system of decoding a convolutionally encoded data block having known padding bits. A Viterbi decoder is constrained to a state corresponding to k?1 padding bits immediately adjacent to data bits of the data block, where k is a constraint length of a convolution encoder used to encode the data block. Symbols of the encoded data block that have influence only from the padding bits are discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Phat Tran
  • Patent number: D696872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventor: Phat Tran
  • Patent number: D696873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventor: Phat Tran
  • Patent number: D703970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Phat Tran