Patents by Inventor Phillip Miller

Phillip Miller 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: 20250127182
    Abstract: A dairy substitute composition having a plant-based protein and/or plant-based milk product and a sensory modifier, such that the dairy substitute has reduced plant-protein flavor, increased sourness, increased lactic flavor, or a combination there of relative to an equivalent dairy substitute composition without the sensory modifier. For example, the dairy substitute may be a dairy-free cheese, a dairy-free yogurt, or a dairy-free ice cream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Phillip MILLER, Rama Krishna SARANGAPANI, Wade Nolan SCHMELZER
  • Patent number: 12150440
    Abstract: An automated snare assembly for remotely operating an animal snare includes a monitoring unit that is mountable to a tree. Additionally, the monitoring unit is in wireless communication with a personal electronic device. The monitoring unit includes a camera for providing imagery of a selected area proximate the tree. A snare unit is positionable in an area for snaring an animal and the snare unit is positionable in a ready condition to snare the animal. The snare unit is in wireless communication with the personal electronic device and the snare unit is actuatable into a releasing condition by the personal electronic device to release the animal that is snared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Phillip Miller
  • Patent number: 12092643
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Ventana Medic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Bieniarz, Jan Froehlich, Brian Daniel Kelly, Rui Hong, Mark Lefever, Phillip Miller, Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20240122173
    Abstract: An automated snare assembly for remotely operating an animal snare includes a monitoring unit that is mountable to a tree. Additionally, the monitoring unit is in wireless communication with a personal electronic device. The monitoring unit includes a camera for providing imagery of a selected area proximate the tree. A snare unit is positionable in an area for snaring an animal and the snare unit is positionable in a ready condition to snare the animal. The snare unit is in wireless communication with the personal electronic device and the snare unit is actuatable into a releasing condition by the personal electronic device to release the animal that is snared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Phillip Miller
  • Publication number: 20220151516
    Abstract: Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Joshua Ray Windmiller, Roger Narayan, Phillip Miller, Ronen Polsky, Thayne L. Edwards
  • Publication number: 20210063411
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Bieniarz, Jan Froehlich, Brian Daniel Kelly, Rui Hong, Mark Lefever, Phillip Miller, Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20210007925
    Abstract: An exercise and standing transport unit includes a base, superstructure, motor, wheels, power source, and controller operably connected to carry a user, in a standing posture. From a sitting position on any furniture a user may pullup a standing posture on the base (surrounded by support forward, backward, and on each side) and then move at will along a support surface powered by the motor, and controlled through the controller forward, backward, and pivoting about a vertical axis. A user is thereby free to exercise upper body, lower body, and core, including muscles, bones, and tendons, even through daily living activities, thus maintaining mass and motivation for compliance, and circulation by movement to resist compression sores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Phillip Miller
  • Patent number: 10883999
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Hong, Hong Wang, Mark Lefever, Jan Froehlich, Christopher Bieniarz, Brian Daniel Kelly, Phillip Miller
  • Patent number: 10695281
    Abstract: Methods of making personal care compositions, such as dentifrices, involving the addition of rheology modifiers at a later stage in the personal care composition formation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Lewis Agerton, Steven Robert Alexander, James Albert Berta, Gina Lynn Blum, Marco Caggioni, Susan Marie Dawes, David Michael Farren, Justin Thomas Lydon Hedin, Charles Phillip Miller, Christa Marie Novicki, Melissa Cherie Payne, Molly Rose Schottelkotte, John Christopher Wesner, Randall Lee Wood
  • Publication number: 20190125223
    Abstract: Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Joshua Ray Windmiller, Roger Narayan, Phillip Miller, Ronen Polsky, Thayne L. Edwards
  • Publication number: 20190091126
    Abstract: Methods of making personal care compositions, such as dentifrices, involving the addition of rheology modifiers at a later stage in the personal care composition formation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Lewis AGERTON, Steven Robert ALEXANDER, James Albert BERTA, Gina Lynn BLUM, Marco CAGGIONI, Susan Marie DAWES, David Michael FARREN, Justin Thomas Lydon HEDIN, Charles Phillip MILLER, Christa Marie NOVICKI, Melissa Cherie PAYNE, Molly Rose SCHOTTELKOTTE, John Christopher WESNER, Randall Lee WOOD
  • Patent number: 10172778
    Abstract: Methods of making personal care compositions, such as dentifrices, involving the addition of rheology modifiers at a later stage in the personal care composition formation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Lewis Agerton, Steven Robert Alexander, Gina Lynn Blum, Marco Caggioni, Susan Marie Dawes, David Michael Farren, Justin Thomas Lydon Hedin, Charles Phillip Miller, Christa Marie Novicki, Melissa Cherie Payne, Molly Rose Schottelkotte, John Christopher Wesner, Randall Lee Wood
  • Publication number: 20190004061
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Rui Hong, Hong Wang, Mark Lefever, Jan Froehlich, Christopher Bieniarz, Brian Daniel Kelly, Phillip Miller
  • Patent number: 10136846
    Abstract: Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, North Carolina State University, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Joshua Ray Windmiller, Roger Narayan, Phillip Miller, Ronen Polsky, Thayne L. Edwards
  • Patent number: 10078083
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Hong, Hong Wang, Mark Lefever, Jan Froehlich, Christopher Bieniarz, Brian Daniel Kelly, Phillip Miller
  • Publication number: 20170347925
    Abstract: Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, North Carolina State University, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of San Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Joshua Ray Windmiller, Roger Narayan, Phillip Miller, Ronen Polsky, Thayne L. Edwards
  • Publication number: 20160139143
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Rui Hong, Hong Wang, Mark Lefever, Jan Froehlich, Christopher Bieniarz, Brian Daniel Kelly, Phillip Miller
  • Patent number: 9310302
    Abstract: Multiple modality contrast can be used to produce images that can be combined and rendered to produce images similar to those produced with wavelength absorbing stains viewed under transmitted white light illumination. Images obtained with other complementary contrast modalities can be presented using engineered color schemes based on classical contrast methods used to reveal the same anatomical structures and histochemistry, thereby providing relevance to medical training and experience. Dark-field contrast images derived from refractive index and fluorescent DAPI counterstain images are combined to produce images similar to those obtained with conventional H&E staining for pathology interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Karl Garsha, Gary Pestano, Michael Otter, Alexandra Dea Nagy, Ray B. Nagle, Phillip Miller, Jan Froehlich, William Day
  • Patent number: 9291597
    Abstract: Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Rui Hong, Hong Wang, Mark Lefever, Jan Froehlich, Christopher Bieniarz, Brian Kelly, Phillip Miller
  • Publication number: 20150118271
    Abstract: A method of making a personal care composition, such as dentifrice, using compacted rheology modifiers to control viscosity development.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Lewis AGERTON, Steven Robert ALEXANDER, Gina Lynn BLUM, Marco CAGGIONI, Susan Marie DAWES, David Michael FARREN, Justin Thomas Lydon HEDIN, Charles Phillip MILLER, Christa Marie NOVICKI, Melissa Cherie PAYNE, Molly Rose SCHOTTELKOTTE, John Christopher WESNER, Randall Lee WOOD