Patents by Inventor R. Gibson

R. Gibson 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: 20150322717
    Abstract: A foldable step stool includes a step and a pair of legs. The legs are mounted on the step for movement between use and storage positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: William R. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20150298714
    Abstract: A multi-mode load carrier is convertible to assume a storage mode, a cart mode, and a hand-truck mode. The load carrier includes a rolling base and a base pusher having a handgrip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: William R. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20150290390
    Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a blunt cannula and a reservoir. The blunt cannula has a cylindrical wall that defines an axial passage between a first end and a second end of the blunt cannula. The wall has at least a first tapered region at the first end to define an opening in fluid communication with the axial passage and adapted at the first end to resist interruption of fluid flow through the axial passage and out of the first end of the blunt cannula. The reservoir is connected to the second end of the blunt cannula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Ring, Dhairya Mehta, Stephanie Toy, Ferry Tamtoro, Alexander Stuart Cairns, Scott R. Gibson
  • Patent number: 9135810
    Abstract: A method for assigning a remote control to an ambulatory medical device includes generating and transmitting user inputs from a remote control to an ambulatory medical device, and receiving and processing the user inputs to determine whether the user inputs represent a sequence authorizing an assignment of the remote control to the ambulatory medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MEDALLION THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Carl Lord, Brian Michael Shelton, Scott R. Gibson, Daniel Hernandez Villegas, Jon Douglas Newbill, Joseph Wayne Vandegriff
  • Patent number: 9114208
    Abstract: Ambulatory infusion pumps, pump assemblies, and disposable assemblies, including cartridges, baseplates, cannulas, inserters, and related components therefor, as well as component combinations and related methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: perQflo, LLC
    Inventors: Roger E. Smith, Scott R. Gibson
  • Patent number: 9096249
    Abstract: A multi-mode load carrier is convertible to assume a storage mode, a cart mode, and a hand-truck mode. The load carrier includes a rolling base and a base pusher having a handgrip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Ameriwood Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: William R Gibson
  • Publication number: 20150180986
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for generating a composite service. A request to generate the composite service is received that identifies a geospatial region of interest for the composite service. One or more types of components needed to generate the composite service are determined and, for each component of a plurality of components of the one or more types of components, a corresponding spatial coverage characteristic is determined. A subset of components, from the plurality of components, is selected based on the spatial coverage characteristics of the plurality of components and the geospatial region of interest. The composite service is then generated based on the selected subset of components from the plurality of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chatschik Bisdikian, Christopher R. Gibson, Dominic P. Harries, Syed Y. Shah, Petros Zerfos
  • Publication number: 20150133855
    Abstract: Ambulatory infusion pumps, pump assemblies, cartridges, baseplates, cannulas, insertion tools, and related components as well as combinations thereof and related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Roger E. Smith, James Causey, Scott R. Gibson
  • Patent number: 8961453
    Abstract: Infusion devices with blockage detection capability and methods of monitoring infusion devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam W. Bowman, Scott R. Gibson, Richard E. Purvis, Brian Michael Shelton, Lawrence Eric Ong, John Paul D'Brot
  • Publication number: 20150014965
    Abstract: A multi-mode load carrier is convertible to assume a storage mode, a cart mode, and a hand-truck mode. The load carrier includes a rolling base and a base pusher having a handgrip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: William R Gibson
  • Patent number: 8932253
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for infusing medication into a patient's body using a medication chamber referenced to ambient pressure. The apparatus includes a medication chamber enclosed by a peripheral wall which includes a movable portion configured to transfer exterior ambient pressure into the chamber. Means are provided for exerting a negative bias force acting on the movable portion in a direction opposed to the ambient pressure force. Thus, the resultant pressure in the chamber will be negative with respect to ambient pressure, reducing the risk that the chamber can be overpressurized and produce an unintended medication discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Gibson, Peter C. Lord
  • Patent number: 8915879
    Abstract: Ambulatory infusion pumps, pump assemblies, cartridges, baseplates, cannulas, insertion tools, and related components as well as combinations thereof and related methods. One method of dispensing medicament from a cartridge includes pushing a plunger so as to controllably dispense out of a medicament reservoir within the cartridge in accordance with a stored delivery profile an amount of medicament of 0.1% or less of the total filled volume of the reservoir and with a single-dose precision of better than plus or minus 20%. The single-dose precision is obtained after a time-to-precision period of less than eight hours, which begins at the onset of the first plunger pushing for the cartridge, during which the plunger is being pushed in accordance with the stored delivery profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: perQflo, LLC
    Inventors: Roger E. Smith, James Causey, Scott R. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20140348943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a silicate and carbonate co-substituted calcium phosphate material. The process comprises the steps of: forming a silicon and optionally carbon-containing calcium phosphate precipitate by an aqueous precipitation method involving preparing an aqueous solution comprising phosphate ions, silicate ions, calcium ions and optionally carbonate ions, wherein the ratio of Ca/P and of Ca/(P+Si) in the solution is maintained above approximately 1.67; and heating the precipitate in an atmosphere comprising carbon and oxygen to form a silicate and carbonate co-substituted calcium phosphate material. The present invention also provides a synthetic carbonate and silicate co-substituted hydroxyapatite material, as well as a biomedical material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: The University Court of the University of Aberdeen, ApaTech Limited
    Inventors: Iain R. Gibson, Janet M.S. Skakle, Daniel J. Hadden, Thomas Buckland
  • Patent number: 8808243
    Abstract: An implantable infusion system includes at least two controllable fluid transfer devices that may be used to transfer different fluid flows to the same or different body sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter C. Lord, Stephen D. Das, Scott R. Gibson
  • Patent number: 8758500
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a silicate and carbonate co-substituted calcium phosphate material. The process comprises the steps of: forming a silicon and optionally carbon-containing calcium phosphate precipitate by an aqueous precipitation method involving preparing an aqueous solution comprising phosphate ions, silicate ions, calcium ions and optionally carbonate ions, wherein the ratio of Ca/P and of Ca/(P+Si) in the solution is maintained above approximately 1.67; and heating the precipitate in an atmosphere comprising carbon and oxygen to form a silicate and carbonate co-substituted calcium phosphate material. The present invention also provides a synthetic carbonate and silicate co-substituted hydroxyapatite material, as well as a biomedical material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: University Court of the University of Aberdeen, Apatech Limited
    Inventors: Iain R. Gibson, Janet M. S. Skakle, Daniel J. Hadden, Thomas Buckland
  • Patent number: 8739052
    Abstract: A method of overlaying layers of a user interface on a display of a computing device is presented herein. In a preferred embodiment, while a media item is displayed within the user interface, an overlay having features associated with the media item being displayed on the user interface is layered on top of the user interface such that the media item beneath the overlay layer is at least partially viewable through the overlay layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bojana Ostojic, Christopher A Glein, Mark R. Gibson, William H Vong, Benjamin N Alton, Mark S Newell
  • Patent number: 8707736
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass concentrator for a solar module. The method includes providing a glass material in a molten state and processing the glass material in the molten state to form a ribbon glass including a first surface and a second surface. Additionally, the method includes subjecting the first surface to one or more drum members to form a plurality of concentrating structures while continuously passing the ribbon glass via the second surface over a plurality of rollers. Each of the concentrating structures includes an aperture region, an exit region, and one or more reflection regions. The aperture region is configured to receive incoming light and the one or more reflection regions are configured to concentrate the received incoming light to the exit region. The method further includes cutting the ribbon glass into one or more sheets of glasses including a predetermined number of the plurality of concentrating structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Solaria Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin R. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20140088501
    Abstract: Implantable infusion devices and systems with side port access detection capability and methods of detecting side port access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research
    Inventors: Brian Michael Shelton, Scott R. Gibson, Lawrence S. Ring, Paul Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 8680709
    Abstract: An electrical power distribution system automatically limits the number of substantially similar or identical power cable assemblies that are electrically energizable from a power source. A control unit is connected between the power source and the power cable assemblies, and limits the number of power cable assemblies that can be energized in the system by sensing the voltage in a sensing circuit. An applied voltage in the sensing circuit changes in a predictable manner corresponding to the number of power cable assemblies that are electrically connected in the circuit. Each power cable assembly includes an impedance element that is added to the sensing circuit when the corresponding power cable assembly is coupled to the system, and once the detected voltage is beyond a predetermined threshold value, the control unit will ensure that the power cable assemblies are not energized by the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventors: Norman R. Byrne, Timothy J. Warwick, Shawn R. Gibson
  • Patent number: 8603050
    Abstract: Implantable infusion devices and systems with side port access detection capability and methods of detecting side port access. The methods may include the steps of sensing pressure in a fluid passage between an implanted pump mechanism and an implanted outlet port and determining that an implanted side port has been accessed by a hypodermic needle based on a predetermined change in pressure in the fluid passage between the implanted pump mechanism and the implanted outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
    Inventors: Brian Michael Shelton, Scott R. Gibson, Lawrence S. Ring, Paul Edward Ross