Patents by Inventor Richard A. Craig

Richard A. Craig 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).

  • Mobile, Personsize Display System and Method of Use
    Publication number: 20120251072
    Abstract: A mobile personsize display system and method of use; in general, a platform, a support frame, a module display frame, an LED panel display formed of a plurality of LED display modules having a plurality of pixels, four or more casters, a battery powered supply, a media player (electrically communicating with the plurality of display modules for controlling the display of an image(s) on the LED panel display, and a removable content storage device and; thus, functions as a rugged person size mobile, light weight, battery powered display to inform customers and passers-by about product and service offerings via a rugged person size mobile light weight battery powered display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Craig Cope, Douglas Andrew Price, Drew Fredrick Meincke, Jorge Perez Bravo
  • Methods of Treating Hormone-Related Conditions Using Thio-Oxindole Derivatives
    Publication number: 20120220558
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of inducing contraception which includes delivering to a female a composition containing a compound of formula I, or tautomers thereof, in a regimen which involves delivering one or more of a selective estrogen receptor modulator, wherein formula I is: and wherein R1-R5 and Q1 are defined as described herein. Methods of providing hormone replacement therapy and for treating carcinomas, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, and polycystic ovary syndrome is provided which includes delivering a compound of formula I and a selective estrogen receptor modulator are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Fensome, Gary S. Grubb, Diane Deborah Harrison, Richard Craig Winneker
  • Methods of treating hormone-related conditions using thio-oxindole derivatives
    Patent number: 8242098
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of inducing contraception which includes delivering to a female a composition containing a compound of formula I, or tautomers thereof, in a regimen which involves delivering one or more of a selective estrogen receptor modulator, wherein formula I is: and wherein R1-R5 and Q1 are defined as described herein. Methods of providing hormone replacement therapy and for treating carcinomas, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, and polycystic ovary syndrome is provided which includes delivering a compound of formula I and a selective estrogen receptor modulator are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Fensome, Gary S. Grubb, Diane Deborah Harrison, Richard Craig Winneker
  • Method and system for screening and evaluation of research panel members
    Patent number: 8175903
    Abstract: System and method for optimizing composition of a pool from which members are selected to serve on market research panels are described. In one embodiment, the system includes a database comprising a plurality of member profiles and survey data associated with the members and a datamart for periodically scanning the database to discover events and subsequently logging each of the discovered events in an event log. The system further includes an offense module for periodically evaluating the event log to determine whether one of the discovered events comprises an offense committed by one of the members and logging the offense in an offense log and an audit module for performing an audit of the one of the members and logging results of the audit in an audit log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: e-Rewards, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Milton Brierley, Stephen Allen Myers, Sean Warren Eidson, James Sterling Harter, James F. Morse, David Samuel Sink, Eric Steven Herfield, Richard Craig Stevens
  • BATHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20120074241
    Abstract: A bathing apparatus includes an in-line mixing unit and a hand operated injecting unit. The mixing unit is coupled between a water supply pipe and a water dispensing device, such as a showerhead and is in fluid communication with the hand operated injection unit. The injection unit, upon user demand, draws a controllable predetermined quantity of bathing fluid from a standard off the shelf purchased bottle of bathing fluid, such as a bottle of bath oil, and then ejects, upon user demand and in a hands free operation, the drawn bathing fluid, at a user selected flow rate. The ejected bathing fluid passes to the mixing unit which causes the ejected bathing fluid to be mixed within a stream of water being delivered to the water dispensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventor: WILLIAM RICHARD CRAIG
  • System and method for using a video monitoring system to prevent and manage decubitus ulcers in patients
    Publication number: 20120026308
    Abstract: A video monitoring system captures image frames of a patient in various positions. The captured image frames are analyzed by the system for changes in a patient's position or movement, frames in which the system detects one or both of patient movement and repositioning are retained. The system analyzes an area of interest within each image frame that corresponds to an area in the camera's view field with the patient. Sequential image frames are compared for motion, only frames without motion, where the patient is still, are analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Steve Gail Johnson, Matthew Cameron Clark, Stephen Ecker, Kyle Brook Johnson, Richard Craig Kuether
  • Bathing apparatus and method of using same
    Patent number: 8070074
    Abstract: A bathing apparatus includes an in-line mixing unit and a hand operated injecting unit. The mixing unit is coupled between a water supply pipe and a water dispensing device, such as a showerhead and is in fluid communication with the hand operated injection unit. The injection unit, upon user demand, draws a controllable predetermined quantity of bathing fluid from a standard off the shelf purchased bottle of bathing fluid, such as a bottle of bath oil, and then ejects, upon user demand and in a hands free operation, the drawn bathing fluid, at a user selected flow rate. The ejected bathing fluid passes to the mixing unit which causes the ejected bathing fluid to be mixed within a stream of water being delivered to the water dispensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: William Richard Craig
  • Light unit with internal back-up power supply, communications and display
    Patent number: 8018161
    Abstract: A light unit that includes an internal power supply that may be used in the event of an external power failure to provide power to the light unit. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a lighting apparatus, comprising (a) a power input configured to receive external power from an external power source; (b) a solid state light element that is interconnected to the power input; and (c) a back-up power source that is interconnected to the solid state light element and the power input and that provides power to the solid state light element when the light element is not provided with power from the power input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Smith, III, Richard Craig Hall, Matthew Veal, Robert Fugerer
  • ATTACHMENT SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20110191933
    Abstract: An attachment system principally use on garment (10, 30) provides a number of aligned loops (15) on the garment and a number of aligned loops (24) on a load such as an equipment pack (17). The load also includes an elongate securing member that extends from the load with a flexible proximal portion (26) and a stiffened distal portion (27). The stiffened distal portion (27) can be very readily threaded through successive ensemble loops (15) and load loops (24) to pull the flexible proximal portion (26) through the loops (15, 24) to attach the load (17) to the garment (10, 30). The stiffened distal portion (27) is then fed back through the loops (15, 24) to provide a geometric lock that prevents the load (17, 18) detaching from the garment (10, 30). Various loads can be attached in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: SURVITEC GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Stuart Douglas Gregory, Paul Alan Oliver, Richard Craig Griffin
  • Detection of alpha-particle emitting isotopes
    Patent number: 7973287
    Abstract: A system and method for detection of alpha particles generated by a test material in proximity to a light atomic weight element. The system includes a neutron detector that is configured to detect a rate of generation of neutrons produced by an (alpha, n) reaction between the test material and the light atomic weight element. There is also at least one gamma-ray detector configured to measure a rate of generation of 511 keV gamma rays produced by an annihilation reaction triggered by a positron emission from a daughter product of the light atomic weight element. A comparator is configured to compare the rate of generation of neutrons and the rate of generation of 511 keV gamma rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Nucsafe, Inc
    Inventors: Richard A. Craig, Richard S. Seymour
  • Method for secure communication over a public data network via a terminal that is accessible to multiple users
    Patent number: 7933971
    Abstract: There is described a method of communicating over a public data network, for example the Internet. A user of a public PC, for example one located in an Internet café, uses the Internet browser provided on the public PC to downloaded from a remote trusted web site a secure Internet browser that then runs within the browser provided on the public PC. The user uses the secure Internet browser to browse the Internet. The secure browser has been configured so that no copy of information transmitted into the network or downloaded from the network is cached or otherwise recorded on the hard disc of the terminal. The user may thus browse the Internet without leaving a record of sensitive information (e.g. credit card details) used in the browsing session at the public terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Roke Manor Research Limited
    Inventors: Richard Craig Beesley, Richard Andrew Bonniface, Richard Harvey Day, Stuart William John Daley, Baby Vasudevan
  • Extended-Precision Integer Arithmetic and Logical Instructions
    Publication number: 20110078225
    Abstract: The invention set forth herein describes a mechanism for efficiently performing extended precision operations on multi-word source operands. Corresponding data words of the source operands are processed together via each instruction of a cascading sequence of instructions. State information generated when each instruction is processed is stored in condition code flags. The state information is optionally used in the processing of subsequent instructions in the sequence and/or accumulated with previously set state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Richard Craig JOHNSON, John R. Nickolls
  • Efficient Predicated Execution For Parallel Processors
    Publication number: 20110078415
    Abstract: The invention set forth herein describes a mechanism for predicated execution of instructions within a parallel processor executing multiple threads or data lanes. Each thread or data lane executing within the parallel processor is associated with a predicate register that stores a set of 1-bit predicates. Each of these predicates can be set using different types of predicate-setting instructions, where each predicate setting instruction specifies one or more source operands, at least one operation to be performed on the source operands, and one or more destination predicates for storing the result of the operation. An instruction can be guarded by a predicate that may influence whether the instruction is executed for a particular thread or data lane or how the instruction is executed for a particular thread or data lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Richard Craig Johnson, John R. Nickolls, Robert Steven Glanville
  • Architecture and Instructions for Accessing Multi-Dimensional Formatted Surface Memory
    Publication number: 20110074802
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for a program to access multi-dimensional formatted graphics surface memory. Multi-dimensional memory objects called “surfaces” stored in a user-specified data or pixel format and arranged in a graphics optimized layout are accessed by programs using surface instructions. A set of memory access instructions e.g., load, store, reduce, and atomic, referred to as surface instructions, may be used to access the surfaces. Coordinate bounds checking is performed with configurable clamping. Caching behavior may also be specified by the surface instructions. Data format conversion and packing to a specified storage format is supported for store, reduction, and atomic surface instructions. Data format conversion and unpacking from a specified storage format is supported for loads and atomic surface instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: John R. Nickolls, Brian Fahs, Lars Nyland, John Erik Lindholm, Richard Craig Johnson
  • UNANIMOUS BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS IN A PARALLEL THREAD PROCESSOR
    Publication number: 20110072248
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a mechanism for managing thread divergence in a thread group executing a multithreaded processor. A unanimous branch instruction, when executed, causes all the active threads in the thread group to branch only when each thread in the thread group agrees to take the branch. In such a manner, thread divergence is eliminated. A branch-any instruction, when executed, causes all the active threads in the thread group to branch when at least one thread in the thread group agrees to take the branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: John R. NICKOLLS, Richard Craig Johnson, Robert Steven Glanville, Guillermo Juan Rozas
  • UNANIMOUS BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS IN A PARALLEL THREAD PROCESSOR
    Publication number: 20110072249
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a mechanism for managing thread divergence in a thread group executing a multithreaded processor. A unanimous branch instruction, when executed, causes all the active threads in the thread group to branch only when each thread in the thread group agrees to take the branch. In such a manner, thread divergence is eliminated. A branch-any instruction, when executed, causes all the active threads in the thread group to branch when at least one thread in the thread group agrees to take the branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: John R. Nickolls, Richard Craig Johnson, Robert Steven Glanville, Guillermo Juan Rozas
  • Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Product for Mobile Service Data Browser
    Publication number: 20110047146
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described for accessing information related to a request in addition to the requested information. A query is submitted from a user device that requests specific information from a database. The query is executed to access a database snippet which includes the specific information and additional information related to the query. A hierarchical data object is formed from the accessed database snippet. Metadata tags are added to create a tagged hierarchical data object and the tagged hierarchical data object is sent to the user device, wherein the hierarchical data object may be accessed and displayed independent of the display size of the user device, and without a requirement to develop display forms needed with conventional solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventor: Richard Craig Scott
  • Quick-change socket and hex key retainer assembly for a fastener installation tool
    Patent number: 7874232
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for installing fasteners are disclosed involving a fastener installation tool and a socket assembly. The fastener installation tool comprises a tool component and a gear head. The gear head comprises a lever, a retaining slide, a retaining slide housing, and at least one gear. The socket assembly comprises a socket, a hex key, and a hex key retainer. An end of the drive shaft of the socket has an annular groove around the circumference of the exterior surface of the drive shaft. When the retaining slide is slid into a locked position, the retaining slide engages the annular groove of the drive shaft of the socket, thereby attaching the drive shaft of the socket to the gear head of the fastener installation tool. A socket gear of the gear head matingly engages the drive shaft of the socket to rotate the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Huck Patents, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Paul Gauthreaux, Charles Henry Dibley, Richard Craig Lantow, Jay Raymond Olkowski
  • Mobile feeder system
    Patent number: 7775513
    Abstract: A mobile feeder system is provided including a feeder having a center of gravity, and an intermediate feeder base supporting the feeder for horizontal movement between a cantilevered position in which the center of gravity lies outside the intermediate base and a non-cantilevered position in which the center of gravity lies over the intermediate base. A gathering device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Desfosses, Richard Craig Meyer
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCREENING AND EVALUATION OF RESEARCH PANEL MEMBERS
    Publication number: 20100114666
    Abstract: System and method for optimizing composition of a pool from which members are selected to serve on market research panels are described. In one embodiment, the system includes a database comprising a plurality of member profiles and survey data associated with the members and a datamart for periodically scanning the database to discover events and subsequently logging each of the discovered events in an event log. The system further includes an offense module for periodically evaluating the event log to determine whether one of the discovered events comprises an offense committed by one of the members and logging the offense in an offense log and an audit module for performing an audit of the one of the members and logging results of the audit in an audit log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: eREWARDS, INC.
    Inventors: Harold Milton Brierley, Stephen Allen Myers, Sean Warren Eidson, James Sterling Harter, James F. Morse, David Samuel Sink, Eric Steven Herfield, Richard Craig Stevens