Patents by Inventor Richard Peters

Richard Peters 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).

  • EXTRUDABLE COMPOSITION DERIVED FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20150218367
    Abstract: The extrudable composition may be an extrudable composition having a heat deflection temperature greater than about 50° C. and a melting point between about 80° C. to about 190° C., the extrudable composition includes about 60 to about 99.8% partially crystalline or crystalline polylactic acid, about 0.05 to about 8% cyclodextrin, about 0.1 to about 8% natural oil, fatty acid, fatty acid ester, wax or waxy ester, about 0.01 to about 5% nanofibers, about 0 to about 10% crystallinity agent, about 0 to about 1% starch-based melt rheology modifier, about 0 to about 5% colorant, about 0 to about 1% plasticizer, about 0 to about 1% gloss agent, and about 0 to about 1% barrier agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Richard Peter Scalzo, James Etson Brandenburg, Marvin Lynn Mitchell, Paula Hines Mitchell, Melvin Glenn Mitchell, Cynthia Gail Mitchell, Thomas Jason Wolfe, Amber Layne Wolfe
  • POLY(PHENYLENE ETHER) FIBER, METHOD OF FORMING, AND ARTICLES THEREFROM
    Publication number: 20150166789
    Abstract: Small diameter poly(phenylene ether) fibers can be consistently formed from a composition comprising specific amounts of a poly(phenylene ether), a processing aid, and optionally a poly(alkenyl aromatic). The processing aid can be LLDPE, a petroleum resin, or combinations thereof. The processing aid can optionally further comprise a phosphite or phosphonate. Flame retardants are minimized or excluded from the composition. The fibers can be melt spun without entanglement or breakage, and this improved processability enables small diameter fibers to be formed. The resulting fibers can be used in reinforcing structures for printed circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Robert John Hossan, Richard Peters
  • Exposure apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 9046874
    Abstract: A light beam collimated by illumination optics (4) from a radiation source (6) illuminates the surface of a wave front modulator (8) such as an Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) or Computer Generated Hologram photomask (CGH). The resulting wave travels via projection optics (10) to the substrate (12), passing through a projection lens assembly (14). The SLM (8) is programmed or CGH configured with a modulation pattern that is determined by the substrate (12) topography and desired pattern. The substrate topography is provided by Digital Holography (DH) surface profilometery performed by a DH microscope (18), which provides geometrical or topographical input to the CGH calculation routines (16). An arrangement for vertical or sloping surface patterning has a grating (22) superimposed onto the CGH pattern (24) to generate +1 and ?1 orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: University of Durham, University of Sheffield
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Ivey, Richard Peter McWilliam, Alan Purvis, Gavin Lewis Williams, Nicholas Luke Seed, Richard Ian Curry, Jose Juan De Jesus Toriz-Garcia
  • Event-based communication in a clinical diagnostic analyzer
    Patent number: 8959200
    Abstract: A networked clinical diagnostic analyzer is disclosed with support for monitoring by a remote back office. The disclosed analyzer includes a module to detect in real-time events of interest while allowing the back office to modify the definitions of the events. The module may be networked using virtual private networking into the back office network, which is usually different from the network at the site of the clinical diagnostic analyzer's deployment. The real-time alerts allow both a quick response to actual or expected error conditions and the downloading of logged data that is likely of most interest and relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Gyles, Keith Arnold Baker, Richard Peter Hemmenway, Christopher Thomas Doody
  • Nitride-based transistors having laterally grown active region and methods of fabricating same
    Patent number: 8946777
    Abstract: High electron mobility transistors and/or methods of fabricating high electron mobility transistors that include a first Group III-nitride layer having vertically grown regions, laterally grown regions and a coalescence region are provided. A Group III-nitride channel layer is provided on the first Group III-nitride layer and a Group III-nitride barrier layer is provided on the Group III-nitride channel layer. A drain contact, a source contact and a gate contact are provided on the barrier layer. The gate contact is disposed on a portion of the barrier layer on a laterally grown region of the first Group III-nitride layer and at least a portion of one of the source contact and/or the drain contact is disposed on a portion of the barrier layer on a vertically grown region of the first Group III-nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard, Richard Peter Smith
  • FORCE SPUN SUB-MICRON FIBER AND APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20150024185
    Abstract: A process of forming a non-woven web including spinning a plurality of continuous polymeric filaments including a polycarbonate homopolymer component, a polycarbonate copolymer component, and combinations thereof at a rate of at least 300 grams/hour/spinneret.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Jacob Labelle, Richard Peters, Erich Teutsch
  • FORCE SPUN SUB-MICRON FIBER AND APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20150024163
    Abstract: A process of forming a non-woven web including spinning continuous polymeric filaments including one selected from a poly(phenylene ether) component, a poly(phenylene ether)-polysiloxane block copolymer, and combinations thereof. The filaments can have a length to diameter ratio that is more than 1,000,000, and a diameter ranging from 50 nanometers to 5 microns. The spinning can include passing a polymer through a spinneret having a plurality of orifices in a non-electrospinning environment. The process can further include chopping the plurality of continuous filaments and obtaining a plurality of chopped nano-fibers and forming the nano-fibers into a nonwoven web. The spinning can be conducted at a rate of at least 300 grams/hour/spinneret.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Jacob Labelle, Richard Peters, Erich Teutsch
  • FORCE SPUN SUB-MICRON FIBER AND APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20150024186
    Abstract: A process of forming a non-woven web including spinning a plurality of continuous polymeric filaments including a polyetherimide component selected from polyetherimide homopolymers, polyetherimide co-polymers, aromatic polyester homopolymers, aromatic polyester copolymers, and combinations thereof at a rate of at least 300 grams/hour/spinneret. The continuous filaments have a diameter ranging from 50 nanometer to 5 microns, preferably 50 nanometers to 2 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Jacob Labelle, Richard Peters, Erich Teutsch
  • Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    Publication number: 20140378727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic compounds. Compounds such as terrylene or quaterrylene may now be prepared in relatively high yield by reaction of naphthalene or perylene via Scholl-type coupling in the presence of a superacid and an oxidant in an inert solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Peter JOHNSON, Rajesh THAMATAM
  • METHOD OF COATING A SUBSTRATE WITH A CATALYST COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20140356530
    Abstract: A method of coating a substrate with a liquid comprising a catalyst component, which substrate comprises a plurality of channels, wherein the method comprises: (a) holding the substrate vertically; (b) introducing the liquid into the substrate through the open ends of the channels at a lower end of the substrate; and (c) after the lower end of the substrate has been part-filled with the liquid, applying a vacuum to the open ends of the channels at the upper end of the substrate while introducing the liquid into the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Dale Albert ROBERTS, Andrew Michael BORTZ, Daniel L. TROLAND, Richard Peter ROSE, R. Bradford FORTNER
  • Composition and method for treating infections and promoting intestinal health
    Patent number: 8853269
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for the treatment of intestinal infections. Compositions that include a liquid crystal mixture of an antimicrobial glycerol fatty acid ester and a polyhydric alcohol inhibit the growth of numerous deleterious intestinal pathogenic bacteria, including C. difficile. C. difficile is the causative agent in an increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. The formulations may be administered orally as capsules or soft gels, or alternatively as a enema, colonic, or rectal suppository. When combined with a probiotic supplement, the liquid crystal combinations reported here are able to treat an intestinal bacterial infection effectively and safely, thus promoting general intestinal health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Copperhead Chemical Company Inc.
    Inventors: James David Mosbaugh, Richard Peter Curtie Calvert, Eric J. Brooks
  • IP-based call answering point selection and routing
    Patent number: 8830987
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for IP-based call answering point selection and routing. When an IP-based call is placed to an answering point such as, for example, a Public Safety Answering Point a location for the caller can not be determined using traditional DNIS and ANI based techniques. In the present invention, a geographic location (geolocation) for the caller is determined, from as IP address associated with the caller, using a database. The database comprises information obtained from a plurality of IP location sources (e.g. Skyhook Wireless Inc.'s Loki™, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated WiFi™ hotspot registration data). An answering point is selected from a plurality of answering points as a function of the caller's location. The call is routed to the selected answering point and the caller's location information is provided to that answering point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Solacom Technologies Inc., Bandwidth.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond A. Vilis, Richard A. Peters
  • Group III nitride field effect transistors (FETS) capable of withstanding high temperature reverse bias test conditions
    Patent number: 8803198
    Abstract: Group III Nitride based field effect transistor (FETs) are provided having a power degradation of less than about 3.0 dB when operated at a drain-to-source voltage (VDS) of about from about 28 to about 70 volts, a gate to source voltage (Vgs) of from about ?3.3 to about ?14 volts and a normal operating temperature for at least about 10 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Peter Smith, Scott T. Sheppard, Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu
  • SOLVENTLESS PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF AMINE FUNCTIONAL POLYETHERIMIDE RESINS WITH IMPROVED MELT FLOW
    Publication number: 20140213739
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process that includes blending a polyimide resin and a primary alky amine organic compound to produce an aryl amine functionalized polyimide, having aryl amine functionality in excess of any anhydride functionality. The polyimide resin can have a weight average molecular weight (Mw) from 5,000 to 100,000 daltons. The organic compound can include at least one primary aliphatic amine without a direct linkage of a nitrogen to an aryl group and without a functionality selected from a halogen functionality, a hydroxyl functionality, a sulfonic acid functionality, a sulfonic acid salt functionality, and combinations thereof. The disclosure also relates to alkyl imide functionalized polyimides also with aryl amine functionalized polyimides, having aryl amine functionality in excess of any anhydride functionality and articles produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Robert R. Gallucci, Roy Odle, Daniel F. Lowery, Richard Peters
  • Advertising On Computing Devices
    Publication number: 20140195353
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method executable at a networked computing device having a display. The method generally includes (i) displaying advertising content on the display when the computing device is in a locked state in which interactions with the computing device are limited, (ii) receiving an unlocking user input to cause the computing device to enter an unlocked state in which interactions with the computing device are less limited than when in the locked state, and (iii) displaying, in the unlocked state, a home screen including an activatable image associated with the advertising content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Cassandra Louise Govan, Richard Peter Hayward
  • Advertising On Computing Devices
    Publication number: 20140195352
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method executable at a networked computing device having a display. The method generally includes (i) displaying advertising content on the display when the computing device is in a locked state in which interactions with the computing device are limited, (ii) receiving an unlocking user input to cause the computing device to enter an unlocked state in which interactions with the computing device are less limited than when in the locked state, and (iii) displaying, in the unlocked state, a home screen including an activatable image associated with the advertising content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Cassandra Louise Govan, Richard Peter Hayward
  • HIGH TEMPERATURE MELT INTEGRITY BATTERY SEPARATORS VIA SPINNING
    Publication number: 20140167329
    Abstract: A method for preparing a high temperature melt integrity separator, the method comprising spinning a polymer by one or more of a mechanical spinning process and an electro-spinning process to produce fine fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Roy Martinus Adrianus L'Abee, Richard Peters, Erich Otto Teutsch, Huiqing Wu, Yanju Wang, Qunjian Huang, Wujun Rong, Jacob Scott LaBelle
  • Solventless process for the preparation of amine functional polyetherimide resins with improved melt flow
    Patent number: 8722187
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process that includes blending a polyimide resin and a primary alky amine organic compound to produce an aryl amine functionalized polyimide, having aryl amine functionality in excess of any anhydride functionality. The polyimide resin can have a weight average molecular weight (Mw) from 5,000 to 100,000 daltons. The organic compound can include at least one primary aliphatic amine without a direct linkage of a nitrogen to an aryl group and without a functionality selected from a halogen functionality, a hydroxyl functionality, a sulfonic acid functionality, a sulfonic acid salt functionality, and combinations thereof. The disclosure also relates to alkyl imide functionalized polyimides also with aryl amine functionalized polyimides, having aryl amine functionality in excess of any anhydride functionality and articles produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Robert R. Gallucci, Roy Odle, Daniel F. Lowery, Richard Peters
  • Head tube assembly for a bicycle with cable access routing in an open steerer configuration
    Patent number: 8684386
    Abstract: A head tube assembly suitable for a bicycle and comprising an open steerer configuration and cable routing. The head tube assembly comprises a head tube configured to connect with the top tube and down tube of the bicycle. The head tube includes a lower bearing component and an upper bearing component configured to rotatably engage the fork assembly. The fork assembly comprises an external steerer configured to rotate externally to the head tube. The head tube assembly includes an upper steerer section configured to secure the external steerer, and an internal chamber configured with an aperture for receiving one or more cables and being coupled to the top tube or the down tube. The internal chamber includes one or more guide tubes configured to route the cable(s) through the interior portion of the top tube or the down tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Peter Matthews, Robert James Pike
  • Synthesis Gas Separation and Reforming Process
    Publication number: 20140086818
    Abstract: A method of obtaining purified hydrogen and purified carbon monoxide from crude synthesis gas. A first crude synthesis gas stream is passed through a first separation zone to separate a hydrogen stream from a stream comprising carbon monoxide and methane. The carbon monoxide and methane are subjected to thermal reforming to produce a second crude synthesis gas, which is passed through a second separation zone to separate carbon monoxide from the second crude synthesis gas stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Peter Glynn Jewell, Melissa Gaucher, Louis Denomme