Patents by Inventor Richard Sparks

Richard Sparks 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: 20220065109
    Abstract: The invention includes one or more ventilation stopping panels and more particularly to expandable ventilation panel used in the construction of a mine stopping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks
  • Patent number: 8740660
    Abstract: A pod drive installation and hull configurations for mounting a pod drive unit to a hull which includes a horizontally disposed pod drive platform for supporting a rotational pod drive mount for mounting the pod drive unit with a vertically oriented steering axis. The pod drive platform is mounted to the hull, outward of the keel of the vessel, such that the pod drive platform intersects a plane defined by a bottom hull surface tilted from the horizontal along a contour of intersection, between an outboard boundary of the pod drive platform and an inboard boundary of the pod drive platform, and is connected to the bottom hull surface by at least one of an outboard sidewall and an inboard sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Wayne Wingate, Richard Sparks
  • Publication number: 20120100764
    Abstract: A pod drive installation and hull configurations for mounting a pod drive unit to a hull which includes a horizontally disposed pod drive platform for supporting a rotational pod drive mount for mounting the pod drive unit with a vertically oriented steering axis. The pod drive platform is mounted to the hull, outward of the keel of the vessel, such that the pod drive platform intersects a plane defined by a bottom hull surface tilted from the horizontal along a contour of intersection, between an outboard boundary of the pod drive platform and an inboard boundary of the pod drive platform, and is connected to the bottom hull surface by at least one of an outboard sidewall and an inboard sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Wayne Wingate, Richard Sparks
  • Publication number: 20070185165
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to N-hydroxyamidino compounds which are modulators of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of use thereof relating to the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Combs, Amy Takvorian, Wenyu Zhu, Richard Sparks
  • Publication number: 20070149506
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate the activity of Janus kinases and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases, skin disorders, myeloid proliferative disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Argyrios Arvanitis, James Rodgers, Andrew Combs, Richard Sparks, Darius Robinson
  • Publication number: 20060183906
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-4-yl amines pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyrimidin-4-yl amines that modulate the activity of Janus kinases and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: James Rodgers, Haisheng Wang, Andrew Combs, Richard Sparks
  • Publication number: 20050272778
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that can modulate the activity of a target protein, such as a phosphatase, that selectively binds phosphorylated peptides or proteins. The present compounds can be useful in treating diseases or disorders, including, for example, diabetes and obesity, that are connected directly or indirectly to the activity of the target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Andrew Combs, Eddy Yue, Michael Bower, Wenyu Zhu, Matthew Crawley, Richard Sparks, James Pruitt, Amy Takvorian
  • Patent number: 6105487
    Abstract: THE INVENTION provides a cooking appliance comprising a concave burner pan having a base and a peripheral side wall which together form a windshield and a gas burner disposed within the concavity of the pan, and an engagement formation adapted to mate with a corresponding engagement formation on a cooking surface, whereby such surface is releasably secured to the burner pan. A number of inter-changeable cooking surfaces are disclosed which may be utilized in conjunction with the burner pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: MTM Trading Limited
    Inventors: Simon Nash, Richard Sparks, Peter Labuschagne, Edward Parrett
  • Patent number: 4465974
    Abstract: Bodies of a ferrimagnetic material are disposed within small cavities provided in a magnetometer. The magnetometer is initially calibrated utilizing an electromagnet to produce an applied magnetic field of either known field strength, H.sub.DC, or known field distribution. Radio frequency energy is fed equally to each cavity and each material and results in resonance frequency output signals which may be coupled to a visual display. When the calibrating magnetic field is of known uniform strength, H.sub.DC, the orientation of the bodies is changed until each of the resonance signals have a frequency substantially given by f.sub.c =.gamma.H.sub.DC where .gamma.=2.8 MHz/oersted. When the calibrating magnetic field has a known field distribution the orientation of bodies is changed until such resonance signals have frequencies related to one another in accordance with the relative magnetic field strengths passing through the cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks
  • Patent number: 4340861
    Abstract: Bodies of a ferrimagnetic material are disposed within small cavities provided in a magnetometer. The magnetometer is initially calibrated utilizing an electromagnet to produce an applied magnetic field of either known field strength, H.sub.DC, or known field distribution. Radio frequency energy is fed equally to each cavity and each material and results in resonance frequency output signals which may be coupled to a visual display. When the calibrating magnetic field is of known uniform strength, H.sub.DC, the orientation of the bodies is changed until each of the resonance signals have a frequency substantially given by f.sub.c =.gamma.H.sub.DC where .gamma.=2.8 MHz/oersted. When the calibrating magnetic field has a known field distribution the orientation of bodies is changed until such resonance signals have frequencies related to one another in accordance with the relative magnetic field strengths passing through the cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks
  • Patent number: 4048580
    Abstract: An input signal, whose frequency is to be detected, is divided and sent i two arms. One arm applies a set phase and amplitude adjustment while the other arm has a phase response that is dependent upon the frequency. Both arms are fed to a phase detector whose output is used to indicate the frequency of the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Richard A. Campbell, Richard A. Sparks, Robert W. Perry
  • Patent number: 4044318
    Abstract: A three channel electronically tunable filter arrangement for selecting radio frequency signals to be processed in a monopulse receiver is disclosed. Each channel of the disclosed filter arrangement includes an yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) filter disposed in a common structure so that the resonant frequency of each channel may be controlled by the magnetic field of a single electromagnet. Also disclosed is an alignment method whereby the response of the YIG filter in each channel may be independently adjusted to eliminate any substantial imbalance between channels as the strength of the magnetic field is changed to change the resonant frequencies of such filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Edward J. Daly, Richard Sparks, George R. Spencer
  • Patent number: D745700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SWF Industrial, LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks
  • Patent number: D745701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SWF Industrial, LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks
  • Patent number: D811626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SWF Industrial, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Sparks