Patents by Inventor Richard Wilkins
Richard Wilkins 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: 20250017885Abstract: A method for treating inclusion body myositis (IBM) in a subject can include: providing a subject that has IBM; administering phenylbutyrate (PBA) to the subject in a therapeutically effective amount to provide a treatment for the IBM; obtaining at least one biological sample from the subject after initiation of the treatment for the IBM; measuring a biological indicator in the at least one biological sample, wherein the biological indicator is mitochondrial membrane potential; and monitoring a change in the biological indicator as an indication of effectiveness of the treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Duaa Jabari, Richard J. Barohn, Mazen M. Dimachkie, Heather Wilkins
-
Patent number: 11192271Abstract: A chainsaw system includes a chainsaw and a saw blade module, which has a cutting chain and at least one guide unit for forming a guide for at least one part of the cutting chain. The chainsaw system further includes at least one coupling unit for coupling the saw blade module to the chainsaw and at least one release unit that has at least one fastening element and is provided in order to provide tool-free decoupling of the at least one saw blade module which is coupled by means of the coupling unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jack Roden, Attila Nagy, Richard Wilkins, Richard Poole, Csaba Szmutko, John Lister
-
Publication number: 20210094202Abstract: A chainsaw system includes a chainsaw and a saw blade module, which has a cutting chain and at least one guide unit for forming a guide for at least one part of the cutting chain. The chainsaw system further includes at least one coupling unit for coupling the saw blade module to the chainsaw and at least one release unit that has at least one fastening element and is provided in order to provide tool-free decoupling of the at least one saw blade module which is coupled by means of the coupling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Jack Roden, Attila Nagy, Richard Wilkins, Richard Poole, Csaba Szmutko, John Lister
-
Patent number: 10163160Abstract: A method for identifying whether a house qualifies for homeowner's insurance is provided. The method includes receiving, by a computer system, from a user device, an indication of the house. The computer system is operated on behalf of an entity that issues homeowner's insurance, The user device is operated by a prospective purchaser of the house, and the indication is sufficient to identify the house. The method also includes retrieving, from a first database, characteristics linked with the house. The characteristics include one or more geohazard characteristics. The method further includes determining, whether the house qualifies for homeowner's insurance by the entity that issues homeowner's insurance using the characteristics linked with the house, storing, data indicating whether the house qualifies for homeowner's insurance, and transmitting to the user device of the prospective purchaser, the indication of whether the house qualifies for homeowner's insurance.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Michael Joseph Gaeta, Michael Richard Wilkins, Cedric Matterson
-
Publication number: 20170157214Abstract: The present disclosure relates to anti-inflammatory proteins, their uses, methods of preparation and methods of their detection. In particular, the invention relates to major royal jelly proteins modified by methyglyoxal and fragments thereof from manuka honey.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Amanda BEAN, Peter MOLAN, Ray CURSONS, Richard WILKINS
-
Patent number: 9469675Abstract: The present disclosure relates to anti-inflammatory proteins, their uses, methods of preparation and methods of their detection. In particular, the invention relates to major royal jelly proteins modified by methyglyoxal and fragments thereof from manuka honey.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: ManukaMed LimitedInventors: Amanda Bean, Peter Molan, Ray Cursons, Richard Wilkins
-
Patent number: 8809979Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignees: William Marsh Rice University, The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Enrique V. Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ranjii Vaidyanathan
-
Publication number: 20140154803Abstract: The present disclosure relates to anti-inflammatory proteins, their uses, methods of preparation and methods of their detection. In particular, the invention relates to major royal jelly proteins modified by methyglyoxal and fragments thereof from manuka honey.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: MANUKAMED LIMITEDInventors: Amanda Bean, Peter Molan, Ray Cursons, Richard Wilkins
-
Patent number: 8697173Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel organic peanut butter formulation and method for production. The peanut butter includes an organic, non-hydrogenated palm stearin oil stabilizing agent that reduces or prevents separation of oils from the peanut butter during storage. Peanut butter incorporating the palm oil, methods for manufacturing the peanut butter, and foods incorporating the peanut butter are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Once Again Nut Butter, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Thaler, Sandra Alexander, Elizabeth A. Blatz, Darin Carlin, Peter Carpenter, Lorraine Eurhardt, Mark Galton, Ellen Halbert, Esther Hinrich, David Howe, Stephen Jones, Lloyd Kirwan, Constance Potter, Richard Wilkins, Linda Zangerle
-
Publication number: 20120213908Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel organic peanut butter formulation and method for production. The peanut butter includes an organic palm oil stabilizing agent that reduces or prevents separation of oils from the peanut butter during storage. Peanut butter incorporating the palm oil, methods for manufacturing the peanut butter, and foods incorporating the peanut butter are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: Once Againt Nut Butter, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Thaler, Sandra Alexander, Elizabeth A. Blatz, Darin Carlin, Peter Carpenter, Lorraine Eurhardt, Mark Galton, Ellen Halbert, Esther Hinrich, David Howe, Stephen Jones, Lloyd Kirwan, Constance Potter, Richard Wilkins, Linda Zangerle
-
Patent number: 8173194Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel organic peanut butter formulation and method for production. The peanut butter includes an organic palm oil stabilizing agent that reduces or prevents separation of oils from the peanut butter during storage. Peanut butter incorporating the palm oil, methods for manufacturing the peanut butter, and foods incorporating the peanut butter are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Once Again Nut Butter, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Thaler, Sandra Alexander, Elizabeth A. Blatz, Darin Carlin, Peter Carpenter, Lorraine Eurhardt, Mark Galton, Ellen Halbert, Esther Hinrich, David Howe, Stephen Jones, Lloyd Kirwan, Constance Potter, Richard Wilkins, Linda Zangerle
-
Patent number: 7744844Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Enrique V. Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ranjii Vaidyanathan
-
Patent number: 7622498Abstract: Pesticidal compounds of general formula (I) Wherein ?represents a double bond; A— represents ?C(R5)—C(?O)—, wherein R represents hydrogen or halogen, R1 and R2 represent, independently, hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy or an ester group; or R1 and R2, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, represent an oxirane ring; or R1 and R2, taken together, represent an alkylidenedioxy or substituted alkylidenedioxy group; and R3 represents —CH2R6, wherein R6 represents an ester group, oxiranyl, or a group of formula wherein R7 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R8 represents phenylsulfanyl, phenylselenyl, phenylsulfoxy or phenylselenoxy, and R9 represents hydrogen, ethoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl and R4 represents, independently, hydrogen, alkoxy or substituted alkoxy; and methods of making the compounds of formula (I) and methods for controlling pests wherein the pest dies as a result of contact with a compound of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignees: Instituto Politecnico de Santarem/Escoal Superior Agraria, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, University of NewcastleInventors: Jorge Alberto Guerra Justino, Amelia Pilar Grases Santos Silva Rauter, Tana Lukeba Canda, Richard Wilkins
-
Patent number: 7538139Abstract: A method for controlling pests, the method comprising applying an effective amount to pests or their locus of one or more compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 represent, independently from each other, hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy or an ester group; R1 and R2, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, represent an oxirane ring; R1 and R2, taken together, represent an akylidenedioxy or substituted alkylidenedioxy group; and R3 represents —CH2R6, wherein R6 represents an ester group, oxiranyl, or a group of formula wherein R7 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R8 represents phenylsulfanyl, phenylselenyl, phenylsulfoxy or phenylselenoxy, and R9 represents hydrogen, ethoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl; and R4 represents, independently, hydrogen, alkoxy or substituted alkoxy, or R1 and R4, taken together, represent an alkylidenedioxy or a substituted alkylidenedioxy group; wherein the pest dies as a result of contact with the compound.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignees: Instituto Politecnico De Santarem/Escola Superior Agraria, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, University of NewcastleInventors: Jorge Alberto Guerra Justino, Amélia Pilar Grases Santos Silva Rauter, Tana Lukeba Canda, Richard Wilkins
-
Publication number: 20090099276Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Enrique V. Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ranjii Vaidyanathan
-
Publication number: 20090027069Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Enrique V. Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ranjii Vaidyanathan
-
Patent number: 7407640Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Enrique V. Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ranjii Vaidyanathan
-
Publication number: 20080004339Abstract: Pesticidal compounds of general formula (I) Wherein ----- represents a double bond; ----A— represents ?C(R5)—C(?O)—, wherein R represents hydrogen or halogen, R1 and R2 represent, independently, hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy or an ester group; or R1 and R2, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, represent an oxirane ring; or R1 and R2, taken together, represent an alkylidenedioxy or substituted alkylidenedioxy group; and R3 represents —CH2R6, wherein R6 represents an ester group, oxiranyl, or a group of formula wherein R7 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R8 represents phenylsulfanyl, phenylselenyl, phenylsulfoxy or phenylselenoxy, and R9 represents hydrogen, ethoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl and R4 represents, independently, hydrogen, alkoxy or substituted alkoxy; and methods of making the compounds of formula (I) and methods for controlling pests wherein the pest dies as a result of contact with a compound of formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicants: INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE SANTAREM/ESCOLA SUPERIOR AGRARIA, FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLEInventors: Jorge Justino, Amelia Pilar Rauter, Tana Canda, Richard Wilkins
-
Publication number: 20070117865Abstract: A method for controlling pests, the method comprising applying an effective amount to pests or their locus of one or more compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 represent, independently from each other, hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy or an ester group; R1 and R2, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, represent an oxirane ring; R1 and R2, taken together, represent an akylidenedioxy or substituted alkylidenedioxy group; and R3 represents —CH2R6, wherein R6 represents an ester group, oxiranyl, or a group of formula wherein R7 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R8 represents phenylsulfanyl, phenylselenyl, phenylsulfoxy or phenylselenoxy, and R9 represents hydrogen, ethoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl; and R4 represents, independently, hydrogen, alkoxy or substituted alkoxy, or R1 and R4, taken together, represent an alkylidenedioxy or a substituted alkylidenedioxy group; wherein the pest dies as a result of contact with the compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicants: INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE SANTAREM/ESCOLA SUPERIOR AGRARIA, FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLEInventors: Jorge Justino, Amelia Silva Rauter, Tana Canda, Richard Wilkins
-
Publication number: 20060202168Abstract: The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2003Publication date: September 14, 2006Applicant: William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Enrique Barrera, Richard Wilkins, Meisha Shofner, Merlyn Pulikkathara, Ranji Vaidyanathan