Patents by Inventor Robert Ader

Robert Ader 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).

  • Method and device for administering medication and/or placebo
    Patent number: 6973374
    Abstract: A control device and a drug delivery system containing such a control device are disclosed for delivery to a patient of a drug or a placebo (or ineffective dose of the drug) according to a partial reinforcement schedule, whereby the placebo (or ineffective dose of the drug) is delivered in whole or in part during one or more delivery events. Methods of modulating the drug/placebo delivery to a patient are also provided, whereby the delivery event is initiated either according to a patient-initiated signaling event (i.e., a self-medication mode) or an automated signaling event (i.e., automated mode).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventor: Robert Ader
  • Method and device for administering medication and/or placebo
    Publication number: 20040153214
    Abstract: A control device and a drug delivery system containing such a control device are disclosed for delivery to a patient of a drug or a placebo (or ineffective dose of the drug) according to a partial reinforcement schedule, whereby the placebo (or ineffective dose of the drug) is delivered in whole or in part during one or more delivery events. Methods of modulating the drug/placebo delivery to a patient are also provided, whereby the delivery event is initiated either according to a patient-initiated signaling event (i.e., a self-medication mode) or an automated signaling event (i.e., automated mode).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Ader
  • Remote control apparatus for power line communications system
    Patent number: 5777545
    Abstract: Remote control apparatus for a power line communications system in which control signals are transmitted, via the power line to, from the location of utilization equipment to a control unit located at a remote point and by which the utilization equipment is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Elcom Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Chandrakant Bhailalbhai Patel, Joseph Robert Ader, Henry Charles Klein, John Artman
  • Power line communications system
    Patent number: 5712614
    Abstract: A power line communications system in which information signals are frequency multiplied in a transmitter unit, so that the critical information portions of the information signals are frequency shifted from a notch in the frequency response characteristic between an outlet in the power line communications system to which the transmitter unit is connected and an outlet in the power line communications system to which a receiver unit is connected, whereby the critical information portions of the information signals are not lost in the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Elcom Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Chandrakant Bhailalbhai Patel, Jack Rudy Harford, Stephen Pudles, Joseph Robert Ader