Patents by Inventor Robert Pollard

Robert Pollard 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).

  • Patent number: 11875396
    Abstract: A system for displaying a simulated room can comprise a projector, a wall structure element, a physical object, and a room customization station. The room customization station can view images of selectable products and allows a selection thereof to be displayed on the wall structure element or the physical object. The projector can display the selectable product(s) on the wall structure element or the physical object. The physical object can be adjustable in size for different selectable product sizes. The system can include a physical accessory placeable in the simulated room to facilitate visualization of how the physical accessory would appear in the simulated room with the selectable product. Further, the room customization station can prevent a portion of the images from being projected onto a physical feature in the simulated room and allow other portions of the images to be projected into a portion of the simulated room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lowe's Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Blair Thomas Holt, Kurt James Jansen, Shannon Wadford Boggess, Randall Allen Miller, Paula Gragg Ferguson, Jeffrey Donald Key, Jeffrey Robert Pollard, Zeke Robert Markshausen, Garrett Lee Winther, Kathryn Soven, Carl David Sjunnesson, Kyle Fletcher, Elizabeth Spenko, Joseph Thomas Graceffa, Travis Schultz Lee, Aaron Randall Ferber
  • Publication number: 20230106592
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating a proliferative disorder (e.g., cancer) in a patient by administering a DNA damaging agent and between about 12 and about 48 hours later administering to the subject a compound that inhibits ATR protein kinase. Methods of treating a proliferative disorder (e.g., cancer) in a patient by administering a compound that inhibits ATR protein kinase are also described. Exemplary ATR inhibitors are represented by Formulae A-I and A-II: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: John Robert POLLARD, Peter LITTLEWOOD, Philip Michael REAPER, Mohammed ASMAL, Scott Zachary FIELDS
  • Patent number: 11499917
    Abstract: An analyzing system is provided. The analyzing system includes a fluid container defining a sample chamber where a sample is contained in the sample chamber, and a sensor including a transparent body with a reverse face and an obverse face where the obverse face having a nanostructured surface. The nanostructured surface includes a plurality of elongate nanostructures having a respective longitudinal axis that is disposed substantially perpendicularly to the obverse face. The analyzing system includes an excitation and detection apparatus that includes an excitation source for generating a beam of polarized radiation and a corresponding radiation detector where the sensor is coupled to the fluid container such that the nanostructured surface is exposed to the sample chamber, to the sample located therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Causeway Sensors Limited
    Inventors: Robert Pollard, Antony Murphy, Breandan Hill, Danny O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11464774
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating a proliferative disorder (e.g., cancer) in a patient by administering a DNA damaging agent and between about 12 and about 48 hours later administering to the subject a compound that inhibits ATR protein kinase. Methods of treating a proliferative disorder (e.g., cancer) in a patient by administering a compound that inhibits ATR protein kinase are also described. Exemplary ATR inhibitors are represented by Formulae A-I and A-II or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Peter Littlewood, Philip Michael Reaper, Mohammed Asmal, Scott Zachary Fields
  • Publication number: 20220288581
    Abstract: An analyzing system comprises a multi-well sample carrier in which each well has a transparent bottom with a nanostructured surface inside the well. The sample carrier can be installed in a reader device so that each well of the sample carrier is aligned with a respective light guiding unit of the reader device. In use, each light guiding unit directs a beam of excitation light to the bottom of the respective well, and directs a beam of reflected light from the bottom of the respective well. The nanostructured surface acts as a plasmonic sensor to facilitate analysis of the contents of the wells. The system allows highly sensitive quantification and characterisation of biological interactions in real time across multiple wells, and with improvements in yields, quality and production times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: CAUSEWAY SENSORS LIMITED c/o Qubis Limited
    Inventors: Antony Murphy, Breandan Hill, Robert Pollard
  • Publication number: 20220233521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase and combination therapies thereof. The invention also relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and methods of using the compounds in in vitro applications, such as the study of kinases in biological and pathological phenomena; the study of intracellular signal transduction pathways mediated by such kinases; and the comparative evaluation of new kinase inhibitors. The compounds of this invention have formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: John Robert POLLARD, Philip Michael Reaper, Mohammed Asmal
  • Publication number: 20210334890
    Abstract: A system for displaying a simulated room can comprise a projector, a wall structure element, a physical object, and a room customization station. The room customization station can view images of selectable products and allows a selection thereof to be displayed on the wall structure element or the physical object. The projector can display the selectable product(s) on the wall structure element or the physical object. The physical object can be adjustable in size for different selectable product sizes. The system can include a physical accessory placeable in the simulated room to facilitate visualization of how the physical accessory would appear in the simulated room with the selectable product. Further, the room customization station can prevent a portion of the images from being projected onto a physical feature in the simulated room and allow other portions of the images to be projected into a portion of the simulated room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Blair Thomas Holt, Kurt James Jansen, Shannon Wadford Boggess, Randall Allen Miller, Paula Gragg Ferguson, Jeffrey Donald Key, Jeffrey Robert Pollard, Zeke Robert Markshausen, Garrett Lee Winther, Kathryn Soven, Carl David Sjunnesson, Kyle Fletcher, Elizabeth Spenko, Joseph Thomas Graceffa, Travis Schultz Lee, Aaron Randall Ferber
  • Patent number: 11110086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase and combination therapies thereof. The invention also relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and methods of using the compounds in in vitro applications, such as the study of kinases in biological and pathological phenomena; the study of intracellular signal transduction pathways mediated by such kinases; and the comparative evaluation of new kinase inhibitors. The compounds of this invention have formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Philip Michael Reaper, Mohammed Asmal
  • Patent number: 11062383
    Abstract: A system for displaying a simulated room can comprise at least one projector, at least one wall structure element, at least one physical object, and a room customization station. The room customization station can be configured to permit viewing images of selectable products and selecting at least one of the selectable products to be displayed on at least one of the at least one wall structure element or the at least one physical object. The projector(s) can be adapted to display the selectable product(s) on at least one of the at least one wall structure element or the physical object(s). The physical object can be adjustable in size to correspond to different sizes of selectable products. The system can further include at least one physical accessory adapted to be placed in the simulated room to facilitate visualization of how the at least one physical accessory would appear in the presence of the simulated room and the at least one selectable product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventors: Blair Thomas Holt, Kurt James Jansen, Shannon Wadford Boggess, Randall Allen Miller, Paula Gragg Ferguson, Jeffrey Donald Key, Jeffrey Robert Pollard, Zeke Robert Markshausen, Garrett Lee Winther, Kathryn Soven, Carl David Sjunnesson, Kyle Fletcher, Elizabeth Spenko, Joseph Thomas Graceffa, Travis Schultz Lee, Aaron Randall Ferber
  • Publication number: 20210196751
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of identifying a cancer having sensitivity to an ATR inhibitor compound, and treating subjects with such identified cancers with the ATR inhibitor, particularly in combination with a DNA damaging agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Marina S. PENNEY, John Robert POLLARD, Darin TAKEMOTO, David GEHO, James SULLIVAN, Philip Michael REAPER
  • Patent number: 11035866
    Abstract: The application relates to markers for seizures and epilepsy. Polypeptide expression panels or arrays are provided, comprising one or more probes capable of binding specific polypeptides in blood plasma or blood serum of a mammalian subject. Also provided are methods for detecting seizure, methods for predicting seizure, use of sICAM-5 in the treatment of seizure, methods for assessing the effectiveness of a treatment of seizure, and diagnostic kits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Peter B. Crino
  • Publication number: 20200390761
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating pancreatic cancer. More specifically, this invention relates to treating pancreatic cancer with certain ATR inhibitors in combination with gemcitabine and/or radiation therapy. This invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating non-small cell lung cancer. More specifically, this invention relates to treating non-small cell lung cancer with an ATR inhibitor in combination with cisplatin or carboplatin, etoposide, and ionizing radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: John Robert POLLARD, Philip Michael REAPER
  • Patent number: 10813929
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating pancreatic cancer. More specifically, this invention relates to treating pancreatic cancer with certain ATR inhibitors in combination with gemcitabine and/or radiation therapy. This invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating non-small cell lung cancer. More specifically, this invention relates to treating non-small cell lung cancer with an ATR inhibitor in combination with cisplatin or carboplatin, etoposide, and ionizing radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Philip Michael Reaper
  • Patent number: 10816466
    Abstract: An analysing apparatus comprises a fluid container defining a sample chamber. A sensor having a transparent body with a nanostructured surface is coupled to the fluid container such that the nanostructured surface is exposed to the sample chamber. An excitation and detection apparatus directs a beam of incident polarised electromagnetic radiation onto the reverse face of the body at the Brewster angle, causing no or substantially no reflection of the polarised radiation from the reverse face. The beam of reflected radiation emerges from the reverse face after reflection from the nanostructured surface. The apparatus is simpler and cheaper in comparison with known alternatives that use ATR prisms to create ATR of the light to excite a planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Causeway Sensors Limited
    Inventors: Robert Pollard, Anthony Murphy, Breandan Hill
  • Publication number: 20200222392
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase and combination therapies thereof The invention also relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and methods of using the compounds in in vitro applications, such as the study of kinases in biological and pathological phenomena; the study of intracellular signal transduction pathways mediated by such kinases; and the comparative evaluation of new kinase inhibitors. The compounds of this invention have formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Philip Michael Reaper, Mohammed Asmal
  • Patent number: 10478430
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase and combination therapies thereof. The invention also relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and methods of using the compounds in in vitro applications, such as the study of kinases in biological and pathological phenomena; the study of intracellular signal transduction pathways mediated by such kinases; and the comparative evaluation of new kinase inhibitors. The compounds of this invention have formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Robert Pollard, Philip Michael Reaper, Mohammed Asmal
  • Publication number: 20190250100
    Abstract: An analyzing system is provided. The analyzing system includes a fluid container defining a sample chamber where a sample is contained in the sample chamber, and a sensor including a transparent body with a reverse face and an obverse face where the obverse face having a nanostructured surface. The nanostructured surface includes a plurality of elongate nanostructures having a respective longitudinal axis that is disposed substantially perpendicularly to the obverse face. The analyzing system includes an excitation and detection apparatus that includes an excitation source for generating a beam of polarized radiation and a corresponding radiation detector where the sensor is coupled to the fluid container such that the nanostructured surface is exposed to the sample chamber, to the sample located therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Robert POLLARD, Antony MURPHY, Breandan HILL, Danny O'CONNOR
  • Publication number: 20190120762
    Abstract: An analysing apparatus comprises a fluid container defining a sample chamber. A sensor having a transparent body with a nanostructured surface is coupled to the fluid container such that the nanostructured surface is exposed to the sample chamber. An excitation and detection apparatus directs a beam of incident polarised electromagnetic radiation onto the reverse face of the body at the Brewster angle, causing no or substantially no reflection of the polarised radiation from the reverse face. The beam of reflected radiation emerges from the reverse face after reflection from the nanostructured surface. The apparatus is simpler and cheaper in comparison with known alternatives that use ATR prisms to create ATR of the light to excite a planar surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Pollard, Anthony Murphy
  • Patent number: D1037121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Robert Egan, Luke Price, Christopher Pollard
  • Patent number: D1044610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Robert Egan, Christopher Pollard