Patents by Inventor Stephen Peter

Stephen Peter 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: 7456606
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cost effective and long-awaited apparatus and method for making a battery charging unit wherein the apparatus and method solution used induction to eliminate the requirement to constantly remove rechargeable batteries from their particular units in order to recharge them. This invention further relates to a cost-effective and long-awaited apparatus and method wherein the apparatus and method solution uses induction to eliminate the requirement to electrically or mechanically connect the charged device to a battery charging unit in order to recharge the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Peter Legg
  • Publication number: 20080277470
    Abstract: A device, method and system for voting are disclosed herein. The exemplary voting device may be comprised of a paper ballot unique to each voter, an ink pen which also houses an optical scanning device, multiple redundant electronic storage media devices whereupon cast votes and other information are recorded, and a voting management system used by voters to validate their selections and by poll workers and election judges to authenticate the ballot and resolve voting booth issues such as spoiled ballots. The device may facilitate the casting of votes and ensure their secure and accurate tallying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: David Wesley Gallaher, John Loyd, Stephen Peter O'Brien, Robert Warren Woodward, JR.
  • Patent number: 7371829
    Abstract: The invention provides haptens, immunogens comprising such haptens coupled to an antigenicity-conferring carrier material, conjugates comprising such haptens bonded to a labelling agent as well as, antibodies raised against such immunogens and capable of binding with ketamine and its primary metabolite, norketamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Elouard Benchikh, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, John Victor Lamont
  • Patent number: 7270788
    Abstract: An assay device processing instrument comprises a plurality of processing modules. A transport system transports an assay device to each processing module, the transport system being adapted to transfer the assay device from the transport system to the module to enable the transport system to transport another assay device while the first is processed by the processing module. A control system controls operation of the transport system such that each assay device is transferred between the modules in a predetermined sequence, and such that a number of assay devices can be processed in different modules simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories Ltd.
    Inventors: James Rudolph Meyer, Ahti Kalevi Kansanaho, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, Ivan Robert McConnell, John Victor Lamont, Bailin Cao
  • Patent number: 7217802
    Abstract: The invention provides a hapten, an immunogen comprising the hapten coupled to an antigenicity-conferring carrier material, a conjugate comprising the hapten coupled to a labelling agent, as well as, antibodies raised against the aforementioned immunogen and capable of binding with MDMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Elouard Benchikh, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, John Victor Lamont
  • Patent number: 7216288
    Abstract: A method, and program storage device apparatus for adapting multi-media presentations of various formats to a new format suitable for playback on a general scene description based playback system. More specifically, when mult-media presentations do not contain scene description components, such components appropriate to the multi-media presentation will be constructed. The multi-media presentation will then be presented together with the created scene description components to the playback system for decoding rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Hans Westerink, Stephen Peter Wood
  • Patent number: 7192953
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) have antibacterial activity; wherein Q represents a radical of formula —N(OH)CH(?O) or formula —C(?O)NH(OH); Y represents —C(?O)—, —C(?S)—, —S(?O)—, or —SO2—; R1 represents hydrogen, C1–C6 alkyl or C1–C6 alkyl substituted by one or more halogen atoms, or, except when Q is a radical of formula —N(OH)CH(?O), a hydroxy, C1–C6 alkoxy, C1–C6 alkenyloxy, halogen, amino, C1–C6 alkylamino, or di-(C1–C6 alkyl)amino group; R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1–C6 alkyl, C1–C3 alkyl-O—C1–C3 alkyl, C1–C3 alkyl-S—C1–C3 alkyl, cycloalkyl(C1–C3 alkyl)-, aryl(C1–C3alkyl)-, heterocyclyl(C1–C3 alkyl)-, or R1R2N—C1–C3 alkyl group wherein R1 represents hydrogen or C1–C3 alkyl and R2 represents C1–C3 alkyl, or R1R2N-represents a cyclic amino group; R3 and R4 taken together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are respectively attached form a saturated heterocyclic ring of from 4 to 7 ring atoms, which may be fused to a second carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, either of which rings may optionall
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Vernalis (Oxford) Limited
    Inventor: Stephen Peter East
  • Patent number: 7192722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing haptens of formulae I and II that are useful in the preparation of immunogens, antibodies and conjugates, for use in competitive immunoassays for the detection of ractopamine, isoxsuprine and ritodrine. The haptens are prepared by reacting a phenylethanolamine derivative of formula D with a phenylalkylcarbonyl derivative of formula E: in which, in formula I, Z1 is a crosslinker and Z2 is H and, in formula II, Z1 is H and Z2 is a crosslinker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, El Ouard Benchikh, Andrew Philip Lowry
  • Patent number: 7191073
    Abstract: Novel tracked orders (i.e., tracked orders that are not present in “healthy” machinery) are useful for locating bearing anomalies. Accordingly, a method for locating bearing anomalies in machinery is provided that includes receiving vibration measurements acquired from the machinery, analyzing the vibration measurements to identify novel tracked orders indicative of bearing anomalies, and ascertaining the location of a bearing anomaly by relating a novel tracked order thus-identified to one or more further tracked orders. Thus, the novel tracked order does not merely indicate the occurrence of a bearing anomaly, but, in combination with the one or more further tracked orders, allows the bearing anomaly to be traced to a particular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Oxford Biosignals Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Richard Astley, Paul Anuzis, Stephen Peter King, Dennis Maxwell King
  • Patent number: 7155728
    Abstract: A system and method that provides remoting services in a distributed object system is provided. The system includes a remote object monitor and a remote object manipulator. The remote object monitor can provide a human readable reference to a remote object, where the human readable reference is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and can include protocol information, protocol data, an application name and an object URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). The remote object monitor can also provide metadata concerning a remote object, where the metadata can include information concerning interfaces implemented by a remote object, the type of a remote object, the class hierarchy of a remote object, methods implemented by a remote object, properties implemented by a remote object and attributes implemented by a remote object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Manish S. Prabhu, Caleb L. Doise, Tarun Anand, Stephen Peter de Jong, Jonathan C. Hawkins, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Matthew R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20060276559
    Abstract: The present invention relates to multi-part coating compositions that comprise a first part which is an asphalt emulsion comprising water, asphalt, and a dispersion system and a second part which is a liquid polymer composition that lacks water. The asphalt emulsion and liquid polymer composition are combined in situ to provide a coating that has fast dry characteristics, and that quickly develops good water-resistance. Such compositions are useful as coatings on metal, wood, and other surfaces, where fast drying characteristics are important. Such compositions are particularly useful as coatings on substrates where early water-resistance of the coating is important, such as those surfaces which are routinely exposed to the outdoors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Pamela Hernandez, Stephen Peters
  • Patent number: 7135519
    Abstract: A sealing-enhancing coating for a gasket or a portion of a gasket includes flaky particles of chemically exfoliated vermiculite, at least 90% by weight of the particles having a thickness of no more than 30 microns, and no dimension greater than 1 mm. The particles form 10 to 90 wt. % of the coating. The coating also includes 50 to 10 wt. % of an organic polymer binder which when formed into a film 1 mm or less in thickness and heated to 300° C. in free air for 24 hours either does not decompose or decomposes leaving a residue of at least 20% by weight of film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Technology Limited
    Inventors: Alan William Atkinson, Stephen Peter Bond, Darryl Alfred Turland
  • Patent number: 7120639
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for facilitating employment of pluggable formatters by providing a variety of functions or services outside the formatter for handling various functions associated with conventional formatters. The services can be employed to provide the basic functionality associated with serializing and deserializing graphs of objects. The present invention provides facilities which support the plugging in or functionality of formatters in any given wire format for transferring across a connection or between processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Peter de Jong, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Joseph L. Roxe
  • Patent number: 7115718
    Abstract: The invention provides a hapten derivatized with a crosslinker at the nitrogen of the 8?-carboxamide of 2-oxo-3-hydroxy LSD. The invention also provides an immunogen comprising the aforementioned hapten coupled to an antigenicity-conferring carrier material; a conjugate comprising the aforementioned hapten coupled to a labelling agent, as well as, antibodies raised against the aforementioned immunogen and capable of binding with at least the 3-hydroxy-2-pyrrolidone structural epitope of 2-oxo-3-hydroxy LSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Randox :abpratproes :o, oted
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Elouard Benchikh, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, John Victor Lamont
  • Patent number: 7109310
    Abstract: The invention provides an immunogen comprising a hapten coupled to an antigenicity-conferring carrier material, a conjugate comprising the aforementioned hapten coupled to a labelling agent, as well as, antibodies raised against the aforementioned immunogen and capable of binding with at least one structural epitope of metabolites of fentanyl and of metabolites of fentanyl analogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Elouard Benchikh, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, John Victor Lamont
  • Patent number: 7026134
    Abstract: Novel haptens, which can be conjugated to form immunogens, are of formula I, II or III wherein R is a divalent alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and X is a functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories Ltd.
    Inventors: John Victor Lamont, Robert Ivan McConnell, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, El Ouard Benchikh, Andrew Philip Lowry
  • Patent number: 6999884
    Abstract: Novel tracked orders (i.e., tracked orders that are not present in “healthy” machinery) are useful for locating bearing anomalies. Accordingly, a method for locating bearing anomalies in machinery is provided that includes receiving vibration measurements acquired from the machinery, analyzing the vibration measurements to identify novel tracked orders indicative of bearing anomalies, and ascertaining the location of a bearing anomaly by relating a novel tracked order thus-identified to one or more further tracked orders. Thus, the novel tracked order does not merely indicate the occurrence of a bearing anomaly, but, in combination with the one or more further tracked orders, allows the bearing anomaly to be traced to a particular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Oxford Biosignals Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Richard Astley, Paul Anuzis, Stephen Peter King, Dennis Maxwell King
  • Patent number: 6996642
    Abstract: An adapter for converting an interface of a data storage device is provided. The adapter has a first interface for connection to the interface of the data storage device and a second interface for connection to one or more host systems. The adapter includes a processor for converting commands and data between the first and second interfaces. The adapter transforms the data storage device to emulate physically and logically a higher availability and higher performance native data storage device. The adapter has a first connector compatible with the first interface for attachment to the data storage device and a second connector compatible with the second interface for attachment to the one or more host systems. The first and second connectors are disposed in the adapter in a back to back arrangement. The adapter logically separates commands for the data storage device from commands for the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Apperley, Stephen Peter Legg, Vinay V. Shah
  • Patent number: 6960653
    Abstract: The invention provides a hapten comprising a 6-[D-?-aminoacetamido] penicillin derivative crosslinked at the ?-amino group with a substituted or unsubstituted phenyldicarbaldehyde. In addition, the invention provides an immunogen comprising the aforementioned hapten coupled to an antigenicity-conferring carrier material, a conjugate comprising the aforementioned hapten coupled to a labelling agent, as well as, antibodies raised against the aforementioned immunogen and capable of binding with at least one structural epitope of an intact ?-lactam ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Randox Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Robert Ivan McConnell, Elouard Benchikh, Stephen Peter Fitzgerald, John Victor Lamont
  • Patent number: 6930856
    Abstract: A housing providing for improved windage characteristics in a disc drive, the housing having a multiple bypass configured to receive and direct fluid flow away from a rotating disc pack assembly. The housing further includes a shroud to contain some fluid flow with the disc pack assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Peter Fei Wang, Stephen Peter LeClair