Patents by Inventor William C. Orr

William C. Orr 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: 9622997
    Abstract: Methods for treating insomnia are disclosed. The methods are directed to administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of baclofen to an individual suffering from insomnia. In addition, due to baclofen's positive effects on reducing nighttime reflux events, the present methods are directed to treating insomnia in patients that also suffer from nighttime reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of baclofen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Lynn Health Science Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Publication number: 20150148420
    Abstract: Methods for treating insomnia are disclosed. The methods are directed to administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of baclofen to an individual suffering from insomnia. In addition, due to baclofen's positive effects on reducing nighttime reflux events, the present methods are directed to treating insomnia in patients that also suffer from nighttime reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of baclofen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Patent number: 7572303
    Abstract: A fuel composition of the present invention exhibits minimized hydrolysis and increased fuel stability, even after extended storage at 65° F. for 6-9 months. The composition, which is preferably not strongly alkaline (3.0 to 10.5), is more preferably weakly alkaline to mildly acidic (4.5 to 8.5) and most preferably slightly acidic (6.3 to 6.8), includes a lower dialkyl carbonate, a combustion improving amount of at least one high heating combustible compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, bromine, bismuth, beryllium, calcium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, francium, gallium, germanium, iodine, iron, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, palladium, rubidium, sodium, tin, zinc, praseodymium, rhenium, silicon, vanadium, or mixture, and a hydrocarbon base fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Octane International, Ltd.
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Publication number: 20090016997
    Abstract: Anti-aging compositions and methods for delivering (engrafting) younger compatible human DNA to tissues, through the systematic periodic introduction of younger primordial whole (nucleated) stem cells and bone marrow into a recipient, resulting in re-establishment of an earlier relative biological clock set-point, with respect to the number of cell generations-divisions are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Alecia A. Hathaway, William C. Orr
  • Publication number: 20040237384
    Abstract: A fuel composition of the present invention exhibits minimized hydrolysis and increased fuel stability, even after extended storage at 65° F. for 6-9 months. The composition, which is preferably not strongly alkaline (3.0 to 10.5), is more preferably weakly alkaline to mildly acidic (4.5 to 8.5) and most preferably slightly acidic (6.3 to 6.8), includes a lower dialkyl carbonate, a combustion improving amount of at least one high heating combustible compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, bromine, bismuth, beryllium, calcium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, francium, gallium, germanium, iodine, iron, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, palladium, rubidium, sodium, tin, zinc, praseodymium, rhenium, silicon, vanadium, or mixture, and a hydrocarbon base fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Patent number: 6652608
    Abstract: A fuel composition of the present invention exhibits minimized hydrolysis and increased fuel stability, even after extended storage at 65° F. for 6-9 months. The composition, which is preferably not strongly alkaline (3.0 to 10.5), is more preferably weakly alkaline to mildly acidic (4.5 to 8.5) and most preferably slightly acidic (6.3 to 6.8), includes a lower dialkyl carbonate, a combustion improving amount of at least one high heating combustible compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, bromine, bismuth, beryllium, calcium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, francium, gallium, germanium, iodine, iron, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, palladium, rubidium, sodium, tin, zinc, praseodymium, rhenium, silicon, vanadium, or mixture, and a hydrocarbon base fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Patent number: 6039772
    Abstract: Fuel compositions comprised of well-defined proportions of cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl antiknock compounds, solvents selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 aliphatic alcohols and nonleaded gasoline bases, possess improved long term hydrocarbon combustion emissions and technical enleanment characteristics. When methanol is used as the solvent it is desirable that a cosolvent selected from the group consisting of C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 aliphatic alcohols, C.sub.3 to C.sub.12 ketones and/or C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 ethers also be present in the fuel composition to assure phase stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Inventor: William C. Orr
  • Patent number: 5951468
    Abstract: An easy, safe and inexpensive procedure to testing the presence of esophageal acid sensitivity in a patient involves having the patient swallow a controlled quantity of a weak acid solution and a similar-tasting controlled quantity of a neutral solution and recording the reactions or symptoms experienced by the patient during the drinking of each solution. The acid solution only should affect the sensitivity of the esophageal lining in patients with esophageal acid sensitivity, providing heartburn and other related symptoms to include non-cardiac chest pain, but should not have any significant effect on patients without esophageal acid sensitivity. The neutral solution may be altered to simulate the taste of the acid solution and reduce the effect the taste of the solutions may have on the test results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventor: William C. Orr