Patents by Inventor William Christian

William Christian 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: 20090155845
    Abstract: The invention is directed to LDCAM as a purified and isolated protein, the DNA encoding the LDCAM, host cells transfected with cDNAs encoding LDCAM, processes for preparing LDCAM polypeptides and compositions and methods for treating utilizing LDCAM polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Immunex Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Robert Baum, William Christian Fanslow, III
  • Publication number: 20090011499
    Abstract: The invention is directed to LDCAM as a purified and isolated protein, the DNA encoding the LDCAM, host cells transfected with cDNAs encoding LDCAM, processes for preparing LDCAM polypeptides and compositions and methods for treating utilizing LDCAM polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Immunex Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Robert Baum, William Christian Fanslow, III
  • Patent number: 7455978
    Abstract: Many proteins, when produced recombinantly, suffer from improper processing, folding and lack normal solubility. Modified proteins, including those indicative of disease states, also can have such defects. The present invention is directed to methods of identifying proper and improper protein folding, aberrant processing and/or insolubility. The method relies on the use of two components: a specialized fusion protein and structural complementation. The fusion protein contains sequences from the protein of interest and one portion of a marker protein that, by itself, is not active. A host cell then provides the remainder of the marker protein that serves to “complement” the function of the fused marker protein such that their association restores activity, permitting detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignees: The Trustees of Columbia University In The City of New York, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Philip Jordan Thomas, John F. Hunt, William Christian Wigley, Rhesa D. Stidham
  • Patent number: 7440854
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for determining and expressing the elastic moduli within a body of earthen material; the method and apparatus for processing the method follows the steps of: (a) establishing the location of the body; (b) determining the Young's Modulus E using the formula E=?Vp2; (c) determining the Shear Modulus ? using the formula ?=?Vs2; (d) determining a Bulk Modulus ? using the formula ?=?Vp2/3(1?2?) where ? equals Poisson's Ratio; and (e) selecting one or more of the determined moduli and entering such selected moduli in a data processor adapted to convert such selected moduli into a visual expression as, for example, a map of the selected moduli for the purpose of oil, gas or coal exploration, or earthquake hazard mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Inventor: William Christian Dickson
  • Patent number: 7402655
    Abstract: The invention is directed to LDCAM as a purified and isolated protein, the DNA encoding the LDCAM, host cells transfected with cDNAs encoding LDCAM, processes for preparing LDCAM polypeptides and compositions and methods for treating utilizing LDCAM polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Immunex Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Robert Baum, William Christian Fanslow, III
  • Patent number: 7324865
    Abstract: A method is provided, the method comprising monitoring consumption of a sputter target to determine a deposition rate of a metal layer during metal deposition processing using the sputter target, and modeling a dependence of the deposition rate on at least one of deposition plasma power and deposition time. The method also comprises applying the deposition rate model to modify the metal deposition processing to form the metal layer to have a desired thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Sonderman, Scott Bushman, Craig William Christian
  • Publication number: 20070257186
    Abstract: An optical power converting apparatus is provided that may be used with remote sensors. A plurality of remote sensors may be coupled to a backbone optical fiber with each sensor having an optical power converter that receives an optical signal from a head end of that fiber. The optical power converters may store electrical energy derived from that optical signal and use that energy to power the remote sensors. The head end's optical signal may also include a clock signal, and each remote sensor may be set to sense a measurable parameter after a given number of clock cycles have been counted. In a further example, each of the optical sensors may be synchronized before counting these clock signals via a synchronization signal from the optical power converter. The remote sensors may individually and separately uplink their sensed data to the head end on the optical fiber. The apparatus may be implemented in a vehicle health management system, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: RAY DELCHER, MOHSEN KHOSHNEVISAN, WILLIAM CHRISTIAN
  • Patent number: 7214765
    Abstract: This invention includes malleable, biodegradable, fibrous compositions for application to a tissue site in order to promote or facilitate new tissue growth. One aspect of this invention is a fibrous component that provides unique mechanical and physical properties. The invention may be created by providing a vessel containing a slurry, said slurry comprising a plurality of natural or synthetic polymer fibers and at least one suspension fluid, wherein the polymer fibers are substantially evenly dispersed and randomly oriented throughout the volume of the suspension fluid; applying a force, e.g., centrifugal, to said vessel containing said slurry, whereupon said force serves to cause said polymer fibers to migrate through the suspension fluid and amass at a furthest extent of the vessel, forming a polymer material, with said polymer material comprising polymer fibers of sufficient length and sufficiently viscous, interlaced, or interlocked to retard dissociation of said polymer fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Kensey Nash Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy A. Ringeisen, William Christian Wattengel
  • Publication number: 20070070482
    Abstract: A laser beam steering apparatus includes a beam steering cell with an adjustable shape, with the cell having opposing Fabry-Perot filters, and a steering mechanism coupled to the cell to adjust its shape so that the direction of a laser beam emitted from the cell is changed in response to a change in the cell shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Mohsen Khoshnevisan, Ray Delcher, Mark Ewbank, Arthur Chiou, William Christian, Randolph Hall
  • Patent number: 7195084
    Abstract: Vessels for selectively holding drilling cuttings material and methods employing such vessels; the vessels, in at least certain aspects, having a body with a hollow container with an interior space for receiving drilling cuttings material and from which the material may exit from the body; a first opening through which the material enters into the container; a second opening through which the material passes out from the container; and movement apparatus with a movement member within the container movable adjacent the second opening to facilitate passage of the material into the second opening; and in certain aspects, the vessels having moisture-content sensor apparatus on the body for sensing moisture content of material within a vessel; conduit apparatus for conducting drilling cuttings from the exit opening; valve apparatus for selectively controlling flow of material in the conduit apparatus; and a controller in communication with the moisture-content sensor apparatus and the valve apparatus for selective
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.
    Inventors: George Alexander Burnett, Colin Crabb, David Wood, Kenneth Wayne Seyffert, William Christian Herben, James Michael McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20070005193
    Abstract: A methodology and related system apparatus is provided for using and coordinating the use of information conveyed over communications to most efficiently and flexibly respond to abnormalities to reconfigure and restore service to end customers in commodity distribution systems in a manner to enhance the reconfigurability of the distribution system, e.g. circuit reconfiguration in an electrical power distribution system. Methodology is also provided to appropriately allocate system resources of the distribution system when so desired, e.g. to prevent the potential overloading of electrical power sources. In one illustrative arrangement, the methodology is characterized by resources at each node and communications of source allocation data or messages to other nodes to request and establish an appropriate allocation of system resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: William Christian Nelson, Kenneth Biallas, Eddie Brasher, Thomas Fix
  • Publication number: 20060202109
    Abstract: An optical power converting apparatus is provided that may be used with remote sensors. A plurality of remote sensors may be coupled to a backbone optical fiber with each sensor having an optical power converter that receives an optical signal from a head end of that fiber. The optical power converters may store electrical energy derived from that optical signal and use that energy to power the remote sensors. The head end's optical signal may also include a clock signal, and each remote sensor may be set to sense a measurable parameter after a given number of clock cycles have been counted. In a further example, each of the optical sensors may be synchronized before counting these clock signals via a synchronization signal from the optical power converter. The remote sensors may individually and separately uplink their sensed data to the head end on the optical fiber. The apparatus may be implemented in a vehicle health management system, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Ray Delcher, Mohsen Khoshnevisan, William Christian
  • Publication number: 20060070760
    Abstract: A motion conversion assembly is provided, wich is adapted to be attached to a power drill for converting rotational motion of the drill to a reciprocating motion to operate as a reciprocating saw. The motion conversion assembly is mounted in a housing, and employs an offset-angled spindle on a rotatable drive shaft which is coupled to an intermediate shaft sub-assembly in the housing, which cooperated whith the offset-angled apindle to produce a reciprocating motion in the intermediate shaft subassembly as the rotatable drive shaft is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Professional Tool Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: David Bernard, William Christian, Scott Harris, Keith Mosttler, Hank O'Dougherty, Daniel Dovel
  • Patent number: 6988567
    Abstract: Methods for moving drilled cuttings, the methods, in certain aspects, using a cuttings processor with a rotating annular screen to separate fluid from drilled cuttings and/or such methods including conveying with air under positive pressure, drilled cuttings to flow conduit apparatus; applying air under positive pressure to the flow conduit apparatus to continuously move the drilled cuttings material therethrough; continuously moving the drilled cuttings material with the air under pressure to separation apparatus; with the separation apparatus continuously separating drilled cuttings from air; wherein, in certain aspects, the drilled cuttings are included in a low density slurry with drilling fluid, drilling mud, and/or oil and wherein, in certain aspects, the separation apparatus is a cyclone separator and the drilled cuttings moved into the cyclone separator are wet; and systems for effecting such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.
    Inventors: George Alexander Burnett, David Wood, Kenneth W. Seyffert, William Christian Herben, James Michael McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20060003676
    Abstract: A drill sharpener is provided which has a point-splitting port which simplifies the procedure for producing a split point on a drill bit undergoing sharpening. The point-splitting port is positioned relative to a grinding wheel assembly such that, when the drill held by a chuck is advanced toward the grinding wheel, a flute of the drill at the drill tip is brought into contact with the grinding wheel. The port has alignment stops therein which mate with flats provided on the barrel of the chuck to ensure proper alignment of the chuck and drill relative to the grinding wheel. The stops also limit the extent of inward travel of the chuck and drill to a predetermined distance. A debris or grit collection tube is also provided to be inserted into an unused port of the drill sharpener, to contain and confine any debris or grit attempting to exit the sharpener through the unused port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: Professional Tool Manufacturing
    Inventors: David Bernard, William Christian, Scott Harris, Keith Mosttler
  • Patent number: 6936092
    Abstract: Methods for moving drilled cuttings, the methods, in certain aspects, including conveying with air under positive pressure, drilled cuttings to flow conduit apparatus; applying air under positive pressure to the flow conduit apparatus to continuously move the drilled cuttings material therethrough; continuously moving the drilled cuttings material with the air under pressure to separation apparatus; with the separation apparatus continuously separating drilled cuttings from air; wherein, in certain aspects, the drilled cuttings are included in a low density slurry with drilling fluid, drilling mud, and/or oil and wherein, in certain aspects, the separation apparatus is a cyclone separator and the drilled cuttings moved into the cyclone separator are wet; and systems for effecting such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Seyffert, William Christian Herben, James Michael McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20040204568
    Abstract: The invention is directed to LDCAM as a purified and isolated protein, the DNA encoding the LDCAM, host cells transfected with cDNAs encoding LDCAM, processes for preparing LDCAM polypeptides and compositions and methods for treating utilizing LDCAM polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: IMMUNEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Robert Baum, William Christian Fanslow
  • Publication number: 20040182605
    Abstract: Methods for moving drilled cuttings, the methods, in certain aspects, including conveying with air under positive pressure, drilled cuttings to flow conduit apparatus; applying air under positive pressure to the flow conduit apparatus to continuously move the drilled cuttings material therethrough; continuously moving the drilled cuttings material with the air under pressure to separation apparatus; with the separation apparatus continuously separating drilled cuttings from air; wherein, in certain aspects, the drilled cuttings are included in a low density slurry with drilling fluid, drilling mud, and/or oil and wherein, in certain aspects, the separation apparatus is a cyclone separator and the drilled cuttings moved into the cyclone separator are wet; and systems for effecting such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Seyffert, William Christian Herben, James Michael McIntosh
  • Patent number: 6727070
    Abstract: Many proteins, when produced recombinantly, suffer from improper processing, folding and lack normal solubility. Modified proteins, including those indicative of disease states, also can have such defects. The present invention is directed to methods of identifying proper and improper protein folding, aberrant processing and/or insolubility. The method relies on the use of two components: a specialized fusion protein and structural complementation. The fusion protein contains sequences from the protein of interest and one portion of a marker protein that, by itself, is not active. A host cell then provides the remainder of the marker protein that serves to “complement” the function of the fused marker protein such that their association restores activity, permitting detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignees: The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Philip Jordan Thomas, John F. Hunt, William Christian Wigley, Rhesa D. Stidham
  • Patent number: 6697240
    Abstract: Method and apparatus is disclosed for controlling an electric power distribution system including the use and coordination of information conveyed over communications to dynamically modify the protection characteristics of distribution devices (including but not limited to substation breakers, reclosing substation breakers, and line reclosers). In this way, overall protection and reconfigurability of the distribution system or “team” is greatly enhanced. According to additional aspects of the invention, devices within the system recognize the existence of cooperating devices outside of the team's domain of direct control, managing information from these devices such that more intelligent local decision making and inter-team coordination can be performed. This information may include logical status indications, control requests, analog values or other data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: EnergyLine Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Christian Tracy Nelson, Donald S. Berkowitz, Witold Bik, Michael A. Maloney