Patents by Inventor William Dean

William Dean 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: 20120052595
    Abstract: A method is taught for the accurate determination of the premature rupture of membranes (PROM), defined as spontaneous rupture of membranes before the onset of uterine contractions. More specifically, a lateral flow assay strip tests for at least two antigens to greatly limit or eliminate the possibility of false negatives. A built in timer in the cassette holding the lateral flow assay further increases the accuracy of the test. A collection buffer vial with self-contained shipping and dropper caps and built in stand is also taught.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: William Dean Wallace, Glen Ford
  • Patent number: 8101548
    Abstract: Urea Phosphite is a new composition of matter useful as a fertilizer and as a fungicide. It is made by reacting phosphorous acid with urea. Urea Phosphite is characterized by being a liquid produced in an unprocessed reaction, and by having phosphite as a phosphorus source and urea as a nitrogen source. The reaction products may be separated, blended with an admix and spray dried, or, dissolved in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: LidoChem, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank William Dean
  • Patent number: 8076266
    Abstract: Urea Phosphite is a new composition of matter useful as a fertilizer and as a fungicide. It is made by reacting phosphorous acid with urea. Urea Phosphite is characterized by being a liquid produced in an unprocessed reaction, and by having phosphite as a phosphorus source and urea as a nitrogen source. The reaction products may be separated, blended with an admix and spray dried, or dissolved in water. This new composition of matter avoids the pitfalls of pathological acerbation reported with the use of phosphite fertilizers and fungicides. When blended with an admix, this new composition is also believed to have the ability to break dormancy in temperate fruiting crops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Lidochem, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank William Dean
  • Publication number: 20110189339
    Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding plant fatty acid modifying enzymes associated with conjugated double bond formation or functionally equivalent subfragments thereof are disclosed. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments or functionally equivalent subfragments thereof or complement thereof and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants having altered lipid profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Edgar Benjamin Cahoon, Thomas J. Carlson, William Dean Hitz, Kevin G. Ripp
  • Publication number: 20110182884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that bind to P-cadherin, and that function to inhibit P-cadherin. The invention also relates to heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human P-cadherin antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human P-cadherin antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions. The invention also relates to transgenic animals or plants comprising nucleic acid molecules of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Bauer, Maureen Jeri Bourner, Melanie Boyle, Gerald Fries Casperson, David William Griggs, Richard David Head, William Dean Joy, Richard Allen Mazzarella, Ralph Raymond Minter, Mark Allen Moffat, Barrett Richard Thiele, Todd Lee Vanarsdale
  • Publication number: 20110143866
    Abstract: A computer program product and method for generating an audio file and a method of training a golfer using the audio file on how to make a golf swing with a golf club and strike a golf ball through synchronization of golf club movement with an audio analog model of a preferred tempo-consistent golf swing comprising a pre-shot training sequence, a continuous backswing audio signal that models the backswing velocity of a clubhead, a continuous downswing to impact audio signal that models the downswing velocity of the clubhead, an impact audio signal that provides an indication to the golfer of when the peak clubhead speed should occur, and a followthrough audio signal that models the velocity of the clubhead from impact to the finish of the followthrough. In addition, a process for generating an audio file and a method of training a golfer using the audio file on how to make a putting stroke with a putter is included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: William Dean McConnell
  • Patent number: 7928214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that bind to P-cadherin, and that function to inhibit P-cadherin. The invention also relates to heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human P-cadherin antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human P-cadherin antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions. The invention also relates to transgenic animals or plants comprising nucleic acid molecules of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Bauer, Maureen Jeri Bourner, Melanie Boyle, Gerald Fries Casperson, David William Griggs, Richard David Head, William Dean Joy, Richard Allen Mazzarella, Ralph Raymond Minter, Mark Allen Moffat, Barrett Richard Thiele, Todd Lee Vanarsdale
  • Publication number: 20110034776
    Abstract: A vaginal speculum adapted to be positioned within a vagina has a hollow cylindrical body with means integral therewith for distending the vagina internally of the introitus, whereby the speculum allows visualisation of, and access to and through the cervix, without distending the cervix. In one embodiment the hollow cylindrical body has an inner and outer tube, which are movable relative to each other along the longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical body between a first position, wherein the distending means is closed and a second position, wherein the distending means is distended. In this embodiment the distending means is a plurality of elongate members connected between the distal ends of the inner and outer tubes. In the first position the elongate members lie along the longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical and in the second position they are bent out from the hollow cylindrical body as the distance between the distal ends of the inner and outer tubes has been shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Richard Albert Dixon, Fidelma Kavanagh, Raymond Joseph O'Sullivan, Walter Prendiville, Steve Russell Smith, Ivan Vetcnik, William Dean Wallace
  • Patent number: 7844650
    Abstract: A clock signal generator responsive to a frequency control word and a reference clock signal having a reference clock frequency fref. The clock signal generator generates an output clock signal having a frequency fgen, wherein fgen is less than fref. A modulo-N counter accepts the reference clock signal as input. The modulo-N counter generates a phase-indication signal of the reference clock. The phase indication signal has N clock phases repeating at a frequency of fref/N. An accumulator iteratively accumulates a frequency control word into a modulo-N adder and produces an accumulated value. One or more bits of the accumulated value is fed-back into the modulo-N adder for adding modulo N to the accumulated value in the next iteration. N of the modulo-N adder is the same integer as in the modulo-N counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: PMC Sierra Inc.
    Inventors: William Dean Warner, Richard Edmund Ryan
  • Patent number: 7727081
    Abstract: An apparatus for indicating the proper pendulum putting stroke to a golfer with An elongated display device that is positioned on a floor parallel to the stroke path of the practicing golfer, A display device containing multiple microcontroller module sections, each containing visual indicators spaced uniformly along the length of the sections, Each section being responsive to commands from a peripheral computing device to turn on a specific visual indicator, a peripheral computing device such as a personal computer running a computer program which calculates the putting stroke based on desired distance, green speed, and the golfer's personal rhythm rate in beats per minute, A peripheral computing device that after calculating the putting stroke time-position data, commands the display device to turn on and off consecutive visual indicators at a predefined time in such a way as to display a putting stroke path, and show the golfer the proper time-space dynamics to strike a golf ball a desired distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Inventor: William Dean McConnell
  • Publication number: 20100120669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted thiadiazole compounds of the formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine. In particular, the invention relates to compounds for modulating SCD activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Anne Marie Jeanne Bouillot, Thierry Boyer, Alain Claude-Marie Daugan, Anthony William Dean, Martin Christian Fillmore, Yann Lamotte
  • Publication number: 20100065058
    Abstract: A full face respirator mask includes a rigid plastic integrally molded lens member that has a transparent viewing portion and a central integrally molded port portion. The central port portion is disposed beneath the viewing portion when the mask is viewed from a front elevation. An integrally molded exhalation port is disposed in the central port portion of the rigid plastic lens. First and second air intake ports are disposed in the integrally molded lens member to either side of the central port portion of the rigid plastic lens member. Each air intake port is adapted to support either a plug member to close off the air intake ports or a filter cartridge to filter air passing through the air intake port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: William Dean Ungar, Terry L. Grimsley, Bernard Mishkin
  • Patent number: 7681100
    Abstract: A system and method for retransmission of voice packets in wireless communications are provided. The method includes transmitting a voice packet from a base station to a communication unit or from a communication unit to a base station at a rate faster than a generation rate of the voice packet. The method further includes determining whether the transmitted voice packet is successfully received and retransmitting the voice packet if not successfully received. The number of retransmissions is limited by a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pine Valley Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dean Haymond
  • Publication number: 20100041696
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 4-Aminopyrazole compounds of the formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine. In particular, the invention relates to compounds for modulating SCD activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Alain Claude-Marie Daugan, Anthony William Dean
  • Publication number: 20100022486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 3-Aminopyrazole compounds of formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine. In particular, the invention relates to compounds for modulating SCD activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Anne Marie Jeanne Bouillot, Alain Claude-Marie Daugan, Anthony William Dean, Martin Christian Fillmore
  • Publication number: 20090312325
    Abstract: There are provided according to the invention novel compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R19, R20, and R34 are as described in the specification, processes for preparing them, formulations containing them and their use in therapy for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Ian Robert Baldwin, Michael David Barker, Anthony William Dean, Colin David Eldred, Brian Evans, Sharon Lisa Gough, Stephen Barry Guntrip, Julie Nicole Hamblin, Stuart Holman, Paul Jones, Mika Kristian Lindvall, Christopher James Lunniss, Tracy Jane Redfern, Alison Judith Redgrave, John Edward Robinson, Michael Woodrow
  • Publication number: 20090302292
    Abstract: A fence post for use in building a post and rail fence over varying terrain or of varying curvature. The post is perforated by a hole having a reduced diameter center section that is flanked on either side by an enlarged diameter section. The posts thus permit the support of rails that are not restricted to a straight, horizontal orientation and provide and improved overall appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: William Dean Priefert, Rocky Christenberry, Kelly Donnelly
  • Publication number: 20090293149
    Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding plant fatty acid modifying enzymes associated with modification of the delta-9 position of fatty acids, in particular, formation of conjugated double bonds are disclosed. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants having altered lipid profiles. The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding plant fatty acid modifying enzymes associated with formation of a trans delta-12 double bond also are disclosed. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants having altered lipid profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Edgar Benjamin Cahoon, William Dean Hitz, Kevin G. Ripp
  • Patent number: 7572915
    Abstract: There are provided according to the invention novel compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R19, R20, and R34 are as described in the specification, processes for preparing them, formulations containing them and their use in therapy for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: Michael David Barker, Anthony William Dean, Brian Evans, Stuart Holman, Michael Woodrow
  • Patent number: 7566786
    Abstract: There are provided according to the invention novel compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R19, R20, and R34 are as described in the specification, processes for preparing them, formulations containing them and their use in therapy for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: Ian Robert Baldwin, Michael David Barker, Anthony William Dean, Colin David Eldred, Brian Evans, Sharon Lisa Gough, Stephen Barry Guntrip, Julie Nicole Hamblin, Stuart Holman, Paul Jones, Mika Kristian Lindvall, Christopher James Lunniss, Tracy Jane Redfern, Alison Judith Redgrave, John Edward Robinson, Michael Woodrow