Patents by Inventor William Ingram
William Ingram 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).
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Publication number: 20240144387Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to generating compliance scores based on first party data on a second party system for viewing by a third party.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Marshal Kushniruk, Cassandra Searles, William Ingram, Gregory T. Kavounas
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Patent number: 11969409Abstract: Provided herein are oral dosage forms comprising a) a core tablet comprising (i) a drug layer comprising apremilast and hypromellose acetate succinate (HPMCAS) in an amorphous solid dispersion; and (ii) a swellable layer comprising one or more swellable polymers; and b) a coating layer disposed on the core tablet, wherein the oral dosage form surface comprises at least one drug release orifice. The disclosed oral dosage forms provide once-a-day dosing of apremilast and are suitable for treating diseases or disorders ameliorated by inhibiting phosphodiesterase subtype IV (PDE4).Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventors: Nathan Bennette, William Brett Caldwell, Christi Hostetler, Kazden Ingram, Dory King, Kyle Kyburz, Alison Viles
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Patent number: 11900477Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to generating compliance scores based on first party data on a second party system for viewing by a third party.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Avalara, Inc.Inventors: Marshal Kushniruk, Cassandra Searles, William Ingram, Gregory T. Kavounas
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Patent number: 10575943Abstract: A intraocular lens system includes an artificial capsular bag adapted for implantation within a natural capsular bag of an eye and an intraocular lens adapted to be received within the artificial capsular bag. At least a portion of the intraocular lens tilts and moves forwards within the artificial capsular bag under gravitational force with respect to a cornea and retina of the eye to create myopia.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Inventor: Ronald William Ingram
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Publication number: 20180098841Abstract: A intraocular lens system includes an artificial capsular bag adapted for implantation within a natural capsular bag of an eye and an intraocular lens adapted to be received within the artificial capsular bag. At least a portion of the intraocular lens tilts and moves forwards within the artificial capsular bag under gravitational force with respect to a cornea and retina of the eye to create myopia.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventor: Ronald William Ingram
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Publication number: 20120305579Abstract: The present invention relate to a packaging assembly comprising a. a container having an orifice; and b. a cap, designed to cover said orifice, comprising a top and bottom face and a side wall, said top face comprising an part of an attachment system; and c. a further and separable packaging component comprising an outer and an inner face and a side wall, said inner face comprising the second part of the attachment system, wherein said attachment system comprises a cooperating protrusion and channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: David William Ingram, Filip Dominique Hubert Vangeel
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Patent number: 7179780Abstract: The present invention relates to an article comprising: (a) a liquid composition comprising: (i) enzyme; and (ii) from 0% to 10% (by weight of said liquid composition) free water, preferably 0% to 5% free water; and (iii) carboxylic acid comprising 5 carbon atoms or less, and 1 or 2 carboxy groups; and (iv) chelating agent; and (v) enzyme stabilizing metal ion system consisting of calcium ions and magnesium ions, present in a weight ratio of calcium ion to magnesium ion of from 1:1 to 4:1; and (vi) from 0% to 0.2% (by weight of said liquid composition) source of borate ions; and (b) a water-soluble polymeric material that is capable of being cross-linked by borate ions, preferably a water-soluble polymeric material comprising poly-vinyl alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Jens Forth, Etienne Marie Betty Andre Jeuniaux, David William Ingram
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Publication number: 20060251853Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making improved carpet are disclosed comprising the use of plasma discharge units to treat carpet backing surfaces to improve the adhesion of carpet backing layers, the adhesion of carpet backing to the carpet segments and to improve the adhesion of the exterior of the carpet backing to surfaces to which the carpet is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2005Publication date: November 9, 2006Inventor: William Ingram
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Publication number: 20060049297Abstract: A highly mobile, compact creel that utilizes frames for holding yarn packages (or bobbins) for feeding yarn to a tufting machine. Each frame includes holders affixed to the frame for holding yarn packages facing front and back, a header attachable to the frame for directing yarn from the yarn packages to the tufting machine, and anti-static flexible tubing for leading yarn from the holders to the header. The header provides for aligning all the yarn ends in the same plane to join them to ends already threaded into the tufting machine. An optional frame overlay upright having a ring affixed thereto and strands threaded through the ring prevents yarn from upper yarn packages from falling onto tubes holding lower yarn packages causing yarn entanglement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventor: William Ingram
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Patent number: 6949496Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions, especially liquid, granular and tablet forms of laundry detergent compositions, that comprise improved hydrotropes, wherein the hydrotropes are organic molecules in which two polar groups are separated from each other by at least 5 aliphatic carbon atoms; liquid compositions that contain such hydrotropes have a viscosity, dilution profile and dissolution behavior that render the product effective and convenient for use as a liquid laundry detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jean-Pol Boutique, Walter August Maria Broeckx, Steven Jozef Louis Coosemans, Lorenzo Matteo Pierre Gualco, James Pyott Johnston, Eric Tcheou, David William Ingram
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Patent number: 6846794Abstract: A process for making a non-phosphate, zeolite-built detergent tablet, the process comprising a first step of providing a detergent composition, a second step of forming a particulate material comprising the detergent composition, and a third step of compressing the particulate material in a tablet form, the process being characterized in that it further comprises a step of cooling the detergent composition below ambient temperature between the first and the third step.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2000Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David William Ingram, Ingrid Maria Elisabeth Hendrika Willems
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Publication number: 20020169095Abstract: The present invention relates to an article comprising: (a) a liquid composition comprising: (i) enzyme; and (ii) from 0% to 10% (by weight of said liquid composition) free water, preferably 0% to 5% free water; and (iii) carboxylic acid comprising 5 carbon atoms or less, and 1 or 2 carboxy groups; and (iv) chelating agent; and (v) enzyme stabilizing metal ion system consisting of calcium ions and magnesium ions, present in a weight ratio of calcium ion to magnesium ion of from 1:1 to 4:1; and (vi) from 0% to 0.2% (by weight of said liquid composition) source of borate ions; and (b) a water-soluble polymeric material that is capable of being cross-linked by borate ions, preferably a water-soluble polymeric material comprising poly-vinyl alcohol.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Jens Forth, Etienne Marie Betty Andre Jeuniaux, David William Ingram
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Patent number: 6407049Abstract: The present invention relates to photochemical singlet oxygen generators having enhanced fabric substantivity, said photochemical singlet oxygen generators useful as photobleaches in laundry detergent compositions. the present invention is also directed to methods for removing stains on fabric by contacting dirty and stained fabric with the photobleaching agents described herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: Case Western Reserve UniversityInventors: Alan David Willey, Brian Jeffreys, David William Ingram
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Publication number: 20020045560Abstract: The present invention relates to photochemical singlet oxygen generators having enhanced fabric substantivity, said photochemical singlet oxygen generators useful as photobleaches in laundry detergent compositions. The present invention is also directed to methods for removing stains on fabric by contacting dirty and stained fabric with the photobleaching agents described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 1999Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Alan David Willey, Brian Jeffreys, David William Ingram
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Patent number: 6297207Abstract: The invention relates to photochemical singlet oxygen generators useful as bleaching agents or anti-microbial agents in laundry detergent compositions or in hard surface cleaning compositions. The singlet oxygen generators described herein have enhanced singlet oxygen generation due to aromatic moieties teed to the molecules, said aromatic moieties absorbing ultra violet radiation then re-emitting the radiation as fluorescence at a wavelength absorbable by the singlet oxygen producing photosensitizer unit. The increase in the number of photons having an absorbable wavelength provides an increase in the production of singlet oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Case Western Reserve UniversityInventors: Alan David Willey, Anthony Harriman, Brian Jeffreys, David William Ingram
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Patent number: 6262005Abstract: Photosensitizing compounds suitable for use as laundry detergent photobleaches are disclosed. The disclosed compounds are phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanines comprising axial moieties selected for their hydrophobic character as measured by their ClogP. Also disclosed are methods for bleaching fabrics and methods for disinfecting hard surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan David Willey, Brian Jeffreys, David William Ingram, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Patent number: 6232281Abstract: The present invention relates to photochemical singlet oxygen generators useful as bleaching agents for laundry detergent compositions or in hard surface cleaning compositions and as anti-microbials. The photochemical singlet oxygen generators comprise a heavy atom unit-containing axial unit wherein the heavy atoms overlap with the &pgr; electron cloud of the photosensitizer unit and enhance the quantum efficiency of the transition of an electron from exited singlet state to triplet state.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Alan David Willey, Brian Jeffreys, David William Ingram
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Patent number: 5718853Abstract: A system for preconditioning preforms prior to reheating the preforms for blow molding, includes an area for receiving finished preforms, a conveyor for moving the preforms from the area and to a blow molding operation, a reheat section connected with the conveyor for receiving the preforms and for heating the preforms in preparation for blow molding, and a preconditioning section for preconditioning the temperature of the preforms prior to distributing the preforms to the reheat section such that the heat energy contained by each preform is substantially the same and uniformly distributed throughout each preform.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.Inventor: Ronald William Ingram
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Patent number: 5660902Abstract: An inventive orientation apparatus is provided in the present invention preferably for use with blow molding operations. The apparatus includes an object having a body portion and a neck portion. The neck portion has an outer peripheral surface and an alignment lug which extends outwardly from the peripheral surface and past the same. Additionally, a rotating support is included for supporting the object and causing the same to rotate, wherein the rotating support is movable with a moving carrier pallet. The apparatus also includes an orientating element located adjacent the carrier which engages the alignment lug on the object and stops the rotation of the object at a desired orientation. The invention may also include an orientation check device which is positioned upstream from the orientation element, adjacent the carrier, which is used for checking the orientation of the alignment lug for preventing a system jam.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.Inventors: Richard M. Unterlander, Ronald William Ingram, Lou L. Fior, Peter Kamka, Marc Joseph Jaspar, Sam S. Baron, Kevin T. Yang
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Patent number: 4021335Abstract: A method for removing ash, asphaltenic, metallic and sulfurous contaminants from a black oil by contacting said oil with a liquid paraffinic solvent in the presence of water.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1975Date of Patent: May 3, 1977Assignee: Standard Oil Company (Indiana)Inventor: William Ingram Beaton