Patents by Inventor Kevin Cox
Kevin Cox 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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Patent number: 11536881Abstract: A conical mirror concentrator is disclosed which is configured for use as a laser-cooled cooled atom source. According to embodiments, the conical mirror concentrator may comprise a body; a reflective inner conical surface formed on the body tapering from a large diameter at a first side of body inward to a smaller dimeter in an interior space of the body, wherein the inner conical surface focuses light to an axis within the interior space of the body; a hole extending from the interior space of the body near a pinnacle of the inner conical surface to a second, opposite side of body; and a structure configured to mount the concentrator to an ultra-high vacuum chamber, such as a CF (or Conflat) flange or an anodicly bonded glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: The Unuted States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Paul Kunz, Fredrik Fatemi, Kevin Cox, David Meyer
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Publication number: 20220091312Abstract: A conical mirror concentrator is disclosed which is configured for use as a laser-cooled cooled atom source. According to embodiments, the conical mirror concentrator may comprise a body; a reflective inner conical surface formed on the body tapering from a large diameter at a first side of body inward to a smaller dimeter in an interior space of the body, wherein the inner conical surface focuses light to an axis within the interior space of the body; a hole extending from the interior space of the body near a pinnacle of the inner conical surface to a second, opposite side of body; and a structure configured to mount the concentrator to an ultra-high vacuum chamber, such as a CF (or Conflat) flange or an anodicly bonded glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Paul Kunz, Fredrik Fatemi, Kevin Cox, David Meyer
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Patent number: 11069951Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for furlable antenna blade components are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a device that may include one or more furlable antenna blade components; each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components may include one or more conductive elements. In some embodiments, each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components include one or more laminate layers. Some embodiments include a method that may include: furling one or more furlable antenna blade components around a central axis; and/or securing the one or more furlable antennae blade components when in a furled state.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Roccor, LLCInventors: Bruce Davis, William Francis, Thomas Murphey, Kevin Cox, Kellie Craven
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Patent number: 10992119Abstract: An electric spinning pliers apparatus includes a housing, a plier head coupled to a rotatable shaft, and a head-operating handle. The housing may have a wire sleeve stripper, an iris door, one or more controls, and an indicator light. The electric spinning pliers apparatus utilizes the wire sleeve stripper to cut an outer sleeve of a group of wires, exposing individual wires. Each individual wire may be stripped by the iris door, while the plier head may grasp and rotate, via a motor, each of the individual wires into a single unit. The plier head may then twist a wire nut on the twisted wires.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Kevin Cox
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Patent number: 10948676Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for flexible, deployable structures with optical fiber are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a system that may include a flexible, deployable structure and one or more optical fibers coupled with the flexible, deployable structure. In some embodiments, one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers coupled with a flexible, deployable structure may be determined. One or more conditions of the flexible, deployable structure may be determined utilizing the determined one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers coupled with the flexible, deployable structure. The one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers may be correlated to the one or more conditions of the flexible, deployable structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Roccor, LLCInventors: Kevin Cox, Dana Turse, Mark Lake
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Publication number: 20190317293Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for flexible, deployable structures with optical fiber are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a system that may include a flexible, deployable structure and one or more optical fibers coupled with the flexible, deployable structure. In some embodiments, one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers coupled with a flexible, deployable structure may be determined. One or more conditions of the flexible, deployable structure may be determined utilizing the determined one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers coupled with the flexible, deployable structure. The one or more conditions of the one or more optical fibers may be correlated to the one or more conditions of the flexible, deployable structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Kevin Cox, Dana Turse, Mark Lake
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Publication number: 20180287240Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for furlable antenna blade components are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a device that may include one or more furlable antenna blade components; each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components may include one or more conductive elements. In some embodiments, each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components include one or more laminate layers. Some embodiments include a method that may include: furling one or more furlable antenna blade components around a central axis; and/or securing the one or more furlable antennae blade components when in a furled state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Bruce Davis, William Francis, Thomas Murphey, Kevin Cox, Kellie Craven
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Patent number: 9837878Abstract: A power tool is provided including a housing and an electric motor disposed within the housing, where the electric motor includes a stator and an armature rotatably received within the stator, and the armature includes an armature shaft on which a commutator is mounted. The power tool includes a brush assembly disposed around the commutator. The brush assembly includes at least two brushes in contact with the commutator and a circuit board mounted on the brush assembly and in electrical contact with the brushes. The circuit board includes at least one electromagnetic interference (EMI) suppression component electrically mounted thereon, the EMI suppression component being electrically coupled to the brushes.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Stephen P. Osborne, Ahmed S. Shaik, Richard T. Walter, Colin Crosby, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20170022255Abstract: The present invention encompasses BTV vaccines or compositions. The vaccine or composition may be a vaccine or composition containing BTV antigens. The invention also encompasses recombinant vectors encoding and expressing BTV antigens, epitopes or immunogens which can be used to protect animals, such as ovines, bovines, or caprines, against BTV.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: MERIAL, INC.Inventors: Jean-Christophe Audonnet, Xuan Guo, Kevin Cox
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Patent number: 9345759Abstract: The present invention encompasses BTV vaccines or compositions. The vaccine or composition may be a vaccine or composition containing BTV antigens. The invention also encompasses recombinant vectors encoding and expressing BTV antigens, epitopes or immunogens which can be used to protect animals, such as ovines, bovines, or caprines, against BTV.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: MERIAL, INC.Inventors: Jean-Christophe Audonnet, Xuan Guo, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20150303777Abstract: A power tool is provided including a housing and an electric motor disposed within the housing, where the electric motor includes a stator and an armature rotatably received within the stator, and the armature includes an armature shaft on which a commutator is mounted. The power tool includes a brush assembly disposed around the commutator. The brush assembly includes at least two brushes in contact with the commutator and a circuit board mounted on the brush assembly and in electrical contact with the brushes. The circuit board includes at least one electromagnetic interference (EMI) suppression component electrically mounted thereon, the EMI suppression component being electrically coupled to the brushes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Stephen P. Osborne, Ahmed S. Shaik, Richard T. Walter, Colin Crosby, Kevin Cox
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Patent number: 8605349Abstract: An optical scanning system includes a frame having a central axis along which is mounted a first elevation mirror for receiving an incident light and reflecting the incident light along a first optical path, a telescope for receiving the reflected incident light and outputting an output light, a visible linear array imager for receiving the output light from the telescope, and a folding mirror positioned to receive part of the output light from the telescope and directing it to a linear array infrared imager. The optical scanning system scans large areas of sky using multiple linear sensors in order to detect, identify and track low and slow flying manned and unmanned aircraft as well as to surveil large areas of terrain.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Carlos G. Maraviglia, Michael Michelizzi, Kevin Cox, Thomas Geiger
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Publication number: 20130070325Abstract: An optical scanning system includes a frame having a central axis along which is mounted a first elevation mirror for receiving an incident light and reflecting the incident light along a first optical path, a telescope for receiving the reflected incident light and outputting an output light, a visible linear array imager for receiving the output light from the telescope, and a folding mirror positioned to receive part of the output light from the telescope and directing it to a linear array infrared imager. The optical scanning system scans large areas of sky using multiple linear sensors in order to detect, identify and track low and slow flying manned and unmanned aircraft as well as to surveil large areas of terrain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Carlos G. Maraviglia, Michael Michelizzi, Kevin Cox, Thomas Geiger
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Patent number: 8182803Abstract: The present invention provides biologically active variants of human ?-2b-interferon. The variants contain carboxy terminus truncations when compared with the amino acid sequence of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. It is the novel finding of the present invention that these truncated variants have the biological activity of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. The invention encompasses these biologically active variant ?-interferons, as well as polynucleotides encoding these interferons. Expression cassettes comprising these polynucleotides and host cells comprising the expression cassettes are also provided. The invention also provides compositions comprising variant ?-interferon polypeptides and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Biolex Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Dickey, John Gasdaska, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20110250177Abstract: The present invention provides biologically active variants of human ?-2b-interferon. The variants contain carboxy terminus truncations when compared with the amino acid sequence of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. It is the novel finding of the present invention that these truncated variants have the biological activity of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. The invention encompasses these biologically active variant ?-interferons, as well as polynucleotides encoding these interferons. Expression cassettes comprising these polynucleotides and host cells comprising the expression cassettes are also provided. The invention also provides compositions comprising variant ?-interferon polypeptides and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: Biolex Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Dickey, John Gasdaska, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20110236416Abstract: The present invention encompasses FMDV vaccines or compositions. The vaccine or composition may be a vaccine or composition containing FMDV antigens. The invention also encompasses recombinant vectors encoding and expressing FMDV antigens, epitopes or immunogens which can be used to protect animals, in particular ovines, bovines, caprines, or porcines, against FMDV.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Jean-Christophe Audonnet, Xuan Guo, Bradley J. Feilmeir, Karolyn Marie Troupe, Michel Bublot, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20110236420Abstract: The present invention encompasses BTV vaccines or compositions. The vaccine or composition may be a vaccine or composition containing BTV antigens. The invention also encompasses recombinant vectors encoding and expressing BTV antigens, epitopes or immunogens which can be used to protect animals, such as ovines, bovines, or caprines, against BTV.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Jean-Christophe Audonnet, Xuan Guo, Kevin Cox
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Patent number: 8022270Abstract: Methods, nucleic acid sequences, and transformed duckweed plant or duckweed nodule cultures for the expression and the secretion of biologically active polypeptides from genetically engineered duckweed are provided. Expression of recombinant polypeptides in duckweed is improved by modifying the nucleotide sequence of the expression cassette encoding the polypeptide for improved expression in duckweed. Recovery of biologically active polypeptides from duckweed is improved by linking the biologically active polypeptide to a signal peptide that directs the secretion of the polypeptide into the culture medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Biolex Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Dickey, John Gasdaska, Kevin Cox
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Patent number: 7959910Abstract: The present invention provides biologically active variants of human ?-2b-interferon. The variants contain carboxy terminus truncations when compared with the amino acid sequence of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. It is the novel finding of the present invention that these truncated variants have the biological activity of full-length human ?-2b-interferon. The invention encompasses these biologically active variant ?-interferons, as well as polynucleotides encoding these interferons. Expression cassettes comprising these polynucleotides and host cells comprising the expression cassettes are also provided. The invention also provides compositions comprising variant ?-interferon polypeptides and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Biolex Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Dickey, John Gasdaska, Kevin Cox
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Publication number: 20080066200Abstract: Methods for altering the N-glycosylation pattern of proteins in higher plants are provided. The methods comprise introducing into the plant a recombinant construct that provides for the inhibition of expression of ?1,3-fucosyltransferase (FucT) and ?1,2-xylosyltransferase (XylT) in a plant. Use of these constructs to inhibit or suppress expression of both of these enzymes, and isoforms thereof, advantageously provides for the production of endogenous and heterologous proteins having a “humanized” N-glycosylation pattern without impacting plant growth and development. Stably transformed higher plants having this protein N-glycosylation pattern are provided. Glycoprotein compositions, including monoclonal antibody compositions, having substantially homogeneous glycosylation profiles, and which are substantially homogeneous for the G0 glycoform, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Biolex, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Dickey, Kevin Cox, Charles Peele