Curtis Franklin Hayes

8126249, Feb 28, 2012

Feb 11, 2009

12/369324

Alan Brett - Manchester, GB
Jane Haslam - Bucks, GB
Curtis Hayes - Midlothian VA, US
Joel Krasnow - Wyckoff NJ, US
Cornelis Van Kuijk - Baarn, NL
Colin Miller - Churchville PA, US

Optasia Medical Limited - Cheadle

G06K 9/00
G06G 7/48

382132, 382282, 382286, 600425, 600594

A method and system for detection and tracking of osteoporosis is disclosed. A method of characterizing an image of a target vertebra includes building a computer model from a set of sample images of pathological and non-pathological variations of vertebrae representing variations in shape of the vertebrae. The method also includes receiving an image of a target vertebra of a subject and automatically estimating contours of lateral outlines of the superior and the inferior cortical endplates of the image. The parameters of the model are varied to determine a set that represents a model shape that approximates the estimated contours of the outlines of the cortical endplates. The method includes automatically characterizing the target vertebra based on the set of model parameters that are determined and outputting on a display device the characterization of the target vertebra.

58956514, Apr 20, 1999

Jun 27, 1996

8/671056

Monika Simmons - Gaithersburg MD
Curtis G. Hayes - Frederick MD
Kevin R. Porter - Gaithersburg MD

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

A61K 3900
A61K 3912

4241921

A recombinant fusion protein (DEN-2 MBP) containing the B domain of the due (DEN 2 envelope protein is disclosed as a candidate subunit immunogen for vaccination against dengue virus infection. A gene fragment encoding amino acid 298 to amino acid 400 of the DEN-2 virus envelope was expressed as a fusion protein with the maltose binding protein (MBP) of Escherichia coli (E. coli). The recombinant fusion protein was purified and analyzed for its antigenicity imunogenicity and ability to protect mice against lethal challenge. This antigen is detected by monoclonal antibody (3H5) which is specific for a neutralizing epitope on the DEN-2 envelope and reacted with homologous polyclonal mouse immune ascitic fluid and DEN-2 immune human sera. A recombinant fusion plasmid bearing the DEN-2 MBP DNA sequence, expressing the fusion product in E. coli is disclosed.

20180148194, May 31, 2018

Nov 29, 2016

15/364208

Donald Brian Peterson - Mill Creek WA, US
Curtis Leon Hayes - Kirkland WA, US
Paul Michael Haworth - Mill Creek WA, US
Tyler James Kumley - Lake Stevens WA, US

B64F 5/10
B21J 15/04
B21J 15/14
B64C 1/12
C23C 14/06
C23C 14/34
C23C 14/22
C23C 14/24
C23C 16/27

Systems and methods are provided for installing fasteners. One exemplary embodiment is a method that includes inserting a fastener into a hole, and gripping ends of the fastener via dies. At least one of the dies includes a permanent coating having a static friction coefficient of less than 0.2 at a surface contacting the fastener. The method further includes plastically deforming the fastener via force from the dies, thereby expanding the fastener into interference with the hole along a length of the fastener such that an amount of interference between the fastener and the hole along the length of the fastener is greater than one and a half thousandths of an inch and less than twenty thousandths of an inch.