Patents by Inventor Alan Parker

Alan Parker 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: 20240108918
    Abstract: The computer-implemented method (100) to provide alternative flavor compositions, comprises: a step (105) of inputting, upon a computer interface, at least one flavor ingredient digital identifier, the resulting input corresponding to a composition of flavor ingredients, each ingredient digital identifier being associated with at least one equivalent constitutive molecule, each equivalent constitutive molecule being associated with at least one property, a step (110) of transposing, by a computing system, the input composition into a list of at least one equivalent constitutive molecule as a function of at least one input ingredient digital identifier, a step (115) of defining, upon a computer interface, at least one reformulation rule to be applied to the at least one transposed equivalent constitutive molecule and/or to at least one alternative flavor ingredient obtained during a step of determining, the step (120) of determining, by a computing system, a selection of at least one alternative flavor ingr
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Igor BODNAR, Eugénie CHANEL, Alan PARKER
  • Publication number: 20240091017
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a collar, an articular member, an articular head component, and stem that is configured to engage the articular head component. The articular member at least partially defines an articular space within the collar when disposed in the collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor KARTHOLL, Brad Alan PARKER, Kevin Alika FARLEY, Ryan D. KOEPKE
  • Publication number: 20240086097
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improving programming to data storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs). A first memory device has a first XOR element and a second memory device has a second XOR element. The ratio of the first XOR element to the capacity of the first memory device is substantially smaller than the ratio of the second XOR element to the capacity of the second memory device. A read verify operation to find program failures is executed on either a wordline to wordline basis, an erase block to erase block basis, or both a wordline to wordline basis and an erase block to erase block basis. Because the program failures are found and fixed prior to programming to the second memory device, the second XOR element may be decreased substantially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich GOROBETS, Alan D. BENNETT, Liam PARKER, Yuval SHOHET, Michelle MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11865009
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor Kartholl, Brad Alan Parker, Kevin Alika Farley, Ryan D. Koepke
  • Patent number: 11691847
    Abstract: A travel blocking apparatus for blocking the movement of a car movably disposed in a hoistway. The travel blocking apparatus includes a flapper mechanism attached to the car and configured, when deployed, to extend an arm outside of an outer side periphery of the car and a prop device disposed in the hoistway and configured to contact the arm when said arm is extended so as to stop the car from moving downwardly in the hoistway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TK Elevator Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Duke, Alan Parker, Malcom Ray Nooner
  • Publication number: 20220304325
    Abstract: Described herein is a food grade emulsion capable of modulating sensory properties in foods and beverages. The emulsion is characterized by the presence in its dispersed phase of at least one enzymatically modified lipid component. The emulsion constitutes a stable and effective flavour delivery system and can thus be incorporated as such in a food composition or a beverage composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Alan Parker, Jean-Luc Gelin
  • Publication number: 20220142785
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor KARTHOLL, Brad Alan PARKER, Kevin Alika FARLEY, Ryan D. KOEPKE
  • Patent number: 11266507
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor Kartholl, Brad Alan Parker, Kevin Alika Farley, Ryan D. Koepke
  • Patent number: 11198591
    Abstract: Depth cameras may be placed within an elevator car hoistway to capture depth images of the elevator rope. 3D sensing software may be used to identify the rope within the depth images and assign tracking points to locations along the rope. Tracked images are saved over time and compared to prior tracked images to determine the movement of tracked points between images. Movement of tracked points may be used to determine the velocity, acceleration, frequency of wave motion, and other characteristics of the rope during a period of time. When measured characteristics exceed specified thresholds, the system may take one or more actions to mitigate the undesirable behavior or provide notification of the undesirable behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TK Elevator Innovation and Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Palazzola, Jie Xu, Stephen Allen, Peter Feldhusen, Frank Dudde, Alan Parker
  • Publication number: 20210338439
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor KARTHOLL, Brad Alan PARKER, William Matthew KUESTER, Jackson R. HEAVENER, Kevin Alika FARLEY
  • Publication number: 20210330465
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor KARTHOLL, Brad Alan PARKER, Kevin Alika FARLEY, Ryan D. KOEPKE
  • Patent number: 11109978
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor Kartholl, Brad Alan Parker, William Matthew Kuester, Jackson R. Heavener, Kevin Alika Farley
  • Publication number: 20210100855
    Abstract: The invention concerns a modified oncolytic adenovirus of serotype Ad5; a pharmaceutical composition comprising same; and a method of treating cancer using same wherein said modified adenovirus comprises at least one point mutation(s) in the hexon hypervariable region 7 (HVR7 mutation) to prevent virus binding with coagulation factor 10 (FX); at least one point mutation(s) in the fiber knob region AB loop (KO1 mutation) to prevent virus binding with the coxsackie and adenovirus receptor (CAR); and at least one point mutation(s) in the penton integrin binding motif Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) to prevent virus binding with ?V?3/?V?5 integrin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Alan Parker, Hanni Uusi-Kerttula
  • Patent number: 10890542
    Abstract: A fluid sensor has a core defining a fluid flow path and a cavity member located externally of the core. The cavity member includes an electrically-conductive composite material including a matrix and one or more reinforcing elements embedded within the matrix. The cavity member is configured so as to provide confinement for an electromagnetic field and the core is configured so as to permit transmission therethrough of electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of the electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field may be a radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic field. The fluid sensor can be used in the measurement of the composition and/or flow characteristics of fluid in the fluid flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: M-Flow Technologies Ltd
    Inventors: Giles Edward, Alan Parker
  • Publication number: 20200399094
    Abstract: A travel blocking apparatus for blocking the movement of a car movably disposed in a hoistway. The travel blocking apparatus includes a flapper mechanism attached to the car and configured, when deployed, to extend an arm outside of an outer side periphery of the car and a prop device disposed in the hoistway and configured to contact the arm when said arm is extended so as to stop the car from moving downwardly in the hoistway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corporation
    Inventors: Russell DUKE, Alan PARKER, Malcom Ray Nooner
  • Publication number: 20200217806
    Abstract: A fluid sensor has a core defining a fluid flow path and a cavity member located externally of the core. The cavity member includes an electrically-conductive composite material including a matrix and one or more reinforcing elements embedded within the matrix. The cavity member is configured so as to provide confinement for an electromagnetic field and the core is configured so as to permit transmission therethrough of electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of the electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field may be a radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic field. The fluid sensor can be used in the measurement of the composition and/or flow characteristics of fluid in the fluid flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Giles Edward, Alan Parker
  • Patent number: 10533283
    Abstract: Described herein are devices and methods for the drying of permeable and semi-permeable webs such as paper products in a physical environment with limited space while providing for higher flow rates. The devices and methods of the present invention are for use with rotating, foraminous shelled roll dryers and are implemented by redesigning the aspects of the devices and methods associated with exhausting spent drying gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Valmet, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Alan Parker, Laurent R. Parent, Saravanan Marimuthu
  • Patent number: 10533955
    Abstract: A method for use in measuring a composition of a multiphase fluid which includes flowing a multiphase fluid through a fluid flow path defined by a wall of a fluid conduit is disclosed. The wall includes an electrically non-conductive material. The method includes establishing an electromagnetic field which extends through the electrically non-conductive material of the wall of the fluid conduit into the fluid and measuring a property of the electromagnetic field over a measurement time period. The method also includes transmitting additional energy through the fluid over the measurement time period independently of the electromagnetic field and measuring the additional energy transmitted through the fluid over the measurement time period. The method may be used to unambiguously determine a composition of a multiphase fluid which has different components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: M-Flow Technologies Ltd
    Inventors: Alan Parker, Giles Edward, Arnault Tremolet, Alex Wall-Clarke
  • Patent number: 10473595
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a composition of a fluid has a fluid conduit with a wall defining a fluid flow path, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna, and an electrically conductive waveguide member for electromagnetic coupling with the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna and for guiding an electromagnetic field from the transmitting antenna to the receiving antenna along a waveguide path. The waveguide member is separated from the fluid flow path by an electrically insulating inner region of the wall. The waveguide member defines an opening disposed towards the fluid flow path to permit a portion of the electromagnetic field to extend through the opening and the inner region of the wall into the fluid flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: M-Flow Technologies Ltd
    Inventors: Alan Parker, Giles Edward, Alex Wall-Clarke, Arnault Tremolet
  • Publication number: 20190024313
    Abstract: Described herein are devices and methods for the drying of permeable and semi-permeable webs such as paper products in a physical environment with limited space while providing for higher flow rates. The devices and methods of the present invention are for use with rotating, foraminous shelled roll dryers and are implemented by redesigning the aspects of the devices and methods associated with exhausting spent drying gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Alan Parker, Laurent R. Parent, Saravanan Marimuthu