Patents by Inventor Anne Hardy

Anne Hardy 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: 20180365618
    Abstract: A method for assessing worker engagement and company culture. The method includes generating questions relating to a user's work experience, determining a set of predetermined times during the user's workday to prompt the user to answer the questions, and prompting the user at each of the predetermined times to provide an answer, in real time, to each of the questions. Answers may be received from the user and then correlated with contextual data associated with the user. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Anne Hardy, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, Dominique Hermsdorff, Geoffrey Lee
  • Publication number: 20180365619
    Abstract: A method for assessing worker engagement and company culture. The method includes generating questions relating to a user's work experience, determining a set of predetermined times during the user's workday to prompt the user to answer the questions, and prompting the user at each of the predetermined times to provide an answer, in real time, to each of the questions. Answers may be received from the user and then correlated with contextual data associated with the user. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Anne Hardy, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, Dominique Hermsdorff, Geoffrey Lee
  • Patent number: 8673449
    Abstract: A cooking release material includes a layer comprising fluoropolymer. The cooking release material has a major surface having nucleation structures in a density of at least 10 per square inch. The cooking release material can include a reinforcement material, the layer coated over the reinforcement material. The cooking release material can include a second layer forming the major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Graham A. Woerner, Timothy P. Pollock, Ephraim Lin, John Russo, Anne Hardy, Gerard Buss
  • Publication number: 20110146501
    Abstract: A cooking release material includes a layer comprising fluoropolymer. The cooking release material has a major surface having nucleation structures in a density of at least 10 per square inch. The cooking release material can include a reinforcement material, the layer coated over the reinforcement material. The cooking release material can include a second layer forming the major surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Graham A. Woerner, Timothy P. Pollock, Ephraim Lin, John Russo, Anne Hardy, Gerard Buss
  • Patent number: 6703337
    Abstract: Ceramic media made using ceramic components comprising from 5 to 60% by weight of spodumene and 95 to 40 wt % of other ceramic-forming components comprising clay and feldspar have a reduced tendency to shrink upon firing to form the media and improved physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Reid, Thomas Szymanski, Anne Hardy, James Salvatore, Michael J. Mangaudis
  • Publication number: 20030008763
    Abstract: Ceramic media made using ceramic components comprising from 5 to 60% by weight of spodumene and 95 to 40 wt % of other ceramic-forming components comprising clay and feldspar have a reduced tendency to shrink upon firing to form the media and improved physical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: John S. Reid, Thomas Szymanski, Anne Hardy, James Salvatore, Michael J. Mangaudis
  • Publication number: 20020069285
    Abstract: A network includes a client, a Web server in communication with the client, a media framework server in communication with the Web server, and communication servers capable of communicating with the client through modes of communication. The client specifies a mode of communication to the Web server. The Web server provides the mode of communication to the media framework server. The media framework server instructs a communication server that corresponds to the mode of communication to contact the client. The communication server contacts the client using the mode of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Michel Burger, Anne Hardy
  • Patent number: 6196317
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for reducing the permeabilities of subterranean zones are provided. The methods of the invention are basically comprised of introducing an aqueous composition comprised of a chelated organic gelling agent and a copolymer of an ethylenically unsaturated polar monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated ester or a terpolymer or tetrapolymer of an ethylenically unsaturated polar monomer, an ethylenically unsaturated ester and a monomer selected from AMPS® and/or N-vinylpyrrolidone into the zone and then allowing the aqueous composition to form a cross-linked gel in the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Mary Anne Hardy
  • Patent number: 5762140
    Abstract: High viscosity well treating fluids having low friction pressure loss when pumped through tubular goods and methods of treating wells using such treating fluids are provided. The treating fluids basically comprise an aqueous fluid, a graft copolymer of hydroxyalkylcellulose and vinyl phosphonic acid, a salt containing a divalent cation and a basic compound for crosslinking the graft copolymer and causing the resulting crosslinked aqueous gel to undergo syneresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Anne Hardy, Charles V. Hunt, Steve C. Harthun
  • Patent number: 5701956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for reducing the production of water from water and oil producing subterranean formations. The methods basically comprise the introduction of an aqueous polymer composition into the water producing zones of the formation which cross-links after being placed therein. The compositions of the invention are comprised of a heavy brine and a graft copolymer of a hydrophilic polymer and a phosphonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Anne Hardy, O. Marlene Isenberg