Patents by Inventor Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor 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: 9986394Abstract: Techniques for enabling a system to create a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short message service (SMS) message from a spoken message are described. A system may receive audio data corresponding to a spoken message. The system may determine a recipient of the spoken message as well as a device associated with the recipient. The system may determine the type of messaging supported by the device. Based on the messaging capabilities, the system generates either a MMS message or a SMS message. The MMS message may include a message payload including a portion of text corresponding to content of the message as well as audio data embedded in the message payload. The SMS message may include a message payload including a portion of text corresponding to content of the message as well as a link to message content audio data stored by the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Gaurav Singh, Reza Abdollahi, Mugunthan Govindaraju
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Publication number: 20180085869Abstract: A tool kit for decoupling a telescoping tube from a first liner of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The tool kit includes a base plate coupled to a combustor casing. A post extends outward from the base plate into a combustion chamber defined by the liner. A plunger slidably mounts to the post and is slidable between an extended position and a retracted position. A lever arm pivotably couples to the post and the plunger. Pivoting the lever arm in a first direction slides the plunger to the extended position to decouple the telescoping tube from the liner. A retaining clip couples to the combustor casing and extends into an annular plenum at least partially defined between the liner and the combustor casing. The retaining clip defines a notch that receives the telescoping tube after the plunger assembly decouples the telescoping tube from the liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Todd James Gattermeyer, Stuart Craig Hanson, Brandon Taylor Overby
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Patent number: 9500367Abstract: The present application provides a pilot manifold system for a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The pilot manifold system may include a casing with a casing manifold, an end cover connected to the casing and having an end cover passage in communication with the casing manifold, and a fuel nozzle mounted about the end cover. The fuel nozzle may include a pilot system in communication with the end cover passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bryan Wesley Romig, Brandon Taylor Overby
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Publication number: 20160266811Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mirror vote synchronization. For example, a first storage device is located at a first storage site, and a second storage device is located at a second storage site. The second storage device is configured according to a data mirroring configuration where data from the first storage device is mirrored to the second storage device. Mirror vote metadata is generated based upon an up-to-date state of the data mirroring configuration. The mirror vote metadata indicates whether the first storage device and/or the second storage device are up-to-date or not. The mirror vote metadata may be replicated between the first storage site and the second storage site. If the first storage site fails, then the second storage site may provide switchover operation using the second storage device based upon the mirror vote metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Brandon Taylor Long, Linda Ann Riedle, Manali Kulkarni, Sandeep T. Nirmale, Vikram Harakere Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 9441835Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine combustor configured to combust a fuel and an oxidant, such as O2 and O2 mixtures. The system also includes an aerodynamic peg disposed in the gas turbine combustor. The aerodynamic peg includes a first passage configured to convey a first fluid into the gas turbine combustor and a second passage configured to convey a second fluid into the gas turbine combustor. The first fluid and second fluid are different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, David Leach
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Patent number: 9361194Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mirror vote synchronization. For example, a first storage device is located at a first storage site, and a second storage device is located at a second storage site. The second storage device is configured according to a data mirroring configuration where data from the first storage device is mirrored to the second storage device. Mirror vote metadata is generated based upon an up-to-date state of the data mirroring configuration. The mirror vote metadata indicates whether the first storage device and/or the second storage device are up-to-date or not. The mirror vote metadata may be replicated between the first storage site and the second storage site. If the first storage site fails, then the second storage site may provide switchover operation using the second storage device based upon the mirror vote metadata.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: NetApp Inc.Inventors: Brandon Taylor Long, Linda Ann Riedle, Manali Kulkami, Sandeep T. Nirmale, Vikram Harakere Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 9353952Abstract: A crossfire tube assembly between adjacent combustors includes a first sleeve adapted to provide fluid communication from a first combustor and a second sleeve adapted to connect to provide fluid communication from a second combustor. The second sleeve extends at least partially inside the first sleeve. A bias is between the first and second sleeves.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Keith Cletus Belsom, Jonathan Kay Allen, Kyle Eric Benson, Patrick Benedict Melton, Richard Martin DiCintio, Lucas John Stoia, Ronnie Ray Pentecost
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Publication number: 20150269041Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mirror vote synchronization. For example, a first storage device is located at a first storage site, and a second storage device is located at a second storage site. The second storage device is configured according to a data mirroring configuration where data from the first storage device is mirrored to the second storage device. Mirror vote metadata is generated based upon an up-to-date state of the data mirroring configuration. The mirror vote metadata indicates whether the first storage device and/or the second storage device are up-to-date or not. The mirror vote metadata may be replicated between the first storage site and the second storage site. If the first storage site fails, then the second storage site may provide switchover operation using the second storage device based upon the mirror vote metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: NetApp Inc.Inventors: Brandon Taylor Long, Linda Ann Riedle, Manali Kulkami, Sandeep T. Nirmale, Vikram Harakere Krishnamurthy
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Publication number: 20150128606Abstract: The present application provides a pilot manifold system for a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The pilot manifold system may include a casing with a casing manifold, an end cover connected to the casing and having an end cover passage in communication with the casing manifold, and a fuel nozzle mounted about the end cover. The fuel nozzle may include a pilot system in communication with the end cover passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bryan Wesley Romig, Brandon Taylor Overby
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Publication number: 20140338343Abstract: A system for vibration damping a fuel nozzle within a combustor includes a support plate, a fuel nozzle passage that extends through the support plate and a cylindrical damping insert that is coaxially aligned within the fuel nozzle passage and at least partially defines the fuel nozzle passage. The damping insert may include a metallic-mesh liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dereck Joseph Ouellet, Marcus Byron Huffman, Brandon Taylor Overby, Stephen Wayne Tilley
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Publication number: 20140250981Abstract: A seal test fixture for a gas turbine fuel nozzle including an enclosed container for receiving a body of the gas turbine fuel nozzle including a seal; a test chamber coupled to the enclosed container for sealingly enclosing a flange of the gas turbine fuel nozzle and fluidly communicating with a leak path of the gas turbine fuel nozzle; an air injector opening through which pressurized air is injected into a main fuel chamber of the gas turbine fuel nozzle; and a pressure gauge for measuring an air pressure within the test chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, James Carroll Baummer, Mark Carmine Bellino
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Publication number: 20140202160Abstract: A system including a gas turbine engine, including a combustor configured to generate products of combustion, a turbine driven by the products of combustion from the combustor, a compressor having a compressor discharge leading into a chamber between the combustor and a compressor discharge casing, an extraction manifold coupled to the combustor, wherein the extraction manifold is fluidly coupled to the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Bryan Wesley Romig, Brandon Taylor Overby
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Publication number: 20140144122Abstract: A crossfire tube assembly between adjacent combustors includes a first sleeve adapted to provide fluid communication from a first combustor and a second sleeve adapted to connect to provide fluid communication from a second combustor. The second sleeve extends at least partially inside the first sleeve. A bias is between the first and second sleeves.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Keith Cletus Belsom, Jonathan Kay Allen, Kyle Eric Benson, Patrick Benedict Melton, Richard Martin DiCintio, Lucas John Stoia, Ronnie Ray Pentecost
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Publication number: 20130327011Abstract: A fuel nozzle assembly for use with a combustor is provided. The fuel nozzle assembly includes a fuel nozzle including a discharge end. A cap is coupled adjacent to the nozzle discharge end, wherein the cap includes an outer surface. At least one dampener mechanism is coupled to the cap outer surface to facilitate reducing vibrations induced to the fuel nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Dereck Joseph Ouellet
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Patent number: 8590315Abstract: A turbomachine includes a compressor, a turbine, and a combustor operatively coupled to the compressor and the turbine. The combustor includes a combustor casing having a flange, an outer surface and an inner surface that defines an internal passage. The combustor casing includes an extruded fluid manifold mounted to the outer surface. The extruded fluid manifold includes first and second walls integrally formed with a third, connecting, wall. The first wall includes a first mounting element and the second wall includes a second mounting element. The first mounting element extends axially along the combustor casing away from the first wall and the second mounting element extends axially along the combustor casing away from the second wall and the first mounting element. The extruded fluid manifold is joined to the outer surface of the combustor casing through the first and second mounting elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Jason Allen Seale, Ibrahim Ucok
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Publication number: 20130081397Abstract: A forward casing used in a combustor assembly for a turbine engine includes a circumferential sloped surface which reduces the total interior volume within the forward casing. The circumferential sloped surface can be flat or concave shaped.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventor: Brandon Taylor Overby
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Publication number: 20130067923Abstract: A combustor includes an end cover and a casing adjacent to the end cover, wherein the end cover and casing at least partially define a volume inside the combustor. The combustor further includes an end cap that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor, at least one nozzle arranged in the end cap to provide fluid communication through the end cap, and means for conditioning flow through the volume. A method for conditioning flow through a combustor includes flowing a working fluid through a volume at least partially defined by an end cover, a casing, and an end cap that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor and flowing the working fluid across an annular insert adjacent to the end cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Keith C. Belsom, Jason Thurman Stewart, Azardokht Hajiloo, Richard Martin DiCintio, Dereck J. Ouellet
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Publication number: 20110289926Abstract: A turbomachine includes a compressor, a turbine, and a combustor operatively coupled to the compressor and the turbine. The combustor includes a combustor casing having a flange, an outer surface and an inner surface that defines an internal passage. The combustor casing includes an extruded fluid manifold mounted to the outer surface. The extruded fluid manifold includes first and second walls integrally formed with a third, connecting, wall. The first wall includes a first mounting element and the second wall includes a second mounting element. The first mounting element extends axially along the combustor casing away from the first wall and the second mounting element extends axially along the combustor casing away from the second wall and the first mounting element. The extruded fluid manifold is joined to the outer surface of the combustor casing through the first and second mounting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brandon Taylor Overby, Jason Allen Seale, Ibrahim Ucok
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Patent number: 7845817Abstract: Apparatus and method discloses a pair of strobe lights which are mounted onto the front of a firearm so that the lights send a light beam toward the target. The strobe lights comprise a red and a blue alternately flashing, high lumen, light-emitting diode for emitting a bright, alternating, red/blue light beam which prevents the target from properly focusing his eyes because of the alternating red and blue beams which affect the target's eyes. The lights are powered by a power supply and are controlled by a switch which is activated by the hand of a user.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Inventor: Brandon Taylor Miller
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Patent number: 7627827Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products provide intelligent user interfaces based on a context or mode of a document. A method involves opening the document in a context that only facilitates reading, disabling editing commands associated with the document and/or disabling typing functionality for editing the document, and displaying a transition button via the intelligent user interface. The transition button is operative, when selected, to initiate transition of the document between the context that only facilitates reading and a context that facilitates editing. The method also involves receiving a selection of the transition button, in response to receiving the selection and transitioning from the context that only facilitates reading to the context that facilitates editing. Transitioning to the editing context includes enabling the editing commands and typing functionality.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brandon Taylor, Hani Saliba, Rhae-Christie Shaw