Patents by Inventor Claudia A. Smith

Claudia A. Smith 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).

  • DYNAMIC VEHICLE STATE NOTIFICATION AND INFORMATION CONVEYANCE
    Publication number: 20240149670
    Abstract: A system receives a vehicle transport instruction for transporting a vehicle. The system instructs display of an indicator related to the transport instruction, using a first vehicle output. Further, the system determines whether a vehicle is in a state designated for alert notification based on at least a transportation error detected by the vehicle and changes at least one of the first vehicle output or a second vehicle output to indicate the transportation error responsive to detection of the transportation error by the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: David Lloyd Nutt, Douglas Smith, Vijay Malik, Richard Moore, Harshavardhan Chitta, Claudia Gonzalez, Bethany Toups
  • Compositions and methods for plant improvement
    Publication number: 20070231903
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Sathish Puthigae, Jonathan Phillips, Claudia Smith-Espinoza, Catherine Bryant, Kieran Elborough, Colin South
  • Regulation of gene expression in plants
    Publication number: 20070089203
    Abstract: The invention provides stress-responsiveness promoters suitable for directing gene expression in plant cells or plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Claudia Smith-Espinoza, Sathish Puthigae, Jonathan Phillips, Catherine Bryant, Kieran Elborough, Colin South
  • Process for preparing reduced calorie flavored confectionery compositions using dynamic tempering conditions
    Patent number: 5275835
    Abstract: An improved process is disclosed for preparing flavored confectionery compositions containing certain reduced calorie cocoa butter substitute fats. The improvement involves rapidly cooling such a composition from a non-crystalline state to a temperature of less than about 70.degree. F. (21.1.degree. C.) using a swept-wall, scraped-wall, or screw-type heat exchanger. The cooled composition is then conditioned for at least about 5 minutes by warming it to a temperature of about 70.degree. to 85.degree. F. (21.1.degree. to 29.4.degree. C.) in an agitated vessel before further processing into finished confectionery pieces. Under these dynamic tempering conditions, bloom-stable products can be produced much faster than with static tempering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel J. Masterson, Mark A. Besserman, Cornelius H. Japikse, Claudia A. Smith
  • Process for making improved citrus aqueous essence and product produced therefrom
    Patent number: 4970085
    Abstract: The invention is a method for making improved citrus aqueous essences by a fractionation process wherein citrus aqueous essence is first passed through a solid adsorbent so that part of the essence compounds exit the adsorbent in a first effluent and part remain on the adsorbent, and then at least part of the first effluent is recycled through the adsorbent to recover a fraction of the remaining compounds and produce a second effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Louis T. Persson, Lester P. Van Brocklin, Lowen R. Morrison, Jr., Claudia A. Smith, Donald R. Meece