Patents by Inventor Dale Hicks
Dale Hicks 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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Publication number: 20230035505Abstract: An intelligent peer-to-peer fundraising campaign platform is provided for managing charitable and for profit campaigns. The platform includes capabilities for creating and managing campaigns by supporters, retrieving person data for supporters and leads for the campaign, relationship data and other attributes including affinity data, donation history data, potential and financial data and storing such data in the form of social graph. The campaign platform also helps supporters of a campaign to identify leads, send personalized communication to the leads for enlisting support to the campaign, determine donor outcomes with respect to each personalized communication sent to the lead; and updating or reinforcing a donor prediction model based on the donor outcome.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: boodle, Inc.Inventors: Shawn Nathan Olds, Matthew Dale Hicks, Eric James Okimoto, James Earl Douglas, Francis Quang Hoang, Riley White, Neil A. Kothari, Thomas Frederick Davids, Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers, Bridget Parke
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Publication number: 20210374812Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a campaign management platform that manages campaigns on behalf of an organization. In embodiments, a method includes receiving organizational data from the organization that indicates donor outcome data and attributes of previous donors to previous campaigns of the organization. The method includes determining random individual data of a plurality of random individuals including attributes thereof. The method also includes generating training data based on the donor outcome data and the random individual data and training a machine-learned donor prediction model based on the training data that is trained to receive a set of attributes of an individual and determine a likelihood that the individual will donate to the campaign based on the set of attributes of the individual, where the donor prediction model may be leveraged to determine whether a lead of the campaign is likely to contribute to a campaign of the organization.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: BOODLE, INC.Inventors: Francis Quang Hoang, Shawn Nathan Olds, Yang-pin Ansel Teng, Matthew Dale Hicks, Eric James Okimoto, Thomas Frederick Davids
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Publication number: 20210374811Abstract: An intelligent campaign platform is provided for managing non-profit campaigns. In embodiments, the platform is configured to obtain data relating to a number of individuals and resolve the identities of the individuals using multiple data sources to improve lead prioritization, donor prediction models accuracy, and/or identification of potential contributors to the campaigns. In embodiments, the identity resolution may include querying a first attribute data collection with a unique identifier of the respective lead to obtain a first set of attributes of the respective lead; querying a second attribute data collection with the unique identifier of the lead to obtain any other unique identifiers associated with the lead and querying the first attribute data collection with the one or more other unique identifiers to obtain a second set of attributes of the respective lead.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: BOODLE, INC.Inventors: Francis Quang Hoang, Shawn Nathan Olds, Yang-pin Ansel Teng, Matthew Dale Hicks, Alfred Emilio Sanchez, Eric James Okimoto
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Publication number: 20200043055Abstract: An intelligent peer-to-peer fundraising campaign platform is provided for managing charitable and for profit campaigns. The platform includes capabilities for creating and managing campaigns by supporters, retrieving person data for supporters and leads for the campaign, relationship data and other attributes including affinity data, donation history data, potential and financial data and storing such data in the form of social graph. The campaign platform also helps supporters of a campaign to identify leads, send personalized communication to the leads for enlisting support to the campaign, determine donor outcomes with respect to each personalized communication sent to the lead; and updating or reinforcing a donor prediction model based on the donor outcome.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: boodle, Inc.Inventors: Shawn Nathan Olds, Matthew Dale Hicks, Eric James Okimoto, James Earl Douglas, Francis Quang Hoang, Riley White, Neil A. Kothari, Thomas Frederick Davids, Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers, Bridget Parke
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Publication number: 20160121981Abstract: A personal flotation device in accordance with the present invention is disclosed. The personal flotation device is affixed to person's body using straps, and allows the person to “sit” in the water while swimming. The personal flotation device covers the person's lower torso providing leg and waist openings while allowing the upper torso's arm and neck regions to be exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventor: Dale Hicks
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Patent number: 8251081Abstract: A device for metering fluids includes a block provided with a channel connecting a fluid inlet in fluid communication with a fluid outlet. The device also includes a filter assembly within the channel and a fluid meter within the channel at a position downstream from the filter assembly. The device further includes a check valve assembly within the channel at a position downstream from the fluid meter. In addition, the device includes a calibration valve assembly within a channel section of the channel between the fluid outlet and the fluid meter. The calibration valve assembly is operable to move between a first position allowing passage of fluid from the fluid meter towards the fluid outlet and a second position blocking the passage of fluid from the fluid meter towards the fluid outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Enraf B.VInventors: Dale Hicks, John H. Matthews
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Publication number: 20100018583Abstract: The invention relates to a device for metering fluids comprising a solid block provided within said block with a fluid inlet being in fluid communication with a fluid outlet via a channel; a filter assembly being accommodated within said channel; a fluid meter being accommodated within said channel at a position downstream from the filter assembly; a check valve assembly being accommodated within said channel at a position downstream from the fluid meter. It is an object of the invention to provide a metering device as described above with an additional functionality, which will improve the accuracy of the metering device during use.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Dale Hicks, John H. Matthews
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Patent number: 6412338Abstract: A viscometer for sensing or characterizing the stress required to shear a fluid at a given rate includes a pair of members coaxially mounted for relative rotation. Between the members is an annular gap defining a flow path for the fluid. The flow path is configured such that during differential rotation of the members, fluid is caused to flow through the annular gap that is a function of the differential rotation and the viscosity of the fluid. A sensor measures the torque or torque equivalent required to achieve such differential rotation between the members.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Frederick P. Boyle, Gary Garvin, Klaus-Werner Damm, Daniel H. Heath, Herman F. George, Peter J. Moore, Dale Hicks, Terence E. Robinson
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Publication number: 20010042400Abstract: A viscometer for sensing or characterizing the stress required to shear a fluid at a given rate includes a pair of members coaxially mounted for relative rotation. Between the members is an annular gap defining a flow path for the fluid. The flow path is configured such that during differential rotation of the members, fluid is caused to flow through the annular gap that is a function of the differential rotation and the viscosity of the fluid. A sensor measures the torque or torque equivalent required to achieve such differential rotation between the members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventors: Frederick P. Boyle, Gary Garvin, Klaus-Werner Damm, Daniel H. Heath, Herman F. George, Peter J. Moore, Dale Hicks, Terence E. Robinson
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Patent number: 6257051Abstract: A viscometer for sensing or characterizing the stress required to shear a fluid at a given rate includes a pair of members coaxially mounted for relative rotation. Between the members is an annular gap defining a flow path for the fluid. The flow path is configured such that during differential rotation of the members, fluid is caused to flow through the annular gap that is a function of the differential rotation and the viscosity of the fluid. A sensor measures the torque or torque equivalent required to achieve such differential rotation between the members.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Frederick P. Boyle, Gary Garvin, Klaus-Werner Damm, Daniel H. Heath, Herman F. George, Peter John Moore, Dale Hicks, Terence Edward Robinson