Patents by Inventor Eric Wayne
Eric Wayne 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: 12010817Abstract: A computing device includes a thermal excursion detection unit and a power supply unit. The thermal excursion detection unit is configured to monitor a temperature of an internal volume of the computing device and to control the operation of the power supply unit. The power supply unit is configured to provide power to hardware components in the computing device and the power supply unit only provides power to the hardware components when the thermal excursion detection unit permits.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Ayedin Nikazm, Donald Wayne Gerhart, Michael Joseph Stumpf
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Publication number: 20240150132Abstract: A modular system and method for improving the receiving, processing, storing, and transloading of bulk materials such as organic waste. A system includes at least a receiving module to receive material, a storage module, a discharge module, and a control system. A liquid capture system captures and retains liquid from the organic material. Systems can be adapted with additional modules, such as processing modules and transfer modules, depending on the site and materials to be handled. The storage module has a levelling component for levelling out the organic material stored therein, including a levelling conveyor in a top region, and a removal component for discharging the organic material. A control system interfaces with the modular components and local operators, and provides remote reporting and monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Ty-Crop Manufacturing Ltd.Inventors: Gary Wayne Teichrob, Kevin Brent Thiessen, James Ryan Brezden, Eric Milton Clegg, Ian Breeweg, Dennis Keith Ho
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Patent number: 11975343Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a fluid management system having a manifold coupled to a source of fluid. The manifold includes at least one outlet. The at least one cleaning module further includes an automatic valve coupled to the at least one outlet and to a conduit leading to one or more first spray nozzles and a pressure sensor coupled to the automatic valve. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure of fluid flowing through the conduit. The automatic valve is configured to adjust the flow of fluid through the conduit based on the pressure measured by the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
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Patent number: 11975922Abstract: A conveyor system is configured to transport the electronic substrates through the cleaning modules of a cleaning apparatus. The conveyor system includes a first outer frame member, a second outer frame member spaced from the first outer frame member, a bottom belt disposed between the first outer frame member and the second outer frame member, and a top belt spaced from the bottom belt. The bottom belt and the top belt are configured to receive a product carrier therebetween to transport electronic substrates along the conveyor system and through the cleaning modules. The conveyor system further includes a plurality of roller assemblies, with at least one roller assembly being coupled to the first outer frame member and at least one roller assembly being coupled to the second outer frame member. Each roller assembly is configured to apply a force on the top belt or the bottom belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: John Neiderman, Scotty Slavens, Eric Wayne Becker
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Publication number: 20240139764Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a fluid management system having a manifold coupled to a source of fluid. The manifold includes at least one outlet. The at least one cleaning module further includes an automatic valve coupled to the at least one outlet and to a conduit leading to one or more first spray nozzles and a pressure sensor coupled to the automatic valve. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure of fluid flowing through the conduit. The automatic valve is configured to adjust the flow of fluid through the conduit based on the pressure measured by the pressure sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
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Publication number: 20240118902Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to a data processing system, including: an input medium configured to include a first set of blocks of data including a first set of block of compressed data and a first set of metadata, respectively; an output medium configured to include a first set of blocks of decompressed data each having a predetermined number of decompressed elements; and a set of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processors configured to: access the first set of blocks of data from the input medium, respectively; decompress the first set of blocks of compressed data to generate the first set of blocks of decompressed data based on the first set of metadata, respectively; and provide the first set of blocks of decompressed data to the output medium, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Eric Wayne MAHURIN, Erich PLONDKE, Hitesh Kumar GUPTA, Colin Beaton VERRILLI, Rexford Alan HILL
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Patent number: 11952285Abstract: A process of forming a sintered article includes heating a green portion of a tape of polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals in organic binder at a binder removal zone to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the binder; horizontally conveying the portion of tape with organic binder removed from the binder removal zone to a sintering zone; and sintering polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals of the portion of tape at the sintering zone, wherein the tape simultaneously extends through the removal and sintering zones.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Micheal Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Douglas Edward Brackley, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Eric Lee Miller, Cameron Wayne Tanner, James William Zimmermann
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Publication number: 20240110515Abstract: A gas turbine engine including: a fan assembly comprising a fan; and a turbomachine drivingly coupled to the fan and including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining in part a working gas flowpath, the gas turbine engine defining a bypass passage over the turbomachine; the turbomachine further including a heat exchanger and defining an annular cooling passage extending between an inlet and an outlet, the inlet in airflow communication with the working gas flowpath at a location upstream of the compressor section and the outlet in airflow communication with the bypass passage, the heat exchanger in thermal communication with an airflow through the cooling passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Andrew Hudecki, Steven Douglas Johnson, Eric Barre, John Carl Glessner, Efren Souza Chavez
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Publication number: 20240110518Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a fan; a turbomachine drivingly coupled to the fan and defining in part a working gas flowpath, the gas turbine engine defining a bypass passage over the turbomachine, the turbomachine defining an annular cooling passage extending between a CP inlet and a CP outlet, the CP inlet in airflow communication with the working gas flowpath and the CP outlet in airflow communication with the bypass passage; and a variable bleed assembly including a variable bleed duct extending between a VB inlet and a VB outlet, the VB inlet in airflow communication with the working gas flowpath at a location downstream of the CP inlet and the VB outlet in airflow communication with the annular cooling passage for urging an airflow through the cooling passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Andrew Hudecki, Eric Barre
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Publication number: 20240110859Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for adjusting sensitivity of a photodiode in a light detection system. Methods according to certain embodiments include detecting light with a light detection system having a photodiode and an amplifier, determining responsivity of the photodiode over a plurality of wavelengths of light and adjusting one or more parameters of the amplifier in response to the responsivity of the photodiode over the plurality of wavelengths of light. Systems (e.g., particle analyzers) having a light source and a light detection system that includes a photodiode and an amplifier for practicing the subject methods are also described. Non-transitory computer readable storage medium are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Timothy Wayne Petersen, Pierce O. Norton, Henry J. Lankila, Eric D. Diebold
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Patent number: 11946876Abstract: Improved inspection techniques are described herein for checking for the presence of and identifying surface defects on a honeycomb body. The improved inspection utilizes measurement of travel of an outer surface of the honeycomb body to collect images of the outer surface. The images are combined into a composite image showing the outer surface of the honeycomb body. The composite image is analyzed to identify surface defects.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Joshua Andrew Barnes, Russell Wayne Madara, Robert Joseph O'Loughlin, Jr., Christie James Suber, Eric Daniel Treacy, Paul Edward Washburn, Michael Yen-Ting Wu, Xiaotian Zou
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Patent number: 11922620Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media that allow a user to easily generate survey mission plans for one or more UAVs and to capture high quality survey images, including those in the near infra-red, and stitch them into an orthomosaic having reduced geometric distortion. The generation of such orthomosaics allows the systems and methods disclosed herein to be particularly useful in applications where separation from the background of high reflective near infrared surfaces is important, such as identifying plants on soil and generating vegetation indices for precision agriculture applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Hermilo Hernandez, Eric Wayne Jackson, Richard Linchangco
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Patent number: 11919196Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Dale Charles Marshall, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Emmanuel Chima Okpara, Conor James Walsh
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Apparatus and method for assisting in decoupling a wheels-on-ground daughter cart from a mother cart
Patent number: 11904919Abstract: A method and apparatus for assisting in removing a wheels-on-ground type daughter cart from a mother cart, and a mother cart incorporating such a method and apparatus, utilize a daughter cart ejector apparatus mounted on a mother cart and having a selectively actuatable ejector element for urging the daughter cart to move out of engagement with the mother cart in an unloading direction. The ejector element is configured and operatively connected to bear against the daughter cart and apply force in a manner that assists in initiating movement of the daughter cart in the unloading direction and reorienting casters supporting the daughter cart on an underlying surface from a rolling orientation that is generally parallel to a transport direction of the mother cart, to a rolling orientation that is generally transverse to the transport direction and parallel to the unloading direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Edmund W. Brown, Eric Wayne Brown, Ryan Edmund Brown -
Patent number: 11902317Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a job score for a user based on the user's job title. In embodiments, the vulnerability of a user to malicious cybersecurity attacks, the propensity for the user to engage with a malicious attack, and the severity of a malicious attack likely to be sent to the user and the severity of the harm to the user's organization is the user engages with the malicious attack is represented in a user risk score. The risk score for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system, may be calculated based on one or more of a frequency score for the user, a propensity score for the user, a severity score for the user, and a job score for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KnowBe4, Inc.Inventors: Eric Wayne Sites, Ryan Scott Davis, Daniel James DeCola
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Patent number: 11872600Abstract: A conveyor system is configured to transport the electronic substrates through cleaning modules of a cleaning apparatus. The conveyor system includes a first outer frame member, a second outer frame member, a bottom belt assembly disposed between the first outer frame member and the second outer frame member, and a top belt assembly spaced from the bottom belt assembly. The bottom belt assembly and the top belt assembly are configured to an electronic substrate therebetween to transport the electronic substrate along the conveyor system and through the at least one cleaning module. The bottom belt assembly or the top belt assembly includes a mesh material belt fabricated from heat resistant synthetic fibers. The conveyor system further includes a plurality of pins secured to the bottom belt assembly or the top belt assembly to create at least one lane along a length of the conveyor system.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: John Neiderman, Eric Wayne Becker, Scotty Slavens
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Patent number: 11772560Abstract: A boat trailer and a method of backing up a boat on a trailer. The boat trailer includes a trailer back-up system having a first image capture device, a second image capture device, and a transmitter. The first image capture device is mounted on a left guide pole of the trailer in a rear-facing direction, and the second image capture device is mounted on a right guide pole of the trailer in a rear-facing direction. The transmitter is in communication with each of the first image capture device and the second image capture device and configured to transmit live video images from the first image capture device and from the second image capture device to a display device. The method includes moving the trailer with a boat loaded on the trailer in a rearward direction and capturing, in real-time, a first view and a second view.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: MasterCraft Boat Company, LLCInventors: Chad A. Lynema, Ryan D. Lake, Eric Wayne Stoner
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Publication number: 20230306233Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes bit shifting a binary representation of a neural network parameter. The neural network parameter has fewer bits, b, than a number of hardware bits, B, supported by hardware that processes the neural network parameter. The bit shifting effectively multiplies the neural network parameter by 2B-b. The method also includes dividing a quantization scale by 2B-b to obtain an updated quantization scale. The method further includes quantizing the bit shifted binary representation with the updated quantization scale to obtain a value for the neural network parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Marinus Willem VAN BAALEN, Brian KAHNE, Eric Wayne MAHURIN, Tijmen Pieter Frederik BLANKEVOORT, Andrey KUZMIN, Andrii SKLIAR, Markus NAGEL
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Patent number: D1013077Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Indian Industries, Inc.Inventor: Eric Wayne Turner
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Patent number: D1027120Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Yao-Hung Yang, Eric Ruhland, Saurabh M. Chaudhari, Dien-Yeh Wu, Philip Wayne Nagle, Aniruddha Pal, Sudhir R. Gondhalekar, Siamak Salimian, Scott Lin, Boon Sen Chan