Patents by Inventor Gerard Brown
Gerard Brown 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: 20240149126Abstract: A hockey puck is disclosed including an internal signal transmitter enabling instantaneous identification of its position as it moves around. The puck includes two molded subcomponents, which encapsulate the signal transmitter. The signal transmitter includes driver electronics and a number of signal transmitters which together generate and emit an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal is emitted by a plurality of diodes mounted in light pipes enclosed within cavities in the subcomponents that extend to outer surfaces of the hockey puck components. The puck includes two subcomponents that are attached via complimentary sets of concentrically arranged wedges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: SportsMEDIA Technology CorporationInventors: Gerard J. Hall, Kirk Brown, Kent Mason, Richard H. Cavallaro, Jim Doeden
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Publication number: 20240150593Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing composition for treating a metal substrate comprising: a polyolefin component; and a colloidal layered silicate. Also disclosed is a system for treating a metal substrate comprising: a cleaner composition; and/or a pretreatment composition for treating at least a portion of the substrate, the pretreatment composition comprising a Group IVB metal; and a sealing composition for treating at least a portion of the substrate treated with the cleaner composition and/or the pretreated composition, the sealing composition comprising a polyolefin component. Also disclosed is a method of treating a substrate comprising contacting at least a portion of a surface of the substrate with any of the compositions disclosed herein or any of the systems disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Corey James DeDomenic, Kristi Maree Allen, Elizabeth Stephenie Brown-Tseng, Peter Lawrence Votruba-Drzal, Silvia Bezer, Michael Gerard Olah, Steven Edward Bowles, Mary Lyn Chong Lim, Mark William McMillen
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Publication number: 20240024761Abstract: A board game and method of playing the board game are described. The board and pieces are magnetic and waterproof, enabling the game to be played in most human settings. Players of the board game move their pieces around the board and interact with other pieces according to the game rules including attacking other players pieces, removing other player pieces from the playing field, locating neutral pieces, moving neutral pieces, and bringing more pieces into the game. The invention encompasses adapting the board game rules to play the game in a digital format on a computer, smartphone, or tablet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventor: Sheldon Gerard Brown
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Patent number: 9419956Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for authenticating and efficiently re-authenticating a user with a financial institution in order to gain access to account information using a web-enabled device. The web-enabled device stores user profiles associated with the user including authentication information provided by the user during primary authentication. The device retrieves the authentication information upon secondary authentication, that is, validation of the user's identity, which in some embodiments, includes local validation of a personal identification number (“PIN”) and/or a remote control passcode (“RCP”). As such, the web-enabled device re-authenticates the user without requiring authentication communication with a financial institution server, and thereafter, the user interacts with an application running on the web-enabled device to retrieve desired account information from the financial institution server.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Shaun J. Abraham, Douglas Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20160176497Abstract: An annular elastomeric EMI shielding gasket includes a metallic mesh embedded in an elastomeric sheet for sealing and protecting aircraft fuel tanks and panels. In one embodiment, the gasket has a central region with a protruding portion to prevent leakage of fluid under the dynamic loading of the wing assembly experienced during flight. In another embodiment, the gasket has a rubberized tip portion providing the same advantages in an alternative configuration. In further embodiments, the annular inner section of the gasket includes a grommet bordering the gasket opening and encapsulating the inner most section of the gasket. In still further embodiments, the elastomeric sheet is formed from a fluorosilicate reinforced with Kevlar fibers, and the metallic mesh is formed from triple strand wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Stephen J. COPPOLA, Anthony VOZZELLA, Nick PARENTEAU, George SPIES, Gerard BROWN, Scott HALLORAN, Steven BYTHROW
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Patent number: 9279584Abstract: A system includes a gasification feed injector. The gasification feed injector includes a tip portion that has an outer wall and a feed outlet, and an injection axis of the gasification feed injector extends through the feed outlet of the tip portion. The gasification feed injector also has at least one fastener extending radially from the outer wall relative to an injection axis of the gasification feed injector through the feed outlet of the tip portion. An attachment location of the at least one fastener is located away from the feed outlet of the tip portion. The system also includes a heat shield, which includes a tile radially disposed on the at least one fastener and radially secured to the outer wall via fastening the tile to the at least one fastener. In addition, the tile wraps around a distal end portion of the tip portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Cillian Gerard Brown, Wade Albert Taber, Daniel Adrian Corral
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Publication number: 20140263747Abstract: A system includes a gasification feed injector. The gasification feed injector includes a tip portion that has an outer wall and a feed outlet, and an injection axis of the gasification feed injector extends through the feed outlet of the tip portion. The gasification feed injector also has at least one fastener extending radially from the outer wall relative to an injection axis of the gasification feed injector through the feed outlet of the tip portion. An attachment location of the at least one fastener is located away from the feed outlet of the tip portion. The system also includes a heat shield, which includes a tile radially disposed on the at least one fastener and radially secured to the outer wall via fastening the tile to the at least one fastener. In addition, the tile wraps around a distal end portion of the tip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Cillian Gerard Brown, Wade Albert Taber, Daniel Adrian Corral
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Patent number: 8577514Abstract: A method for predicting an ambient temperature around a moving motor vehicle includes utilizing measured ambient temperatures and Newton's Cooling Law. A linear best fit line describing the time constant as a function of vehicle speed can be generated utilizing measured data. In use, the b values can be determined from the best fit line, and the b values can be utilized to provide a predicted or estimated ambient temperature before the measured temperatures drop to the ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christos Kyrtsos, Michael Buckenmeyer, Kenneth Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20130179032Abstract: A method for predicting an ambient temperature around a moving motor vehicle includes utilizing measured ambient temperatures and Newton's Cooling Law. A linear best fit line describing the time constant as a function of vehicle speed can be generated utilizing measured data. In use, the b values can be determined from the best fit line, and the b values can be utilized to provide a predicted or estimated ambient temperature before the measured temperatures drop to the ambient temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Christos Kyrtsos, Michael Buckenmeyer, Kenneth Gerard Brown
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Patent number: 8050849Abstract: A mixed-mode method for operating a vehicle's propulsion plant to travel at a selected average speed using the minimum amount of fuel. The method involves travelling in one mode at high speed part of the time, and in a different mode at low speed part of the time, in such a way that the average speed is the selected value.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Gerald Gerard Brown, Jeffrey Eugene Kline, Richard Edwin Rosenthal, Pascale Menconi, legal representative, Alan R. Washburn
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Patent number: 8036638Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying circumstances where end-to-end security is not available to a mobile banking customer. The user may be alerted/warned or restricted from accessing some banking services through his/her WAP-enabled mobile device if the server (e.g., bank server) determines that end-to-end security is not available. In some instances, the bank server may access a computer data file containing a list of known end-to-end secure devices and gateways to verify the integrity of the data communication. The server may verify the integrity of the data communication using loose matching.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Ketil Bjugan, Douglas Gerard Brown, Peter K. Buchhop
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Publication number: 20110231332Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for authenticating and efficiently re-authenticating a user with a financial institution in order to gain access to account information using a web-enabled device. The web-enabled device stores user profiles associated with the user including authentication information provided by the user during primary authentication. The device retrieves the authentication information upon secondary authentication, that is, validation of the user's identity, which in some embodiments, includes local validation of a personal identification number (“PIN”) and/or a remote control passcode (“RCP”). As such, the web-enabled device re-authenticates the user without requiring authentication communication with a financial institution server, and thereafter, the user interacts with an application running on the web-enabled device to retrieve desired account information from the financial institution server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Shaun J. Abraham, Douglas Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20110166747Abstract: A system and method is provided for controlling temperature in an automotive vehicle having a driver-side area, a front passenger-side area, and a climate control system with at least one interface. The interface allows a user to select a driver-side temperature setting and a passenger-side temperature setting. The system includes a seat occupancy sensor and at least one computer-based controller. In operation, the seat occupancy sensor generates a sensor signal indicative of passenger seat occupancy in the passenger-side area of the vehicle. Based on the sensor signal, the controller controls the climate control system. When the passenger-side area is unoccupied, the climate control system distributes conditioned air according to the driver-side temperature setting to both the driver-side and passenger-side areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Halim Wijaya, Christopher Stephen Van Auken, Kenneth Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20110111920Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thermal management system for a vehicle powertrain and a method for heating the transmission. Exemplary thermal management systems include a heater core, a transmission fluid warmer selectively in thermal communication with the heater core, a bypass valve between the heater core and transmission fluid warmer configured to control fluid flow therebetween, a control module configured to control the bypass valve, and a timer linked to the control module configured to delay deactivation of the bypass valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: James Thomas Gooden, Don Peter Schneider, Kenneth Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20110067918Abstract: Corrosion-resistant electromagnetic interference (“EMI”) shielding material. The material is provided as an admixture of an elastomeric polymeric component and a filler component. The filler component is provided as glass or aluminum particles which are electrolessly-plated with a plating of a nickel-phosphorous alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Junhua Whu, Gerard Brown, George Watchko, Robert Steeves, Francis Richard, William G. Lionetta
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Publication number: 20110039519Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying circumstances where end-to-end security is not available to a mobile banking customer. The user may be alerted/warned or restricted from accessing some banking services through his/her WAP-enabled mobile device if the server (e.g., bank server) determines that end-to-end security is not available. In some instances, the bank server may access a computer data file containing a list of known end-to-end secure devices and gateways to verify the integrity of the data communication. The server may verify the integrity of the data communication using loose matching.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Ketil Bjugan, Douglas Gerard Brown, Peter K. Buchhop
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Patent number: 7834572Abstract: A method for starting a blower motor with a locked rotor condition, the motor having one or more speed settings, each speed setting having a reference voltage and reference current value associated therewith, the method comprising, from a motor off condition, applying the reference voltage to the motor, the reference voltage associated with a desired speed setting; measuring current flowing through the motor to define a measured current value; comparing the measured current value to the reference current value associated with the desired speed setting to determine if a locked rotor condition exists; if a locked rotor condition exists, increasing the motor speed from the desired speed setting until either the output speed is at a maximum speed or the locked rotor condition ceases to exist; and adjusting the motor output speed value to the desired speed setting.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christos Kyrtsos, Kenneth Gerard Brown, Ibrahim Mohammed Issa
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Patent number: 7835723Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying circumstances where end-to-end security is not available to a mobile banking customer. The user may be alerted/warned or restricted from accessing some banking services through his/her WAP-enabled mobile device if the bank server determines that end-to-end security is not available. In some instances, the bank server may access a computer data file containing a list of known end-to-end secure devices and gateways to verify the integrity of the data communication. The server may verify the integrity of the data communication using loose matching.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Ketil Bjugan, Douglas Gerard Brown, Peter K Buchhop
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Patent number: 7599812Abstract: A method of determining air temperature outside a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having an engine and an outside air temperature (OAT) sensor disposed outside the passenger compartment. The OAT sensor is located in a region which is exposed to heat after the engine is turned off. The method includes measuring a series of temperature values at the OAT sensor, using the measured OAT sensor values to develop a temperature-time function, and generating an adjusted OAT value using an observed time, the measured OAT sensor values, and the temperature-time function.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christos Kyrtsos, Kenneth Gerard Brown
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Publication number: 20090099804Abstract: A method of determining air temperature outside a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having an engine and an outside air temperature (OAT) sensor disposed outside the passenger compartment. The OAT sensor is located in a region which is exposed to heat after the engine is turned off. The method includes measuring a series of temperature values at the OAT sensor, using the measured OAT sensor values to develop a temperature-time function, and generating an adjusted OAT value using an observed time, the measured OAT sensor values, and the temperature-time function.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Christos Kyrtsos, Kenneth Gerard Brown