Patents by Inventor James A. Patterson

James A. Patterson 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).

  • Three-dimensional printing system using dual rotation axes
    Patent number: 8778252
    Abstract: A 3-D printer system moves a printed tool over a print surface with a mechanism controlling a rotational angle of an arm holding the print tool and a revolutionary angle of axis of rotation of the printable area to eliminate the disadvantages of conventionally used linear motion mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Mackie, Nathan James Patterson, Benjamin L. Cox, Nathan D. Schumacher, George Wicks Petry
  • Ammoximation process
    Patent number: 8779124
    Abstract: A redox ammoximation process in which a ketone or aldehyde is reacted with ammonia and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein: the catalyst is an aluminophosphate based redox catalyst having the qualitative general formula (I) M1M2AlPO-5 (I) in which M1 is at least one transition metal atom having redox catalytic capability; M2 is at least one metal atom in the (IV) oxidation state; M1 and M2 are different from each other; and a proportion of the phosphorous atoms in the M1M2AlPO-5 type structure are replaced by M2 atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Robert Raja, Alexander James Patterson
  • Quality validation method
    Patent number: 8756230
    Abstract: A quality validation method to improve inspection and validation processes by increasing their quality, efficiency, and positive impact. This method automatically prompts operators at one or more validation stations to follow a validation path comprising one or more validation items configurable by part number. It allows for automatic or manual feedback on the result of each item checked, the ability to enforce a particular pack-out consist based upon user provided specifications, and the ability of historically storing inspection results comprising container, part and inspection item information and results. It additionally provides an easily accessible interface to configure validation items and areas by part number, configure validation paths comprising of a variable quantity and order of validation items, and obtain information in a variety of useful formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Atco Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Thomas McCleary, Stanley James Patterson, IV, Joshua Yates
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER PURCHASING BEHAVIOR
    Publication number: 20140164057
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing and predicting spending behaviors of consumers. A financial service system configures a financial service account for a user associated with a merchant. The financial service system, after receiving notification of purchase transactions made by the user with the account, may collect information relating to the transactions. The financial service system may determine other merchants that “co-occur” with the first merchant—in other words, where else are the first merchant's customers shopping and who are their true competitors? The financial service system may then compile this data and provide it to the merchant, who may modify their business practices based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Wen, James Patterson
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SOCIO-GRAPHIC CONSUMER SEGMENTATION FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING
    Publication number: 20140164062
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the financial characteristics of socio-graphic segments of social media users. A financial service system links a customer's social network profile to a financial service account associated with the customer. The financial service system may receive information relating to the social network profile, and identify one or more characteristics of the customer based on the information. The financial service system may proceed to associate the customer with one or more socio-graphic groups, or “clusters,” comprising customers sharing the same characteristic. The financial service system may then generate a spending model associated with the clusters, and provide it to advertisers for purposes of generating more useful, targeted advertising and incentives to the customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Wen, James Patterson
  • ROTOR MAGNET POSITIONING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140062246
    Abstract: A device for positioning a planar array of magnets within a permanent magnet electrical machine of the type having a rotor and stator with an air gap there between. The device includes a body made of non-ferrous material and having a first side which is attachable to the rotor and a second side which, in an assembled machine, faces the air gap. The first side of the body has a plurality of recesses therein for receiving a corresponding plurality of magnets. The recesses are shaped and arranged to separate the magnets from each other and maintain a consistent spacing between them. When the device is attached to the rotor the magnets are held in a fixed position against the rotor. The electrical machine may be a motor or a generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: IN MOTION TECHNOLOGIES PTY., LTD.
    Inventors: Charles Richard Langford, Steven Peter Camilleri, Dean James Patterson
  • ANIMATED CONTEXTUAL MENU
    Publication number: 20140033128
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
  • PORT/LINER ASSEMBLY FOR PRESSURE VESSEL
    Publication number: 20130341337
    Abstract: A pressure vessel includes a polymeric liner defining a fluid containment cavity and having an opening defining a port aperture extending between an inner surface and an outer surface of the polymeric liner and a rigid ring element is embedded within the polymeric liner and surrounding the port aperture. A metallic port element is disposed on the outer surface of the polymeric liner and fixed to the rigid ring element. A fiber composite material is disposed about the outer surface of the polymeric liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: HYPERCOMP ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Jared Noorda
  • Rotor magnet positioning device
    Patent number: 8598761
    Abstract: A device for positioning a planar array of magnets within a permanent magnet electrical machine of the type having a rotor and stator with an air gap there between. The device includes a body made of non-ferrous material and having a first side which is attachable to the rotor and a second side which, in an assembled machine, faces the air gap. The first side of the body has a plurality of recesses therein for receiving a corresponding plurality of magnets. The recesses are shaped and arranged to separate the magnets from each other and maintain a consistent spacing between them. When the device is attached to the rotor the magnets are held in a fixed position against the rotor. The electrical machine may be a motor or a generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: In Motion Technologies Pty., Ltd.
    Inventors: Charles Richard Langford, Steven Peter Camilleri, Dean James Patterson
  • LED BYPASS AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR FAULT TOLERANT LED SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130313973
    Abstract: A light system (FIG. 2) is disclosed. The light system includes a plurality of series connected light emitting diodes (240-246). Each of a plurality of switching devices (230-236) has a control terminal and each has a current path coupled in parallel with a respective LED. A plurality of fault detector circuits (220-226) are each coupled in parallel with a respective light emitting diode. Each fault detector circuit has a first comparator (FIG. 7, 704) arranged to compare a voltage across the respective light emitting diode to a respective first reference voltage (708). When a fault is defected, a control signal is applied to the control terminal to turn on a respective switching device of the plurality of switching devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Joseph V. DeNicholas, Perry Tsao, Christoph Goeltner, Daniel Ross Herrington, James Masson, James Patterson, Werner Berns
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATING USER ANNOTATIONS IN ELECTRONIC BOOKS
    Publication number: 20130311867
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer. Motion of the electronic book reader below a threshold speed causes a change in display of user-selected content in a first manner and motion above the threshold speed causes a change of display in a second manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Scott Dougall, Nathan Moody
  • AUTOMATED STUDY GUIDE GENERATION FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS
    Publication number: 20130305135
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. User-controlled content is associated with portions of an electronic book. A study guide corresponding to at least some of the portions with associated user-controlled content is generated. The user can navigate between portions of the study guide and the corresponding portions of the electronic book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATING USER ANNOTATIONS IN ELECTRONIC BOOKS
    Publication number: 20130262973
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
  • Glucagon/GLP-1 receptor co-agonists
    Patent number: 8546327
    Abstract: Modified glucagon peptides are disclosed having enhanced potency at the glucagon receptor relative to native glucagon. Further modification of the glucagon peptides by forming intramolecular bridges or the substitution of the terminal carboxylic acid with an amide group produces peptides exhibiting glucagon/GLP-1 receptor co-agonist activity. The solubility and stability of these high potency glucagon analogs can be further improved by modification of the polypeptides by pegylation, acylation, alkylation, substitution of carboxy terminal amino acids, C-terminal truncation, or the addition of a carboxy terminal peptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 26 (GPSSGAPPPS), SEQ ID NO: 27 (KRNRNNIA) and SEQ ID NO: 28 (KRNR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Dimarchi, David L. Smiley, Maria Dimarchi, Joseph Chabenne, Jonathan Day, James Patterson, Brian Ward
  • Electronic book contextual menu systems and methods
    Patent number: 8543941
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
  • Ammoximation Process
    Publication number: 20130245322
    Abstract: A redox ammoximation process in which a ketone or aldehyde is reacted with ammonia and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein: the catalyst is an aluminophosphate based redox catalyst having the qualitative general formula (I) M1M2AlPO-5 (I) in which M1 is at least one transition metal atom having redox catalytic capability; M2 is at least one metal atom in the (IV) oxidation state; M1 and M2 are different from each other; and a proportion of the phosphorous atoms in the M1M2AlPO-5 type structure are replaced by M2 atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Robert Raja, Alexander James Patterson
  • Systems and methods for manipulating user annotations in electronic books
    Patent number: 8520025
    Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
  • Three-Dimensional Printing System Using Dual Rotation Axes
    Publication number: 20130189435
    Abstract: A 3-D printer system moves a printed tool over a print surface with a mechanism controlling a rotational angle of an arm holding the print tool and a revolutionary angle of axis of rotation of the printable area to eliminate the disadvantages of conventionally used linear motion mechanisms
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas R. Mackie, Nathan James Patterson, Benjamin L. Cox, Nathan D. Schumacher, George Wicks Petry
  • Glucagon/GLP-1 receptor co-agonists
    Patent number: 8454971
    Abstract: Modified glucagon peptides are disclosed having enhanced potency at the glucagon receptor relative to native glucagon. Further modification of the glucagon peptides by forming lactam bridges or the substitution of the terminal carboxylic acid with an amide group produces peptides exhibiting glucagon/GLP-1 receptor co-agonist activity. The solubility and stability of these high potency glucagon analogs can be further improved by modification of the polypeptides by pegylation, substitution of carboxy terminal amino acids, or the addition of a carboxy terminal peptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 26 (GPSSGAPPPS), SEQ ID NO: 27 (K-RNRNNIA) and SEQ ID NO: 28 (KRNR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Day, James Patterson, Joseph Chabenne, Maria Dimarchi, David L. Smiley, Richard D. Dimarchi
  • AXIAL FLUX ELECTRIC MACHINE AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130069467
    Abstract: An electric machine is described. The electric machine includes a rotor comprising a rotor disk and a plurality of permanent magnets magnetically coupled to the rotor disk. The plurality of permanent magnets include a substantially flat profile and are aligned in a substantially planar array. The electric machine also includes a stator comprising a solid stator core and a plurality of coils each wound around a coil insulating member. The stator core includes a plurality of stator teeth extending substantially parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: REGAL BELOIT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael D. Smith, William A. Ziegler, Michael Garrett, Dean James Patterson, Roger C. Becerra, Ludovic Chretien, Darrel Buttram, Steven Peter Camilleri