Patents by Inventor Jeffrey E. Taylor
Jeffrey E. Taylor 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: 20210403958Abstract: Ethanol is produced by the simultaneous production of both First and Second generation (1G, 2G) fuel grade ethanol in the same production plant. A First Generation feedstock such as corn is continuously fed to the first generation section and a lignocellulosic feedstock such as corn stover from the 1G corn is supplied to the second generation area Thus, there is a common fermentation area for both the C5 and C6 sugar fermentation. The invention can economically be best implemented in places where there are incentives offered for the use of various feedstocks. Specifically, the invention allows the D3 rin to be maximized in an existing first-generation ethanol plant with the installation of the front end of the 2G equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Chemtex Global CorporationInventors: Wenku Bill Xi, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 10373235Abstract: A pay-at-the-table device is augmented to include an imaging sub-system having one or more image-capture components. A front-facing image sensor records video, or takes still photos. A wide view image sensor/lens captures a view of an entire table (or some portion thereof). When table images are captured by the imaging system, image post-processing is used to ensure that any details that can identify the individual patrons are masked or otherwise obscured; in this way, only generic demographic data (e.g., number of patrons, gender, approximate age, etc.) is captured, and all such data is maintained anonymously and without reference to any payment or other information that might provide the restaurant with the patron's true identity. The image-capture components may also include image sensors enable events (e.g., drinks needing refills, entrée arrival, etc.) to be monitored. An infrared image sensor captures thermal data, which can identify the temperature of the prepared food.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: TABLETOP MEDIA, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, Kevin C. Mowry, Jeffrey E. Taylor, Christopher M. Wellheuser, Vernon Y. Franklin
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Patent number: 10102519Abstract: An advanced removable battery module for use in a portable user interface terminal. The battery module comprises a power circuitry module comprising at least one rechargeable battery cell and charging circuitry configured to charge the at least one rechargeable battery cell. The battery module also comprises a communication and encryption circuitry module. The communication and encryption circuitry module comprises a first wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a second module of the user terminal, a second wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a remote terminal separate from the user terminal, and at least one payment transaction interface configured to receive payment information from a user of the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Tabletop Media LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, Austen Mulinder, Christopher M. Wellheuser, Vernon Y. Franklin, David C. Perez, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 9940611Abstract: A new terminal is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Tabletop Media, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, James T. Row, II, Bryan E. Campbell, Kevin C. Mowry, Tiegang Li, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 9676207Abstract: A table-side hospitality device includes an integral printer mechanism, such as a thermal printer. The device comprises a general purpose processing unit on which a mobile- or embedded-device operating system, such as Android, executes. A control program (the device application) executing on the processing unit facilitates ordering, order management, invoicing and payment. When the application needs to print, it interacts with the printer directly, preferably using the general purpose input-output (GPIO) bus of the processor. In particular, during the print operation, the processor (via the general purpose I/O) outputs, as a set of control signals, a bit-map of the desired graphics (text, images, or the like), and these control signals drive the printer directly without requiring a dedicated micro-controller or OS-specific printer drivers.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Tabletop Media, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, Christopher M. Wellheuser, Jeffrey E. Taylor, Kevin C. Mowry, Tiegang Li
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Publication number: 20160314454Abstract: An advanced removable battery module for use in a portable user interface terminal. The battery module comprises a power circuitry module comprising at least one rechargeable battery cell and charging circuitry configured to charge the at least one rechargeable battery cell. The battery module also comprises a communication and encryption circuitry module. The communication and encryption circuitry module comprises a first wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a second module of the user terminal, a second wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a remote terminal separate from the user terminal, and at least one payment transaction interface configured to receive payment information from a user of the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: TABLETOP MEDIA LLC D/B/A ZIOSKInventors: Viren R. BALAR, Austen MULINDER, Christopher M. WELLHEUSER, Vernon Y. FRANKLIN, David C. PEREZ, Jeffrey E. TAYLOR
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Publication number: 20160125381Abstract: A new terminal is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Tabletop Media LLC d/b/a ZioskInventors: Viren R. BALAR, James T. ROW, II, Bryan E. CAMPBELL, Kevin C. MOWRY, Tiegang LI, Jeffrey E. TAYLOR
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Publication number: 20160092965Abstract: A pay-at-the-table device is augmented to include an imaging sub-system having one or more image-capture components. A front-facing image sensor records video, or takes still photos. A wide view image sensor/lens captures a view of an entire table (or some portion thereof). When table images are captured by the imaging system, image post-processing is used to ensure that any details that can identify the individual patrons are masked or otherwise obscured; in this way, only generic demographic data (e.g., number of patrons, gender, approximate age, etc.) is captured, and all such data is maintained anonymously and without reference to any payment or other information that might provide the restaurant with the patron's true identity. The image-capture components may also include image sensors enable events (e.g., drinks needing refills, entrée arrival, etc.) to be monitored. An infrared image sensor captures thermal data, which can identify the temperature of the prepared food.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: Tabletop Media LLC d/b/a ZioskInventors: Viren R. Balar, Kevin C. Mowry, Jeffrey E. Taylor, Christopher M. Wellheuser, Vernon Y. Franklin
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Patent number: 9264241Abstract: A new table-side device is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Tabletop Media LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, James T. Row, Bryan E. Campbell, Kevin C. Mowry, Tiegang Li, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Publication number: 20140192795Abstract: A new table-side device is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: TableTop Media, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, James T. Row, Bryan E. Campbell, Kevin C. Mowry, Tiegang Li, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Publication number: 20140139866Abstract: A table-side hospitality device includes an integral printer mechanism, such as a thermal printer. The device comprises a general purpose processing unit on which a mobile- or embedded-device operating system, such as Android, executes. A control program (the device application) executing on the processing unit facilitates ordering, order management, invoicing and payment. When the application needs to print, it interacts with the printer directly, preferably using the general purpose input-output (GPIO) bus of the processor. In particular, during the print operation, the processor (via the general purpose I/O) outputs, as a set of control signals, a bit-map of the desired graphics (text, images, or the like), and these control signals drive the printer directly without requiring a dedicated micro-controller or OS-specific printer drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Tabletop Media, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, Christopher M. Wellheuser, Jeffrey E. Taylor, Kevin Mowry, Tiegang Li
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Patent number: 6752974Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treating a substantially gaseous halo-containing compound of an effluent of a glass manufacturing facility and a system for such method. The method includes the step of oxidizing the halo-containing compound to form a hydrogen and halo-containing compound. The method also includes the step of adsorbing a halogen of the hydrogen and halo-containing compound on a surface. The system includes at least one glass manufacturing apparatus which the operation of the apparatus in glass manufacturing generates an effluent which comprises a substantially gaseous halo-containing compound. The system also includes an oxidizer in fluid communication to receive the halo-containing compound and oxidize the compound to transform the halo-containing compound into a hydrogen and halo-containing compound. The system further includes a scrubber for receiving said hydrogen and halo-containing compound and absorbing the halogen from the hydrogen and halo-containing compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Steven A. Dunwoody, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Publication number: 20030194367Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treating a substantially gaseous halo-containing compound of an effluent of a glass manufacturing facility and a system for such method. The method includes the step of oxidizing the halo-containing compound to form a hydrogen and halo-containing compound. The method also includes the step of adsorbing a halogen of the hydrogen and halo-containing compound on a surface. The system includes at least one glass manufacturing apparatus which the operation of the apparatus in glass manufacturing generates an effluent which comprises a substantially gaseous halo-containing compound. The system also includes an oxidizer in fluid communication to receive the halo-containing compound and oxidize the compound to transform the halo-containing compound into a hydrogen and halo-containing compound. The system further includes a scrubber for receiving said hydrogen and halo-containing compound and absorbing the halogen from the hydrogen and halo-containing compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2002Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventors: Steven A. Dunwoody, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 5677752Abstract: A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are recorded with a spatial shift by a preset distance along the film running direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1996Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Cinema Products CorporationInventors: Shinji Miyamori, Masatoshi Ueno, Matayasu Kubo, Kenji Takanashi, Toshiaki Setogawa, Michael J. Kohut, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 5677753Abstract: A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are recorded with a spatial shift by a preset distance along the film running direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1996Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Cinema Products CorporationInventors: Shinji Miyamori, Masatoshi Ueno, Matayasu Kubo, Kenji Takanashi, Toshiaki Setogawa, Michael J. Kohut, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 5617158Abstract: A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are recorded with a spatial shift by a preset distance along the film running direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1994Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Cinema Products Inc.Inventors: Shinji Miyamori, Masatoshi Ueno, Matayasu Kubo, Kenji Takanashi, Toshiaki Setogawa, Michael J. Kohut, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 5608473Abstract: An audio data readout device for a motion picture film and a clock generating device in a changeover system for a motion picture film. First and second clock generating circuits generate first and second clocks of predetermined frequencies based upon a repetition frequency of perforations detected by first and second film readers and a repetition frequency of a track pitch of audio data, and route the resulting clocks to a changeover switch. At a changeover time, a changeover controller switchingly controls the changeover switch to select the second clock. A system clock generating circuit has loop characteristics of a longer time constant than the first or second clock generating circuits and smoothly locks the second clock to generate a system clock which is outputted. A stable and accurate system clock can be generated and outputted even when film running is unstable at the changeover time.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Cinema Products CorporationInventors: Katsuichi Tachi, Kozo Kaminaga, Jeffrey E. Taylor, Howard J. Flemming
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Patent number: 5386256Abstract: An add-on module for a contact printer used to manufacture a motion picture. The module enables the printing of a digital optical soundtrack on motion picture film from a sound negative using a standard contact printing process. The module includes spaced apart guide rollers and a main roller. Unexposed film is placed in contact between the main roller and the sound negative. The module further includes a fiber optic light source positioned adjacent to the sound negative for exposing the film and forming the digital soundtrack. The digital soundtrack is formed on a portion of the positive print which includes an area between each of the sprocket holes. In addition, the digital soundtrack extends from each sprocket hole to the edge of the positive print on both sides of the print.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1993Date of Patent: January 31, 1995Assignee: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey E. Taylor, Lane R. Stewart, Thomas Tate, Richard Weisman, Dana Wood, LeRoy H. Reese