Patents by Inventor Joe A. Rapp

Joe A. Rapp 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).

  • Patent number: 11220801
    Abstract: A center pintle hub to be affixed to a base of a machine. The center pintle hub includes a base portion and a support portion. The base portion is formed to be affixed to the base. The support portion extends from the base portion and has a frusto-conical shape that can receive a center pintle shaft. The center pintle shaft can support a frame of the machine and provide rotation of the frame with respect to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining LLC
    Inventors: Joe A. Rapp, Cheng-Kong C. Wu, Vladimir A. Korchagin, Aruna Kinjarapu, Robin Varghese
  • Publication number: 20210017735
    Abstract: A center pintle hub to be affixed to a base of a machine. The center pintle hub includes a base portion and a support portion. The base portion is formed to be affixed to the base. The support portion extends from the base portion and has a frusto-conical shape that can receive a center pintle shaft. The center pintle shaft can support a frame of the machine and provide rotation of the frame with respect to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Joe A. Rapp, Cheng-Kong C. Wu, Vladimir A. Korchagin, Aruna Kinjarapu, Robin Varghese
  • Patent number: 6205871
    Abstract: The invention provides materials and methods for modeling human blood vessels. Including panels of anatomically accurate vascular phantoms, such as carotid artery phantoms, comprising a range of stenotic conditions and other geometric variations; methods of making anatomically accurate vascular phantoms using stereolithography with an input data set representation of a natural vascular lumenal surface to construct an anatomically accurate vascular phantom comprising a physical representation of the surface; and methods of using the subject phantoms and panels of phantoms, such as methods of measuring a parameter of fluid flow through a panel of anatomically accurate vascular phantoms comprising a range of stenotic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: David Saloner, Joe Rapp
  • Patent number: D437361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Joe Rapp, Inc.
    Inventor: Joe Rapp