Patents by Inventor John Clark

John Clark 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).

  • Wind Turbine Bearing Removal and Installation Device and Method
    Publication number: 20190040848
    Abstract: A device for removal and installation of a pitch bearing on a wind turbine having a plurality of blades is provided, comprising a platform having a frame, wherein the platform includes a first bearing attachment member on a first side of the frame, and having a first pair of opposing bearing connectors matably engageable to the pitch bearing; a second bearing attachment member on a second side of the frame, and having a second pair of opposing bearing connectors matably engageable to the pitch bearing; and a rigging member attached to the frame, wherein the rigging member includes at least one cable bracket adapted to receive a lifting cable. A method of removal and installing a pitch bearing using the platform is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: Barnhart Crane and Rigging Co.
    Inventors: Kevin Reynolds, John Clark, Stephen Warren, Thomas A. Pepin, III
  • Secure streamlined provisioning of remote access terminals
    Patent number: 10187362
    Abstract: A method and system are provided that create a limited use secure environment (LSE) image such as a limited use operating system installation that can be booted from a removable medium (e.g. CD or flash drive). The limited use secure environment is a limited purpose OS, web browser, etc. that prevents undesired activities. When the limited use secure environment boots, it initiates a pairing operation in which a pairing code and user credentials are conveyed to an authorization server. Once the pairing code and credentials are confirmed, a provisioning service provides configuration credentials to the limited use secure environment to enable the limited use secure environment to establish a secure connection through a gateway to resources of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Arron McClintock, John Clark Coonley Duksta, Katharine Nicole Harrison, Matthew Ryan Jezorek, Brian Young Lee, Maarten Van Horenbeeck
  • CIRCUIT INTERRUPTERS HAVING METAL ARC CHUTES WITH ARC QUENCHING MEMBERS AND RELATED ARC CHUTES
    Publication number: 20190019636
    Abstract: Circuit interrupters such as breakers with a metal arc chute having a base and sidewalls extending outward from the base forming an open cavity, a movable arm holding a movable contact adjacent to the arc chute, a line conductor electrically connected to a stationary contact residing adjacent to the arc chute facing the movable contact and a three-dimensional molded arc quenching insert attached to the metal arc chute, and residing in the cavity of the metal arc chute between the stationary and movable contacts. The insert has an arc quenching material that optionally releases a gas such as hydrogen during an arcing event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: James Gerard Maloney, Jeffrey Scott Gibson, John Clark
  • Sealed web retractors for personal restraint systems and associated systems and methods
    Patent number: 10166947
    Abstract: Sealed web retractors and associated systems and methods for retracting a web, such as seat belt web, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a web retractor includes a frame having a sidewall with a first opening, a locking assembly attached to the frame and having a housing with a second opening adjacent to the first opening, and a shaft coupler rotatably and sealably carried by the sidewall. The shaft coupler operably couples a spool shaft to the locking assembly through the first and second openings. At least one seal is operably positioned in the first opening between the shaft coupler and the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shield Restraint Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John Clark, Brandon S. Marriott, Brian Babin
  • NOVEL CYANOBACTERIOCHROMES ACTIVE IN THE FAR-RED TO NEAR-INFRARED
    Publication number: 20180354998
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein fusion construct comprising a far-red cyanobacteriochrome (CBCR) domain linked to a heterologous domain, wherein the far-red CBCR domain comprises a CBCR polypeptide and a tetrapyrrole chromophore. The invention also provides nucleic acids, expression cassettes, vectors, and host cells for expression of the far-red CBCR protein fusion constructs. Methods for detecting cellular components, methods for imaging biological structures, and method for modulating cellular processes using the protein fusion constructs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: John Clark Lagarias, Nathan Clarke Rockwell
  • Double pull latch for closure panel such as hood
    Patent number: 10145154
    Abstract: In an aspect, a latch for a closure panel for a vehicle is provided, and includes a ratchet, pawl, release lever, and extension member. The ratchet is movable between a primary closed position, secondary closed position and open position. The pawl is movable between a primary locking position, secondary locking position and unlocking position. The release lever is movable between home and actuated positions. When the pawl is in the primary locking position the release lever has a selected amount of reach for driving the pawl to the secondary locking position during movement of the release lever to the actuated position. When the pawl is in the secondary locking position the extension member is movable to extend the reach of the release lever to drive the pawl from the secondary locking position to the unlocked position during movement of the release lever from the home position to the actuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Magna Closures Inc.
    Inventors: James Joseph Ferri, John Clark, John Robert Scott Mitchell, Ilya Neyman
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A WET ETCHING PROCESS
    Publication number: 20180294196
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a wet etching process is disclosed. The system includes multiple processing stations accessible by a transfer device, including a measuring station to optically measure the thickness of a wafer before and after each etching steps in the process. The system also includes a controller to analyze the thickness measurements in view of a target wafer profile and generate an etch recipe, dynamically and in real time, for each etching step. In addition, the process controller can cause a single wafer wet etching station to etch the wafer according to the generated etching recipes. In addition, the system can, based on the pre and post-etch thickness measurements and target etch profile, generate and/or refine the etch recipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Laura Mauer, John Taddei, John Clark, Elena Lawrence, Eric Kurt Zwirnmann, David A. Goldberg, Jonathan Yutkowitz
  • Aerial vehicle path management using hash functions
    Patent number: 10089885
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for storing path data for all vehicles of a service area in a path data store and representing each path with a unique hash value, generated based on the path data. Rather than controllers and/or aerial vehicles exchanging the full path data for each path, a common hash function may be used to generate unique hash values for each path and the unique hash values may be exchanged and used to lookup the full path data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, John Clark Coonley Duksta, Gur Kimchi, Corrinne Yu
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WAFER THINNING IN ADVANCED PACKAGING APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20180254221
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for etching semiconductor wafers (integrated circuit substrates) with advanced packaging using a two-step wet etching process. The first etch step uses an etchant that is non-selective to at least the wafer material (silicon) and metals, such as copper and titanium, that are present in the wafer. The second etch step uses an etchant that is selective to the wafer material (silicon) and has low selectivity for the metals, thereby leaving them at least substantially intact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Laura Mauer, John Taddei, John Clark, Kenji Nulman
  • Gear shift lever assembly
    Patent number: 10065707
    Abstract: A gear shift lever assembly includes a gear shift lever arm which includes a distal foot-peg end and a bifurcated proximal end and first passageway for facilitating securement of the gear shift lever arm to a gear selector spindle shaft of a motorcycle. The assembly also includes a spindle shaft mount insert sized to fit within the bifurcated ends of the gear shift lever arm. The insert has a splined aperture that matches the splines of the splines of the gear selector spindle shaft, and a second passageway having a longitudinal axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the splined aperture. The gear shift lever assembly is mountable to the gear selector spindle shaft of the motorcycle with the spindle shaft mount insert interposed between the bifurcated proximal end of the gear shift lever arm with a mounting bolt passed through the aligned first and second passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hammerhead Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Weston Rocco Furia, John Clark
  • GEAR SHIFT LEVER ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20180229807
    Abstract: A gear shift lever assembly includes a gear shift lever arm which includes a distal foot-peg end and a bifurcated proximal end and first passageway for facilitating securement of the gear shift lever arm to a gear selector spindle shaft of a motorcycle. The assembly also includes a spindle shaft mount insert sized to fit within the bifurcated ends of the gear shift lever arm. The insert has a splined aperture that matches the splines of the splines of the gear selector spindle shaft, and a second passageway having a longitudinal axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the splined aperture. The gear shift lever assembly is mountable to the gear selector spindle shaft of the motorcycle with the spindle shaft mount insert interposed between the bifurcated proximal end of the gear shift lever arm with a mounting bolt passed through the aligned first and second passageways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Weston Rocco Furia, John Clark
  • Method of etching the back of a wafer to expose TSVs
    Patent number: 10026660
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a wet etching process is disclosed. The system includes multiple processing stations accessible by a transfer device, including a measuring station to optically measure the thickness of a wafer before and after each etching steps in the process. The system also includes a controller to analyze the thickness measurements in view of a target wafer profile and generate an etch recipe, dynamically and in real time, for each etching step. In addition, the process controller can cause a single wafer wet etching station to etch the wafer according to the generated etching recipes. In addition, the system can, based on the pre and post-etch thickness measurements and target etch profile, generate and/or refine the etch recipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: VEECO PRECISION SURFACE PROCESSING LLC
    Inventors: Laura Mauer, John Taddei, John Clark, Elena Lawrence, Eric Kurt Zwirnmann, David A. Goldberg, Jonathan Yutkowitz
  • Application workflow framework
    Patent number: 9946516
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing an application workflow framework to manage workflow on an application executing on a computing device. An illustrative workflow routine can include multiple tasks than need to be completed in order to complete the workflow routine. Accordingly, a workflow framework has a workflow definition that that matches the specific workflow routine. Each of the specific tasks defined in the workflow routine can be represented by a number of interface elements within the application. At least some of the interface elements can have a number of states of execution defined by the workflow definition and having different content and display attributes. In one embodiment, the states of execution can include a pre-active state, an active state, and a post-active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: STARBUCKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jesse James Herlitz, Jeffrey Ryan Peters, Bryan John Clark, Dana Marie Kruse, David C. Loewenthal, Justin T. Morgan
  • SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING A PADDLEBOARD INTO A GIGGING VESSEL
    Publication number: 20180057122
    Abstract: A system for converting a paddleboard into a gigging vessel includes a standard stand-up paddleboard outfitted with a conversion system. The conversion system includes a pair of opposing pontoons, a pair of opposing guards each adjacent to one pontoon, and retaining arms and retaining straps for securing pontoons and guards to the stand-up paddleboard. The system includes a pair of wheels that can be lowered for transportation across land, and raised for use in aquatic environments; lights; and a storage compartment for items and captured fish. In one embodiment the pontoons and guards can be folded up for transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: John Clark Dorman
  • Failure mode identification and reporting
    Patent number: 9880897
    Abstract: When a software component is starting, such as but not limited to a task or a subtask, the component pushes its identification (ID) onto a stack. The component executes its other instructions. If the component completes its instructions so that it can terminate normally, it pops the stack, which removes its ID from the stack. If the component fails, such as by not being able to complete its instructions, it will not be able to pop the stack so its ID will remain in the stack. Another software process can read the IDs in the stack to identify which components have failed and can automatically take a specified action, such as by sending an email message to, sending a text message to, or calling by telephone, a person or persons responsible for that software component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Cyrus Kapadia, Maxim Lukiyanov, Tittu Jose, Gheorghita Irimescu, Janak Madhusudan Agarwal, Stephen John Clark, Hardik Shah, Sreekanth Lingannapeta
  • Embedded coplanar interconnect
    Patent number: 9867291
    Abstract: A first printed circuit board (PCB) assembly can include an embedded electrical connector configured to be mechanically coupled to a corresponding tab-shaped portion of a second PCB assembly, such as to permit insertion of the tab-shaped portion of the second PCB assembly into the embedded electrical connector when the second PCB assembly is aligned in a specified orientation. In an example, the second PCB assembly can include an approximately planar conductive antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Digi Internationl Inc.
    Inventors: John Clark Roberts, Robert Wayne Ridgeway
  • Magnetic latch
    Patent number: 9790708
    Abstract: A magnetic self-latching device for a gate has a main body with handles on either side for operation or has an arrangement to be remotely actuated. A latching body has a high strength magnet usually provided at the bottom of a cavity which defines a latching shoulder. The latching body is adapted to be fixed to a gate post. The main body, with its housing, can be mounted on the gate frame and incorporates a latch pin which, in the door-closed position, is displaced by magnetic attraction to an extended latching position and against the biasing of a return spring. The gate cannot be opened until actuation of the mechanism occurs, for example by rotating a handle to retract the pin against the magnetic force; the gate can then be swung open. When the handle is released, the biasing spring retains the latch pin in a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: D & D Group Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony John Clark, Neil Dunne
  • Apparatus and Method to Improve Plasma Dicing and Backmetal Cleaving Process
    Publication number: 20170287768
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to improve the plasma dicing and backmetal cleaving process on substrates through the use of pressurized deionized water (DI) dispense and specialized tooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Laura Mauer, John Taddei, Kenji Nulman, Lev Rapoport, John Clark
  • Latches for gates and doors
    Patent number: 9771740
    Abstract: A latch has a displaceable latching element in a housing for engagement with a separate striker arm to be latched behind an engagement shoulder of the latching element. The housing mounts a cylinder lock to receive a key from the front. A rotor is mounted on the rear of cylinder lock and rotation of the key rotation the rotor to drive a locking element to engage and lock the latching element. The rotor may also be axial displaceable against spring biasing responsive to a rear unit pushing element whereby unlocking from a rear cylinder lock may rotate the rotor to unlock and pushing causes the latching element to be displaced against its biasing to release the striker arm. Embodiments include a gravity biased and manually opened latch and a spring biased self-locking embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: D & D Group Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Irek Karcz, Anthony John Clark, Margaret Antkowiak
  • Adjustable garment
    Patent number: D840108
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Inventors: Nathan Clark, John Clark, Sr.