Patents by Inventor John Martin Burns

John Martin Burns 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: 11915110
    Abstract: A method may include ingesting a plurality of sources files from a plurality of infrastructure assets; inputting the plurality of source files into a cognitive computing engine (CCE); receiving an output from the CCE, the output indicating a plurality of relationships between the infrastructure assets; and updating a data store based on the plurality of relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Asem Atta, Mahendra Sarvottam Telang, Randy Carl Lingen, John Martin Burns, Tali Bray, Robert P. Carasik
  • Patent number: 11568304
    Abstract: A method may include ingesting a plurality of sources files from a plurality of infrastructure assets; inputting the plurality of source files into a cognitive computing engine (CCE); receiving an output from the CCE, the output indicating a plurality of relationships between the infrastructure assets; and updating a data store based on the plurality of relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Asem Atta, Mahendra Sarvottam Telang, Randy Carl Lingen, John Martin Burns, Tali Bray, Robert P. Carasik
  • Patent number: 8628868
    Abstract: A surface agent includes two end portions and a middle portion disposed between the end portions. The end portions include a terminal section and a midsection. The terminal section includes at least one surface active functional group. The midsection includes at least one perfluoroethyl ether unit. The middle portion includes at least one perfluorobutyl ether unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Norbert A. Feliss, Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Robert Waltman
  • Patent number: 8427775
    Abstract: A particle-capturing device. The particle-capturing device includes a component having a surface that is configured to be disposed inside an enclosure, and is configured to make contact with an air-stream carrying particles within the enclosure. The component includes an electrostatic particle-capturing portion that includes a dielectric electrically insulating portion, and a plurality of charged portions. The charged portions are embedded in the dielectric electrically insulating portion, and are configured to generate an electrostatic field coupled with the surface that captures the particles from a flow of the air-stream and confines the particles at the surface. In addition, the component is configured to provide at least one additional function within the enclosure exclusive of capturing particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Charles Allan Brown, John Martin Burns, Ricardo German Duque, Clayton Paul Henderson, Charles E. Hignite, Rocky Dikang Mai, Jr-Yi Shen
  • Patent number: 8405929
    Abstract: An information storage system including an enclosure, a rotating data storage medium including a surface, a slider including an ABS and an airborne oxidizable contaminant disposed in the enclosure. The system also includes an antioxidant absorbed onto the surface of the data storage medium. The antioxidant inhibits oxidation of the oxidizable contaminants at an interface between the ABS and the rotating data storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Sahba Ghaderi, John Martin Burns, Charles Hignite, Vedantham Raman, Thomas Karis, Charles A. Brown
  • Publication number: 20120282491
    Abstract: A surface agent includes two end portions and a middle portion disposed between the end portions. The end portions include a terminal section and a midsection. The terminal section includes at least one surface active functional group. The midsection includes at least one perfluoroethyl ether unit. The middle portion includes at least one perfluorobutyl ether unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Norbert A. Feliss, Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Robert Waltman
  • Publication number: 20120002320
    Abstract: A particle-capturing device. The particle-capturing device includes a component having a surface that is configured to be disposed inside an enclosure, and is configured to make contact with an air-stream carrying particles within the enclosure. The component includes an electrostatic particle-capturing portion that includes a dielectric electrically insulating portion, and a plurality of charged portions. The charged portions are embedded in the dielectric electrically insulating portion, and are configured to generate an electrostatic field coupled with the surface that captures the particles from a flow of the air-stream and confines the particles at the surface. In addition, the component is configured to provide at least one additional function within the enclosure exclusive of capturing particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Charles Allan Brown, John Martin Burns, Ricardo German Duque, Clayton Paul Henderson, Charles E. Hignite, Rocky Dikang Mai, Jr-Yi Shen
  • Publication number: 20110157747
    Abstract: An information storage system including an enclosure, a rotating data storage medium including a surface, a slider including an ABS and an airborne oxidizable contaminant disposed in the enclosure. The system also includes an antioxidant absorbed onto the surface of the data storage medium. The antioxidant inhibits oxidation of the oxidizable contaminants at an interface between the ABS and the rotating data storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Sahba GHADERI, John Martin Burns, Charles Hignite, Vedantham Raman, Thomas Karis, Charles A. Brown
  • Patent number: 7943558
    Abstract: Lubricant with non-terminal functional groups. The location of the functional groups minimizes free chain length and molecular weight of a lubricant while simultaneously maximizing evaporation temperature. The locations of the functional groups to the backbone of the molecule of the lubricant allows for shorter lengths of free backbone length between functional groups attached to a lubricated surface. The lubricant lubricates mechanical devices including hard disk drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Malika D. Carter, Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Robert Waltman
  • Publication number: 20100103557
    Abstract: Lubricant with non-terminal functional groups. The location of the functional groups minimizes free chain length and molecular weight of a lubricant while simultaneously maximizing evaporation temperature. The locations of the functional groups to the backbone of the molecule of the lubricant allows for shorter lengths of free backbone length between functional groups attached to a lubricated surface. The lubricant lubricates mechanical devices including hard disk drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Malika D. Carter, King-cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Robert Waltam
  • Patent number: 7683012
    Abstract: Lubricant with non-terminal functional groups. The location of the functional groups minimizes free chain length and molecular weight of a lubricant while simultaneously maximizing evaporation temperature. The locations of the functional groups to the backbone of the molecule of the lubricant allows for shorter lengths of free backbone length between functional groups attached to a lubricated surface. The lubricant lubricates mechanical devices including hard disk drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Malika D. Carter, Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Robert Waltman
  • Patent number: 7436626
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention clamp assembly for a disk which includes a cavity for trapping the excess lubricant which migrates from the load bearing threads of the screws that hold the assembly in place. In a preferred embodiment a flexible structure, called a screw lubricant trap, is included between a clamp and hub. A recess for the screw lubricant trap is formed in one or both of the mating surfaces of the clamp and/or the hub. The screws are arranged in the interior of the screw lubricant trap, so that when the hub is spinning, the excess lubricant is forced into the cavity to keep the excess lubricant from migrating onto the disk. The screw lubricant trap is preferably made to be non-load bearing to avoid affecting the load on the screw. Alternatively, a groove can be machined in the clamp to serve as the lubricant trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: John Martin Burns, Andre Sirilutporn Chan, Lynn Liebschutz, Jr-Yi Shen
  • Patent number: 7247605
    Abstract: Methods of improving the solubility of highly functionalized polar perfluorinated polyethers in fluorinated solvents are described. In preferred embodiments, the ratio of solubilizer to fluorinated solvent is the azeotropic ratio. The solubilizer can be an alcohol or cyclic ether. The methods finds utility in hard disc drive applications, where perfluorinated polyethers are used as lubricants. Compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: John Martin Burns
  • Patent number: 6051169
    Abstract: A method of degassing a disk drive component including heating the drive component to a temperature ranging from about 70.degree. C. to 250.degree. C.; subjecting the drive component to vacuum pressure during heating, the vacuum pressure having a first pressure and a second pressure; and monitoring the vacuum pressure to determine the level of degassing of the disk drive component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Allan Brown, John Martin Burns, Holavanahally Seshachar Nagaraj, James Joseph O'Neill, Muhammad Inayet Ullah, Leo Volpe, Herman Russell Wendt
  • Patent number: D890616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: John Martin Burns
  • Patent number: D904209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: John Martin Burns