Patents by Inventor Joseph Holland
Joseph Holland 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: 20240156352Abstract: A method of delivering a substance to a target location of a subject using an insertion apparatus having a base structure with at least one lumen extending along a length thereof, a cladding layer circumferentially surrounding the base structure and an optically-transmissive coating circumferentially surrounding an exterior of the base layer or an exterior of the cladding layer. The method includes inserting the insertion apparatus into the subject to access the target location, transmitting to tissue adjacent the insertion apparatus, a first optical radiation using the optically-transmissive coating or the cladding layer, receiving, from the tissue, at a processor, data characterizing a second optical radiation via the other of the optically-transmissive coating or the cladding layer based on the first optical radiation and determining whether a tip of the base structure is at the target location, and, if so, releasing a substance into or near the target location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Joseph Ting, Vincent Zuo, Ben Apollonio, Tania To, James Wright, Charles Holland Dresser
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Publication number: 20240149585Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port through which a liquid is discharged, an element for discharging the liquid from the discharge port, a channel through which the liquid is supplied to the discharge port, and a film member that is provided so as to be in contact with the liquid in a liquid chamber in the channel. The film member has a corrugated structure in which a plurality of loop-shaped projecting portions and a plurality of loop-shaped recessed portions are alternately formed. When seen in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the film member, the corrugated structure has a loop shape having a linear portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: KYOSUKE NAGAOKA, HIROTOMO TANIGUCHI, Roy Derks, Peter Joseph Hollands, Hans Reinten
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Patent number: 11957152Abstract: Some embodiments of a smokeless tobacco system include one or more preformed smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. In particular embodiments, each smokeless tobacco product can comprise a moist smokeless tobacco in combination with a selected binder such that the final product is configured to have material properties providing improved handling, an improved mouth feel, and a satisfying flavor profile.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Tommy C. Holland, Jason Andrew Macko, Christopher Joseph Dinovi
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Patent number: 11926738Abstract: A modified bitumen consisting of a polyurethane wherein the polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate-dominated polyurethane prepolymer (or prepolymers) is first reacted with the bitumen to take advantage of the bitumen's hydroxyl and amine functionality and form an isocyanate-bitumen adduct to form a weatherproofing product.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Garland Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jason D. Smith, Joseph W. Mellott, II, Melissa Rus, David Sokol, Julia Holland
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Publication number: 20210063330Abstract: Method for determining the concentrations of constituent chemical species in a mixture, including the steps of: using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, acquiring an NMR measurement for a sample of the mixture; and for each of the constituent chemical species, retrieving a reference model representative of the NMR FID signal or frequency domain spectra from a database. Each model has a number of parameters, and for at least one of the constituent chemical species, the reference model is a quantum mechanical model. The method further includes, using a computer, generating a model signal for the mixture and adjusting some or all of the model parameters to fit the model signal to the measured data; and based on the fitted model signal, calculating and displaying the concentrations of the constituent species in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Yevgen MATVIYCHUK, Daniel Joseph HOLLAND
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Patent number: 9746200Abstract: A building ventilator to provide a supply of air into a building comprises an external inlet port and a separate external outlet port and an internal inlet port and a separate internal outlet port to allow respective airstreams to flow into and out of the ventilator respectively at an exterior and at an interior of the building; a heat exchanger mounted in the flow paths between the external and internal inlet and outlet ports. The ventilator is configured to drive an airflow from the external inlet port through the heat exchanger and out of the ventilator via the internal outlet port; and to drive an airflow from the internal inlet port through the heat exchanger and out of the ventilator via the external outlet port. The ventilator comprises a heating element mounted in the air flow path between the external inlet port and the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: REDRING EXPELAIR GROUP LTDInventors: Joseph Holland, Don Spearman
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Publication number: 20160265804Abstract: A building ventilator to provide a supply of air into a building comprises an external inlet port and a separate external outlet port and an internal inlet port and a separate internal outlet port to allow respective airstreams to flow into and out of the ventilator respectively at an exterior and at an interior of the building; a heat exchanger mounted in the flow paths between the external and internal inlet and outlet ports. The ventilator is configured to drive an airflow from the external inlet port through the heat exchanger and out of the ventilator via the internal outlet port; and to drive an airflow from the internal inlet port through the heat exchanger and out of the ventilator via the external outlet port. The ventilator comprises a heating element mounted in the air flow path between the external inlet port and the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Joseph Holland, Don Spearman
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Patent number: 9351662Abstract: Described herein are various technologies pertaining to diagnosing and/or prescribing treatment for osteoporosis. A bone of a patient is subjected to an MRI scan, and the resultant signal is subjected to a likelihood function. The output of the likelihood function are values that are parameters that are employed to ascertain connectivity of trabeculae in the bone of the patient and volumetric trabecular density of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew Blake, Daniel Joseph Holland, Lynn Faith Gladden
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Publication number: 20120323110Abstract: Described herein are various technologies pertaining to diagnosing and/or prescribing treatment for osteoporosis. A bone of a patient is subjected to an MRI scan, and the resultant signal is subjected to a likelihood function. The output of the likelihood function are values that are parameters that are employed to ascertain connectivity of trabeculae in the bone of the patient and volumetric trabecular density of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Daniel Joseph Holland
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Patent number: 7252280Abstract: A method for manufacturing pellets of hot-melt ink which includes the steps of filling molten ink into a mold cavity defined by a first die and a second die of a mold, allowing the ink to cool down and solidify in the mold cavity, and heating at least one of the first and second dies for re-melting the surface of the ink pellet to facilitate its removal from the mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: OCE-Technologies B.V.Inventors: Peter Joseph Hollands, Wilhelmus Antonius Maria Schreurs, Guido Gerardus Willems, Antonius Johannes Jozef Van Gerven, Reinier Jan Ramekers
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Publication number: 20060131072Abstract: A conductor support having a structural attachment member, a flexible connector and a connector retainer engagable with the flexible connector. The structural attachment member includes one or more apertures formed through a cross-section of the structural attachment member. The flexible connector includes a connector body, a retainer engagement element and an insert end configured for insertion through the one or more apertures. The connector retainer is engagable with the flexible connector and includes a connector retaining element, the connector retaining element engagable with the retainer engagement element of the flexible connector to restrict pullout of the flexible connector from the one or more apertures formed through a cross-section of the structural attachment member. In this manner, the conductor is held securely against the support arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Joseph Holland, John Bangerter
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Publication number: 20060112002Abstract: Shown is a method and apparatus of controlling a commercial environment. The environment comprises a plurality of traders, each of the traders included in at least one of a plurality of members, wherein the plurality of members defines a community. The method comprises the steps of, defining the community, defining which members are included in the community, defining which traders are included in which members, and allowing at least one of the traders to authorize at least one of: a) interaction between a first trader and a second trader; and b) interaction between a first member and a second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Joseph Holland, Mark Byrd
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Publication number: 20050198329Abstract: A relational database structured according to a relational data model for access by users from an application program is provided, and includes a relational table including at least a first set of relational data stored therein, and at least one linked text field having a second set of relational data stored therein, the relational data of the first set stored in the relational table being in a one-to-many correspondence with relational data of the second set stored in the at least one linked text field.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2004Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Mark Byrd, Joseph Holland
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Publication number: 20050198325Abstract: A method of enabling access to a data structure is provided. The method includes designating e-mail addresses of users with respective sections of the data structure. The method also includes enabling access to the respective sections to users corresponding to the designated e-mail addresses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2004Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Joseph Holland, Mark Byrd
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Publication number: 20050178580Abstract: A conductor support including a structural attachment member having a base element and a carrier arm connected to and extending from the base element. The carrier arm includes one or more apertures formed through a cross-section of the carrier arm, the apertures configured to permit insertion of a flexible cable connector. The flexible cable connector includes a connector body, a retainer engagement element and an insert end configured for insertion through the one or more apertures of the carrier arm. The conductor support also includes a connector retainer including a connector retaining element, the connector retaining element engagable with the retainer engagement element of the flexible cable connector to restrict pullout of the cable connector through the apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Joseph Holland, John Bangerter
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Patent number: 6874869Abstract: An ink jet printhead comprising a channel plate having a plurality of ink channels etched into at least one surface thereof, actuators respectively associated with each of the ink channels for pressurizing ink contained in the ink channels, and means defining an ink reservoir communicating with the ink channels, wherein said ink reservoir is defined by a base member made of a material different from that of the channel plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Océ-Technologies B.B.Inventors: Peter Joseph Hollands, Hendrik Willem Ellenkamp
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Publication number: 20040089753Abstract: A process for preparing a finely divided preparation of a drug substance comprising wet milling a suspension of the drug substance in a mill having at least one chamber and agitation means, said chamber(s) and/or said agitation means comprising nylon, wherein the nylon comprises one or more internal lubricants results in finely divided preparations of a drug substance in which the level of grinding media contamination and process contamination are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Simon Joseph Holland, Wendy Anne Knight, Graham Stanley Leonard
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Patent number: 6676248Abstract: A channel structure for an ink jet printhead has a channel plate containing a plurality of substantially equidistant ink channels formed in one surface thereof defining dams between the adjacent ink channels. A diaphragm extending over the plurality of ink channels. A plurality of spacers disposed between the diaphragm and the channel plate for supporting the diaphragm on the dams. And actuators operatively associated with the diaphragm above the ink channels on the opposite side of the diaphragm from the spacers.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Oce-Technologies B.V.Inventor: Peter Joseph Hollands
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Patent number: 6673299Abstract: A method for manufacturing pellets of hot-melt ink which includes the steps of filling molten ink into a mold cavity defined by a first die and a second die of a mold, allowing the ink to cool down and solidify in the mold cavity, and heating at least one of the first and second dies for re-melting the surface of the ink pellet to facilitate its removal from the mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Oce-Technologies B.V.Inventors: Peter Joseph Hollands, Wilhelmus Antonius Maria Schreurs, Guido Gerardus Willems, Antonius Johannes Jozef Van Gerven, Reinier Jan Ramekers
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Publication number: 20030234337Abstract: A method for manufacturing pellets of hot-melt ink which includes the steps of filling molten ink into a mold cavity defined by a first die and a second die of a mold, allowing the ink to cool down and solidify in the mold cavity, and heating at least one of the first and second dies for re-melting the surface of the ink pellet to facilitate its removal from the mold cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Applicant: Oce-Technologies B.V.Inventors: Peter Joseph Hollands, Wilhelmus Antonius Maria Schreurs, Guido Geraradus Willems, Antonius Johannes Jozef Van Gerven, Reinier Jan Ramekers