Patents by Inventor Kenneth James
Kenneth James 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: 20240139982Abstract: A razor blade including: a substrate having a tip portion including a tip region, a blade body including a base, and first and second outer sides disposed opposite a split line of the substrate, in which the first and second outer sides converge at a tip, the first outer side comprises a first coating disposed substantially thereon and extending from the tip region toward the base, and a first portion of the second outer side is substantially free of any coating, the first portion extending from the tip region toward the base or being spaced apart from the tip region and the base. Also provided is a method of coating the razor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, John Lawrence Maziarz, Bin Shen, Ronald Richard Duff, JR., Joe David Lussier, Oliver Heinz Claus, Joseph Allan DePuydt
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Patent number: 11974327Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for supporting multiple-universal subscriber identity module (multi-USIM) operations among a first base station associated with a first network and a second base station associated with a second network is disclosed. the UE includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to transmit, through transmitting circuitry of the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the second base station associated with the second network. The PRACH preamble indicates to the second base station that the UE is not to begin a connection establishment procedure with the second network.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenneth James Park, Kamel M. Shaheen, Atsushi Ishii
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Patent number: 11969908Abstract: A razor blade is provided comprising a substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise first and second generally parallel outer surfaces. The second portion may comprise first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section may comprise a first facet extending directly from the first outer surface of the first portion and an end facet extending directly from the first facet. The second section may comprise an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. The split line may pass through the tip and is generally parallel with and extends between the first and second outer surfaces of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
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Publication number: 20240136000Abstract: A digital thermometer includes a first oscillator to generate a first clock signal, wherein a period of the first clock signal remains constant in view of changes in a temperature of the apparatus and a first counter coupled to the first oscillator, the first counter to count a fixed number of cycles of the first clock signal associated with a measurement period. The digital thermometer further includes a second oscillator to generate a second clock signal, wherein a period of the second clock signal varies with changes in the temperature and a second counter coupled to the second oscillator, the second counter to generate an output representing a count of a number of cycles of the second clock signal that occur during the measurement period. In addition, the digital thermometer includes calibration circuitry coupled to the second counter, the calibration circuitry to calibrate the output of the second counter to generate a value representing the temperature of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Chiara Cerafogli, Kenneth William Marr, Marco Domenico Tiburzi, Matthew Joseph Iriondo, Warren Lee Boyer, Brian James Soderling, James Eric Davis, Fulvio Rori
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Publication number: 20240130822Abstract: Systems and methods for managing surgical sponges. A dispenser assembly coupled to a main support includes an internal or first storage location to removably receive a carton of sponge sorters, and an external or second storage location to removably support a carton of surgical draping. At least one arm may be supported on the housing and movable between an undeployed position and a deployed position. The arm may include weighing means to measure a weight of the surgical sponge being disposed in a sponge sorter supported by the arm. The arm may be a cantilever and abeam load cell may be disposed within a channel of a beam. A processor may determine fluid weight based on measured weight and dry weight correlated with the surgical sponge being counted out as detected with a data reader. The processor may estimate blood loss to be displayed on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Brian James VanDerWoude, Caroline Weinberg, Fazel Yavari, Kristopher Kendall Biegler, Jonathon Emanuel Koenig, Alex Surasky-Ysasi, Tyler Toy, Rachel Wallace, Colin Vincent Beney, Kenneth Lee Soliva
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Publication number: 20240132051Abstract: In some implementations, a method may include obtaining target fault data indicating a preselected fault for a vehicle having a hydrogen source. In addition, the method may include obtaining vehicle fault data indicating a fault of the vehicle. The method may include identifying a match between the fault and the preselected fault. Moreover, the method may include purging, in response to the identifying the match, hydrogen from the hydrogen source so as to reduce consequences of a battery thermal event by reducing the likelihood of a hydrogen-fueled fire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Max Donald Carruthers, Steven James Mclaren, Abdul Ishaq, Tarkan Yapici, Mehfoos Yacoob, Thomas Stewart, Jithin Benjamin, J. Steven Kolhouse, Kenneth M. Follen, Ethan Charles Seifer, Hoseinali Borhan, Lisa A. Orth-Farrell, Joseph P. Chandraraj, Michael Stuglik
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Publication number: 20240134585Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a controller that allows a display device to display a settings screen for setting of a function by a user and executes a job based on a user setting made through the settings screen; and a backup device that backs up as backup data the user setting on a storage device each time the user setting is made. When execution of the job based on the user setting is completed, the controller deletes the user setting from the storage device. When, in newly displaying a settings screen on the display device for another job, the user setting for a function configurable on the settings screen is saved on the storage device, the controller determines the content of the user setting as a content of a setting for the job and allows the display device to display the settings screen showing the content of the setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Keanu GO, Eliot Emerson UY, Romel DIANON, JR., Roy Vincent MARANON, Peter James BULAT-AG, J'mark RAMOS, Gerald GALANIDA, Hazel OZON, Fritzer ABAPO, Maria Johanna YBANEZ, Kenneth Kienzle ARRIETA, July DESCARTIN
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Publication number: 20240136211Abstract: The invention relates to a system for manufacturing a plurality of integrated circuits, IC, mounted on a common support, the system comprising: an input station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support; an output station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support having a plurality of integrated circuits formed thereon; a plurality of processing modules each module being operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to perform at least one of the processing steps (e.g. deposition, patterning, etching) for forming an integrated circuit on the common support; a transfer means operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to transfer the at least one common support from the input station to the output station and to one or more of the processing modules therebetween; control means (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Richard David PRICE, Neil DAVIES, Scott WHITE, Thomas Stanley VAN DEN HEEVER, Kenneth David WILLIAMSON, Nathaniel James GREEN
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Patent number: 11968342Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage device and a control device. The storage device stores a document. The control device includes a processor and functions, through the processor executing a control program, as a character recognizer and a tag generator. The character recognizer analyzes the document stored in the storage device and recognizes characters contained in the document. The tag generator analyzes, based on a recognition result of the character recognizer, a sequence of characters contained in the document and generates a tag expressing a feature of descriptive content of the document.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Keanu Go, Eliot Emerson Uy, Romel Dianon, Jr., Roy Vincent Maranon, Peter James Bulat-Ag, J'mark Ramos, Gerald Galanida, Hazel Ozon, Fritzer Abapo, Maria Johanna Ybanez, Kenneth Kienzle Arrieta, July Descartin
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Publication number: 20240123642Abstract: Razors cartridges including a guard, a cap, and at least two blades with parallel sharpened edges located between the guard and cap are provided. The first blade has a first color and a second blade has a second color, where the first color is different than the second color. The blade color corresponds to an attribute of the blade (e.g., low cut force) that the color is disposed on or an attribute of the razor cartridge (e.g., sensitive skin). The color of the blade corresponds to a target user of the razor cartridge (e.g., male or female). The first blade defines a blade edge near or nearest the guard and a second blade defines a blade edge near or nearest the cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Laura XU, Kenneth James SKROBIS, Neville SONNENBERG, Ronald Richard DUFF, JR., Joseph Allan DEPUYDT
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Publication number: 20240121808Abstract: A method for a first UE to perform sidelink communication with a second UE is provided. The method initiates a sidelink channel with the second UE based on a first resource set in a plurality of resource sets stored in the first UE. The method then performs a ranging process to identify at least a first distance between the first UE and the second UE when the sidelink channel between the first and second UEs is established. The method further sets a timer based on at least the identified first distance, the timer for determining when to initiate a subsequent sidelink channel with the second UE. when the timer is expired, the method initiates the subsequent sidelink channel with the second UE and performs a subsequent ranging process to identify at least a second distance between the first UE and the second UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Kenneth James Park, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
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Patent number: 11946363Abstract: A method for determining discharge area in hydraulic stimulation operations is provided that includes obtaining one or more treatment data inputs from a well system, and determining a discharge area by applying the one or more treatment data inputs to a function that determines discharge area in terms of volumetric flow rate of the fracturing fluid, wherein the discharge area is a total area of all downhole exits through which the fracturing fluid exits a wellbore into a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Casey Lee Cox, Kenneth Lee Borgen, Russell James Padalecki, Nathan Taylor Crawford
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Patent number: 11945153Abstract: A printing apparatus and method. The printing apparatus is for impinging liquids from at least two liquid sources. The apparatus comprises a first jet actuator configured to dispense a first liquid from a first liquid source and a second jet actuator configured to dispense a second liquid from a second liquid source. The apparatus further comprises an adjustment element configured to adjust a trajectory of at least the first liquid dispensed from the first jet actuator such that the first liquid impinges the second liquid dispensed from the second jet actuator.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: University of Newcastle upon TyneInventors: Matthew James Benning, Kenneth William Dalgarno
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Publication number: 20240107557Abstract: A method for a first UE to perform sidelink communication with a second UE is provided. The method receives a first resource set from a cell to establish a first sidelink channel with the second UE, the first resource set indicating at least a first distance between the first and second UEs. The method establishes the first sidelink channel with the second UE based on the first resource set and transmits a set of parameters associated with the first sidelink channel to the cell. The method also sets a first timer based on at least the first distance, the first timer for determining when to establish a second sidelink channel with the second UE. When the first timer is expired and no second resource set is received from the cell, the method establishes the second sidelink channel with the second UE based on the first resource set.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kenneth James Park, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
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Publication number: 20240100530Abstract: A sample preparation blister pack can include a plurality of reservoirs formed as blisters. The reservoirs can have an actuatable barrier layer and a seal barrier layer with contents of the reservoirs between the actuatable barrier layer and the seal barrier layer. The contents can be to facilitate isolating a biological component from a biological sample. The individual reservoirs can be adapted to release the contents through the seal barrier layer upon actuation of the actuatable barrier layer. The blister pack can have a width and a length and the reservoirs can be lined up along the length. In this example, a first reservoir contains an inert mechanical fluid and a second reservoir contains a reagent, a buffer, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: HP Health Solutions Inc.Inventors: Paul Mark Haines, John Michael Lahmann, Kenneth James Faase
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Patent number: 11938738Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus can include a syringe body including an electrical interface at a side surface of the syringe body, an interface at an end of the syringe body including an output at a distal surface of the syringe body, a print material particles reservoir located in the syringe body, and a structure to adapt a volume of the print material particles reservoir to move print material particles out of the print material particles reservoir through the output, where in response to the volume adapting structure moving from a first position to a second position, a signal is transmitted by the electrical interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Andrew P. Chick, Kenneth K. Smith, Jiwon Moon, Minul Lee, Matthew James Storey, An Tran, Bennett Alexander Nadeau, Zackary Thomas Hickman
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Patent number: 11934770Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to an annotation system having a remote processor, and a client processor in data communication with the remote processor. The client processor is adapted to send a first request for an electronic file to the remote processor, receive the electronic file from the remote processor, define at least one new annotation about the electronic file, and define at least one anchor associated with the at least one annotation. The at least one of the remote processor and the client processor is adapted to store the at least one anchor and the at least one annotation in an annotation file that is separate from the electronic file.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: D2L CorporationInventors: Matthew Robert Teskey, Kenneth James Chapman, Jeremy Jason Auger, Brian John Cepuran
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Patent number: 11912166Abstract: Methods and systems are described for controlling output of a fuel cell that generates electrical power for an electric machine that propels a vehicle. In one example, a driver demand power reduction is anticipated and output of the fuel cell is adjusted before the driver demand power is reduced so that a greater amount of electric charge may be stored in an electric energy storage device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Beck, Walter Joseph Ortmann, Kenneth James Miller, Thomas Joseph Cusumano
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Patent number: 11895154Abstract: A method and system for maintaining persistent network policies for a virtual machine (VM) that includes determining a name of the VM executing on a first host connected to a first network device; binding the name of the VM to a network policy for the VM on the first network device; acquiring from VM management software, using the name of the VM, a universally unique identifier (UUID) of the VM; associating the UUID to the network policy on the first network device; applying the network policy for the VM on the first network device; subscribing to receive notifications from the VM management software of changes to the configuration of the VM corresponding to the UUID; receiving notification from the VM management software of a configuration change made to the VM corresponding to the UUID; and updating the network policy of the VM to reflect the configuration change of the VM.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Alan Gourlay, Kenneth James Duda
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Patent number: 11883869Abstract: A butt retrieval system having a butt retrieval receptacle supported outside the main footprint of an extrusion press such that maintenance and/or repair of the system is simplified. The butt retrieval system includes a butt retrieval receptacle moveable between a butt retrieving position and a butt unloading position. The butt retrieval receptable has a cantilevered arm extending from a base portion of the butt retrieval receptacle in a direction towards the centerline of the associated extrusion press.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Brilex Technical Solutions, LLCInventors: James Allen Cunningham, Kenneth James Platt, Joseph Vasalani