Patents by Inventor Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
Lloyd Herbert King, Jr. 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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Patent number: 11283266Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Ivani, LLCInventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200006948Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, JR.
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Patent number: 10454281Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Ivani, LLCInventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Publication number: 20170288411Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, JR.
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Patent number: 9692236Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: IVANI, LLCInventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 9627835Abstract: An improved method of making sealant containing twist-on wire connectors from a batch of components, wherein some of the components may be preassembled through automated equipment and at least one or more of the steps performed in the making of a sealant containing twist-on wire connector is performed manually at a station where an operator can simultaneously perform one or more steps to enhance the formation of a twist-on wire connector containing a sealant while at the same time eliminating upfront investments costs for a work station as well as costs for maintenance of a work station.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: PATENT STORE, LLLInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 9331445Abstract: An epidermal friendly twist-on wire connector and a method of applying an epidermal twist-on wire connector having a resilient gripping region including a set of low profile, resilient ribs that are circumferentially spaced so that a users thumb and fingers can compressively and sequentially engage and compress at least a portion of a plurality of ribs as well as the valley between the ribs during application of a wire securement torque to the twist-on wire connector while at the same time inhibiting or preventing epidermal trauma in a users thumb and fingers.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven, William Hiner, Steven Rhea, Frank Vlasty
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Patent number: 9221202Abstract: A method of making a twist-on wire connector including a method of making a sealant containing twist-on wire connector by in situ formation of a shell around the coil wherein a sealant may be injected into a cavity in the coil prior to removing the shell from the mold to form a ready-to-use sealant containing twist on wire connector without further steps outside the mold.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: THE PATENT STORE LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven, William Hiner
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Publication number: 20150364890Abstract: A push-in wire connector having a sealant therein to enable formation of a waterproof electrical connection by axial insertion of a wire into a chamber contained an electrical conductor protected by the sealant with the electrical conductor displaceable into a waterproof electrical contact with the wire while both the conductor and the wire remain in the presence of the sealant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, JR., William Hiner
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Patent number: 9172167Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting wires including dissimilar electrical conductors such as copper and aluminum conductors with the electrical connector including failure inhibiting features that can include an oxidation inhibiting coating and a sealant. To ensure that a minimum pressure contact has been achieved at the interface between the electrical connector a shearable fastener can be used to secure an electrical conductor in the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: AL COP LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C Keeven, William Hiner
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Patent number: 9147961Abstract: A push-in wire connector having a sealant therein to enable formation of a waterproof electrical connection by axial insertion of a wire into a chamber contained an electrical conductor protected by the sealant with the electrical conductor displaceable into a waterproof electrical contact with the wire while both the conductor and the wire remain in the presence of the sealant.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: THE PATENT STORE, LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., William Hiner
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Publication number: 20150214759Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of a centrally controlled DC and AC power rail system within a structure. The rails utilize a centralized controller along with a plurality of distributed controllers to allow for power in the rails to be selectively distributed or not distributed to outlets attached to the rails. This allows for power to be distributed without the need for users to utilize hardwired switches, but to instead utilize generally wireless switch modules, which may be implemented in hardware and/or software to control the outlets. It also allows for devices designed to utilize DC power to be directly supplied with such power from the DC power rail without the need to include onboard AC-DC converters with each device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Matthew Wootton, John Wootton, Justin McKinney, Lloyd Herbert King, JR.
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Publication number: 20150171585Abstract: An improved method of making sealant containing twist-on wire connectors from a batch of components, wherein some of the components may be preassembled through automated equipment and at least one or more of the steps performed in the making of a sealant containing twist-on wire connector is performed manually at a station where an operator can simultaneously perform one or more steps to enhance the formation of a twist-on wire connector containing a sealant while at the same time eliminating upfront investments costs for a work station as well as costs for maintenance of a work station.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, JR., James C. Keeven
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Publication number: 20150151469Abstract: A method of making a twist-on wire connector including a method of making a sealant containing twist-on wire connector by in situ formation of a shell around the coil wherein a sealant may be injected into a cavity in the coil prior to removing the shell from the mold to form a ready-to-use sealant containing twist on wire connector without further steps outside the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Lloyd Herbert King, JR., James C. Keeven, William Hiner
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Patent number: 8997347Abstract: An improved method of making sealant containing twist-on wire connectors from a batch of components, wherein some of the components may be preassembled through automated equipment and at least one or more of the steps performed in the making of a sealant containing twist-on wire connector is performed manually at a station where an operator can simultaneously perform one or more steps to enhance the formation of a twist-on wire connector containing a sealant while at the same time eliminating upfront investments costs for a work station as well as costs for maintenance of a work station.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 8637774Abstract: A ready to use tracer wire connector kit comprising a pod and cover that can be mated together around a tracer wire connector that can be retained in the pod or removed from the pod as the tracer wires are joined therein with the pod and cover encapsulating and protecting the junction of tracer wires in the tracer wire connector and a method and system wherein underground difficult to detect devices and systems can be indirectly located.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: William Hiner, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Publication number: 20130307528Abstract: An intelligent wire connector carrying a microprocessor for transmitting information and/or sensing conditions proximate the wire connector wherein information from the microprocessor may be transmitted to a remote location in either a wireless mode or indirectly through an electrical wire, which is secured in the wire connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventor: Lloyd Herbert King, JR.
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Publication number: 20130307264Abstract: A sealing member and a preemptive system and a preemptive method of preventing or stopping a primary joint leak between a pipe and a pipe fitting by securing a sealing ring to the pipe and the pipe fitting to form a secondary joint that inhibits or prevent leakage between the primary joint between the pipe and the pipe fitting without knowing if the primary joint is faulty.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Mathew Walters, David C. Kreutz, Lloyd Herbert King, JR., James C. Keeven, Steven Rhea
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Patent number: 8579296Abstract: A sealing member and a preemptive system and a preemptive method of preventing or stopping a primary joint leak between a pipe and a pipe fitting by securing a sealing ring to the pipe and the pipe fitting to form a secondary joint that inhibits or prevent leakage between the primary joint between the pipe and the pipe fitting without knowing if the primary joint is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven, Steven Rhea, David Kreutz, Mathew Walters
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Patent number: 8552876Abstract: An intelligent wire connector carrying a microprocessor for transmitting information and/or sensing conditions proximate the wire connector wherein information from the microprocessor may be transmitted to a remote location in either a wireless mode or indirectly through an electrical wire, which is secured in the wire connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Inventor: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.